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Great contest idea! Wish I had the time to participate these days. Best of luck to all the entrants!

Unfortunately, not much. My work schedule has really eaten into my digital sandbox time these past couple months. I've gotten in maybe 5-6 more hours and that's it. Hoping to get back to this sometime maybe in the new year.

Sorry, that should have read "pleasure cruises" not "cruisers." Subtle, but important distinction! I was thinking something akin to the sightseeing cruise liner passenger ships, such as those featured prominently in Fifth Element, Wall-E, segments of The Hitchhiker's Guide novels, and some...

My own experiences in design, development, and the arts have taught me when at a brainstorming phase, especially if crowdsourcing or dealing with a focus group, it is rarely helpful for those in the sample group (i.e. us on the forum here) to assert what is or isn't possible. Instead, it helps...

Rare rapid terraforming genesis events, like in ST: Wrath of Khan. Slow terraforming and interplanetary outpost set up by NPCs, see rovers unpacking, partially built geodomes going up on small distant planets Star birth and death NPC factions meeting at diplomatic stations to parlay treaties...

Instead of loot chests in debris fields, why not have something like 1%-4% of components be salvageable? If player skills or NPCs that buff ship performance are ever added, perhaps this rate of recovery could be tweaked. Don't get me wrong, scrap should be the majority of what is recovered when...

A Saturday update. I've been working on the contouring for this new building. I removed my first building at this site because it was too blocky and modular to fit into my emerging aesthetic of the upper city. The first contours were a bit of an overcorrection into territory that was far too...

So I stripped out that one building and have blocked out the footing for the next entry on my hyper urban planet. I'm uploading these early images in case seeing how I block out these buildings is useful to anyone else attempting similar complex structures. For this new structure, I'm putting...

Next round of experiments on my urban planet. I've really been enjoying using hzzzln's modular multifloor elevator. It's gotten me into the cut and paste tool. So I figured I'd lean on that banging out the façade of this new building. Though it looks neat and I like the outdoor glass...

That suggestion is from over 2 years ago! So I guess this is a longstanding issue.

Shameless plug of a suggestion thread from a couple months ago about some low hanging fruit help make each planet more unique. Not exactly the same as what the OP is suggesting, but I think it's relevant.

Some update images from today. I've finished the outer form of the first sky scraper. Clearing the foundation for the next building as well as more upper city walkways and plazas. I figure once I get 3-5 upper city structures in place, I can begin exploring how to integrate them aesthetically...

Quick, potentially simple, question: Is it possible to change the destination folder for screenshots? I would prefer a specific subfolder rather than my general install folder. I've searched to see if this is described anyplace on the forums or the wiki, but not found an answer. I've also poked...

Ah! I had not seen that thread. It's very much in line with what I'm suggesting here and I see it has been tagged as "planned" already. The mention I was referring to was a side comment in another thread about features such as fauna. Thanks for the link!

Recently saw mention (I think it was around some of the Twitch fauna reveals this year) about the partial system that will eventually put into the game. If particles velocity can be affected by gravity, can we possible get a basic decorative fountain emitter block that is fully logic capable...

Thanks, Bench for the insights. Wow. In my absence, this thread certainly blew up a little! Some great ideas and inspirations throughout. To the folks talking about the >pew pew< solution vs. a hypothetical bio-inhibitor block, I totally get that approach in terms of gameplay and within the...

Thanks, hzzzln! I have built a two floor elevator from scratch, so I have a handle on the most modest basics. I recall seeing a tutorial out there with a good explanation on rail speed used to create a sense of acceleration and deceleration, which I'll probably try to work in. No rush on this...

Thanks! Looks incredibly useful and quite a time saver. I love how many fail safes you worked into the system, like the extra rail reverser at the top of the elevator. Unfortunately, in an attempt to convey density via exterior windows, my floors are only 4 blocks high. But I was already...

Another round of updates. Last for tonight. Still fleshing out the building skin towards the top of the structure. Also realizing I need to work a functioning rail lift inside as well. :( Probably need to go multi button/multi floor with that. Already getting ides for some of the surrounding...

The recent reveal of a couple lore creatures has gotten me thinking about the imminent fauna system. I really hope that Schine gives us some sort of Bio-inhibitor computer (and modules to determine the radius of its effect) to locally inhibit any spontaneous mob spawning. I think about the...