News Development Update - 15th Jan

[antonygoldrick]

I really hope this quietens down the negative comments and makes people realise how much work you chaps are putting into this game.

This is really great news and thanks for the timely update.

At least now we know what the Dev team have been upto

 

[millzee]

glad to hear this..

 

[Silent_Star]

Sounds great, i'm really curious about what the game will bring to improve and broaden the galaxy.

 

[Lamargo]

Yes, this has been confirmed (wings as a free update).

Great!

 

[Seren77]

That's good news, and pokes tongue at everyone who said I couldn't read english when I suggested new players can buy into wings beta!

 

[Christopsy]

Thanks for the info plus the the route planning system on your short term fix as it stops at 100 light years which is a pain?

The biggest problem for me is the time it takes to route, and you have to sit there while it builds the entire mesh...

 

[Zephyriel]

Impressive pace for significant updates! One and a half month after initial release we'll see the first big update with new features, and one month after that a second big update! This is very exciting, I'm happy to have beta privileges so I'll be able to test these new features a bit earlier

 

[Robert Maynard]

Thanks Michael - looking forward to beta testing (again.... ).

 

[Digitarry]

I've not been involved in a crowd funded development before so perhaps this is common place, but I can't congratulate FD enough on the way they have involved, and continue to involve, their user base. It's daft to feel emotionally connected to a video game, but I'm about to turn 42 and this game is exceptionally special.

 

[Nutter]

V1.1 will also have a significant increase in the maximum distance for the route planner. We’re currently looking at extending this to 1,000 light years!

Great news on the route planner, hopefully moving away from calculating everything to just calculating a route to your target system

Also - A way to measure the distance between two systems would really help, traveling 3,000ly + only to discover the system you were aiming for is 40ly + from any other systems is... frustrating!
Basically the ability to select two systems (System A - System B) = 47.6ly

Cheers

Nutter

 

[Alturis]

We aren't planning an autopilot.

My 2 cents is that would actually be a cool idea. But make it so that if you have it equipped it requires so much energy and space that you have to sacrafice shields and most weapons so that it would be limited in use to exploration.

 

[Lee Storm]

We can finally stop ALT tabbing to use 3rd party route planning .

Thank you

 

[Michael Brookes]

Good stuff!

Question: Wings is just part of regular update schedule, not a paid-for expansion, right?

Yes, it's major update, but not a paid expansion.

Michael

 

[trekman]

nice..hopefully Autopilot would be added for 1.1 - could really use it

They've said pretty much from the start that the game will not have an autopilot. I agree and think that the game really doesn't need one and if one was introduced one day I think it would be about as popular as the docking computer is currently in the game.

 

[sensai25]

@Michael : 1000 ly plot route will incluse star scoopable type selection of course for exploration or this functionnality will not be very efficient.

 

[KidA39]

Michael,

Is there a fix planned for the kill reset bug when you're offered an alternate contract? I looked in the 1.05 notes but did not see anything pertaining to this.

Thanks for all your hard work and communication!

Nick

 

[Tequila]

Thanks for the update - With the change in route plotting distance, will there also be a bookmark/waypoint system added to the galactic map...???

 

[Seboss]

Thanks Michael. These weekly development log threads are the best thing, please keep it up

 

[JeffRyan]

Thanks for the update Michael, looking forward to it.

 

[robaberry]

Thanks Michael, keep up the great work!