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Sleeper Service wrote: Uuuh exiting question! From what I can tell the game can handle no physical space to put the crew/drones into pretty well. It usually just moves them to room with the lowest ID (like it does when boarding the flagship weapons rooms with more than two individuals). Attack drones indeed can't hit the systems, their shots connect with the rooms around it and deal their damage there. The drone targeting bug was caused by something somehow different.

dalolorn wrote:Me, I hope it works out.

<!-- Old name lists


		<name>Federation Sector B53</name>
		<name>Federation Sector C21</name>
		<name>Former Republic of Gilead</name>
		
		<name>New Colonies of Qarth</name>
		<name>Varlian DMZ</name>
		<name>The United Talrasi Planets</name>
		<name>Planets of Lodor</name>
		<name>Colonies of Marlith</name>
		<name>The Remskar Colonies</name>
		<name>Tasador 8</name>
		<name>Local Trade Sector 51-A2</name>
		<name>Local Trade Sector 21-F3</name>
		<name>Local Trade Sector 125-S1</name>
		<name>Local Trade Sector 42-MX</name>

		<name>Quarantine Zone 13C</name>
		<name>Quarantine Zone 45A</name>
		<name>Hergarth Protectorate - Pirate Warning!</name>
		<name>The Lawless Zone - Pirate Warning!</name>
		<name>Freedom's End - Pirate Warning!</name>
		<name>Parth Mining Colonies - Pirate Warning!</name>
		
		<name>Rebel Forward Base Omega</name>
		<name>Rebel Forward Base Sigma</name>
		<name>The Liberated Front - Rebel Controlled!</name>
		<name>Or'Arst Protectorate - Rebel Controlled!</name>
		<name>Yarin IV - Rebel Controlled!</name>
		
		<name>Kirrakthas - Mantis Prime</name>
		
		<name>Perasian Nebula</name>
		<name>Erkarth Nebula</name>
		<name>Nebula of Teras</name>
		<name>Yis'ver Nebula</name>
		<name>Ceris Nebula</name>
		<name>Persey Nebula</name>	
		<name>Uncharted Nebula 3.45</name>
		<name>Uncharted Nebula 6.567</name>
		<name>Uncharted Nebula 52.4.2</name>

		<name>Uncharted Sector 42.53</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector 12.425.2</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector 51.26</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector 2.XM.42</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector Omega 42</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector 21.56</name>

		<name>Vector 253.1 - Engi Home Sector</name>-->

Sleeper Service wrote:

dalolorn wrote:Me, I hope it works out.

I'm not so sure any more... it seems really unpredictable, I don't know how to make this a stable feature right now. Went back to working at Sector Extension for now.



I would also like to hear your opinion on two possible features:

Sector Specific rarityLists
Sector specific rarity list's would let you exclusively find the weapons/drones(/augs?) that are common in the sector you are currently at. That basically means you only get the the equipment that the local faction uses. Civilian, Pirate and Uncharted Nebula sectors would still have all weapons available. This would give you more control over what you can find and make weapons that are more common also more available, while making exotic weapons more scarce. The game already does this with crew. Do you want this?

Custom Sector Names
Apparently the developers planed to randomize sector names, with name pools that would more or less clearly indicate what sector type you are going to. I guess the idea was later scrapped in favour of having more clear and descriptive, unified sector designations. I didn't do testing, but I think the infrastructure for this feature is still there (sector discription nameLists). Some of the cut sector names are still in the xmls. This is an example how the sector names could look:

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<!-- Old name lists


		<name>Federation Sector B53</name>
		<name>Federation Sector C21</name>
		<name>Former Republic of Gilead</name>
		
		<name>New Colonies of Qarth</name>
		<name>Varlian DMZ</name>
		<name>The United Talrasi Planets</name>
		<name>Planets of Lodor</name>
		<name>Colonies of Marlith</name>
		<name>The Remskar Colonies</name>
		<name>Tasador 8</name>
		<name>Local Trade Sector 51-A2</name>
		<name>Local Trade Sector 21-F3</name>
		<name>Local Trade Sector 125-S1</name>
		<name>Local Trade Sector 42-MX</name>

		<name>Quarantine Zone 13C</name>
		<name>Quarantine Zone 45A</name>
		<name>Hergarth Protectorate - Pirate Warning!</name>
		<name>The Lawless Zone - Pirate Warning!</name>
		<name>Freedom's End - Pirate Warning!</name>
		<name>Parth Mining Colonies - Pirate Warning!</name>
		
		<name>Rebel Forward Base Omega</name>
		<name>Rebel Forward Base Sigma</name>
		<name>The Liberated Front - Rebel Controlled!</name>
		<name>Or'Arst Protectorate - Rebel Controlled!</name>
		<name>Yarin IV - Rebel Controlled!</name>
		
		<name>Kirrakthas - Mantis Prime</name>
		
		<name>Perasian Nebula</name>
		<name>Erkarth Nebula</name>
		<name>Nebula of Teras</name>
		<name>Yis'ver Nebula</name>
		<name>Ceris Nebula</name>
		<name>Persey Nebula</name>	
		<name>Uncharted Nebula 3.45</name>
		<name>Uncharted Nebula 6.567</name>
		<name>Uncharted Nebula 52.4.2</name>

		<name>Uncharted Sector 42.53</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector 12.425.2</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector 51.26</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector 2.XM.42</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector Omega 42</name>
		<name>Uncharted Sector 21.56</name>

		<name>Vector 253.1 - Engi Home Sector</name>-->

The aim here would be to keep the additional names lore friendly and as descriptive as possible, so that the player never is unsure what sector type he/she is actually going to. Suggestions will be welcome. Would be great to have a hundred possible names for each sector type in the end, so each journey you embark on would feel more unique.
Would you like to see unique sector names in CE 1.05?

Sleeper Service wrote: Sector Specific rarityLists
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Sleeper Service wrote:Custom Sector Names

Estel wrote:I'm not entirely sure if Federation ships would accept new names given to sector by rebels. Even some rebel space station message something like "in regard to general blabla, we should authorise itself as <name of federation station here>, under control of rebels for bla bla". Some of them use new names, instead - especially if controlled by humans - but, I guess names of sectors are a) harder to change for everyone b) we're using federation map inside our ship's core, too.

Sleeper Service wrote:Would you like to see unique sector names in CE 1.05?