Permanent death?

Exploring is more exciting to me when death at least stings a little, so I'll go medium or hard.
Also if I don't lose items my ship will soon be filled with trash and and crafting materials...RPGs always seem to give more items and money then I can possibly use

 

We play them to have fun, not rage

 

I'm a big fan of Mediumcore from Terraria.

My only issue was that when I died my gear was spread out on the ground, meaning I had to keep playing or lose my stuff forever.
I'd much prefer if my gear was left in a "corpse container" so that I could retrieve it at a later time, or even with an entirely new character.

 

Softcore for my first characters, but when I need to feel a challenge, Hardcore with the hardest difficulty settings it is

 

Wow, seriously?

 

Mediumcore. hardcore is awesome to do every once in a while with some friends. I don't like softcore. what's the point if there's barely a penalty for death? Than you might as play with godmode.....

 

Softcore, i mean, you just need to see the type of game it is, i dont think is funny at all, in a game like this, to lose all your big progress! This game is huge, this is not FTL, dungeons of dreadmor, or the pit... this is a sandbox game, ... i dont see it!

 

A day as MediumCore:

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Woohoo, just made it to a level 25 planet!
*Accidently dies in lava*
*Blank Stare*
*Flies back to level 10 planet, to match old gear*
*Starts grinding*
Every Waking Hour, Grinding got me Working...
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The end


However.. i liked the system in Terraria, where you dropped your money. So you would have a reason to use the Piggy Bank

 

That quote was from me. (I don't mind that you didn't credit me, but I stumbled onto this thread, reminded of that conversation, and then I saw the quote and I realized you'd made a thread about that same topic. I just sorta had to post.)

As for my thoughts when it comes to the different levels of punishment on death specifically in starbound, I think I'd probably stick to softcore. Though, based on the responses to this thread, I do have to admit that hardcore holds some appeal. I think I would definitely not play mediumcore, though. It'd be all or nothing. Either I keep my character and my items, or I lose my character and my items.

Dying in mediumcore is perhaps the most displeasing, because you lose all of your items but your character's still there and you still have the ability to try (perhaps in vain) to reclaim your items. If I want dying to be significant, I won't give myself the ability to reclaim my items. I don't want to play really cautiously and seriously, and then at some moment fail, only to respawn in a frantic panic, trying to reclaim all of my items as fast as possible. If I want to simulate the experience of dying in mediumcore, I'd take a softcore character and just delete all of their items.

Besides, in Terraria, very often the places you die are those which are quite far away from your spawn point. You'd never be able to reclaim your items before they despawn.

But, for the most part, I think I'd play in softcore mode, and save the hardcore mode adventures for multiplayer sessions. Those would be really fun. I can definitely imagine a lot of heroic rescues occurring in hardcore servers.

 

I will only play on softcore (heheheheheheheeeeeee ). I cant stand losing my stuff!

 

Generally I play Mediumcore on Terraria. I like that I can lose my items if I die, but I'm still able to get them again if I can get to where I died to pick them up again.

That and it's such a pain to create a new Terraria character that hardcore just annoys me. I suppose depending on the ease of character creation in starbound I may eventually go hc.

That said I'll start off as Softy while I learn the ropes.

 

We really don't know how the difficulty will be in Starbound yet so I think this is more a poll about Terraria.

 

I never played Terraria all the way through, so I stuck with softcore. I plan on doing the same for this, unless I end up enjoying it so much that I feel the need for an extra challenge. I thought Terraria was kinda difficult by default - especially without using some kind of guide.

 

This pretty much. Likely going to be mediumcore-ish for me in general, but I'll go soft to start with until I don't constanly die to all my rookie-mistakes learning the game

 

Terraria got a Guide! Unless the zombies kill him, in which case his brother moves in the day after.
I loved having him in Terraria, he made sure i was never stuck.

I wouldn't mind if Starbound had equal to him... Like a computer on the Ship, or robot butler ^^

 

Hardcore. Discoveries will feel much more rewarding when you need to be careful and think about what you're doing instead of just, run and gun. In my opinion.

 

Terrerria originally only had softcore, when Red patched it in I believe he said something about it ruining any chance of completing the game with grinding.

 

I think there should not be any difficulty levels and we play at whatever the developers program stuff for. i just like games more for some reason when they don't have difficulty levels even Dark Souls and Demon Souls for those that have played them.

 

You... Liked him?

MEDIC!

Anyways, Mediumcore probably.

 

I perosnaly like Softcore, just because I hate losing my stuff and my character that I put a lot of time into. But that doesn't mean I hate Mediumcore of Hardcore. I sometimes play Hardcore in other games to see how far would I get.