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It works for piping. Info is on discord. https://discordapp.com/channels/423790999052222464/583270231405756437/584698287500689408

The picture Dusty posted is different kind of socket, meant for powering touching buttons, levers and displays. But there is also kind that allows going through beams and plates to tge other side.

You can use celestial bodies for navigation. Eos, moons and the belt. So even without built-in coordinates, it will be easy to calculate your position with simple Yolol code and 3 turrets. My guess is that common agreement will be: Starting stations will be 0,0,0 Line from starting station to...

Magnets work from certain distance, so it's totally possible to run with them in 0g. And endos have more of grav-boots, if you look at the way they behave on slopes and realignment "the bottom" at will. Rollerblades would look silly IMO No difference for gameplay though.

There was some talk about "world anchors" that would keep pockets of space running on dedicated servers. It was just thrown idea, not a plan or promise. Personally I'd provide special client that can run (simulate) pocket of space of chosen size without rendering it. So players can run...

As posted in the suggestion thread. If every automatic repair makes part permanently and noticeable weaker, I wouldn't mind. It would make casual player's life easier, but loss of efficiency would be unacceptable for hardcore players, who seek every little advantage. They'd use manual fixes...

Hmm... Making auto-repaired parts noticeably weaker sounds like a good idea. So it'd keep your ship in one piece, but won't be a valid option for high-performance ships. To throw some numbers: auto-repaired bits only restore half of the base part's "hp" and effect. So part that was 50% gone...

Lauri just posted that stream may happen simultaneously with CA launch.

That would remove the need to design ships with maintenance in mind. Right now you need to make hard, but meaningful choice between compactness and repairability. Any magic auto repair dumbs down engineering aspect of the game. Also lack of perfect repair boosts ship market, as over time all...

@PopeUrban General purpose laser designator wouldn't be even close to as OP for turrets and rockets. Or any other weapon that is not a hitscan or guided. Laser need to hit something to create aiming point. That doesn't work if you have to lead way ahead of the target (so against any decent...

There is no physical way to ensure good ping between other ends of the world. The signal will take that 250ms at least, no matter the netcode. P2P should be faster, as data doesn't need to go through the server. But if fast enough? Hard to tell. Not sure if they plan stuff like client-side hit...

I decide to simplify my system a bit. Now size is determined by outer frame (Homeworld style), rather than tedious counting icons. Inside there the frame are two icons. One indicating main weapon, the other function. Most icons are good old and proven, for easy common understanding. Colours...

Doors mean nothing outside safe zone. I'll just keep yolol racks next to reactor.

I recently thought about Yolol rack protection. A way to make cracking it possible, interactive but not perfect or too easy. So you write the code, set password. Now whoever access the chip, sees each letter replaced with blank square. He can click on the square and type a letter. If the...

From technical perspective, it won't work. Current options for moving parts are too structurally weak to support heavy objects at high speed or dynamic manoeuvres. And you need those for dogfight. From practical perspective (if it can work in game), you waste a lot of mass on sliders, movers...

It's eternal struggle between "too much to remember/recognise difference" and "it tells too little". I used Burnside's symbols, but something else would work too. For sure using the same symbol, just rewerse, is a mistake. You can't count on people knowing where's the top and bottom in 0g.

I like the modularity. But it lacks clear rules. Sometimes you increase ship size with upper section, sometimes with middle or lower. I had my version almost done, but forgot about saving progress :/ EDIT: Ok, here's mine. Classification first...

Good idea. I hope the torp sensor has quite limited cone as well, so if you dodge the torp it requires some smart yolol to attempt turning around and re-targeting. Also torps may not distinguish between laser designators, so you could use your own to fool it. Smart yolol helps again in choosing...

If you make them too costly, nobody will want to waste work-hours by participating in them. If too cheap, they'll feel more meaningless. Which doesn't change current state too much TBH.

You're missing quite a lot types. Gunboats, gunships, artillery crafts, assault crafts, patrol boats. I'd rather have more flexible system build of 2-3 icons. One for size (small boat, large boat, small ship, large ship, huge ship), and one-two for function (main weapon/equipment/capability).