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This is all academic unless the server farm will use microtransactions to sustain the expense. I don't think there will be enough players to support a microtransaction economy, unless transactions are forced, whether that be a monthly subscription like World of Warcraft or some other required...

But... But... We have linking! (As in: with just a little new code, you could link a light to a hazard block and have the game replace the non-white color.) However, the StarMade solution will probably be to simply introduce two new sets of hazard blocks: red-white and orange-white. It's not...

I love the idea of an over-sized ship breaking apart, as if it was in a sun as shown in the recent update video (bits and pieces flying off all over).

This would definitely be neat. Builders could come up with all kinds of ways to use this. It would probably need some limitations. 1. No other blocks allowed along the path, or else the movement is stopped. (precision entity placement? Could provide exciting new design concepts) 2. Maybe...

Yes. Such shapes could be re-used in a city-building algorithm to build random cities on planets throughout the universe as they are discovered. I think the cities that the planets have now are pre-made and are always the same. Randomized cities would provide more exploration opportunities...

As long as the fill-check is done in build mode, not in combat, it should be perfectly feasible. The problem of unfeasible calculations came from wanting to calculate if a "room" is enclosed, for air calculations. The problem for room-enclosure would come in mid-combat, where a re-run of the...

The most realistic way I can think of would be to set up a line of plex or blast doors to serve as the arresting "cable", activated shortly before a craft comes in for a landing. It would probably need to be repaired after every landing. Similarly, you could set up a plex-door "net" to provide...

I can see this creating unreasonable lag on ships with many turrets. Here is why: Each empty block would need an array of values. The size of the array would be the number of turrets. Squared! This is because each turret would need to calibrate not just with the mothership, but with all linked...

Serious question: Is there a block that can be placed over a light block to dim it, while still getting illumination? Example: could you place ice (not to be confused with ice crystal) over an orange light to get a soft brownish glow? My "Clarke" project has red lights that are supposed to...

Yes, sound overload could become a very real problem for ships in StarMade, because overwhelming sound may limit a builder's creativity ("Gotta remove all those extra fans and logic monitoring wall due to the noise. That's a shame. It was working so well without all the noise...") For example...

Excellent! I was just pondering how I think galaxies should be bigger. This adds so much more variation than simply increasing size.

I was almost on-board, until I realized that this would be mostly used for matching up ships from similar franchises. Then I realized that a per-blueprint system setting wouldn't be necessary. Instead, per-franchise server configs need to be standardized, primarily based on the 1:1 scaled...

That's great. I also recommend the "ImaginaryStarships" subreddit. It links to a lot of DeviantArt stuff and has an average of one or two new ships posted a day. Mostly book-cover style artwork.

I'm hoping, that with the greater emphasis on more factions and fauna, that the permission tab becomes much more complex. It is already too simple for what players want to do. I imagine a menu-tree structure would add sufficient granularity. I hope there will be a search function also, because...

In addition to wireframe helpers in the advanced build mode menu, I'd also like to see the option of a wireframe helper mode in build mod that places wireframes on the actual entity being built. This would help illustrate tricky situations like dark blocks and other things that aren't quite...

They can, but it's extremely limited and has to be authorized before-hand due to non-disclosure agreements. In short, the dev team generally keeps their developments and ideas close to the chest and only occasionally lets an idea slip out. Reason? Probably this: If the dev team releases an idea...

Warning: Even my larger designs normally fall well short of 100k mass, because I don't have a lot of time to spend in-game, so I'm probably not the target for your post. 1. Using advanced build mode (not placing not block at a time), I build up the exterior to look nice, which adds to my...

Doesn't an AI drone (in this case, a torpedo) go into "torpedo mode" automatically , if it doesn't have on-board weapon blocks? ("Torpedo Mode" meaning Charging and physically ramming a target.)

Coordinate bookmarks should also be copyable in some way, maybe to a logbook. Players can sell valuable location coordinates, and friends can give coordinate bookmarks to friends to go visit something cool with just a few clicks.