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My first time was back before we got Kupu textures and pentas/heptas and tetras and the like... I quickly realized I was outgunned, and hadn't discovered the "make a flat ship and stick yourself against the bottom of the station, shooting out the turret dockers from inside the structure" trick...

Yep. This is apparently already fixed in Schine's internal builds, meaning as of next update that won't be the case.

Seems to me that the systems revamp is worthy of being called 0.2.x.

I'll likely be refitting my larger ships within a month after the update... The thing is, they don't go on CC so I guess that doesn't count :P

But it's not power :| It's the amount of stuff that can be controlled at once. Has nothing to do with power really. Auxiliary power is extra power added to your power grid, which can really only be provided by support ships with power supply beams.

Actually, that's perfect. Let's just go with that. Control Bandwidth.

ENGINES MOBILITY CHAMBER - Seemingly planned; no idea what it is, but I guess it's a root chamber for thrust effects? Can provide a % buff to total thrust. Moderate TP cost. Reaction Control Grid (passive) - Increase turn rate. Moderate TP cost. Propulsion Energizer (passive) - Increases top...

Predictability: Placing a block leads to predictable outcomes If conduits damaged in combat would be changed to break links, then the new system basically fulfills this. Even if not, most things work in a more easily understandable (and less abstract) manner. No problem here. Simplicity: The...

This is your fault, not the game's. It's still in alpha*... and in alpha, big things can and do change. If you thought they'd be keeping stuff the way it is just because they happened to release their alpha development builds, I'm not really sure what to tell you. :P *and despite popular...

That's kind of my worry as well. It sounds like cubes (not doomcubes as those are usually cuboids), spheres, and other shapes that have the same dimensions all around won't work as nicely as very long, very tall, or very wide ships.

And that's a bad thing? In real life, vehicles for different jobs tend to be separate models, not just a matter of swapping out peripherals. If you design carefully, you can still create modular designs, but IRL modular construction tends to sometimes probe to be more trouble and expense than...

No. Not allowing onboard reactors is not "another sacrifice." Allowing them is an added boon. Do onboard guns get their own special onboard reactors? No, not under the old system and not under the new one.

Come to think of it, my "Core Channels" idea could be used to create a really cool revamped structure menu. Instead of the current categories, you would be given an actual diagram of the existing systems represented as boxes linked to the core, with information on each system's status inside the...

That won't happen. Huh? If you don't care much about optimization, you can just slap down a reactor, put down a cannon, maybe slap a stabilizer or two somewhere, and then it works. The only added bit is that you might have to link the two with conduits, but even that might be limited to...

Honestly, it won't take any more time to make this stuff work than checking ratios for weapons and the like.

I agree, but "Quantum"-something-or-other seems generic enough. I just want to stay away from points and chips and pips and scores and counters and spinners and things you find in games, in favor of things you find aboard spaceships... But I also want to stay away from names that don't make any...

Yeah, but my point is... don't they hook new stuff into the Ent-D's and Voyager's EPS system sometimes? It doesn't seem like there's some kind of limit. If I were building a Star Trek game and I needed a limiting mechanic for adding active modules and devices to your starship, I'd probably call...

Core Control Channels, or Core Control Units. A lot of suggestions like "energy plasma" or "antiprotons" or "cubatoms" sounds cool, but doesn't make any sense... Why would you have a specific limit of those? Every ship only has one ship core, though, and it would make sense if that ship core's...

Yes, except an EPS system doesn't have some kind of universal maximum amount of endpoints. Imagine the Enterprise-J-type's EPS network. :P

Some people enjoy micromanagement, some do not...