Scope: Any built spacecraft/spaceship

Observation: A designed ship with a minimum Q level in the blueprint, such as 1, after being built does not scale 100% to the current manufacturing capabilities. For example, let's use the engines for example. Let's say after it's built the shipyard produced a Q251 ship with a Q251 engine module. The acceleration specs are incorrect. By simply doing the module upgrade to the same Q level again, the speed adjusts and becomes the correct scaled speed. I noticed this with every spacecraft I built at various Q levels. It's very obvious if you design a QL 1 ship and then build a 250 or above. 


Current remedy: After the ship is built, refit and upgrade the modules of each system. 


Steps to reproduce:
1. Design a ship with minimum QL 1, while designing adjust the level to what you can actually build to see what the expected specs should be. Place it back to QL 1.
2. Finalize the design and produce the ship. 
3. Once finished, board the ship and check the specifications window, notice the specs do not match what they should be. 
4. Upgrade engine module and check new specifications.


Edit: Fixed title and updated. It is still a present bug. 

Its possible this was intentional to keep repair times reasonable, but I figured it was worth mentioning that big repair jobs tend to max out at 65536 seconds or thereabouts.

I saw no mention that gold ore shouldn't spawn on ringworlds, so I feel like it not spawning on ringworlds must be a bug. Gold did not spawn on any of the arcs of the ringworld I found. I do not have more than one ringworld to compare if I just somehow got unlucky, but my assumption is it isn't spawning on any of them.

I've just logged off for a few hours and then logged in again to find my cities and ships destroyed. An attack by the Syndicate occurred on my empire Vicerant over the course of several hours all while my empire was offline and had the noncombatant status. This was well after the 15 minute period and my empire should have had offline protection. For whatever reason, Syndicate was able to attack my empire either way. I'm unable to provide much details because I wasn't there for it. Perhaps Syndicate can elaborate what happened on their end. I can only provide logs to prove that the attacks occurred over the course of roughly 2 hours.

EDIT: After a quick search through the Hazeron Discord I've noticed Vooker asking if it's possible to manually attack targets that are in a noncombatant state. Considering what happened I think this may be true. Can anyone confirm this? Are noncombatant empires safe from attack-orders/crew but not safe from players?

EDIT 2: I've just noticed this message on the Discord by Drog007: "TikTikTik took a planet/city from me while I was offline... but noncombatant does seem to be working to allow his people in/near my cities to kill people while I'm online but not for them to defend against him." In my case TikTikTik was also the one that attacked me while I was offline. It seems I'm not the only one that has encountered this issue. This also seems to suggest that noncombatant only works for NPCs but not for players.

So I was talking with some people about how 1600 meters are small for capital ships, especially some sci-fi references like Homeworld ships that are lengthy or flat, and truly massive.
My old thread about design size is a nice start to understand the problem.

I'll add some picture to make the problem more visible, but for example the Pride of Hiigara is supposed to be a massive mothership 2-3km tall. But once I reduced it down to 1600m, it feels tiny.



So here's the idea : add another spacecraft class, Capital or Titan or Mothership

This class would have bigger size limits (5km seems like a good max) and accordingly bigger file size limit.
It would be limited by an adaptive hard-cap (1 for each empire, 1 per 20 officers, 1 per something ?) to avoid spamming these beasts.
They would maybe replace cities if enough volume was allocated to commodities / ships production.
They would have some malus / limitations, like not being able to land on planets or high maintenance cost.

So if I summarize :

Features

• Bigger physical and file size limits
  
• Spacecraft manufacture
  
• [Commodities production]
  
• [Could maybe be "replaced" by another design after some long cooldown, for making it easy to improve the interior for example]
  
• Badass
  

• Huuuuge ships
  
• Can produce ships
  
• [Can produce commodities]
  
• Can make good warships or nice motherships, strategy choice
  
• More server-friendly as it would theorically be worth several warships / cities
  

• Some kind of hard cap limit to avoid spam
  
• - like 1 per empire or 1 per x number of officers
  
• Hard limit coupled with a high maintenance cost (money + parts + special ressources)
  
• Highest FTL signature
  
• Some longer warp cooldowns
  
• No planetary landing
  
• [Too big to use any wormhole except intergalactic ones ?]
  
• Would need a volume allocation ratio limit, to avoid huge glass cannons
  

Clicking on them does not seem to do anything. It does print this to the console however:

The ingame starmap search tool is returning incomplete search results for certain resources.

all biosphere resources are not searchable, and things like vegetation density returns an incomplete search.
i know of multiple 255 vegetation density planets, yet none of them show up in the system search tool.

this raises the question that maybe this problem is affecting all resources.


this was never an issue when we could export the star chart to XML
also this is going to be a problem when exploration data starts expiring.

A lot of programs are moving towards supporting glTF

As written:

Quote:glTF™ is a royalty-free specification for the efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by engines and applications. glTF minimizes the size of 3D assets, and the runtime processing needed to unpack and use them.

Currently colors for bulbs are a dropdown of various pre defined colors, I'd personally like if that was just a color picker like some of the other stuff is.  I grasp the realism factor, but to be fair you can usually drop a color filter over just about any light source and get any color you want at a pretty low level of technology so I'd argue its reasonable.

I am maintaining a line of factory building blueprints that are identical except for intended purpose, it would be nice if that was multi select instead.