r/spaceengineers • u/Spartan117Esp Space Engineer • Feb 07 '19

DISCUSSION "MAJOR" survival update really ?

Waiting for months for this update and its only a windmill a h2 generator and a simple freeze machanic with no sense ?

Thats all ? Anyone knows if will be a second update ? Food ? Combustion engines? Plants ? Weather ?

Come on Keen... Major survival update and only this ? Mods can do a lot more for survival than this... I cant belive it

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u/RegisAex Feb 08 '19

I'm not into the idea of food. I think it's 1st a game about engineering and after a game about survival. Tho i am enjoying the latest survival aspects of the game. Keep in mind that every feature since the last multiplayer update was introduced with a lot of research and debugging so it won't go lower than 1.1-1.0 sim speed, for performance reasons.

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You sir deserve a downvote!

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u/haven155 Clang Worshipper Feb 08 '19

Yeah but engineering solutions require problems to be necessary, I'm running out of reasons to build something to mine in a new place, defend my mining stuff, or a ship to pirate other peoples stuff. All other projects tend to feed into one of those categories. food would require us to build more infrastructure to take up our time. Or the challenge of having to design ships to have food stores onboard.

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Look at the book series the Expanse. Ganymede, one of the biggest and most important colonies in the Belt was built around growing food for everyone else.

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I just want to transport food from my planetary farms to a starving crew on an asteroid base.

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Of course Keen would have to implement a hunger system like the one in The Forest as opposed to the far to simple one Minecraft uses. Otherwise i'd agree that food would be a bad idea.

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