Hey guys, I just recently found out about starbound and already this is one of my top 5 most anticipated games.. ever. I did a search about this and couldn't find anything, so if I'm reposting feel free to let me know. The first thing I thought when I saw the spaceship in a video was wow I can't wait to build onto that and make it bigger/design my own. But i kind of got the feeling you can only place blocks inside and you can't add onto it which was a disappointment. My idea is that you start out with whichever spaceship your race has then after progressing through the game you can use hard to get materials to add on to your spaceship. Only certain metals can withstand space travel so this would be more midgame-endgame. Once you are in your spaceship you could enter an editing mode, where the game pauses and you can take apart your spaceship then add onto it, to make it larger and what not. It would be like building a house but with certain limits, it has to be enclosed with space resistant materials and other restrictions that would keep it reasonable so you can't just make something that would obviously never be in space. You could add new floors and levels, a larger cockpit area or anything that pleases you. On top of that idea, which I think would be pretty easy to put into the game (obviously nothing is easy in making a game but you know what I mean) you could upgrade your engine and other devices in your spaceship, my idea stops there because I'm not sure how any of that could add to the game or be helpful in anyway but I really hope you guys have ideas!
I just found out Tiy has plans for this exactly! Rejoice! "[UTC+2, 2013-01-25 18:15:19] <Tiy> every player has their own ship, which starts small and then expands in size. You can build on the ship just like you can on planets, place blocks, place objects, etc. So you can customize it entirely"
We should be able to choose where the rooms are put on the ship. Then we need the Novakids ship to be the train in this concept art...
If you have no control over where the additional rooms are attached to this doesnt count in my opinion, seems like simply being able to place objects and blocks inside the ship is not the point of this suggestion. we want to put our ships in whatever shape we want them.
I agree, I think we are on the same page when I say the idea was to be able to free build. With obvious restrictions that I listed above. Just adding pre-made rooms is cool but not as cool as free building a space ship. Think of all the cool designs people will make.
Not to revive old threads but.... its too tempting. You can take the rooms system they employed here and allow the user to place the rooms behind the origional room in a cone like formation, starting from the front 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,19. although this far would be VERY late game mainly because of the resources needed to create each room and i doubt anybody would want to make a GIANT cone of a ship.
If I could design my very own ship in this game, I'd make an Avian themed version of the Normandy from Mass Effect, with the Combat Information Center, Crew Deck, and Engineering and Storage Decks. It would be awesome!
