When is there going to be incentive to build things in this game?

I must admit when I first heard about this game way back when I was still playing Terraria, I ingested the news and imagined building all kinds of useful structures with wiring and such. It looked to me like this game was going to be MORE about the building and its uses than about the character. Sure exploring was on the back of my mind, but I never imagined the planets being so small (they are huge, but I got the impression they would be MUCH larger than they are), so I imagined LONG stays on planets that would take more than a day to explore, instead of 1-2 hour trips(often less than that tbh) where its easy to traverse an entire planetary surface and do a bit of cave exploration as well.

I guess I'm trying to point out that what we feel is lacking has a LOT to do with what our first impression was of what this game would be and what that caused us to expect out of it. Really, I think its a great game as it is. I would rather have that other game that i was imagining, but I'll play this until someone makes that game happen, and I'll be happy with it.

 

Is there an goal to build something in minecraft or terraria? Nope, even if in terraria there is the npc, most peoples just put them in tiny box with the minimal for them to spawn. That's not building. Building good house in all sandbox have never been a necessity. You can build a dirt house in minecraft and do all the game in it. Building things in sandbox always come to if you want to build or not and have a pretty place.

 

I've never really had an incentive to build anything in minecraft or terraria, or starbound. I just like seeing what systems I can put together that will destroy the worlds they're in and the systems themselves.

 

I think a step in the right direction for resolving this would be to allow players to return to their homeplanets for free. This way you can exlpore other planets, gather resources, build an outpost, and when finished with the planet, return "Home" for free to unload

 

I wish there was more things you could build and do. Like raise animals or build more gear.