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Sometimes, but almost never ALL the way back by necessity unless it's something where the reactor is also a part of the engine. Typically you see reactors roughly amidships, or if they're further aft they'll at least be some distance forward of the engines.

Anything a station could do before, a station can do without any chambers whatsoever. The only unfortunate changes for stations are shielding and the power system itself.

To be fair, we don't generally think of having to put a big blob of machinery on one end and another big blob of machinery on the other end of a ship in fiction, either.

I think Raisin was talking about NPC factions. Regular factions... as you said, Non, they have some issues. They're needed though.

Agreed. Yep. Those formulae are not as easily accessible as they ought to be (and consequently I keep forgetting them! D: ), but they're pretty straightforward. Yeah, this is kind of inevitable. Even when/if the game is about exploration, adventure, trade, and warfare on a grand scale, there...

Not really? Had it been, say, Zyrr or FlyingDebris doing the assets for the game instead of you (or me) the story would be different. Ok? But none of it is really necessary to enjoy the game. 90% of server-side players just build stuff and never touch the math, and it tends to work out alright...

That's purely subjective; seems to me that the main people complaining about that are you and... maybe Lan? In any case, some people agree and some disagree with this; no idea what the majority wants. It's not necessarily 'bad engineering' to me, but if we want to call it that, then I fail to...

Whoa. This is probably a better use for the current shield mechanics than shields. :P As for the islands concern, we already have a mostly decent fix for that implemented. They just have to shrink the conduits (they honestly don't need to go above 1 block in diameter) and fix the routing so...

So, you're not going to be updating past 0.19x then. A lot of the old systems' features will no longer work, even on old-power-only ships. The old power system itself and thrusters (and weapons, maybe?) will still work, but only for comparison's sake and so people don't suddenly find their...

I kind of like the integrity mechanic, actually, though the last config change seems to have overcompensated and broken normal gun designs. :P Also, spaghetti wads are not 'kilometers wide' by necessity, so no, the power sanity radius would not 'fix' them.

Seems largely unnecessary. Leaving a bit of space between systems already seems like good practice, for maintenance purposes if nothing else, and the losses are minimal. If my ships weren't such weird shapes I'd likely be doing something like that already. Acceptable. Sounds like a potential...

Yeah, I mentioned this in tester chat. It's made a giant 'log' stick out between the tails of my frigate. :|

...Yeah, I wasn't going to respond to this, but actually filling ships to the brim, while common, isn't really 'meta'. Leaving open spaces helps a lot with mitigating missile damage, and often a ship that's less filled is no less viable than one that's completely filled. Maybe it's nominally...

That wasn't me. In any case, that particular arrangement doesn't really align with a 'meta'. I remember someone posting a stabilizer ring and insisting that it's some kind of good alternate arrangement, that we should be 'creative' in using the stabilizers, and that it's not a sign of the...

...Yeah, which isn't even a justification because... well, essentially, crew quarters will hopefully not be forcibly arranged in straight lines between the reactor and the opposite side of the ship. :P

Then we add... interior... It's not exactly impossible under this current system. The way that you and Saber have been building interior is probably creating a (probably false, but somewhat subjective) perception that systems are too big, but it seems that you're just trying to build...

Yeah, Schine has unwittingly created a system that mostly just works elegantly for their own (atypical) ships, and as it does work pretty well for those ships, what's wrong with the system is not immediately evident... >.> It actually has nothing to do with 'interior' and everything to do with...

Red = reactor-stabilizer position and distance Yellow = maximum interior that I could imagine putting on the ship given the mechanics... of course, the 'Virga' interior would likely end up smaller if I wanted a bunch of chambers on it.

Lol, stabilizers do nothing to balance or eliminate 'power creep' or 'godly ships' or whatever, ultimately. It really just makes them even uglier.

Yeah, that'd be the problem. "Your" ships. They're... rather atypical, honestly. Small systems compartments, often long and thin configurations with larger parts at the front and/or back, lots of very thin or low-volume features in general. Personally, I generally could barely reach that low...