I think that a more elaborate solution is necessary than simply disabling it. I responded in full to a related thread
here. But basically I think that what is considered "spaghetti" should should scale with the size of the reactor. After all, a small ship SHOULD have smaller parts, right? But also larger ships SHOULD also have more groups due to granularity. I proposed 2 different systems. One that would, I think, more effectively separate out "spaghetti ships" from normal ships, and another which would help eliminate the integrity lag that users are suffering during combat right now (which is really unbearable), but would still make spaghetti ship designs far less extreme. With the "no lag" solution, there could also be other sorts of ways the small amount of "spaghettiness" allowed could be punished, such as a weapons system that might spread damage throughout a system by the same block count, regardless of the shape, so a line would be affected the same as a chunk. And to handle blocks that are separated into tiny 1 block groupings, perhaps another weapon effect might ignore all spacing altogether, affecting the entire system regardless of where it hits, adding a dot effect. So then spacing things out greatly would only increase the chances that the system gets affected by this weapon type and would probably be undesireable. There would need to be a balance here as well, so building cubes would also suffer drawbacks, such as a missile explosion still destroying more of the blocks than a more spread out design.
