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Here's a suggestion. Large entities should be divided into several bounding boxes, if they aren't already. When two entities come near one another it shouldn't have to calculate collision stuff for ALL of both entities, and right now it seems that that is how it's structured.

For the record part of it is probably T687.

Schine already has plans regarding cross-entity cargo transfer, but this is not a bad idea regardless.

Personally, I would agree if it weren't for the planned crew systems. No matter how awesome Schema's path definition system is, someone somewhere is going to manage to create a transport system that is too complicated for the NPCs, and they will need transporters hidden in nooks somewhere for...

Yeah, the entity targeting bug with beams exists; it also causes problems with docking when there is an entity behind the point you're targeting to dock.

Aside from the beacons almost completely outclassing shuttles, I appreciate this update.

Requiring open space sounds like a bad idea; forcing people to have antennas sticking out of their ship is... well, not conducive to the nearly complete design freedom this game gives us.

Yeah, you're gonna have to make a new universe... Those were the old universes, which are not organized into galaxies and orbits and just generate infinite numbers of identical stars...

Please don't completely change standard hulls... Having a smooth hull type is great; just fix the awkward squares on lower-res versions of the texture. The problem I'd been having in this game all the way up 'till the default textures was the lack of smooth, non-plated material...

For the record, they look like this: ...At higher resolution. I think Kupu just did not foresee the awkwardness at lower res :\

Yes, I noticed. No idea why it's being so damn unstable...

Beam targeting is fixed as of next update, and I'd be surprised if next update didn't hit this week.

...This also affects faction access, for the record... While your faction members (hopefully) mean you no harm I can see issues arising from how it drops your shields when someone transports to your ship :\

Right... I will be on a bit later this afternoon/evening. I thought I invited you, though?

Yeah. Basically, I just don't like the fact that, if someone has set their transporters to public, another player can drop their shields at will...

...Actually, come to think of it, if anything, the ability to drop or raise shields from a console could be added, and transporters could be made so that you can't transport unless both ships have lowered their shields...

This sounds pretty amazing; I'll have to check it out sometime.

I understand that transporters need to be balanced somehow, but something about the way transporters completely flush your shield capacitors just doesn't make much sense to me. If anything, shields should be temporarily brought down (for, say, 5 seconds), then back up to whatever value they were...

That sounded a lot more offensive than I meant it to. :P It was more that I was just scrolling through random suggestions, looked at this and was like "whoa, we actually need this."

Hey, that is actually a good idea. +1. I can't count the number of times I've screwed up my transporter linking (say, not all blocks linked) then wondered why my transporter wasn't working.