Important BETA RELEASE DISCUSSION - DECEMBER 4TH (*ALL* beta discussion goes here. Other threads deleted)

no...just no...
Sleeping dogs was apretty decent game with good fight mechanics.
worth at least 10 big macs!

 

I meant that Steam has such low prices during the Spring Sale that Sleeping Dogs is worth the same. Nothing against Sleeping Dogs

 

Thanks for the info Khyron42, your forum post are always my favorite.

 

Five more days.

5000th reply.

The stars have aligned.

I'm so glad I have three days off for this. Dental work is fun. Just preordered a four pack as well.

 

Now that that comet has burned up Starbound is the only thing I have to look forward to.

 

Well, actually "Update, 9:55 pm EST: It’s a Thanksgiving miracle: apparently it now looks like ISON has actually survived!!"

http://www.universetoday.com/106813...after-icarus-sun-grazing-stunt/#ixzz2m0lUhSyw

 

why is this a big deal? i missed that part of his whole comet ordeal...
i mean is there a scientific reason that this thing matters?

 

The news that you can house NPCs like Terraria (#yeahisaidit) really lit my fire - I hadn't seen nor heard any mention of this, and was resigned to yet another game where the building aspect existed purely for its own end. I absolutely love how, in Terraria, there was a reason to build a house, even a village. And yes, you could certainly just build a big tower filled with essentially prison cells - but for me, it inspired me to make sure each had a home suited to them. My painter had a large space where I hung all my paintings, the clothier's house now holds mannequins for my various Halloween costumes as well as my loom and tapestries, my dryad has a little treehouse made from livingwood, and my party girl lives in a loft with my beer keg, etc..

So it's awesome for me that this theme-decor is going to be an official part of Starbound.

It does lead me to another consideration, though: why not live aboard your ship? I certainly plan to. Obviously, visiting planets is necessary, and building some sort of base to fight a certain summonable boss and its army looks to be the best approach. But otherwise, I feel like I'd prefer to put my workbench, anvil, furnace, etc. aboard my ship, space-gypsy-style.

 

I'll look through his wish list and see what he wants

 

From a scientific point of view I am quite sure that it is nigh-on insignificant, it was basically gonna pass relatively close to earth and be pretty damn bright and visible which got the media excited. But I guess that we will not be seeing much of that since it lost the majority of its' mass to heat and solar wind.

 

It's not a big deal if you don't want it to be. It's the kind of event that only happens once in a lifetime though, literally, which is why people got excited about it. Throughout history comets have been considered special, it even inspired religions.

 

Oh, sorry for misunderstanding then, but he still should give him more than a big mac "thats the thougt that counts" (;

 

This could be resolved player-side assuming the E key could be re-mapped to the center mouse button. That's what I plan on doing.

 

Since i don't even dare look trough 251 forum pages i will just ask:
On the 4th of december, how will we get the game trough steam?

 

We should receive our Steam keys by e-mail from Humblebundle.

 

Awesome, my steelseries Siberia v2 is gonna be here on the same day that beta comes out.

 

My thoughts

"ADIOHIADHoasmdnhoasndhFDJZdgJQ@#$Y&WR&e5tUjhSDfhw467"

i think i need a hospital

 

honestly right now im more excited for my Steelseries Siberia then I am for starbound xD

 

We heard you the first time.

 

It would seem to be more of a case of balancing food generation. There are several ways to get food, like farming and hunting and i believe gathering.
A Hunting Bow tool is basicly to balance foodgathering from killing mobs. In contrast you have farming, which requires dedicated action and setup to do and maintain.
On the otherhand, going out into the world looking for a dungeon or mining or whatever of the many reasons you'd have to do it, you will undoubtebly run into mobs and end up into fights. These mobs randomly dropped meat already, so basicly while doing something else you are gathering food as a "side-effect".

Probably what the devs want is that the player puts in an effort to gather food, a deliberate choice. Which is why they require you to use a special weapon-type, instead of getting away with just massmurdering everyhing with your most effective weapon.

Personally, i like the idea from a gameplay perspective. It puts a bit more urgency on gathering food, rather then going out mining and returning with enough food to feed you for a while because you ran into some mobs. Now how all this is really balanced, farm vs hunt, thats something we will get to test and give our feedback on soon enough