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We may experience some slight turbulence.... and then explode.

I hesitate to comment because I imagine this must be where you started so there must be good reasons for not doing it this way... But why not let your sectors be nice clean staticly cubic sectors, and then plot the position of your planets within those sectors as the traverse around the star...

But I don\'t think so for anything done in the existing engine. The biggest difference between a disk Oreo and cube is the shape of the grav field. Disks are one field. Oreos are two disk worlds bottom to bottom with a layer of bedrock between. Each still has a single flat fieldcubes are...

Considering the range and passion of user preferences, the thing to do is probably to set an option in the server settings for disk Oreo square cube or whatever. Then maybe leave a hook in the code for a plugin for mor extravagant world systems like my round-flat idea... Or heck. Maybe even an...

@Vanhelzing for me it\'s really mostly the falling off into space. Is it horrible? no. Am I gonna die or not play the game? no. Do I think I see a way to handle the game that would make the game more enjoyable, at least for me? yes :) Planets are a tricky thing yo approximate, simulate...

Let the server admin choose: core disappears leaving a salvageable hulk. core explodes like a missile, leaving a salvageable hulk. entire ship disappears, preserving the spaceways and server resources. ship suffers antimatter breach and becomes a 1/10 power star for 5 seconds. Randomly...

it\'s the \"over-lap a little\" that makes for nightmarish game glitchiness. This and that overlap. The game engine naturally reacts violently to object mesh collissions. Suppose you try to mine a block where two blocks overlap. Which block did you mine? Place a block there. Which bit of...

@Planetofsuck: I think nobody responded because your suggestion was simple and sensible. Simple-sensible suggestions get people to nod and say. \"Yeah that could work very nicely\". It\'s the crazy ideas (crazy good and crazy bad) that get the responses. For example: @Matthmat: Yes...

This is an alternate way of transitioning between structures. Implementation level 1: If you hit "R" on the block you are given a zoomable cockpit-like view outside the ship. You can look around, but can't maneuver the vessel. You have one tool that allows you to fire the transporter beam...

Oreo planets are a good, possibly great solution. I just think round/flat worlds would be _AWESOME_ I\'d make one tweak to oreogravity. You have gravity pulling you from two directions toward the creamy bedrock filling, perhaps there should be a \"ring\" of gravitational effect areount the...

@schema OK, I\'m going to say something rediculous but true. Just follow with me. Flat worlds ARE realistic the surface of the Earth is flat(ish). No, I\'m not a flat-earther, but I paid attention in geometry. Gravity is the distortion of three spacial dimensions into a fourth dimension...

... of course then there would be no real impediment to people building massive server-melting worldships. Or diving at a star and issuing //hsphere 5 100000000 to suddenly conjure a grey-hull dyson sphere. I can see the potential for much griefing.

OK, I\'m spoiled. I\'m currently working on a faction capital station that includes a 256 block diameter 150 block hight cylinder. Even if I have to gather a bajillion grey hull into inventory, I would SO love to just float in the middle and issue the incantation //hcyl (blockID) 128 150...

given that you have a menu of saved ship models... Add a space-station block to the game: Ship Fabricator (or just \"fabber\" as is sometimes used in scifi books) If you hit \"R\" on the fabber, it gives you a menu of structures to build. Select one, and it spawns a ship block and begins...

New Block: "Docking ring" It works and looks a bit like plex-doors except that these blocks are invisible and intangible unless they are in collision with the docking ring blocks of another structure. This prevents accidental loss of atmosphere and spacing of unwary ensigns. To be clear, this...

Add intelligence to the turret block itself. Settings: Limit Pivot(pivot angle will be from 0 to x) Rotation Arc (2 inputs define the range of rotation of the turret). Thrust: Points the turret away from the ships angle of thrust, like the ship in firefly. Manual: Presents 2 options in...

Instead of insta-scrapping a ship, you could sell it to a shop for 75% of the value of the assembly. Let the trade guild pay their shipyard workers to run the blow-torches.

Turn the starfield blue ahead of the ship and red behind. That\'ll please our science geeks. I think you might be underestimating our fellow players though. Multiple drive types and energy sources add flavor and variety to the game. Wouldn\'t be awesome to be out cruising the asteroids...

Hmmm. small ships over-powered. Big ships under-powered.... Aha! Cover your big ship in small ships! Ablative fighters!

Use optional Enhancer blocks to shape the G field. Shaped fields supercede the general field of the ship. Overlapping shaped fields are cumulative.