I know its should be an diferent discution topic, but:
Tell me: How would be a shipyard system something for marketing the game?
HP System for marketing? That doesn't make sense at all...
How about you take a look at the results of those "fake" elections you were talking about earlier...
There was a community calling for an easy way to build elevators like in the trailer. Not marketing, community driven.
The worst time to judge a situation is right when it happens when heads are hot. It was an unfortunate situation, I hope Tomino can move past it and continue to grow his channel and mushroom fleet, he obviously has passion for the game and I wish him only the best. The Voting system used is able to transfer votes, you vote for five people not just one. When Tom is removed from the poll the statistics can easily be adjusted accordingly.
Welcome to starmade, where the Meta game is strongest. There are people here who only care about winning, and the fastest way to win is to aim right at the core. The only way to counter is core them first. It's just bad gameplay.
Shipyards are very old suggestion. You rarely see them suggested anymore because we know they are confirmed and are just waiting for Schine to work out how they will work. They normally come out with better solutions to things than most players could ever even dream of. This is again important for gameplay, it gives ships more value and helps to prevent the local troll from spawning massive ships on his first day because he exploited another part of the game. Alpha is a mess like this.
There is nothing wrong with spawning decent ships, but there is no progression to spawning in a 600 thousand mass battleship on the first day. One of the small reoccuring issues is that everyone is always flying a giant ship, and there is no value to small ships. Add some progression and slowing the start (to some degree) gives us the chance to use fighters for once. It also opens the way for "starting packages", where groups already set up can offer help to newer players. This is good because it encourages a degree of working together and interaction with players on a server.
Ha. The HP system actually looks exactly the same in terms of visuals. You just get an extra pair of Bars next to shields, and as blocks are destroyed the HP drops. This prevents death from just shooting 1 special block, and even allows you to survive and attempt to restart your ship. It adds a little more to combat, and a slight chance at escaping after a critical blow.
Keptick is known for typos, it's a fast typing think.
500k block equals to 50k mass, starmade is free to play, thread is useless... /ignore
The *poof* titan is very immersion breaking. Large ships will have to be built in large shipyards therefore discouraging giganticism. I assume this will also be a slower process and ships will be built over time. The problem is that you can acquire big ships so fast, which makes them worth nothing, who cares if you lose your giant ship, just poof in a new one. Once the economy is properly balanced larger ships will be more valuable as they will be harder to acquire and hopefully we'll see ship to ship combat come down a peg or two in size and see more fleet actions. The shipyards are supposed to be able to be linked to factories and storage so you can tell it to build a ship and it will be able to pull all the materials it needs without the need to micro manage your inventory, pull items, click add. You may also be able to build ghost blueprints and add the blocks after it is saved. Manual ship building will also still be possible.
You have good points.
The rail video was not created for marketing. The rail system is complex. It might be the most complex system in the game. That video was made with sole purpose of informing people how to use what is a very versatile, useful system.
Rails do not coincide with steam at all. Steam release was months ago. The official video, again, was to inform people. There are links to more in depth tutorials. There will be a new video like that for every major release from here on out. I think it would make sense that the public is informed about changes to the game. The more exposure, the better players can experience the new things.
Shipyards will be the place where blueprints can be automatically filled. Right now the player has to do it manually and it is tedious. Even with small ships, the process of crafting, and filling a blueprint is a pain. Shipyards will take that work out of the players hands. So yes, it does serve a purpose.
This one right here is the most unfortunate comment you've made. Every. Single. Player. knows that the current method of killing a ship is terrible. It isn't fun. The HP system will add a level of depth to gameplay concerning ship combat. In order to kill a ship, you will need to damage significant portions of the blocks that make the ship, instead of a SINGLE block. Yes, a single block is all that needs to be destroyed to kill my capital ship. At this point, I would think a new Health system for ships would be desired right? Do you you understand the necessity for it as well?
There is no other way that I can think of. The core has to exist, all the data that is the ship is saved based on that ship core. Ships need to be able to die, and if the only way to kill it is to pop the core, the best you can get is a game of Hide and Seek mixed with Whack a Mole.
Shipyard : I dont know, making videos showing it could fake it in an nice game with a lot of features that actually dont have any, just what it is in the video.
You want to impeach him for doing his job as a councillor?
