Pandering to newbies

I don't see how this is pandering to newbies. Sure you get free home teleports, but at the same time they've made it harder to survive in airless environments. The whole free teleport system is to make home planets MEAN something. I also hope this doesn't eventually degrade into yet another hardcore/casual argument.

 

What the hell are you talking about?
Oh. Oh I think I see. You and all other elitists are trying to play Starbound like it's an MMORPG.
That explains the desire for an endless grind and unfair difficulty that encourages you spend money so you don't have to do it the tedious way.

 

Most of the original post is "waaaaah things aren't tedious", so... yes?

 

Yes, so much. I can't imagine the mindset that views release Starbound as 'hard but fair.'

There are many F2P games that do not have cosmetic items, or even microtransactions of any sort, that are in no danger of dying anytime soon. Nor would many of them qualify as casual dreams come true.

 

Perhaps, OP, going to the suggestion forums and giving advice/suggestions of what you want to see would be more constructive of your time. I am not sure I see the point of childish insults (calling others weaklings) and being angry when clearly the game is still developing. I think they'd rather you give your suggestions and report bugs. Try going about it a different way =)

 

Difficulty doesn't work this way.

 

You're agreeing with it, aren't you?

 

I think you misunderstood the reaction: Nobody denies the need for an open discussion about difficulty settings or similar topics. But once someone wants to brute force his opinion as sole reasonable path to a "good game" and does this by preemptively insulting anyone that disagrees with him, there are some posters among this forum (myself included, btw), that simply prefer to take part in a more.. mature discussion elsewhere and ignore the foaming at mouth OP. He made a very valid point and blasted it from orbit with the sentence in question. Well, at least that's my reason to ignore him.

 

There comes a point where you're playing video games for entirely the wrong reasons.

 

Oh my god, get out of here with this. You aren't some enlightened being because you want the game to rub shit in your teeth.

 

The game became signifigantly more fair, for example my new defaulted homeworld all the water is a mixture of poison and lava surface pools. If i had to fight bullet spongey mobs ontop of that Id be a bit mad.

On that note If this game does get grindy as it appears a few people in this thread call for it will lose a huge chunk of playability and actual solid gameplay.

 

You may think whatever you want, but claiming that anyone who isn't as good as you is just bad is pure arrogance, and it's entirely unneeded.

I'm sure you make a valid point. As I said, I've seen a few other posts about the game being too easy. Pointless name callings and degrading is entirely unnecessary.

You think the game is too easy? Good. Speak out. The game is in Beta, and devs need to know what players think before they release it. But don't start freely insulting players who disagree with your point of view.

 

Apparently playing for fun isn't a valid playstyle anymore, who knew.

 

There are even strings for difficulty levels in one of the config files.

Also the home teleport just brings solo play up to team play's convenience -- since in multiplayer you can cross-sector instaport to anyone in your party's spaceship, with two people you have unlimited home access anyway.

 

If time-consuming tedium is "fun" to you, you should find a nice sadist to settle down with in order to appeal to your masochism.

 

When it means being absolutely against the game being made more enjoyable for those who don't have the same playstyle as you, yeah, it isn't.

The teleport to home planet thing is a nonissue, you don't have to use it.

Overly aggressive falling damage is usually bad form to have in a 2D anything.

I can understand taking issue with easier monsters, but no one is asking for them all to be Goomba-level tossers.

 

I believe he's agreeing with me, that tedious fake difficulty isn't fun and it's stupid to act like playing any other way makes you not a true gamer.