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Ess posted:I find enjoyment out of finding stuff for myself instead of having it cheated for me. I can honestly empathize a little. I prefer to take my time to slowly go through the tiers and see everything, but goon servers tend to be filled with power-gamer "rush to the endgame" types. If I forced myself to play with them, I wouldn't really have a fun time, but there's a simple solution: don't play with them. You just gotta find people who have a playstyle that matches up well with you. Luckily, this is even easier to do in Starbound than it is to do in most games, because Starbound has a drat-near infinite universe. There is basically zero chance you will ever randomly cross paths with another player that you didn't specifically intend to play with. You can play on a multiplayer server and mostly just use it as a social thing if ya want and it works pretty well.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I still don't see the problem unless their blowing your poo poo up with duped bombs or something, why do you care if they built a to-scale Eiffel tower using duped iron instead of spending 8 hours mining or are off in X-sector planets because they didn't feel like redoing the grind after another beta character wipe?
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Kyrosiris posted:
Can you add different versions to match the race aesthetics? Might have versions that emitted heat as well that attached to the walls and ceiling for a comprehensive asteroid base building package.
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Dec 24, 2013 22:58
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VulgarandStupid posted:It's not like this is a competitive game. Yet. A side-scrolling persistent universe pvp game would own my life. There's already a Starbound server with 1000 slots. We're halfway there.
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Insert name here posted:Even if they ever fix duping there's literally nothing stopping people from just making a recipe that inputs like one dirt block and outputs a thousand of whatever if they're so inclined and doing that is overall way less effort than duping. I don't even think duping is that big of an issue anyway since Starbound isn't exactly a game where cheating yourself poo poo is some game-breaking advantage or whatever. I think they're going to implement server side checks for characters and mods in the future. I could be wrong though
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-Zydeco- posted:Can you add different versions to match the race aesthetics? Might have versions that emitted heat as well that attached to the walls and ceiling for a comprehensive asteroid base building package. I could certainly add heat to them, but I think trying to make race-specific ones would be a bit out of my depth, sadly. 
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Dec 24, 2013 23:03
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Does anyone know what the requirements are for tree placement? I've been trying to grow trees on my ship with the sandbox ship mod, an so far it's been kinda finicky.
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Dec 24, 2013 23:12
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New Leaf posted:I just encountered the first truly interesting stuff in the game- a small derelict penal colony with murderous robots a Legendary bonehammer that fires a spread of caustic bones every swing, then a planet with a monkey-people city. They don't seem very friendly.. They initially rushed me until I put away my sword, then they have all these mine altering stations and unhappy people. If I go in bonehammer blazing and try to murder them all, will I just get spanked?
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Dec 24, 2013 23:19
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  I don't care this home and that patch of terraformed forest are basic and underwhelming. I made them, yaaaaaaay. 
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Iny posted:So I'm making a mod that adds crafted pistols, machine pistols, assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, and grenade launchers for every tier and every race. Like the normal craftable weapons. The spreadsheet has filled up sir. I've disabled editing for now, for my sanity. I'm going somewhere for the holiday and during the process of travelling I'll be editing out duplicates and/or nonsensical entries, and replacing them with more applicable names. If you scroll through the spreadsheet and see any that are highlighted yellow, that's kind of what's going on. I'll also be sorting them from tier 1-10 based on how powerful they sound. Thank everybody for your contributions, especially that giant push last night. This should do nicely. The spreadsheet is still available to view here: http://goo.gl/Xs5wOs
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Well, it's taken a while but I've got the next logical step done with my mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQlzHp1FbVs Still a ton of stuff to do, it very likely explodes if you try to scan in a chest containing items for example.
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poptart_fairy posted:I don't care this home and that patch of terraformed forest are basic and underwhelming. I made them, yaaaaaaay. Hooray for making basic and underwhelming wood huts! Mine is Christmassy: 
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Pilchenstein posted:Well, it's taken a while but I've got the next logical step done with my mod: Jesus christ, man. How much Lua did you have to write for that? 
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Arsonide posted:The spreadsheet has filled up sir. I've disabled editing for now, for my sanity. I'm going somewhere for the holiday and during the process of travelling I'll be editing out duplicates and/or nonsensical entries, and replacing them with more applicable names. If you scroll through the spreadsheet and see any that are highlighted yellow, that's kind of what's going on. I'll also be sorting them from tier 1-10 based on how powerful they sound. Oh man this is excellent. Everyone who's contributed is great, and you have been/continue to be an absolutely invaluable help. You're a star. I'll post updates on my own progress with the spriting and the balancing and the implementing (but especially the spriting, good lord this is a lot of work) as I get batches of stuff done.
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XboxPants posted:Jesus christ, man. How much Lua did you have to write for that? 404 lines apparently.  Anyway, merry christmas starbounders, I'll see you on the other side. 
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Pilchenstein posted:Well, it's taken a while but I've got the next logical step done with my mod: this constrained to a specific size or border block? also, not sure what I'm seeing -- does it just store the house layout in memory and then rebuild it? since it looks like it just breaks and puts all the mats back in your inventory, when you scan it in.
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Smarmy Coworker posted:this constrained to a specific size or border block? The anvil and the console are what's used to define the limits of the building, it's not actually an anvil though, so you can scan in anvils. What you actually see is the console picking up the blocks (or as many as it can, the lua for that is a bit flaky). The layout is stored in the printer console that drops, in the same way that capture pods store monsters, so it should work across saves/planets/ships/whatever. When it rebuilds, it just places the blocks and objects magically, not from your inventory. As far as upper limits, I set it to cap out at around 200x200 units, though I can probably go bigger. There might be an upper limit on how much stuff you can store in an item's config data but I strongly suspect I won't find that out until someone tries to scan an entire planet with it.
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Dec 25, 2013 01:17
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So I decided to try my hand at modding and make some of laser beam shooting thing. Here's my first attempt at the sprite for the beam, thoughts? Just ignore the animation speed for now, that's just a place holder speed.  
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Luminaflare posted:So I decided to try my hand at modding and make some of laser beam shooting thing. See, now you've gone and made me want to mod in the gun from Another World. Nice work though.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Given the strong implications that the Hyotl started it, I suspect the Floran are going to come out smelling like roses regardless. The Hylotl aren't as benign and harmless as they look.
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Pilchenstein posted:See, now you've gone and made me want to mod in the gun from Another World. Nice work though.  That gun was awesome; a mod putting it in would be awesome too, but I wonder if charging it up would be possible?
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Rhopunzel posted:The Hylotl aren't as benign and harmless as they look. All the player characters are pretty obviously outcasts from their societies, and the Hylotl player is a weird religious fundamentalist.
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The Mimic posted:
Ok, all that automated base bullshit is on hold until I stuff myself full of turkey and find the answer to this question.
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The Mimic posted:
Yeah, it'd be easy. There's a mega man buster in the game that has a charging mechanic which, actually, is functionally identical to the bow.
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XboxPants posted:Yeah, it'd be easy. There's a mega man buster in the game that has a charging mechanic which, actually, is functionally identical to the bow. It doesn't just need to charge though, it has to have rapid fire, charged beam and a shield, which might be a stretch for the engine. I dunno.
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Pilchenstein posted:It doesn't just need to charge though, it has to have rapid fire, charged beam and a shield, which might be a stretch for the engine. I dunno. Could have it run a counter up while you hold down fire key and check against values A and B when you let go. So if it's less than A it'd be a normal shot, between A and B it'd be a powerful shot and if the counter goes above B engage a shield and have it turn off when you let go of the fire key.
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Pilchenstein posted:It doesn't just need to charge though, it has to have rapid fire, charged beam and a shield, which might be a stretch for the engine. I dunno. In addition to the above, I know that some weapons have alternate swings. Not sure if any existing ones do, but the two-handed variant of the hunting knife has a normal sword sweep and a hammer-like arc. One is bound to the left mouse button and the other to the right. You could have the charge shot be left mouse only and the shield be charged from the right mouse.
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Various two handed weapons with a listed element also have a second element bound to right click. Now if there were guns with two different kinds of ammo types it would be just excellent.
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I haven't touched this in a bit and decided to try to get my Thunderhawk ship working. After figuring out how to align the blocks I re-did my layout then realized everything wasn't properly sized...so after playing with that for god knows how long I got this in game how it should be finally.   Now I just have to do the art for the ship (it's just an overlay on top of flat color right now) which seems like a pretty insurmountable task at the moment 
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Combat Shotgun posted:I haven't touched this in a bit and decided to try to get my Thunderhawk ship working. Looks great! That exact problem is where I stopped for my ship. I finished the cockpit and realized how long it would take. I decided I'd rather have it blank and playable than spend that much time when I could just be playing. In the end I just built it out of in-game blocks/materials so it would be MP compatible, even though it doesn't look nearly as good.
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Good god. Some of the custom starships you guys have posted make my mushroom moist. I suspect that as they continue to add modding support this game is going to skyrocket beyond the potential of Terraria by far. I wish the teams would re-mingle, since Terraria still does certain things (wiring, traps, endgame) a little better.
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Ground bases are so 2013.
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Switched.on posted:Looks great! That exact problem is where I stopped for my ship. I finished the cockpit and realized how long it would take. I decided I'd rather have it blank and playable than spend that much time when I could just be playing. In the end I just built it out of in-game blocks/materials so it would be MP compatible, even though it doesn't look nearly as good. Yeah I just said screw it and started playing so I could actually enjoy it. Hopefully they will add support for custom ships in the game at some point. edit vvvvvvvvv If I remember right Terraria didn't even have wiring until well after release. Combat Shotgun fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Dec 25, 2013 |
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spacemanspliff posted:Terraria still does certain things (wiring, traps, endgame) a little better. This game is in early early access beta.
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Yeah being able to share a couple of jpgs for your ship seamlessly would be totally amazing. It would be the equivalent of Counter Strike sprays, on public servers though. Definitely something you'd want to be able to control from the admin side.
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Kerrrrrrr posted:Hooray for making basic and underwhelming wood huts! Mine is Christmassy: What did you use for the shingles? And I suppose I might as well share images of the renovated hobo cave my buddy and I have made.    (The Deathstar hologram is part of an unfinished area) The Floran scare crows were his idea and they rule 
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Where are you guys finding this cool stuff for your bases? 5 planets and I've only seen the one city and the derelict prison. Does it just take a lot of luck? By the way, I see people talking about "levels".. What do you mean? I don't see levels anywhere.
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When looking for planets, do you guys just pick random systems? I try to get a system that has at least 5 planets and multiple biomes.
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