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Ooh man, the possibilities this opens up are great. Imagine an overheating reactor torpedo. You're basically lobbing miniature stars at the target to do heat damage to them while bypassing their shields.

Just a minor one here. I'd like to see stabilizers in docked entities count for the reactor of the ship they are docked to. Mainly because I'm digging the idea of rotating rings on ships that happen to be the stabilizers.

This would also be cool. Especially if we had some seriously heavy shielding blocks that prevented heat damage. You could have stabilizers to keep the reactor from running hot, or you could build your reactor inside a case of heavy shielding to protect the rest of the ship.

Or maybe we could steal a mechanic from the aux power we had before, and take a line from Star Trek to justify it. In ST:DS9 they had a ship called the Defiant. It was essentially a gunboat strapped onto a high power warp reactor. They mentioned on screen several times that this class of ship...

One thing to watch for is the turrets getting stuck. We don't currently have a mechanic to automatically reset turret positions back to default, which means they could be poking out at weird angles when you try to raise/lower them. As even a turret that is inside the ship will still try to...

I totally agree here. We should not be able to have "Jack of All Trade" ships that are as effective as a "dedicated" ship. I like the idea that you can have a glass cannon that is all weapon damage and fire rate, with nothing left over for shields. Or build a tank that has tons of upgrades to...

Heh, I'm not gonna lie, that would be pretty damned awesome. Makes Vulcan ships more viable too. I'm liking it, as it makes more different ship configurations viable while moving us away from bricks and pringle cans.

Oh I like this idea. Power without stabilizers could do something like produce anywhere from 50% to 150% "normal" power at random so that you can never tell how much power you will actually have available. The stabilizers then reduce that uncertainty range down to the average 100% of normal...

Because there are no PvE servers that don't have mind-bendingly stupid changes or rules like "No Blueprints" or "AI difficulty is turned so low even a lock-on missile can't hit anything" or "Mining bonus is 100x". Its either be on a PvP server, or don't be on a server at all. "I will force you...

By your own admission the PvP'ers don't want to PvP 90% of the time, and that 99% of the time its just spawn camping and newb griefing. If we use that logic, we shouldn't be trying to balance around open world PvP either, we should be balancing around sitting outside of a base and not moving.

Thats fine, it can always be tweaked upwards. I'm just happy to have actual numbers and builds to work with so we can provide meaningful feedback.

Dude, thats so not even PvP, thats just straight up griefing. Even WoW PvP servers have rules saying camping like that is against the rules, and WoW was the "Don't call us if somebody kills you on a PvP server, we don't care" king. So leave them alone and find someone who does want to play with...

If I was good enough at making them, I would, Red. I'm not. Hence why I'm asking. Same can be said about many things I've seen you suggest, my dear boy. *looks around* Oh yes, because we are so bustling with activity right now that I'm totally just pushing far more valid suggestions off the...

Heh, this is why you never even given an estimated time beyond "Soon". People take "We hope to get it in a couple of weeks" as a blood oath sworn over a first born that it will be here in exactly 14 days.

Yes Red, thats why its in Suggestions. I would like to see part of the game be different, so I laid out what I would like to see changed, why I would like to see it changed, and offered some suggestions on what I would like to see it changed to. Thats the entire point of this forum. If you...

I think I got that covered, thanks.

Ooh, I tried once to get engine lights that would scale with thrust applied, but couldn't get it to work. Was there an update to the sensors, or was I just doing it w.rong? (and why did it change "doing it w.rong" to "doing it incorrect"? "Doing it incorrect" isn't even grammatically accurate)

Doesn't have to. We're all perfectly capable of acting like adults. I think its safe to say that the devs know that this is a potential risk and either are okay with it or are working to prevent it. I don't think they have to be told "Stuff going far away from each other promotes long ships"...

Mentioned this in another thread, thought it might be worth it's own suggestion. I use almost strictly Standard Armor for my ship hulls because it has a seamless tile. Hull and Advanced Armor have those squares around the edges baked into the texture that makes them stand out as being...

Well, I can only speak for myself here, but I use almost exclusively Standard Armor for the hulls of all of my ships because, frankly, I find the texture work on Hull and Advanced Armor to be ugly. Standard armor tiles seamlessly, Hull and Advanced Armor have those damned squares baked into the...