The designer could use some tools to make selecting things easier. Drawing a box or clicking individual nodes is a massive pain and very hit-or-miss. We need something like a box or polyhedron that omits everything outside of it that you can place anywhere around anything and resize any way. I know there's already an omit button but it doesn't help when you're working on a single piece of hull that's 5000 faces. There are some things that aren't even possible due to that, since there's a minimum distance you need to be to pick a node.

The fact that there is no Board Officers command prevents us from making ships that automatically collect officers and drop them off at a central station. This makes preparing new ships without the usage of AHK scripts so much more tedious.

Hello, strangers of all galaxies, and welcome to the brand new Universe 7 Official Shipyard Showcase !

Here, designers of any nation can share their ships officially published via Intergalactic Blueprint Exchange.

Want your ship to be shared on the most-seen ship showcase ? Feel free to complete this template and submit it here :

• Variant1 name (changes)
  

• Only ships available on the public blueprint exchange.
  
• Two pictures max, resized to smaller size if needed.
  
• Don't submit each variant of the ship, instead list them on Variants. A ship variant is the same ship with the same purpose but with minor changes (like FTL level, weapon type, hull material). Only exceptions are for : rocket-drive ships for beginners ; asteroid busters ; variants that has a completely different purpose (ex. from exploration to mining variant)
  
• Don't post for anything else than a new ship please, I intend this space to be some kind of catalog where you can easily find a documented public ship to use.
  
• Stations are allowed.
  
• If you have multiple ships to showcase, make them on the same post. If you have a ship to post and were the last posting, edit your post.
  

• UT-47 "Rocket"
  

• Corvette Ibis "Busteroid"
  
• SUND-ConstitutionClass-R1-RB
  

• UT-47 "Kodiak"
  

• Corvette Ibis
  
• SUND-ConstitutionClass-R1
  

• SUND-ConstitutionClass-R1
  

Getting a lot of players that ask why their cities report that they have no crew are available when they are trying to crew a ship.

Server Load
Servers have been very heavily loaded managing 270k solar systems. That happened fast.

All of my attention this week has been on this problem.

I made a significant change that has potential to cause problems. I am monitoring the servers closely.

I made database backups and backups of the current running server software. This change can be undone completely if it's a total disaster.

Steam cloud saves for starship. I have multiple computers and jump between them, it would be nice if the save was shared across them all without having to do a lot of grunt work copying, pasting, making sure itst he right file, up to date etc

Something that bothers me a bit is how wild and wacky the lifeforms can be as a baseline.  The problem is that nothing seems "alien" when everything is.

I was thinking that there must be a way to perhaps limit the RNG weirdness on more earth-like worlds, or at least on the starting world for the fauna.  All (or most) land animals should be four-legged quadrapeds with only biting or claw attacks, for example.

I know some may want their starting worlds to have all kinds of variety, but it would be great to have an option to tone it down.  If all life seems alien, why do I need to leave my home world to find it?

Website pages contain this reference:

Feature Request: Allow Hazeron Starship access to Shores of Hazeron Blueprint Exchange. 

I feel like that's a must to be honest. Unless you have something else in mind with the direction of Hazeron Starship Haxus.
Right now no one is going to update the blue print exchange on the website because the in-game exchange works wonderfully.

As a person who has been playing first person shooters since he was a child in the 90's, I would like to be able to customize the crosshair, with custom reticules, and colors. Or the ability to turn it off completely, and rely on a crosshair overlay. The current crosshair is extremely large in comparison to the scene rendered at any resolution and it is thus rather obnoxious to take up as much screen space as it does.