Search results

Once ship mechanics are nailed down well enough that ships are no longer constantly outdated and rendered (mostly) useless, a good solid default catalog with a variety of small and medium ships would be a very good thing to include.

Auburn has done work with non-cube voxels... what if they're going to make an entire planet out of dedecahedronal voxels!? That would require a new framework... probably not in the game yet... and if the noise algorithms work anything like I think they do, there shouldn't be a problem converting...

If this suggestion were implemented nearly as-is, you could play just as you do now provided Schine left out the part about needing plasma for some systems. The difference would be that others who find a lot of rare plasma would have an advantage. Besides, all PVP really needs is a souped up...

There's a witch among us! You get the torch. I'll get the silver dagger.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. It's probably the only reason we don't already have air.

How about this? Diversification of Resources

Yeah, I hope Schine can actually figure out how to make that work. It'll always feel like something's missing otherwise. I'll edit the OP.

Some things I'd like to see, following the theme of switching from infinite-sized containers to what we have now: Pipes (or something similar) to move items rather than having them warp from machine to machine with SPACE MAGICKS Separate high-capacity storage from manufacturing Pipes and stuff...

We currently have three types of resources: crystals, ores, and rocks. However, since they're obtained in the same quantities in the same ways, I shall consider them one type: mining products. One type of resource has been plenty throughout most of alpha, but the resource and crafting systems...

Ahead full impulse! How big are the ships you're talking about? 5 million blocks?

Derailing much? That's likely enough. There was talk of "a framework that doesn't exist in the game yet" so the new shape (if there is one) may not even be in the gif. Could be. A rounded solution has some inherent problems that will require a great deal of creativity to minimize or overcome...

Updated the OP with various ideas from others!

That's similar to what could be done for planets, although there would be a lot of different specifics and different problems.

I'm not convinced that the horizon is actually curved. I think it's a hill. That does kind of look like plate edges though. That makes them look better from space, but who knows if the edges actually look any better on the ground. I hope they've found a way to make building across the plate...

They're a placeholder for cool things! This is the only logical answer. Also read my deranged and potentially over-hyped ramblings: New Planet Speculation Thread

All right. About time someone did this. This thread is for sharing "fan theories" about the new planets. Theories based on Schine hints are strongly encouraged. Pure speculation is fair game, but kinda lame. We can't play with the new planets yet, but we can play scavenger hunt with the hints...

A lot of the framework will already be in place from the crew and NPC systems. A complete lack of towns would be... odd. It's a matter of putting something there so it doesn't feel like a missing piece in the experience, but not overcomplicating it and spending too much time. Quite frankly...

Yep! ;) I'm just giving you a hard time for being brief and salty. There's a lot that can be done without physically moving parts for one thing. Imagine a system similar to the LOD blocks, but for animations. The blocks can be static and the animations can represent what's happening. For another...

Anything comparable to Factorio, any of the Minecraft tech mod packs, etc. would be overkill. What we have is underwhelming. A balance needs to be found. It's not about role-play. It's about gameplay mechanics. If production is more of a challenge, it'll make the economy more interesting and...

A "planet environment" object is something I could write in a few days, and Schema is several dozen leagues ahead of what I'm capable of. I don't think these things need large, complex mechanics to be meaningful. Temperature, pressure, and oxygen/co2 can be three 32-bit floats updated once in a...