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I like the above idea, but I want to refer you to the new-cool idea for storage: storage on a per-block or per-compressed-resource-stack instead of plex-storage. Storage in zones on your ship. combining this idea with yours is cool!

In light of recent conversation: It has always annoyed me that you can hide your thrusters inside your hull. I want them to NEED a clear line of sight. Thus the difference between thrusters and warp-drive. I think that the best way to do it would be on a per-side basis. Thrust-force per-side...

@NeonSturm I see the issue Maybe it would be less of an issue if the system was altered to be more realistic: Instead of thruster blocks and thrust computers, you have thruster blocks and fuel tanks. Thruster blocks would work as the "output spot" of your thrusters, they would be in much...

Hmmm. if ships automatically stabilize/slow themselves when there is no pilot, this issue would be solved. You would have the realistic mechanic without any of the downsides. If the thrust of the ship was defined by thruster-computers connected to thruster-block groups, and the locations and...

This would work perfectly if the docking system ran a check for collision instead of having a "dock zone" This would also work well if the game mechanic was not "individual cores" but "individual groups of blocks". You could put three cannons onto a hinge block and then link it to a hinge dock...

You would need to rule out home-base invincibility if you had diamond planets! The planet would become the center of an interstellar war!

What I am looking for is not a mechanic that balances the game for cool and uncool ships, I am looking for a mechanic that forces players to use the systems in a reasonable way, ruling out silly ship designs, but also perhaps unrealistically cool ones. Do I understand correctly? Anyway! Other...

Ooh, what about METAL planets! cool! they could even be hollow!

What if the entire docking network could be turned into "computational zone identifier computers" connected to specialized equipment! The zone would be linked to either some group of blocks to define the mass of blocks able to be held for a dock, some group of blocks to simulate a storage...

Hey thanks for comments. NeonSturm, I agree with most of what you said. Also I agree that it would take too long to implement, but I still think pieces of it are cool. About turrets especially: I wish you could make smaller turrets that were attached to the main ship. Maybe they would still...

haha, here goes: in addition to lava and water, what about multibiomed planets? Ice caps? Desert around the equator? If this is no good, then what about gas planets! If gas is going to be implemented along with physical water (and it should be), then I want DENSE gas planets that burn you up...

What if your spaceship could run as long as the lines between the console, fuel, and thrusters were intact? What if your spaceship was recognized as an entity as a whole with one indicator and no turret indicators? What if you could damage your opponent so much in one area that the ship would...

"Docking confirmation" should already be a thing! some way to set what factions/ships/people can dock on your ship. Something like a more advanced "faction permissions/friend-foe system" module which is probably already planned. That, however, is nowhere near as cool as combining this idea with...

We could still talk about balancing the system. Hacking beams? Comm arrays? Disabling the admiral's communications? It would be epicly cool if a "drone or pilot" system was created and balanced: drones stop when they lose communication, pilots dont... etc! C:

What if the existing docking system could be used for this, but attached to a shipyard ai with settings? This would allow the current stations to easily utilize this feature if it were implemented. It would reduce the block count and possibly the programming required. The easier it is to code...

Include oxygen and other gasses in that. I would love to see breathable and unbreathable atmospheres around my planets, and airlocks with a point. fluid pump logic? This may be planned too :p EDIT: "helmet" agree