They just dropped the space update and I think I can hear Rifleman laughing from the grave. Stormworks is Dead and the devs killed it.

Despite being "1.0" some of the most basic things are broken, unfinished, unbalanced, and desperately needing polish. It crashes at seaming random times doing random things. The constant dealing with bugs and non-working features. And yet the Devs want to add more things that will most likely brake whats not already broken. The discussion of adding weapons, and nuclear reactors to search and rescue game is too ridiculous, the whole transportation theme is a bit of a stretch, but makes some sense, life can't all be rescuing someone. The integration of transportation of bulk fluids and containers is not too far off from the original setting. But why must every game include weapons, and really, nuclear reactors, really? I can think of a couple of reasons why that is ridiculous.

First, ships rarely go over the size where nuclear power is a better alternative to jet or diesel. Second the reactors are either going to be massive to even resemble their real world counterparts or be small enough that there is going to be no reason not to put a reactor in a ship. One of the major reasons why nuclear reactors are used is for their ability to go for seemingly forever on very little fuel, and thus subs and aircraft carriers have one less thing to worry about in a situation where the supply chain is in question or have to be away from port for extended periods, other than that there is not great reasons to go nuclear, especially in Stormworks where fuel is not in short supply nor in scarce locations. The only way for that to work out is the adding of long range missions which might get boring after pointing in a direction for hours on end.

And "Vehicle Weapons", there are a plethora of block/voxel based games with weapons built in from the start why not go play those for f***s sake. From The Depths, Space engineers or Robocraft and the list goes on and on. Theses are games built with the promise for weapons and destruction and combat. How are you going to connect laser guided rockets, ship mounted artillery pieces, and high powered machine guns to a search and rescue game? Yes the whole train aspect is really pushing it but its not incredibly out of the scope of the games premise.

"Why not just not use the weapons when they add them? Its your choice to use them or not."

Because this game is already in need of bug fixes and patches, re-balancing and other things, and the adding of guns and such is going to drive away the people that will stay around. The ones calling for guns will just jump to the next game that lets them build their own tanks, planes or whatever-else.

The closest thing to a connection I can think of for weapons is the Coast Guard, but they have no need for giant and devastating weapons, because they mostly have to use them on smugglers and I cant think of any smugglers with a standing navy. And what use would weapons have in the campaign? Would the Devs add in enemy AI to fight? Enemy tanks, planes, and boats that you would have to destroy for a mission? At that point just go play a game that is built around combat, not one that will have had it shoehorned in to appease the vocal minority that joined in the discord.

I would wager that if the Devs ran a poll inside the game so that every person that played it saw it rather than the many who knew about the discord, the few who cared to join it, and the fewer that payed attention to it, and the even fewer that actively interacted on there. There would be a good difference in the results.

1st EDIT: So i bought the Weapon DLC just to give the devs a second chance, I thought maybe with releasing a whole weapons DLC they would have tried to iron out some of the most basic bugs plaguing this game. The game just crashed after I pressed ctrl+z. That is such a basic operation, I may not know the ins and outs of game development but how does a bug like that even make it out of the beta? Mirror mode I assume has something to do with it, but that is such a basic feature, how after all this time, after the 1.0 update, after the weapons DLC, does something like that even still exist? I get that this DLC just released today and the "day one patch" but this is just embarrassing.

2nd EDIT: I decided to do an experiment and see how many game crashing bugs I could find. To be clear I was not looking for bugs I was just building and playing like a normal player would and on average I could not go for more than an hour or so before a game crashing bug, this is beyond embarrassing this is almost neglect, how in hell did this pass Q&A testing. How did no one catch any of this? And the piss poor optimization is outstanding.

TL;DR
STILL a MASSIVE Dumpster fire until further notice

They just dropped the space update and I think I can hear Rifleman laughing from the grave. Stormworks is Dead and the devs killed it. Despite being "1.0" some of the most basic things are broken, unfinished, unbalanced, and desperately needing polish. It crashes at seaming random times doing random things. The constant dealing with bugs and non-working features. And yet the Devs want to add more things that will most likely brake whats not already broken. The discussion of adding weapons, and nuclear reactors to search and rescue game is too ridiculous, the whole transportation theme is a bit of a stretch, but makes some sense, life can't all be rescuing someone. The integration of transportation of bulk fluids and containers is not too far off from the original setting. But why must every game include weapons, and really, nuclear reactors, really? I can think of a couple of reasons why that is ridiculous. First, ships rarely go over the size where nuclear power is a better alternative to jet or diesel. Second the reactors are either going to be massive to even resemble their real world counterparts or be small enough that there is going to be no reason not to put a reactor in a ship. One of the major reasons why nuclear reactors are used is for their ability to go for seemingly forever on very little fuel, and thus subs and aircraft carriers have one less thing to worry about in a situation where the supply chain is in question or have to be away from port for extended periods, other than that there is not great reasons to go nuclear, especially in Stormworks where fuel is not in short supply nor in scarce locations. The only way for that to work out is the adding of long range missions which might get boring after pointing in a direction for hours on end. And "Vehicle Weapons", there are a plethora of block/voxel based games with weapons built in from the start why not go play those for f***s sake. From The Depths, Space engineers or Robocraft and the list goes on and on. Theses are games built with the promise for weapons and destruction and combat. How are you going to connect laser guided rockets, ship mounted artillery pieces, and high powered machine guns to a search and rescue game? Yes the whole train aspect is really pushing it but its not incredibly out of the scope of the games premise. "Why not just not use the weapons when they add them? Its your choice to use them or not." Because this game is already in need of bug fixes and patches, re-balancing and other things, and the adding of guns and such is going to drive away the people that will stay around. The ones calling for guns will just jump to the next game that lets them build their own tanks, planes or whatever-else. The closest thing to a connection I can think of for weapons is the Coast Guard, but they have no need for giant and devastating weapons, because they mostly have to use them on smugglers and I cant think of any smugglers with a standing navy. And what use would weapons have in the campaign? Would the Devs add in enemy AI to fight? Enemy tanks, planes, and boats that you would have to destroy for a mission? At that point just go play a game that is built around combat, not one that will have had it shoehorned in to appease the vocal minority that joined in the discord. I would wager that if the Devs ran a poll inside the game so that every person that played it saw it rather than the many who knew about the discord, the few who cared to join it, and the fewer that payed attention to it, and the even fewer that actively interacted on there. There would be a good difference in the results. 1st EDIT: So i bought the Weapon DLC just to give the devs a second chance, I thought maybe with releasing a whole weapons DLC they would have tried to iron out some of the most basic bugs plaguing this game. The game just crashed after I pressed ctrl+z. That is such a basic operation, I may not know the ins and outs of game development but how does a bug like that even make it out of the beta? Mirror mode I assume has something to do with it, but that is such a basic feature, how after all this time, after the 1.0 update, after the weapons DLC, does something like that even still exist? I get that this DLC just released today and the "day one patch" but this is just embarrassing. 2nd EDIT: I decided to do an experiment and see how many game crashing bugs I could find. To be clear I was not looking for bugs I was just building and playing like a normal player would and on average I could not go for more than an hour or so before a game crashing bug, this is beyond embarrassing this is almost neglect, how in hell did this pass Q&A testing. How did no one catch any of this? And the piss poor optimization is outstanding. TL;DR [i]STILL[/i] a [i]MASSIVE[i] Dumpster fire until further notice