Starbase Progress Notes: Week 23 (2021)

[ElluFB]

Starbase Progress Notes: Week 23 (2021)
June 7th - 11th

Hello everyone, here are the progress notes of the week 23 of 2021!

Please note that the "Progress Notes" are different from the Starbase Alpha "Patch Notes". Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.

Design

Features

• Mining Job has been tested and a bug preventing the mining of some materials has been fixed
• Large Generator has been tested in the Ship Designer
• Refill & Recharge terminal UI redesign has been completed to support multiple resources
• Cooling Rack and Pipe Socket Board rate limit change has been configured to have the same delay as the Generator Units' rate limit change
• Manual welding design has been completed and tasked to programmers

User Interface

• New comment feature for Company bank statements has been worked on
• New steps on the crafting and Easy Build Mode tutorials have been tested
• Withdrawal and deposit UI for company bank has been updated

Stations and Cities

• The following player made ships have been added to Epic Shipyards ship shop:
  • Namib, B16 Endurance, Redtail, The Bread Box, Hover Tank Prototype
• Sunny Ship Shop (Beginner ship shop) has been finished, added to Origin stations and filled with the following ships:
  • Momento, Dynastinae Minimus, GK-40 "Belka", Moneymaker, Moneyman, RockHopper, Worker Ant, Nymph, Trident T1, Trident T2, Chalcosoma, Pincer, Laborer, Laborer II, Aura-6, Hauler, Mite, Modulus, Modulus FR, Modulus MN, Bomburr A, Vigo, "Mara" Ore Hauler
• Added the following player-made ships to Vintage ship shop:
  • Mosquito
  • 16 Red Chains Pulled by the Hands of Friends
  • 19 God Gives the Nuts, But Does Not Crack Them
  • Trident T4 (moved from Rando 3)
  • Linerider (moved from Rando 2)

Other

• Tutorial Spaceship Laborer (Module variant) has been updated: ship now has a new generator module with 3 generator units and radiators

Code

Gameplay

• Storage server optimizations have been worked on
• Work towards Easy Build Mode for stations continues, welding and unwelding via quickbar placement should now work
• Auction House sell tab now only suggests price of the earlier item if the currently sold one is of the same type
• Auction House sell tab will not allow dragging certain containers that are not fully filled to the sell slot anymore
• Work on Spaceship Registration continues
• Tripod damage handling has been updated to better fit the design

User Interface

• Work on Easy Build Mode continues, saving changes and ship spawning has been worked on
• Crafting tutorials has been tested, fixes for tutorial on not starting on new profiles and magboots not being on by default have been made
• Issues with Company UI Daily ship access rights have been fixed

Audio

• Work on Universal Tool sounds continues

In-game Designers

• Capital Ship fast travel screens have been worked on
• The first version of station resource screen has been implemented
• A fix for missiles sometimes detaching from ships has been committed

Art

Animations and Emotes

• 1st person unarmed related animations have been polished (idle, carrying objects, button/lever interact animations etc.)

Stations and Cities

• Easy Build Hall Holograms are being worked on

Other

• Fast Travel Core Propellant has been made
• Inventory icons made for the "Mini Fast Travel Core" and "Fast Travel Core"
• Capital Ship dock art has been finished
• Assets for the Fast Travel Propellant Tank have been made
• Tripod railgun model has been created
• Carry and Bolt tool VFX have been further polished

Gallery



Videos

As always, feel free to ask any questions regarding these progress notes!
And if you haven't yet, go add Starbase to your Steam wishlist!

 

[Mr. Extinct]

YOOOO

 

[Kenetor]

HYPE!

 

[Kodey]

New tripod update, and working ladders!

 

[IceFlopper]

Lookin very spicy, nice new rails n ladders ey

 

[Dustmuz]

Lokking very good..
hope the game progresses well

 

[fr4me01]

AuraFB — Today at 8:10 AM
We want to apologise for the added inconvenience and extra-work that this change means for ship designers, and we recommend you to wait until the replacement tech has been implemented in the game before doing any more submissions or updates. We'll keep you posted about the situation and will notify you when the changes have been made.

Considering ship designers in regards to changing core components used by many people.... But releasing tiered components that will make EXPONENTIALLY more work for EVERYONE going forward. smh Really terrible design direction.

Also considering your previous design direction of: "Ship building isn't for everyone that is why there are and will be so many ship shops!" you guys are spending a lot of time on this easy ship builder non-sense.

If you have pressure from the outside to make this game easier or more appealing for the masses just remember what happened to New World when they developed their game for a niche, then 180'd out of it after their first phase test.

The people hyped about Starbase don't want a Space Engineers clone, or an easy space ship building game. There are plenty of games like that already. The players hyped about your game are hyped for your original design direction and where the game was up until your first tiered component release.

Respect your player base and your original design direction.

Tiers and Easy Build mode are entirely the wrong direction.

 

[runzik]

Really sweet update Really nice video

 

[Cavilier210]

Considering ship designers in regards to changing core components used by many people.... But releasing tiered components that will make EXPONENTIALLY more work for EVERYONE going forward. smh Really terrible design direction.

Also considering your previous design direction of: "Ship building isn't for everyone that is why there are and will be so many ship shops!" you guys are spending a lot of time on this easy ship builder non-sense.

If you have pressure from the outside to make this game easier or more appealing for the masses just remember what happened to New World when they developed their game for a niche, then 180'd out of it after their first phase test.

The people hyped about Starbase don't want a Space Engineers clone, or an easy space ship building game. There are plenty of games like that already. The players hyped about your game are hyped for your original design direction and where the game was up until your first tiered component release.

Respect your player base and your original design direction.

Tiers and Easy Build mode are entirely the wrong direction.

Easy build mode is not the worst thing ever. Tiers and capital ships are awful.

 

[TheHappyWaffle]

Cool. I cant wait for EA

 

[bobzoorrry]

game looks sick cant wait for capital ships and docking ports

 

[Torokin]

Very nice!

 

[ExtraPerry]

Tiered stuff looks nice for more affordable ships and or more advanced/compact.
However I do wish that we could sell different versions of the same ship in a shop to compensate for the new and much larger diversity of parts.
(As in the ability to switch on the same shipshop slot the type of ship . . . ie V1, V2, V3, etc )

It is also nice to hear that the replacement for attachment plates that was obviously broken if exploited properly is getting a new feature to replace it and make beam structures much free in how they can be angled.
Though by removing attachment plates it'll prevent from extending plating past beams. Maybe some kind of plate to plate welding would be a good feature to hopefully help with more complexe plating ? Or just adding some plates with groves like the decorative railing so that they can be bolted together with ease.

Overall some nice features which some have been talked about a while ago but most people seem to have missed it :/
But more features as said above to help make everything work well together would be nice.

 

[SubaruSama]

well, I have no problems with easy to build and tiered components
you can have different sections/shops for the tiered ships and maybe limit access to company members/allies/friends while everyone else can only buy lower tiered ships^^
and most easy to build ships will probably not look that pleasing to the eye and probably be less efficient then a ship designed the "normal" way (e.g. easy to build fighter vs normally build fighter) so I don't see much of a problem with that

and keep the company stuff coming^^

 

[Hunter]

Good progress. Monke approves.

 

[HUBsoon20]

Looks nice