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Its been suggested before. Still compared to the current idea of a fixed sensor range, omni-jamming, and fixed missile locking range there is a lot more room for future improvements if sensor blocks were put into the game.

Unfortunately that is the problem. People who actually do manufacture know its infinitely faster to build block than to build a salvage ship. That is because the build block functions as fast as you can click, and even faster than your screen can render!

Terrain blocks are already useful given the extreme wackyness of the current manufacturing print system. Given enough turns at the 'buy print' button you can turn anything into a input and output anything in greater quantities than the input. In some cases you can even make a basic block like...

So many things wrong with that statement... In a Newtonian universe a space ship with the biggest thrust mass ratio will accelerate towards the speed of light the fastest. Gradually needing increased thrust to gain more speed as it nears but never reaches the speed of light. The result is a...

Short of the official build being changed to use a 64 bit integer instead of 32 bit integer. Its a technical limit. Assuming the limit was changed, the whole HUD would need a slight change to accommodate the larger number range of +/- 9,223,372,036,854,775,808...

You make a sound point. Even with hardened hulls, that 10 damage per block would be 5 damage to the blocks 400 health. Still, your enemy is spamming small 100 damage guns, you could easily die while the shields are up.

Indeed, with the new weapon system going into place, defensive phalanx like systems should be possible. I would add that AI turrets should track missiles heading on a general vector towards your ship and shoot at them.

Yes please! The current blue print system is absurd. This would actually bring sanity back to the system.

To clarify, he is suggesting the shields have bleed thru damage of 10-20%. Mathematically, if you deal a 100 damage to a ship the shields would take 80-90 damage and the blocks under the shield would take 10-20 damage.

Wasn't the star trek version of torpedoes fired out of a rail gun like launcher and guided (when actually using a guided torp) by manoeuvring thrusters in the torp? Giving it a limited tracking ability but a lot of punch compared to their phasers.

Questions: = How is this useful on planets when most planets with people on them are faction homes? - How would physics engine handle this when it already has a hard time with ships on planets? = How long will something that is designed to work on the planet, last against a typical...

Tempting idea, I see where big ships packed to tightly could set off a nasty chain reaction and just wipe out the whole ship. I think all internal systems should be more dangerous to simple stuff into a flying brick/cube/etc. It would give some purpose to building bigger more spaced out interiors.

I can see how this could end badly under current design. Cheeto's as components in shield block blueprints anyone? Even if you had them, they should serve a function purpose. Can they heal you? Do they make you need to install a toilet block in your ship? Do I need a sink block to was my hands...

In practice its already like this, and I assume your ship isn't massive enough to notice. Your speed will be capped as will your acceleration if the thrust your ship provides is not greater than the ships mass. On less that a few thousands mass you never notice because thrust blocks tend to be...

A real fix would be to segment money until different sub currencies. Typical RPG system like platinum = 10 gold, gold = 10 silver etc etc. It lets you get around limits like this. Personally I like the idea of just trading in minerals as currency as game currency quickly becomes useless with...

I agree the planets changing colour is an annoying bug. I agree that having every 16^3 group of sectors be a star system is bad, makes the area feel to crowded. However in context of the technically limits of the game, a real galaxy contains billions of stars that are light years apart. Only...

I agree with you Darth. Getting players a running start on a server, even if they don't know how to work the system to their advantage, is important. Protecting spawn and giving faction leaders incentives rather than deterrents to adding newer players to their faction is a big part of that.

I like this idea, as it is carriers are more useful as transport ships than actual carriers. Especially the recall part which would make small AI fighters very useful.

That sounds great in theory, but I for one have never seen any actual functionality to the faction permission block and certainly no option to set rank levels on the faction block directly. After this post in fact I tried setting a faction block and a permission block on a ship core. I also...

I would like the option to set the current chat window, and a local chat. But given most popular star-made servers have team speak or something similar. Your just asking to force players to use a third party global chat.