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How do you build a ship without having any blueprints though? I suppose you could make it possible for a player to enter the factory and create a design inside it, then supply the materials and hit \"build\"...

But I think the first one could be remedied by having a small factory at each store (or in seperate locations? So that starting players can build a starter harvester and the like. Or alternatively, make it so a factory-built ship has fractionally better stats (like 1-2% per X blocks), so that...

Sounds kinda like a tractor beam, or at least the tractor beams in most science ficton... Or perhaps more like a \"docking cradle\" which then carries the ship to it\'s hanger?

I like the idea of faster travel times without making ships insanely fast in \"normal space\". I like the idea of the limitations you put on it, in that they appear to limit travel distance (you have to drop from subspace to normal space to recharge shields in order to avoid getting eaten)...

Perhaps some mechanic/system that involves building a massive construct which locks an area around it out of subspace - but allows gate use (the gates mentioned in the OP?) - this would mean that if you had an insane enough amount of money/blocks, you could build a massive gate and a massive...

If I recall, I encountered something along these lines in my single-player universe... For example, I built a mining ship, and wanted to dock turrets on it for defense - I had already docked several identical turrets on identical docking ports, so it was odd that the turret I tried to dock...

It could just act as a mass turret AI interface, rather than directly controlling them... Then if it got blown up the worst you would have to do would be manually deactivate them/change settings.

I\'m not sure how easy this would be to implement, since currently, turrets are basically AI ships docked on a turret block and set to turret mode - they\'re not actually connected in any way with the parent ship, apart from..... Power, shields, and the turret block? hmm...perhaps easier than...

But it won\'t block incoming fire, if I understood correctly. I wonder if you could modify plexdoors this way...

You can kinda do that with a beacon block, or whatever it\'s called....but it\'s not really very effective, and is kinda blinding when you\'re in build mode doing something nearby.

Make clear and clear + glowing (in various colors) versions of the plexdoor. This can be placed and used in exactly the same way as a plexdoor, but is see-thorugh. Force field.

Some method of picking up all the little floating bits (without having an exposed ship block or just getting into your spacesuit and doing so manually.... Would be nice. Perhaps a \"tractor beam\" device that can be aimed like a weapon/salvaage beam and will pick up items in a cone around...