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Source? In the current state of other game mechanics, yes, this probably shouldn't change yet. But eventually, as I stated in my topic, faction bases' artificial invincibility should give way to using the more natural protection methods of defended and/or hidden locations, which would require...

The problem with the faction drama is that it got out of hand, people started making things personal and doing things like revealing enemies' RL personal information (doxxing), at which point someone had to put a stop to it. Let's face it, if all this had gone on even more people would have...

That is pretty amazing.

Yep, push with logic has interesting uses. I once built a 'rocket' that used push effect to fly, and even had a second stage that detaches and flies off on its own...

Yeah, I'd really like a map hologram too. Even if it only displayed the current system's stars, planet orbits, asteroid belts, planets, and the player's sector position as a dot thing. I don't see why it shouldn't be possible. The biggest problems would probably end up being getting the render...

Fair enough. Still, I don't see the problem with using shuttles, though that may just be my Aethi bias. (We still use shuttles and transport pods, and will for the forseeable future except for cases where we need to change over from a shuttlebay to a cargo bay and use transporters instead)

If anything was "campy," it was that strange technobabble explanation for getting Scotty on a show where he should've been dead. The way it's explained shouldn't have even been possible; if it was then there could just as easily have been a way to just let people sit in the pattern buffers...

Yes. It wouldn't make sense, at any rate; why would you have a huge map file and not be able to record anything to it :P

Today's patch, which is apparently coming in a few hours or less, is bug fixes. The previous update was really really buggy, so we badly need this. In two weeks or so, we're getting an update that includes the new cargo system and maybe one or two extras. The version after that may well be...

...Or just scan the base down yourself... Agreed; the Trading Guild should really only have a lot of stations inside its own territory at the center of the galaxy. Beyond that it should only have scattered posts. Yep. You should have to actually go through the warpgate, or scan both ends, for...

Being able to buy local navigational data from Trading Guild NPCs would be a nice touch. Great idea... What do you mean by "better solution" though? This just sounds like something to implement alongside the systems I suggested.

Ah, okay. I thought there was some trouble with signed Java types or something, but apparently not! ^^

An instant-kill block would be overpowered. Imagine if someone put one of those on top of a transporter block, or dumped spikeballs onto astronauts. Or had deployable rail spike traps in their ship interiors... Boarding would be impossible.

Ideally, with the trade system that is planned, a player could sell a Map to another player, containing what he'd discovered in a part of a system, an entire system, or even multiple systems.

I could even see someone writing a database-reading wrapper/wrapper addon and giving people achievements for discovering a given number of things. Congratulations! You discovered 100 Quad Nests! ...Wait, do you seriously go around looking for those things? Ew. Credits Reward: 1,000,000

Yes, I know they aren't metaitems. I was asking whether or not it was possible to turn unplaceable items like scrap that currently use block IDs into metaitems, with some modifications to the metaitem system (including a system that would allow metaitems of the same type, that do not have...

I think people have asked for this before, but for the sake of all our pretty engine glows, could we please get ice wedges? Not ice crystal, but ice. Like, the partially translucent frozen water stuff that generates all over ice planets, and turns whatever color (besides red) of light that you...

I was just wondering if shoving the operation into a separate thread was possible... Thanks a lot for the info.

I said specifically that either players would manually fill blueprints (or shipyards) for a station to use for defense, or that possibly it could spend faction points - which are a resource. If the system used faction points, theoretically an invading faction could completely drain its enemy's...