Recent content by Vexus

Because everyone is in the SSC. But otherwise, my crew and every company has teamwork happening all the time, especially someone sitting around who is doing nothing except crafting while they chill out after their work day. That's the thing with MMOs - it's a big social network for dudes to come...

If you're concerned about that kind of thing, add an Audio Device to your ship and program it to sound an alarm when whatever hacking conditions are met. It can all be done physically in-game. No weird UI transponder nonsense is really required. You could program flashing lights, rangefinders...

As you noted, it really doesn't work, and even if it did, it's not really helpful when you have a vision and someone else is standing by watching as a ghost. It's not a "fun" experience - even if it did work. It would be fun, however, to hear your friend say he needs 30 of some type of object...

I agree. The thing is, no one would "care" who wins/loses any specific dev-faction fight - constant battles can thus occur between them with "unlimited" access to fighter ships and weaponry as a means for getting a feel for the game without any risk. The reality is people will always be drawn...

Starbase + Devices = solution. For maintenance, a sort of fusion reactor that can be placed on a ship, which consumes any resource but also a certain amount of electricity based on the material being repaired - then can "produce" repair material for any part on the ship. So you have one device...

Current gameplay allows players to un-bolt enemy ships at-will. Changing the ruleset so enemy players cannot un-bolt or recycle an enemy ship, where group members and company members can, along with adding the ability to take over ownership, is needed. This way there would be reason to bring a...

I was thinking two dev factions alongside all the player companies. But, players could join these dev factions to gain immediate access to weaponry and fighter ships to try out the game and fight other faction members. Keeping this far away from "neutral" areas would avoid there being any...

Perhaps only having it open to a limited number of players (Closed Alpha community + new applicants) would help, and allow the larger cheat buttons. As it is, everyone goes there to design a ship for the most part and this won't ever change while there are cheat modes available there.

Although I understand where you are coming from, and a lot of people will agree with you, I must disagree and reiterate that the game of the SSC is incompatible with the game of Starbase. You can create different classes of ships in the SSC vs Starbase, and as such, the SSC is the only place to...

Maintenance gameplay exists but due to the SSC there’s no reason for it. Also repair/building tool doesn’t work on a friend’s ship which is the main problem. But there are ways to repair damage in combat. Again the SSC just makes it unnecessary since you can make a better ship that can be...

I'm pretty sure I gave ample evidence to prove you're wrong - I didn't just say it. It's not really a point to get into, because the problem goes away with the SSC going away. My reason for bringing it up is that those hours spent testing are hours not playing the game, not interacting with...

Simply reading that is pretty exciting due to the amount of gameplay involved. In Atlas, my ~10 (autistic, self included) person crew built an insanely large "garage" to help keep enemies away from our ships which were otherwise open to damage at any point. It took days and days to build. We...

A tutorial can be good but it has to be done by your best designer/dev team to make it flawless, or else it becomes a negative. It IS very ok to just give the game to players without any tutorial - gamers watch videos and streams before buying products, now. Leverage all the content from...

I would simply contend that, had the SSC not been an option, we wouldn't even have this conversation, and you would still play the game and enjoy it. Except you would build more limited ships based on available resources - time being the most critical one. I disagree, in that although a...

Welcome to the discussion. Thanks for joining in. I would contend that you would not have made such a ship, had you been forced to create it inside the game of Starbase instead of the game of the SSC. You would have settled for something sub-optimal to what you currently made, because of the...