I say make the steel creation as complicated as you'd like. It would even be neat to have different "tiers" of steel. For instance you could have something simple for just "steel" where you put iron and carbon (probably just coal) into some kind of furnace. However, if you want to go out and mine for some chromium, tungstun, etc. you could work your way up to stainless steel and then high speed steel. Also, since it's a sci-fi game, you can start adding in non-existent ores to make your adamintines or mythrils or whatever. Honestly, it would make sense to have even the end game materials dependent on iron. I mean seriously, iron is a pretty awesome element.
I recall Tiy mentioning that tier 1 was the hardest part, and that after its completion, development of the later tiers would progress much faster. Let's hope that's the case!
Yes I believe he said getting Tier 1 polished was hard part that would get 90% of the tier work done. Then it would be about 10% per tier to finish them up.
Awesome update! I remember that the tier 1 gameplay was just recently completed so to see that tier 2 is completely playable minus some certain things is a huge surprise for me. I know your daily updates don't fully recap EVERYTHING you do in a day, so I shouldn't be so surprised that you're making such fantastic progress. Not to say I'm surprised in a "Oh I can't believe they did that huff huff huff humphf!" but more a "That is so awesome! The developers are even more on the ball than I thought they were. Hooray for productive days." Anyway, thank you as always for the daily updates. They're a fantastic treat.
Tiy you must be from the future because I am still on the 29th. But awesome tier two basically done already? And you just got home, dang.
"Full Steam Ahead" That couldn't mean that the Full game will come out on Steam in the near future could it??? Great work! Cant wait for Beta!
Huzzah Bartwe and team! your die hard performance really payed off when the game released also, welcome home guys and keep up the good job! Good luck!
Is that profile picture a black hole? I'm very fond of those anomalies Which by the way, wouldn't it be SWEET to have a black hole in the background of one of your starbound planets? I would DIE to have that. Black holes are scary and beautiful.
I know, I know, I just quoted you so that it was clear what I was referring to. Sorry if I caused any confusion...
Server performance is pretty important stuff for those us that will be playing with others a lot, so I'm happy to hear that Bartwe is working hard on making it as good as it can be.
I looked at the update and saw "August 30th", then looked at my clock and saw "August 29th". Starbound updates must be so awesome that they can travel back in time!
