Imagine giant cities in Starbound

So, I've found tons of villages in Starbound, as have a lot of people. It's not like they're that uncommon or anything. However, I've always kinda wondered why there are only villages and not cities. I know Starbound isn't trying to be super realistic, but we have thousands of cities on our planet, so why is it that in the entire galaxy, with all these advanced species, we can't find anything more than small towns? With Glitch and Florans it makes sense, seeing as they are in the more primitive. But for the other Races (especially Apex) it seems like cities would be a given. It would be so cool too. Just imagine beaming down from your ship and finding yourself in the middle of a large, high tech city with large buildings and people bustling around all over the place. The cities could even have all the races living in the same area, instead of always being separated. I'm just throwing out ideas here. Anyone else agree with me on this?

 

Sadly, until the game gets a good dose of optimization tweaks, a huge city like that would lag you into submission. But the idea is fucking awesome despite that

 

I want that with alien invasions

 

I like the idea but I don't want the lag plus it would make planets less interesting in a way.

 

True...
Anyway...
Maybe there could be entire planets with cities?
It would be less interesting, but it is kinda realistic.
and the glitch instead of cities could have empires!
(like cities, but medieval!)
idk bout florans though.

 

While there are alot of people who experience performance issues right now, they are the minority. I've never even experianced an ounce of lag past the occasional stutter when I first beam down to a new planet, but that is just the cache generating. I honestly believe alot of issues are due to the massive ammount of memory that needs to be loaded from the HDD. My girlfriend has an almost identical rig to me (same cpu + gpu) and she gets some studdering. My pc with a solid state drive has never had even a hiccup once I'm on land.

 

This makes sense, I'd love to see cities in Starbound.

 

Having an occasional/rare Coruscant-like city planet would be pretty great, with towering hive buildings and multiple levels. There would still would be plenty of danger because of all the lower city gangs and mutants and stuff.

 

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I second this motion.

 

I'm no fan of Star Wars (more of a Trekkie, and back before they got all serious and started calling themselves "Trekkers") but I still think that a Coruscant-style planet would be a cool rare biome.

 

i don't get starbound lag, but starbound lags everything else.

 

Oh lords its a Startrek hipster.

 

Here's a better idea: City planets.


Edit: Oops, someone has already said "Coruscant".

 

Tiy has already said there will be planet-sized space stations and dungeons.

 

I would so much kill everyone and crown myself king of the planet.
Well of course I could do that on any wild planet and build my empire there but what's the point when there's a lazy way.

 

Those giant citys can be placed on a MAIN Home planet and make it easly to find on the map.

 

I think it would be interesting if each sector had a "starport planet", basically the city planet suggested here with the beam-down location being the actual spaceport with hangars as part of the background and multiple shops manned by all the default races.
There wouldn't be any random hostile mobs spawning on the surface area, but the deep underground would be a dangerous place to explore.

Meanwhile the surface town could be divided into sectors with site-to-site transporters and other similar methods of fast travel to quickly move through them.

 

Starbound needs to optimize CPU-wise...

 

I've always wanted cities in this game lol

Was actually considering building one myself