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File headers, whether the shields are currently up or down, and the overheating tag. It's not something that would go on block type but rather on target type. If someone's ship has shields, then you simply kill them with an actual weapon before salvaging, just like you would with literally any...

I remember that the problems with it were that it bypassed shields and ate blocks far faster than any amount of weapons would.

Would it be so hard to explain *why* it would be a bad idea?

A salvage beam rips hundreds of cubic meters of crap out violently and puts it in your inventory. If it has that kind of power, then it should be usable as a form of shoddy weapon - much like a pickaxe or shovel can be used as a weapon. I propose that salvage beams do extremely little damage to...

seriously though Even if salvage drones weren't limited in number of beams and such, I imagine that they would be a prime target for pirates (players and NPCs alike). Just in case, make it so that mining drones appear on the scanner, so anyone hostile could specifically find and target them...

Paint. Oh god the paint. My factory is processing ten million units of fucking paint. but yeah, other than paint, don't bother with asteroids :|

Destroy planet. Get logic autominer. Mine plates one by one while wayching TV. Make weapon anf effect modules. Find asteroid. Mine asteroid. Make paint for hulls. Find pirates. Kill pirates. Salvage for nearly free shield caps/rechargers, guns, thrusters, and power.

...you're doing something similar to what I'm doing too? Awesome :D Logic pirate split-up swarm builders unite \o/

I'm entering. I'll be updating this post as I add more pirates.

No, you're not missing anything. It bugs the hell out of me too. +1

what No. It doesn't. It hits armor and completely stops, unless the target is using basic hull and has no armor HP remaining. Explosive effect modules on beams and cannons do *not* give a large blast radius at all, for that matter. They have a radius of one block, and it's hard coded. Trust...

It would be really, really nice for guns to have a Boresight fire keymap. Why? Easy. If you've ever been in a larger ship fight, you'll know that at knife fighting range, oftentimes you're having to turn at maximum speed to keep the enemy in front of you - but your cursor is so far away from...

No, we're talking about the reality of combat with ships over 100,000 blocks in servers. I personally am able to reliably hit targets at 2-3km with machineguns, but any further than that and they're able to maneuver faster than my shots' travel time, resulting in increasingly large miss ratios...

I mean the object *firing* the beam is counted as "under fire" >_>

For the time being, until the values are fixed, I'm just thinking of it as a measure of how offended I should be by that ship.

"Create Docked" could have a "Select Blueprint" button on it, and a series of controls to determine which rail docker on the base entity is being utilized.

The problem is that three colors is totally insufficient for more creative builds. These would have to be three extra blocks on top of the existing colors.

That was on a per-block basis, I think. There's likely to be a whole different set of issues related to this particular kind of block, though. I'm suggesting a primary, a secondary, and a tertiary color of each kind of hull block specifically because the texture can be pulled from the ship...

Edit: Just realized. If you were allowed to select from the entire list of "solid" textures, you could actually get some really, really neat custom textured armor out of the mix. I, for one, would really enjoy using a ship with armor textured like motherboards.

An extra few block types for each kind of armor. Faction hulls. A primary color block, a secondary color block, and a tertiary color block should do the trick. They pull their texture info from the faction they're assigned to, and texture info is selected in the faction screen for each type of...