I'm sure a mod will arise where they give the races their own attributes, rather than relying on their race's armor. I mean I always thought it would be logical to have a race of fish people that could breathe underwater due to their physiology, not the armor they wear, or bird people that could glide because of their WINGS... Especially if you can wear another races armour; fish people that can glide but lose the ability to breathe underwater, all because they have some armor on? It just seems absurd to me.
Aha thanks devs. (I was reading the title and thinking 'oh god, what is going to happen? Is somebody quitting?!') But hey, it's fine and you guys are doing your job.
Space Combat: Way in the future, expect space combat and the ability to board other ships. Spaceship Dungeons: Very large, size of a planet. Woohoo! Can't wait for updates and wipes.
Doesn't the Avian's lore(back when the devs first introduced the Avian race) say they lost their flight ability in ages past and designed their armor to try to simulate their ancient flight as best they could? What if the Hyotl were the same way, they lost their ability generations back and build filtration devices into their armor to simulate their old abilities? Just a thought though~ I'd love to see a hybrid system where you have a racial ability and armor that can simulate it for other races so you can mix and match abilities~
I dunno when the next wipe is gonna be, but my guy is gonna go out with a bang! Seriously though looking forward to the upcoming changes~
I like pretty much everything except the AI "enhancement" and the limited sectors. Currently all of the sectors are pretty darn big, potentially infinite even, why change it so only the last one is? As for the AI, is the population of this Floran tree house going to aggro on me for taking a block of wood? How will you determine which NPC owns what in communal housing like that? I personally don't mind offing the NPCs that dont do anything but one-liners, but it would take more time and the current system is more convenient if I'm attracted to a certain torch, or the avian curtains which are apparently an alien concept to the rest of the races.. Another thing, would I be able to block them from line-of-sight and take what I want anyway? because that'd be acceptable if I really wanted something they had. I noticed there's nothing about dye on here. When can we dye our armor? Anyway I don't mean to sound like an ingrate. Great work so far, I can't wait to see what the future holds for Starbound
I like everything on your to do list! Hopefully some defensive measure will be available to base builders to protect themselves from bombardment and meteor storms. It would certainly add in a base defense / siege style PvP (or even PvE at some point?) where the attackers try to destroy or disable a shield or anti-spaceship gun before moving in with their ship to bomb the whole base.
Racial Armor: Racial abilities will not be inherent but will be tied to racial armor. For example, Avian armor can glide downward. That means races have only cosmetic differences...
Still no word on the Bookmark Feature for the Starmap. Heck, why even do this mock-up in the first place? Especially... the 3rd Dimension of Space Travel. That should be in this game as an extra seed generator! It makes this universe FAR bigger! Well, knowing that this is still a beta™, this "mock-up" should happen as SOON as possible, maybe as soon as the next Character Wipe is close to happening.
