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Solar panels have been weaved into many power threads before. Maybe give solar panel groups a power bonus like this: + ( ( longest dimension - shortest dimension ) / ceil ( remaining dimension / 2.5 ) ). This should ensure that the optimum layout would be long, thin, and flat. The shortest...

Neat! I recommend shifting everything except level 0 up a level (level 1 becomes level 2, level 2 becomes level 3, and so on), with a new level 1. Edit: I almost forgot:

Simple double-barrelled turret. Will probably fit in an 11x11 turret slot. 3 blocks tall. White color. dual 7-block cannons with 6-cannon support for semi-rapid fire. Cannon linked to a red light for color. 10 shield capacitors and 4 shield generators for basic shielding. Includes a Bobby...

The dropship has been given shields and some salvage beams for servers without Battletech rules. You can still get the regular non-shielded Leopard in version 0.8.

Just as a general question, has anyone had success with putting different grey (or other color) blocks on their exterior to simulate different metal plates? If so, what different blocks did you use, and do you have any screenshots? I'd like to see that and haven't tried it yet.

My primary use for rails will be for in-ship elevators (turbolifts in trek-speak). Creating massive walkways is fun to explore and even to wander around, but ultimately, I found that if I could use elevators, I could devote more internal volume to ship systems if I could only have elevators...

Introducing the Leopard, the most famous Battletech dropship of all time. Production year: 2537 "A simple and easy-to-maintain design, the Leopard quickly became the standard lance-sized 'Mech carrier for the original Star League and the Great Houses." Source: Leopard Original canon...

I resolve to release at least one Arthur C. Clarke-inspired ship in 2015.

I believe Col. Stars and Stripes puts it best:

I recommend reading the xkcd comic to put things in perspective and to find even more humor in this stuff. (Warning: There can be some salty stuff.) https://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/1175/ http://xkcd.com/669/ All speed is measured according to a point of reference. Normally, we use the Earth...

Wow! Made it! The Leopard has been uploaded. Happy New Year. Image Resource: https://imgur.com/a/xid3q Ship link: http://starmadedock.net/content/leopard-dropship.1931/

If you build a salvage system with salvage blocks all in one massive, continuous blob, it will, by default, come out of a single block as a single beam. Single massive blob of salvage blocks in ASCII form: OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO Note: only one of those blocks will have the single output...

Happy New Year 2015 folks! Unless of course all that relativity stuff is true. In which case, with all of us flying around the universe at high velocity that we do, that probably happened 30 years ago. In which case, Happy New Year 2050 folks!

Even with different areas in the same universe, I still think server-to-server singularities could be a cool/fun/interesting thing.

Fair enough, but consider that there will be 4 or 5 survivors from the fight, all salvaging at the same time. (Including the creepy possibility of destroyed ships from their own faction, maybe, so it could be back down to a single ship salvaging one wreck.) I just don't want to see an AI faction...

I think this should be two new blocks: shootable area triggers, and shootable blast doors. Maybe a third: area triggers that can be shot to be activated, or activated with the presence of an entity. That way, you have the original area triggers, and new options for how things work.

This would be very cool. Especially with multiple AI factions. (single player faction wars! I'll get the popcorn....) I think they should have tiny (maybe only one or two blocks) salvage systems, so that they are forced to hang around large wreckage for a while, putting them into the "hunted"...

A description mentioning another game is a hook to help new potential players prepare for what to expect from the game. It can help draw in players who use search engines to find things like "game like minecraft with flying spaceships". If we really did start describing it as ""Better than...

Maybe the game loader could be updated to automatically ask the player if they would like to download all the logic templates from the Community Content into their available template blueprints for pasting directly into new builds. Edit: Maybe update it after more content is added to only...

Player-made missions: Yes! Game-made missions: No slow escort missions! To replace escort missions, maybe make a mission like "Go to sector X and destroy asteroid/incoming flight group Y before it can intercept and destroy broken-down barge/cruise liner/damaged warship Z. I get hives just...