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Basically, you would have only 512 ids per structure, but you could select from a list of say 65,000 IDs. For adding in flora for every world and all that having all those blocks might be a good idea.

Well, I do want the option to "warp in" additional fighters once mine start getting destroyed during combat. I'm thinking an 800m capital can support jump capability for 20-25m fighters with noticeble slowness, while if you want to warp in something 100m big you need something about 5km long. To...

schema, schema, schema! Okay, no taking the name of the cat in vain. Anyway, you wouldn't have to offset the coordinates of the blocks (in fact, you shouldn't.) You could instead dock the center of the ship off center (so offset in x, y, and z instead of just z) [side suggestion to go with...

Okay, numbers: the max tilt and turning speed of the turret will increase, approaching 90 max tilt and a turn limit based on the size of the turret. One block should be enough for small turrets; anything under ~20m probably should get most of the tilt and decent turning with 1-3 blocks, but...

And modular bases? Can't do that

Maybe the size of your hinge determines how far it can rotate? I'd rather not have aesthetics limit a turret's field of fire. BTW, one hinge block should be enough for a small turret to rotate all the way up, while the Charon's main turret or anything of that scale would require a lot.

Hey, could we get gates on ships for heavy capital ship point cost (even more than FTL drive, enough that a ship can barely move with one). I'm thinking modular stations, hauling the gates elsewhere if you need to move base, etc.

I think since the graphics are loaded once, during boot, there wouldn't be much extra cost to changing the files away from the grid. However I think it would make editing the texture much harder since you couldn't copy/paste between different textures.

For damping, how about damping only occurs at low speeds. It won't affect youif you want to cruise in realspace, means that bumped ships won't keep going, and you could sen out probes that just keep going (as long as the sectors are loaded)

You know, maybe there is another way to do this while freeing up additional IDs (in effect) without reducing HP (though the new armor system is still good) Move two bits from ID to orientation. Then have all IDs for the ship defined from a huge list. You limit the number of block types usable on...

Or an effect to reduce collison damage.

I like the idea of more complex patterns needed to get optimum efficenecy. Certainly for new power generators this would be really neat. p.s. neonstrum, the point of shields is to fill in empty gaps. Ideally a ship would never have a solid block of shields anywhere because for best results all...

Wait, do only connector blocks ignore collision? The entire barrel should ignore collisions. It's not like it would be any more powerful than turrets already are, and a small amount of clipping (IMO) should make a difference.

shamelesssss plug incoming! Solution for that. Anyway yes I would like colored doors, but slightly different from the main hull colors so that I can tell where the doors are.

Yeah, the missile pods would probably look wrong on a turret dedicated to one weapon. My trident turrets have missiles, but they're embedded into the turret body. Also, they aren't clearly a main turret.

You might want to update the main turret so it looks related to the smaller guns, which by the way look wicked.

The tiny ship probably doesn't have enough hyperdrive capacity to haul a capital. Anyway, who here wants to make a gate that looks like Forcing a solid connection will make the calculations harder and reduce flexibilty

As long as they share shields. I don't want the base getting wrecked.

Yeah eventually the launcher will probably be intergrated into the same screen as the main game

Target/spotting would probably be an override for normal behavior. You select an AI, and then tell it what to do. (also, if it's in an AI squad, the entire squad will do it.)