hello folks,
long time no see,
so, having been following the game's progress for a quite while now after i went on a long, long... break (?) (over about a year ago...), therefore i am not entirely up to date thus id like to know a few things before i decide to spend any time on shipbuilding again.
first of all, where can i find a list of planned features or a roadmap these days? if there is any at all, if there isn't one a thread with generally accepted ideas that will highly likely make it into the game will suffice...
second, last times i played was from the transition from disc shaped worlds to dodecahedron shaped planets and after the big weapons patch i played a good 2 or 3 sessions, have planets been improved, size, cpu/load, interest, wild/plant-life, etc? and have weapons, power, shields, been refined to a good status quo?
thirdly, cloaking, can you finally effectively blast those darn cloakers out of it, and is the system itself actually improved as a whole? because it was awesome but implementation kinda sucked (sorry).
fourth would be the same question but for jamming (and perhaps scanning).
fifth, is it finally possible, or in the works, to convert a ship to a station, or the other way around (to relocate warpgates/hypergates, or personal stations and structures, etc)?
i dont think so, but confirmation would be nice.
sixth and last (and longest);
what is the status on (the dreaded and age old, what people get tired of question), half blocks, or slabs, or whatever you want to call them (and following those, also stair blocks and fence shaped blocks).
the lack of half blocks/slabs is probably the main reason i "quit" the game, this since i used to play minecraft (oh the blasphemy, but hey, this game wins by a universe :D ) for a few years and therefore am rusted shut, design wise, in slabs, stairs, fences and iron bars (armor/interior/antennae/radars/wings/etc).
I really cannot build a smaller ship(s) (and some interiors for bigger vessels) that i actually like without half blocks/slabs... i know its an error/fault on my side, and anything bigger is usually ok (just look at the solar caphorn (sailship) and the nebuchadnezzar (matrix ship) videos mushroomfleet's youtube channel put up ages ago, since i built those).
however, the longer i played this game the more i craved the minecraft slabs and fences, especially since later on grates could substitude iron bars and slopes are generally a good alternative to stairs, although i would especially like to see stairs ingame (maybe just a wood/stone variant?) to make proper planetside porches and (in-)structure staircases. but slabs (and stairs) kept missing every update which made me a sad pirate...
i'm on the fence about fences since i really only used those purely as house decoration, ship railings and engine flaps... so i could do without these as starmade features alternatives that work almost as good.
but back to half blocks, i do not care for block inside block stuff, just those darn half blocks, no 1/4, or 1/8 or even 1/16, really just the standard crude slab in the face half block with the empty space atop to make my fancy stuff, basic grey would suffice, nothing else needed
.
i read a few threads and i noticed there is a lot of controversy amongst the community and no real official statements (as far as i know), and i would really like to know, what will it probably be? yes? no? possible without the community slipping into madness (and/or schema)?
threads i read that peaked my interest but did not satisfy me or give me a good awnser;
Half-blocks?
http://starmadedock.net/threads/half-blocks.4665/
half block
http://starmadedock.net/threads/half-block.5326/
unify block shapes
http://starmadedock.net/threads/unify-block-shapes.4250/
Crystal wedges, no extra IDs needed
http://starmadedock.net/threads/crystal-wedges-no-extra-ids-needed.1956/
thank you for reading this wall of plain text and have a nice day,
best regards, Pirate Ray.
long time no see,
so, having been following the game's progress for a quite while now after i went on a long, long... break (?) (over about a year ago...), therefore i am not entirely up to date thus id like to know a few things before i decide to spend any time on shipbuilding again.
first of all, where can i find a list of planned features or a roadmap these days? if there is any at all, if there isn't one a thread with generally accepted ideas that will highly likely make it into the game will suffice...
second, last times i played was from the transition from disc shaped worlds to dodecahedron shaped planets and after the big weapons patch i played a good 2 or 3 sessions, have planets been improved, size, cpu/load, interest, wild/plant-life, etc? and have weapons, power, shields, been refined to a good status quo?
thirdly, cloaking, can you finally effectively blast those darn cloakers out of it, and is the system itself actually improved as a whole? because it was awesome but implementation kinda sucked (sorry).
fourth would be the same question but for jamming (and perhaps scanning).
fifth, is it finally possible, or in the works, to convert a ship to a station, or the other way around (to relocate warpgates/hypergates, or personal stations and structures, etc)?
i dont think so, but confirmation would be nice.
sixth and last (and longest);
what is the status on (the dreaded and age old, what people get tired of question), half blocks, or slabs, or whatever you want to call them (and following those, also stair blocks and fence shaped blocks).
the lack of half blocks/slabs is probably the main reason i "quit" the game, this since i used to play minecraft (oh the blasphemy, but hey, this game wins by a universe :D ) for a few years and therefore am rusted shut, design wise, in slabs, stairs, fences and iron bars (armor/interior/antennae/radars/wings/etc).
I really cannot build a smaller ship(s) (and some interiors for bigger vessels) that i actually like without half blocks/slabs... i know its an error/fault on my side, and anything bigger is usually ok (just look at the solar caphorn (sailship) and the nebuchadnezzar (matrix ship) videos mushroomfleet's youtube channel put up ages ago, since i built those).
however, the longer i played this game the more i craved the minecraft slabs and fences, especially since later on grates could substitude iron bars and slopes are generally a good alternative to stairs, although i would especially like to see stairs ingame (maybe just a wood/stone variant?) to make proper planetside porches and (in-)structure staircases. but slabs (and stairs) kept missing every update which made me a sad pirate...
i'm on the fence about fences since i really only used those purely as house decoration, ship railings and engine flaps... so i could do without these as starmade features alternatives that work almost as good.
but back to half blocks, i do not care for block inside block stuff, just those darn half blocks, no 1/4, or 1/8 or even 1/16, really just the standard crude slab in the face half block with the empty space atop to make my fancy stuff, basic grey would suffice, nothing else needed
.i read a few threads and i noticed there is a lot of controversy amongst the community and no real official statements (as far as i know), and i would really like to know, what will it probably be? yes? no? possible without the community slipping into madness (and/or schema)?
threads i read that peaked my interest but did not satisfy me or give me a good awnser;
Half-blocks?
http://starmadedock.net/threads/half-blocks.4665/
half block
http://starmadedock.net/threads/half-block.5326/
unify block shapes
http://starmadedock.net/threads/unify-block-shapes.4250/
Crystal wedges, no extra IDs needed
http://starmadedock.net/threads/crystal-wedges-no-extra-ids-needed.1956/
thank you for reading this wall of plain text and have a nice day,
best regards, Pirate Ray.
