I love Starmade. I really do. Even though I've only played for a few hours or so. It's very smooth, both for Alpha and for this level of complexity. Shipt controls (and controls in general) are superb and it's really good to play it. Perhaps that's because of multithreaded nature of SM from the start instead of patching it up, like it was case with minecraft.
Now on the bad things, with a way of improvement.
Over all, great game. I hope that with right direction (which it have) it'll be true sandbox gem. I'll go play it right now.
Good luck making it!
Now on the bad things, with a way of improvement.
- Max speed of ship is really slow. 50km/h? For starship? REALLY? And it doesn't increase no matter how much boosters I put in, always maxes out on 49.9-50 km/h. There shouldn't be upper limit other than amount of boosters on the ships or speed of light, maybe (then again, it's a game and realism isn't as important there). Max speed should be speed that one booster gives * amount of boosters.
- Please add spherical planets. Of course completed with spherical gravity - there are numerous games that does such thing - Masterspace, several realistic flight sims, heck even Psychonauts (both titlescreen brain and Sascha's mind - didn't get anymore far than blueprint tank, know how to beat it, but execution fails, so I dunno if it does any more of it).
- Block updates takes waay too long. Sometimes after placing/removing block it takes up to 10 seconds for block to actually look like it was removed (collision box is updated instantly though). This affects plexdoors as well. Please focus on that one. Cause of this may be either being close to several big block bodies (shops, planets, big asteroids) or playing game for too long (which may suggest memory leak). Please focus on this, okay?
- One savestate? Seriously? I know universe is infinite, but sometimes I just want to start from scratch in new one without removing old universe (especially after mining out whole system).
Over all, great game. I hope that with right direction (which it have) it'll be true sandbox gem. I'll go play it right now.
Good luck making it!