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The solution I've been mentioning occasionally is just to draw a big polygon between the centres of all the stabilizer groups on a ship. Take the volume of that polygon and the total number of stabilizers, and from those two values create a 'stabilization field strength' somehow, i.e. the...

Still has an arbitrary rule (line must cross the reactor) and so wouldn't solve things. What about ships with split tails like mine? What about Star Trek's ships, where the nacelles would be perfect for stabilizers except that the reactor can almost never be right between them? What about...

LoD for lighting, LoD for entity rendering, LoD for all the things! Awesome! \o/ Good to know that these things are still planned.

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Highly unlikely. Schine needs a functional indicator for power stats specifically, so if there were a bug with this it would probably be noticed and patched very quickly. So, 'specialized' ships should all be long and 'general purpose' ships should all be boxy? :P Besides, from my experience...

I just checked, and you're right. The build mode stats said one thing, but the ships are apparently not actually of those dimensions. However, if I have 3312 blocks worth if internal volume on the TOP ship and it has less than half the regen of a ship with a significantly LOWER internal (and...

How the hell is this desirable? EDIT: Volume/surface area calculations inaccurate due to dev build bug. Point still stands.

If that were true, I might not be as annoyed with the system, actually. :P It punishes you for not conforming to some strange arrangement requirements that don't really have much to do with RP, or for building a ship that isn't a funny stick/dumbbell shape.

Send in a bug report; include the most recent log file.

Yes, but from developer comments and other things it's evident that not much is going to change from here on in. Just bugfixes. I could be wrong.

I'm tempted to say "this can't possibly be generally true", but instead I'll merely ask for examples, and say that I still highly doubt that this is true beyond a few particular characters.

Then why are we forcing people to throw tons of empty space (with all the extra polys that come with it) in their hulls now if they don't want to build stick shapes? :P

Rails were a massive improvement in capability. There were certain things that became much harder to accomplish under the new rail system as far as certain turret designs and docking scenarios, but those were niche uses that paled in comparison to the new possibilities opened up by rails. With...

I mentioned this earlier, but didn't get a response, so I'll post it again: This quote only holds true if you assume that there is no trade between factions. And there is already a sufficient feature-set ingame for trade... It's not very good UI wise and rarely used, but I've done multiple...

That's equally silly. If I set up my homebase, I should not have to wait two days to build a mining outpost or a warp interdictor buoy. Also you run into the problem of "godsdammit, a new recruit put down a random station for the lols, and now I can't place down this critical infrastructure for...

Yes, but spamming vulnerable stations would be a viable tactic as well. Systems have A LOT of sectors in them, and maxing out your influence that way would be viable. If someone went and blew up 30 or 40 of the stations, who cares?

That's all very nice, and I'd love to see support for that, but the game's supposed to be scalable. If a full-on MMO server rig is required to host a small (20-30 player) multiplayer server with typical ships and not have everything go to hell, there's something wrong. Even in a sandbox game...

Not sure about most of this, but I do like the idea of partial ownership; having players actually establish a presence in a system to gain benefits is nice. However, how do you deal with station spam? Having a space station in each sector in a system should not be desirable. :P

Losing the docked entity spam isn't just a matter of "OH NOOO MY CREATIVITY :(." Massive docked entities are partially equivalent to separate ships flying around with the main ship. There are some optimizations that have been done for collision checks against the ship they're docked to, but...

Welp, I've gotta go for the night myself (12:30 here, past midnight). Assuming you've been staying up, Schema, sorry we kept you up until 6:30 in the morning ^^ Thanks a lot for taking the time to discuss this stuff and answer some questions. o/