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You didn't even read what you quoted. LOL

Do you not understand why the acid model is a great idea? If you try to destroy all of those blocks in one engine update, you get lag. Slow it down like plasma burning through the ship, and you don't get lag. This is good.

The update is mostly good. The one bad part (stabilizers) can be disabled in configs.

schema I see your stable release and raise you a suggestion thread. You've painted a masterpiece and stuck a big line of black gorilla tape across the middle. Just remove the one bad part so we can focus on all the good things, and the things we've wanted for a long time like manual turrets.

The full explanation is kind of hard to communicate, but there will always be issues mapping a bunch of square voxels onto a sphere. This is due to laws of mathematics and geometry, and cannot be overcome by clever programming. You must always make some tradeoff, either by sacrificing the...

I like the idea of a docked cockpit. That would also allow a ship to dock onto a "warp booster" that has FTL chambers and use it for FTL voyages without having to switch cockpits and fly from the booster itself. Yeah, if we could build doors that don't have cores on them that'd be great. No...

We’re not talking hundreds of blocks in Starmade. We are talking ten thousands to millions.

Where have you been the last few weeks??? Clearly not on Starmade Dock.

Given the overall scale of Starmade, I do NOT want this. Sure, small blocks would be cool, but the cost in performance would be too high. The cost in performance on Minecraft is already enough to bring most gaming PCs to their knees without some serious optimization mods. (...which don't even...

If you have more than one chain, the stream seems to follow the closest one.

If you know what's in the most recent dev builds, please post here. This is a place to share knowledge. For further discussion, please create a different thread and post a link here. Since the last news post (pre 0.200.269), I've noticed that the stabilizer beams/streams can be directed...

Why should nearby groups combine? That just reduces the flexibility of the system. With my concept, two stabilizer groups can be right next to each other, only they should only get the same efficiency as one big one. I may need to clarify that more in my other post.

Without penalties for proximity to another group, you can just divide a group in half to get more efficiency, essentially leading to a zillion one-block groups, which is far worse.

Remove the stabilizer mechanic altogether and do something else.

My idea does the same thing indirectly - group size and proximity to other groups (and reactor) both reduce efficiency. To get the same efficiency with a large group, it has to be farther from the rest. It's just not as cut and dry.

Why should larger groups have to be further away?

Stabilizer Mechanics: Flux Dissipation My idea does something similar. The larger a group, the less cooling per block.

The ideas in my signature would be major improvements. They wouldn't fix everything, but would help a lot.

This cracked me up, because this is exactly what the power update was supposed to prevent.

The streams can now be directed individually. This isn't good news though, because it means Schema is probably going through with the current mechanics. Agree. Utter nonsense. You build a ship. It works. You either decorate it or not. That's how it should work. Decorating a ship should not...