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The Charon is probably way over the size threshhold I was talking about, and again of course building it took a crapton of time seeing as you carefully built everything on it and redid several things... People's bricks and semi-bricks, on the other hand, not so much.

My definition is anything over, eh, 700-750 km. Even larger sizes have been trivialized by power-gaming doomcube builders, though. A discussion about balance doesn't take into account the effort required to build a good-looking ship, because it will perform the same as, if not worse than, a...

Visitor, you just summed up the exact problem I have with big ships too. The issue isn't that 'big ships' exist, or that they're powerful, it's that in this game, they're just... ships. Not big ships, not particularly unusual, powerful, or dangerous ships compared to most in the game, not even...

This. I was having all kinds of silly issues until I increased to 2GB ram. Now there are no issues whatsoever.

People filling the blueprint will notice the extra AMRs though.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind this at all. The HP system eliminates core drilling, which was stupid, but ships -should- have some kind of weak point, particularly strong ships. Antimatter reactor cores deep in the heart of a ship (or wherever you want) would serve this purpose quite well without killing...

Yeah, that's another issue. Even people with massive ships who aren't purposely trying to make other people crash can render the game unplayable or inoperable for players without amazing computers.

Yes, I get that creating massive ships takes a lot more effort than making smaller ones, and I certainly know that there's a certain cool factor associated with having a huge and fully-detailed titan (see Charon for more information) but when one out of every four ships you see flying around is...

Well! I wasn't expecting that kind of increase in effectiveness. I suppose I should take point-defense more seriously now; I thought that even the AI fix wouldn't make them that good. I'll have to see about this. Sounds good, though, if they do work that well. Yeah, I didn't mention pulse...

So, missiles are king now; nothing else can really destroy tons of systems blocks reliably unless the ship is, like, skinned. So, missiles are king even more now - breaking through meaningful amounts of hull with other weapons is even harder. (Besides maybe stupid-looking waffle guns with...

And another is coming soon(tm): The new Kelith-class Heavy Frigate, designed to replace the fragile, high-maintenance, and outdated Eser-Kalan, will be completed and enter production sometime between this and next month. ...Maybe.

Yay, someone is actually paying attention to this sort of thing ahead of time! This is why I like SM. ...Anyway, this sounds great and I can't wait to see it live... While the current launcher is technically functional, it felt like something that belonged in a private pre-alpha testing release...

Nope, not in my experience... Last time I tried that nothing happened whatsoever.

Yeah, I'm aware of the issues involved with keeping planets loaded via world anchor (or AFKer, lol) which is why I didn't suggest using a ChickenChunks-style sector anchor, which was the first thing that occurred to me. There's a solution in here somewhere, but I don't know what it is. :\

Yeah, one little problem - as Keptick said in chat just a few minutes ago, once there's nobody nearby the sector unloads and the extractor stops until someone loads up the sector again. :\

I fully support this as well. Keptick's original suggestion about dedicated Resource Extractors was great, but with the new rail system, using a docked salvage machine to extract resources from the core is now very practical. +1. The one particularly beautiful thing about this system is that it...

Hehe... Nice.

Half blocks, half slopes, half corners, half tetras, and half pentas would be good, but unless we get that (necessary) fourth byte then I don't think it's going to be practical to add those in every single hull color and type.

Uh, with block collision on the explosion would be a shockwave of pure lag, not spess magic energy stuff.

Yeah, I rather like these surveys, too. They're a straightforward, direct way of getting my opinion out there (And to the council) and seeing what sorts of concepts are getting the most support without having to look through forum topic responses and agree lists to try to figure out what people...