How far you've come.

I was just thinking back to a year and a half ago when I was looking for alternative games to Minecraft and Terraria. I came across the Starbound page, as well as that of Blockscape and Cubeworld. Very little information was divulged of the game other than it was the perfect combination of everything that I loved in a game of this style - endless possibilities and limitless potential.

Since then I have followed the work of the Starbound development as it has been engineered and scultped into what it is today, and I feel that I have shared in the delights of thousands of my peers as each new feature is revealed. The other games are progressing too, but not in the scope and depth that I have found here.

It is an interesting feeling, to have stood by and watched something like this happen, and though I have had no direct part in its conception, I cannot help but feel like a part of it. I look forward to the new updates and screen shots, and every morning when I get to work the first thing that I do is get coffee, but the SECOND thing I do is load up the Starbound website to see what new and fascinating thing has been done or improved.

I say all that to say this: Thanks. I have no doubt that developing this game and the scope that it entails has been an extremely challenging and frustrating task. As a person that works with the software development cycle, many people are often unaware at the monumental sacrifices to one's personal time and social life it takes to make this happen. It is very much apparent that each of the developers and the rest of the staff are extremely passionate about this game, and I am very much looking forward the next year and a half of being a bystander to this amazing feat.

I wish you all the success in the world!

 

I agree completely, I don't remember exactly when I first heard of Starbound. I know I was impressed by what I saw and filed it away as awesome up-and-comer and moved on. A friend recently directed me back to Starbound and I was quite impressed with the amount of information the developers were willing to give about their process. It's very refreshing to see a developer who keeps the community as updated as possible. I have only been seriously following for about a month now, but everyday has been something new to read up on, and I too have put reading the Starbound update page as my daily routine.

What's also refreshing is the the team's comments on how they are taking their time to do this right. It's been a disheartening trend lately in the gaming world where the developer will push out a game release when it is far from being complete, and even if it has amazing potential, it dies before it gets off the ground. So big big kudos to the Starbound team for not following the trend. I look forward to your product, that you have shown such passion and commitment for, when you are finally ready and confident enough to release it to us.

 

....Ditto.

 

As much as I prefer the threads of beta complaining and the responses they get, it's nice to see a positive post every once in awhile.

 

I was still studying for my MBA when I first heard about Starbound, now I'm an executive for a big entertainment industry corporation. (No, I'm not)

 

ah, the days of old. not worrying about due dates because it was tottally possible to finish a years worth of homework in a month. not starbound news is the thing that keeps me all peppy..well..aside from cup-ramen! that stuff is like liquid magic.

 

It always seems like the games I want to play, are not out yet.

 

I keep trying to make this place miserable but no one is falling for it

 

Hear hear sir!

 

Heard! i wanted to make a post today about how unfair it were of people to push the developers so harshly once in a while... your post will do just fine

Anyone remember when Diablo 3 where about to get out.? the last half year there were SO MUCH complaining about them and that they should just release the damn thing... and when they did, look at how it went... several years with patches and bug fixing. now. lets not do the same to this game, and to these Devs. let them have their time to make this an awesome game

 

Even though this clearly isn't asking how far we've come since announcement of Starbound but is thanking the devs for how far they've come. I am going to share how far I'VE come, because I should be the center of everyone's world because that's life. (Just in case people can't tell, I'm joking. Although I'll provide the story in a spoiler if anyone's seriously interested)

-Starbound Unveiled, a young, 17 year old me shrugs, reading the news on my phone at work, in a few months it'll be my birthday. By then I'll have begun my Medicinal Chemistry degree and met some great people. I'll have had a falling out with a Highschool buddy who decided that my bisexuality disgusted him, and that I might jump him at any moment. Little did he know that I found him so repulsive that each time we spoke I found myself developing a skewed appreciation for the sexes, finding women to be far less off-putting than men, simply because they don't feel the need to be the "alpha".

-First ETA comes and goes, since reading about the unveiling of Starboard I had since started University and my clubbing endeavors. In only a few months I had met a girl at a club, we hit it off, got into a relationship. Then we broke up, for selfish reasons really, I wanted to focus on my Uni work, she wanted me to spend more time with her. I wasn't willing to jeopardize my future for a girl I met at a club, and it was over. I wasn't holding my breath over Starbound, the first ETA was clearly way too optimistic, so I didn't bother looking into the game too much. I was in the middle of my mid session break between the Autumn and Spring sessions of University, and so I was once again at work. I had recently discovered two of my co-workers were bronies. Despite being only 18 at the time, I felt so much older than my 27 year old co-workers who would often listen to and sing the MLP theme while they conducted maceral and reflectance analysis on various Coal samples from across Australia. Of course, they did it because they knew it irritated me, oh how we all laughed as I chastised them for their taste and went on to discuss Star Wars lore because, as (future)scientists, we were all tremendous nerds.

-Second ETA comes and painfully passes. My ex-girlfriend had since stopped trying to patch things up with me, realizing that she was a stranger to me. I was happy, I had achieved a distinction average in my first year of University and I felt pretty damn good about it. I still had a job lined up at a Coal and organic petrology lab as a lab assistant, and Starbound was seemingly on its way. But I was mistaken, the end of 2012 came, Starbound was no where to be seen, and my heart sank. I had a three month Uni break, work was long and exhausting, but I had high hopes for the third ETA, Q1 2013. I started to take the gym more seriously, I lost 3kg of fat and gained about 2kg of lean muscle. I looked good, and my stubble was beginning to grow pretty evenly. Though I was beginning to develop a distaste for clubbing, I still went out on occasion, meeting new people and making friends, as well as losing some more of the old ones. As it turned out, Highschool was one of the only things I had in common with some of the people I'd come to see as my closest friends, and when we realized exactly how different we all were, we started to drift apart. Unlike some of my closer nerd buddies, I didn't want to be an introvert, I didn't like spending evenings with just "the guys" sitting around a table with no alcohol or cigarettes, talking about Pokemon and such. I wanted to get out into the world, meet women, smoke cigars, play poker. I was beginning to settle down though, I may only have been 18 but I'd spent almost every weekend of the year 2012 out clubbing, it was becoming monotonous, I began to realize that I just wanted a nice girlfriend, good friends, an education in the medical field and of course good ol' Tooheys New long necks. But my education is rigorous, I can't afford to waste my time like that, I'd have to focus on my studies first, making friends along the way, and deal with the beer and relationship business later.

-Third ETA arrives, and much like its predecessors, brings nothing. I had finally registered on the Starbound community forums, I did so figuring the game would be out soon so I could talk about it with people, organize some group activities and such. But I was wrong, and here I am now. My life is pretty much where I want it to be, I'm studying my ass off to maintain the level of achievement necessary for my degree, I have many friends, but sadly don't get to hang out as often as I'd like due to the nature of my education. No girlfriend/boyfriend but I'm not particularly worried about it, I know I'm just above average in terms of attractiveness, so getting a girlfriend is more about being charming and confident than anything else, as well as meeting a woman with similar interests. I don't club that often anymore, although when I do I have a lot more fun than I used to. Instead of "looking for chicks" I just go to enjoy myself. I no longer have a position at the coal and organic petrology lab of my own volition, I decided that I wasn't doing enough to earn the money I was being paid, so I'm now in the process of looking for a job in retail, to teach me a vital lesson about the kind of shit that people in those jobs go through. I haven't been able to go to the gym for the past couple weeks due to a severe case of the flu, but I'm working my way out of it so I'll get back to pumping iron soon.

I'm still looking forward to the game of course, but not with the same zeal I had at the beginning of this year. Since Starbound was announced, I've had three family members die, broken off one relationship, officially finished High school and started my University degree, lost eight friends, gained twelve friends, met and enjoyed the company of five women, started and stopped clubbing, gave up a job and had to put three birds caught by my cat out of their misery (I cried for twenty solid minutes each time, it never gets easier, and I'm really a big pansy when it comes to killing things). In a relatively short period of time my life has changed considerably, and throughout all that time there has only been three thoughts on my mind that have remained constant.
1. I must do my best to become a Doctor.
2. I want to have a family with my dream girl.
3. I want Starbound. Right, now.

Thats how far I've come.

Thanks to the devs for working their asses off on this. I'm not going to tell you to take all the time in the world because I'd be lying through my teeth and seething with hatred at myself. So, thanks for the hard work! Get that beta out the door as fast as you can.

 

I just finished my 1064 batch of crystal meth.

 

I only discovered Starbound about 3 weeks ago (and only pre-ordered last week!!).

Have absolutely no idea how you all have been sitting patiently but i salute you 3 weeks and the anticipation is already killing me!!

1st post btw so hello to all

 

Welcome to the forums.

For some of us, it's not patiently at all. So not all of us deserve a salute. Myself included.