Can this be an MMO?

[RAFA]

Like joining servers and building stuff toguether with strangers, exploring planets with other people protecting it and doing space battles? If theres a game like that tell me

[Oneill_SFA]

Its more like a few people online game right now. You can get a group of a dozen friends together on a really good server, but simspeed and latency issues crop up after awhile. They're working on it. I have huge hopes for 100 player, stable servers, but that's doubtful tbh.

[casualsailor]

Not really. Although there are a few public servers that people are trying hard to keep running while Keen works on the netcode I suspect that most of the multiplayer is done between a few friends where one of them hosts a game and the others join him or her to play.

That's not to say it cannot be a multiplayer game in the future. Four years ago after the game first came out there were many servers with admins that struggled to keep them running while the game was being developed. I played on several of them and had a good time. But then Keen announced that they would postpone working on the netcode until after planets were released and that took about 2 years. So, all of the servers I played on went away and I've not tried to play on one since.

But now that planets have been released and they have started working on the netcode there may be a resurgence of public servers in the future. We'll just have to see.

[Lich Lord]

I'd be excited even if the cap were 20 people and it was stable. i'm just now getting into this game and the hardest part is getting use to the UI coming from games like Ark where its very simple. This kind of reminds me of X3 UI.

[casualsailor]

Check out the multiplayer section. People do advertise for people to join them all the time.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/7/

But if you are trying to learn the game the best way is to follow along with a tutorial since a lot of the time the people you find are looking to learn from you.

Splitsie has the most up-to-date tutorials. And I'd recommend avoiding other ones that are a year old and older as the game has changes dramatically and they may contain out-of-date info.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GypMw7ZdLIo&list=PLfMGCUepUcNwOJ0CXvVwtH9FMlCdwzj-s

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

100% no not MMO "massive multiplayer online" unless you consider 10 people massive then yeah sure its an MMO :D

[RAFA]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

100% no not MMO "massive multiplayer online" unless you consider 10 people massive then yeah sure its an MMO :D

Sometimes 10 players can feel like alot if you restraint the play area for just some planets

[RAFA]

Originally posted by casualsailor:

Not really. Although there are a few public servers that people are trying hard to keep running while Keen works on the netcode I suspect that most of the multiplayer is done between a few friends where one of them hosts a game and the others join him or her to play.

That's not to say it cannot be a multiplayer game in the future. Four years ago after the game first came out there were many servers with admins that struggled to keep them running while the game was being developed. I played on several of them and had a good time. But then Keen announced that they would postpone working on the netcode until after planets were released and that took about 2 years. So, all of the servers I played on went away and I've not tried to play on one since.

But now that planets have been released and they have started working on the netcode there may be a resurgence of public servers in the future. We'll just have to see.

hope so, thank you