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Dirty secret: the core block itself is not actually that important. Short of the pilot-the-ship thing, of course. We already have grids without cores: everything from stations to asteroids to planets. The ship is not a core surrounded by blocks, the ship is a grid. The core is at the center...

Neither persistent-but-unloaded sectors nor client-side logic evaluation are viable options. This would only work for a single factory in a closed system. Several problems are raised by this system; of note: What happens if I build a factory system that doesn't have enough power? What...

If what schema said earlier is true, and that the new chat system is an IRC server, the only way to do this is to have the client individually PM every user within 30m. It could get a little DDOSy if you smush a whole bunch of people in a small space, but that's not actually that big a deal; IRC...

Courtesy of http://xkcd.com/1098/

Did you faction the ship and all of the turrets?

Fair. This guarantees that you can at least access all the crafting recipes you want without having to travel far and wide. The real kicker is that if the system is claimed by the trading guild, you can't get a mining bonus for it, so if you want to build anything of substantial size, you have...

This is interesting, but it does raise a few issues. Spawning in a system where nocx/macet is plentiful - the stuff you build jump drives with - would be WAAAAAAY more useful than spawning in a system with parseen/sapsun. What's the granularity for "regions of the galaxy"? One system? A 4x4x4...

Sorry, but I'm a computer scientist, and computers just do not do that. Computers are "perfect" in that they do exactly what you tell them to do, with no deviation, every single time you tell them to. If you ask a calculator what 5+7 is, it'll tell you 12. If you come back in 30 million years...

This would be nice, and also not that hard to do. They start out in the order you place them. They should remain in that order even if you unload the sector or log out, but if you blueprint and spawn in a copy of the ship, they'll end up jumbled. I suspect they're still in the order they're...

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Why even use a factory? Why do we even have to craft these in the first place? No, seriously. They even get stacked in the same inventory slots. All of my blue advanced armor takes up one inventory slot, all of the conversions are 1:1 - why am I using factory power to make wedges? What if we...

The real bread and butter here is that an adding block is going to be WAY faster than an adder made with boolean ops - although, I've always sort of thought that part of the fun of sandbox logic systems was learning how to build an adder with the basic boolean components you're given. What's the...

This was a quick build I did because I wanted a jumpship for touring servers, and I ended up really liking how it turned out. Name suggestions welcome. Systems: Jump drive: 3161/788 Overdrive: 50% Radar Jammer Cargo: 5,000 Stats: Mass: 1575.9 Length: 99m, Height: 20m, Width: 55m...

What stops me from uploading a script that's nothing but maxed out for loops with the most expensive body possible? You can throw on as many restrictions as you want to get a system that's fake-secure enough to keep you happy, but you'll just be screwing over legitimate modders and limiting the...

Wouldn't you need rotating parts for that? You can get ships to move by themselves with push pulse hooked up to a logic clock, but how are you going to turn uniform linear motion into rotational motion?

This is exactly it. Think about the lag problems we already have, and then factor in all the new lag problems we'd get. This is true, but I shouldn't have to go into my config files to prevent lag trolling.

You can narrow down the scenario as much as you want, but one very specific use case just doesn't justify the feature when the potential for exploitation is large. That's why it's a mod in minecraft - because you choose what your mods are.

This is just not possible to do safely. There are all sorts of problems with this; but it actually doesn't matter in this case, because one of them takes the cake: It is mathematically impossible to guarantee this. This problem is so important in computer science that it actually has a name...

Those limitations don't help, though. On whitelisted servers, they'd stop trolling but be a limiter to legitimate players; on an open server, perma loading dozens of planets is obscenely easy. If your factories are running 24/7, you either aren't using enough enhancers, or you're spending all...

This is doable, but it's not the be-all end-all you might think it is. First things first: There are tons of reasons for this, and they aren't all related to lag. For one, even if you buffer things as OP suggested, I should under no circumstances be allowed to try to place a 1mil x 1mil x 1mil...