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[Flying Dice]

Wow, new crafting is shit. Not only did they add in pointless craft times at some point, but apparently if you're crafting at a station you have to stand there and do nothing else with the window open for the entire time. AFK Simulator 2016. 

[PTTG??]

It's mainly a problem when smelting, for me.

I do see why they did it, I think: food.

A unit of food is a unit of time. Crafting was free from time, so boom. Add time, and now crafting is tied to the food economy.

[umiman]

I like that we can upgrade ships now:

[Ygdrad]

Been playing the game again and while I spent too much time enjoying the colony building and farming(as in setting up a farm), the rest of the game is still a disappointment and will be put aside as soon as I reach the end. The story isn't anything enticing and some important stuff just isn't explained/expanded on as far as I can tell and hear from others. Not having a story would have probably been a better call. While we have some shiny new special weapons/abilities, it doesn't mean much with the game being as unchallenging as it is.

The progression for each tier just went like this:
1. go to planet with new ore tier
2. mine a bunch in one mining trip
3. craft ALL the new items
4. repeat

There is nothing stopping you or even remotely slowing down your progression and it feels completely unrewarding. Some of the boss designs were neat, but unfortunately unchallenging and since they're not tied to gear tier, chances are it'll be made even easier by you most likely being overgeared by the time you get to them since progressing is so easy and the story is made painful and slow by the whole scanning shenanigans. There are still some really questionable design decisions in places that you'd think the devs would have had enough time to clear up too. Overall the game still really feels half-done to me, hopefully they'll keep working on it and make it into something enjoyable/rewarding to play.

[Niveras]

Wow, new crafting is shit. Not only did they add in pointless craft times at some point, but apparently if you're crafting at a station you have to stand there and do nothing else with the window open for the entire time. AFK Simulator 2016. 

I'm a bit annoyed with it because, for some indecipherable reason I LIKE that, but I also find it irritating when I have to stand still for a minute to make a load of torches or whatever.

Agreed, I can't say I like the artificial delay in crafting. I would've like to see something like the crafting Guild Wars 2, where it gets faster if you craft more of the same thing in a given session/click.

That said, after what someone mentioned about how food works now, it does make sense in that crafting now costs food/time.

Now that I think of it, what happens if you go hungry? Start taking health damage?

[forsaken1111]

OK, Forsaken, when you see this the server needs updating because an update came out almost immediately after you left.

Figures. Should be updated now.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Now that I think of it, what happens if you go hungry? Start taking health damage?

Yep. One of the reported bugs was starving to death during a long cutscene.

edit: read the funniest thing on their forums just now. "Chucklefish are overall a good company who know what they're doing". And I'm just looking at the list of things that managed to go wrong with the game between the in-dev version a month ago and release...

[BigD145]

Casual has crafting time so the food thing makes no sense. Starving in a cutscene? Does it take a month to tell a story?

[Neonivek]

Casual has crafting time so the food thing makes no sense. Starving in a cutscene? Does it take a month to tell a story?

It is more that these characters have super fast metabolisms and need to constantly be stuffing food in their face or else they starve to death.

[BigD145]

I did casual because every dev gets starvation completely wrong. How many is this now where players die in cut scenes?

[Ygdrad]

Speaking of food, make Pussplum Pudding, just about the best thing you can make. Fills up hunger, gets my attack bonus from 400% to 481%, gives extra energy and hp. Also, farming for profit-wise it's the best as far as I could tell.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, I did casual for the same reason. The only games that got starvation even remotely right were some of the survival-shooter mods and games where you just need to pop a piece of food once ever few hours of game time.

[Neonivek]

Yeah, I did casual for the same reason. The only games that got starvation even remotely right were some of the survival-shooter mods and games where you just need to pop a piece of food once ever few hours of game time.

There were RPGs that did it as well... But they did something different from Starbound... what was it...

Ohh right you would eat automatically.

[Mephisto]

Yeah, I did casual for the same reason. The only games that got starvation even remotely right were some of the survival-shooter mods and games where you just need to pop a piece of food once ever few hours of game time.

There were RPGs that did it as well... But they did something different from Starbound... what was it...

Ohh right you would eat automatically.

When food is just food, that's great.

When food has effects, however, eating automatically is not ideal. Let's take Pussplum Pudding as an example because it was mentioned. Do you want the game to automatically eat one for you when you're not in combat and aren't planning on being in combat soon given Rage slows your movement as well?

[flame99]

Fair, but, being able to mark food items as auto-eat or something would be nice.

Actually, for that matter (maybe as a mod, since it might be a bit of an odd fit with the rest of the game), setting conditions which will automatically consume a given food item would be interesting.