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Here's a quick sketch of the look I was going for. I tried to recreate this in blocks as best I could- I wanted a sort of sleek upper shell that would curve up and over the top of the ship and just form a smooth protective surface, with boxier more industrial-looking shapes underneath. I know...

I've been making good progress on my latest ship. It's the first one I've gotten this close to completing. Aesthetically, it's inspired by some EVE Online ship I saw a picture of around here, mainly the basic shape of the bridge and the curved front armor piece... after that the similarities...

I think weapon recoil and knock-back would be very good for immersion. I think they should be scaled by mass, and they should not be optional. A small weapon on a small ship would have similar effects as a large weapon on a large ship... mainly when you're shooting, your view would vibrate or...

I like the idea of the Trading Guild being a mail-order service. Put in your order at your local Trading Guild space station, and a few days later a cargo ship will drop by your base to deliver the materials or new ship you ordered. It would go well with the whole civilizations thing.

Oh, neat, I missed that part. Larger plates would be nice.

The problem with making the planets larger is that under the hood they're basically just ships attached to the planet core entity... bigger planets = more blocks = lower fps.

Schema has said he wants to move away from autopilots and move towards NPC crew, so slaving autonomous ships to your own is something I don't see happening. In my opinion, the Bobby AI should remain, at least in its current state, because autonomous point-defense turrets and whatnot exist even...

In that case... why not just cubes? The plates would mesh together perfectly, and a 90 degree angle is no less jarring than the shallower but still extremely disruptive angle we have now. Imagine how cool it would look too, a game made entirely of blocks, where the planets are giant blocks...

Faction ranks could be used for that.

Personally I would like this, I think building spaceships that are also ships would be really cool. Why not have a liquid ocean of some sort on every planet? It obviously isn't realistic, but it would be very interesting.

This would tie in well with the NPC crew. You would pilot you command ship, and the other ships and starfighters would be crewed by NPCs. You would give orders to your crew members via some sort of tactical map. The AI wouldn't need to be very complex, just "follow me", "go here", "shoot...

I don't think so. I think it's fine how it is.

I think these sorts of things would be best left for the players to create. In a sandbox game, I don't think it would be best to force factions to take on one of three structures.

Wow that was it thank you. I never noticed that nobody else uses the shadows... which is good, I won't miss them.

Light from the sun nearest star seems to only be rendered within a certain radius of the player. The green circle is pointing out what I mean. I haven't seen this in anyone elses videos or screenshots, so it's probably a setting somewhere... but I can't find it. My graphics card is an R9...

Honestly I don't see why this would be the case. You can build anything you want as long as its smaller than the shipyard, and all you have to do is stop, stay still, and not get attacked. Other than that, it's a completely functional ship. Perfectly viable.

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, from far away. Those do need some work.

I don't think removing the atmosphere effect from planets would be a good change. That's what you're talking about, right? They could probably use some improvement, but I like they way they look.

I didn't think Shipyards could have the arms on separate docked ships.

If I were Schema, this is how I would do it: Shipyards on ships would be allowed. Obviously, a shipyard cannot make something as large as itself, so there's no worry of self-replicating capital ships which I think would be a bad idea. However, as a "safety feature", all ship construction...