Here is a picture showing the kicked out rafter assembly. In German this would be called 'aufschiebling'
You could instead reverse the arrangement of the tie beam and the kick rafter, so that the tie tenons into the rafter, which extends down past it a ways.
OK, I think I get this now. I'm assuming that every principal rafter needs to seat into its own tie beam in this configuration?
And how would you deal with overhang on the adjacent ends of the house since the hip rafters won't have cantilevered tie beams to seat against? (or would they, somehow?)
