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Starg [developer] Jul 25, 2013 @ 3:42am

Spaceship DLC pack results

Thanks for all the feedback. Pretty interesting.
I've just added up the totals:

1) 5 (Don't do it)
2) 28 (Cosmetic only)
3) 33 (Different but balanced)
4) 106 (New ships which have their own leader boards)

We seem we have a clear winner, which is great news. It's nice to see such a strong consensus.

I'm pretty glad 3 didn't win as many of you pointed out new balanced ships would be almost impossible to get right.

I think 4 is the best option too. I also like the idea that each ship has it's own leader board as this would mean players could compete with each ship separately. There's no way that all the ships will be equivalents, so separate boards would be great for this.

I'm also keen on doing some sort of DLC between now and BH2. As I said in another post, BH2 is at least a year out so it would be nice to have something new to play with before then.

So, I'm going to start thinking on this. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

For fun, I'm wondering if one of the ships could be a fan ship. or some sort of community designed ship? Sound like a good idea? How could we organise this? Players could submit art designs and you all vote for a winner? (Or is this a bad idea?)

Last edited by Starg; Jul 25, 2013 @ 6:32am

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Sänders

Jul 25, 2013 @ 3:45am

Community ship sounds like a fun idea, though I'm not sure how you'd organise it.

cridly

Jul 25, 2013 @ 3:48am

Yeah, I'd like to see a community made ship or two, as for organization, I'm not sure. Organising somehing seems like it could potentially work, otherwise you could resort to another simple poll. But I'm sure someone else will come up with a good idea.

mxT3 (mxtomek) has Beat Hazard

Jul 25, 2013 @ 3:49am

Community ships could be good inspiration to devs

KorDen

Jul 25, 2013 @ 3:50am

Great idea with community ship! Also, how about announcing all ships "specifications", so community can submit ideas with ability modifications etc...

Starg [developer] Jul 25, 2013 @ 3:55am

I've just had a quick look at the workshop stuff. I've never used it before, but it looks like this could be used to show submitted ships and players can vote on them :D

KorDen

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:15am

Originally posted by Starg:
I've just had a quick look at the workshop stuff. I've never used it before, but it looks like this could be used to show submitted ships and players can vote on them :D

Using workshop, users can submit ships to you, and you even can setup and allow users to install any ship from workshop at any time and play with it. (e.g. when submittig, users need to upload texture and config file with specs of that ship)

zertap

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:24am

And hmm, steam workshop for custom ships could be interesting~ Like they could have custom skin, abilities and stuff (maybe even custom weapons and perks) but independant leaderboards. (Something that could be improved in BH2)

Last edited by zertap; Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:25am