Are you serious dude? The weapons in this game have insane depth, far more than any other voxel space game out there. The differences between different combos are hardly just "reskins."
fully customizable 100% player created components is starmades biggest advantage over similar games.
youre equating starmades lack of well developed graphics and sound with a lack of depth... youre wrong.
Have you tried mice, yet?
You can't have seen much from the world. I met people irl who are much worse.
This is a common misconception. The ENGINE has been in development for 10 years, give or take. The game itself has been in development for ~5 years. Not only this, most, probably 90% at least, of both of those were done by a single man, who gained no profit from either until around year 3 of the game's development, whereas he had to work another job and may still have to while working on this.
What was meant by that comment was that flora and fauna aren't really going to be a primary aspect of the game in a major way. They will be things you encounter, and maybe you will need something out of them or receive something out of harvesting them, but they will not be the way to achieve your personal victory in the grand scheme of things. They aren't the biggest priority.
Yes they will be. When we get to properly working on universe changes, we may tinker with the concept that they are even farther apart than they are currently.
We can put models into the game that take up more than 1 block of space, but nothing that pertains to that is a priority. Those would be decorative blocks or features such as mini anti-personnel turrets for vehicles, which is not what starmade needs right now.
No it isn't. We are thinking of a way to incorporate that into the capital ship/chamber stuff without it being a glorified jump drive with a different name.
It is something that I and at least a few others would like to see as an option. For now we will still have an infinite universe, however we might increase the space between galaxies.
THE community doesn't do this, because THE community doesn't exist. The problem is the part of the community, that makes the wrong demands, while the other part is right.
This may surprise you, but "the community" is actually comprised of multiple groups that have different opinions on the state of things, so if you focus on any one thing dramatically over another, those players will speak out. And I thought the whole point of releasing information about future updates was to get feedback on how to improve them before they're implemented, saving time? You act like receiving criticism of plans is bad thing.
As far as warp gates go I think that they ought to have "destination blocks" in which you would toggle what warp gate or coordinate [as in the gates functioning as accelerators, not as strictly linked objects] it would send you to. These could be toggled on and off with logic. This coupled with my "Logic Activator Beam" suggestion [Read by Schine - Logic Activator beam] would lead to a SUPER cool system that would allow for multiple destinations to be triggered from a single point. Think about a sort of hub kind of experience.
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My point still stays how to cater the engine towards a game if you do not know what the game should become like? Your version made it even worse, no wonder the game concept and engine are so alien towards each other an thus result in theese weird mechanics just trying to mix it together somehow...
I think you just answered your own question. Why not just fold its functionality into jump drives by having a special chamber that greatly extends the jump drive range but gives some severe penalties?
We'd like to incorporate fleet mechanics into the capital ship jump drive stuff. Yet to be fully determined although I am sure you get which direction we are going by my comments.
Faction points is essentially a place holder system for an over arching mechanic and will change substantially in the future. This is why you don't see it developed on much or at all. It's been talked about at length, and we have a system "designed" it's waiting on other parts of the game though.
