There was a request for a Bourbaki basin and Cricket said the Drydock was the NOVA equivalent.

[*]Where does all the 'buff' for each setting go?
[*]How are designs protected from overwriting by others?
[*]How are we going to identify related designs produced by people like murtalianconfederacy (who has more time on his hands than is good for him ) provide us with so-many different setting?
[*]If we all use it to develop ship designs how is the 'dross', which we will all create, going to be managed/deleted?
[*] How do you develop stuff before publishing?

While the Drydock is a marvelous tool it cannot replace "The Bourbaki Basin (NOVA). For it to do so, and I have some experience with software development, would be a significant development project and in all honesty this is a wargames forum not an open source development project.

In short we need the basin AND WE NEED IT NOW!! ... please. 

The following is based on my own rather limited knowledge of databases, although I have been working with the drydock since its inception.

Don't know...

No one can overwrite files in a specific directory.
I believe any file can be overwritten that's stored in the sandbox.

You simply go to his file. That's where all of his ships will be stored.

Ship designs that you want anyone to be able to edit save in the sandbox.
You do this by not logging in.
Files that you don't want anyone overwriting, but that you want players to be able to access, file in your own database.

Kevin

The Drydock is a fabulous tool, but not having a Bourbaki Basin, to augment it is overall a step backwards in the  Starmada community.  Think about it, the active players and the semi-trolls like me will be the primary people using the Drydock; the same people who spend a lot of time contributing to and reading the stuff that goes into the BASIN.  I hope MJ12 reconsiders.  Is there a financial reason to not have a 'Nova'  Basin we don't know about ?? (Server storage space costs or something?)

Hi Dan,
I love the DryDock and have made many designs that I have stored on my account there.  When you can get to it, an addition to the 'Basin for Nova Edition designs would be great. 8-)
(Dan may be thinking, Nag, nag, nag; that is all they do!  The players are like demanding teens. We are...<LOL>)

Dan,

Thanks for the Nova Bourbaki Basin !

Was confused for a sec when the link went to the Admiralty Basin,  hehehe.

I know you won't always be able to get us what we want (especially when WE sometimes have up to seven different opinions about a single subject), but you keep coming thru time and again.  Danke, Domo Arigato, Thanks !

Y'know, I agree. I liked the more differentiated system, and especially the fact that it made the components smaller, while the new system makes the ships have more available SUs - makes it seem like the higher TL implies higher TL of building materials (TL+2 ships are made of advanced laminates that take up less volume, while TL -2 ships are hollowed out asteroids, for example), without a subsequent boost in the size/space efficiency of the other components.

I agree...
And I guess I should be paying more attention to the finished product. 
My Excel sheet (from last summer) is set up with thrust tech, shield tech, and weapon tech levels.

Kevin

Anybody willing to put a technology-specific tech level into their builder?

thanks
andy

My XL sheet breaks it down into three categories: Weapons, Thrust, and Shields.
Though I'm guessing you could break it down into as many categories as you want.

Kevin

I haven't spent enough time in the rules to know.  But I did use the weapon tech level before, and might use thrust.

andy

Unless your ship is broader than is longer. After all, in space, you don't care about aerodynamic. A cube is as good as anything.

Marc

I'm not sure it will make a real difference from 10.000 klicks...

Marc