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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Why not just add some form of structural integrity?  Just adding that with engines enacting forces based on where they are at would be enough in my eyes.

[Gabeux]

Well, the best way to phrase what I want right now in a space game is... I want to, after destroying an enemy ship, to be able to weld it to my own or cut off parts of it for my own purposes. Space Engineers can do that (albeit with some caveats- merge blocks require power, etc), but there's not much of a point because everything that ship has you can have as well due to a lack of any difference between part accessibility (no "better engine" that you can't craft yet or anything like that). If there's any other space game where this is both a possibility and has some actual tangible benefits, then I'd probably go and play it immediately. I'm sure it's possible to add some sort of progression to Space Engineers through modding, but I currently do not know of any such mods. I also doubt that there exist enough ships that use that mod that can be spawned in so that there's anything to actually encounter.

Yep, the only reason I play Space Engineers is due to the crazy amount of freedom when building, and how the physics interacts with it all.
It's a shame there's no progression, unless you count getting enough mats for a gravity drive as progression.
Mods help it a lot, but doesn't fix the clunkyness or grief-yness of the game -SE is by far the most frustrating game I've ever played. Things can, at any time, spontaneously explode.

But damn, killing an enemy ship's engines and watching it crash its face on an asteroid is great. And so is the rain of metal when 5+ enemy drones attack the base and get shredded by gatling turrets.

There's a mod that adds tiered thrusters (higher tiers cost more Gold [Superconductor Components]) and one that adds more weapons, which are more expensive to 'feed' than vanilla weapons and are a bit cooler. Other than that, I can't think of anything that resembles progression.
And it's also sad there aren't packs (yet) with ships using such mods.

In the end, I'm having with with it because I always wanted a game that lets me board ships, capture them, and do whatever I want with them. Some I repurpose, most I simply grind. And I can't explain why I feel so satisfied by it. 

Once I'm done with that, though, it's definitely too shallow, even with 50+ mods.

[BigD145]

Just a heads up that Empyrion UI was improved. It's definitely worth a try to anyone who enjoys Space Engineers. It lacks the physics and the complexity atm, however, but at least the physics won't grief you to death like SE does.

3 button block placement is gawdawful. Having to change the axis and then spin on that axis is the absolute worst interface. You have a 100+ key keyboard. Use it, devs.

[zombat]

There was a 2d top down game that let you slice up other ships and add them to your own

Can't remember the name of it though

[LordPorkins]

Okay, so, Im wondering: Would it be theoretically possible to crack a planet? (Or at least, create something that would make it seem lkike its cracking?)

My theoreum is basically building a massive MAC cannon and boring a large hole until you hit the planets lowermost layer, then making a grid of nuclear warheads underneath

Me and a friend had a program where if a nuclear warhead was detonated at the lowermost layer, the planet would become deleted/inaccessible, which was kinda cool, but was too sudden and "non-explody" that it was kind of a letdown

[Akura]

Probably wouldn't work, as things get very glitchy if you go deep enough under a planet. Also, a lot of explosives on a lot of voxels will almost certainly crash the game.

[Nahere]

There was a 2d top down game that let you slice up other ships and add them to your own

Can't remember the name of it though

Captain Forever?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

There was a 2d top down game that let you slice up other ships and add them to your own

Can't remember the name of it though

Seem to recall one by the name of Void Hunters that fits that description.

[StagnantSoul]

There was a 2d top down game that let you slice up other ships and add them to your own

Can't remember the name of it though

Seem to recall one by the name of Void Hunters that fits that description.

Aye that game was awesome, and simple, and great. Too bad the site's dead.

[zombat]

Celestial Command, although they've unlocked the camera from top down and its 3d graphics on a 2d plane.

[McTraveller]

Has anyone built anything with the new half blocks? They seem kind of limiting, since they take up a whole grid of space still... it's a bit odd. You can make thinner hulls I guess, but you can't do better things like half-height deck flooring can you?

Did they make them half the mass and materials of the full blocks, or did they do something goofy?

EDIT: Well I started the game long enough to check - surprisingly the half-armor blocks do only take 1/2 the resources.  Is it bad that I am actually surprised by that?

[Akura]

Check if they fixed the issue where the half-blocks have a full-block hitbox.

[McTraveller]

Check if they fixed the issue where the half-blocks have a full-block hitbox.

That is so crazy I had to check.  Looks like they fixed it, at least for just the simple full half-block and the engineer. I didn't stay on long enough to see if it was for arbitrary collisions.

[Akura]

They just released a major update that claims to have killed Klang, that rotors and pistons are no longer chaos bombs.


They also removed safety lock on rotors. And increased laser antenna range to 200km.

[LordPorkins]

that rotors and pistons are no longer chaos bombs.

Challenge Fucking Accepted.