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I agree with the sentiment that heat should be more logical and less forced. Changing energy into a usable form generates heat. Hello, Second Law of Thermodynamics. There is no way around this. Therefore, when you generate more energy, you generate more heat. I want to operate on the principle...

...Joke, thank you very much. Still, it's forcing something, whether that's meant to be interior or an excuse to go make external reactor boxes, well, it's forcing something. That's for sure.

Yes. Interior empty space. The goal is to force the addition of interiors (Unless they just want to stress-test their occlusion culling that doesn't yet exist in the most annoying way possible). Or, at least, it appears to be. But seriously, I just outlined a dream vision of NPCs, and all you...

Yes. Yes. Thank you. This is my point. Add in NPCs, play with them a bit. See what we want them to do when we're actually in game, staring at the loiterers. Look and say, you know what, it would make sense right now if that NPC was fixing this, that officer was running that, etc. THEN consider...

You use lifeboats because it's faster to reach a drowning person, faster to escape danger, less risky that endangering the entire crew and ship, easier to reach somebody in the water, etc. In real life, you use small boats for first contact because there's no risk of suddenly getting attacked by...

Did it finally slow down? Only three posts in about 10 hours? Is the firestorm over? Anyway. I still vote for a reconsideration of the actual mechanics. Don't implement such a ridiculous forced use of interior. Make it a profitable option that does not simply reduce the efficiency of systems...

Is there any chance we could get an image without Lighten on? Because Lighten makes it really hard to appreciate the ship.

My goodness. What a load of pointless rage. The PvPers are accusing the RPers of self-centered-ness, yet they are saying that RP is useless and should be thrown out....in favor of....PvP??? Sorry. Got a bit unpleasant there. So, now, MORE OPINIONATED GARBAGE!!!! WEEEEEE! A good point was...

Power cores should work like this: Smaller cores, lower heat threshold, greater saturation (Faster growth of heat %), but greater rates of heat dissipation. Larger cores have the opposite, slower saturation, higher threshold, slower dissipation. When you get larger, you can use larger weapons...

What the crap do you even mean, "Not this"? I said that that's what basically happens NOW, not suggesting anything. So, that really required no strange reply. I do not like the idea of a poorly-defined arbitrarily instituted area where nothing can happen in a ship because reactor reasons...

Why force these empty spaces, though? Why not simply use a system that, by its very nature, doesn't scale (Without changing other factors) well enough to be worth packing into a space extra-tight, yet has certain (Again, LOGICAL) requirements that prevent it from being used to completely fill a...

Just as the poor man's poll option here, how many people actually want these "heat boxes", and why? I find them absurd to even consider, seeing as how, logically, a place too hot for basic systems to function is a place far too hot for human habitation. Or any creature's habitation, most...

I agree with some of the points of Drakkart's post. Especially the idea that we need more details. We can't make judgements (Reasonable judgements, anyway) until we have all the details. What sized boxes are we looking at? (And can we get rid of the dumb things right now?) How large can you...

Power is an issue for AI because AI can't readily regulate their firerate right now. So, in the devs' system, they would fire everything and keep firing til the system melted or whatever. In my system, they would likely overrun the power generation in non-AI-specific ships, go beyond "safe"...

In order to make this viable, we need a sort of nerf to weapons. A ship with a weapon big enough to one-shot obliterate a small ship needs to be completely incapable of tracking that vessel, or at the very least an extreme glass cannon. Turret tracking, first off, needs a tremendous nerf...

Is there no way you could use a special version of the game that grabs the rendering engine's renders and assigns a value to it? So, a block with this face down would be numbered 3, this face up 2, etc. It would likely be a resource- and time-expensive thing to do on larger vessels, but if you...

Woah why did Sigmund Freud just get into this conversation? And can we get him back out again, please?

This is a really neat mechanic, but, as mentioned, it's going to break a lot of ships. Overall, I like the idea, but I want to make sure that it's not like all-encompassingly terrible. Heat needs to be regarded in a separate way as well, in my opinion: Heat is the byproduct of pushing a reactor...

In modern times, role and size are closely tied together (Somewhat less so now, but very true in WWII, the time period from where we draw a lot of designations). A battleship must, be virtue of its goals, be the biggest ship on the block, or its guns and armor will likely not be good enough. The...

So, it might be time to make a capital-class asteroid-eating drone-carrying world-destroying ore-mining vessel-of-doom that makes use of this brain? Oh, and this monstrosity does come with all your cool gadgets earlier, right?