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There are other factors that can restrict weapon power. Mechwarrior for example uses a \"Heat\" system where firepower is unlimited, but DPS is limited by cooling capacity. Bigger mechs can stack up bigger guns and more armor, but gain much less cooling. Ammo is another potential system. Guns...

The current vanilla shipyard is pretty impressive. Let the fans build more stations to include in the game. IMO all they need right now is to be active objects, so that they can\'t be reclaimed by starter ships. It\'s currently better to use stations as scrap metal (and what a haul!) than as a...

Let\'s go over a few potential gigantism solutions and see if they\'ll work. The 1 block : 1 addon that is a natural fit for voxel construction genre Does it work: Unfortunatlely, no. Analysis: Bigger ships deal more damage and have greater defense systems. This lets them beat smaller ships...

you already backup ships and stations? If something gets smashed, build a new one.

The end.

in the 40k warp, naked, than deal with the unpredictable insanity that is normal space.

for a dock to be somewhat similar in scale to the ship that it\'s docking. But are dock dimensions the best way to do it? Dimensions have a way of scaling the dock\'s capacity very quickly. Perhaps it may be more effective to use a scale that is more linear, like block count or ship mass? Even...

There\'s nothing wrong with needing a big dock to hold a big ship. But it is a bit annoying to try fitting tall ships into a good dock design. I have a slightly different system to suggest: - Base docking module is as default. - Adding a booster module to any side will stretch the dock 1-2...

Blocks can still be modified without build mode. That isn\'t a problem. Docks already exist as the docking module and docking enhancer. The area generated by these systems are easy to use as construction yards for all the advanced build features. That keeps build features from being abused...

There already is a decent variety of asteroids and raw materials that they provide. It would be better to expand on the existing materials than to needlessly add stuff for the sake of stuff. Mobile asteroids would be pretty cool though.

Advanced build mode options should only be available in a legitimate dock. No dock means building by hand. NPC shops would need buffs to have have moderate sized docks, but that shouldn\'t be a problem. Should build blocks even exist in game? They seem to be more useful for exploits than any...

showed a few useful item moving commands. They included ctrl click, \"deposit/withdraw everything possible\", and \"deposit/withdraw only matching items\". It might be good to copy a few of those things to make inventory management a bit easier. Trade windows would be a nice way to ensure fewer...

One very annoying thing about building ships is linking weapons to ship systems. Blocks can be built pre-linked, but when existing blocks are not linked they have to be all targeted and switched individually. It would be nice to have a way to link large systems all at once. If one block in a...

That\'s a classic 32 bit signed integer bug. There\'s hardly a game that doesn\'t have it.

You know how it is. If you can\'t say anything nice... The idea of fully autonomous, self repairing vessels sounds like a disaster in the making. Even the idea of a mobile repair dock can be shaky, if ships use it as a means of chain repairing each other. But the idea of a mobile dock carries...