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I was a part of the beta testing cycle for Starbound but its been years since played last

I may have ti fix that

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Something I’ve always wanted in Starbound is something like a captains log. Yes I can take notes elsewhere, but it would be really nice if there was UI to organize my experiences and history as I bop around the universe. The bookmarking method isn’t all that helpful.

I used to play a lot of Starbound, but this is actually what’s holding me back. I want a little more roleplaying as a space explorer and I’d love collecting planet data in a better UI.

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Such a good idea. I actually have a notebook for my finds and thoughts and I wanted to make a whole compendium on what I’ve made. Haven’t yet, but a captains log sounds so fun.

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Yes I remember playing this game since an early alpha. But it’s all so empty and sometimes feels pointless to wonder around a new planet. Btw Chucklefish made the game with unpaid child labor… I eventually returned to Terraria.

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Yikes! I didn’t know it was that bad.

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‘unpaid child labor’ painted a nasty picture in my head. If you watch the video about it in these comments, it was more like ‘asked 16yr olds to make content and told them it wouldn’t be paid but they might get job offers later (but they never will)’.

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I didn’t think a indie game development studio would have a sweatshop full of child slaves, so I think my first impression is pretty close to how it was, and that is unpaid labor. The only debatable term is “child” though they were minors. Pretty sleazy to take advantage of passionate teens like that.

Maybe that’s not so shocking to people when unpaid internships are a thing, but that’s not something I think should exist either.

It’s disheartening how dirty entertainment industries are on every level. You’d think works of passion would inspire people to treat each other right but if anything seems like the opposite happens.

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Where’d you find that info?

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I really had no idea. Don’t want to get downvoted to oblivion for this, but this kind of stuff doesn’t erode my joy of the game, or make building my cute lil pixel homes any less fun and rewarding.

These days, in general, there’s lots of looking down / belligerent beratement of people who like things that were incidentally made by shitstorms. Sorry in advance I suppose.

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Played a ton when it first started; stopped when they released a bug that wiped out the contents of any container with an empty slot. Lost all my stuff. Couldn’t really get back into it having lost so much time and with devs that had such iffy null handling via their Lua code.

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Kickstarted it!

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