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[Mephansteras]

Yeah, I'd love a colony-focused mod. Something that really gave a colony meaning and purpose. Especially some sort of colony/npc village trade system or the like.

[puke]

some of the backgrounds seemed really incongruous.. like:

earth is destroyed, the colony report you find states that only a very small number of humans live off world on colonies, average colony size is like less than 10...

But every time you find a human military installation they are all Kill On Sight.  Same with the prisons.  Just makes no sense.  Even convicts would be trying to build productive new lives, plenty of real world examples for that.

If there was some sort of "bring this colony resources / tools / food / seed-stock / water" kind of stuff, and you could help it evolve and grow and become stable... That would be really cool.  Or sort out diplomatic issues between different settlements, or broker trade...

Lots of potential, but unfortunately it all boils down to "grind so you can craft a new gun to shoot more animals with"

[BigD145]

"Kill the villagers so you can steal their secret stashes."

[Shadowlord]

The Earthers in Starbound were clearly strongly inspired by the Krogan.

[puke]

Were they in turn based upon The Kurgan?  I never actually played ME but, when I looked up that name, the articles about them seem similar enough.

...In the grim darkness of Starbound, all humans are Clancy Brown...

[Darkmere]

Were they in turn based upon The Kurgan?  I never actually played ME but, when I looked up that name, the articles about them seem similar enough.

...In the grim darkness of Starbound, all humans are Clancy Brown...

Krogan are more Proud Warrior Race with a vast lack of common sense. They live on a shithole and breed geometrically, so the sciencey race (salarians) uplifted them and used them as soldiers to fight a bug war. Once the war was over, the science guys slapped the whole race with a sterility plague to keep their numbers in check.

Not much relation to crazy highlanders.

[Chiefwaffles]

Humans in Starbound are probably the weakest storywise. (Novakids don't count as they have zero story intentionally.)

Feels both just general bad story and conflict with the Protectorate stuff they added relatively recently. It really doesn't make too much sense that Earth is home to both a human military force and a (human-led?) galactic federation-type thing. At first it was pretty simple:
Earth was where everyone lived, but the USCM (I think that's the right name) put military bases and prisons offworld for some reason. They had standing orders to shoot intruders when they lost contact with Earth, and that's about it. It was awful then and it's even worse now. Why are both they and I slaughtering the last remnants of our species?
And this isn't even that compelling storywise either! Why is everyone on one planet? Why hasn't Humanity expanded? What possible gameplay reason is there for this?

Hell, Starbound's story is just straight-out awful. It's all laid out at the beginning, there's no actual satisfying conclusion or feeling of change, and more. I want to save Earth! It just feels like an intergalactic tour rather than an actual compelling story.

Honestly, I'd be happy if the devs just made various themed expansion packs for Starbound. Not like bits of DLC or paid updates, but like tons of actual content relating to a theme. Like ships with FTL style combat and stations. Or more advanced and immersive colonies with stuff like puke mentioned. I'd definitely pay for that kind of thing. Not that it'd be better free, though.

[Random_Dragon]

I liked the original idea of each species having its own background reason for fleeing their home world and their own questline. Comparatively, just one for every single species is pretty sucky.

Yes. This. Chucklefish threw away a lot of potential for that. The replacement story is even that GOOD. Sure, everyone is some stupid "chosen one" that lived on Earth despite being a murderous plant/medieval robot/feesh/etc. :V

[PrivateNomad]

wooh, my favorite starbound RP server is finally catching back up
Galaxy Citizen

[SOLDIER First]

:3

[Sirus]

wooh, my favorite starbound RP server is finally catching back up
Galaxy Citizen

I'd probably join that if it weren't vanilla :/

[NullForceOmega]

Pretty decent, you've got fairly good basic skills and the right 'eye' for aesthetics, keep practicing, try mixing up the background tiles a bit too, there are lots of blocks to use.

[Tiruin]

Pretty decent, you've got fairly good basic skills and the right 'eye' for aesthetics, keep practicing, try mixing up the background tiles a bit too, there are lots of blocks to use.

I agree here :O
There's a nice sense of architecture and symmetry, balance with form and function (I would've put everything of one utility in one spot without bothering about space...but that's different because I stuff everything into my ship ._.). If it's a note about aesthetics, it looks well made, although you do lack doors in many areas, and there seems to be much space for improvement with the wooden buildings (people usually cover the outside with a 'harder' material to avoid any bad weather but if it's underground, most don't bother because it doesn't really matter and the outer covering won't show that much anyway)

I also like your creativity and innovation The buildings are seamless with the only notice of obvious cut and paste being the background. That's a note of detail! I do like that 'spiral' staircase though, and the many (two?) varieties of wood had me mistaken for a moment thinking that the lighter one was the 'hard' floor while the rest were more background...so that had me wondering if that door was floating and you'd just drop into the cavern

[xaritscin]

passing by to say that the next update will bring Terraforming capabilities for planets.

[Sordid]

*yawn* How about a make-more-interesting-forming capabilities for planets?