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I'd like something like this, where I can click on one block and access all the supplies. I'd also like to have multiple access points to access all the supplies from remote locations like different workshops or construction sites on the edges of stations.

It's at least partly in the dev build. Go and see if you want. PM me if you have any more questions about that. This thread is about shipyards, not the HP system. You could build a small ship by hand of course. Slap down a core, hop out, and start sticking blocks on it. You wouldn't be stranded...

The end result will be that ships are no longer killed by destroying the core but by destroying all or part of the ship's blocks. A ship has a set amount of HP and loses some of it when each block is destroyed. If you want to know more about it, talk to people on the dock chat or load the dev...

Do you have any idea how much extra complexity and mass it would add to put more than one power system on a ship? It would always have a disadvantage against a ship of the same mass with one type of power generation unless both of its power systems were fueled at the same time. The end result...

No, it means that a specific ship is practical ONLY when a specific fuel source is plentiful. If my faction has a lot of antimatter for a few months and I build a ship that runs on antimatter, I don't want to have to refit that ship with fusion reactors when we find a ton of easy deuterium fuel...

Chicken or egg? Answer: NPC chicken. If there's a small NPC shipyard at the spawn point, you can use it to build a small construction ship and use that to make a larger shipyard.

http://starmadedock.net/threads/a-manifesto-on-fuel-balancing-and-various-play-styles.5130/ Here I have explained the impact of different kinds of fuel mechanics on faction interaction and different play styles. There's a lot to consider besides how you put a reactor together and how one ship...

Rumor has it that the shipyard update may be coming with or shortly after the HP update. As such it seems appropriate to open a discussion about shipyards themselves and how they will affect the game. So far, we know that shipyards will be a means of creating ships from blueprints and repairing...

I'd say kill the pilot if the pilot is hit. If someone else is still onboard and survives, there may be a possibility that the crewman could activate an auxiliary control center or jerry-rig another control center. Losing the pilot is enough damage. I don't think there needs to be an additional...

If people can't read "PRE-ORDER," they deserve a brick-titan to the face, which hopefully the game will deliver to such idiots in short order.

In the bottom of the OP in this thread http://starmadedock.net/threads/another-planet-thread.7334/ I explained one possibility for illusory round planets with no block distortion. In fact, my idea includes no bending of blocks at all. By the time blocks on the surface load, everthing appears...

I could live with that. I really could. We just need the HP update and massless or low mass decorations. Of course, we need those anyway.

Rail dock, right? I'll look into it later.

As of version 0.19228, you can enter flight mode from a build block but cannot control the ship.

I sure hope so. That boxdim turning factor has been the bane of my ship design career (along with the old docking system which I do NOT miss, and the lack of a non-core control center).

I hope future advancements to the rail system allow us to use extending arms from ships. Right now you can only dock TO an arm, and cannot use one to dock to something else.

A governor setting is a setting that limits some aspect of a device or system. It might be used to make a system safer or more controllable for example. A vector governor is obviously a governor that controls a vector, in this case rotational velocity. You can't just set a ship's turning speed...

Having "agree" and "disagree" as ratings led to "disagrees" being resented and even considered a little rude. This is because disagree was a negative rating which showed up as a bad statistic on one's profile. This should not be. Instead, we should separate positive ratings like "like,"...

If it proves hard to control ships, it shouldn't be too much to add in a configurable vector-governor setting to limit max turning speed to something manageable. It would be set per-ship. The value (slider or whatever) would be a relationship between rotational thrust and max turning speed, and...

This is purely conjecture of course since I haven't seen the code, but I would guess that the engine improvements needed for the rail update might bring this feature a lot closer to reality. I recommend adding this with or before the next major update if the engine is ready or if the code team...