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I keep the default speed of 75, too. If you increase the speed along with the size, you're not really accomplishing anything. Jump drives are the primary means of long distance travel, and their performance is based on number of sectors rather than meters, so they scale with sector size just fine.

Set the clock. 33 Minutes. Rest while you can.

Here is the escape pod. Enjoy.

Docks within a 7L x 7W x 10H rectangle and is designed to simply dock to your ship ready to go. You will likely need to adjust the launch rails to conform with your ship's dimensions. It has two main parts - the launching system and the escape pod itself. Along with adjusting the length of the...

I've always preferred large sectors, like 20k. Space is big.

Yeah, my own response was meant as light-hearted teasing. Nothing serious. Well, you already used "brilliant" to describe your ideas in another sentence..."But, this one in particular is awesome, I suppose?" I mean, we don't want to overstate just how good your ideas are...

I'll see about uploading it this evening after work. If I remember correctly, it's 7L x 7W x 15H and is designed to simply dock to your ship ready to go. You will likely need to adjust the launch rails to conform with your ship's dimensions. It has two main parts - the launching system and...

Nothing is wrong with taking ideas from other sources as inspiration. I just thought it was funny that you used the term "unique" for something so commonly borrowed from. Then I read your response to someone else stealing your idea and couldn't resist tying the two together.

Here are a few thoughts I try to balance when designing a combat ship: I try to place the ship core away from the center or bow of the ship. Since my ships usually have engines and engineering towards the rear, it typically gets placed as part of the engineering room(s). Particularly on a...

Ha! Says the guy who claimed to have a "unique" idea which was actually taken directly from movie & T.V. :) This could be cool as an "astronauts only" option.

At the request of a friend who wanted a version of my airlock without any docked entities, I have a plex-door version, as well. If the OP or anyone is interested in that setup, I can upload it. I'm not a fan of plex-doors. At least the force fields make sense when they wink out of existence.

Two weeks did seem like a really short dev build test period for something this large. Thanks for the update.

Perhaps the real problem is that blocks are "too big." When a block is 1 m in size, it means that everything on a ship becomes bulky. I'm not saying Schine should change this, I'm just making an observation of how it impacts turret designs. Really, turrets aren't a big deal on titan-sized...

I've advocated for smaller turrets in the past, but I think that any serious discussion of weapon balance should wait until the beta.

Attach factory enhancers to the factory - each enhancer increases the number of items created by 1. The enhancers need a small amount of power.

I wonder if there would be a way, and a benefit, to having a "fuse" button. That is, once you have completed your ship design, you click "fuse" and all adjoining blocks of a like type fuse into one solid entity. This would substantially reduce the number of blocks kept track of on a ship. I...

The file is going to contain the maximum dimensions of the ship, and the shipyard has bounding box dimensions of its own - why can't it just center the ship in the yard based on that? Why does it need a block at all?

Here are the airlocks: Lift Doors Double Doors I tried to design them to be all-purpose, and plug-n-play, so I didn't assign one side or another for ship docking. For what you want to do, I think you would be able to hook an activation module to your docking rail. There's a rail on one side of...

Airlock with working displays, pass-through operation. Double doors at either end of the airlock slide open with the press of a button. One door is always locked, with an adjustable delay (rail speed controller) between switching doors. Displays tell you the current state of the system...

Airlock with working displays, pass-through operation. Doors at either end of the airlock slide up when opened. One door is always locked, with an adjustable delay (rail speed controller) between switching doors. Displays tell you the current state of the system. Logic is located low to...