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This. They could even implement a temporary quarters system as a place holder. Create an invisible, massless block, the quantity of which, relative to the block count of the ship, defines the number of chambers you can have on your ship. Create a proximity mechanic that rewards having largish...

I would suggest they screwed themselves out of ever being able to realistically finish the game, by basically tossing out the one thing they actually had working, their build system, and pretty much starting over from square one. This is true. However if someone 'does' build a titan with which...

Schine has a perfectly fine plan for how to address this, how to add an actual game to their build system. They were in fact just starting to do serious work on those ideas, when they got it into their head to take the one thing they actually had working to a decent level, ship building, and...

I would argue that there is essentially no difference in simplicity between deciding how big your power plant shall be and deciding how big your ship will be. The degree of simplicity gained by forcing power output to be dependant on ship size is virtually insignificant, but it comes at a HUGE...

Everything in the build system is a trade off, as it should be. The amount of armor you have is a trade off with thrust and turn rate, which is a trade off with how much shields you can put in in lieu of thrusters, etc., etc.. Anything you put in a ship is a trade off with everything else you...

Way to completely miss the point.

Hundreds of missile/beam seekers coming all at once dealing billions of damage... Nothing will survive. Nothing.

Yea, and it seems to have greatly exacerbated the problems with weapon balancing now. Building a ship that stored it's damage for 45 seconds so as to deliver all it's DPS in one shield annihilating punch, used to require a very substantial investment in batteries that other weapons did not need...

Eliminate stabilizer distance entirely, or use Napther's idea above. A distance mechanic is a needless restriction that forces bad design choices and hurts RP builders especially. Power would be dependant upon one set of contiguous blocks up to a soft cap of 2000 blocks. Go back to a power cap...

You are not the only one.

No. Only one power reactor system can be active. You can have backups, but they will not affect your available power. There was no optimum shape in the old system. Any shape of ship could contain maximized power. That is no longer the case. Now the optimum ship is a seriously bizarre oblique...

I apologise. I should realize that not everyone shares my OCD and not everyone is going to read reams of pages of various threads. Thank you DrTarDIS. The old system allowed us to exploit all three dimensions with our power lines. More, it allowed us to run more than one line. The end result...

My disliking this new system has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with "elitism" or wanting to make the game inaccessible to new players. I have made great efforts to make the game accessible to new players. Do not infer bad motives on the part of other people simply because you do not understand their...

The new system is; "A minute to learn, a minute to master." It is trivially easy to master.

I suspect the missile swarms you are talking about here are seeker swarms (missile/missile). I doubt such a ship's ability to kite the seekers I build. Each missile gets two missile computers but only the primary gets missile modules, so they are one warhead, full speed. I just build a couple of...

In the old power system, there was NO ship greater than 100 meters that I could not get maximum power into. None! While technically it was dimension based, it was sufficiently flexible that someone with a proper understanding of the power mechanics could make 'any' design shape or even size...

My philosophy has always been that armor is primarily a way to defend against non-meta cannons and beams. (Though 'really' thick armor can defend even versus meta weapons in many cases.) Versus missiles, the main defense is a game breaking quantity of AMS turrets and maybe a wide waffle of 1/1...

That level of insult warrants an ignore. Only my second in nearly three years. Congrats and good bye.

I think people are missing the point. The whole reason the old build system has been tossed out and everything is being redone, is to DUMB DOWN the build system. They are not going to introduce new mechanics to make it more complicated. They want casual players to be able to master the build...

Wait a minute, you DO NOT think there will be a noticeable difference between two ships of equal mass where one happens to be long and thin and the other happens to be short and stumpy? The long and thin ship will be able to have SUBSTANTIALLY more power than will the short and stumpy ship...