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Are you trying to make the existing weapons work? If so, you shouldn't. They'll be far too powerful and consume far too much energy under the new system.

People have to refit anyway. Might as well not make people refit multiple times.

50,000 energy pool the core has is old energy. New energy pool scales with the reactor. I'm pretty sure most everything is converted to the new system by now; if there's something missing it's an oversight.

Link the ship core to a light source. The thrusters' plumes become the colour of that light source.

Eh? That's a recolour of a Nausicaan design, from the looks of it, and I can assure you, Nausicaan ships are beasts of metal and little else.

I disliked them even back then, personally. It's always been my belief that a turret is, and should be, nothing more than a pivoting extension of the main ship specifically for the purpose of mounting weaponry (or salvage gear, if they ever get around to making that work properly).

I dislike all of the above, fundamentally, because they all increase the effective available power without aux and basically throw the balance out of config control. They aren't any more powerful. :P He was probably thinking of how they will generally have less space restrictions, but IDK...

What's with those missiles? I've heard of missiles missing things a lot, and for that matter dealt with it myself, but what were they trying to target?

Yes, but ultimately if you want to maintain any semblance of competitiveness, you will still essentially have your stabilizers in the front, and reactor in the back, and you will still be heavier than the stick. Or maybe not heavier than the stick, because if the stick-builder wants to add them...

Self-powered turrets are effectively those docked reactors, for turrets.

Do you really think that, and not the lack of content and abundance of generally more enjoyable games, is why 90% of the playerbase left? New system or old system, what's going to bring in and keep players is two things. A living universe, and things to do out in the world with all those...

That 'problem' is neither solvable nor honestly needs solving. The game should have positive mechanics like crew or maybe radius-based (not box) heat that make it better to have some space not full of systems, but it shouldn't actively stop you from building a system-filled ship if you so...

Yeah, I was thinking that only stabilizers at 0.0% effectiveness should be red. The shading for functional stabilizers should range from yellow to green.

Nobody ever said every ship had to be, or have something from, a cannibalized other-faction ship. It would just be nice to see some bits from player factions integrated into a few ships or stations even if said player faction doesn't appear in your universe, as in theory there would be other...

Ultimately it doesn't even have to be recognizable. If the player doesn't notice what it's from, they'll be like, 'oh, that was taken from some ship.' And that's fine. Scavengers apparently scavenge, and having it be exclusively from the original default factions doesn't make much sense one way...

Docked entities will only pull power from their root entity for the foreseeable future, and perhaps unlike the other power changes, this is a clearly good thing. Self-powering turrets are a problem for balance, performance (as a self-powering turret can be arbitrarily large), and more...

Yes, but those rules overall don't allow for as much flexibility as the old ones while not sacrificing much performance. Nobody was complaining that the new system isn't fair. :P The issue is, if you choose to make a ship that isn't long and skinny, it's both going to have a lower maximum power...

Yes, and your ability to stabilize is tied to the dimensions of your ship. If your ship is too short, you won't be able to stabilize the reactor.

If that's the case, that's a change post-200.151 that I haven't checked out yet (I'm about to launch the newest build). In everything I've tested, after the free 10 blocks, reactors give you nothing without stabilizers. Could it be that you were only testing with a 40-block reactor, or do I just...