I'd like a shipment box that works the same way than the shipment box in the Harvest Moon series, ore you collect or crops you harvest can be put into that box every day a NPC comes and collect your extra food and ore in exchange for pixels.
Oh my god. This is the best suggestion I've ever seen. We need more functionality with NPCs, this is a really good way to add some of that.
This would add more immersion to the game. The NPC could come to the box at X time however many times every few days. It'd be a way to add fun practicality. It's about aesthetic. Just because a vendor could be added that does this when you go use him doesn't mean it wouldn't be cool to have a specific NPC visit your town and take your goods. It would give towns more life.
Hello yeah Wilcol you could sell directly to a shop but this quest NPC could give you greater reward, more pixels or new seeds (seed combining machine etc...) The good thing with the NPC coming at the same time every day is to force you to ship before It's too late to fulfill your farming quests because farming and harvesting gameplay elements are mostly based on time. The Harvest Moon gameplay has few elements TIME is the most important element, because you have to plow, sow, water your crops every day until you harvest then you have to sell to buy new seeds etc... Agriculture in starbound is too simple and i'm pretty sure many people would love it to be a little more challenging. Another important gameplay element would be the food to stale ( don't starve ) a vegetable would rot after a few days, raw meat after a day or two etc... The quality of the food you ship would be important to fulfil your quest.
What is so great about starbound is that that is has the potential to open up in many directions. What if a players only motive to explore planets is to expand their farming business? Some love the fight, some love the creativity.
