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I'm certain the very particle system will have different effect for each weapon/slave combo. i.e. normal missile is normal, rapid missile is cone shaped in the direction of travel, swarm has two trails, seeker has a short second trail, nuke has a spinning star effect (like photon torpedos)

Chance of absorption by the parent ship? I like the idea. I'm trying to think of a way where the small turret on a small ship gets a good bonus, while the small turret on a large ship gets an okay bonus, and a large turret on a large ship really doesn't get a bonus.

Hard limits are bad Imagine adding a block to your turret and then boom randomly undocks.. Anyway, the devs have talked about an energy cost for turning the turrets. I'd imagine that having the cost increase with the proportion would balance that. If I want a fighter to have a single turret the...

Eh, don't be terribly worried about posting something that there aren't a bunch of threads about. Besides, maybe someone will come up with a mechanic for replacing the blocks on the interiors of ships.

Sort of. It would mean that we are limited in further expansions of the shapes we can get, but we can get the current shapes on blocks which are currently cube-only without any extra IDs. And yes, that will give us more room for functions. The requirements for half-slope blocks: (Note: "Tall"...

That's not a bad ship. Could use a few of the hsped blocks here and there to smooth it up a bit, but a very simple, well-done build nevertheless. Might I suggest something like "Blackbird" or "Raven" as a name? P.S. Nice job with the exposed engine blocks at the back. Not many people can pull...

I believe the devs are planning to add this feature to the existing astrotech. My main concern is not knowing what block to put down (and any connections, those can be stored, but the ability to target mission blocks on the inside of vessels.

Eh, I don't like the joint between the upper and lower halves of the shield-wing. You can't see any of the support sructure from some angles, so it looks like they should be flopping around a lot. You should probably add some form of bracing to make it look more solid. That aside, the sharp line...

Also Kupu I'm surprised that this hasn't come up before, but both the damage beam and damage pulse screens are the exact same shade of blue, which makes the icons very hard to distinguish.

And while we're on the topic, possibly different from sector to sector, possibly different once inside a station, possibly faction-dependent.

Um, maybe. We would have 6 "orientation" bits that we could use, so one for each face. Anyway, to everyone who points out that we don't need to change the bits to get combinations of block, wedge, penta, and tetra: you can't get the activation bit then. With this, the activation bit on the...

I wouldn't worry so much about problems with mass placing with a large setting as I would with not having the control to adjust the sliders easily enough. I tried it at 400 and wound up unable to get to low values (like 10) easily enough. 25 seems to be the new default.

These look very stunning. I look forward to the refits.

Bobby AIs are apparently supposed to disappear. If that is the case, limits on the size of drone swarms would be done through limiting access to NPCs. Also, the game is stable enough to have 150 drones pounding away on something without crashing. My FPS starting hurting more than my ping when I...

Having observed everything being red without that mod, I can confirm that it is not.

Erm, what I meant was another build mode feature to turn off different types of blocks, which would have a few presets, but you could always adjust it type by type.

Or you know, they would be based on what color of crystal you choose or whatever.

We should keep facing the same way (if I'm facing towards the front of a ship, I'll keep facing in that direction) but we should spin around so our feet are always on the floor.

Block view filtering, with presets for weapons, hull, systems, and logic would work.

Um, do shops need systems? After all, aren't the shops supposed to be indestructible?