Recent content by NathanIsOnline

There's already a ship editor in Starbase. Said ship editor also allows for (currently) extremely limited testing, so there wouldn't be any completely broken or limping ship designs in the main universe. No one would be underestimating the cost of their ships regardless since every part has a...

One of my starting points was that smaller groups would have a disadvantage without a sandbox mode due to large groups having the time and resources to develop ships. I don't think the advantages you have listed are nearly as significant as the disadvantage faced by the smaller groups in a...

AGAIN, by definition if everyone has something it's not an advantage. As for trying to remove risk, there is no risk to be had ship testing in a game where there are safe zones covering 100s of square kilometers. When it comes to community interaction, presumably for most of ship testing, we...

We're still here because we don't actually know how powerful the ship tester built into the editor will be. I'm trying to make the case that it should be a little more useful than being able to check basic SI. As for it giving an advantage, by definition if everyone has the same thing, it's not...

You're comparing apples and oranges with Starbase and WoW, I don't know of any MMO that has you building custom designs to the extent that Starbase does. A better comparison would be to look at the various building games out there. Out of the dozens (maybe 100s) of games out there with an...

EHS is a faction dedicated to infrastructure development while remaining independent, though not isolated, from other factions. The Syndicate is also focused on providing many of the advantages of being a member of a larger group without as many of the downsides. For more info, see our website...

Again, I don't see how you can justify creating what is just hassle for the sake of giving everyone else a few extra ships to watch. There are going to be hundreds of ships floating around the different stations, probably more than people will want around considering how fast there are going to...

Most of the arguments against sandbox mode rely on there not being any kind of testing being possible in the editor. If you can perform basic YOLOL, flight, and SI checks in the editor, the desire for R&D to be massively slowed or have a steep cost are both no longer relavent. Since it's...

If you just want to have brief voice discussions, why don't you join a voice lobby on the Discord server?

There has been a lot of discussion on Discord about adding local voice chat, however due to both the complexity of such a system and the fact many players would mute it most of the time I am doubtful effort would ever be put into a voice chat system, at least not until well into Early Access...

I don't understand how allowing giving everyone a tool to encourage ship design, as opposed to making ship design extra painful and complicated because you can, somehow equals the death of PvP and Starbase at large. I'm not asking for entirely separate server or something. Just the tools to make...

I recently discovered that sandbox mode was scrapped indefinitely, a feature that I previously considered a given in a game like Starbase. Just to be clear, I'm not requesting a full sandbox; I agree a sandbox mode that's essentially a copy of the main universe is problematic. When I say sandbox...