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My favorite feature in ever piece of software that has it.

True, if it's fun it can't be more pointless than playing the game. Btw: There's a BLUEPRINT_BUY_WITH_BLOCKS option in the server.cfg, this could solve the money problem. Edit: Didn't Schema mention a hard limit of 64,000m in the second Q&A session?

I thought so. With "nothing" being an improbable option "all or nothing" suddenly makes sense. ;)

Isn't it still possible to open the door directly?

Sure, 20 might be too many. I haven't tried to speed-relink weapon computers, yet, so I don't know how much is realistic (there are way quicker players than me anyways). But all you have to do is to properly design your ship, just don't add more turrets than you can handle. Titans are too big...

Of course. Each block within an entity (ship/station/planet) has the same amount of information available, which is shared between ID, orientation, damage, ON/OFF-state and whatnot. Doubling the maximum number of IDs increases the memory usage of an entity by 1 bit per block, and if the number...

Keep on trying, that's only a matter of training.

I suggest you rename the thread to something like "Mobile fighter shipyards for carriers". Factories are blocks which are used to craft individual blocks, thus this term is misleading.

The other crystal types might be integrated into terrain generation in the future.

Originally it was a SNES game.

Ah, you mean like Protoss carriers.

Hazard stripes / grates / mesh don't belong to the crystal group. All blocks within a group should be treated equally.

This is where the game is currently going to. If you are fast enough to do this within a reasonable time you clearly have an advantage.

Turrets already rotate around two axes, the rotation around the second axis just has to be passed to the docked gun. The biggest problem is probably the communication between entities.

There are more things that should be considered regarding mass and HPs of wedges. Currently they are more valuable than full blocks since they can cover a bigger surface area (if the builder wants smooth surfaces that is). Reducing their HPs would make slopes more vulnerable than horizontal or...

This is already planned. There'll be shipyards where you put in a blueprint and blocks, and they'll build (or repair) the ship.

I'm on the all-or-nothing route, too. :p Having wedges for one type of crystals, but not for the others is inconsistent game design, even having wedges but not tetras/pentas (corners are dispensable if necessary) for all crystals would be inconsistent (but to a lesser degree, of course). This...

I currently don't have the time to read the whole thread, so I'm sorry if this was already brought up. Your example assumes stupid pilots. If the shields of one of the smaller ships are down it can retreat from combat until they are up again since bigger ships are less maneuverable. Even if this...

Schema could make the game compatible with the file format Spore uses for creatures (in addition to the random system, of course).

My point of view It should be possible to create real turrets with a turret base which can only rotate horizontally and a chain-docked gun which can only rotate vertically. This way phasing were still possible, but easily avoidable by clever design. The current system could remain in place as...