Are there going to be more devices?

[five]

This is a question for the dev team: Are you guys going to add more devices to the game like antennas or solar panels or cameras?

 

[Meetbolio]

More devices are planned, although most of the community is strongly against the inclusion of cameras.

 

[five]

More devices are planned, although most of the community is strongly against the inclusion of cameras.

Oh. I am knew so I didn't know that

 

[Zistack]

most of the community is strongly against the inclusion of cameras.

I would be careful about using the word 'most' here. It's true that there is a very vocal portion of the community that is vehemently against cameras, but I am far from convinced that they are the majority, nor am I convinced that their arguments are any good. Also, the devs don't blindly listen to the community either, and may make their own decisions.

 

[Verbatos]

Solar panels are planned, I'm not sure what you mean by antennae (there are radio transmitters and receivers ingame), and cameras are a seriously decisive topic, but they probably won't be added.



Also, fun game
- Go to starbase discord
- Mention camera
- Watch the wildfire

 

[five]

Solar panels are planned, I'm not sure what you mean by antennae (there are radio transmitters and receivers ingame), and cameras are a seriously decisive topic, but they probably won't be added.



Also, fun game
- Go to starbase discord
- Mention camera
- Watch the wildfire

By antenna I mean some kind of a remote control and or data transfer device. My idea was to have like kind of a satellite u place somewhere (That's why I asked about solar panels). With the antenna you could then maybe readout like: Ok at time stamp x the ships y, z and t passed the satellite (You would get the information by having a radio receiver constantly scanning for messages or having Range finders but that would make the satellite obvious).

And thx for the funny game idea. Maybe gonna try it out some time

 

[Meetbolio]

I would be careful about using the word 'most' here. It's true that there is a very vocal portion of the community that is vehemently against cameras, but I am far from convinced that they are the majority, nor am I convinced that their arguments are any good. Also, the devs don't blindly listen to the community either, and may make their own decisions.

I'll stand by my use of most. However, I see your point, and I do agree that the developers make their own decisions, it should always be like that. However on the argument side of things... eh let's not get into the details of that in this thread. I feel that the arguments are very reasonable, and prove the point very quickly.

Let's agree to partially disagree.

 

[Meetbolio]

By antenna I mean some kind of a remote control and or data transfer device. My idea was to have like kind of a satellite u place somewhere (That's why I asked about solar panels). With the antenna you could then maybe readout like: Ok at time stamp x the ships y, z and t passed the satellite (You would get the information by having a radio receiver constantly scanning for messages or having Range finders but that would make the satellite obvious).

And thx for the funny game idea. Maybe gonna try it out some time

I think you could already do something like that, so long as you have a couple receivers and ships that are transmitting a message on the frequency of the transmitter. Of course, if they're the enemy, I doubt they'd be transmitting anything, so this antennae thingy would only work for ships whose captains you can talk to and set this up with.

 

[CalenLoki]

So far community is quite evenly split on cameras:
1/3 don't want to see them at all,
1/3 want them to be useless in combat scenarios (low res, low fps (5hz), black and white, ect.)
1/3 want them fully functional.

But let's quit camera talk here, as we can surely go for hours. Post you opinion here instead:
https://forum.starbasegame.com/threads/poll-camera.446/