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You don't want this to be minecraft, not terraria, not dwarf fortress, then what the hell do you want it to be!? (Note: Don't even try to say "Starbound.")

 

Starbound?

Edit: I had to do it.

 

Research, my friend. Google, wiki, forum search function, etc.

The refinery gets you tons of pixels. The grindy part of the game is intentional, half the objective of the game is to acquire resources, it needs to be difficult or else you will fly through the content and reach the endgame in a couple days.

 

To make this fair, The devs are trying to make this a realistic but sci-fi game. Sure thats hard to do. Sure the pixel things seem a little off. The food is part of being realistic. You can either like the realistic elements of the game, dislike them, or accept it as part of the package. Either way, expressing your opinions like this could make a change. Sure, I mean, can they really help it making a little bit like a terraria, after all one of the devs is a terraria dev

 

I do have to say, I am glad I can use a pick on anything to gather. Just takes longer.

 

Im at tier 5 after... 10-15 hours? I don't know how you can spend 20+ hours on the first tier, really.

You don't want the game to be easy, normal or challenging. What do you want?!

 

I actually did spend roughly 15+ hours on the first tier on the server I host. That was because we were just gearing up and finding as much stuff as we could. We also built a base, I know what you may think. We did it because we wanted to make bases as we moved forward.

 

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Well to be fair. I want this game to be its own unique game. So Starbound it is. But I know what you meant. You don't want it to be a clone or labeled as such. Neither do I.

 

The way we go from sector to sector, like going from act to act in a game like say.. Ninja Gaiden (just off the top of my head)... makes this less of a sandbox game. On that point I completely agree.

 

Played for two hours today, got from Beta, to Delta, had 89 diamonds, put 69 in the refinery, made a Diamond drill and am in the process of making full Durasteel gear. Had over 1000 iron bars, roughly 12K pixels. No really, I have no idea how people have a problem with this game, I'm not seeing it, unless I purposefully gimp myself, I cannot make this game challenging in any way shape or form.

Allow me to perhaps help you in your quest for...whatever the hell you're trying to do.

-Starter Planet- Get wood, get cobblestone. M ake Stone Axe, make Stone Pickaxe, if you're good at combat, wander around at night and find a miniboss or 7 to kill. If you're bad at combat (Read you've died during the day on your first planet.) then go underground at night, get 1000 unrefined wood, or 100 coal. If wood approach, make furnace, smelt wood into coal, take new found/made 100 coal, fuel ship. Find a large sized (It looks big) desert planet, fly there. Beam down, find fine-sand that cascades, dig into it, watch as your get more ore then you know what to do with.

Tier 1-10- Rinse wash and repeat with Starter Planet, except make a better pick then Stone, once you can make drills, make a diamond drill.

I'm not being an asshole with that eithier, that's literally all I have done. If you want to build and not fight/explore/mine. Well I dunno what to tell you, short of creative mode you'll never have that, neithier did Minecraft or Terraria,y ou always had to explore to get shit to build with. Fly around to low-level planets, look for villages to take everything from. (This is especially easy if you're at T3-4 yourself, as the guards can't dos hit to you, run in there kill them all.) Take their furniture, their houses, their beds, their chickens. Whatever you want, cause you can. Rinse wash repeat if you need more building materials, build a Refinery as soon as you cna, you now have a use for Silver/Copper/Iron etc once you stop needing it, build 3 infact (I have one for Copper/Silver/Iron then swap out to do the same to gold/diamond/platinum) this will give you all the pixels you could never need.

 

I cannot understand why you all are complaining about pixel system etc... starbound mods can solve anything. Just install and you're done.

 

I want it to be a mix of all the good parts of.. well any sandbox RPG.

 

Yep this is what we can do as far as content goes. Nice post.

Very true. I want it to be very open and have loads of things to do. I know we will get to this point soon. Just takes time.

 

Why do people complain about betas? Why not just add it in the form of constructive criticism? Why is it that little kids have to rage and scream even after being warned that this is a beta with glitches, not full balance, and an almost certainty of having your characters wiped?

God. People need to just learn.

 

It's more of an RPG than a sandbox in its current form. I can agree the sandbox part is pretty lacking.

We could only allow people to play 20 minutes per day if we wanted to give the game artificial length.

Point being, content should be why a game is long, not other factors.

For now, the grind keeps us from beating the very limited beta content there is available. In the future, we should try to eliminate grinding as much as possible, and replace it with actual content.

 

Well, that still doesn't allow you to somehow make the connection that the game isn't a sandbox game because it's a grind. That's really ridiculous, if you ask me. The point of a sandbox game is to be able to go where you want and do what you want, and starbound allows for both of those things. Thus, I believe that your argument is invalid.

 

Have you considered that you're just really bad at the game?

 

Heh. I find it funny when people contradict themselves.

 

Its sorta a sandbox action exploration RPG.

Not sure how else to describe it.