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I haven't had chance to download the update yet, but first thing I'm doing is spawning in a pirate capital and boarding it. I imagine stealth ships will be awesome for this, which brings me to your suggestion. Being able to align in a stealth ship sounds pretty overpowered, since you could make...

Docked reactors are more for large ships, as a way to work around the power soft cap. Each reactor has its own soft cap, so you can squeeze more power out without using as much space. The trade off here is the reactors are fairly vulnerable to pulse missiles, and I suppose as of now won't give...

Pretty sure that is the interior, just with a wall missing so the reactors can be moved inside.

The actual animation I don't think is that bad, but what does need fixing is the effect it has an moving non-stationary object. When I was wandering around a ship with an autopilot the animation looked like it was resetting itself constantly.

As long as the shop actually has the stuff in stock I don't see why this wouldn't be great. Actually filling the blueprints can be a bizarrely long process for smaller ships at the moment.

Torches sound awesome. The beam changes sound pretty bonkers as well, gonna have some fun with this.

Then put them inside?

Docked reactors are a very good solution of your ships is big enough to really make use of them. Though, people are perfectly capable of making some gorgeous ships with the existing mechanics. You just have to be aware that compared to a real ship a large portion of your interior is going to be...

I'm hoping if there is a possibility it's still very difficult to pull off. A stealth ship should be unable to stand up to a "regular" ship of similar mass in a one on one fight, just for balance reasons. A cosmetic option to improve the look of a ship without improving its chances in combat...

With the upcoming changes making different blocks have different mass I have a question that might be relevant, is cloaking power consumption tied to mass or block count? If it were mass that help some, with hull blocks accounting for half as much as before. Down the line I would be up for a...

I haven't given it a try myself, but from what I've read from the latest dev blog discussion different types of blocks have different mass., so decorative blocks increase your mass by much less than other kinds. Lancakes post is quite informative, and can be read here...

While I'm still not entirely convinced by the idea fuel being exclusive to jump drives would probably be the best way to go about it. Makes the number one issue in warfare logistics, since you have to worry about how you can actually get something somewhere. Now back onto the subject of...

I disagree with you about block availability, "eating a planet" can take quite a while, even with a proper planet muncher. That said I would like there to be a cap on production speed. And a system in place to motivate factions to build shipyards outside of their home (ie the bigger shipyards...

That is absolutely beautiful.

^That. For slaving purposes I think the base and the barrel should be classed as the same entity. That said, with the HP update on the way I wouldn't be surprised if a change to how shielding works is around the corner.

I wouldn't be surprised if full repairs where a shipyard function, with repair drones restoring HP to "stabilize" a ship.

Plus, for shipyards it will likely look cool as hell.

Hah, I can sympathise on that one. That said, I was under the impression that in Star Trek the cloaks worked more like radar jammers anyway, with the visual effect being just that. I'm not a huge expert though.

Honestly, the power hunger is fine. It means if you make a stealth ship you have to specialise, with a ship that in all likelihood won't be able to stand up to similar sized vessels. All I want really want extra is a mainly decorative "armour" that doesn't count for power drain.

You know what I would love? Place turret/docked entity. Sometimes putting in turrets and other docked ships can take a literal hours.