New Block: flat plates

[alterintel]

I did a search, I couldn't find anything, but I'm sure this has been suggested before.

what about a flat panel / plate block? current hull and armor blocks have tetras, heptas, wedges, and etc... but what about the flat panel? after building two small replica ships (shameless plug: the Serenity and the Defiant) it's pretty difficult to build these little guys with meter thick walls and hulls. It would be allot easier if we had square panels, and wedge panels.

Like I said, I'm sure this has been brought up before. Was there ever an official response?

Thanks

 

[GaeasSon]

I did a search, I couldn't find anything, but I'm sure this has been suggested before.

what about a flat panel / plate block? current hull and armor blocks have tetras, heptas, wedges, and etc... but what about the flat panel? after building two small replica ships (shameless plug: the Serenity and the Defiant) it's pretty difficult to build these little guys with meter thick walls and hulls. It would be allot easier if we had square panels, and wedge panels.

Like I said, I'm sure this has been brought up before. Was there ever an official response?

Thanks

Yes. Coincidentally, I think I brought it up after building the Defiant, and for all the same reasons. I don't recall the exact response, but here's the essence of it. "blockIDs are a precious limited commodity". We can only have so many things before Schema needs to expand the data size for all blocks making all the data files bigger and increasing load on the engine.

... But that was years ago, and the answer may have changed. Yes, as a fellow builder of smallish scale-based ships, I'd LOVE to build with thinner bulk-heads.

 

[alterintel]

Yes. Coincidentally, I think I brought it up after building the Defiant, and for all the same reasons.

It's nice to have a kindred spirit out there.
Thanks

 

[sayerulz]

Yes, I need something to hide the ugly cannon barrels on small ships and turrets.

 

[Rixxan]

Or even to just have nameplates or the like for details! +1