Suggestion on New Stretch Goal!

Treasure maps.

Dropped from pirate air ships ( Like the one in the screenshot. ), or from dungeons and such.
It would give you a set of co-ordinates or something on the map and clues about where the treasure is located.

Treasures could range from weapons to armor to tech.

 

Let's see. First stretch goal, a completely new race with new lore and new cosmetic options. Second stretch goal. Fossils that are fancy trophies that can be revived to create creature they once were. Third goal...... Pets.

Fourth Goal. A diamond encrusted toilet you can place in your home. You can throw your money in it and flush it down and the toilet will read your fortune.

 

-A Starbound Marketplace. No, it won't be using real world money, it'll just be a place that you can leave your item, set a marked price in pixel currency and wait for a buyer. Or a auction type place, again, absolutely no real world money.

-In game voice chat, without the need for another program running in the background (please implement this starbound devs).

-Emotes that are collectable, like in Animal Crossing Wild World.

-Invade other servers like in Demon Souls/Dark Souls (As long as the host server enables it).

 

I find it highly unlikely they'll be able to do a fourth stretch goal.
If they do, it'll be something even less impressive than the pets.

On that note, I support the fishing idea. That should be easy to implement and would make it easy for us Hylotl types to obtain a steady food supply.

Edit: ... To avoid hate, offering my own idea:

If they don't already have such things, I demand emotes such as /dance

 

I've posted this before, but what the hey. Suggestion for stretch goals. Probably more code-heavy than stuff like pets, but it can be a post-release stretch goal.

1. Bring back the Space Station as a hub. Like Babylon 5/Star Trek DS9. Is stands to reason that there is a galactic, starbound community of aliens from many diverse races, which is implied by the level of technological advancement in the game (individual-owned spacecraft, teleporting, interstellar FTL travel etc).
And where such a community exists, so does the need for a place where they can mingle and trade freely, and conduct diplomatic matters. There's enormous potential for roleplaying/lore elements, and a centralised place where you can pick up info, get missions, conduct trade and so forth. And the best part about this is you don't let your work on the space station go to waste.

2. Game mechanic: bounty hunting. You can take up bounty-hunting missions from npcs, such as law enforcement to take down criminals (lethal or non-lethal types). This allows you to legally hunt down NPCs. A twist to this is, if you commit crimes heinous enough to catch the attention of the authorities, a bounty will be placed on your head and NPC bounty hunters will start appearing occasionally and try to kill you.

 

And here i though there was a entire subforum full of ideas for the preorder called "Suggestions". Or maybe I'm just crazy i dunno.

 

This deserves to be on the second page... just saying! I wonder if this was the third tier how everyone would react lol possibly the same IMO

 

That sounds surprisingly awesome.

 

I did not understand what you did mean when saying that,

 

Not sure if this is already there but some sort of buffing system. I'm thinking along the lines of some sort of digital implant maybe. It runs off electricity and would need to be charged at a special station in your ship (it would be difficult and expensive to make, as would the implant). The buff could be something that has a limited power and can be turned on and off. buffs could include things such as damage, more health, even more creative ones like luminescence, less gravity, a sense of ores/treasure (make them sparkle), and so much more! These implants would be expensive and would be limited due to there charge. Implants could even become faulty and cause hallucinations or adverse effects to the player if not kept properly or from age! Anyways, just an idea.

 

More races!

 

Tiy did

Tiy did state he'd like that post-release.

Sorry for breaking the thread rules.

 

Sorry let me reword that. I wonder what would have happened if the third tier was fishing instead of pets. Would people have reacted the same way that they have in response to the third tier being pets? I think it is possible that they would have in my opinion.

 

Oh my goodness fishing. How did I not think of this. I LOVE FISHING!

 

We shouldn't of even had to wait for a 4th goal for this idea. I'm serious.

 

I have to ask, is it really that likely we'll see a 3rd stretch goal before the beta release?

 

I'll go ahead and repost the general ideas I came up with in the original Pets feedback thread:

• Planet Printers: The Universe's equivalent of a wild card, found rarely and entirely separate from the normal coordinate/seed system. For an extremely exorbitant sum of pixels, a player could generate a whole planet inside one of these machines. Seed it with life, both flora and fauna, from the logbook. Choose its environment. Decide what kinds of resources to bury underneath its surfaces. Basically, an endgame-y ability to create/generate an entire world to a player's liking.
  
  
• Museum: An indestructible place in which the player can showcase anything of interest for others to see. Flora and fauna could be displayed behind fences, for instance, or block types and treasures inside glass cases. Perhaps small, built-in editable description signs could be included as well.
  
  
• Blueprints Overlay: Build something on paper before building it on your own. Essentially a system that allows for a user to "draw" a construction freehand using the mouse on the screen, then place the image as a semi-transparent overlay on his/her own screen so that it's easier to build. This could also potentially allow screenshots to be imported to act as blueprints.

 

I actually don't think they should include any more stretch goals. They kinda played their best card first with the Novakid. Fossils were pretty neat, but now there is a whole controversy around starting pets... I think any more money they get after $1 million should go entirely towards getting a beta out sooner. Having a playable beta already available will do more to boost pre-order sales and increase general awareness of the game more than anything else.

 

Creature splicing of a sort or DNA research like in XCOM to help fight certain races or creatures.

 

Space Pirates that you meet while traveling in space.