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Because that isn't interesting. It's just a blob I need to wire to my reactors. Why do I need to do this? What does it add to the game? Because all it seems like you want is a half-baked justification for Star Trek ships.

Are we talking about interior or external hull now? Interiors are comprised of decoratives and usually basic hull, which weigh next to nothing, and are mostly EMPTY SPACE, which weighs literally nothing. Your "theory" that ships with interiors are pushed towards armor tanks because otherwise it...

OR we can remove stabilizers entirely because they add nothing interesting to reactor design, or give them a function that isn't just "put some blobs of these in your ship somewhere" so they are interesting.

Your "problem" does not exist. Your argument is wrong. PvP ships can be built with RP interiors just fine. You are basing your perceived problem off of dimensions instead of mass. Of course two identical ships, one which is 20% empty interior volume, and one which is 100% systems, will have the...

Step in the right direction to solve WHAT problem? Stabilizers are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

I can tell you haven't looked at the shields yet. There's absolutely nothing in the system to stop large ships from being entirely shielded, and, by the way, that's not really something you would want either. Ablative hull protecting shields is not a fun system to fight.

Are you confusing the fixes for spaghetti ships with fixing dumbbell ships?

Well, it makes their shield systems explode upon taking a hit even while shields are up, and it makes all their other systems explode as well, so... yes? So we're clear, what exactly are you proposing? Originally it seemed like you wanted to make weapons smaller by keeping their damage per...

The integrity system does a great job of removing Spaghetti ships, but it doesn't do much to fix Island ships or Dumbbell ships. And, again, weapons do not need buffed. They are already extremely strong.

Very nice. VERY NICE. Glad to see steps have been taken against spaghetti. I still can't say I like the balance of the new power system very much, though. The stabilizer mechanic continues to be terrible.

The main difficulty would be in having a cross-entity linking system that works reliably and is easy to use. For example, we have cross-entity logic, but due to problems in Schema's code, it likes to delink regularly. This could be a really good workaround. The only problem I see is, how do...

I feel like some players just have a magical debuff on them that makes their systems 10x less efficient than mine even in linear systems. Ok, so you want an 8 block weapon, which fires 10 times a second, to penetrate 4 blocks per shot? You want to be destroying 40 blocks a second with 8...

The speed cap is necessary to prevent combat from turning into a mess and to keep servers stable, as high speeds cause lots of desync, even if you do have large enough sector sizes to not be changing sector every couple of seconds.

I really don't think it was necessary to necro three different gas giant threads dude...

I'm not sure you're really paying attention if that's what you think all this is about.

Surely the game already has some way of knowing how many exposed faces there are on a ship when it renders the ship?

With proper balancing this sounds like it would be a really good solution to spaghetti that doesn't damage anything else. Especially if this was combined with something like flak or electrical chaining weapons.

But maximum distance scales with reactor size, and conduits only have more resistance if they are too thin for the amount of power they are carrying. A properly designed big ship should have the same efficiency as one a tenth its size.

Interesting and well worded idea. I don't think I would personally like it implemented though. It doesn't really fix the issue and you even pointed this out in your post. People can just build a big brick of armor on the front or rear of their ship and still have a system brick type vessel...

Okay.... 1.) I build mostly medium (25k to 100k) mass ships. I don't like building small or large ships, I think they're both boring and annoying to build for different reasons. 2) You still haven't said how my suggestion favors small ships or removes large ships.