23rd February

I sure hope I don't HAVE to do all the quests they give me at the beginning. So far in the game the only thing I do for pixels is kill, loot, and mine for diamonds.
I like the idea of only being able to have access to one planet at the start (it should be a fair planet, no full of lava or magma rock), but I better not HAVE to start a settlement on that first planet (I like to travel the universe first before I settle down).

Regarding the outposts: Please make it so that the vendors have a limited supply of equipment and food, so far all I ever do is buy stupid amounts of ingredients to make my pies and banana breads.

Also on a side note, I believe NPCs should be obtainable through purchasing, rare loot from chests, and through quests with NO specific reward.
Ex:
Quest: The Angry Purple Lobster
Objective: Stop the Angry Purple Lobster from killing everyone in the village.
Reward: ???
(Reward turns out to be the quest giver joining your crew, but you're never once told that).

When I played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, there were various quests with a ??? for it's reward, and whenever that reward was the quest giver joining my team, I always felt glad for it.

 

Oh, thank god. At this point, the game's sense of progression was, in my opinion, the weakest part of the game. It felt too divided and structured, which really took away from the whimsical feeling of a random adventure. At least this way, hopefully, things will start to feel a bit more out of the blue, which is what I really love about any adventure game.

 

It is much too soon to consider this good or bad. i will simply reserve my judgements until i actually experience it myself.

 

I rly like tke system of progression (adventure / building / farming), sounds amazing. Everyone will do what he want and what he likes...

 

What I'm worried about is the need for pixels. Sure its cool at the START, because its basically a tutorial, but if I ever HAVE to have a certain amount of pixels to progress later on in the game, I'm gonna be very, very disappointed.

What would work though is:
Quest: Get the Oxygen Tank
Objective: Get the Oxygen Tank
How to complete Objective: A) Buy it. Steal it. C) Compete in a tournament for it. D) Do a very difficult quest for it, even if they are nearly impossible.

 

Totally excited! I look forward to being a DM. But with this current news. I'm intrigued to see the new tier progression. And content of course.

 

i really like the sound of the outpost!

plus i am glad farming is a big part, I LOVE FARMING! (not in real life)

 

nice to hear about some of the planned content!
i really like the idea of the outpost.

 

Yay, this sounds awesome! < 3

 

It upsets me that this glorious statement was passed over by all but one other person.
In other news. This is freakin' wonderful news to hear from Tiy and the team.
It's always been known the tier progression was a placeholder, and what they're planning really seems to be doing the Starbound Universe they created so much justice.

 

Really love this idea, I'm sure some players may find the whole idea of space exploration to be the most exciting part of the game. Trying to discover as many places as possible, recording data everywhere you go, can be not only useful but something of a collector's item for those people.

 

I can't wait to see the game like this 3 sectores is simple and that's what we need, we don't need for than a Creative, adventure and PVP secto (opr something like that )

 

Needless to say, this sounds very good, can't wait for its implementation!

 

I thought the game was good now (albeit lacking). This is just amazing.

 

Sounds very very good
but i dont want to lose again everything i made on my planet

 

That Sounds amazing. Hope we will see more soon. Until now i am very very happy with the game

 

Sounds fun but.... I kinda wanted ten sectors... Then nobody can find my secret asteroid base in beta sector...

Do crops wither in this game?

 

when you sead "At this stage" do you mean then or now?
cus outpost seems cool

 

The Ideas sound good, but - dont get me wrong here - very complex.
It requires a level of balancing and code-writing i have not yet seen.
Im not sure about the Devs coding-abilitys, they might be able to manage this (requiring a 4 Xeon CPU Setup with 64 GB RAM to run a 5 Player server wont be funny... and remember, if everyone has a persistant homeworld with crops growing when theyre away and stuff will lead to an exponentially growth in required Systempower and -memory). But at least the balancing didnt work too good so far. Dont get me wrong, the game is not easy nor is it hard. But you cant find better Weapons than the one you can craft. And the CURRENT system has been out for a while.

Aside from the code, i think the creative development will take at least 12-24 Month for Tiys team. (i dont say theyre BAD at this, in fact i think theyre quite good... but 12 Month for developing THIS would be awesome for anyone)

So, basically, my fear is that we will get some half-finished game with many good ideas but also as many Balancing- Quest- and Storylineissues. With the PvP Sector it has a strong multiplayer-aspect wich is something i LOVE. But Multiplayer with something like Starbound will require A LOT. A lot of COding, a lot of Balancing, a lot of taking a lot into account. Damn, the last game i can think of where you could craft and build as much as in Terraria (as an example, i expect nothing less from Starbound), had that much freedom and Massive Multiplayer was Ultima Online...