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[Fniff]

Don't forget Bob Dylan songs. Buskers always play Bob Dylan songs.

[Kaitol]

They probably won't be able to follow you onto your ship unless they're in your party or something. Then just jet off a to a different planet. They probably won't be able follow you. Plus they'll probably get a million requests for an ignore button that also silences them.

[Frumple]

... mute button could be done in style. Instead of just muting them, your character actually walks up to them, rips the instrument out of their hands, and forcibly crams it down their throat. Instrument access will thereafter be lost until they finish digesting, a time which would vary based on race.

This is best idea.

[ShoesandHats]

... mute button could be done in style. Instead of just muting them, your character actually walks up to them, rips the instrument out of their hands, and forcibly crams it down their throat. Instrument access will thereafter be lost until they finish digesting, a time which would vary based on race.

This is best idea.

And until they finish digesting it, their entire body is shaped liked whatever instrument they were using.

Kinda like this.

[Urist Imiknorris]

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a band of adventurers playing the Star Wars cantina theme forever.

[penguinofhonor]

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.

I thought that was about feature creep - i.e. new things keep getting added to the point that nothing ever gets finished.

My fear is a bit different: features getting finished and being fully polished by themselves, but not meshing together very well because they were created completely separately.

[Darkmere]

... mute button could be done in style. Instead of just muting them, your character actually walks up to them, rips the instrument out of their hands, and forcibly crams it down their throat. Instrument access will thereafter be lost until they finish digesting, a time which would vary based on race.

This is best idea.

I'm pelting this post with +1's but smf doesn't support it for some reason.

[scriver]

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a band of adventurers playing the Star Wars cantina theme forever.

And the future is glorious.

[hemmingjay]

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.

I thought that was about feature creep - i.e. new things keep getting added to the point that nothing ever gets finished.

My fear is a bit different: features getting finished and being fully polished by themselves, but not meshing together very well because they were created completely separately.

Sort of. My argument that one of the problems with scope creep is that the additional pieces don't fit together well and the final product is less coherent. In short, I am in complete agreement with you.

And to answer everyone who asked if that was the big announcement yesterday, no. Three of four important people were out of the "office" and the announcement has been pushed back. The person that shares information with me says that they are afraid they are starting to be pushed away from the project. I hope that that's just healthy paranoia and not indicative of the sort of split that can happen to teams at launch.

[Lukewarm]

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

That's it. I'm buying this, 100 percent.

[Shakerag]

I keep forgetting to watch this thread.

[freeformschooler]

The Q&A thread on their forums is really cool, and it at least gives me confidence that if there's going to be a huge amount of feature creep, it'll be post release.

[Neonivek]

The Q&A thread on their forums is really cool, and it at least gives me confidence that if there's going to be a huge amount of feature creep, it'll be post release.

Feature creep is only an issue if it interferes with the game. Otherwise it is just a lot of features.

Instruments for example are not a required part of the game nor are they intrusive to the gameplay. They can be ignored or treated as loot.

[freeformschooler]

The main thing I was concerned about was it pushing development further and further back or worse leading to bugs that also push development way back on top of that. But judging by Tiy's responses, they really want to get a beta and release out the door asap.

[Neonivek]

The main thing I was concerned about was it pushing development further and further back or worse leading to bugs that also push development way back on top of that. But judging by Tiy's responses, they really want to get a beta and release out the door asap.

I REALLY hope they don't pull a Terraria where they release it early and then find out "ohh wait, developing is hard... Well we have the money already..."