Kind of mad the Novakid is getting no love

[Mr. Buckaroo]

I love the Novakids, they are probably one of the best races in the game.

But they have been neglected by the devs.

Proof: They were in the game before the Story changed to it's now current format. They are not in the story
-They are not in the Protectorate intro
-They are not in the Artifact Retrieval Quest
-They are impossible to find

They have made little to no impact on anything of any relevance. They don't do anything but exist, the other races are involved, perhaps this note blends with the above, maybe it is a result of the above. Regardless they don't make much of an impact on any of the other races

They've been tacked on aimlessly as if to do nothing more than say "here have a new backless race"

I don't play multiplayer too often and as a result am not familiar with the popularity of the Novakid amongst other players. I do however get a strong vibe that the Novakids, they just don't matter, they have about as much relevance as a mod race and as a vanilla race that doesn't feel right at all.

TL;DR Novakid good, Novakid no getty enoughy, details above.

[Mayo]

Novakids were just lazily taped onto the game because of the fact that it was a kickstarter reward. If the devs had any idea how loved the Novakids were going to become, they would've actually made them a part of the game with their own story mission, more locations (surprisingly there is a few places and even settlements where you can find mainly novakids although its utterly rare), and a bunch of other stuff.

But no, even after all the love the novakids got the devs still aren't deciding to add some new content relating to the novakids. Is it really too much to ask for them to make a few new settlements or something? I can understand how a whole story mission would be really difficult at this time since, yknow, the games out and all and they're tied up with 10 million other projects, but its not a whole mountain of work to implement a few settlements.

In short, the devs want to focus on different things rather then what consumers really want. They're not bad devs, just uh, unexperienced. Again, not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on devs here, they made a great game and helped make another (Stardew Valley) but im simply pointing out the flaws they clearly have.

[croc]

Actually, the novakids came from a mod, called the anodynes. They were added after most of the story, and the devs decided not to add another mission for a packed on race.

[Mayo]

Originally posted by Cobra:

Actually, the novakids came from a mod, called the anodynes. They were added after most of the story, and the devs decided not to add another mission for a packed on race.

It doesn't matter where the Novakids came from, the devs added it as a vanilla race and should've put more effort into it. They dont wanna make a story mission? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but its fine. But they don't wanna add anything other than 1 settlement which is super rare to find for Novakids? Thats ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[ZappyDoggo]

Novakids should prolly be added to the main story though, otherwise, what's the point? All the other races had some form of quest. (Well except human, but that kinda makes sense because Esther Bright.)

if anything, Novakid should have a questline, too. You don't really see novakid settlements or anything anyways.

It's that, or someone should mod the game a little and make it to where Novakids get a quest line, because right now it feels like a lot is missing from the main storyline. (Seriously. One entire species is missing and uninvolved.)

[iced mcfurry]

I like novakids but the only issue is the ship size

[Mayo]

Originally posted by iced mcfurry:

I like novakids but the only issue is the ship size

Agreed. It's cool and all that its a train, but it just feels like theres not enough space. Maybe its the layout idk.

[MysticMalevolence]

Originally posted by Cobra:

Actually, the novakids came from a mod, called the anodynes. They were added after most of the story, and the devs decided not to add another mission for a packed on race.

"Actually," both the anodynes and the novakid come from before the game was publicly released--i.e. before mods. They did not come from a mod called the anodynes, both the mod and the implementation came from the community suggestions.
They were both community suggestions. The novakid were aesthetically inspired by the anodynes, but were (as I understand) more popular with the fans and the devs for whatever reason. So when the preorder came up, it was the novakid slated as a backer reward.
I believe originally the novakid implemented were also supposed to have some anodyne influence, at least according to the creator of the anodynes later.
See here:
https://community.playstarbound.com/threads/meet-the-anodynes.16705/
https://community.playstarbound.com/threads/meet-the-novakid.16712/
http://playstarbound.com/stretch-goal-1-the-novakids/

Chucklefish has spent the entire span of Starbound's public development knowing that the novakid would be added to the game. The fact that they were added late is no excuse; they were added in the same update that the story was drastically overhauled.
Ultimately the current implementation of the novakid is Chucklefish's own doing. I am not sure why they didn't decide to do more with them--perhaps they did not find them interesting.

It's kind of funny that the race that was chosen is the one with lore that lets them be conveniently written out of the bigger picture, but I digress. That lore is hardly in the game. The novakid don't even have basic lore--one codex, a collection of examine texts, and some vague line from god is all they've got.

[ZappyDoggo]

Sounds like they should've put in more work for Novakids, and they still can, for 1.4 (if it's ever released.)

[Legion]

Originally posted by fatputtycat:

Novakids were just lazily taped onto the game because of the fact that it was a kickstarter reward. If the devs had any idea how loved the Novakids were going to become, they would've actually made them a part of the game with their own story mission, more locations (surprisingly there is a few places and even settlements where you can find mainly novakids although its utterly rare), and a bunch of other stuff.

But no, even after all the love the novakids got the devs still aren't deciding to add some new content relating to the novakids. Is it really too much to ask for them to make a few new settlements or something? I can understand how a whole story mission would be really difficult at this time since, yknow, the games out and all and they're tied up with 10 million other projects, but its not a whole mountain of work to implement a few settlements.

In short, the devs want to focus on different things rather then what consumers really want. They're not bad devs, just uh, unexperienced. Again, not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on devs here, they made a great game and helped make another (Stardew Valley) but im simply pointing out the flaws they clearly have.

Or, they're spread in different directions BY the community. You can't say they're ignoring consumers when many of the things they've released are what many [did] want. Their only fault is how incompetent they they are when they approach things.

[ZappyDoggo]

novakids need a storyline. .3.

[peaches♡]

When the devs were teasing the bounty huntign update, there was a screenshot of the quest complete screen that was in a western accent (I can't seem to find it though...). so I have a feeling that there was going to be a unique novakid NPC that would be giving you the bounty hunting quests, but with the latest blog update they said they'd be putting the update on hold.

[ZappyDoggo]

Originally posted by ♡ H. Peaches:

When the devs were teasing the bounty huntign update, there was a screenshot of the quest complete screen that was in a western accent (I can't seem to find it though...). so I have a feeling that there was going to be a unique novakid NPC that would be giving you the bounty hunting quests, but with the latest blog update they said they'd be putting the update on hold.

So instead of a storyline quest (probably), They're putting a main Novakid NPC that'll have bounty hunting quests involved?

Part of me was hoping the novakid race was going to get it's own storyline quest though. A little sad they get a smaller job than the others. ;-;

[Legion]

Originally posted by xephosarkeyus:

Originally posted by ♡ H. Peaches:

When the devs were teasing the bounty huntign update, there was a screenshot of the quest complete screen that was in a western accent (I can't seem to find it though...). so I have a feeling that there was going to be a unique novakid NPC that would be giving you the bounty hunting quests, but with the latest blog update they said they'd be putting the update on hold.

So instead of a storyline quest (probably), They're putting a main Novakid NPC that'll have bounty hunting quests involved?

Part of me was hoping the novakid race was going to get it's own storyline quest though. A little sad they get a smaller job than the others. ;-;

[If[ what Peaches is saying is true, then at least Novakids would get more interactive gameplay than the other races.

[ZappyDoggo]

Originally posted by Nomadic:

Originally posted by xephosarkeyus:

So instead of a storyline quest (probably), They're putting a main Novakid NPC that'll have bounty hunting quests involved?

Part of me was hoping the novakid race was going to get it's own storyline quest though. A little sad they get a smaller job than the others. ;-;

[If[ what Peaches is saying is true, then at least Novakids would get more interactive gameplay than the other races. [/quote]

Yeah, That's true, seeing as bounty hunting isn't a '1 time thing' like the storyline (unless you make a new character.), But i was still hoping the novakid race would get into the storyline, too. Every time I go through it, I always feel like something is missing in it.

[Legion]

Originally posted by xephosarkeyus:

Originally posted by Nomadic:

[If[ what Peaches is saying is true, then at least Novakids would get more interactive gameplay than the other races. [/quote]

Yeah, That's true, seeing as bounty hunting isn't a '1 time thing' like the storyline (unless you make a new character.), But i was still hoping the novakid race would get into the storyline, too. Every time I go through it, I always feel like something is missing in it.

Which is understandable. Chucklefish has a history of tacking things on half-assed and leaving them be. Not having any real lore/content for them drives me to not even want to play as one.