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BTW, if you guys want systems to be more than a matter of filling up ships, you'll need the mechanics to back it up. Shields would need things like localized projectors, weapons could use a (reasonable) heat mechanic (NOT boxes; distance from convex hull works as long as the normal heat radius...

I already know what that's like. Basically, build power (until I have as much power as I'll need) and chambers, then build everything else. Not really the point.

The problem with refitting ships, for me, was the lack of tools... With the new(ish) advanced build toolset I'm honestly happy with the current difficulty of ship refitting. I DO NOT like the way that current reactors work, but that doesn't have much to do with filling or not filling ships. I...

...Except thrusters, and anything that has to be 'in use' to draw power.

Yeah, I think that's something to do with Schema testing for system scanning or something.

The current big white outline constantly displaying is a bug...

There may well be a noticeable variance in achievable power levels between ships of the same size (volume/former mass), depending on their shape. Does that not count as breaking user creations?

Nah, if you're building an optimized warship, you will probably want to take one or two weapon chambers and one or two weapon types, not all three. If you're building a replica or something, there's still nothing stopping you from adding more. While it may 'limit creativity,' encouraging ship...

They're not just literally replacing the power generation system with a new one. All the power mechanics are different, and weapons (and everything) cost a different amount of 'new power' than 'old power.'

False binary. Not having the current stabilizer system does not automatically mean an overpowered system with no moderating mechanic whatsoever. In an absolute worst-case scenario, they could simply (and rather trivially) rebalance power reactors so that a reactor blob to run a ship would end up...

Could someone explain why a sphere is optimal? It seems to me that no matter where you put the reactor in a sphere, the reactor you end up with will always produce less power than a reactor in a ship with some kind of long shape (cylinder, prolate spheroid, or prism of any kind) of identical...

Depends on what you mean. If you're asking whether or not they are currently essential... uhm, have you tried the recent builds? Reactors above five blocks do nothing without stabilizers. This is contrary to my expectations, actually; I envisioned that for a given ship size a smaller reactor and...

...Except the full-auto mining would not be invincible, and other PvPers could attack it, meaning defense fleets would need to be assigned to those sectors, which would be neat... however that requires at least an escort command for fleets in addition to the automated mining. (yes, AI is...

Weapon convergence still exists. the focusing center is just offset from your cursor (i.e. it's bugged). Try flying up to a big wall of blocks and shooting at it; you should end up with your weapons converging to hit a point below and to the right of your cursor. And yes, Inner Ship Remotes are...

If it is feasible, I 100% support this. It would give armor the buff that everyone wants, while creating expected behaviour (weapons creating dents and craters in armor) rather than unintuitive numerical mechanics. Also, as Aethi Imperial vessels are basically 100% sloped armor, I suppose I...

"slapping" a cloak on any ship comes at a penalty of other rather useful functions. Being able to cloak doesn't magically stop you from being susceptible to other people ambushing you from cloak, for starters. Only good scanners do that. You also lose all kinds of possibilities for defensive -...

...Yes, because obviously they're going to leave in the preliminary dev build values, and not change them at all ever... Right. Totally. Sure.

It's not redacted; there's just no definite date. Apparently there's still some UI work and other bits that they have to get done for the system to be properly playable.

Exactly. So, the "only" reason we have a small playerbase is not the lack of advertising. :P Honestly, if they had been advertising, we'd probably have gone through all the potentially interested players by now and largely lost our chance to rebuild a community later.

No. If this game in its current state was capable of supporting a healthy playerbase, the advertising wouldn't really be needed. Some people would still come, and some people will always go, but it would be a slow process on both sides and general populations would stay at a decent place...