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Closed shapes aren't even the real problem. That starts as soon as someone punches a small hole in the hull and turns the ship's well protected interior into fake exterior.

And this is exactly why working on box dimensions is still a bad idea in 2017. I can make a ship with boxdims of 100*1000*10'000 with just 4 blocks, as an extreme example. Just make heat areas cubes and don't care if they go out of the bounding box. How much performance are you willing to...

The game currently uses 3 bytes of data per block for entities. These 3 bytes include block ID, orientation, activation state and block HP. Adding a fourth byte (which schema might do at some point) would allow for more IDs, but it would increase entity data in memory by 33%. If you have a ship...

Because it is already planned.

And I thought you were clever enough to do that on purpose. :-p Exploiting AI weaknesses is a normal way of playing video games, it just sucks that it is that weak, so I completely agree with you.

Already planned. But the limit for block IDs affects the blocks in ships, not the blocks in the inventory.

360° <=> 2*Pi (~ 6.28) That's not rocket science.

According to my tests your Marauder heavily exploits the AI's intentional mis-aiming. I pitted it against my Skreeg, which missed it almost all the time. Even firing blindly in the general direction would have resulted in more hits. And the best part was, when I spawned a version with a beam...

A high entity count is far worse than a high block count. A few thousand cores can cripple performance on a machine that runs the game at 120 FPS even near planets.

Link a light emitting block (lamp, crystal, force field, etc.) to the ship core. If thruster plumes don't update immediately, try flying into another sector.

Because fleet AI isn't really there, yet. Or just for fun, it's a sandbox game after all.

Sorry, i was mixing up two different things. The bug I mentioned occurs when an entity is destroyed, after the overheating timer reaches 0, not when only the docker or rail is destroyed.

"Unphysical" means no collision, can't be damaged, can't be entered. Any break, at least in my test setups. I don't think there's a consus about the top-bottom thing anyway. I prefer the term "docking tree", since there can be branching in one direction, but not the other, and it's more obvious...

Docked entities become unphysical when the main entity is destroyed. It's a bug, but it doesn't look like it will be fixed anytime soon.

Core Mode If you've built your ship in the wrong direction, you have to rotate the entire ship, since you can't rotate the core. To do this, copy and save the ship (the template must include the core), remove all blocks except the core and use this tool with active core mode. Then load the...

This is a beta version, so don't rely on it working as intended. You use this software at your own risk! The zip-file contains the "Shred.exe" for Windows and the "shredder" executable for Linux. Windows version: Put the "Shred.exe" in the StarMade/templates folder. You can also put it...

You can't dock to more than one rail at a time.

So you created that really nice ship part and want to use it on a multiplayer server, but it's too big? Then you need several smaller templates. Or did you copy some extra empty blocks because the copy box was too big? Then you might have to make it smaller. You built your ship in the wrong...

Logic and other links are copied as well, but storage chests are emptied.

Not sure, but I guess not. I don't know.