So I can make...

a brain extractor thingy, that shoots electricity that makes creatures and peoples brains pop out... But I can't make a gun?

Not to mention that I can build a killer robot, but not better armor than a medival iron plate

Not flaming or anything, I just find this little bit of design choice hilarious
Is there more similar stuff I havn't thought about yet in the game?

 

What about that with ALL the advanced high tech technology in the universe, we pilot a spaceship and use FTL drives, yet we fight pigs with a wooden sword to get meat so we don't starve?

 

yeah that pretty much explains the absurdity. LOL

 

There are also robots stuck in the dark ages.

 

Many of these features are outlined/planned.

For release.

Not for this stage of the beta.

 

Your starship is a steampunk marvel as it flies on coal, although later it works off of two radioactive isotopes (which incidentally also commonly produce power by a process similar enough to a coal steam engine to make the similarities obvious).

But how fun would the game be if you started out with an AutoKill9000 Mk. 4, and an exosuit with built in 10.3 speakers? At least, for how long would it be glorious? Not very.

 

If you hadn't noticed, I wasn't being serious

Admitedly not very... but starting out with medival weapons and armor AND a spaceship? That combination is pretty hilarious, at least to me I think that it would fit better if you found the ship during the tutorial missions

 

My Floran's spaceship is clearly powered by captive wizards locked in the engine and fed a steady diet of coal and radiation. That's how she understands it, anyway.

 

Given, though, that the spaceship appears to be a turnkey device (insert fuel on a specific range of material types, outputs FTL movement), it may be best to think about the ship less as a spaceship that you've found yourself in control and mastery over, and more as a vehicle that you may understand a bit about how to operate and refuel, but servicing, modifications, and the like are well beyond you. How many people, in today's society, know how to fully and completely service their own cars? It's no wonder that those same people cannot build a fully automatic assault weapon from similar pieces of technology.

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That is close to how many people understand today's technology, and just goes to show that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Thank you, Clarke!