Ruleset-defined spaceship shape

[Alien Valkyrie]

[Moderator note: split from "Changes in what a rule set can do" topic since that's meant to be about stuff that has happened, not stuff that people would like to happen. --jtn]

I just had another idea. What if rulesets could affect the way spaceships are built? As in, defining where which parts go.
Example: new file "spaceship.ruleset":

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[spaceship]
; coordinates start at 0,0
dimX = 10
dimY = 6
structurals =
    { "x", "y"
        6,   2
        6,   3
        5,   2
        5,   3
        4,   2
        4,   3
        3,   2
        3,   3
        2,   2
        2,   3
        6,   1
        6,   4
        6,   0
        6,   5
        7,   0
        7,   5
    }

components = 
    { "x", "y"
        7,   2
        7,   3
        7,   1
        7,   4
    }

modules =
    { "x", "y"
        4,   0
        2,   0
        0,   1
        4,   4
        2,   4
        0,   3
    }

That would then look like this, fully built:

Image of the example spaceship

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[HanduMan]

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