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Uhm, there's not that much to it. Whether you have 300 or 3,000,000 shield capacitor blocks, the load on your reactor remains the same as long as you don't mess with the generators. The only consequence to power from adding shield caps is from the extra thrusters you'd probably end up adding to...

Shield capacitors use power?

It can do neither of these things. It can sit in place and defend a single sector, or it can mine in the same sector as a manned flagship. A patrol implies an actual route across multiple sectors, and mining would ideally work while not in loading range of the ships.

Which, the ingame ones or Eric's suggestion? Because the ingame ones don't repel anything but their own entity, and there's a quantity limit for performance/sanity reasons.

No. It's waiting until the universe update, as was (I believe) originally planned.

I'd recommend a blanket disable of effects upon docking that doesn't actually deactivate chambers, just makes them have 0% effect or whatever. Having to either reactivate everything manually or have an extra activator and NOT-gate just to have the stuff activate when undocked sounds annoying.

So, is the underlying system behind chambers going to be used for crew enhancements as well? And environmental effects?

They said that they are going to try and avoid redundant chambers that don't do anything you could accomplish by simply adding more normal blocks. So, no effective shield capacity increases (Ion effect) or permanent thrust increases, unless they've changed their plans.

It's not abandoned. Schema just mentioned it yesterday. For some reason they're keeping the actual nature of it a secret, but he said that it is definitely going to be implemented (with the universe update).

Or, it might stop people from flying titanic ships and feeling invincible in them. I have to agree that the idea isn't altogether a good one, but the repercussions wouldn't be all bad, either. People couldn't fly massive ships alone willy-nilly any more; they would only deploy such things, and...

That's the sort of mechanic that the Chamber system opens up. However, I see no reason why missiles are ever going to be anything but a weapon... Heatseeker swarms built with logic are the closest you'll ever get to having them as an 'ability'. Turn off auto-damping in the thrust menu, if you...

Removing a review probably should not remove the rating attached to it, at the very least. Just have the actual review either read [REVIEW REMOVED] or disappear.

Agreed. This and the player position desynch should probably be fixed before moving forward. They might not be a big deal to veterans who are used to dealing with this kind of thing and all know the fixes already, but they can seriously mess up the play experience if you don't know how to...

It probably wouldn't be balanced that way. Between the trade system and reasonably-balanced resource distribution, building ships should be largely possible wherever. Just easier to produce and sell certain things in certain places. Fairly certain that your idea of 'quirks' that make certain...

Initial inspiration came from Vulcan ships, and an image of a Protoss ship that I did not, at the time, realize was even Protoss.

Yeah, yeah. Seats are already confirmed. That's not really the point of this suggestion. The point is that ship cores will probably continue to exist after seats are added, and they shouldn't. Yes, until we get the ability to load blueprints directly onto a docking location. I'd be willing to...

Uhm, no. An entity is an entity, and isn't defined by a core. You can/could create an entity via file editing or whatever that is just a docker, and it would still work... or replace the ship core with whatever block via file editing and the ship would become un-enterable, but (bugs aside)...

Agreed; this needs to be done. Creating a new ship/station should consume a build block instead of a ship core, and all of its functions should be decentralized to computers (e.g. thrust computer, structure monitoring computer). Radar mark can be moved to the center of mass.

That does not include new ones not yet added to the game files.

Just out of curiosity, where's this 'statistic' come from? Last night I checked the server list and Light vs. Dark was on top, but that was pretty much the first time ever. Before that, The Sentinel Alliance (which doesn't even allow non-consensual PVP) was the only server that consistently kept...