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But the only thing that made the core meaningful is that it was a center of mass and death point and entry point for the ship. Entities can move just fine without having a fancy block at 0,0,0 - just look at asteroids! If their diamond isn't over a block, it means there's nothing where the ship...

Yeah, that and now Salvage/Missile, in addition to being ugly and relatively slow at salvaging, isn't even constant... IMO, that system should be reverted anyway, but eh.

You can still bomb them and run away, you just need a bomber small enough to take into the atmosphere. As for your mech warriors... What happens if I shoot out a leg? You just lost.

Hopefully atmospheres blocking salvage beams and weapons comes with this update... Otherwise most of the new fauna and (possibly) flora won't be there for long :\

Bump... Can I get an 'official' council/dev verdict on this one? Waffle beam boards are annoying. :P

Yes, it is survive and build... But surviving doesn't mean much more than getting the biggest guns possible and sitting at your base. There's no need or even reason to expand much, or PvP, or even PvE... Once you have defenses you can just sit and build until your hand falls off or your mouse...

I blame my forum browsing habits... The title was generic-sounding and I failed to see Bench's avatar for some reason, so I passed it by until now. Maybe I thought it was some kind of rules thread or something.

Whoa, I just noticed this... It sounds pretty freaking amazing. It needs some kind of faction tie-in for faction fleets, though, or... something.

Some ideas were being thrown around regarding having faction data be cross-server... This could be incorporated as part of that system. Regardless, this looks pretty awesome.

There would be no tradeoff. All it would be is a trivially-small extra system installed on the front of your ship to distract point defense while the real missiles go to work.

It's pretty easy to overwhelm missile defense with lots of cheap little swarm missiles, or single-block waffleboarded rapid missiles, which would render point-defense systems 99% ineffective...

How is that even possible, though? If any form of orbital strike (besides maybe disintegrator bombs) is allowed, then by nature it automatically outclasses a proper planetary invasion. The only disadvantage is that it would be less accurate and more likely to destroy valuable assets, but the...

Define 'interact.' If by that you mean shoot, then I don't really see the use in that either. Sure, conceptually being able to nuke/bombard/glass a planet from orbit sounds really cool, but in a voxel game, in practice it just means that anything you build on a non-homebased planet can and will...

If this isn't planned, then may I ask, particularly Bench and/or the council... why?

Activators are already used in a lot of things in their current state, changing their functionality is a bad idea.

Yeah, it was originally while the UI was being tested; the testers could set it to SECRET = newgui and get the in-progress UI. It might be reused later, or might have been, but now this topic exists so maybe not.

It'll stop at the edge of the loaded sectors, so I suppose if you leave for a while, come back, and get someone to fly you in the direction the fighter was going you'll get it back. Better yet, if you've got a core, just float on over there yourself.

One problem with this... If I remember correctly, collision damage is irreparably bugged. You'll have to wait for Schema to make it work reasonably, or there's literally no way to safely land. A ship just sitting there on your planet will break itself down to nothing, as far as I've seen, and if...

Now THAT, is a ship. The interior looks a bit strange and that grey pyramid nose is... a bit odd? ...but in the end it works out to be a pretty solid-looking starship. That red lighting on what looks like the docking bay is pretty awesome, and I'm loving the color scheme. (Now) I look forward to...

Well, if I didn't have the (low amount of) technical knowledge I do, I'd expect a hell of a lot more out of AI. The ability to actually go around targets rather than smashing into them like an idiot, the ability to do cool things like strafing runs and dodging missiles rather than just sitting...