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Would be amusing to suddenly find a space groundhog living in asteroids that get ejected when you mine the blocks they're in.

Agreed. I haven't been able to get much use out of this effect as it is now. I've considered a rotary cannon with four rail-docked barrels each oriented in a different direction, but they'd each be quite small relative to whatever else I could fit in that space, and the spread is simply too...

With them linked to a computer in the ship, we can then order them to hold fire/deactivate! As well, I would permit players to use as many AMS turrets/measures as they want short of a server docked entities/turrets limit (And I don't like limits by default, of course); adopting a strategy that...

Tribbles, what breed like only tribbles could and then just sort of hang out on the ship, or sneak onto another one when docked. In the dozens. Clean your rooms, kids!

Pls schema indeed! There's no reason for all those stations and shops to have been built out there, anyway, logically or lore wise. A rare brown dwarf star or cold, dead world, the odd station, asteroid or ship flung from the galactic disc millennia ago all sound reasonable, as rare treasures...

Using this as a plasma burn effect sounds wonderfully fun. idea for missiles; this effect concentrates explosions on a smaller area, focusing the damage instead of permitting it to go out as splash damage. The recurring burn affects blocks that survived the blast. For cannons/beams: the burn...

I agree with valiant. I desperately want a computer that can group turrets and allow control from the cockpit, and I've thought about this sort of thing before. How I understand your proposal is that the A.I. will mind their programming when you aren't controlling the group, and then follow...

Anything that helps missiles make better sense balance wise in relation to the other weapon systems is a good change in my book. I'm looking forward to this update.

That would work too, but I was meaning planets with no life, atmosphere, hydrosphere, or obvious geologic activity, but would still have mineral resources. Think our moon, set in its own planetary orbit; its still dead. Or no resources/only one Would be no fun to find nothing to exploit, but...

Don't forget dead rocks. Dead rocks are a thing, too.

Programmable behaviors sounds like a gold mine for scripters. They will love that. Configurable parts and writing additional strings for all DNA values sound like a plan for modders. With a database of possible variations, mutation works well... I like this. I'm definitely a fan of interactions...

I like this idea, for boarding enemy craft from a smaller ship. And yeah, cloaking should drop; if anything, the parent ships AI handling maneuvering thrusters would immediately know they'd gained mass on one side, because that new mass needs to be adjusted for in performing course corrections...

This doesn't sound explicitly bad, except that I can't think of a good way to keep track of all the extra overhead this creates. Each faction would have to have different blocks they're creating. Say they're building grey advanced armor and advanced armor is their specialization. Their advanced...

While I don't think the stellar life cycle part is going to be practical, I think nebuli systems or clusters of systems would make great additions to the game, full of asteroids, freaky alien space squid, rare resources like the dust and gas composing them... And nothing shows up on the galactic...

I noticed playing on Elwynn eternity that the pirates ramp up to bigger craft if the first few waves of the smallest 2-3 available don't work. There must be a mechanic somewhere that determines how much they're prepared to throw at you based on how long you've survived/your success against them...

I actually meant that the shield sphere would be kept tight against the room it's situated in, so anyone trying to align to the sphere to make for easier work would get scraped off, and thus couldn't focus on a particular block.

Ah, I see. Well, it would still increase the time necessary to cut through tremendously :P

Seems just another reason to include extra layers of armor around your passageways/core and double-thick blast doors. I had actually thought of using a rotating cylinder around the core. Can the torch be used on blocks if it can't be kept on target for the duration of the burn? If you have to...

I know that previously air would only fire at the target they specifically want to shoot at the moment. Has that changed in the latest dev builds? Will the autocannons shoot at any enemy you point them at or do you have to guess which of a dozen targets was the one they want to shoot right now?

If you cover the engine lights with a layer of ice, the grid like pattern of the lights wouldn't be as noticeable. I also appreciate the diluted, intermingled effect if gives to the light, without dimming it too much. Also love the... Wing thingies. Solar arrays or heat radiators? Not sure...