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I expect they are working on it as well. If they can calculate the stresses on the beams from flight, it couldn't be that much harder to add a little floating dot to show the center of mass.

They did show it breaking most of the time, but finally they did get it to work. The main reason it was hard was because of the geometry of their ship. A simpler way (untested) to position the cargo lock beams might be to have them organized not all in the same plane like in the video, but in a...

It may not be as convenient as a HUD that shows everyone around, but it is something, You could potentially create a system that scans the area and creates a map of all the ships that are transmitting. It would be an ASCII map, but it might be good for large ships. For fighters, I think the...

You could have a radio transmitter that says what side you are on and a receiver that points forward so that when you point at a friendly it will say on a display in your ship that they are friendly.

There was a video in one of the progress notes where one ship was being held in front of the other with a tractor beam as a turret. However, I could imagine having cargo lock beams attached to a small ship at the end of the tractor beam to grab onto other ships like a tentacle, kind of thing.

I have little doubt that the mining laser will do damage to ships, just as the pickaxe can also do damage to ships. I don't know how effective it will be, but it will definitely be worth testing out once we can.

Players could probably set up a message relay system that broadcasts messages throughout the universe. They would be text only, but you could have some jokes, or propaganda on there.

A new feature that would help to round out the Ship Designer feature would be to allow for export of ships as 3D models. My first intention with this is to be able to 3D print ships that I build (I suspect that other players would want something similar too) to put on my desk or hang from my...

Do people get motion sick from first person flying on a 2D screen? I know I can get sick while doing flight stuff in VR but never on a flat screen. I don't know that radar is very necessary. The ships already have very long thruster trails and the radio transmitters and receivers can work to...

That cost (money and/or time) should also be high enough that repair shops are still viable options for players to open. There was also a mention of refueling at stations in the stations video. I don't know if that is at some sort of pump, or when storing your ship.

That is one problem with some of the more complex programs that take many chips, "physical" space. You don't want half your ship taken up by YOLOL chips, it would not leave room for stuff to act on the envionment, engines, generators, weapons, etc..

Starbase pre-pre-alpha was there, right under our noses, wearing tinfoil hats and driving some beastly rides this whole time. I saw that voxel destruction there! Soon we will all get to go to spacé . Also, may these songs be used for Starbase related videos?

Are you sure about that? It might be fun on your brain, but it's going to hurt your eyes. Those lines have to be mighty dense for anything to run quickly. I wonder about that too. Maybe they just want it a little higher at first during the closed alpha to help move players into the more...

I don't think they would be so great at actually destroying any ships completely either. But they might slow down a group of ships advancing twards a station. The first ships would be the only one damaged, but you couldn't safely fly through all the rubble that gets created in the wake of the...

Do you think the rock fragments won't have any damaging effect? I was thinking that this could be something used in an asteroid field,

Can you ever access administrative access? Usually you need it to install programs, no?

That almost sounds like it would give non-native English speakers an advantage of understanding. Most of these elements don't seem to have common prefixes that reflect their properties. I would think that phonetic translation would only be more problematic for languages that use pictographs...

Why not make the astroids the mines themselves? You could hollow out asteroids, stick a battery, an explosive, and some sensors. The initial explosion doesn't need to destroy the enemies, but the asteroid fragments might do some impact damage and, at the least, make traversing the field...

Once custom signs are allowed, I know who's going to be getting a lot of business. ;)

I'm no pro at Blender, but I think I might give it a shot. Thank you Pirat for bringing this post up in the feed and Okim for the upload.