StarMade live Q&A session. Come check out the new spawn station!

[TomW1605]

I had an absolute blast on the server last night. Dave towers, loosing everybody in the tunnels, blowing the crap out of each other and everything around us. As some of you had said... perhaps that should be a standard Q&A format. :D

hopefully that format takes into account people on the other side of the world (i.e. make it longer (at least have the server up longer))

 

[kiraen]

Can someone some up the important points for the people that have slow and capped internet.

Working on a thread for that.

http://starmadedock.net/threads/starmade-q-a-stuff-confirmed-so-far.21918/

 

[Keptick]

loosing keptick in the tunnels

FTFY

And it was a blast indeed, it took me two or three hours to fully explore the station and it's secrets :D (and require kupu and AndyP to open doors for me more times than I can count).

 

[Ithirahad]

I had an absolute blast on the server last night. Dave towers, loosing everybody in the tunnels, blowing the crap out of each other and everything around us. As some of you had said... perhaps that should be a standard Q&A format. :D

Next time, though, please stop Schema before he blows up the entire joint. The partially-wrecked spawn station, with a few modifications, would make for an excellent abandoned station :D

 

[hzzzln]

The new spawn station looks amazing. I got some glimpses of it during the twitchcon stream, but now seeing it from the inside... wow. It's really gonna make a difference for new players, too; instead of getting into the game like "huh, what's this grey thing do" the first thing they see now is what they can achieve if they stick with the game.

Mad kudos for everybody who worked on that station!

 

[Mr.Steam]

I really love the new station. From what I gather we will be able to talk to NPC's and gain info and hopefully missions? (Like Freelancer but better)

I am hoping there will be a few OFFICIAL ships (small freighter, fighter, miner, etc) available for purchase in the shipyard so a new player can purchase a ship and jump into a mission right away.

 

[SomethingSlimy]

I am hoping there will be a few OFFICIAL ships (small freighter, fighter, miner, etc) available for purchase in the shipyard so a new player can purchase a ship and jump into a mission right away.

An in addition, perhaps some default build-mode schematics. Like a standard docking airlock, standard turret, landing gear, warp drive attachment you could tack/dock onto small ships, logic contraptions new players could use or pick apart, etc.

(And maybe a starting ship could be the one from the logo?)

 

[Criss]

A youtube link maybe for people who want to look back the mentioned things, so I can give that to other interested parties?

I will be bringing the entire stream to the official YT channel within a day.

i take it then that the server is no longer up to have a look at the new station?

No it may not be and even then the station was destroyed. The server was only turned on for the purposes of the stream.

Can someone some up the important points for the people that have slow and capped internet.

I will go through and write out a full post detailing questions and answers within the week.

From what I gather we will be able to talk to NPC's and gain info and hopefully missions?

Yes this is planned. The station is meant to accommodate new players and anything they may need at the start.

I am hoping there will be a few OFFICIAL ships (small freighter, fighter, miner, etc) available for purchase in the shipyard so a new player can purchase a ship and jump into a mission right away.

Already being built. There is about twice as much stuff if not more currently in the works. You will hopefully be seeing more stuff as we start livestreaming dev stuff more often.

An in addition, perhaps some default build-mode schematics.

Templates would be great and easy to do. Some default designs that the player can use in the style of the Trading Guild could help them along immensely.

 

[TomW1605]

No it may not be and even then the station was destroyed. The server was only turned on for the purposes of the stream.

is there any way i can have a look at the station before it coms out? i was not able to get on the server as the stream started at about midnight in my time zone (i think this should be addressed in future streams possibly by having the server up for a weekend not just the length of the stream).

 

[Criss]

is there any way i can have a look at the station before it coms out? i was not able to get on the server as the stream started at about midnight in my time zone (i think this should be addressed in future streams possibly by having the server up for a weekend not just the length of the stream).

It is a possibility however we need to make sure it can actually be properly tested and all the current issues are fixed. It was not supposed to be touchable during the livestream.

 

[TomW1605]

It is a possibility however we need to make sure it can actually be properly tested and all the current issues are fixed. It was not supposed to be touchable during the livestream.

thanks

just 3 questions:

1. if something is not touchable how could you interact with it?
2. what bugs could there be with a construction? how is it different from any of the trading guild/pirate/abandoned station already in the game?
3. i was hoping that you could just turn the server back on (using a pre station destruction save) for people that couldn't get on during the livestream. is this possible?

 

[flpsantoss]

Already being built. There is about twice as much stuff if not more currently in the works. You will hopefully be seeing more stuff as we start livestreaming dev stuff more often.

I take hope to see these streams as weakly or bi-weakly

 

[Criss]

• if something is not touchable how could you interact with it?

• what bugs could there be with a construction? how is it different from any of the trading guild/pirate/abandoned station already in the game?

• i was hoping that you could just turn the server back on (using a pre station destruction save) for people that couldn't get on during the livestream. is this possible?

1 - As in not destroyable. People destroyed it with weapons and removed blocks. A faction home base should not have that happen.

2- There were issues with things like logic and also the game itself which caused things to break.

3 - No. Chances are it will be put up on the normal dev server once we are ready for some public experimenting.

 

[TomW1605]

1 - As in not destroyable. People destroyed it with weapons and removed blocks. A faction home base should not have that happen.

2- There were issues with things like logic and also the game itself which caused things to break.

3 - No. Chances are it will be put up on the normal dev server once we are ready for some public experimenting.

ok thanks for all your answers

 

[TartarusMkII]

The video that now occupies space on the News page now represents nothing, as it was not recorded, and does not appear in the playlists that appear in the Offline menu. I suggest editing this news entry.

 

[Bench]

Fixed.