How's the community in this game?

[chriswfoster]

I'm thinking of getting this game. I was curious to know if it has a large player base?
Do you come across other players in the game often?
I played some space engineers, but the ships in this game seem a little more entertaining.

 

[Lecic]

Small but active. In desperate need for more players, though. We're slowly leaking veterans and not getting much to replace it.

We're also very helpful to new players, usually. Come into chat if you ever have any questions about aesthetics, systems, mechanics, or logic. We can almost always help out.

 

[kiraen]

I play single player almost exclusively. The stories I hear from multiplayer make my sphincter tighten. This is mostly due to incomplete faction systems. Make sure you understand the concepts of 'Early Access', 'sandbox', and 'alpha'.

There are two main branches of multiplayer. Creative group builds and hardcore PVP. They don't always segregate, so if you don't want your stuff blown up, play single player.

Way to many people around here that get upset when the next patch breaks things. Whatever you make today, will be worthless in 3 months. (not quite true, but you'll save yourself some frustration if you think like that)

We have just had a major patch. Patches are on a 2 week schedule. I suggest you read this thread to see what you are getting yourself into.


(ps: I've been called an 'elitist asshole'. I prefer to think of myself as 'against stupidity'.)

 

[Lecic]

Way to many people around here that get upset when the next patch breaks things. Whatever you make today, will be worthless in 3 months.

Your systems, anyway. They'll usually function roughly the same, but might need some more fine tuning after config changes. Hulls and logic don't usually get broken.

 

[PriZm]

Lecic sayd it already its a good idea to get starmade, if you like this kind of game. The community is still rather small and it happens quite often that you meet a player you know from a server yu recently played on. And yes, the possibilities in designing your ship are almost limitless in this game. The Logic system has tons of potential as well. And the game is still free. So i dont see any reason, why you shouldnt give it a try

 

[chriswfoster]

Looks like I'll be online tonight then...

 

[PriZm]

Nice

 

[chriswfoster]

I really have no idea how to play. I've had a minecraft server in my home before. And I spent a little time on SEngineers. But SEngineers ships fly SO SLOW. And you need like 360 degrees of thrustors. I wouldn't mind the pvp content though. Build some/destroy some.

I am cool with beta/early access content. I played Age of Conan after all :D

 

[Lecic]

I would recommend you learn how to play and build ships in creative mode in SP first. You're going to get wrecked if the first thing you do is log into a PvP server.

 

[kiraen]

Not beta. -> Alpha <-
This game is not feature complete and some systems are just placeholders.
A lot of minor bugs are very low priority for now. They just aren't worth the effort for the 3 programmers to spend time on when there is so much other work to be done. If it doesn't actually break the game, it waits.

Check out the wiki. It's not 100% up to date, that's Crimson-Artist fault. He keeps wasting time with things like eating, sleeping and a paying job and junk like that. But it's mostly up to date and should give you a good start.

The most important things you need to know are

• how to slave a system: press C on the master, V on the slave. usually abbreviated C/V or some such. This is most relevant to weapons and logic.
  
• power reactors should be in long lines for best results. Never ever in chunks. ex: 1x1x8, two of these numbers should always be 1
• crafting recipes make little sense, the whole system needs a revamp
• there are big changes coming (NPCs, fleets, fauna, missions, sound...)

 

[Drakkart]

ok let me put it simple for do you like building? do you like sci-fi spaceships and such? thes this is your game. At least it might become your game but the roadmap is promising.

 

[Malacodor]

I'd suggest you start with single player. There you can use creative mode to build ships and test things out. Some servers allow importing blueprints from single player mode.

I am cool with beta/early access content. I played Age of Conan after all :D

By Crom and Ymir, a battle hardened veteran, welcome to StarMade!

 

[Bench]

Welcome chriswfoster

 

[Keptick]

I really have no idea how to play. I've had a minecraft server in my home before. And I spent a little time on SEngineers. But SEngineers ships fly SO SLOW. And you need like 360 degrees of thrustors. I wouldn't mind the pvp content though. Build some/destroy some.

I am cool with beta/early access content. I played Age of Conan after all :D

To add to what Lecic said:

Rule 1) Don't skip the tutorial.
Rule 2) Do the tutorial.
Rule 3) When in doubt, refer to rules 1 and 2.

 

[Dire Venom]

To add to what Lecic said:

Rule 1) Don't skip the tutorial.
Rule 2) Do the tutorial.
Rule 3) When in doubt, refer to rules 1 and 2.

Some parts of the tutorial really do need to be updated though, the tutorial doesnt include the new docking systems (which were added a while ago)

 

[Keptick]

Some parts of the tutorial really do need to be updated though, the tutorial doesnt include the new docking systems (which were added a while ago)

Wait seriously??? Ok, I have toes to step on.

 

[Master_Artificer]

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don't trust anyone with a different color name than you.

 

[Top 4ce]

To add to what Lecic said:

Rule 1) Don't skip the tutorial.
Rule 2) Do the tutorial.
Rule 3) When in doubt, refer to rules 1 and 2.

Rule 0) Play tutorial on SP. Don't play tutorial on a MP server, it tends to break things..

 

[Edymnion]

Oh who are we kidding? We eat babies and we know it.

 

[Master_Artificer]

I thought those guys all starved and most left by now?