Late-stage development ideas...

[Aristaeus]

1. Hailing System (Voice Chat)
   • 
     Type: Block/Ray-beam
   • Activation: Hail a ship by firing a communications beam...
   • Damaged: When the "Hailing" block is damaged or low system power, static starts...
   • Disabled: No power or if the block is destroyed, communications cease...
2. Faction/Player Shops
   • 
     Type: Block
   • Activation: "R" while hovering over the "Shop" block...
   • Placement: Can be added to a station or ship...
   • Menu: Opens the shop menu when activated...
   • Prices: Player who placed the block sets the buy/sell prices of items...
3. Hyperdrive
   • 
     Type: Block
   • Activation: "R" while hovering over the "HDrive" block...
   • Placement: Ship only...
   • Menu: Allows players to set coordinates of a sector to travel to...
   • Grouping: Passengers in the gravity field of a ship are taken with it...
   • Structure: More "HDrive" blocks equals a larger traveling range but larger energy consumption...
4. Heat Shield
   • 
     Similar to the shield block...
   • Allows close calls with stars...

 

[Planr]

How exactly do you propose the voice chat would work? It would have to work over an external server, which I doubt is feasible.

 

[A_Pickle]

What about bigger, actually spheroid planets, and gravity?