Ask Tiy Anything on Reddit + Summary

Spa....Space..Stations? Thought these were gone for good.
When i first heard about Starbound i think it was planned to have these for progression, as in, you build / expand them, do research, etc.
Thought this idea had been discarded completely since then, instead having the ship etc.
Will they have a similiar purpose, or are they more like planets, stuff to be explored, with loot to find?
(No matter what purpose they will have, it still makes me happy if this is really going to happen *jumps around*)

The other things also really sound great, but space stations really caught my eye the most currently.
What use will zombies have? Or..What purpose? Just some mob that has a spawning chance like other stuff, or more tied to the lore?
Also, what does "growing colonies/towns" based on player builds mean exactly? Can you like, spawn them from some sort of player defined template?

 

Ah, thx. Well, even without research, this is still great

Yes, i did play terraria and these events were fun.. Well, sometimes they were annoying as well.. lol.

Meh, shouldnt have read this topic. Now im impatiently waiting again. ;D

 

Hylotl colonies are in? Music to my ear fins

 

Good point

 

Ah yeah it did kinda sound like I meant in now but I did mean in as in next big update.
I haven't touched the nightly system yet. Wanted to take a break so I can go in fresh at 1.0

 

• There will be zombies

ughhhhh

this is my constructive criticism

 

As long as it's not rise-from-the-dead kind of zombies, I'm okay with it. Ones similar to the Last of Us infected would totally be fitting in the starbound universe, especially considering what ever the Agaran seem to be up to. Heck, just a stranded station where all the inhabitants have gone crazy would fill that role just as well. Getting to torch a group of walkers with a flame thrower or turn them into mist with a grenade launcher would be most satisfying.

 

I'm kinda wondering if they mean "zombies" like "Things that crawl out of Agaran pods", and just used the Z-word to scare people (har har)

 

Well, i'm glad that Tiy admitted, talking about combat, that "it did indeed suck moose eggs" - and forgive my profanity, but i am quoting the head of developement, the CEO himself.
I also find the choice of words quite well-explaining the concept: "suck moose eggs" conveys the reader the exact feelings that the community experienced with previous combat - which were, in fact, something on the whereabouts of "suck moose eggs".
I hope none of us gets offended by my profanity, by the words "suck moose eggs", because Tiy himself told them and woah, maybe "f****ng" is a bit too rough, but "suck moose eggs" surely isn't. It also makes moose happy, which is kind of an important thing. I hope to see these awesome features in the next, BIG, THICK moose eg... ooops, patch. Great work, CF!

SeaFishelleEdit: Eggs are better, anyways!

Kreq Re-Edit: In case you were wondering, "eggs" refers to male moose genitalia.

 

I saw the original and now mooses named with that male name feel insulted... poor mooses

 

It still blows my mind that Chucklefish pays for hosting their own website and then dumps all their info off at Reddit first anyway.

 

This. I like their daily updates and all, but this stuff, where there's actual substance that might get the fanbase interested, gets put on Reddit. Completely bush league.

 

Thanks for the summary.

 

I'm actually kinda glad the Avali aren't being implemented, as this is a clear case of 'mod creator does it best' and CF would screw it up (unintentionally of course). Still, no Ammo Overhaul means they better do something about the ranged weapons; oh and why do they have to include zombies? They could have gone for something new and fresh but noooo, always default to zombies. As if this game needs even more people blindly assuming it's ripping off of Terraria.

 

I doubt that will stop them. They've got a motor powered by bull-crap ready to go.

The only thing I'm not looking forward to is all those mods having to be updated.

 

I feel the same way!

 

Nice organization OP. I appreciate the details being carefully arranged.

That said, I remain unimpressed with the design decisions and will wait for implementation. Words alone aren't enough to change my mind. Though it all does kind of make me want to draw up a big comparison chart...