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Indeed. Three cheers for an evident plan in general. Although I am hoping that the thrust updates that were talked about a while ago get put in somewhere in the middle of this.

Oh, forgot to mention. How exactly will we define rooms using the Quarter system? I vaguely remember a VERY old concept involving boxdims, but this would not be very adaptable and I get the sense that the idea has changed since then.

Yes, but... Cross-entity? Wait commands? Etc... If this is actually fully planned out by Schema, I'm impressed.

HOLY CRAP, this sounds great and amazing and awesome. ...But I am curious about one thing. Player movement setups, like doors, lifts, and so on, get really complex. How exactly will NPCs be able to navigate these? For instance, my elevator works in a way where you stand in front of the...

Accepted.

Schine has said repeatedly that just going off and hiding in other galaxies or the outer rim will not remain feasible forever. I'd not be too concerned about it being too easy to just disappear and hide away out in the middle of nowhere as we go into the future. However, yeah, factions should...

That works. The intention isn't necessarily to force someone to sit in a GUI for hours just to charge their drive; more just to be able to walk around your ship and do stuff if you want. Just an RP thing. When proper chairs are implemented, you should hopefully be able to charge the drives the...

You don't just... apply for council member. But given what I know, I'll have to figure something out regarding your rank. Accepted, regardless; when SS comes back up on Friday (or so) you'll be invited.

Meh, it is constantly managing player positions, faction data, and a lot of other things already. Furthermore, it only ever needs to update the data when you scan or enter a new system, or come near a new planet... Not constantly. The overhead can't be much more than that of, say, transferring a...

That wasn't in response to you, that was in response to srs008 who mentioned the supposed shield bounding-surface calculations in their post.

SHIELDS ARE JUST A VISUAL EFFECT. If you hit a ship's exterior near enough, the shield effect can be seen pulsing over the interior too. There are no bounding calculations in play. Before this gets out of hand I have to mention that. (Sorry.)

Very. Relatively, anyway.

Good point. Making it client-side would probably create lots of opportunities for hacks and exploits, too. I dunno how to solve this... Can the server not just log all of this stuff?

Agreed. Or just, you know, theme yourselves off of something other than just "We're from Earth." You can be an allied league of space pirates, an empire based off of some planet somewhere (even if you are humans), a shadowy organization of manipulators, assassins, and thieves, a theocratic...

I'll put in my vote for outputting an on signal IFF one input is on; that's where most of my functional uses for it came up. But then, I don't do logic computers. Anyway, does this count as a Quality of Life improvement...

Those darkened off-state textures look 3x better than what we have now. (For purposes of consistency I'm gonna keep using defaults, just so I see what everyone else sees, but still...)

I fully agree. With exploration- and roleplay-based features incoming, it's high time we start talking about things like this. As the game is currently, any player can instantly communicate with any other player or players anywhere at any time, and every player can see every ship, station...

Most turrets could be rebuilt in largely the same shape with the new system, besides, in most people's ships turrets were only a small part of the hull so the work required to rebuild them was not nearly as bad as this... The changes you're talking about are on a much, much larger scale.

Being a non-Battlestar Galactica watcher, for a moment I thought that was just a terrible misspelling of TARDIS. ...Anyway, if this is possible I fully support it. A tactical map display is an essential part of many a sci-fi CIC or starship bridge, and it'd be great to see something like this...

The Humboldt-class Shuttle, a completely pointless thing made for no reason at all. But I made a cool screenshot with it so that's cool.