That's crap. Some people don't like to micromanage. I know it would piss me off if I was working on a big project and had to keep food in my inventory or stop to warm up every few minutes. On the other hand, I'd love those features during regular play. Options are good. Limitations are bad.
Man... I sure do hope the beta comes out soon so I can play an incomplete version of this game.... Man, I'm not really sure why I'm not constantly asking for a production release instead. Developers, did sitting around desiring a beta release of this game make you go any faster yet? I'm just sitting here you know.... I'm not sure of anything else to do, like maybe read a Wikipedia article and learn something. I need to play this game so I have a compelling need to ask you to hurry up. And I'm sure that will actually change your game plan. I do have that kind of power; I'm sure of it.
speaking of clothings...i was wondering if there will be extra slots for like...underwears and shirts, cuz u know, its hygienic
Sounds like my connection lately, on and off all the time. Still you managed to update, good job, guys
What's crap about it? What's crap is that I can be on a server, progressing through a high level cold planet and almost starving to death. Intended mechanics to make certain planets harder. Then someone can join, teleport to me, and start running through the planet like it's nothing. This is why I mentioned if they are set on having these features toggleable, make sure servers are able to force characters to enable them. The ensures on legit, server-side character servers, no one will be able to just skip these mechanics or go to single player, skip them, and then come back. By the way, I'm talking about survivor mode. I'm sure there will probably be a building mode that won't have these features, if not officially, then a mod.
Never heard of a creative mode being announced. I do agree about the options being serverside though. (Before you changed your post, I meant it's crap to not allow us to play in whatever fashion we desire.)
You know I was thinking about this (and I am sorry if this was mentioned before, I just don't have as much time as I'd like to browse the forums)... Considering there is only a limited amount of people who are going to be going at the convention, and considering many of them may not actually be clients/purchasers of Starbound, and that most of us here are both not going and clients who will, for all intents and purposes not have a change to try out that playable demo: 1- Would it be in any way possible to stream as much of that playable demo as possible so we, your valued customer, could have a shot at seeing more of the product we're all eagerly awaiting; or better yet, 2- Make that playable demo (no matter how small/insignificant/distant from the final version as it may be) available to us in one form or another? I know I might be asking much, but I'm absolutely certain a fair amount (if not an overwhelming majority) of us here would dearly like to get a shot at it, but just don't have the time/resources/interest in going to that convention. Basically, I guess you could sum my point up to this: if there is going to be a playable demo, make it available to us (in a similar fashion to how it was done with the OST, I suppose). I guess the only real issue with this would be in finding an effecient mean of authentication (making sure we're not getting freeloaders or w/e), but hey, food for thought. .02
At the very least, the main event with the Yogscast will be streamed and uploaded to YouTube. Molly confirmed that yesterday, and Multiplay mentioned it a while ago. Molly said she'd see about getting videos of the other panels. I can't speak for the dev team, but I believe that the build that will be at the festival will be no where near ready for public consumption. It sounds like it'll be a limited version to show off a few things, and the devs will be there to make sure nothing goes wrong. That's a bit harder to have released as there are people who will think that's what the final game will be like and whatnot, and if that version has a bug and is released, the dev team can't be in your living room to say "Yeah, that's not finished yet." Edit: To quote Molly,
Will your temperature feature be like Don't Starve? Where you have to warm up with a heat source, and clothing just slows the loss of heat? Or will clothes just give you permanent resistance against the negative effects?
If I had to guess, probably the second one. constantly having to warm up by a heat source makes sense in a survival game like Don't Starve, however in a game like Starbound not so much
We do know there is an admin mode, though I could not tell you if it will be in the final game. Speaking of server-side things, I think an option for server-side characters would be great. In Terraria, it was never any fun when someone comes on in full Hallowed when you are half-iron half-silver, then proceeds to break every orb, kill Skeletron, rescue the mechanic and tinkerer before putting the world on hard-mode, all in 45 minutes.
I'm not sure if that's a suggestion or just a comment, but that is a thing - server owners can limit servers to only use new characters, which players can download if they want to use them elsewhere: (Source: under "Multiplayer" in the Announced Information thread.)
Sadly no. It would be awesome to be able to play the game, but a plane ticket overseas, hotel and food for the duration, as well as time off for this whole thing just aren't in the budget for some of us. As much as i would like to drop over a grand to have a chance to play starbound for probably 10-20 minutes (as i have no interest in anything else at the event)
