Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Easily prevented by keeping a distance either above or below the plane of the belt, or working from the outside inward with anoms.

Secondly, I suggest you read up on how the server sees everything. To the server, everything is a sphere, not an odly shaped piece of rock or roughly symetrical mining barge.

Collisions work from an invisible mesh as you have mentioned, but the specific collision meshes are kept as simple as possible, which in the case of most fps it quite complex, but in eve it does not NEED to be, because space is big. Really really big, and weapons in eve don't need to have hit boxes for different body parts. In eve its not even a collision check for weapons, its a roll of the dice against other variables. So simple col meshes are all that's needed to play, and anything that eases the load on the server serves more people that do not need such collision checks.

Oddly enough, spheres are the most simple collision meshes to use, because all points are the same distance from the ships positional origin(durr). This means the collision check is something extremely simple, comparing the distance of all the origins plus the radii of the respective ship/celestials.

Sorry but due diligence is your only option. As someone who mods games as a hobby, collision from textures makes no sense. Textures are 2d projections (u,v cords most likely) on top of the wireframe, which is packed full of Poly's, the checks would no longer as quick to check as on a sphere, but must have every point/face checked against any that need checking( multiple collision meshes are used to narrow down needed checks.

Tl;dr your idea is phrased nonsensically, and unfeasable in any interpretation, if eve is to have more than a handful of ships and celestials on the same grid