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Oh stop being melodramatic. "Oh I can't build big turrets if there is an option to not have giant turrets!" Yes you can. Yes you totally can. You can make as big of a shell around a single emitter block as you want. You could build a little room inside your turret with a transporter in it...

Well since we're getting into it now: Blueprint File Formats - StarMade Wiki That shows us the exact current bit breakdown of the block file format. Out of 24 bits, we currently use 11 bits for block IDs, and 3-5 bits for orientation based on if it has an activation status or not. 11 bits can...

Like what? Given that orientation, activation status, etc would not factor into any of them. Given cube, wedge, hepta, tetra, and corner, plus 3 levels of slab, thats 8 blocks max per new block type. 525k/8 is still 65k new block types in every possible shape. Not trying to sound snotty or...

Yes, thats what I said. The point being however that an extra byte of space is not going to be using ANY of that extra space for such things, as it is already there in the base 3 bytes. All of the extra capacity could conceivably go into nothing but new block types. You're picking nits...

Now this I just find boarderline offensive, really. When somebody says "I can't build the ship I want due to arbitrary mechanical restrictions" and your answer is basically "Your design is stupid, you should build around the limitation" then that isn't helping anything. Designing around a flaw...

Shipyards are great, we really needed them for efficient ship design. Thing is, shipyards can't really handle docked entities well, and proper turret design and placement is a big part of any good ship design. I routinely wish I could get out and basically treat the shipyard like I would any...

Brief low level computer refresher for anyone that doesn't know (keeping it simple to avoid unsigned vs signed and various other things out of the conversation). A byte is 8 bits. A bit is a single binary 1 or 0. When you count in binary, 1 - 2 - 3 becomes 01 - 10 - 11. 8 bits means eight...

This is not an issue anymore. I don't have the thread saved (I should have) but we've seen one of the devs say that they are either redoing it or found a way around it and that there is currently no code based limitation based on a finite number of block IDs. They can and will make as few or...

I'm currently working on a carrier titan concept (still just thinking through everything) and I REALLY wish I had this right now. I'd love to just build the fighter bays, or the bridge, or any number of individual components without having to worry about where they go at the moment. Actually...

Yeah, I don't think anybody is making the suggestion that you should be able to remote control a ship from inside your faction home with unlimited range. Thats really just a stupidly exaggerated extreme, IMO. Of course the pilot should have to be close to the fight, close enough to actually be...

While I'm all for a range limit to make sure that the players are actually in range of being attacked directly (say within the same sector or two), I disagree on the entire concept of "Never wanting to fly a normal ship again". We are ALREADY at the point no one wants to fly a "normal" ship if...

Lets see, today (well yesterday actually since its 9am now) I got my new heavy fighter drone finished (50k shields, punch through cannons that go a dozen plus blocks deep through standard armor, PDT turret, little over 50m long). And now that its finished, I'm starting design for a carrier...

I use spherical turrets all the time. The main defensive turret on top of my homebase is an eyeball turret, actually.

Well we know command chairs are coming that can be linked to computers and cores for remote access (no more sticking the core on the bridge). Could be as simple as Command Chair > Wireless Block (Mothership) > Wireless Block (Drone) > Drone Core. Jump in the command chair, and it basically...

I would not use any ship design made with such a system, no. I find it unfeasable in that I have never found a design I liked 100% out of the box, there is always something I change about it to make it fit what I like in a ship better. The only way this would work is if it was entirely...

Either way, its one reason I hate Steam and I refuse to use it unless I have absolutely no other choice (and even then I will only use it for top of the line stuff like Skyrim, if I see a game I want to try that says it uses Steam, I put it back down). Steam is active poison to me, if I see...

Steam isn't voluntary DRM, its mandatory DRM. Or at least last time I checked there wasn't a way to play games like Skyrim or Civ V on the PC without using Steam. You can't unhook them, you can't play them at all without a Steam account, and there is only so long Steam will let you go in...

Heck, I'd like to see weapon information (dps, energy usage, etc) available on displays just so I could put it next to the computer so I didn't have to keep drilling down into the weapon details tab every time I modified something.

That is a heck of a lot of work for a red alert detector considering you can do the same thing with area sensors.

So we could make some actual enemy detection units, I like it.