Your Spaceship- Upgrades, a Space Station room and More!

"End Game Crafting" i like it.

You'd probably have to get the proper add-on to your space station to build it. I especially liked that you pointed it that it would have it's on biome like a planet. Be fun to have quests to go "Clean the ship".

 

In the sci-fi world, we call that a Death Star

 

'that's no moon!' i prefer my sci-fi on paper if that's ok with you if i made a death star-esque ship, i'd keep it completely impregnable, with NO HIDDEN VENTS

however i'd much prefer an Enterprise E than a Millennium Falcon for my ship

 

You can just cover the hole up with some ply wood

 

but is that gonna require one of my ship's inventory slots? :O i'm much rather plug the hole with another space-to-ground laser

but back to the point, with the thing about types of engines, what will the point be of getting larger ones? is it just for flying in atmosphere? and what happens when you run out of fuel? would you end up stranded?

 

Cool idea but can we control it in space too?

 

i seem to remember from something tiy said about you don't fly in space, you just put in the coordinates and go there immediately. I can't find this again so i might be wrong.

 

I'm not buying this game if space dogfighting isn't included.
'Ah, just fitted my quantum engine an' my plasma laser. I'm-ma gonna' give some bandits a taste of their own medicine!'
And then everyone RP'd for an hour before dying.

 

very high atmosphere fights might count as space..?

 

So almost in space but not quite past the stratosphere?

 

thatd be alright but i think this: out of planet battles (space) are dog fights in your ship (more likely a small fighter which would be small or a crusier) and in planets atmosphere (all of them spheres!) are big battles with your flagship fighteing a horde of baddies(organic robots bandits/piretes ect) I think in space you move around in your flagship (massive) and fight in your fighter accompined by your crew or fleet(depends on what you have). Im thinking this would be a top-down shooter during this part but same art style but i agree with Eddy Steel, something like that wouldnt be all that appealing unless they did it right.

 

wouldn't the bigger fights be in space and the smaller ones be in atmosphere? also i think if they did a top down thing it would be more in tone with a mini game. Though i would love dogfights, i would rather fights remained in the dimension that the rest of the game was in. Also, seeing the inside of the enemies ship while you are fighting them sounds quite cool

 

That would be better but how bout just dogfights everywhere. And top-down shooter style. Im pretty sure side scrollin through space would be awkward...

 

why awkward?

 

I'm not sure about this statement. Espescially given that Defender was HUGE in it's day.. and Starbound is trying to capture a bit of the essence of the old school games.

 

The game could go from side scroller to a top down shooter whenever you enter a seed that has no planet there.

 

Fyiying in a side scroller in a game as big as Starbound will be may be hard. Multiple planets right? Cant really do that in a sidescroller

 

this would just be for dogfights, like in

you won't be navigating from planet to planet, pretty sure thats going to be instantaneous

 

I guse that would work

 

You have some fantastic ideas here about customisation, it could prolong the life of the game, people would try to hunt down good pieces of equipment to upgrade their ship.
But I think there should be more engines, like yours there could be different levels of engines, but each level their is a variety of them.
For example:
Veloci-quad engine (extra speed at the cost of less total fly length)
Travel quad engine (extra length with no downsides)
See where I'm heading?