2022-02-03 Server Status Update

[Celarious]

I really wasn't expecting Hazeron to ever return! I will gladly be paying to help keep it running. Is it possible we will see something akin to the old designer return at some point in the future? The new one might be more technically capable than the old, but it's significantly less user-friendly and is probably the single biggest barrier to entry for new players. The old designer was the best selling point I had to recommend Hazeron to friends years ago!

All in all, I think the community should help out those that are new and have a crapton of ...crap even...ships that are...easy to build..but don't offer much in looks and funtuniality..that way new players can just build/buy a ship...and it should be told to them that that is expected of them until the editor makes more sense to them. 

What, just tell people that they either have to learn a ridiculously overcomplicated designer (where you have to manually specify collision) or use other people's designs? Yeah great job, you've effectively destroyed player design freedom by making the designer inaccessible.

Also, for many players, the designer will *never* "make sense to them". Most people go into a game expecting a game, not a buggy CAD program where even the developer of the game mistakes the steps in his tutorial of creating a ship. I spent over 2 months trying to import some custom designs and converting them to ships, and I eventually decided it wasn't worth it. Jigs/voids/walk paths/turbolifts/texture wrapping/face manipulation all made it unbearable to use, and made each design take multiple days of effort to create.

The common community suggestion is to add a "simple mode" to the designer which people like me would use, where they wouldn't have to manually create everything like voids and doors

I think the old designer would need a workup too tho...i really hated those supermaxxed ships with crap sticking out...

Idk how much you've played since the new designer but with it we instead get supermaxxed ships that are invisible and have interiors that make boarding impossible, along with min-maxed texture-less cubes or spheres. Much better, right?