Will creative mode ruin survival mode?

[Fulgrim]

I guess I'm one of these people who once starts cheating in a game cant really go back to non-cheating for that game. I have been putting off creative mode for a long time now, however because we don't have 3D printers yet I don't want to invest hours upon hours of time building a large ship in survival.

My general question is how many of you have been playing creative mode and then found survival mode to be worth your time?

[orb]

Originally posted by Flosculus:

My general question is how many of you have been playing creative mode and then found survival mode to be worth your time?

I've been playing creative mode between November and March for 39 hours, and survival mode between March and April for 110 hours. And now I play creative only to design ships or stations which I will be welding next in the survival, or to test new things right after new update.

[Zorlond]

I really only use Creative mode to test out ideas. I've got a few 'proof of concept' items in the workshop if you want to take a look. But the stuff I build in Creative isn't really meant to be spaceships, just bits of them. Any actual game play and ship-making is done in survival.

I very eagerly await the ability to save and build from blueprints.

[RobieV72]

Same here. I've been at Creative mode since I started playing then went to Survival went it went live. I find Survival a good challenge and well worth time and effort, even if it's to see how well you can do. I then only use Creative mode as a means to see if things will work properly before going back and build it in Survival. The only issue is the physics on the blocks are different in the two different modes. Survival is not as forgiving.

[MetalDog]

Like the others here, I just use creative mode to test theories and figure out how stuff works. All the real building I do in survival mode - it's much more satisfying.

[Yosh]

My playstyle is quite similar to that of the those who have posted here so far.

[Fulgrim]

Thanks :)

[_Patrick Swayze]

It will ruin your game. Putting effort in being able to create what you want is rewarding.

[SimmonsTheMad33]

Originally posted by orb:

Originally posted by Flosculus:

My general question is how many of you have been playing creative mode and then found survival mode to be worth your time?

I've been playing creative mode between November and March for 39 hours, and survival mode between March and April for 110 hours. And now I play creative only to design ships or stations which I will be welding next in the survival, or to test new things right after new update.

Exactly

[kaiyl_kariashi]

I wouldn't worry about it too much.

What you do in your own game is your business, and any server you join will be whatever the host says it is.

If all you really enjoy is the building aspect, then by all means, stay in Creative as much as you want.

Survival is just there for people who want that extra little bit of umph to the game due to creative getting pretty boring when there's little to no risks involved, or the extra satisfaction of building up an awesome ship from scratch.

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Now, on the subject of "cheating". I almost stopped gaming all together due to being younger and lacking the self control to NOT cheat. It made everything boring beyond belief and almost made me hate games entirely...

I finally grew out of that and came to dislike cheating in general due to it potentially perverting the games.

But on the other hand, it can be viewed as purely optional and even as a mod to freshen things up (unless there's multiplayer involved and it's used diliberately to gain unfair advantages).

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My ultimate beliefs with regard to cheats is to play the game legit first, then you can cheat if you run out of things to do to make things entertaining once you've finished a game at least once.

(I personally won't mess with cheats unless it's required to recover from a bug. To some degree mods could be taken as cheats, but IMO it largely just depends on what they alter and why).

And never cheat in anything related to multiplayer unless it's an agreed upon resolution for what can and can't be done by the server.

[Rex]

It is exactly like Minecraft. The two modes will have entirely different players in them. Additionally, unless you're a child, you will not turn the game from survival to creative to survival again. It is like doing a crossword puzzle in one of those crossword puzzle books. Sure, you could open the back where the solutions are, but it is implied you need to use self control and your own head when you should take advantage of it and when you do not. Simply put, I do not think anyone will use creative to cheat. At least not anymore than the people that mod the game to start with more uranium or change speeds pass x10.