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Will it be this generation? Almost certainly. Will it be another two or three years? ...yeah, probably.

Well yeah, it has. And if the pattern of not bothering to implement core features mentioned as part of updates (and needed for said updates to be relevant to players) continues, it will be in that state for another 2 years or so. If not, that should end two weeks after the universe update (when...

No idea why this "xbb" term caught on so much, but yes, beam/beam exploits will definitely be better than weapons where there isn't a major exploit with their mechanics. Other than that... Have they made cannon bullet speeds reasonable? I've been busy messing with so many games that I don't feel...

Yes. Holding RGB values in a block would require blocks to store a LOT more data than they do now, if you want a range of colours that makes the RGB system even worth it.

Pretty sure this 'slowpoke' came here to play a sci-fi spaceship game, not an unarmored sticks with lots of beam turrets game. Perhaps his approach to the problem is wrong, but if there were effective "ways to counter this defense" atm, I'm pretty sure all the competitive ships we hear about...

This might be interesting, but that doesn't necessarily make it good. Buffs like this seem to be the sort of thing you would want to have as features for stations, maybe relying on some resource from planet mantle extractors to continue running.

'Corrections' for most of the things you listed would be totally adding new features that mess with the core gameplay (O2, food, water, collision damage, fuel...) or breaking more-or-less necessary functions (homebase protection, advanced build mode). Tying blueprints into shipyards isn't either...

Why are the green cascade and force-field textures in the texture files, but not in the game? :thinking:

They want to remove it for normal play, yes, and assuming they can get shipyards stable (ha-ha, I know), what's the issue with this? Having a proper in-game way of working with and building your designs makes a lot more sense than poofing ships into existence with magical items that can be used...

Is there any reason why the universe update is going into development before certain seemingly independent features that would contribute to it, e.g. any station buffs/special features which need their own blocks or chamber setups, NPC crew/Quarters, and any major new building blocks planned for...

Yes, these are correct. Remember that beam damage attenuates with range. They will massively outperform cannons at very close range, though.

Systems now have different mechanics for damage absorption than deco/rocks, IIRC.

Excellent, it's out! Now everyone can get to breaking everything immediately. :P

Wat? The weapons update was never stated to be an extension of chambers, in fact that system really isn't applicable to weapons as they're individual separate systems and chambers are necessarily global (without some major mechanical changes, at which point they wouldn't really be chambers as we...

This would be excellent, and honestly it would probably be easier to understand than the current system, even though it is more complicated. Unfortunately, something like this will presumably never be implemented.

What do you mean 'properly'? The weapons work, they just don't always do what you'd necessarily want them to do.

1) How much more technical work will it take to be able to create physical implementations of the particle system, e.g. custom particle emitter blocks or a 'spark' particle effect randomly appearing on damaged/negative integrity systems? 2) I remember you guys mentioning that there would be dev...

Please, for the love of all good works of the Gods under the stars, for the love of the Secret Fire and all things sacred and holy, please... ...don't take pictures of your monitor. F5/F6 keys for screenshots exist; use them.