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I tried joining a server but it keeps freezing me every ~5 minutes (sometimes more often sometimes less) and the only thing I can do to fix it is wait a bit and relog.

That's annoying to say the least.

I am apparently incredibly stupid and cannot install this game. How do I do this?

Download the launcher (StarMade-starter.exe), open it and click "Update and install latest version". Wait until it's done and click "Start Game".

This morning I was having a couple nice games : first I had to go mid for a change (instead of ADC bot), and played Kassadin (unranked soloqueue), which resulted in a 9/0/6 score for me and a win. I decided to push my luck a bit and play a ranked game (soloqueue still).

I managed to pick Kassadin again, but the enemy team countered me with Fizz ! I was panicking a bit (I had all sorts of bad previous experiences with Fizz), so I read a bit about how to play the lane while the map was loading... Turns out, after a couple exchanges, I managed to kill Fizz once, then again, and again... He never got a kill on me and I was able to gank sidelanes quite easily. I was 9/0 when I eventually died 1v1 from the fed enemy draven, but it wasn't that big of a deal, at this point I had already snowballed and we won.

Then I played another unranked solo game and picked my main (tristana adc), while most of my team kinda trollpicked (well I guess me too since there was already someone playing adc caitlyn). I was expecting Caitlyn to play with me bot, but instead she said she hated my guts and went top with kat. Thankfully, the other team was trollpicking as well, so I ended up 1v2 against Yi and Nunu. At lvl 2 they decided to tower dive me, but I managed to grab a double kill :p. After that I just bullied them thanks to my range, and grabbed kill after kill, dying only a couple times from ganks. I snowballed super hard on this one, so my final score was 19/2/5 (and we won of course). I guess Caitlyn still hated me, given how she was trying to take CS or kills from me at every turn (too bad she didn't succeed ). I could tell that Yi and Nunu got scared of me quite a bit though, every time I went after them they ran away despite being full hp and having managed to score kills on my teammates, and every time they died .

Having games like these after a bad streak is really good for my morale !

My new ship, a bit less ugly than the previous one :


Ok I didn't put too much effort into it but I think that the cross reactor exhaust is a nice touch.

I don't know if this planet is giant or just very close but omg look at that, it takes half of the sky :


Also inside the pictures is my new ship.

I'm kind of enthusiastic about this game, I think it has a lot of potential if improved upon, but right now my most pressing concern is the way various materials are treated, as straight tier upgrades from the previous ones. It goes Iron -> Titanium -> Naonite -> Trinium -> Abattium -> Urgium -> Xanion -> Ogonite -> Avorion, that's 9 steps during which the same gameplay repeats, you have to travel to a higher level area, kill friendly ships (?), steal their weapons/mining lasers, and then mine the higher tier of metal, to build a stronger ship to kill stronger NPCs.
Granted, you can probably burn a few steps, but that seems to be the general path laid out for you. I think that as far as upgrades go, 9 tiers is at least 4 too many.

Also, the way ships work means that you're far better off flying a huge monolithic brick than a detailed ship, because each block has it's own HP, and if it breaks, everything attached to it breaks free (premade ships are vastly inferior because of that). So far you can't sell metals or guns, but I hope this will get added to the next version.

What I'd like to see : the ability to build our own stations, some way to research, build and/or buy guns/mining lasers, more modules (like better hyperspace drives, shields, maybe tractor beams and more types of guns)...

If the planets were more than just backdrops, that would be great as well. I'm guessing there are some technical limitations to what would be possible, but even if it was just an abstracted menu where you manage planetary installations and the ownership grants you some sort of income, that would already be great. Maybe this could be done by building a special kind of space station (and you would have to destroy it in order to take over the planet).

Instead of infinite storage, I would also like it if we had a cargo hold block to include in our ship designs (and to stations). This way, trading and stations would take more importance. We can also imagine long-distance travel gates that would have to be built by players with large amounts of resources, so as to link rich core sectors and fringe areas. In general, I think that asteroid mining shouldn't be the best way to get resources, only the most easily accessible. Planetary installations should provide the bulk of resources, otherwise on older, more populated servers, there would be a risk of resource depletion.

For some reason, I don't enjoy playing this game at all. It doesn't hold my interest, and I always leave long before the time is up. Maybe I'm just not in the right mood, but I find it boring, slow and pointless. I guess I was expecting more. The terrain is basically a circle in segments, and villages have such short borders that you can barely get anything inside. I'm sure you can do all sorts of combinations, but I just don't find the appeal in all the little abstract mechanisms of synergies, aspects and whatnot. I'm pretty sure I would enjoy replaying Black and White more than this.