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I am newer than many probably. I think I've been here about 6 months or so. I've been following this debate between the "white knights" and the "realists" for a bit now and I think the most disturbing point in all of it is that there is a SINGLE person (maybe sometimes 2 people) working on...

I didn't mean for it to be interpreted that way. If cores were removed and we spawned and attached entities with bananas I would have said our way of defining things as moveable relied heavily on bananas. If we can spawn a new entity and attach it to another entity without a core showing up...

Agree. I hope they do some kind of population management sub game with the NPC's and crew. They talk about automated systems and populations and passive income in the game goals. This would be a good way to deliver that.

Thanks. Even as I learn it, however, I still feel myself circling around to the same size issue as I get more ambitious. For me personally these big chunky blocks break the immersion and suspension of disbelief. I don't feel like I have a soldering iron or microchips. I feel like I am...

I'm experiencing the same thing. I can't see the preview block at all. When I first started playing the game it was there but the lighting was so bad it was almost useless. Then after an update or two it got totally black. I'm on a Macbook pro Retna with a Geforce GT 650 running Mavericks...

There is a weird power bug (at least in single player) where the power in a ship will start going up and down for no apparent reason, as if someone is shooting a weapon but they aren't. Sometimes this gets so bad that ship systems like thrust stop working. The power just goes to the bottom and...

I like the idea of a survival mode where you start with your bare hands on a planet and you need to work there for a while before you can finally build up the materials and factories to build a ship. It might introduce people to the basic mechanics of the game more gradually instead of...

Fortunately, they have stated that they plan to offer an API. . . so when developers decide not to do sensible things we can usually count on a modder to pick up the slack. Redstone mods in Minecraft are 100 times better than anything the developers planned for the mechanic. So if Schine...

Just because you can go into folders and edit files doesn't mean it is part of the normal game mechanics. Those are hacks and workarounds. The core is the normal way entities are spawned in and moved around during game play. If you need to leave the game and start tweaking a file with other...

Lots of good advice here. Thanks for the feedback. I have been following tutorials and doing lots of building since I first posted this and I think I agree that the necessities of logic aren't too hard once you go through them. I've managed to pull off a few interesting things. I think I...

I tend to agree with this. It's a hassle trying to figure out placement when you don't know what your ship is going to be yet. However, it's not just ships and stations. The rail mechanics rely heavily on cores with dockers to define things as moveable. It is awkward, I agree, and it gets...

Are you the one who was accused of playing a glitch filled, highly exploitable, barely balanced alpha game with a server on top of it. . . and telling people to pay your protection money or be killed? If I was running an alpha server like that, with PvP by consent only, and I heard you were...

This is an interesting idea. It would make a mining ship something that would need to be much more specialized than just a single big salvage array and a cargo hold. . . . and there would be a more intricate ruleset for tools, extraction and processing that miners and imperialists would need...

I see what they are saying though. You could set that dock to deny people from docking to you but you still want to use your USD to dock to public docks, so it currently still lets you use your USD to do that. This appears to use that convenience against you. It runs the public dock into you...

Ok captain video game. Your analogy is also kind of off. I seem to remember a very clear post about what kind of party this is and what you can and can't bring to it. Plus. . . who's that guy right now standing outside yelling "your party sucks" but also not going home for some reason?

I'm wondering if I am missing something. We have this system players came up with that requires the docking blocks to aways line up correctly. That's a good start but how is it really that useful if the docking port itself isn't also required to reach at least 1 block beyond the rest of the...

OK I get all that and I agree for the most part. I have actually suggested a system that lets us miniaturize logic into a block the way you mention. It makes complete sense that we would be able to do that in the scifi future. Room sized logic is for Minecraft's steam punk setting. These...

That's fine. I can agree with all your points. The thing is, it's not up to us. It's up to the hosts and everyone who chooses to join them. Some might join for that very reason. Who are we to say they shouldn't? They have said about a hundred times that this is how it's going to be. We...

I'm not on this server but I read the whole thread with interest because I am considering it. As an outsider looking in I kind of feel sorry for how much crap the hosts are expected to field. Such entitlement. It's like inviting people to a party you put together and then needing to listen...

Sounds interesting. I haven't joined a server yet and I am pondering it.