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Changing blocks may not be the only way to edit blueprints, but I think it would be a quick, easy, and valuable tool to add to the ole' builder's toolbox. Possible sticking point: when changing a block type, the player may pick a block that's already part of the blueprint, consolidating block...

Good ideas. I'd like to see a version of the game with tons more asteroids. My idea above would simulate having huge numbers of asteroids without having to actually render them. Still not a great way to simulate what is ultimately a limited supply of resources, but might be more friendly to the...

If you did an upgrade of your old game to the new version, instead of installing fresh, it may be trying to use an out-of-date version of the configs. There have been an update or two in the past year where the old configs didn't work for people and had to be deleted, so that the game could...

As far as I know, you still need cannons for anti-missile turrets. Smaller turrets don't need a lot of damage per shot, so if you are going anti-missile, you probably need to go with cannons.

This past weekend, I was able to work on some pieces for my classic-60s style explorer ship. I was horrified to find that the game failed to load entire chunks of the ship. Large 16^3 chunks were just... gone. On one hand, it's an interesting look at the ship's raw anatomy. On the other hand...

I think it would be more intuitive to slave cannon systems to the rail blocks to change speed. You could use other weapon slaves for other effects on the rail system, but I can't yet imagine how the other systems would change the rail behavior. (E.g. Use beam slaves to change the number of...

I fully agree. This is basically how the Quake games got their NPCs moving (invisible waypoints in the map data) when not under the control of player-hunting AI routines. If it's good enough for pre-Diakatana John Romero, it's good enough for me.

It would be nice shortcut if the number-to-buy is automatically the total number available, instead of starting at "1".

With lots of little doomcu... er, drones.

I imagine unstable-tectonic plates could be simulated with a new rock-and-lava biome with a healthy helping of vertical cliffs and lava-falls. Think planet Ortega from Space Quest 3 or planet Mustafar from Star Wars 3.

I have become a fan of realistic skins on square heads. Example skin in the link below. http://starmadedock.net/content/han-solo-1.1958/

Using a technobeam to reload blocks is far superior to my idea for a new block that would "eject" blocks in a given direction. Great idea!

Thanks! From what I've read over the past 10 months, I'm under the impression that Schema prefers open sandbox play. His team generally works towards a wide-open game style that allows emergent behavior, as opposed to more defined details. When they have implemented ideas from the community...

They work hard to try to keep up with the forums, but the majority of discussion on the forums involves duplicate information and repeated suggestions in various forms. (How many times in an average week is the "new HP system" mentioned? Weapon linking? Quest system? AI improvements? Moddding...

This thread is all about new pirate groups: (Pretty cool stuff!) http://starmadedock.net/threads/a-new-wave-pirate-ship-community-contest.6365/

You can move that dialogue box by editing a config file. See the following thread for details: http://starmadedock.net/threads/is-there-a-way-to-move-the-server-not-responding-window.5836/ For the server dialogue new X coordinate, take your game's X size (E.g. 1280x800 will have a X size of...

It's a matter of customizing the behavior of your weapons. On a side note, the block counts do not include the control computer. Example 1: A damage beam with 20 blocks. It fires once for about 500 points of damage, and recharges for 5 seconds (I forget the recharge time for standard un-altered...

Could you reduce emissary territory to a single planetary plate, and have all of them located on a single planet? Having them all together on a single planet might lead to some interesting and quest-able dilemmas that wouldn't happen if they were on separate planets. (Quest idea: The Trade...

On the contrary, I would think that it would be valuable to respawn asteroids, especially near a homebase. Without respawning, transportation time takes longer and longer and longer, until you finally have to move your base to get anything substantial built.

I'd like breaking-and-entering to be more substantial than just holding down a button on a hackergun or knocking on a door. However, this may be a subject for a mod. I'm thinking mini-game like Simon(says) or Loopz that gets more complex with each order-of-magnitude of blocks in the blueprint...