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Current jump drive distances are server set. Default I believe is only about 15 km, but I've seen some servers crank it up as high as 8 systems. However, either way its a fixed value. What if we changed it to scale up like everything else does? Have it so the ship needs a certain number of...

I'd be happy if the core by itself didn't handle like a drunken cow.

Yup, my favorite bridge design I actually ended up making the core block the seat of the captain's chair. As in, to command the ship, one must go and sit in the captain's chair. The ship wide red-alert button (that kills the overhead lights and turns on red chase lights throughout the ship...

I'm not exactly sure what it is you're asking? Do you want to delay ticks on things like factories and storage containers? Do you want to delay clock pulses for logic (if so, thats pretty easy to rig if you know circuit logic)?

If you see it as shaming, you shouldn't be doing it. If its a popular request, its popular for a reason, a lot of people want it. If threads keep popping up, its a constant reminder that there is a desire for it, and that it isn't something that should get put on the back shelf. Frankly, if I...

So I found a nice big cathedral derelict station right where I wanted to put a warp gate. Tons of shields, huge cannons, energy to spare, perfect place to just claim and build the warpgate on. Sure, I have to be careful where I put things because its decayed and I only get scrap back, but I...

And the answer is that I'm an idiot. I modified the HUD config file to move the popup message off the advanced build controls so the server messages would stop making me pause while building, and pushed it clear off the screen. For the record, 1.3 billion credits to repair a cathedral ship...

How about this for an AI ship setting? Automated freighters. You build a ship, give it storage containers, and a Bobby AI set to Freighter. If it detects that it's linked storage containers are empty, it attempts to dock at the nearest friendly faction docking port. If it detects items in...

Perhaps the biggest qualm I have with the game at this point is the galaxy map. I know its currently in a "there it works well enough, move on to something more important" stage, but these are the upgrades I'd like to see it eventually get: 1) Show me the facing of my ship. Currently the only...

Usually by the time my ship is beaten badly enough to warrant a full respawn, I don't have that many turrets left. And respawning from blueprints brings the turrets along with it, so haven't had any need to fix them after the spawn.

Currently, its pointless to manually repair anything more than superficial damage. When you finish your ship, save the blueprint. If it takes any damage that requires more than a minute or two to fix, just delete the entire ship and respawn it from a blueprint.

So on a server I was setting up a warp gate between spawn and my home base, several systems away. Quick detour to kill a pirate base that was too close to where I wanted to put the gate exit, and I find an abandoned station right next to it. A cathedral. You know, the church ship with the big...

Well we already know that the system supports blocks that you can pass through (any activated door, for example), that it supports transparent glowing blocks (force fields), and that the warp gate has to be a 2 dimensional plane with solid boundries. Should be relatively easy to simply have it...

I'm sure somebody has mentioned this before, probably quite often, but quick Search didn't bring it up, so here it is again. Instead of having the warp gate computer constantly announce "Warp Gate Ready", could we please have a visual effect on the warp gate itself? You know, like the nether...

Something I never saw mentioned anywhere that is insanely useful to me that I thought bore repeating. If you are in a docked ship, the Up and Down arrow keys will cycle you through all other ships that are also docked to the same base. It makes you jump directly into their cores. If, like me...

It took me hours to get those gates linked properly, but I finally did. Dear God that is a NIGHTMARE the first time you do it, at least until you figure out that right click stores the current location, and left click uploads the stored destination into the second gate. Now it'll be easy, just...

So before I go spending a couple million setting up some sta...warpgates, I have a question I don't see right off from the Search. What happens to a ship that enters a warpgate when the other end has blast doors closing it over on both sides? Does the jump fail, does the ship ignore the doors...

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Can't log in to build a quick oddly shaped ship to test this right now, but does anyone know off the top of their head how an area trigger responds to a ship passing through it? As in, does any part inside the bound box of the ship's dimensions trigger the sensor, does it trigger only if an...

Rails could work, as long as you don't mind "loading time". Could work though, put some logic on the door so that it closes while changing, time out how long it takes the rail to change the room, and have the door wait that long before re-opening.