When was your personal "golden age" for StarMade?

[Dragonslayer918]

Back in 2013-2015 I think; Yogswarm days basically.
Its when I played the most with my old faction and where I saw the most action. Its how I met the people I know and still talk to today. Flew combat missions and basically stayed out of the spotlight and lurked for years until I quietly went away from the game and community at large during later years of school. Came back during college out of feelings of nostalgia and was amazed to see the same people from back then still floating around, some actually remembering me somehow.

No matter the state and future of the game now, i'm glad I was a part of it and could leave my mark on it and the community in some way. Starmade introduced me to people I still call friends today and was a large part of my teenage and college years.

 

[AEquilibrium]

I basically kept coming back with every update, mainly in Creative Mode. For me, it's all about ship design and building, so I was like a happy child when I returned after the reactor changes (I hated the old serpentine setup you had to do before). My personal golden age was in 2017. I was writing my bachelor’s thesis 6–8 hours a day and working on my ship designs for the rest of the time.

I almost cried when I lost all my designs with the death of my old PC in 2021...

I came back in 2022 with a single project, but time is never enough at my current age/situation (good old 9 - 10 hours build sessions…). What’s really astonishing to me is that, no matter how much time passes, I always end up coming back to this from time to time. I left a project unfinished back in 2022 due to life (I even made a YouTube video of it, but never followed up).

Just yesterday, I decided to come back and finally complete it—and maybe work on something new until the summer holidays.

 

[Dr. Whammy]

I almost cried when I lost all my designs with the death of my old PC in 2021...

I had that happen once.

Do you know if that PC had a conventional rotary hard drive? ...or was it a solid state?

If it's the old rotary type and you didn't toss it or reformat it, there's a good chance that you may be able to salvage the data from it by using USB-SATA adapters.


(Left is for SATA 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch drives. Center is for 2.5 Inch drives. Right is for some of the newer SSDs)

My drive was an SSD so it went "Poof" when my PC was zapped during a thunder storm; thus I was not able to recover my blueprints and other data. However, I wouldn't let that discourage you from trying if you still have the original drive.

Who knows; it might result in a blast from your past.

ETA: Solid state drives can often survive when a PC bites the dust. Pop one in a SATA-USB adaptor and you might get lucky.

 

[AEquilibrium]

Do you know if that PC had a conventional rotary hard drive? ...or was it a solid state?

U guess... Solid state, of course. I tried everything but had no chance. There was a lot of personal stuff as well. Really sad. That’s why my blueprints are now on Drive. But my biggest regret was not uploading everything here........so stupid.