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I just wanted to make the most valuable Content from the discussion available for quick reference as well as to the rest of the community, (not in Discord).
#I have done some extreme editing...
It is concentrated around Schema's answers and planned development progress.
I have also edited other comments for ease of reading.
Feel free to add something you felt was important, (and/or) I missed below!
Feel free to share your thoughts and/or concerns about where StarMade is going!
#Official Discussion:
July 18, ~6pm Eastern Time, the Starmade Discord will be hosting a "Discuss with the Devs" session. All are welcome to participate! We will be discussing development progress, the pitfalls we've stepped into, and the ideas we have as well as your concerns. If enough people participate and call for more, we'll be repeating this in the future, to help you, our supporters, get a closer look into what we've been working on! ~The Schine Team
schemaYesterday at 23:57
#UNIVERSE
Stairs will come probably as LOD blocks. Multi block LOD will also be a thing.
* LOD (and block design system in general) system is being overhauled to a point where everything is more or less automated so that bugs are minimized. Also means that it will be a lot easier for players to add their own blocks
* Desynch seems to affect a lot of astronaut movement and some ship. There is probably one central issue causing this, so fixing that will be a focus either in universe update or in beta after.
* RTS stuff will be improved, but will not go too overboard. While you can manage individual fleets, the main game mechanics of the universe update itself will go more in the direction of grand strategy, but also requiring personal involvment at points.
The basic idea of a single player/coop or even general game would be to "take over the universe".
Gameplay would be in a way split into multiple phases depending on the player's progression.
Basically it will be a variation on "survival".
You do start out with very few resources, so it can only be considered "survival" in the first few phases.
After that, the player can use their accumulated assets to replace the survival work (being able to use fleets to mine, and getting passive resources).
The galaxy will be flattened.
It will still all be fully 3 dimensional, but the "point of interest" in the universe will somewhat on the same plane (think of a stellaris galaxy map somewhat).
The galaxy will be divided up into regions with different types.
Stars, nebula, black hole, empty, gas giants etc would be the main feature and several other things in the locale like planets moons, asteroid fields etc.
Everything will be fairly distinct, so there is a clear structure to things you can see in a map overview kinda like a fallout 3 map (though randomized).
Distances and space will be plenty, but the points of interest where players would be gathering around and fighting over would be limited.
Regions also include environment effects and different resource sets.
Some are inhabitable.
Sectors would be hidden and regions would have a somewhat organic shape (not a square or rectangle).
Region borders are fixed at universe creation, basically to make it possible to have a clear top down view of the whole galaxy.
Things might still be on a different y plane, however stuff will not be layered on top of each other.
Yes moons would be a thing, possibly rings, but depends on how viable it is.
Basically players will gain territory and establish their presence.
This would all be done with a new resource: "population".
Population itslf is rather abstract and can be used in several ways.
It can be obtained from a central point (probably traiding guilt) in small quantities.
They can be frozen, stored and transported. They can also be deployed on stations/planets.
The player will have to designate living areas, and possibly other areas (with restrictions, e.g. must be at least 2 blocks high).
Based on those areas a station can fit a number of population.
An AI system would visualize them (spawning people walking around in those areas).
They would also like NPCs possibly spawn outposts and fly around with ships (same system could be used for player ship crews, too).
For the sake of simplicity, players can build one "main" station per system, and as many other side ones, that possibly act as support.
They would essentially power your passive income, so you would go from manual mining -> fleet mining -> passive mining, essentially.
Faction points would probably interact, but still be used for PvP, per region that would be*.
IthirahadToday at 00:06
>players can build one "main" station per system, and as many other side ones, that possibly act as support.
So, faction wars will revolve around destroying these support stations and then finally contesting the main one?
schemaToday at 00:06
Basically yes, either that or, putting your own population in the region, without fighting.
What im tending to right now would be probably a hope station protection for the main station which would go away when several blows were dealt to other assets in that region
Fighting over a region would be involving population, too.
There would be a mechanic to make it hard to attack main stations (possibly having to take out other points too), but there would also be a mechanic to "peacefully" take control by farrying your own population into the region (only possibly over time, not at once).
A region would also have different features from pirate threat to NPC presence to alien life.
Some planets might be populated by native people and the player could either convert them to their own people, or exterminate them.
Depending on population, there could be several things improving station defence, mainly spawning military coming to aid.
Also some special items could be used for stations, but more on that later
This will be all in the universe update, it is in fact the very core of it.
I would say NPCs are part of the core since its essential to population.
I dont want it to be purely abstract since its so essential to gameplay now.
Populaition on ships could definitely be for improving that ship, but im not yet too sure of those specifics since it would affect balance.
You will be able to do both, one actively and one passively.
You would put population into defense and that would make them spawn ships.
This system is built to last a few weeks up to a certain point until the endgame is reached.
There would be several options for the super late game like apocalyptic threats attacking,
I'm leaning towards resets with a global leader boards and players of course keeping their blueprints and maybe gaining items/blue print slots for doing the best in a galaxy lifetime.
Of course you're also free to play endlessly in the same universe without any reset, but for me the build up from nothing to empire is what I like to play most.
I'm aiming for a rough dev build at the end of the year, but it will essentially be a different game.
In the early stages the player would have a lot of involvement in all the dirty work, and while not necessary a player can keep doing it at any point in the game.
Later stages involve a lot of decision making and resource management.
However, there are several ways to play this.
You could also go full military with a lot less management and just take over by force.
The end goal would be to gradually take over bigger and stronger regions as you expand your own territory.
Planets will be viable for reasources and population. Depending on the planet they would be incredible for population generation.
They will also be the only source of some resources.
IthirahadToday at 00:17
In several previous updates (NPC update, etc.).
Lots of things were promised that would have made the updates a lot more worthwhile for players, that we still don't have. NPC update was supposed to have some sort of "war score" system if memory serves. The original weapons update was supposed to have improved weapon effects through the particle system, mine layers and an entire other layer of combos. The fleet update was supposed to come with more formation stuff soon after if not with the initial patch, et cetera.
What happened in those updates, and how do we know that isn't happening again?
schemaToday at 00:18
All those things were planned, and a lot of it still is, but it's just very hard to get cohesion on it.
Graphics updates are still planned, audio system is currently in the works.
#UNIVERSE
No plans for a lot of personal gear atm, but may come after universe update.
Progression would be in a form of aquirering special items that can be applied to ships and stations
(they would have some kind of reassurrance to not lose them.
Basically you would put an item in your ship, but you would get it back if the ship gets destroyed/lost).
Items could be aquired by going beyond the galaxy border into the void.
The farther you go the more dangerous but the more valuable the loot might be.
There might also be events spawning in the void for those items.
Some items would also require you to reach a certain milestone in terms of controlling the galaxy.
For a faction these requirements would count for every member, but you would still have to do some kind of mission/raid in the void to get the item.
Mining will be changes in that more options for mining would be added.
There would be mining that involved building collection facilities on planets.
There would also be a more active form of mining which would involve building a ship with collectors and flying through certain areas of the galaxy.
In the universe update, there will be an invading force other than other NPC faction.
This force comes from outside the known universe.
You will also be able to go into their space to complete hard survival tasks to get certain items.
Items could go from resource bonuses for stations/mining to ship upgrades (e.g. extra reactor capacity)
Most galaxy AI will be peaceful as long as you dont attack them.
Agressive AI will come from outside, which makes it a lot easier to handle
Mods would have full control over API and would be allowed to mod it as they se fit.
LUA is already part of the engine in a way and could be one of the options for modding.
LUA will likely be used for AI/NPC behaviors.
Mods could be either used as an extension to the universe (adding events etc) or fully transform the game as see fit.
I think the most dead ends in programming happened in graphics optimizations and chunk/bandwidth management.
For example I did whole algorithms like compressed octrees to realize that regular compression is just as small, if not smaller.
The whole cubatom system was kind of a bust (if anyone remembers that).
Advertisement will start with the universe update as soon as it's in a stable state,
(playable in the sense of not too many bugs to not scare people away).
Fleet mechanic will be improved. I can't say yet how exactly it will work, but there are a lot of issues i like to straighten out.
Changes along the universe update will likely be in their own updates.
Being able to skip the "brush up and combine with current game" step saves a lot of time.
That can be then combined into one step.
Profitability of StarMade: the game will still be finished under any circumstance.
In worst case the only thing that would change is that it would take longer because more time would have to be dedicated to side projects to provide funds.
However, starmade will not be abandoned.
The plan is to work with quickfire for a new vanilla balance
I think worrying too much about small things in balance and preventing abuse impeded progress the most.
That's why the rule system now exists.
Chairs are planned, and with that sharing control on the ship.
questions about bugs:
Genrally I try to fix all bugs, but some of them are incredibly hard to pinpoint due to them being very hard to reproduce, (like that shield bug).
I always welcome any information or setup that can reproduce a bug, because from there it's definitely fixable.
I'm not too sure about fauna yet, it would be nice to have, but probably not too much of a fokus.
However alien species that would essentially be somewhat animals is possible.
Space whale and other things would be a region thing, which you might have to deal with first if you want to populate the region.
Some regions might be toxic, so you couldnt survive there without special equipment.
The earned items would be possible to put into a ship either as a block or as an item for slots.
No plans for fuel atm, however I could make a system so fuel would be moddable.
With decorations/LOD being revamped adding more and fixing issues will be much easier
AI will likely start in control of farther regions with different strength tiers.
RE Community Servers:
There are no plans for such a thing, other than the existing test servers.
However, that could certainly change based on community interest and how the game develops.
Balance is going to be overhauled working with quickfire
Ingame assets will definitely be community driven,
especially replacing the default ships/stations with up to date blueprints.
Alterintel Today at 00:32
schema what is your idea of a big ship? a size you would like to discourage to prevent lag and other server resource issues?
schemaToday at 00:34
Alterintel, it really depends on the balance. I think like ~1km lenth would be a very big class, but I dont mind bigger.
Ideally the balance will reflect big ships not being too big to impact server performance.
I'll also do my best to optimize.
Comr4deToday at 00:34
Is there any chance momentum effects (stop push pull) will be re-added to the game?
Being able to tackle faster enemy ships in combat is useful and the range of the tractor beam precludes that possibility.
schemaToday at 00:34
It's possible to re-add these effects, yeah.
Yes, I kind of want a combat system that would enable tractor on piloted ships,
possibly some kind of disable on ships possibly, but of course that is all affecting balance so im being careful with it.
I want a good balance first with the help of quickfire, and then possibly work with them to add more elements to it.
IthirahadToday at 00:40
Oh right, that reminds me. Will there be an extensive mapmaker/admin toolset for defining custom Regions and stuff?
Some kind of visual system built on top of the map display?
...So, Regions can't be manipulated in an existing map?
schemaToday at 00:41
I think, the map will be generated from script (and that script would be randomily generated).
So you could chose to make your own script and/or build an editor for that on top of it
Not sure how much they could be modified after creating, might be hard,
but you could make a map beforehand
A lot of these would be extra add ons after the universe update likely.
Once the base game and gameplay loop is finally done, putting in extra goodies will be a breeze.
Thadius FaranToday at 00:48
Catalog folders when?
schemaToday at 00:48
I can make catalog folders, yeah
Wafflecopter2000Today at 00:48
How will gas giants actually work?
schemaToday at 00:49
They will likely be for resources.
Basically there will be regions with heavy fog/nebular, gas giants would be a step further.
You could fly into them and you would have to setup collectors on your ship to catch particles (blocks freely flying around).
You wouldnt be able to survive in a gas giant for too long depending on your ship.
For planets you would essentially have to build giant structures,
probably dishes that would collect fluid passively, or will mostly be asteroid/mining.
Some planets will have atmosphere that can sustain population really well.
Basically a growth factor superior to what you can get on stations.
Population will likely build stations, im not too sure on what they would do on planets but they would maybe put down houses.
Planets will be fairly round, as much as they can be without messing with other stuff too much.
There will be void enemies, Think Reavers from firefly kind of for the void.
The nice thing about that is that they can be as big as tehy have to be threat wise without having to give them territory, because all of the void is their territory.
Events will involve stations spawning and attacking with large force.
Fleets will get jump capability, yea.
You cannot conquer the void, you can eliminate sources of threats in the void, although there will always be a rest risk, but your population should be able to take care of it eventually.
By "flat" imagine the flatness of a stellaris map.
You can still go up/down as you like, but there is mostly void.
Also: if you are in the void at any time, you will become a target.
The longer you stay the more likely and the more harsh you will be attacked.
IthirahadToday at 01:07
So the galaxy will effectively be a single star deep?
I mean, I guess that's OK for gameplay reasons, but it feels like a downgrade.
Stellaris stars have vertical offset, but it's more or less one star in depth at any given location.
In SM with first-person and everything that might feel a bit... lame?
schemaToday at 01:08
Regions would not overlap vertically.
I know what you mean Ith, but I'll take better gameplay over looks any day.
OccarinaToday at 01:08
So basically everytime we go somewhere we're not suppose to we'll have x amount of time to get back into zone before we die?
schemaToday at 01:09
You will not die automatically.
The stronger you get the longer you can survive and you have to survive longer for better loot out there.
There will be NPC factions yes, and traditional pirates that are nested in regions as well as void enemies.
There will be one main galaxy.
There might be others out there but they would not be of any inherent importance, maybe for an extension of gameplay someday.
Mostly I like to overcome the weakness of procedural generation, which is "big but all is the same".
schemaToday at 01:14
Thank you all for coming.
There will be a next time.
If you want an overview on the universe stuff. Put in #UNIVERSE in the search bar, all relevant posts are marked with that.
#I have done some extreme editing...
It is concentrated around Schema's answers and planned development progress.
I have also edited other comments for ease of reading.
Feel free to add something you felt was important, (and/or) I missed below!
Feel free to share your thoughts and/or concerns about where StarMade is going!
#Official Discussion:
July 18, ~6pm Eastern Time, the Starmade Discord will be hosting a "Discuss with the Devs" session. All are welcome to participate! We will be discussing development progress, the pitfalls we've stepped into, and the ideas we have as well as your concerns. If enough people participate and call for more, we'll be repeating this in the future, to help you, our supporters, get a closer look into what we've been working on! ~The Schine Team
schemaYesterday at 23:57
#UNIVERSE
Stairs will come probably as LOD blocks. Multi block LOD will also be a thing.
* LOD (and block design system in general) system is being overhauled to a point where everything is more or less automated so that bugs are minimized. Also means that it will be a lot easier for players to add their own blocks
* Desynch seems to affect a lot of astronaut movement and some ship. There is probably one central issue causing this, so fixing that will be a focus either in universe update or in beta after.
* RTS stuff will be improved, but will not go too overboard. While you can manage individual fleets, the main game mechanics of the universe update itself will go more in the direction of grand strategy, but also requiring personal involvment at points.
The basic idea of a single player/coop or even general game would be to "take over the universe".
Gameplay would be in a way split into multiple phases depending on the player's progression.
Basically it will be a variation on "survival".
You do start out with very few resources, so it can only be considered "survival" in the first few phases.
After that, the player can use their accumulated assets to replace the survival work (being able to use fleets to mine, and getting passive resources).
The galaxy will be flattened.
It will still all be fully 3 dimensional, but the "point of interest" in the universe will somewhat on the same plane (think of a stellaris galaxy map somewhat).
The galaxy will be divided up into regions with different types.
Stars, nebula, black hole, empty, gas giants etc would be the main feature and several other things in the locale like planets moons, asteroid fields etc.
Everything will be fairly distinct, so there is a clear structure to things you can see in a map overview kinda like a fallout 3 map (though randomized).
Distances and space will be plenty, but the points of interest where players would be gathering around and fighting over would be limited.
Regions also include environment effects and different resource sets.
Some are inhabitable.
Sectors would be hidden and regions would have a somewhat organic shape (not a square or rectangle).
Region borders are fixed at universe creation, basically to make it possible to have a clear top down view of the whole galaxy.
Things might still be on a different y plane, however stuff will not be layered on top of each other.
Yes moons would be a thing, possibly rings, but depends on how viable it is.
Basically players will gain territory and establish their presence.
This would all be done with a new resource: "population".
Population itslf is rather abstract and can be used in several ways.
It can be obtained from a central point (probably traiding guilt) in small quantities.
They can be frozen, stored and transported. They can also be deployed on stations/planets.
The player will have to designate living areas, and possibly other areas (with restrictions, e.g. must be at least 2 blocks high).
Based on those areas a station can fit a number of population.
An AI system would visualize them (spawning people walking around in those areas).
They would also like NPCs possibly spawn outposts and fly around with ships (same system could be used for player ship crews, too).
For the sake of simplicity, players can build one "main" station per system, and as many other side ones, that possibly act as support.
They would essentially power your passive income, so you would go from manual mining -> fleet mining -> passive mining, essentially.
Faction points would probably interact, but still be used for PvP, per region that would be*.
IthirahadToday at 00:06
>players can build one "main" station per system, and as many other side ones, that possibly act as support.
So, faction wars will revolve around destroying these support stations and then finally contesting the main one?
schemaToday at 00:06
Basically yes, either that or, putting your own population in the region, without fighting.
What im tending to right now would be probably a hope station protection for the main station which would go away when several blows were dealt to other assets in that region
Fighting over a region would be involving population, too.
There would be a mechanic to make it hard to attack main stations (possibly having to take out other points too), but there would also be a mechanic to "peacefully" take control by farrying your own population into the region (only possibly over time, not at once).
A region would also have different features from pirate threat to NPC presence to alien life.
Some planets might be populated by native people and the player could either convert them to their own people, or exterminate them.
Depending on population, there could be several things improving station defence, mainly spawning military coming to aid.
Also some special items could be used for stations, but more on that later
This will be all in the universe update, it is in fact the very core of it.
I would say NPCs are part of the core since its essential to population.
I dont want it to be purely abstract since its so essential to gameplay now.
Populaition on ships could definitely be for improving that ship, but im not yet too sure of those specifics since it would affect balance.
You will be able to do both, one actively and one passively.
You would put population into defense and that would make them spawn ships.
This system is built to last a few weeks up to a certain point until the endgame is reached.
There would be several options for the super late game like apocalyptic threats attacking,
I'm leaning towards resets with a global leader boards and players of course keeping their blueprints and maybe gaining items/blue print slots for doing the best in a galaxy lifetime.
Of course you're also free to play endlessly in the same universe without any reset, but for me the build up from nothing to empire is what I like to play most.
I'm aiming for a rough dev build at the end of the year, but it will essentially be a different game.
In the early stages the player would have a lot of involvement in all the dirty work, and while not necessary a player can keep doing it at any point in the game.
Later stages involve a lot of decision making and resource management.
However, there are several ways to play this.
You could also go full military with a lot less management and just take over by force.
The end goal would be to gradually take over bigger and stronger regions as you expand your own territory.
Planets will be viable for reasources and population. Depending on the planet they would be incredible for population generation.
They will also be the only source of some resources.
IthirahadToday at 00:17
In several previous updates (NPC update, etc.).
Lots of things were promised that would have made the updates a lot more worthwhile for players, that we still don't have. NPC update was supposed to have some sort of "war score" system if memory serves. The original weapons update was supposed to have improved weapon effects through the particle system, mine layers and an entire other layer of combos. The fleet update was supposed to come with more formation stuff soon after if not with the initial patch, et cetera.
What happened in those updates, and how do we know that isn't happening again?
schemaToday at 00:18
All those things were planned, and a lot of it still is, but it's just very hard to get cohesion on it.
Graphics updates are still planned, audio system is currently in the works.
#UNIVERSE
No plans for a lot of personal gear atm, but may come after universe update.
Progression would be in a form of aquirering special items that can be applied to ships and stations
(they would have some kind of reassurrance to not lose them.
Basically you would put an item in your ship, but you would get it back if the ship gets destroyed/lost).
Items could be aquired by going beyond the galaxy border into the void.
The farther you go the more dangerous but the more valuable the loot might be.
There might also be events spawning in the void for those items.
Some items would also require you to reach a certain milestone in terms of controlling the galaxy.
For a faction these requirements would count for every member, but you would still have to do some kind of mission/raid in the void to get the item.
Mining will be changes in that more options for mining would be added.
There would be mining that involved building collection facilities on planets.
There would also be a more active form of mining which would involve building a ship with collectors and flying through certain areas of the galaxy.
In the universe update, there will be an invading force other than other NPC faction.
This force comes from outside the known universe.
You will also be able to go into their space to complete hard survival tasks to get certain items.
Items could go from resource bonuses for stations/mining to ship upgrades (e.g. extra reactor capacity)
Most galaxy AI will be peaceful as long as you dont attack them.
Agressive AI will come from outside, which makes it a lot easier to handle
Mods would have full control over API and would be allowed to mod it as they se fit.
LUA is already part of the engine in a way and could be one of the options for modding.
LUA will likely be used for AI/NPC behaviors.
Mods could be either used as an extension to the universe (adding events etc) or fully transform the game as see fit.
I think the most dead ends in programming happened in graphics optimizations and chunk/bandwidth management.
For example I did whole algorithms like compressed octrees to realize that regular compression is just as small, if not smaller.
The whole cubatom system was kind of a bust (if anyone remembers that).
Advertisement will start with the universe update as soon as it's in a stable state,
(playable in the sense of not too many bugs to not scare people away).
Fleet mechanic will be improved. I can't say yet how exactly it will work, but there are a lot of issues i like to straighten out.
Changes along the universe update will likely be in their own updates.
Being able to skip the "brush up and combine with current game" step saves a lot of time.
That can be then combined into one step.
Profitability of StarMade: the game will still be finished under any circumstance.
In worst case the only thing that would change is that it would take longer because more time would have to be dedicated to side projects to provide funds.
However, starmade will not be abandoned.
The plan is to work with quickfire for a new vanilla balance
I think worrying too much about small things in balance and preventing abuse impeded progress the most.
That's why the rule system now exists.
Chairs are planned, and with that sharing control on the ship.
questions about bugs:
Genrally I try to fix all bugs, but some of them are incredibly hard to pinpoint due to them being very hard to reproduce, (like that shield bug).
I always welcome any information or setup that can reproduce a bug, because from there it's definitely fixable.
I'm not too sure about fauna yet, it would be nice to have, but probably not too much of a fokus.
However alien species that would essentially be somewhat animals is possible.
Space whale and other things would be a region thing, which you might have to deal with first if you want to populate the region.
Some regions might be toxic, so you couldnt survive there without special equipment.
The earned items would be possible to put into a ship either as a block or as an item for slots.
No plans for fuel atm, however I could make a system so fuel would be moddable.
With decorations/LOD being revamped adding more and fixing issues will be much easier
AI will likely start in control of farther regions with different strength tiers.
RE Community Servers:
There are no plans for such a thing, other than the existing test servers.
However, that could certainly change based on community interest and how the game develops.
Balance is going to be overhauled working with quickfire
Ingame assets will definitely be community driven,
especially replacing the default ships/stations with up to date blueprints.
Alterintel Today at 00:32
schema what is your idea of a big ship? a size you would like to discourage to prevent lag and other server resource issues?
schemaToday at 00:34
Alterintel, it really depends on the balance. I think like ~1km lenth would be a very big class, but I dont mind bigger.
Ideally the balance will reflect big ships not being too big to impact server performance.
I'll also do my best to optimize.
Comr4deToday at 00:34
Is there any chance momentum effects (stop push pull) will be re-added to the game?
Being able to tackle faster enemy ships in combat is useful and the range of the tractor beam precludes that possibility.
schemaToday at 00:34
It's possible to re-add these effects, yeah.
Yes, I kind of want a combat system that would enable tractor on piloted ships,
possibly some kind of disable on ships possibly, but of course that is all affecting balance so im being careful with it.
I want a good balance first with the help of quickfire, and then possibly work with them to add more elements to it.
IthirahadToday at 00:40
Oh right, that reminds me. Will there be an extensive mapmaker/admin toolset for defining custom Regions and stuff?
Some kind of visual system built on top of the map display?
...So, Regions can't be manipulated in an existing map?
schemaToday at 00:41
I think, the map will be generated from script (and that script would be randomily generated).
So you could chose to make your own script and/or build an editor for that on top of it
Not sure how much they could be modified after creating, might be hard,
but you could make a map beforehand
A lot of these would be extra add ons after the universe update likely.
Once the base game and gameplay loop is finally done, putting in extra goodies will be a breeze.
Thadius FaranToday at 00:48
Catalog folders when?
schemaToday at 00:48
I can make catalog folders, yeah
Wafflecopter2000Today at 00:48
How will gas giants actually work?
schemaToday at 00:49
They will likely be for resources.
Basically there will be regions with heavy fog/nebular, gas giants would be a step further.
You could fly into them and you would have to setup collectors on your ship to catch particles (blocks freely flying around).
You wouldnt be able to survive in a gas giant for too long depending on your ship.
For planets you would essentially have to build giant structures,
probably dishes that would collect fluid passively, or will mostly be asteroid/mining.
Some planets will have atmosphere that can sustain population really well.
Basically a growth factor superior to what you can get on stations.
Population will likely build stations, im not too sure on what they would do on planets but they would maybe put down houses.
Planets will be fairly round, as much as they can be without messing with other stuff too much.
There will be void enemies, Think Reavers from firefly kind of for the void.
The nice thing about that is that they can be as big as tehy have to be threat wise without having to give them territory, because all of the void is their territory.
Events will involve stations spawning and attacking with large force.
Fleets will get jump capability, yea.
You cannot conquer the void, you can eliminate sources of threats in the void, although there will always be a rest risk, but your population should be able to take care of it eventually.
By "flat" imagine the flatness of a stellaris map.
You can still go up/down as you like, but there is mostly void.
Also: if you are in the void at any time, you will become a target.
The longer you stay the more likely and the more harsh you will be attacked.
IthirahadToday at 01:07
So the galaxy will effectively be a single star deep?
I mean, I guess that's OK for gameplay reasons, but it feels like a downgrade.
Stellaris stars have vertical offset, but it's more or less one star in depth at any given location.
In SM with first-person and everything that might feel a bit... lame?
schemaToday at 01:08
Regions would not overlap vertically.
I know what you mean Ith, but I'll take better gameplay over looks any day.
OccarinaToday at 01:08
So basically everytime we go somewhere we're not suppose to we'll have x amount of time to get back into zone before we die?
schemaToday at 01:09
You will not die automatically.
The stronger you get the longer you can survive and you have to survive longer for better loot out there.
There will be NPC factions yes, and traditional pirates that are nested in regions as well as void enemies.
There will be one main galaxy.
There might be others out there but they would not be of any inherent importance, maybe for an extension of gameplay someday.
Mostly I like to overcome the weakness of procedural generation, which is "big but all is the same".
schemaToday at 01:14
Thank you all for coming.
There will be a next time.
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