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The problem with Star Trek aliens is that they're all basically humans in rubber masks and makeup, because, well, when it first came out, that's what they had to do. So, they all are human proportioned aliens, with nigh-identical features to humans, which, compared to games such as Starbound and...

How about... FTL requires a certain base power level (100k in storage, maybe) to prevent small ships from being able to direct jump Warp Gates allow small ships to jump, but only to other linked gates Large Ships have two ftl types- directed and emergency Directed jumps drain power (100k/sector...

What if you could make emergency jumps that would require no charge up time, but would teleport you to a completely random spot within 5-10 sectors? You could escape from a doomed fight, but horrible things would be likely to happen. You could warp inside a star, or have asteroids get imbedded...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck "Bismarck was attacked by obsolescent Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship's steering gear inoperable." Smaller ships should not have stronger...

It wouldn't have to be different biomes on the same plate. You could have an earth like planet, for example, with a section of ice plates near the north pole, forest most everywhere else, and a spattering of desert plates.

But now that planets are a collection of largeish plates as opposed to one single jumbo plate, biome variations could be much more doable. If we were still talking about disc worlds, I'd agree, but we aren't. Also, would anyone like to see a Moon type biome smaller world that could orbit other...

True, but most solid worlds are lifeless husks. We've only really seen the most of the moons and the rocky planets of our system, but they're all (as far as we know, some of jupiter/saturn's moons are promising) lifeless. Life seriously affects the biomes of a world. Without rainforests, most of...

Aw, sad I didn't get to see these before you took them down. Big fan of faction balls.

Yes. Also, those planets with cities on them should be occupied by various NPCs who either just wander around or could even be convinced to join your crew. They could have a small police force (basically recolored isanths or maybe something else) that would circle the planet and defend from...

I would love planets with mixed biomes. Probably shouldn't mix some of the more alien biomes as much (purple planet and ice planet don't sound like they should mix), although that could produce some cool but odd looking planets. They should probably have a biome system like minecraft, in that...

What if camera blocks worked as scopes with x2 zoom for scopes? Also, another idea. what if the game detected the lowest part of the gun above the topmost weapon block with a clear line of sight to the end of the gun, and focused the "iron sights" x1.2-4 zoom on that?

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970724a.html I don't know where you got the idea that we've turned energy into usable matter form, but we haven't, according to NASA. Anyway, everyone says "ZOMG TEH DYSON SPEHER IS 100% ENEGRY CAPTURAL" with complete ignorance toward the...

Just one point I'd like to make is that hull should have NO MASS on guns, so players don't feel the need to scrape their hull away for maximum speed. I also think 5cm or 10cm blocks would be better.

An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and a release of energy. Guess what lighting a fire is? And since a fire continues to ignite new things, this keeps happening. Therefore, a furnace and a candle are explosions. You are telling people incorrect information. A star is a continuously...

Wow, you've gone so off topic that if your showed this post to anyone without context, they'd think the point of this thread was the exact definition of an explosion. Technically, a burning candle is a continuous set of very small explosions, so kindly shut up about it already. Stop being a...

Correct. Han Solo was actually bull****ing his way into getting the piloting job.

I used to really dislike this on the old forum, but my main problem was people talking about building melee weapons capable of slicing a fighter in half. I've decided to give this a second chance, though. I think that guns should be buildable in a 1x1x1 for pistols and 1x1x2 (one wide/tall, two...

They were getting annoyed at the fact that a person was completely ignoring their actual argument, and instead focusing on smaller, less important details of their argument to try and wear down their argument as less credible. The point of the matter is, harvesting solar plasma is stupid and...

Can we stop arguing about the exact chemical and physical make up of stars? The point is that you can't "scoop up" solar plasma like it's a liquid or some sand or something.

Seriously? First off, automatic turrets are going to shoot at the thing. Secondly, you could just put some disintegrators on the front of the ship, and when it hit an enemy, they would blow up, and then blow up the reactor. Why couldn't you put a nuclear generator on a fighter? Because in...