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I mean, hopefully the "launcher" becomes seamless with the game itself. Ability to exit out of one install/server and right into another, changing/updating texture packs, checking if servers are up, lots of stuff.

Not any practical applications? Getting around your space station quickly would be one. Getting back to your ship if you accidentally fell out is another.

I think it's that the new factory system and cubatoms will work the same way.

One of the things about the cubatom system is that you don't need any hardware. Even if you don't have any hardware, you can set up a factory system by yourself on a planet or station. With the mandatory hardware, there's no way that anyone can start from nothing.

I think the escape pods would be a block that just fires the player out at crazy high speed towards the nearest planet or something.

Yeah, the display seems to be off. I was blasting away at pirates today and only once did I see shields displayed as anything besides 100%. It's in the bug tracker right now, as #593

Well, got the Merlin refit fast. Managed to get it done before lunch. Some of you may remember this from the old site, but now I have all of the weapons on it, and the new decorative blocks. In the main body there is a giant Siege laser and kinetic autocannons. The pods each have a nuclear...

Hello everyone. This page is for all of the ships that I am working on for my fleet, which I call the TCDF (Terran Colonial Defense Force) Here's a picture of my station with all the ships docked to it; I'll upload images of one of them once I finish my refit. (which should be today)

No, I was talking about the center both vertically and horizontally. The pointy bits on the end of the wing/shield work fine. Let me just show you instead of confusing everyone. However, that compression to a point at the center looks weird. Also, having a flat bit there would improve the hape...

One of the things about the new shield system that any admin should do is put the <ShieldRechargeCycleTime> down from 1 to .1 or .03, which means that your ship won't loose all power when it's shields try to regen. I'm really not sure why it was put up so high.

The beams appear 10cm across, even though they exist as actual 0-width lines in the game engine. There is no reason that the beam width couldn't be increased to a full block across.

Here's a way of fixing the overdrive and other effects to get "over 100%:" Set the effects to require 10x the blocks. Then set the effects to be 10x as strong (though you can't do that in the config right now.)

Ah. Sorry about posts. I was referring to a post by Ithirahad here about having a block that not only controls turrets but also other weapons types. Anyway, I don't think that having a fixed hard cap on the number of controllable turrets is a good idea. It only encourages huge turrets. Same...

I'm thinking the center part of the wing should be flattened, and the panels that go into the center be thickened at that point instead of going to points.

I know someone came up with the idea of having special computers that players could enter and they would be able to control multiple weapons systems. What if we took that, and then made it so that when it was hooked up to turret docking ports it allowed player-controlled mode?

Doing a toriod is probably overkill. You could just put step-on triggers on the top and walk over them.

Wooooo! I like the new core texture. Also, will the new computer textures be distinct on each face (I can look at any one face and tell instantly which computer it is?)

Having the plexliter platform be variable in shape might not work. Having it be variable in size is probably easy. Also, plexlifter blocks should output a logic signal when the platform reaches them.

Here's something that bothers me about the powergens/tanks/shields: Without a border along the edge of the block, it looks horrible when you put them next to blocks of any other type. Also, the hazard stripes could stand to be a bit more saturated (they look too pale)

Be sure to make a map of this thing, cause otherwise you will get lost. Seriously though, this looks like it will be impressive.