This is my realistic prediction of how the 2018 updates are being implement, taking into account all the previous updates until now.
Q1 update:
- Engineering - Every time you craft you always get an upgrade, but the upgrade can be so small that is almost the same as now.
- Authority ships will now appear 2 seconds earlier.
- Better trade data information in galaxy map, but still worse than using eddb.io instead.
- wing missions, the same unrewarding missions there are now, but one person can accept one mission for all wing members.
- Planetary Tech, I expect amazing result here, but to be cut off in beta since consoles can't keep up.
- Galnet Audio, starts talking at random times, for example in the middle of combat and there is no button to turn it off.
Q4 update:
- Squadrons, basically friend list new tab that is your squadron, they will forget a global chat.
- Fleet carriers, Megaships that squadrons have to request to FD by sending an email to support and buying them in the frontier shop. Also moving the ship can only be made in downtime and squadron leader need to send an mail to support.
- Mining, now there are some special asteroid you can blow up to tiny rewards, that isn't worth doing.
- Exploration improvement, 10 Anomalies added in all galaxy, with very tiny rewards that almost no one can find, same as the geysers. Also codex that basically just keeps record of the data you turned in, without any interaction at all.
Q1 update:
- Engineering - Every time you craft you always get an upgrade, but the upgrade can be so small that is almost the same as now.
- Authority ships will now appear 2 seconds earlier.
- Better trade data information in galaxy map, but still worse than using eddb.io instead.
- wing missions, the same unrewarding missions there are now, but one person can accept one mission for all wing members.
- Planetary Tech, I expect amazing result here, but to be cut off in beta since consoles can't keep up.
- Galnet Audio, starts talking at random times, for example in the middle of combat and there is no button to turn it off.
Q4 update:
- Squadrons, basically friend list new tab that is your squadron, they will forget a global chat.
- Fleet carriers, Megaships that squadrons have to request to FD by sending an email to support and buying them in the frontier shop. Also moving the ship can only be made in downtime and squadron leader need to send an mail to support.
- Mining, now there are some special asteroid you can blow up to tiny rewards, that isn't worth doing.
- Exploration improvement, 10 Anomalies added in all galaxy, with very tiny rewards that almost no one can find, same as the geysers. Also codex that basically just keeps record of the data you turned in, without any interaction at all.