If something is repeated enough it becomes 'true' to many people.
What's the New Feature in Winter 2025?
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Atmospheric planets would be the update I would want. Forests and water and some cities to explore. This could be a paid for expansion. Remember people paid a lot for the lifetime expansion pass and so far only got 2. If memory serves it was $180 for some to buy it, and while I got it by being in the alpha I did pay $200 in total for early access, Founders world and a brand new off the assembly line Cobra Mark 3, I think a paid for for atmospheric planets would bring in needed revenue and would be a popular addition. A free expansion would be to scoop from gas giants, I am sure the visuals and sound effects would be amazing.
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Would love that, and it would indeed be a new feature, EVA in space FTW!
I cant see atmos or ship interiors being a free quarterly update, has to be something much smaller.
My guess is some kind of BGS 2.0 - since Odyssey it feels like the current system is under extreme strain with the daily tick taking half a day to fully register on some systems. Then we got Trailblazers which further degraded the situation to a point a system may not tick at all, leading to conflicts not advancing or retreats failing. With no significant work being done to fix that, I'm betting it's due to a total re-writing of the system being planned to better scale with colonization (and perhaps even better integrate with PP2 and the conflicts it sorely needs).
Ages old tradition going back to at least that one guy in ancient Rome ending every speech with "By the way, I think Carthage should be destroyed!".If something is repeated enough it becomes 'true' to many people.
Eventually--to a great point of contention for great many people--it did become true to everyone involved
See also: @Rubbernuke and Powerplay
When they announced a similar new feature last year (which turned out to be colonisation) my recollection was that they really downplayed it and I pictured some relatively small and self contained gameplay loop. How wrong I was. Who knows what that means for this year's surprise feature but we already know that these features are planned years in advance and that they're already thinking two years ahead (that was from Arthur's Lave Radio interview). So while years of experience have taught us to control expectations I’m also secretly hoping it could be as substantial (and new) as colonisation. I’m going to take a wild punt and say either EVA salvage or planets (and gameplay?) involving weather systems (a long held pipe dream of mine). What could the gameplay for either of these be? Well gathering data and/or valuable resources (hard to get on-foot engineering mats) perhaps? And of course having said all that they'll surprise me again and go with something small … it’s gonna be a new type of limpet isn’t it.
Brings to mind the quote from 'A Man for all Seasons': "The world must construe according to its wits", folowed by the plagiarized "Frontier must construe according to the KickStarter"If something is repeated enough it becomes 'true' to many people.
As has been said here, if they do it two years in advance, then assuming they've started some of this, by mid- to late next year, provided they actually manage to implement either of the two features. I'd mainly like the one for atmospheric planets, but I also wouldn't dismiss the one other interior commanders are asking for, which, while not as important to me, would be an addition worth considering.
A Master Limpet!
"But they were, all of them, deceived, for another limpet was made. In the land of Cambridge, in the fires of Mount Fdev, the Dark Lord Braben forged in secret a master limpet, to control all others. And into this limpet he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all other limpets"
"Ash limpet durbatulûk,ash limpet gimbatul,
ash limpet thrakatulûk
agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"
All hail our new limpet master!
I don’t believe you …If something is repeated enough it becomes 'true' to many people.
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Playing a long pun game … we’ll see if anyone bites …
I'd like to see a fully fleshed out NPC system that can fill your seats, especially in the bigger ships. If you have NPC in your seats, they could add passive benefits to your defence and offence depending on the NPC.