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[NullForceOmega]

I think that by roadmap, we are less refering to a list of planned features, and more refering to a list of 'this needs to be done so we can get to that' list.

[Greenbane]

But Starbound does have a "road map" so to speak.

If they hit version 1.0 and there is no, terraforming for example...

Do you mean the beta stages? They're extremely vague, and don't really list which features will be implemented when. Have they even been referred to in the past year? They're hardly descriptive enough either for the devs to justify their efforts so far, or the players to use against them to demand more. In essence, they're useless.

Given the recent talks about version 1.0 and work on the Novakids, it seems Chucklefish thinks or at least pretends the game's nearing the end of the final beta phase. The truth is there hasn't been a significant official release in over six months, and back then Starbound's progress since entering Early Access was rather modest. The impression I got and keep getting is that the devs have no clue what they're doing at this point, and just want all of this to be over.

[Oneir]

The impression I got and keep getting is that the devs have no clue what they're doing at this point, and just want all of this to be over.

Which shows that this is equally a lesson for devs wondering about doing a Kickstarter as it is for players wanting to fund one.

Hype is hella work, especially if you want to do a thing professionally.

[Darkening Kaos]

     "Paging Dr. Kyzrati, paging Dr. Kyzrati.  Please report to the Chucklefish Ward"

[jocan2003]

Huh, I was going to say "Actually, they literally do have a roadmap" but it looks like they took that off their website. Some time after the Kickstarter, I guess?

As to the "Novakids start with guns" topic: might be interesting. If Novakids can't make melee weapons you either have a broken experience (guns are too weak/too strong) or a different experience and an incentive to be friends with people playing other races. I wonder what you could add/change to give the other races distinct niches?

Wait what? they removed their design plan to go on all randomon us? I fragging bought that game because the design/road-map was hitting my spot... i was willing to wait as long they incorporate all items on that lisst.. now its gone...

Did i just got chuckled at like a fish? (Pun fragging intented here).

[Darkmere]

http://playstarbound.com/roadmap/

That thing?

[Arbinire]

so what I'm gathering from Tiy's post is pretty much this "We're done with this game and you lot because we're special snowflakes and you're all meanieheads!  But I can't say that and since we DID get a lot of money from people expecting us to finish at some point, we'll keep up the appearance of working on the game, but with no real planned releases anymore ever, while we rake in more money from publishing more competent teams until the name of Chucklefish becomes a total black mark and ruins their business as well.  So nyah nyah , pissoff ya wankers!"

Maybe I'm cynical, but when there hasn't been substantial updates in going on 8 months, just talk about random features for a couple weeks before talks of new random features and anyone bringing up the old random features gets banned...I'm thinking at this point anyone defending this has a serious case of fanboy stockholm syndrome...but I really really hope I'm proved wrong, cause I threw down my 15 nuyen on this drek too.  At this point the very least they could do is just hand it off to another team, but I suppose that'd take a chunk out of their $10-15 million + profit margin.

[jocan2003]

http://playstarbound.com/roadmap/

That thing?

This is one of the few *design doc* i saw and there was more. http://playstarbound.com/the-future-of-starbound/ . Most of them were also log on IRC on what was to come. But i believe i would be guilty to buy the game before it was officialy *feature complete* instead of buying while waiting for these *goal* to come and hoping they would stick to what they said.

[Darkmere]

http://playstarbound.com/the-future-of-starbound/

Oh man. Good times. Let's take a look. Of the 26 items on the list, 7 months later parts of the following have actually made it in:

-Biome Hazards (but only meteors and airless planets, so 20% done)
-Monster Generation (though that seems to have been better than what they planned, so I will give credit where it's due)
-Server Controls (kinda. There's a few, I think. And you can get user mods for more!)
-Controls (you can remap if you happen to find the text doc and manually edit that in, as far as I know. The actual UI they posted for it wasn't in last I knew.)
-Pokeballs (you can capture ultra-weak baby mons that die in 3 hits of anything. pokeballs are bugged and you can easily lose the pet permanently. But it's there, kinda)
-Reduced Wipes - Done! We think!
-Other stuff (Kinda done. ish. this is nebulous enough to mean almost nothing.)

So right now there's bits and pieces of a little more than 1/4 of that list actually kind of in the game a little. At this rate, in another 19 months + a few to finish implementing the rest of the list in a janky it's-technically-there way, we can finally move into... playtesting the feature-complete beta and balance concerns.

[alexandertnt]

Maby malice was the right word

[Frumple]

It's certainly the right word for a fair number of people's reactions at this point.

Really should just stop checking the thread, as it's pretty much stopped producing any conversation of note or worth regarding the game, but I keep hoping that maybe this time it'll be something besides kicking the dead horse some more. But nope. Kick kick kick.

[Darkmere]

Eh, no one's stopping anyone from generating the kinds of conversations they wish to see. I'll gladly discuss the game when something worth discussing about it comes up?

[WillowLuman]

It's certainly the right word for a fair number of people's reactions at this point.

Really should just stop checking the thread, as it's pretty much stopped producing any conversation of note or worth regarding the game, but I keep hoping that maybe this time it'll be something besides kicking the dead horse some more. But nope. Kick kick kick.

Yeah, getting a little tired of "This game has been out of development so long, it now officially sucks and so does anyone who still likes it."

...

So how about them mods. Let's talk about mods.

[Reverie]

There's quite a few, though I haven't played any of them.

[RexMundi]

I like serious's mod pack/compialation. easy set up, and it's not too hard to change if i feel like it