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[Flying Dice]

I like how they simulated the carrots-let-you-see-in-the-dark thing by setting you on fire.

Raw carrots don't do that. All cooked food does, though.

The carrots-improve-night-vision thing isn't actually true. It originated as British propaganda/counterintelligence during WWII to "explain" how they were able to intercept flights of German bombers at night so easily, in order to disguise the existence of their radar network.

[Baneling]

Oh, I knew it wasn't true(though not why, that's cool). I just figured they were playing on the idea 'cause I didn't know that all 'special' cooked food ignited the eater.

[Andux]

I'll just leave this here:


Upper tunnel is part of my original, mostly-aboveground skyrail route, which encircles (almost) the entire planet. Lower tunnel is part of a new (unfinished) route running underground from near the beam-down point.

I may end up replacing the mushrooms with some other sprite-art, if I find something that works with the limited color palette of the paint gun.

[Tiruin]

You know, my first impression was that you somehow made a customized panel or background window.

Then I realized that was the *miniature* version of a picture thanks to that purple 'background'

Wow.

[Tarran]

Relevant news is relevant.

Also:

The update isn't far off now, we're trying to include universe backwards compatability along side character backwards compatibility

[BigD145]

.ds_store bug? That's not a bug. That's an OSX feature. It makes those files everywhere.

[The Darkling Wolf]

It causing the game to crash is presumably not a feature.

[ductape]

I am enjoying the game but it's not exactly what I thought it would be or could be. I beat the first boss and made it to beta sector and so far, the game seems to just be: fight some aliens, find ore, craft gear, beat boss, warp to next sector.

I find no reason to build anything. Why do people do it beyond it looking cool? I got that out of my system with Terraria.

[PrimusRibbus]

I am enjoying the game but it's not exactly what I thought it would be or could be. I beat the first boss and made it to beta sector and so far, the game seems to just be: fight some aliens, find ore, craft gear, beat boss, warp to next sector.

I find no reason to build anything. Why do people do it beyond it looking cool? I got that out of my system with Terraria.

My understanding is that most of the base-building features are not yet in game. At this point in alpha, Starbound is very much geared towards linear "do the quests, beat the boss, advance to next area" gameplay.

It should be more sandboxy later in development.

[dennislp3]

I am enjoying the game but it's not exactly what I thought it would be or could be. I beat the first boss and made it to beta sector and so far, the game seems to just be: fight some aliens, find ore, craft gear, beat boss, warp to next sector.

I find no reason to build anything. Why do people do it beyond it looking cool? I got that out of my system with Terraria.

My understanding is that most of the base-building features are not yet in game. At this point in alpha, Starbound is very much geared towards linear "do the quests, beat the boss, advance to next area" gameplay.

It should be more sandboxy later in development.

I don't think it's so much that it's not "sandboxy enough" but more that its not goal oriented in any way...its great to be able to build and do whatever...but if there is no end objective or point to doing anything it can lose its luster rather quick for some of us. I dont like to build just to build personally.

[Kaitol]

That's where the race non-random storylines and big sidequests come in (hopefully). The quest system isn't just there for a tutorial.

The game is a barely bare bones version they pushed out with lots of stuff missing. I think they felt bad because the game wasn't coming out as soon as the starving masses were demanding.

Also: "Several memory leaks, including the slow-but-significant server memory leak a lot of people were experiencing "

yessssssssssss

[SalmonGod]

I hope they introduce some features that facilitate and encourage multiplayer shennanigans.  Maybe not direct PvP, but some rivalry or team-play elements.  I could see that being a lot more fun than it was in Terraria, now that people can build their bases on separate planets and spawn their own populations and stuff.  Also would be nice if the equipment was less of a linear progression, but I'm sure they'll get around to that.  Terraria was the same way at first.

[Iceblaster]

I think I'm taking a break from this.

Sooo, don't hate me, blame it on it being too sandboxy

[Twi]

I await the patch with bated breath.
 
(and probably will wait a few days for people to sort out any sneaky bugs or hotfixes or other things of import)

[Darkmere]

Yeah I don't understand judging the game as a finished product when they've openly admitted many, many times that most of the game systems aren't in yet or are in extremely preliminary balance stages. Quests aren't in, at least one major biome isn't in, lots of gear progression isn't in, sector progression isn't in, the map's getting reworked, 6 whole tiers aren't in, creatures are getting reworked, tech controls are getting reworked, pets are getting expanded... There's a huge list.