So... Now that Starbound is almost finished (yes really, we are on the final few pieces)
What do you think about it?
If the next update is going to have as many good changes as the one brewing now (compared to current Stable), the game will surpass Terraria in the "interesting to play" category. Early progression is already very nice in the Nightly, and the survival elements are nicely done. Even the matter of food rotting and occupying individual cells in the inventory, regardless of how problematic it is for mass farming, adds something good to the previously bland exploration process, because now you have to ration yourself some food before you go out, and you need to balance the inventory space you reserve for food, with space you're going to need for any loot that isn't minerals, furniture, or pixels.
Flags being universal teleport receptors, though... might be a bit much. I mean. Sure you can't beam
out from a flag unless you make it to the surface, and cheap "beam me here" markers are highly useful, but it'd make a lot more sense if they
only worked on the surface, or at least only from the ship while it's in orbit of the planet in question. Who needs teleporter cores when you can beam to a flag, then beam up to your ship, from the outpost teleporter?
(And yes, I do think this coming update is not the last. If for no other reason than this being the Story Update per the explanatory post, and there will still be the Polish Update.)