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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.

If a WW2 destroyer could zip behind a battleship faster then it could turn then maybe you'd be onto something, but other then size scale Starmade ships don't handle like naval vessels at all. Manoeuvrability is a much bigger factor, and proportionally speaking Starmade ships are packing bigger...

The grid idea or circuit board would pretty much solve that issue.

The grid block is a nice idea. I could also go for Scriptable computers.

Honestly, what parts get left out could even be down to the player. Would make refitting, and colour swaps much more convenient.

Storage transfer shouldn't be too hard, it would require the AI entities having an inventory, and them being able to interact with storage blocks. Other than that it's pathfinding really. I don't really see it being implemented until the AI revamp though, which is a way down the line by the look...

I'm actually in a favour of a couple of minor nerfs, just to make combat a little more interesting. First one should be solved by the thruster change when that happens. Second one is to make shields less effective, especially for turrets. Makes having an escort and effective defence essential...

I don't think any option to actually speed up the missile reload speed is on the cards. You can, however, sort of accomplish the same effect. After you've place your missile tubes, slap down another weapon computer and make the same weapon again. This is still specialisation, because you're...

You can use logic to set up your docked entity to undock at a certain point of the rail. You can set up a push pulse/beam/whatever to push the entity away from your ship as it undocks. Bench has some great videos on how to work logic with rails, you should give them a try...

Fully automated AI salvagers that go off and find asteroids or planets by themselves then dump the stuff in factories with no player supervision I don't really see happening. Imagine if every player on the server had 5 AI miners at hand, all 5 of those going off to mine. That's 5 extra sectors...

Honestly, I really don't like the idea of ships stats being affected by anything other than what's in the ship systems wise. Larger factions already have the advantage of resources and manpower (at least they should), arbitrarily better ships is really pushing it.

I'd be for the multiblock cargo on one condition: Being able to access it all from one tab. Being able to designate NPCs to shift the cargo from your ship to your base would be nice as well.

I don't see it encouraging varied ships at all. If two options are equal in all ways but one requiring an expendable resource, the non-expendable option becomes superior and no one uses the other. If the the option that requires a resource is clearly superior then the optimal strategy is to...