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[timferius]

Ya. I think the biggest downfall of early access is that game developing seems to have long periods of boring background work that you never see with normally produced games. It's like, a game is in development for 3-4 years from a big studio with tonnes of people, but if we get early access right in the alpha stages, we get upset if we don't get a v1.0 in a year. This is why I avoid early access now too.

[n9103]

Hell, I don't care about short-term releases (especially not rushed 1.0s) but damn if some devs don't even show signs of life for months at a time.
This is one of those cases where no news *isn't* good news.

Beyond that basic interest in hearing *something* about the game's development on a regular basis (weekly+), even something short and generic like "troubleshooting inconsistent placement of Florian furniture", I also want at least somewhat regular (weekly? bi-weekly?) news on the programming itself, as opposed to only hearing about art assets or marketing efforts for two months straight.

Perhaps I'm requiring (for my satisfaction with the purchase) too much, but I really don't think so, since even a one or two person team can manage at least a post a week. (see DF's Dev Feed & Factorio's Friday Facts )
Perhaps. Perhaps there's just been too many passes given out by the overall gaming fanbase that has allowed poor development efforts to succeed.

In the end, this is merely my own viewpoint, but it's the viewpoint of someone completely uninterested in buying further CF products due to the path Starbound's development and PR have taken.

[WillowLuman]

They had almost daily blogs. Nothing substantial, but not completely devoid of life.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Check their website. They were the opposite of 'no news'.

[Flying Dice]

Check their website. They were the opposite of 'no news'.

No news = good news. Therefore they were bad news? 

[Ultimuh]

It seems like the Unstable version have been updated.
Made me a Novakid (no mods installed) so that's confirmed.
Now to wait until it moves on to Stable. (Or just play on the unstable if you cannot wait (like me).)

[coolio678]

It seems like the Unstable version have been updated.
Made me a Novakid (no mods installed) so that's confirmed.
Now to wait until it moves on to Stable. (Or just play on the unstable if you cannot wait (like me).)

At this point I've waited so long that a little more waiting won't hurt me.

[Chiefwaffles]

Does anyone who played nightly/current unstable know how to actually interact with the Penguin Bay? It implies they have the quest item needed after repairing the hull, but attempting to interact with it seems to do nothing.

Spoiler: Spoiler maaybe? (click to show/hide)

Where is oil, anyways?

EDIT: Nevermind. The "quest item" didn't have anything to do with Penguin Bay. Said penguin bay still doesn't do anything when it looks like it should, though.

[Gentlefish]

Does anyone who played nightly/current unstable know how to actually interact with the Penguin Bay? It implies they have the quest item needed after repairing the hull, but attempting to interact with it seems to do nothing.

Spoiler: Spoiler maaybe? (click to show/hide)

Where is oil, anyways?

check deserts for the tar scapes.

[Ibid Straydrink]

This is it. The moment I've been waiting for. Now's my chance!

*transforms into a giant robot powered by the human spirit, and ques a 2 hour download*

A question for those of you who have gone ahead- how stable would you say unstable is..? I've recently discovered the wonders of permadeath, and find myself unable to enjoy... well, anything, without the risk of losing all my progress from a single misstep (Well, at least I know that's lava now!). I would not, however, derive the same pleasure from meeting an untimely death by bugs.

[majikero]

How can I fix my FTL? The horse says I need to go to the gate. Is it the FTL fuel you can buy there?

[Chiefwaffles]

It's not the fuel. Just do all the quests, and it should be obvious when it comes up.

[majikero]

Dammit how do I bottle my coffee?

[Chiefwaffles]

You don't. You just give the mug/whatever to the person who asked for it.

[HailFire]

You turn in the coffee as a liquid for the first quest, then turn in a glass mug for the second quest iirc, though you can make coffee in cup form using coffee + milk at the cooking table.  (i'm pretty sure you can drink it straight up as a liquid, though i haven't tried)

How to brew the beans: use the coffee machine in the outpost, I haven't found any coffee machines anywhere else