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sphere-like planet out of cubes like you want is impossible. It is clearly, demonstrably possible, and also a complete waste of effort. The extra complication serves to bring no benefit, and no amount of wanting it really hard is going to make it a useful feature, especially when it precludes...

The second image utterly fails to address a single issue that anybody\'s noted with this method. Asserting it again doesn\'t solve anything. Also, don\'t get in the habit of calling someone \"kid\" in order to demean them; some of the smartest people I\'ve ever met were half my age. Collision...

You\'ve just glossed over all the complications that have already been pointed out to refute exactly the idea you\'re outlining here. What\'s more, your CAPITALIZED SOLUTION actually makes the problem worse: If you flatten part of the planet, the floor space you create crosses a wider angular...

reason: it takes a MASSIVE load off the server. A Lua interpreter thread can easily be spawned for each craft, and a limit of one Lua thread per structure prevents accidental (or intentional) overload. Extending Lua with an in-game API is easy, Lua is already a well-established language outside...

each sector takes some of the fun out of faction politics. I\'d rather have the things you list as benefits just be stand-alone parts of the game, with sector ownership decided as it is in real life: by military presence and tenuous government treaties.

I hadn\'t even thought of the trees. :P

direct links out of the Dropbox file list? That only allows you to see them; try clicking the \"link\" icon and using the URL from the Download button on that page.

does. You\'ve just gotten rid of the jagged floor and replaced it with a 45-degree mountain of equally useless terrain.

I think you\'ve somehow managed to miss the point of my drawings. They were meant to illustrate that the two methods described in this thread (the former yours, I think?) introduce a lot of complexity for what is essentially no reward. Neither addresses planetary cores (???), and both are...

Read this first! Sorry, don\'t mean to be rude, but this forum is nearly full to the brim now with duplicate threads. Check out one of the other FTL threads and pick up the conversation there. One of them is still on the front page.

Lots of great ideas for malleable games like this come from the modding scene. I\'m not saying Schema should devote any time to hacking together an API this early in development; this is the community\'s responsibility, and should never, ever make the developer\'s job harder. But modding in new...

Just a $50 drawing tablet and a copy of MyPaint. Also, I couldn\'t help myself.

Our engineers are at it again! The recent scientific debate regarding theories on gravity and the shape of celestial bodies has inspired them to build real-life prototypes of the models proposed. It seems some nutjob downstairs convinced most of the crew that a planet could be more efficiently...

Does that look about right?

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That\'s probably not gonna happen. At least not soon. And it\'s certainly not a priority. Creating an app for iDevices requires a few things: Lots of money An Apple computer (so, lots of more money) Code written in C, C++, or Objective-C This is awfully restrictive, and since StarMade is...

Looks like it already got pushed off the front page, though: http://star-made.org/comment/46668#comment-46668

I like the \"longest dimension from center\" restriction, like, a lot, but it should probably be scaled based on how you\'re rotating. For instance: I create a narrow, long ship, 1x4x8 on the X, Y, and Z axes. I yaw it perfectly left, which rotates around the ship\'s Y axis. The game does...

First off, if this were a cubic planet and the edges and corners were sanded down as you said, it would have twenty-two faces, not eight. This doesn\'t really pose a problem in itself, but planets are not made of hull, they\'re made of soil and rock. Adding new wedges for all these block types...

I\'ve been playing around for a while with the idea of removing credits, maybe as a mod for my home server, but for some reason it didn\'t feel right to me. You just made me realize why: NPC shops wouldn\'t know what to charge for their wares. Removing the shops as well makes it all work. Now...