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How did you manage to use the old block textures if you've been playing for only six months? I didn't recognise your name but I thought the internal system layout looked familiar. Passing someone else's work off as your own is not the way to do things. If you're modifying someone else's...

You presumably know a docked scanner only considers its own mass, not the mass of its parent. So a "chain scanner" that scanned faster than cloak cooldowns would be small and cheap.

This would mean the complete end of cloaking and jamming though. Wouldn't it be preferable to have decloak on torpedo launch (child undock) and onboard warhead damage (cloaker pokers)?

#1 is something I've considered, but they're easy to see and avoid, unless I use huge numbers of them. And your point about maintenance is good: no-one wants to spend their time flying around in the noise cloud to repair it. I like #2, I think I will make a glass version. For #3 I was...

Thank you guys!

You'll need some CAD software to create the model (say SolidWorks, or Rhino, or one of many others - unless you can find a model already created) and Binvox to change the model to .binvox, then Vox2sm3 to change the .binvox to a folder you can drop straight into your SM install.

Apologies if I've misunderstood and this doesn't apply here, but Bench's tutorials include rail travel that goes from horizontal to vertical:

Not a replacement for your suggestion, but this is a workaround that protects against warhead griefers: How to make other stations secure - Discussion Thread ***PLAYER SOLUTIONS ONLY!***

Modelling it outside and importing it would be easiest...

I was planning to have the pulses in the cloud originally, but they were too easy to see an take out with a warhead, and placement of area triggers became quite a bit more difficult than just having a simple net on the hull and one 75 blocks out, which is what I have now. Plus I can make them a...

Yes, but how do you ensure they're all giving readings on the same target?

Yes, there'd certainly be some difficult aspects to it, and one would be having the rails short enough to keep travel time down, but long enough to get accurate triangulation. Can you think of any way to simultaneously get three readings on the same target? (I can't, but I'm not very experienced)

Yes, each would be an entity. Depends on your point of view ;) Another way would be for a long arm on the barrel to move to a location in a wall/sphere of area triggers (actually just two rings would be enough, one for each axes). They could all be linked to separate trigger controllers...

No, have a wall of shielded blocks, with logic checking each one to detect shield drops. That'll tell you the direction.

There are probably better methods, but checking which block in a wall it shot at would be one method.

Sorry, yes, I see what you mean ;) For some reason I took your "2000" to mean 2010... :P

If a turret "chooses" a target, and is aiming at it, if you move the turret along a rail, will it continue to aim at the same target? If it does, you could take the initial reading, move along one axis and take a second reading ,then move along a different axis and take a third reading. This...

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you've written I don't think that can be correct - it means the total damage done would be over 2010, which isn't possible...

75% now.

Yes, you can have docking chains up to 25 deep. No, but your ship will help power the wing and its children. There are some exceptions: thrusters, anywhere, can only be powered by the root entity (the ship in your case). Nothing else can help power thrusters. This stops multiple reactors...