You know as Starfarer stands as it is i'm not sure we need too many let's plays of it, now i'm not happy to see a youtuber leave the community*, Ever. But between Faiter and Axiege i think everything is currently covered. now im not saying YouTube videos featuring Starfarer are bad, not at all im just saying that considering how little differing content in the game there is we don't need as many let's plays as other games that are more feature complete. as of right now Starfarer let's plays follow a simple path , kill stuff, get ships, kill stuff, get ships, refit all the things, kill more stuff. And while that is fun to watch its not as much fun as actually playing the game yourself. Especially since unless you like to use non-standard ships often fleets will end up in a similar fashion to other fleets.
Now that I've explained the problem as i see it, how might you fix said problem?
Well the first and most obvious choice is to use mods but having more ships or more enemies merely prolongs how long it takes for the gameplay to become stale. now some mods ( mainly ascendency, fleet command, etc) expand on gameplay allowing the player to pick sides, or make their own fleet and such, and while this is also entertaining eventually that does come to an end as well, well everything does you can't fix that. but because combat is the ONLY thing in Starfarer at the moment it comes to an end far too quickly.
The next best solution is to wait for more features to be finished, Character progression, diplomacy, trading, multiple star systems, questing/missions. I personally feel that Starfarer needs more of these things to supplement an LP so it is not limited to just combat thus making this option the more, suitable choice for an LP.
Now i'm sure someone will think i'm mad telling people not to make Lp's of this great game, but that's not what i mean to say is that you can't make an lp of it, i'm merely asking anyone who isn't going to do something drastically different to WAIT for more features, hell character progression seems to be coming along EXCELLENTLY and while i know nothing of actual dates seems it might fall into our laps within 2012 ( we can hope) until then just enjoy playing the game or watch Faiter and Axiege's excellent videos on the subject, we don't need to flood out the game with more series like what people did to slender, or happy wheels. And once those new features do drop that add more player choice or differing outcomes to the game feel free to start up another LP i myself plan to after i finish off some older projects first and we get more options in game.
As far as mod spotlights and Mod LP's go i have no qualms with them since they DO add quite a bit of content and every GOOD mod deserves at least a spotlight or such but they and the people who would LP them should still look at how many LP's there might already be of that mod and think, does it really need another one?
One last thing i should mention, this is not a GUIDE of any sort on HOW to do an LP those are different subjects i simply intend to point out the flaws of let's playing a mostly incomplete game too much.
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