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Stabilizers don't seem to be affected by integrity for some reason.

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Yeh, it's not a complete solution. However, it does seem to reduce the survivability of high surface area builds; even 3x3 pipes tend to go rather volatile after taking enough hits: That was the result of scratching up a 3x3 thruster pipe randomly for a while with a tiny beam weapon. Needs...

Meh. I'm happy to gut everything and start fresh if a new system is an improvement. Even if not, this being alpha I fully expect to have to do that. I have several issues with this system, but that is not one of them.

Hull/armour doesn't have integrity calculations. :P I suppose spaghetti stations aren't exactly a big problem as stations can't move in the first place and don't really benefit from spaghetti as much, but for consistency's sake I believe that mechanics should be the same for different entities...

And what if we don't want a giant ring around our ship because it screws with the aesthetics? Or want decent docking clearance from all sides? Or because that just makes no sense? I'm sure there will be plenty of ships with floating stabilizer solutions like this, but there's no good reason why...

All spaghetti-ships are unconventional builds, but not every unconventional build is a spaghetti ship. Remember - things can float. Say, for the sake of argument, I chose to cover everything in hull, whether or not I have any good reason to. Even with that being the case, if I didn't have a big...

By the way, hovers are way underpowered. It seems like a ship must be made almost entirely of thrusters just to be able to get off the ground. Not much room for advanced armor, standard armor, or even deco blocks...

...sort of. 2x2 and even 3x3 long tubes tend to become very structurally unstable very fast, and will tend to shatter after taking enough hits... ...Ultimately, I'd think that moving away from global SHP is enough to partly offset the whole spaghetti issue. "I won't take damage if I can't get...

Yup, the turn rate chambers ultimately just let you push most of your thrust out of turn rate if you so choose... They're effectively the thrust equivalent of ion effect passive in the release version.

Yeah, the base charge rate is unreasonably slow. I can see why they want to balance out charge time increases and instant travel, but the current base rate is silly.

Now that the prerelease is out, could we finally get an explanation as to how these 'shield hotspot' mechanics work? The shield DPS/alpha type chambers say that they increase/decrease vulnerability to 'high damage weapons' or 'low damage weapons,' but what exactly qualifies as "high damage" or...

...Except that it kind of doesn't. If you don't care too much about your ship being good from a practical standpoint, the new system is mildly annoying at worst. Even if you have to size down your reactor, you can at least make the ship move and shoot no matter what its proportions are.

Daro, 'noodleships' are only a part of the problem in the first place... :\

The solution I've been mentioning occasionally is just to draw a big polygon between the centres of all the stabilizer groups on a ship. Take the volume of that polygon and the total number of stabilizers, and from those two values create a 'stabilization field strength' somehow, i.e. the...

Still has an arbitrary rule (line must cross the reactor) and so wouldn't solve things. What about ships with split tails like mine? What about Star Trek's ships, where the nacelles would be perfect for stabilizers except that the reactor can almost never be right between them? What about...

LoD for lighting, LoD for entity rendering, LoD for all the things! Awesome! \o/ Good to know that these things are still planned.

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Highly unlikely. Schine needs a functional indicator for power stats specifically, so if there were a bug with this it would probably be noticed and patched very quickly. So, 'specialized' ships should all be long and 'general purpose' ships should all be boxy? :P Besides, from my experience...

I just checked, and you're right. The build mode stats said one thing, but the ships are apparently not actually of those dimensions. However, if I have 3312 blocks worth if internal volume on the TOP ship and it has less than half the regen of a ship with a significantly LOWER internal (and...