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[h3lblad3]

or perhaps the Glitch play dubstep and act like it's fancy classical music!

Or classical funk made into dubstep!

Actually, that's a bit complicated. They should probably just play metal. *ba-dum-tsh*

Oh, you did not just diss Metal.  I know you didn't, because my ingame metal band, which will be a tribute to Dragonforce and UnexpecT, will rock your socks off.

No, because, Robots are made of metal. It's a pun.

No, because, I'm quite certain Robots are actually made of jam.

[Chattox]

So I've been playing through the new Civ 5 expansion and it got me wondering; is there archaeology in Starbound? It would be awesome to fly to a planet, set down and set up a dig site, excavate artefacts and maybe get some flavour text and then sell it on/salvage it/use it/whatever.

[Briggsy16]

Wasn't one of the stretch goals being able to discover fossils?

[Frumple]

Well, they're apparently intending fossils. No clue about anything beyond that. Don't even particularly remember if much has been said about the implementation of th'fossils, honestly.

Yeah, nin'd.

[Chattox]

Wasn't one of the stretch goals being able to discover fossils?

Not archaeology. That's paleontology.

For the sake of a videogame who's main focus isn't archaeology/palaeontology, we can class them as the same thing

Also, awesome! I'm now doubly excited for this game

[burningpet]

aren't there buried items?

[freeformschooler]

aren't there buried items?

I think that's pretty much a given in a game like this. In the last monster stream there was even a glimpse of an underground room with some shiny buried treasure.

[Baneling]

Wall chicken hoy?

[Niveras]

If they're going to implement pre-fabricated 'vaults' that get randomly plugged into the terrain generation (including underground), then it seems archeology could be in. But I forget if that's actually happening or if it was just a tangent discussion in this thread.

[hemmingjay]

It seems that the general consensus amongst the team is to release the SP beta soonish and finish with MP functionality for the next couple of months with Gold/retail scheduled for Dec or Jan at the latest. The team member I talk to says it's a much better game than they ever thought it would be.

I asked if July release was out of the question and he/she said it wasn't the most likely timeframe but that the biggest issue keeping that from happening is getting the pipelines for download/forums/site in place and tested for 100K+ downloads on day 1. August is more likely, but only if they do SP beta first. I'm trying to stay cool about this game but it honestly looks like it could be one of those genre shaping masterpieces.

[Skyrunner]

MPMPMPMPMPMP

o___o

must have mp

[Levi]

MPMPMPMPMPMP

o___o

must have mp

Hehe, agreed.  I'd actually rather wait for the MP, as half the fun is discovering stuff with another person. 

[hemmingjay]

I would suggest heading over to their forum and making it clear then. The majority of gamers are forced to play alone and most of the content that is completed is SP oriented right now, so I think those are their reasoning, but nothing is set in stone. Apparently, they also discuss the idea of waiting until EVERYTHING is done, circa Jan 2014. Everything is up in the air with this group. I do think you are outnumbered though, as many people play SP first to learn and then MP for social fun/pvp/group builds if Terraria and their forums are anything to go by.

[Levi]

Yeah, I get that and its probably true that there are more SP players than MP players.  I just might personally hold off on playing the beta until multiplayer is in so I can play with my roommate. 

I didn't realize that the MP functionality was so far off until now. 

[forsaken1111]

I would suggest heading over to their forum and making it clear then. The majority of gamers are forced to play alone and most of the content that is completed is SP oriented right now, so I think those are their reasoning, but nothing is set in stone. Apparently, they also discuss the idea of waiting until EVERYTHING is done, circa Jan 2014. Everything is up in the air with this group. I do think you are outnumbered though, as many people play SP first to learn and then MP for social fun/pvp/group builds if Terraria and their forums are anything to go by.

tbh I don't care which they do, I'm not touching the game until the MP is in anyway... so they can do whichever they like. My only fear is that releasing the SP beta will distract them further due to the inevitable flood of support issues, bug reports, etc.