Takao

Have you played From The Depths? There building a ship takes a long time, because every part of your ship is modular: Weapons, Engines, etc. I don't find that very rewarding. If you can do things faster with one technique than with another, why should the slower aproach more rewarding? The opposite is the result.

Do you mean with "already possible" it's possible right know in the alpha build or with your suggestion? It's about how you move around. In a CAD System, you rotate the camera by holding the mouse wheel and move the mouse. Shift+Mouse Wheel is for moving on the XY-plane.

One addition from me: It should be possible to build in the ship designer in a "free camera mode", like you work with CAD software.

I have played a lot of From the Dephts and in my opinion the first option, building turrets and weapons out of mutliple parst, is not a very good idea: I looks like you have a lot of customization potential, but you haven't, because there are only a few combinations that are good. Also, it cost simply a lot of time to build the entire weapon system which isn't very fun for me. You should be able to build the turret itself out of voxel and than place the weapons, magazines, etc. on it, not every single part like in FtD.

Same problem here. Is this Pre-Alpha phase only for people who backed the Gold founder pack during the Kickstarter campaign or also for people who upgraded it after? edit: Ok, I have the "Pre-Alpha Tester" rank and upgraded from Silver to Gold after the Kickstarter, so I assume I have acces to the alpha?