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Ice planet generation in the game, currently, is awesome. It could use a "smoothing" step in the algorithm to round off the odd flat tops that happen when a formation hits the generation ceiling, but other than that, it's just amazing. You can get everything from mountainous landscapes, to...

Same here, the crew quarters on my cruiser and corvette (And on my frigate when I revamp it) all have the blue Personal Computers in them somewhere. Not just because of consistency, but because of that feature that Kupu said would be in a few updates ago.

I agree fully with all of these. Some long-term solutions are planned, but if we want newer players to stay when they come to the game, then they should probably be addressed sooner than later. The other thing that bugs me is that storages can hold infinite amounts of blocks without adding any...

Whatever happened to pressing the R key on personal computers to bring up the Mail interface? I like that idea a lot better than pressing F4, and Kupu said we'd get it while ago... Where'd it go?

EDIT: And later, after a bit more exploring:

I want to see this... My Corvettes have a small Battle Mode switch and if BOBBY AI could automatically trigger this it would be neat. Likewise if, with the new rail system, I could get turrets to deploy on a drone or something when it sees an enemy. Would look amazing.

Is Schema finally going to make his version numbers into a decent system? "StarMade v0.189996" is not okay. :P Also, what do you mean by "you may find some components of the game get a bit of an overhaul to better fit with our larger plans?" What needs to be overhauled? '~'

Yes, but that becomes a mess on the screen, and I don't really find it necessary. In most games (MMOs particularly) with chat channels, you simply have tabs or a menu to switch between channels within one mini-window that stays open all the time, and I rather like that solution. The less screen...

Functionally, I'm loving the new chat system in the dev builds. However, the accessibility and visibility of the UI bugs me. Rather than the chat menu/interface disappearing completely, I propose that a small version of the chat menu should always be visible in the corner, like this: Pressing...

It did last time I tried it, but then again that was ages ago. Piercing beams are intended to be for my Iali ships, and I've been so busy building Aethi ships that I've never even tried non-Aethi-style weapons since the weapons-update prebuilds.

Because computer nerd stuff. Basically, technical limitations relating to the amount of data a block can hold.

...Open-world sci-fi voxel sandbox? ("Sci-fi inspired sandbox" could describe pretty much anything sci-fi that doesn't have a set end goal. Even EvE.)

We're getting a starter ship? Noice! ...This won't be a complete fix to this issue, though. When players enter a game, they expect some kind of quest system, or at least tech progression like Minecraft. I think that the whole tech-tiers concept needs to be pulled out of deep freeze and looked...

Indeed. It could also be rather fragile (100 HP?) and use the rest of the HP values for enhancement settings if needed.

...And Piercing, and Push, and Pull... Even Explosive with beams has its uses sometimes. (Cannon+Beam+any effect is fun with large enough modules.)

Not sure if this counts as cinematic or just waving my e-p... er, e-ship around in the air, but:

Yep... This is not just "planned," but in fact has already been implemented, though it's still a work in progress. You can even download the latest dev version and check it out yourself. :D

Yaay, I was right! ...I think? This makes sense to me, but I'm no mathematician (currently) so I didn't want to sound too sure of myself.

Uh, for me, having to continually fire forward thrusters to maintain speed feels awkward and ridiculous when I'm not braking. I kind of expect my object in motion to remain in motion until I decide to apply another force to it, whether that be my autobraking or manual direction-of-motion...

A bomber isn't really a ship class, it's just a job/role. You can have a ship that's around 100-300 mass, designed to drop bombs on ground target, or, theoretically, you might even have a 100,000-mass ship dedicated to dropping the largest possible nukes on stations and other large targets. Both...