Starmade (Alpha PC) Minecraft meets EVE Online...free!

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#1 Thu, 08/08/2013 - 10:01
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Starmade (Alpha PC) Minecraft meets EVE Online...free!

So imagine a game where you could design and build space ships, land on planets, create space stations, fleets of ships, align yourself with like minded people in factions, explore, expand, exterminate, exploit (well maybe...) on a dedicated server with potentially hundreds of other players and AI driven space pirates, shops and AI trading ships. Make alliances, infiltrate your enemies and take them down from the inside out.

It exists. It is real. It is only in alpha and you can already do ALL that and more.....and it's free (for now - or get in at the low low price of $3). It is greenlit on steam.....and it is madness!

So the graphics aren't great (I downloaded a skin mod which improved them a lot for me) the sounds are even worse (staticy cat farts) but the game play, building, destroying, harvesting resources, all works great. Similar to minecraft figuring out how to make certain things work and do things is half the battle - watch videos, ask in game, read the wiki. The game does offer some tutorials that will get you going down the right path.

Me and 2 other friends started the game last night. We managed to get into some losing fights with AI space pirates a couple of times....we found a remote ice planet where we have declared the planet ours (our home Faction) and setup a spawn point for ourselves on this ice rock. We have a couple of low level (i.e. wimpy) ships on the go - mostly being used for harvesting resources right now. I think tonight I'm going to explore the trade options (buying resources from space shops and selling to other space shops in need at a higher rate).....maybe we'll take down some space pirates and get some of their random loot drop goodness as we build our empire. Eventually I would like to plant a spy in another faction and take down that faction from the inside out. I know just the man for the job too.....(looks in mirror).

http://star-made.org/ Starmade home

http://star-made.org/content/starmade-texture-pack Starmade texture pack I'm using (256x256 with hud is the one I have)

http://star-made.org/content/serverstarjitacom-dedicated-professional-host Starmade server where my Hoth planet exists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VIJHM3a7JE

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHgcttS39w

Wed, 08/14/2013 - 17:47
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these guys just got greenlit on Steam as well.

more incentive to play.

 

i should... one day.

Thu, 08/22/2013 - 20:09
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I tried. I just don't have the patience. If only I had more time. 

Thu, 08/22/2013 - 20:12
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yeah it's a time sink - I haven't been on in a few days either - I have paid for the game so when it comes out I'll try a less buggy version :)

Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:28
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Oh. My. God.  I must play this.  I'm going to give the heads up to my ol' college buddies that I  normally play games with.  I'm sure they would eat this alive as well.

Fri, 08/30/2013 - 07:50
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So I introduced it to my friends and the three of us are playing on our own private dedicated server.  I'm having fun just working on my own ships free hand; however, my friends have taken it to extremes.   One has built massive ringed space stations (at least I came up with the cool power cube to power the thing).  The other has  decided to built the Romulan Warbird from Star Trek.  So far, he only has a little bit of the framing done and has to be close to 500 blocks tall and even more wide, and that's just me taking a wild guess.

Fri, 08/30/2013 - 08:24
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nice!

 

 

we play on a populated server - after a couple of failed attempts to build up ships and compete with the other players and pirates we stumbled on this planet that had a full city built on it and no inhabitants - no faction block on it either.....so we burried our faction block on it and claimed the whole damn planet as our own. 

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