Schema should just try to make the game fun. If that involves some features that happen to be in other games, such as Minecraft, that\'s fine. In fact, it might make the balancing easier to figure out.
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Games aren\'t about fun (look at horror games for examples) they are about being engaged(i\'m willing to bet if you played a good horror game, you couldn\'t stop, even though it was clearly, not fun)
I think schema should make this game, not for the community, but for himself, make it how HE would want it.
Minecraft isn\'t really that balanced, TNT is OP, Enchantments are OP, all the mobs (including ender dragon) are UP once you get top tier gear with top tear enchants. however, if he has to have X feature from minecraft for the game to be how HE wants it (note how I said \"HE\" not \"the Community\") then by all means, he should add it. on that note, I don\'t think Redstone, Pork drops from ships, or MC clone mobs will ever be implemented, however I DO think he will add more versatile ship AI, more versatile, and complex AI than MC could ever hope to achieve, and much smoother, better modelled, and more versatile NPCs, as well as much better optimization, yeah MC looks like something from the commodore 64, but somehow I can\'t get more than 10 FPS, whereas in Starmade i\'m always at least 120 FPS. Now if you forget this entire post remember this one thing:
Schema should make the game how HE wants it, to make a game HE wants to play, not a game that the community wants, and honestly, if everybody listened to the community, we would all have rocket launchers that can\'t kill anything, tanks that crumble to bits when you breathe on them, countless MORE COD clones, COUNTLESS MC clones, and nothing even remoteley like the games developers want, nameley; Star Citizen, Kerbal Space Program, Command and conquer (RTS isn\'t the most popular genre) Journey, any horror games, the repopulation (or any sandbox games),or EQ next. We would live in a world where you could choose from limitless Minecraft, COD, Bejeweled, WOW, and Angry birds clones, is that what the community wants? it\'s not what I want, but it\'s what people buy, which means, this is an ACURRATE guess of gamings future, so if you want another minecraft clone, wait a few years, then you can play any number of MC clones you want, until then let the last of the unique games stay unique, Because I promise you that the near future will be COD, bejeweled, and Minecraft clones, and nothing else. IN FACT: It\'s already almost come to that, pick up any 10 shooter games, now play all of them, chances are 9/10 are either almost exactly like COD, or Battlefield, then there\'s the odd Halo, or borderlands, now look at casual games, a bunch of Bejeweled clones reskinned, that, my friends is THE FUTURE! and yes, it sucks. but it makes big corporations money, and now, just one more time: Let Schema make the game how he wants to! and don\'t bother him!
But if not, great.
+1 Nuff said.
