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He's saying "let's change the development priorities so EVERYTHING - theoretically - works better, and then people can give feedback/ideas of how to fix things that aren't skewed by bugs and prototype systems that make it invalid." Is this... a hint at what one of the other two factions is?

OMGWTFDOYOUEVEN... *ahem* ...Armor is not useless, I can assure you of that much. You're probably using it wrong (Are you only using one layer?) No need for that, just make generic industrial stations for factions that don't get their own... And perhaps down the line you can have the...

Quarters aren't even the update they're talking about... by NPC they mean NP factions. :P

That all sounds... A bit abstract. ;)

Whoa. This is really cool... Question, though, how will NPC faction station spawning work? Surely we will be moving away from all factions having stations already in virtually all systems, as we go up from two to five NPC factions, and the system becomes more in-depth. Also, will resource...

I think the other meaning would fit more as: "Community sees new texture pack" "Community be like: WOOD INCOMING"

Has potential for abuse. Imagine what would happen if someone set a huge battlecruiser to ram into everything it sees.

Yeah, um... Where is the server? Thought you guys "had the server box already".

*IS planned. Just not very high priority, when there are more significant concerns to deal with than having a way for people to fly into the sun - like adding framework for NPC factions with ships other than Isanths, or adding NPC characters and fauna so the universe isn't completely dead and...

"The Cleaners"... nah. Try "Purity".

Battlemode is an exception, and isn't what we're talking about. Of course you shouldn't have to slowly put together ships for battle mode; that would be like having to kill MMO-style mobs to get your weapons and armour in a MOBA, where the whole point is to be able to jump right into the action...

I absolutely like the idea of only being able to construct blueprints or use certain advanced build mode tools in shipyards - once their capabilities are finished and all of the major bugs and quirks are smoothed out. Build mode in general should not require shipyards, as there would be...

I agree, but something tells me (from our past track record) that having both a sitting and standing command position ingame will be too much work for one reason or another.

Consoles for logic would be good. Consoles for controlling things like the ship or turrets... that would normally be a function of chairs which are still planned and will be here within the next six months or so.

That'd work, but I would still like the option to add/remove ranks within a faction/rank tree.

Correct... ish? Basically, that provision means that nobody is forced to play the FP/stations game if and when they don't want to. It does not, however, replace the current system where your homebase becomes vulnerable if your FP goes negative. It just means that you can still have a faction...

You mean remote troll across the universe? :P

Never said it would be a literal replacement, just that it would replace a lot of the things that wireless is being used for ATM.

Rank data is about the last thing we should be worried about, as far as database size, I'd think. IMO, we should go further than just expanding the number of ranks.

Precisely. Furthermore, this is far less likely to break due to changes in other code, and even if wireless logic blocks were 100% stable this would be more useful for a lot of current wireless applications (basically cross-rails logic, where the location of the other entity is predictable)...