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I'd say, have dampening be the default, but have a block that lets you toggle it on/off via logic or GUI. That block could also be used to control other thruster settings, like thrust allocation...

Yeah, add it in one of Bench's supposed secret added areas on the station.

...Multiversal Cargo Crane... A universal cargo crane that can also throw things through a warpgate? :p

Slab storage is not the problem; massive blocks of empty storage are. Rendering masses of connected slabs barely causes any more lag than blocks, and you have to remember that it only makes slabs on the top surface of a cargo mass anyway.

Or just optimize the empty blocks so that they work like glass or any normal transparent block, i.e. make them not try to render internal geometry. Transparency isn't really the culprit here.

Block storage volume is currently equal to mass. However, this can be changed via config and may be rebalanced by default in the future, so the UI does not say "Mass".

Agreed; you should only find those sorts of things out in the Arse-end of the galaxy. ;) At any rate, in all seriousness system names do need a bit of work. Half the systems are one syllable (Ga, Ve, Ka, Car, Ce, El...) and a third of them are really weird-looking, even for alien names...

Problem is, all those premades will get analyzed by us builders, and two days after they're released we'll know exactly how to kill them really really easily. :P

I'm just imagining a ship that yells "DIIIIICKS!" every time it fires its swarm missiles, or something equally ludicrous. Give players something like this, and they will misuse it. Hard. Never mind that people will use shitty low-quality annoying noises that nobody wants to hear, or bloat...

Which would be awkward but not exactly hard to get past either :P

Won't everything be in the game files in the end, though? Once the pirates get released, couldn't any schmuck go into SP, spawn in all the pirates, and put up screenshots? :P I see why you wouldn't want to show all the pirates regardless, but I don't see why we couldn't see one (perhaps the...

I like all of these. Bonus points 'cause I'm a Trek fan, but in general this just seems like one more immersion thing I'd like to see.

It's not gonna happen until we have an alternative, I don't think. Power is eventually getting a mechanics pass, if I remember correctly, and that will probably include some kind of fueled reactor for larger ships, at which point there will be no need for docked reactors and they can be nerfed...

Ah, yay! I was just wondering about that.

Yeah, we had something of a faction permissions-related incident as well yesterday. I'd really appreciate an expanded rank system and better permission control right about now. That aside, I'm really liking this update. The only question is, what's next? Going strictly by the development...

This is a bug, and actually not very hard to fix. I think helmets are supposed to be put on by right-clicking (and they have to stay in your hotbar) but for whatever reason they automatically get put on and taken off again if you have them selected. Also, pulling the helmet out of your hotbar...

I am aware that this is somewhere in the twilight zone between feature suggestions and balance suggestions, but: Allow Micro Assemblers on ships. Have Micro Assemblers break down large amounts of terrain 'junk' blocks into small amounts of either crystal composite and alloyed metal mesh, or...

I know what change is, I have something of an idea as to how the formula/function works, and I know what the result of the change is. All I'm asking is how we ended up with that change, given this statement:

Yeah. That, and let Micro Assemblers be put on ships...

"Interesting" in the same way that blowing up a star is interesting. Awesome, but for gameplay reasons it shouldn't be possible, plain and simple. At least, it shouldn't be possible to eat a planet until you've first blown it up, and blowing planets up should not be nearly as trivial as it is now.