Teleporter changes

In short - it`s not a good idea to allow quick teleportation from ship to home planet...

It makes exploring toooooo easy.
Now you dont have to carefully consider your onboard storage, right gear to choose... so on... you just can always easily warp back and take all you need from home at any time. Also drop your loot and in a moment be there again to loot more...


Very, very wrong move...

 

I think its just a temporary solution till they implemented the new nav map which comes up in a few updates...

I am not certain but I think it was stated somewhere on forums that this "Warp to home planet" is just a temp solution until you can bookmark planets and the whole exploring planets thing gets overhauled.

 

Yes, except you need to lose all the progress you have made during exploration to warp back. And how is it any different from beaming back to your ship? You can store whatever you want on it. Onboard storage? Gear choice? You can store the entire game on your ship. And that's what I have been doing lately. This new patch has the only effect of giving a minimum of sense to a planetary base.

 

Oh... you just saved my day

You forget about the fuel needed to bring your loot home...

 

It's a really, really great idea in my opinion.

If we don't allow quick and easy transport back to your home base, then you can't make a home base at all! Having to pay 200 fuel to get to your home planet and then 200 more to get back is a total waste of resources. It makes building a house completely impractical. The storage space on a ship is extremely limited as it is. Once ships can be upgraded that problem won't be as severe, but lots of people will want to make a planetside base because just it's cool. We shouldn't punish those players by removing their ability to actually visit the home base that they spent so long building up.

 

Teleporting to your ship doesn't cost fuel.

 

You mean the coal that you can find scattered everywhere on any planet surface? Damn.
Besides, if your ship is your base (which was encouraged by the state of things before this patch) you need no fuel.

 

It should not take ANY work to get into your own home. It's outrageous to spend 200 fuel warping home to pick up supplies, and then spend another 200 leaving again. There's no point in building a home if it's inconvenient to get to it. And since building is such a major part of the game, it should be encouraged, or at the very least not actively hindered.

 

Carefully consider onboard storage? Yeah, no. You can basically carry everything you will ever need with storage options like the little Apex lockers. Since we can teleport home it actually feels viable and not a complete waste of resources and time to make a base on a planet.

 

Well... Now I see... Those who like more casual way of playing like it. I prefer Starbound to be more hardcore in space travel details and difficulties...

So... the matter of personal taste. No more need to argue...

 

And yet for me it gives me the desire to build something really special on my "home" planet. Prior to this I never felt any desire to build anything on a planet as the chance of my ever going back to it were slim and none. Now there is a reason to build as I can quickly get back to it anytime that I wish.

 

Previous to this I had always stored everything, including all of my crafting stations, on my ship; there is plenty of space for it. 400 fuel per trip to a planet that I had little to no reason to return to was severely extreme and put me off ever setting up a planet base; it would cost me severely and there wasn't much reason for it other than getting to build a bit. There wasn't any chance that I'd bother to return to it.

I think the change is great. Setting up on a home planet is now viable, and encourages making use of all the furniture and building supplies you get rather than rushing through the tiers.

It's not really any less hardcore. If anything this encourages a faster pace, it would be more casual before to be spending time revisiting older sectors.

 

There is nothing 'hardcore' about having to fly back to your 'home' planet whenever you want to do something on it, it's just a nuisance that wastes time that could be better spent not doing it at all and storing everything on your ship.