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I have overlooked that part. But I'd still rather optimize an existing feature, than implementing a new one, which will most likely be bugged and might take years to get fixed.

When welding two entities together, the blocks from one entity had to be copied, pasted to the other one and then deleted by the game. That's three costly operations at once, if the entities are big. It should simply be possible to move the selection frame freely in any direction via hotkeys...

I don't see how this would be better that an improved copy-paste system. Why implementing a new system, when there's already one in the game that could do the same, if it where actually usable?

...vulberable sub-systems, which were intentionally stupidly designed for plot convenience.

That would be too easy. You can easily overwelm PD turrets with missile spam and distract anti-fighter turrets with cheap drones.

And would run out of fuel after a few minutes.

Are you aware that every single core system already has some kind of diminishing returns for bigger ships? Do you know that a fleet of fighters with a total mass of 100k can easily wipe out a single 100k mass ship, unless it has so many turrets, that it's basically another fighter fleet on a...

I don't think that placing important parts of a ship on the outside to make it easier to shoot them off is realistic. In my mind this only makes sense in lowbrow movies.

With docked reactors, you could put cores on one end and dockers on the other end. Then aiming for the nav markers was a guarantee not to hit the dockers, even with bad aim. Also, to avoid undocking you only had to protect the area with the dockers with armor, not the entire reactor...

Sounds like it discourages factions from accepting members with little time to play, or do players only drain FP when online?

Right, there are big differences between RNGs. The current system apparently uses a bad one. Also, not rerolling after an explosion event is probably a simple oversight.

Does it also place a core in the ship?

I'm not familiar with the inverted FP system. If I can dock my ship to an invulnerable station and it's still there when I log back in one or two days later, despite a massive raid that wiped out everything that wasn't invulnerable, then it's fine. Otherwise I'd only use the HB.

Non-randomness is a bug, and should already be fixed in the latest dev builds, according to Lancake.

Controlling multiple weapon groups with the same computer increases the power consumption for all groups by 10% per additional group. So weapons with multiple weapon groups/outputs are less energy efficient, they need more energy per block.

Exactly. I'm glad we can type text into display blocks directly, instead of having to connect thousands of activation blocks to input ASCII code.

There's a power penalty of 10% per additional weapon group. With 968 single block groups that would be 9 360 560 e/s for 9680 DPS (unless there's a cap I'm not aware of). Good luck powering that.

Why would anybody dock their ships to stations that can lose their invulnerability over night?

These are only needed because forum software ignores multiple spaces in a row. Just ignore them.

Two power supply groups firing alternately have basically the same effect as a cannon slave, and every good power injector uses one of these methods. Docking relies on two blocks, jump drive plus logic clock are at least four blocks, so the chance of losing the auto jump drive is higher than...