Dave and his crew

[Calbiri]

There's a new astronaut here, and his name is-



Dave


He is an animated 3D model and skin created by Keaton Pursell (aka Omnimmotus) http://twitter.com/Omnimmotus

Dave is your default skin in the world of Starmade, but he may also be replaced with other skins (including custom helmet skins.)

He also has a beautiful new world of textures to explore, thanks to Tom Berridge (aka Kupu) the creator of Starmade's official new texture packs.

Dave isn't alone in this lustrous new iteration of Starmade, he has a crew! You can now hire crew member NPC's from stations. Although your limited to 5 active NPC's you can give commands to at once, you can have more in reserve aboard your ship. (This is still an early stage for NPC's, and theres plenty left to add, so if something seems in need of improvement, rest assured, it will be addressed.) Be warned, NPC's can die, and theres no way to respawn them currently.

In addition to the new crew in this next patch, Schema has added;

• A new AI panel - To better control your AI minions.
• The Fabricator tool - Seriously, who even uses picks anymore?
• Docking Beam Fix - Cockpits can now function as the dock beam origin block (in addition to the core.)
• Signature fetching - Another optimization, the client will ask for whole regions and server will send back a bit map of what segments are 100% empty, so the client then only requests non empty segments to load.

***NOT CURRENTLY IN GAME***

This content is in the upcoming patch, it is not a part of the download you may be getting, that is from a prior news post schema snuck in, you only uploaded a hotfix for some bugs in the current version. So, again, sorry but this is not anything you can currently access in the game.

 

[WolfChild]

Dave... Makes me think of minions from Despicable Me...

What kind of things can we tell our minions to do? Also, are the textures pre-installed or do we have to download them?

 

[RobinZ52]

Thank you so much for everything schema!

For the game, for the community, and now for this upcoming update! :D

 

[RobinZ52]

(and the rest of the crew too that worked hard on the game, for that matter )

 

[Calbiri]

There are defaults pre installed for Dave starting with the dev version and onwards.

 

[Draren Thiralas]

That\'s just so awesome!

 

[Maxkallan17]

I love starmade

 

[GROOV3ST3R]

any information on the function of the crew members? :3

 

[Crimson-Artist]

my god all these changes... could it be we are finally seeing the advent of....

BETA!?

 

[Calbiri]

Until you see whats planned in the next patch

 

[Crimson-Artist]

cuz starmade has got its number

 

[Mariona]

Please please let it be some form of Warpgates, or 3d person view.

 

[Omegacybran]

Wow being able to hire a crew is awesome. I just cant make clear what kind of things they can do onboard of you ship. Or do you pit them in their own and they like escort you? Im looking forward to seeing and maybe testing it if I can get access to the dev build.

 

[Imperial_Gold]

So pumped for this update!

 

[Omni]

I\'m afraid your pop culture connection is missing the much more important nod to classic Sci Fi.

 

[elicitend]

some of these kids were born in 2001 so you cant blame them.

 

[brucethemoose]

I will happily sell a kidney for a dev build with the new weapons, NPCs, AI and optimizations.

And the future... this game has an absurd amount of potential.

 

[Mariona]

^.^ I was there for the World of Warcraft Alpha, and the Minecraft Alpha.

I find this game to be far more satisfying.

I cant wait to Open my server to the public.

\"The Imperial Realm\" a Hardcore PVP Server. Coming soon with the next big content patch.

 

[LunaMoonbringer]

I can see you\'re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

I wonder how many inactive crew I can jam into my ships.

I hope the current textures won\'t be thrown out the window completly. So far I prefer the default over all the texture packs I\'ve tried.