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I still am, and I stand by what I said. I absolutely appreciate that I can now simply fix a typo or broken link, I never said I was going to write entire articles or be a major contributor in any way. The thing is, I don't visit the wiki that often; but then I'd like to think you didn't...

Great idea, I still love it. Has been suggested countless times and a few though, and IIRC is confirmed to be planned at some point.

I like the idea of FIFOs, would one per ship/entity work, instead of per system? You check the range, and if OK, queue the message for the receiver. Prefix a channel tag, and you're good to go.

Well, the server.cfg comment says //Scaling of tuning[sic] speed VS ship dimension if it doesn't tune turning speed versus dimension, I'd call it a bug... but yeah, dev comment requested.

Certainly. More fleet commands, and chaining them, are definitely needed. However the same situation arises when the drone "cannot dock" - it shouldn't stubbornly try ten times a second, but wait a second after the first failed attempt, then wait maybe 5, 25, 125, ..., or until new orders are...

You don't have to delete the shipyard anchor, just unlink it, add another anchor where you need it, and link that to the shipyard computer. I usually have several anchors in more or less standardized locations, and just link the one required by a specific design. I wish there were a way to...

Thank you for the kind advice, you may note that the image was taken (and the post written) before slabs even were a thing, much less non-physical rails ;) This project hasn't been touched since then, and I'm certain I could find a better solution if I tried today. It was a quick-and-simple...

May I humbly request a clip of Dave picking flowers, please. ;)

Correct; guess I wasn't thinking either. I don't argue that a simple radial search is faster, I argue that it may be worth experimenting with it while the game is in alpha; if the performance hit is untenable, it shouldn't be too much effort to go to the scaled-down model. Maybe it could even...

Mining drones that run out of cargo space continue trying to salvage regardless, flooding the log files and wasting precious processor cycles. If a drone can't salvage, put it to sleep for a second before the next attempt, and gradually increase the sleep duration for each failed attempt to...

I don't think so, wireless logic isn't transmitted to unloaded entities, why would chat messages be? You still have to do range checks on every potential (ie. loaded) receiver in the universe, even if you only consider one antenna. Regarding calculative effort, I was referring to doing the...

I agree with keeping it accessible, that does not mean we have to oversimplify things. I think a somewhat realistic approach wouldn't hurt, the basic concept is easy enough to understand ("moar antenna = moar range, big antenna > small antenna"), and nobody expects you to memorize the formula...

Range should depend on both the sending and the receiving antenna - two small antennae would have a limited comm range, but a small antenna and a large array would be able to communicate over a much longer range, since the large antenna is both more powerful and more sensitive to weak emissions...

What's to stop anyone pressing every F1+key combination to find out - much worse, what if I don't know about any dangerous combinations and "find out" the hard way how to wipe an entire sector without it even showing up in my logs? I absolutely agree with not publishing exploits, at least until...

I'm going to say, document all the undocumented key combinations. All of us are de-facto playtesting alpha software, and it is annoying to not know which keys/combinations do have an effect, and often it's difficult to tell right away what happened, or whether anything happened at all. Some...

This. If they don't, it's a bug that needs fixing, not a workaround. I don't want my scanner sentries, or miners or freighters for that matter, to stubbornly defend to the last ship when they should instead run at the first sign of trouble.

Am I the only one getting an error when I try to view the linked conversation?

You mean just pulling out my hair? :D No, that didn't help. Joking aside, I'm pretty certain I logged out, restarted the server, and logged back in with no effect. Later I found this thread, stopped both client and server, deleted the client-database directory tree, and only after that the...

Thanks, I was pulling my hair out why my drones suddenly wouldn't mine any longer. The suggested workaround did the trick. Now on to find out exactly what in client-database causes the issue...