Ship Battles Announced!

In the IRC today Tiy mentioned ship battles, however they will be post-release.

 

Awesome!

 

That actually sounds kind of not fun to me. I hope it will be possible to avoid these ship-to-ship battles.

It probably will be.

 

Very nice! Thanks for sharing. This will be featured in the next issue of Vector Squared.

I do hope it does not rely on PvP alone, though.

 

maybe just PvP or something or a peaceful mode kind of thing

 

So NPCs you find/hire(?) man stations? Or do you have to run around fixing everything one at a time? Either way this is really cool

 

Yeah, I expect/hope you'll have to do something to "make" it happen, rather than just occasionally being accosted by random space pirates or whatever.

Now if ship-to-ship combat could rely heavily on boarding action...that would appeal to me much more.

 

I hope that we can hire people, and control bigger ships.

 

We will probably use and modify the drop ship, unless there are other ships available.
As for the battles themselves, I would prefer an FTL approach than a shallow ''control your ship and blast stuff".
Well done Batman, as always you never disappoint me.

 

I will write a blank check for this game

 

Glad everyone is finding this useful just thought you guys might want to know about this

 

Guys, forgive my ignorance in the matter here... but is there a way to view the entire IRC chat? (after the fact it seems.

 

even if you did the starbound devs seem like the kind of people that would write in just what the game actually costs, so you'll have to be buying many copies to show your love, i'm going to.

 

it does sound like they are planning alot of extra's for post release already

 

I'm not actually that familiar with FTL. Could someone post a representative video, or just give a good description of the kind of thing Tiy is talking about? It sounds pretty frantic.

 

Nice. And while they said that the dropship will be upgradable, I'm sure that means you'd have bigger ships to work with. Just really hoping that you can hire people to come with you, because trying to control a whole ship and like 6 systems by yourself isn't easy, unless you get drones. I want a bunch of drones.

 

I could tell you what I know, but the game's tutorial is so helpful and informative by itself... You may see it here:

 

Ship to ship battles, FTL style?!
That will be amazing!
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And if that isn't enough there are many great lp's of it on youtube, i suggest nerdcubed, also my channel *cough*:whistle:

also, i feel like the battle system could do well to keep in mind not everyone is going to want to do this, but im not saying to limit it to PvP only, because that would suck, but to make things that allow players to avoid this most of the time if they so choose, but they would loose out on any possible loot. LOOT! things could include stuff like cloaking system, rapidly recharging FTL drives, possibly some form of robot that does the fight for you /if another player nearby can "escort" the other player essentially a space bodyguard for your ship.