Are Station-things still in the game?

On the first About page it boasted all tihs stuff about your space station (Space station on a planet, that is. The ground one. That you upgrade.)
Is this still going to be part of the game? I havent heard anything about it lately.
If so, will we able to set up a new one on a homeplanet if we choose to get a homeplanet?

 

Clan Bases, yus.

Pretty sure Tiy said they'd hold off on em for a while.
Add them in later.

 

Tiy pulled them out in favour of ships, but then they reappeared in one of the updates as something Tiy was playing around with.

I don't think we will see them on Beta release, but it seems Tiy wants them in eventually. Not to mention that space station dungeons are a very popular suggestion

 

For Clan Bases. Things like that.
Also, I could help you crash your space station into the ground...
I guess it could be considered a ground-space station then.
Also, he said that it was a "Weekend Project", or something along those lines, so unless otherwise stated somewhere else, it may, or may not make it into the game.
Although I'm fairly sure that it'll make it in considering that Space Stations fit the game.

 

They are almost certainly postponed until after release.

Which I have no problem with, because as mentioned, they will probably be a multiplayer environment for clans. Now, people behave in unpredicable ways (imagine that ), and only during beta the devs will really get a chance to learn about how players interact together in multiplayer, which things they like and don't like, and what kind of mechanics should the space station have to provide the most benefit compared to what's already in the game.

Multiplayer is best to start simple during beta, and build upon based on player feedback, rather than make a whole bunch of assumptions and build features some of which nobody would actually play.

 

I have honestly never heard anything of a space station on a planet. You'll have to build your own with blocks

 

Remember? The first about page?
I liked it better when it was more base-focused and not ship-focused :c

 

Well, you can still have it be base-focused, you just have to claim a planet as your homeworld and do all the building work yourself rather than living in a space station. The same functionality is still going to be there, it's just split between different things now (homeworlds, ship) and work a bit differently.

Edit: Though something I imagine could happen is if space stations do make it back in as dungeons just randomly out in space (or in orbit of a planet), is you could take it over after you clear it all out. That would be nifty.

 

From as far as I know, people here are mostly right. It's a feature that Tiy mentioned to be implemented later, but it's not his priority right now.

Personally, I'd love a place to hangout with my friends, get a few quests from NPCs, play some music, etc. I'd be Han Solo in Tatooine's Cantina!

 

Last I heard, they are gonna be a possible Post Release MP Oriented thing.

I agree that Space Stations would be most useful for Clans &/or Corps.