Yeah.... I'm not gonna play this.

Also, it's beta so it might be differant come the next patch. It's not set in stone yet.

 

okay, thanks for the money, bye

 

thx , making planets bein more than just a looting surface, and making low level tier harder to climb making low tier weapons and ore bein usefull and not insta skip to max levels , not traveling to every planey to get thier weapons and tech will make you apreciate the joy of fall damage , death by beast , death by underground lava , death byrandom bandit hutt

 

Oh look, another ragequit thread.

 

dat picture

 

I'm going to write a lot of quests which will guide the player through Sector Alpha. Charcoal is not necessary as there can be coal as questreward. When my questcampaign is finished i could publish it + instructions how to install it, if the starbound team is fine with it.

EDIT:
WIth quests you can create a reward system which lets you balance the gameplay a lot. I'm using a questsystem on my minecraft server for controlling the players progress. There is no need to try implementing smth. like "how may i force the player to do smth. particular so another part of gameplay gets balanced" if u have quests.

 

Every "sandbox" game ends up like this. Something about it brings every sociopathic grognardy asshole out of the woodwork.

 

I'm very disappointed to see this... hostile behavior toward the original poster. Why so unfriendly? I've been playing for hours and found 10 points of fuel worth of coal. He's got a valid point. I imagined myself, before booting for the first time, zipping madly between hundreds of amazing and wonder-filled worlds. That was simply what I, and the original poster expected. It's not evil. It's not worth the impolite hostility. I realize now that, at least for now, zipping madly about the universe isn't what I'm going to be doing, not for now at least. I'll keep looking, and eventually I'm sure I'll get lucky and find tons of coal, but for now, I've only seen a few pieces, and it's just not what I expected -- it didn't occur to me that fuel would even be necessary. I thought planet-hopping would be easy. I see that it may or may not be, depending on how lucky one is on the coal prospecting.

 

Because it's been repeated time and time again in previous threads to the point that we begin to question the intelligence of the human race.

 

The game could use a way to replant trees, and a way to make charcoal out of coal.

Not just for fuel, I dig every single piece of coal and take every single wooden spike I find underground, and I'm still running out of torches. I would also like to be able to leave a trail of fireplaces while tunneling in snow worlds without having to leave to another world to get more wood, and without having to remove fireplaces after using them.

I could use an unlimited source of wood and coal to make them.

 

You do know this game has survival in its genre too right? Having anything in unlimited supply really blunts that aspect. If you want unlimited stuff either cheat or use a mod.

 

So... let's remove the crops, then? And monsters should not respawn anymore once killed! And all those pesky merchants selling unlimited supplies like dcotors selling healing kits and grocers... let's remove them too.

"Survival" means just that. Survival. The game still has to give you means to survive. Unlimited resources always come with a cost. In the case of monsters, it's the time finding them, then the combat. In the case of crops, is having to spend time setting farms and then time waiting until they produce any crops.

In the case of trees you can replant, it's just like with crops, time setting farms. If trees were to respawn naturally after some time on the surface, the cost would be time waiting for respawns and time looking for any trees that may have respawned.

 

If the OP's in these threads have valid points then they belong in the suggestions forum structured as constructive feedback so the dev's can take note. That is the whole point of a beta release.

Devs are not going to read another "this game sucks and you all know it.." or "yeah, im not gonna play this". These OP's are just wasting their time and creating negative responses themselves. If they are constructive in their criticism then no doubt people will be constructive in their replies. Such thread titles are just asking for it.

Act like a child and be treated like one.

 

Then they are not very wise (or don't really care about the long-term health of their game and are instead just after short-term profits).

 

Never knew wood was usable as a fuel and just been using coal this whole time. Not much difference go find desert world and go nuts like Omeganarok says.

 

As a dev, you see two threads. One, titled "this game sucks and you all know it.."
the other titled "[idea] remove picks and upgrade the matter manipulator"

Which are you more likely to read, given that you've already spent 3 years on this game and are pushed for time. I think Tiy said he was working 19 straight hours before the big balance patch.
Is that really the kind of stuff you want to be reading about 3 years of your personal time and effort?

If these people won't put a little thought into their post and try to be helpful the dev's don't owe them anything in my opinion.

Yes, they are paying customers.. but if a paying customer walks into a store and starts a fight with a cashier and wont listen to reason, what happens? They get asked to leave.

 

You know they added dungeons being more common underground now right? There is things to be seen undeground now too. Like the bipedal frog people I found living in stone structures underground.

 

Oh really? So you've been in that situation before? My my

 

for the time theyw orked on that game , i realy dont thik its for money , or they would have pulled a bubsy or superman 64 but with an awesome trailer

if kids are going to leave because they made planet bein more than just a giant lootin chestthat you can juts run between every 10 minutes , then fine , go back to terraria or what ever kids play these days .. .call of duty, boobs online free to play.

the main reason of this is to make you apreciate more the planet , so you just dont go for 30 minutes , get everythig at the surface and jump again ... your going on a god damn planet and youre fueling a space ship trough a god damn universe....if you choose a planet , its to do something with it

those developers spent alot of time doing alot of work , and the player just play the game skiping most of the content and they dont even know about underground biome

derp derp coal is too rare , derp derp i dont even dig i just get wood

i wouldnt mind the wood coming back to shut angry kids but use a fuel for the same ratio than the coal finding ration

50 wood , 1 fuel

people slaping the game in the nintendo steam for the first time wont even know and will enjoy thier planet
icve overheard " but that not how i play the game , derp derp"

and how do you play tf2? you can use the 9 classes avaliable , you cant be a guy with a machine gun with double jump that can backstab , rocket jump and heal people at once ... youc an only do 1 thing at time

if valve had that class , and removed it , people would complain for them to remove the most op and over used way to cheat trough the game and making all the 9 previous class worthless

a reason to leave the game? no , they just told in every people ear , sit here , take a breath , calm your nipples and enjoy the mess you just flew your ship in

 

Is not the whole goddamned point of a sandbox for people to make their own fun?

If a person wants to dig and explore the subterrane, they will. There's already the subtle encouragement of the precious ores being in larger abundance at deeper depths. But if this spelunking isn't interesting to someone at the given time, there is no reason they should be forced to.

The fact that you can deck out your spaceship like a floating base (and we will eventually be making them even bigger, remember) does more to remove any reason to "get attached to a planet" than easy travel between systems, and yet everyone seems to love that functionality...