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What would be really nice is a GUI for storage that let you actually see everything without having to scroll... But yes, at the moment storage is only really useful if you have a lot of random loot you're transporting.

If you really wanted to play like that, what you could do is build little disintegrator ships with warp drives... granted you'd have to be flying them yourselves.

Heh, funny thing, toward the end of my stint playing Minecraft, even mods got boring for me. Most of them ultimately boiled down to spending oodles of resources to do repetitive tasks in your base... and once you reach the end of the linear progression, you're left with overpowered equipment...

I am a bit concerned that quite a few of the ideas here might make the game too faction-heavy... it should be kept accessible to lone players as much as possible. I do agree that there should be a benefit to holding systems (and planets) as opposed to just scrapping everything inside for...

Still kind of hoping for farming and alien lifeforms myself. But anything involving universe generation is good.

You do realize that Android apps are written in Java and run on a lightweight virtual machine not too unlike a JVM? That being said, the issue with voxel games is the sheer number of entities involved, which can put a sizeable strain on even lower end computers. Now, Minecraft managed it...

Yeah, I think there's probably a natural way of integrating a lot of the movements you'd want to be able to do into very few actual buttons (look at FPS controls, for example). Maybe you'd: Hold a key to crouch (maybe shift), then push a direction key while holding the crouch key to crawl...

That would be pretty neat. I would, at least, like to see plants somewhat like MC's saplings that grow into larger structures. Keep in mind they don't have to be earth plants, either - I could see the stuff you find on purple planets growing into quite interesting shapes.

They do have quite nice landscapes. If only they were lit a bit better...

I would like bioships, though I'm not sure how they could be made to work as far as game mechanics go (i.e. make the ships feel alive while keeping them balanced with mechanical ships, would you be able to use mechanical parts on a bio-ship, could they be built or would you need to grow them...

Hmm... seems interesting. I had made a few attempts at Minecraft modding once, though nothing ever came of it. It's a bit demoralizing to want to make a mod to do X, when that thing is done by several other mods out there, which are much larger and better than what I could reasonably create or...

Plot twist: Schema is actually the cat. Salvage to storage is one of those features I never knew I wanted. Really great idea! Keep up the awesome work!

Power suits and alien lifeforms. Reminds me of Metroid games. Yes please. Eventually I would like to be able to go on expeditions out to the deepest reaches of space, collecting unusual creatures from bizzare planets to place in some sort of zoo or research facility. Hopefully, along with...

A roadmap would be nice... people mention planned features here and there but it's all a bit nebulous. I remember a while back there was some talk of adding randomly generated alien lifeforms. I hope that one comes up soon. I like the idea of the game and think it has huge potential, but to...

I think it's an interesting idea now that there are better ways to travel long distances, but as it is right now there's not much reason to explore out that far... more variety in universe generation might make this better.

Yeah, it was largely the more artistic side of things I struggled with. That and not knowing where to find information on what kinds of hooks were out there (didn't want to go changing base classes, after all). The discussion about unique traits between species got me thinking - what about...

Resource scarcity isn't a bad thought. The only thing is, what sort of resource would be worth fighting over in the current system? I could see maybe if fuel became a thing in a future update, than planets with fuel reserves (I kind of picture it as a slow, long lasting or infinite trickle)...

Good point, shields need to be balanced to avoid drawn out battles. IMO (and feel free to disagree with me here), they should be balanced such that even the most heavily shielded ship can eventually have its shields dropped by sustained weapons fire of any sort, as opponents you can't hope to...

Hmm... I kind of like the idea of not needing nearly as many shield blocks to get adequate defenses.

Good to hear. I had tried modding Minecraft at one point, but found the whole thing a bit... esoteric, to say the least. Here's hoping that whatever mod API is produced for Starmade will have some decent documentation. Wouldn't you also be keeping track of each organism's species anyway...