Miedein

I can already see it now. We all get together and build a massive city outside the ship. We get a few casino's up and running. Band of Outlaws turns into a mafia running the casinos and inticing new players to the gambling games with lines of credit. New players lose all the money and get shipped off to some distant planet to work in mines for their war efforts.

Just... tossing ideas at the wall to see what sticks. 

Well, even the problem there with original IP's having an issue. If you want a sleek looking fighter that's both powerful and efficient, it's likely going to look awfully similar to something already existing either in fiction or RL. I could build you a fighter and someone come up and say, "Hey that looks like a Z-95 Head Hunter." Or, "That looks like an F-18 ect ect. Just look at Youtube's current system of DMCA claims. Designs are inspired by, if not modeled after or in some cases, straight carbon copy replicas. You would think, however, that in a game where it's all about player creative freedom to build whatever they want. If the entire population wants to fly around in X-wings. There's not really a whole lot that can be done about it from Disney, other than them telling the developers to delete all the ships that look like stuff from their IP. Then you could have any nation's air force even coming in and saying, "Hey those look like our jets. Get rid of them." So then we're stuck having to fly around in cubes. Where Star Trek comes in and says, "Hey those all borg cubes, get rid of them." 

You see the conundrum that that opens up? I mean. Show me something that someone claims is completely 100% original in design, and I'll show you other designs that are similar enough you can make an argument that it's been used elsewhere. 

It's really a problem with today's entertainment as a whole. Sure games, movies, TV shows have different stories. But the plots are all the same. 

Maybe I'm just rambling at this point cause its 7 am. But hey could be a good topic to discuss. 

Well, even the problem there with original IP's having an issue. If you want a sleek looking fighter that's both powerful and efficient, it's likely going to look awfully similar to something already existing either in fiction or RL. I could build you a fighter and someone come up and say, "Hey that looks like a Z-95 Head Hunter." Or, "That looks like an F-18 ect ect. Just look at Youtube's current system of DMCA claims. Designs are inspired by, if not modeled after or in some cases, straight carbon copy replicas. You would think, however, that in a game where it's all about player creative freedom to build whatever they want. If the entire population wants to fly around in X-wings. There's not really a whole lot that can be done about it from Disney, other than them telling the developers to delete all the ships that look like stuff from their IP. Then you could have any nation's air force even coming in and saying, "Hey those look like our jets. Get rid of them." So then we're stuck having to fly around in cubes. Where Star Trek comes in and says, "Hey those all borg cubes, get rid of them." 

You see the conundrum that that opens up? I mean. Show me something that someone claims is completely 100% original in design, and I'll show you other designs that are similar enough you can make an argument that it's been used elsewhere. 

It's really a problem with today's entertainment as a whole. Sure games, movies, TV shows have different stories. But the plots are all the same. 

Maybe I'm just rambling at this point cause its 7 am. But hey could be a good topic to discuss. 

Oh I'm not at all worried about someone trying to raid my place. I'm a very creative person after all when it comes to base defenses. Sure I'll likely get raided a couple times. But then I'll just analyze the break in points, check for the weak points. And then proceed to modify to make repeat attempts hell and not worth it. I'm not coming into this thinking its Space Engineers the MMO. I've got a few years of EVE under my belt as alliance fleet commander and I don't shy away from PVP either. When I build. I build for looks and security.  With traps hidden from all angles of view. 

Think of me as that crazy hermit out in the woods. You'd want my help with things, but would be afraid to come find me after rumors of missing people started popping up from the area around where I'm said to live.

Of course all this all is dependant on the mechanics we have to work with in terms of base and defense construction. But again. I'm creative and learn to adapt ^.^

So I just became a pledger. Got the gold package cause I really want in on the alpha. But I was looking at the screenshots and the videos and well. It got me thinking.

I'm sure I'm not the only one with these thoughts and maybe someone can even confirm some things to me. See. I'm one of those types that when it comes down to building up my main base of operations/home. It's location location location. I can quite literally see myself roaming around the planet for a few days on end trying to find that perfect spot. I like scenic views, rivers, water falls. Forests. Things like that. Now someone that's played a lot of space engineers, and I'm relieved to see that the water on the starting planet is actually water and not vast bodies of solid ice. (At least that's what I'm assuming based off the videos I've seen. 

But what I'm most curious about is, are there things like lakes, rivers, water falls. Those breath taking beautiful natural views of the scenery. I don't care if I have to travel miles upon miles on foot to find these little natural gems of beauty. But knowing things like that exist, will be enough to make me pick up a walking stick and go hiking to find them. 

Any others out there that think similar to what I do in terms of finding that perfect beautiful view? And can anyone confirm the existence of rivers/waterfalls?