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Gameplay rules
Official page: This page is maintained by Frozenbyte, the developers of Starbase, and cannot be edited by users. Information on this page has been confirmed to be correct at the time of writing (please get in touch if you notice anything odd or outdated).
Starbase Rules
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- Gameplay rules for gameplay rules and clarifications (safe zones, blueprints)
- Wiki rules
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Gameplay rules
Starbase is under constant development. As new features come in, we may add or remove gameplay rules related to them. Rules are not set in stone, they are ever changing. In the ideal case no additional rules would be needed at all, and that is the development goal. In the mean time, some rules clarify our development intent, and they are listed here.
Last updated: 10 August 2021
Origin chat advertising
Origin stations' chat is not a place to advertise any services or trades or similar. We will devise other methods for companies/factions to advertise and sell their services to players. Any continued or 'organized' advertising (such as "one message every 24 hours") will not be tolerated, and neither will any discussion about said services that in any way disrupts the flow of the chat. We will be monitoring the chats and will revise the rules as we go and as the game develops further - but generally just don't advertise in Origin station chats. If a discussion grows naturally, it needs to stop immediately if any player asks for it to stop. Violations will be handled case-by-case but may lead to timeouts (timed bans).
Note on PvP and new player protection
Generally speaking we (the development team) want to protect new players and get them on their space journey without additional burden (the game is hard enough to learn as it is). We want to encourage players to take risks with their possessions to gain something - venturing out into the deeper space with their fancy mining ship in hopes of returning with a big ore payload. If something happens on that journey, well, that's the risk part.
Because Starbase is under constant development, balance changes may occur to either direction - sometimes it may be easier for players to remain protected, and sometimes it may be hard to keep alive.
Note on griefing
Repeated actions against the same player(s) over and over again is griefing. We will deal with griefing on a case-by-case basis.
Any other intentional hampering of other players is also handled case-by-case, however it should go without saying that deliberately hindering others' experience is not advisable and will be punishable. This would include e.g. blocking ships or buildings on Origin and other such actions.
Griefing examples
Ramming inside safe zones: Safe zones protect ships from breaking. However deliberate ramming within safe zones is not allowed. Blaming bad piloting works once, but if you repeatedly hit other ships, that's ramming and a punishable action.
Blueprint sharing
Starbase ships and stations use blueprints. Blueprints are valuable as they tell how a ship has been designed and can be used to manufacture said ship.
In the near future we will have various blueprint gameplay features such as Secure Blueprint Chip. These gameplay features will govern the use of blueprints.
In the meantime, we discourage any and all use of blueprint sharing. You share blueprints at your own risk. We will not take any part in users' blueprints. However we will keep our official Discord free of any blueprints (but this won't apply to DMs or other servers). TAKE CARE OF YOUR BLUEPRINTS.
We recommend the following for big factions:
- Wait for the gameplay features (see Roadmap)
- Share individual Ship Access through the Ship Access feature under Company
- Share individual ships by Decommissioning them (Possessions -> Ships -> Decommission)
- This allows anybody else, including a company member, to claim the ship freely
- Do not share blueprint files with anybody. It will lead to misery.
- It is your own responsibility to keep them secure and developers will not take any part in securing them for you if they leak.