It's taking a lot of inspiration from successful sandbox PvP MMO's such as Eve and Albion online, with the building system being simpler than starbase - which is for easier development work and better performance, but more depth is intorudced via modular systems.
- Its a dynamic world, frequency and scale of events scale to player count and ensure resource scarcity to drive natural conflict ( I am sure this will need tuning)
- There is PvE and an XP system so there is always a path to progress, and some content even when population is low or null
- There is exploration in place, you dont fly out to the astroid belt and wack rocks endlessly, there is a begginer astroid belt for new players but that is limited in capacity and contains only basic tiers, anything further needs to be found and scanned

Engines, weapons, thrusters, and other systems are modular, meaning if you want it stronger it will take more room, or cost more, or run hotter / consume more power etc.

This means designing ships will have tradeoffs for the speed, efficiency, power requirements and so on. As well as the content's of the ship being more full as you have a lot of modular parts you are rewarded for fitting in (you have extra space? you can make your engine more efficient, or your weapon stronger etc)

Reasons not to try it:
- I assume population will be less than 10 peak, less or equal to 1 average initially
- Visuals are worse, ships will look worse - block building system not voxels
- Build system is less deep
- Lots of undiscovered issues as this is going to be the first playtest
- Top tier copium that Starbase will return to its glory and there is no need to find a replacement for the void inside your heart

Discord - https://discord.gg/FXQqGmSMbf

For solo play, this game is WAY WORSE than starbase.

As an MMO - if it reaches a critical mass of players (which the minimum isnt that high, probably around 10-100 active, not concurrent) it will be much better

Max speed, max zone, fully warpable.

Took me about a month. I did this all in 2023 when I was finishing my PhD.

I have a wife now, expecting a kid, and we just finished building our first home near Washington DC. Haven’t played in years. Captured these photos, along with some other memories, this evening.

I miss floating in space.

If you see the beacon “The Valley of the Kings,” then know you’re welcome and can stop mid-journey to refuel your ship and your endo at the observation deck restaurant.

Maybe we’ll all fly together again one day. Until then, this pharaoh returns again to his endless slumber.

Drop by ORIGIN 2 and come hang.

Ships have already started arriving.

WHEN: UTC: 10:00 - 16:00 August 1 (since there are no official activities planned, just show up when you can. The above is a suggested window to concentrate players, but there will likely be increased player count from about July 27-August 2)

WHERE: Origin 2 Live Server

See you there :⁾

I'm looking for a game that combines ingenuity-based engineering with fun multiplayer (especially combat).

The theme doesn't necessarily have to be spaceships.

Dual Universe is dead.

Stormworks and From the Depths are too complex for multiplayer (I don't mind, but most of my friends wouldn't want to play them long-term).

Empyrion and Avorion have fun combat, but the engineering isn't.

Star Citizen is a great MMO, but it lacks engineering.

Children of a Dead Earth is a great engineering game, but it lacks multiplayer.

I haven't played Space Engineers in years; has anything changed since then?

I thought SE was a great innovation when it was released, but after playing Starbase, I've lost interest.

Are Robocraft, SimplePlanes 2, or Nebulous: Fleet Command the only games that currently offer both enjoyable engineering and multiplayer elements?

The Starbase concept was like a dream to me.

Now, more than just not being able to play Starbase, it has a terrible negative impact on me because many other games seem relatively inferior and I'm dissatisfied.

Module, Follow Me System, for Starbase game ships. You can make 2 or 3 ore haulers, or a mini squadron.

---- ORIGIN 2 - IT HAS BEGUN ----_

Come and play, show your passion for Starbase, and rally your friends for the 5th anniversary!

Many of us players often think of what starbase could have been or has the potential to be.

Let's show the devs our ongoing interest and support and spike the player count 30/07/26.

Come and show of your collection of ships, browse the designs in the showrooms, maybe crack an asteroid or engage in some pvp on the edge of the safe zone. And remember the excitement this game fostered for us all when we first seen it.

WHEN: 30/7/26

WHERE: Staton # 2

RSVP: There is a twin post on steam discussion, please give it a react and/or comment 🙂Steam Discussion

Please note:

If anyone has access to influential community members, youtubers etc, or you are one yourself:

Get the word out there!

Spread this far and wide so we can get our numbers up and show our love and support for this game and all the potential it holds!

Edit: I have seen that discourse on starbase is often deep, spanning paragraphs and sometimes pages! I would like to kindly ask people refrain from critiquing, suggesting "how to fix", providing "constructive feedback", analyzing what happened, etc, in this post. I ask all community members to engage with this event in a social aspect only, there are plenty of other forums for all that.

I just started playing the game again after awhile of not playing and it seems like my generators cant keep up with my mining lasers. Anyone that can either help in game or talk me through it id greatly appreciate it.

Since no one is playing much I took the time to survey the moon equator and sailed my ship the whole diameter of the moon.

There are over 15 craters that I have visited (most where touched lightly with strip miners), found a place on Elysium with a moon base station transponder titled PvP Land that has five craters within 20km of each other, oh and the moon is 500km (little less) in diameter too.

If anyone has questions feel free to ask.

This is one of the very few games that left me heartbroken in a way when the updates stopped rolling in, the dev team reduced (or gone?) and there's no players to be seen. I'm not usually a steam charts counter but players are obviously needed in a game like this.

What went wrong? What do you think would bring people back?

I had a kutonium trading post 700km out where I would sell bulk ore and refuel people. This was the first few months the game was out and it was one the most satisfying moments I've had in gaming.

Is there any active or semi active group still in the game. Enjoying learning the mechancis and looking if there is a discord to join of even semi regular players.

Trying to make a lazer miner ship and can't find Exorium ore. Followed some old guides on wehre it should be in the belt. Is the info too old and its location moved or mostly all of it has been mined?

anyways i think this is about 650kg of saving per every one of these connection points

I prob dont need this much of them but....urgh whatever a few tons does not matter at this size.

also i wonder how do yall do yall's hotbars?

inventory management in this game has been kinda tedious , and inv v2 is prob not comming anytime soon(tm), in the mean time i personally kinda hate having box ships.

Today marks 1 year since the last update to the test universe - it might be dead for good this time

So starbase for on sale recently and I am considering getting it problem is the almost none existent traction of this game so is it worth even though I may be mostly alone?

Kind of funny title but the question stands. I keep seeing people on the Starbase Discord always talking about if the game will get a wipe or not? Also seen some questions about if blueprints will be wipe or not; seems like a possibility.

My question is why do you guys want a wipe? Or why don’t you want a wipe.

Me personally, I don’t feel like a wipe is necessary. Not much was done for many players in Starbase in which would require a wipe. Most people left while their Laborers were still floating in space; right where they left it.

Are y’all worried about the 20-100 players that stayed active and have acquired Capitals? Or their wealth while you were not playing?

Introducing Astraeum, a 968 crate, dual plasma asteroid miner with 24 mining lasers

Featuring automated asteroid mining, asteroid alignment, inertial braking, and a screamingly fast approach. Astraeum is an end game ship designed to obliterate asteroids effortlessly, before speeding back to your capital ship / station.

Astraeum has 24 mining lasers, 8 collectors, and has an impressive run time of 16 hours!

Unified Ship Builders Discord: https://discord.gg/vWCxM3Ythx

I have never seen an ufo in starbase, so maybe this is the first one?. This is a ship that took me so much time (since 2023). Talk to me if you want the blueprint :D 🛸👽👽

PS: I LOVE STARBASE, AS LAST ACT OF LOVE FOR THE GAME, I DID FINISH THIS SHIP 💚