July 31st update - Programming retrospective

I was callin Omni a code wizard cuz coding may as well be magic spells to me.

And I have been taking a break so I can play the changes fresh and new. Was also going to call it the Omniverse but it seemed to diminish the contribution from others...and he would prob luuurve it

Oh hell no, don't drag me in to your shit storm bud.

Those who know me know I am waiting by choice......not because of misguided nonsense.
Nothing I said relates to player numbers or promises.

 

Get over yourself. The words are there. Written as plainly as mine.

 

lets all spam the forums whenever the update is about to come out with random memes and other nonsense like that one time (that was the most fun i had on a forum in ages)

 

Yeah and they are my words...I am eager to play again. Dump lump me in with you dude

 

I don't care about you. I care about the fact that the game is less than what we deserve as loyal fans after 3 months of broken updates. All we ask for is word on the stable/unstable patch. It really isn't much to ask for.

 

FIFY

 

I don't have an issue with you complaining, that's your opinion. Just don't appropriate my words which have nothing to do with what your harping on about.

 

I removed the misguided quote. It did seem like you were waiting for the real thing too though.

 

But still no mention of when that fabled next stable update might actually be? At this point I am starting to wonder if nothing is actually going to be put out until you can slap a 1.0 label on it. I'd prefer to see some of this progress without having to switch to busted-ass nightlies, but even the unstable branch is totally ignored.
I'm sure I'll get back to Starbound and have plenty of fun... eventually... but all of this talk of updates and changes and exciting new things when it only exists in a broken, not-ready-for-stable form is kind of a terrible tease.

 

Exactly what I was trying to say..

 

Look...thank you, I appreciate that.

You aren't wrong, I am waiting and I would love an estimate too. It's just I am excited for these things, not frustrated.

 

Looks nice! Can't wait for these updates to go into stable

 

Sorry for being a jerk..

 

Man, it's really good to see how you guys handled that and came to a resolution. You don't see that much on forums, or really on the internet lol. Good stuff namiwakiru and stylus. I also really would love to see an estimate for the next stable update. Ill just have to be patient and hope for the best I guess, I still have three species of characters to make so I can hold out a little longer. Good job starbound guys, I love it.

 

its good news and we would be happy to see you guys keep working on the go for a new direction of starbound and have fun by doing it

 

Great job guys ^^, btw what is happening with the outpost and the farming stuff ? i'im waiting to play this aspect of the game, i want to be a farmer and make pixel with that, but for now i can't... plz make a release of that soon.

 

Nice I hope this patch gets to the stable update soon I would love to play stabound with those aspects

 

Whoa ... this next stable patch isn't going to be a minor iteration by any stretch of the imagination, looks like!

 

To the staff and coders at chucklefish, can't fricking wait. I love seeing these detailed lists of all the changes and knowing that there's still tons more not even show.

To everyone enjoying the nightly's and contributing via forums and irc when we discovering game-breaking stuff that needs polishing (myself included), thank you for helping further the game.

To those patiently waiting for a stable update with guarded anticipation, keep it up guys, your day should hopefully come before years end at this pace.

To all the haters who can't seem to understand the struggles of game development or understand that patience is a virtue know this: They gave YOU the game, they gave YOU the option to opt in to the game YOU wanted, with the full up front knowledge that the content push would be buggy. YOU have not chosen to opt in, so YOU do not get the right to complain. Dev's are humans too, they need sleep, they need breaks, and sometimes, hard as my sarcasm may be to decipher and as hard as this may be for you to believe, sometimes just maybe, they just get tired of staring at code and lua business all day and decide it's a good day out to go walk the company dog (yes there is a company dog). So YOU can either opt in, stop complaining, or go become a dev yourself since you obviously have never tried to program anything beyond a calculator in your life and were unfortunately raised in a society of instant gratification. or you can chose to do nothing, and lose credibility within the community of the game until eventually you depart all together. either way, not my problem.

 

Omneh, I have a question: when will I will be able to add additional parameters with random range of values to tiles/materials/resources, which will be applied during world generation? Such as these:


These parameters by themselves shouldn't consume additional CPU power and should be called only when there is some kind of interaction with them, such as if player mines them, their "health" parameter is checked.