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A businessman ? It's not like we are planning to sell it ...

I've said many times before that it won't hurt to start on content. Anything not directly related to ship mechanics won't be significantly affected by the world proxy updates, and I can adapt whatever code we have once I am far enough along. We'll most certainly end up doing some things no one has done before, but we are also going to have plenty of stuff which has been done countless times by other mods, and you don't need me for that.

At the very least, we need to start experimenting with what sort of stuff should be in here. We've talked about sitting down and making a list, but it never leads to action, so lets start throwing stuff in. Building materials, resources, fuels, factory blocks, power sources, vehicles, tools and weapons, textures, etc. The sort of stuff you might see in any forge mod, we should start tossing into the pot just to see what we like. Even if most of it is placeholder and even if factory blocks don't connect to anything or look nothing like a finished product, that's good enough to get the ball rolling.

The Flans content pack was a fantastic start. I would recommend branching off from there.

Small list:

Frost framework and Engine.
[Along with that,textures and basic coding to make a interface]
After the engine and the framework are ready,THE WORLD IS OURS!

*,we have texture artists everywhere. We sure could get a help from people from outside.
Even texture pack creators.

And I recommand to start with basics - building blocks, but if you go with the flan theme we should start adding weapons , we should think how we want to make them - for example entities or blocks ? Because of the scale entities seem like the way to go for me.

In ship to ship combat, boarding is a legitimate tactic, and probably by the time we've developed starships we'll have some form of handheld gun too.

Vinyl wrote:In ship to ship combat, boarding is a legitimate tactic, and probably by the time we've developed starships we'll have some form of handheld gun too.

That's the thing, though. If we only sit around waiting for the engine work to finish, we might not have anything but the ability to build star ships. We've talked a lot about it but none of that talk has led to action, and I am worried we are still not going to know what we want to do with the mod by the time we can implement everything.

I think the lack of item creation stems from the(possibly true) belief that the items might not be able to be meshed with Copernicus, and that they could be a waste of time.

Doubtful, even than nothing keeps us from making some new blocks with new textures ...

Except that we did? Remember the coloured steel mod? But I feel most potential coders are afraid their work wil be in vain.

Well colored steel wasn't exactly a marvel of texture work, I mean making wholly new unique sets of blocks and textures.

I did offer to create hull materials, but was told not to bother

By who ?

You told me there was little point until we had decided how amor would work, and IIRC I was told by a few other p concentrate on the Flan package

Well change of plans. Let's wing it.

I never said not to do the textures, Im slowly doing some myself to add to the collection, 32x32.