Two Steam Stances of PZ - IWBUMS and Stable

[Blake81]

This is something that's been on my mind for a while now, specially after I saw its success on Starbound.

 

The ideas is to have two separated stances of PZ on Steam, one the Stable versions, and one with the latest IWBUMS (if there's one at the moment). That way, we can playtest the IWBUMS and still have our Stable game for use online and such.

 

This avoids all of the annoyances of having the latest IWBUMS corrupt your save (if it were to happen) and doesn't limit your choice of servers when you want to play online. As IMHO, the biggest deterrent for me when going for the IWBUMS branch isn't losing my saves, but no longer being able to access the MP servers I play on.

Edited March 15, 2016 by Blake81

[Teesee]

I had the exact same suggestion on the French forum today. Saw this on my brother's steam account with Starbound too and thought of the same question : why not with PZ? 

[MrDeliberto]

I always expect the updates of IWBUMS and start playing when they are more stable side than unstable, and never had any problems with it.

[Blake81]

2 hours ago, MrDeliberto said:

I always expect the updates of IWBUMS and start playing when they are more stable side than unstable, and never had any problems with it.

I do the same, but the problem is the MP; almost no servers take the IWBUMS, so you'll probably not be able to access your online characters until the next Stable comes out.