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[qurvax]

Well, those still are. StarSector gonna deliver... [some day]. And SotSII already became good game (imho).

Some lolz from official starbound forum. A list of thread names, actually.

Who else is "too sick to go to school" today
*realizes today is the 4th of December*
Being unemployed sucks... But not today!!
Hmmm... Oh yeah... Today...
I'm Excited.
It's Almost Here!
Perplexed Pixels
THEY STILL DON'T KNOW!!!!111
Almost

Anyone else thinks this is really funny?

[Ibid Straydrink]

The fact that we've seen a host of pre-beta Let's Plays, however scripted, should testify to some stability... based on what I've seen, I'm not overly worried.

[chaoticag]

Oh I'm not worried for the first hour of the game or so. I'd imagine the planet you start on has been thoroughly bug tested due to i49 and other stuff. I'm just certain I'd run into a crash every now and then.

Still looking forward to building a minifort though. Since starbound takes what I liked about Terraria construction such as furniture, and streamlines it and polishes it. Plus, who wouldn't want a fancy dining table with a chandelier in their spaceship?

[Mephisto]

I know planets are randomly generated. Has it been mentioned if they regenerate each time you visit or if all of your work remains if you leave and come back?

I know which I would prefer, but I could see save sizes getting pretty unmanageable.

[freeformschooler]

Most of the planets aren't too big, iirc (nothing like Terraria's larger worlds), but hopefully they do have decent save compression, and we don't run into an unpreventable Caves of Qud problem.

[chaoticag]

I know planets are randomly generated. Has it been mentioned if they regenerate each time you visit or if all of your work remains if you leave and come back?

I know which I would prefer, but I could see save sizes getting pretty unmanageable.

From what I read a while back, saves are not quite "every planet you've been on and explored stored into one file" but the game save system saves the RNG of the planet/universe and saves the changes you've made to a planet. So it should be manage-ably small unless you go around blowing planets to stardust by hand.

[Rolan7]

That sounds incredible.  I know in Minecraft I love to go exploring, but it bloats the save files so much (sometimes I even delete the region files to reset them).

[The Darkling Wolf]

go around blowing planets to stardust by hand.

This is probably the first thing I'll try. Erase an entire planet and see what happens.

[Ultimuh]

go around blowing planets to stardust by hand.

This is probably the first thing I'll try. Erase an entire planet and see what happens.

That could take quite a while.

[The Darkling Wolf]

It'd be a nice bit of validation of the 32GB I've plugged in there.

[Mephisto]

I know planets are randomly generated. Has it been mentioned if they regenerate each time you visit or if all of your work remains if you leave and come back?

I know which I would prefer, but I could see save sizes getting pretty unmanageable.

From what I read a while back, saves are not quite "every planet you've been on and explored stored into one file" but the game save system saves the RNG of the planet/universe and saves the changes you've made to a planet. So it should be manage-ably small unless you go around blowing planets to stardust by hand.

Brilliant. Why I didn't think of that, I have no clue. Especially as that was the kind of idea I had for the currently vaporware game I was going to start.

[qurvax]

'Well, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is, I have a LOAD of mineral wealth! The bad news is, if I leave this planet, the game starts using up so much RAM that my computer explodes.'

It's seems like you are already playing? How?!

[Sean Mirrsen]

'Well, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is, I have a LOAD of mineral wealth! The bad news is, if I leave this planet, the game starts using up so much RAM that my computer explodes.'

It's seems like you are already playing? How?!

He's "playing" a joke extrapolated from the prior discussion - i.e. what would happen if the player mined out the whole planet.

[The Darkling Wolf]

And now I'm wondering if we'll ever be able to tunnel through the planet's core, considering they're already circumnavigable.

[freeformschooler]

And now I'm wondering if we'll ever be able to tunnel through the planet's core, considering they're already circumnavigable.

Someone needs to build America on one side of a planet and China on the other.