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[Nelia Hawk]

mute option

or how about an "earmuff" item?
you equip it and cant hear any music from other players anymore... and no soundeffects in general... and all speach text will be muffed too... (a bunch of letters missing? like: "a ..nch .f ..tt.r. m....ng?" )

[miauw62]

Cool idea. It'll be so useless people will just turn down their computer volume!

[Maldevious]

Cool idea. It'll be so useless people will just turn down their computer volume!

I really do hope there is some in-game way to mute them, though, because I rather enjoy the soundtrack.

[miauw62]

I bet there'll be a menu that lets you adjust volume of different things like SFX, music, etc. Practically all games have.

[Maldevious]

I bet there'll be a menu that lets you adjust volume of different things like SFX, music, etc. Practically all games have.

True, but hopefully it'll let you parse out "player instruments" instead of SFX in general. Already foreseeing griefers running around with cowbells and trombones...

[scriver]

Griefers? Back in my days, we called them Jazz Pjatts.

[Girlinhat]

I just noticed there was music on the soundtrack called 'ocean exploration'

I am DEFINITELY getting my own ocean planet.

When the game's out, we're gonna HAVE to do a B12 server were we colonize the single least hospitable planet we can find.

And I know what most of you are thinking.  "Oh, so we'll embark on an aquifer instead of-" NO!  I mean a permanently frozen terrifying zombie glacier aquifer with recurring giant zombie badgers and dire werewolf sieges.  If there were ever a method to 'literally colonize hell' we're gonna have to do it in Starbound.

[penguinofhonor]

I have mixed feelings about their design philosophy. On one hand, I love the Sunday projects and things like that - when you let designers work on what they want, you tend to get really cool features that you can tell have a lot of love put into them.

On the other hand, features can get really fragmented like this. This is probably helped a lot by their smaller design team, but I hate playing games where Feature A is fleshed out well, and Feature B is fleshed out well, but when you try to use them at the same time they don't work because the two features were created completely separately and no thought was put into their interaction.

[Girlinhat]

I just noticed there was music on the soundtrack called 'ocean exploration'

I am DEFINITELY getting my own ocean planet.

When the game's out, we're gonna HAVE to do a B12 server were we colonize the single least hospitable planet we can find.

Or find a large server, make a B12 faction, find the least hospitable planet, then use the native lifeforms as a form of defence from griefers, raiders and general dicks.

I like this idea as well.  We'll be 'those jerks who live inside the volcano' and people will be like 'Those B12 jerks came by and dicked around in our space again' and 'We should go mess up their base!  Where do they live?  Oh...  Well I guess I don't mind when people visit our space...'

[hemmingjay]

I have mixed feelings about their design philosophy. On one hand, I love the Sunday projects and things like that - when you let designers work on what they want, you tend to get really cool features that you can tell have a lot of love put into them.

On the other hand, features can get really fragmented like this. This is probably helped a lot by their smaller design team, but I hate playing games where Feature A is fleshed out well, and Feature B is fleshed out well, but when you try to use them at the same time they don't work because the two features were created completely separately and no thought was put into their interaction.

We had this discussion a few pages ago and it didn't really go anywhere. Long story short, about half the people agree with you, the other half think it's cool and you can't have too much stuff.
*note - I may have been generous with my percentages in an effort to prevent further splintering of the discussion.

[scriver]

I just noticed there was music on the soundtrack called 'ocean exploration'

I am DEFINITELY getting my own ocean planet.

When the game's out, we're gonna HAVE to do a B12 server were we colonize the single least hospitable planet we can find.

And I know what most of you are thinking.  "Oh, so we'll embark on an aquifer instead of-" NO!  I mean a permanently frozen terrifying zombie glacier aquifer with recurring giant zombie badgers and dire werewolf sieges.  If there were ever a method to 'literally colonize hell' we're gonna have to do it in Starbound.

And just like that, I really want to play DF again.

Also this game.

[Neonivek]

We had this discussion a few pages ago and it didn't really go anywhere. Long story short, about half the people agree with you, the other half think it's cool and you can't have too much stuff.
*note - I may have been generous with my percentages in an effort to prevent further splintering of the discussion.

It all really comes down to when the game is actually released, and frankly as always game making is an artistic undertaking so giving your developers artistic license, even when what they will work on isn't a direct improvement of the game, isn't something I can frown at.

Instruments could work though.

[Shooer]

Space traveling carnivorous plant mariachi bands.  My dreams have come true!

[Fniff]

I'm predicting troll buskers who will constantly follow you everywhere, even in space, and never leave.

[Niveras]

Complete with a MIDI version of Hotel California with appropriate Starbound/troll lyrics.