... and honestly I am not that convinced about it's future destination.

In my opinion it is somewhere in the middle between Stardeus and Cosmoteer, but at it's current state it doesn't play anywhere near as good as either of these.

Both the above mentioned titles are about building ships, but are, essentially very different. Stardeus gives us these rimwordly save our ship vibes, which for me is something that can drag me in for days at a time. Cosmoteer gives us freedom of building and then testing builds in combat, but at it's current stage of development its pretty much glorified Asteroids game.

It's not that The Last Starship is bad or something, but I think it is way too early for this game to hold my attention. If any of you are planning to buy, I'd recommend watching playthroughs first.




Anyway, I'm not here to talk about that game really, I'm here to mention one thing that I've noticed about it and which could be implemented with relative ease - missions.

More specifically, missions to transfer cargo between starports and colonies, and missions to transfer passengers. I've noticed that thus far every faction that is not aligned to AI core is considered hostile(?), even if they would never attacked player otherwise, so this is something that needs to be ironed out. But I think missions to deliver cargo and/or passengers could be implemented sooner rhater than later, both to give player incentive to revisit locations as well as to improve standing with factions and earn some credits.

I wouldn't mind transporting Old Earth farmers from one planet to another, along with bunch of their pigs (lol!) or a party of adventurers with their cargo of personal belongings. Not to mention that these would complement nicely a start with fully functional cargo ship.

Dear Spajus, is there any realistic estimate as to when we can expect something like that to happen in Sterdeus?