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Yeah, see, that's the problem with rails. They're a great system, they really are! But with that level of genericness and that level of user control they also become a pain in the ass to use for the most routine, basic things, like elevators and doors...

This is a very, very hypothetical edge-case sort of thing... A galaxy is a big place, one person mining out an entire blob of systems large enough to make an appreciable difference in the net value of the entire galaxy doesn't sound likely. A faction, maybe, but if they managed to do that I...

The engine would need modification then... It would have to work approximately in a similar way to wireless logic. The button, for the purposes of logic, would count as its own entity/thing, and would link to any logic block as long as it's on the same ship that the button's parent block is on...

For the record, I support moving this up near the top of the priority list IF AND ONLY IF it doesn't take too much time to implement, which it shouldn't.

Yeah, exactly. It's kind of gotten to the point where I don't really know how good of an idea it was/is, no matter how huge and gameplay-integrated the new fauna and flora systems will be. While this is a bit of an exaggeration, it's like taking a flimsy cardboard box (current planets) and...

It does, but it doesn't control who can use blocks. A nooby newb can still steal all your stuff or change your signs to all say "420 SWAG YOLO LOLOLOL".

Personally, I just wish that salvage beams had/could have a different effect than damage beams... Sadly that kind of thing isn't configurable (yet?) >.>

Yes, because they're hard-coded to use that color and his shader mod makes beam colours a lot clearer.

Nah, credits wouldn't go anywhere... They'd stop being the end-all-be-all, but hiring crew, repairing ship armour HP at a shop, etc. still eats credits.

Nah, the game just does some kind of modified wave initiation process. I wasn't being literal there with the spawn_mobs thing. But yeah, I do see your point.

You said something about copying code and logic integration and defensive effects, which was in turn in response to my saying that chairs would mostly reuse existing tech. Sorry if you misunderstood that bit, it was a bit of a jumbled mess. Not without pointless creatures getting stuck places...

...Logic support? For computer control from chairs? Eh? :p Yes, yes we do, and I also know that it'll not take too much time to integrate that with the terrain system. But there's the whole issue of procedural creature generation, making it look decent, making the walk speed and leg movement...

No, I'm pretty sure that a block that both serves as decoration and saves a player's position relative to a ship along with a block that basically reuses existing tech from cores and weapons computers doesn't take as long as writing a full procedural generation, AI, spawning code, etc. for a new...

Derpy whale just derps and is vaguely atmospheric, bed adds a legitimate reason to have a crew quarters room and, more importantly, is a way to save your position inside a ship while offline while preventing nooby kiddies from hitching a ride to your base by sitting on the outside of your ship...

Well, sure, pirate ships, other NPC ships, stations and planets... But for that to be relevant on ships and stations stations we would need meaningful boarding mechanics rather than just "nuke it from 10 klicks" anyway. As for space whales and other cosmozoans, the occasional space whale...

...Why not both? I really, really want different resource distribution, more tactically-valuable points in space, and more things to do with faction points, but since the devs seem to be focusing on ships right now, why not get all of those mechanics hammered out first? Then move to the economy...

IDK about the community, but I know I do, and I also know that I'm not the only one. Unless, of course, you guys also have a plan to make planets way better performance-, aesthetics-, and function/gameplay-wise in the same update, which I can guess pretty reliably that you decidedly do not. In...

Eventually I'd like to see a ton of things (Viewscreens, fancy shelves, maybe some generic techy-looking elements, 3D models for the various capsule and rod light items...) but for now, I feel that all we need are a few basic 3D-modeled elements and a few basic new mechanics to go with them...

...Yes, and modifying ships in flight couldn't be done by the pilot, either, which makes certain exploits a lot harder. (e.g. spamming large blocks of blocks while being shot at)