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In SM, there's no reason you have to have a static homeworld; it's not like SW or real life where it takes a lot of effort to move everyone around. It'd be a lot more convenient to just move your invincible homebase location as you cut a swath through space, leaving behind useless sectors and...

That's silly, IMO. We don't have to drive back from Florida up to Pennsylvania at the dealership where we bought our car - or worse, the manufacturing plant in Detroit or Japan or wherever - to repair our car. We just have to go to the nearest mechanic, which in SM is the closest shipyard. I...

Nothing wrong with a large faction becoming static, IMO. Under a well-designed faction systems, a static faction like that might become a target for other factions, who would be able to take their immense amount of resources.

Yes, they could, and if SM wasn't in alpha, and those were intended to be the default stations for the game when it releases, then they would have already. But the fact is, they're doing a full revamp of all the stations - IIRC the Trading Guild ones are already done - and seeing as this IS...

Rails functioning as an airport-style people-mover actually sounds like a really good idea. Someone make a suggestion topic for that...

This sounds good. However, for something like this to be done, first ships need to carry a native design with them for shipyards to repair to. Otherwise people couldn't repair damaged ships they bought from other people.

Yeh, it's good news... The thing is, this is one of the few suggestions (mine or otherwise) that I really wish we didn't have to wait to get. The game needs a boost, and this would make for at least half of one; the other half is something to actually do with our ships, but I think that's...

Personally, if I want to escape I usually do it the old-fashioned way - punch in Overdrive and Ion (which all Aethi utility ships have) and run like hell. Jumping can wait.

Ironically the scenarios you're talking about have to do with PvP as well, as when more faction mechanics are put in there will probably be a lot of scenarios where people end up jump-racing to get the advantage over another player. You have a point, though; the question is more properly stated...

Well, glass, yes. But if you have opaque wedges, a thin hole or whatever where the wedges have open sides facing each other (difficult to explain) the light will not go into and through the gap.

Precisely. To be fair, that's a bug. Having five sectors loaded at (4224, 52633, 10242) should ideally be no different from five sectors loaded at (2, 5, 20). It's not like the game has to load the intervening sectors, or even go through them to get the data - the needed data location is...

Race gates. Old news.

Have you seen the design that's up on SM Dock? For larger ships, it is potentially 300x smaller (and infinitely more power-efficient) than an equivalent standard drive.

The first two or three builds tend to be like this; after that the big showstoppers disappear and we can start properly hunting for issues.

New dev build includes (bugged) lighting system changes (Is supposed to fix weird shading on non-cube blocks, but also accidentally turned all wedges red) and a main menu.

If you've been watching Criss and Saber's Tuesday/Thursday streams, you'd know that this is in development.

...Charge beams... so, just pulse beams with even more damage and that annoying jump drive mechanic? Only any good for Ion weapons, really.

But not impossible. If doors can become tangible or intangible based on their activation bit, surely blocks can become active or inactive based on their damage bits.

Well, the most recent dev build as of right now, which is from around the beginning of the month, just has support for the crowdsourced translation system. Schema is currently working on something but evidently it's some kind of suuuuuper seeeecret. Personally I would have to assume that it's...

Sven_The_Slayer Well, perhaps not a whole galaxy of range. I think the idea is that you could have a massive supercarrier, or a mothership and a fleet, gather them all at a staging area, and jump the entire fleet into a battlezone a few systems away. Basically, turn jump drive from the standard...