Nobody knows what's gonna be in the update so just wait and see. I've a hunch that it's gonna be interesting though. No. I'm not involved in testing it (I wish), I did that on the old server and was on at stupid hours giving feedback and talking shit with you lot. That being said....if any of my suggestions I've ent in make the cut I will be impressed.

Though, guys. Hold off on the feature requests until the update is out, Danny's probably not wanting to get bogged down in omg I want this feature posts, or omg this update loooks so cool posts.

Let me clue you in on a secret of game development. A good developer does not show all their features right away. It's marketing.

Marketing? I hear you ask. There's no money involved.

True. But this is a different type of marketing. Danny is marketing the not in terms of money, but emotions, he's put a few features out there that got people to go ooooh and got them invested in the update, emotionally invested that is...and here's  awarning.

Don't, and people, if you only read one bit of the post, DO NOT hype the update to high heaven because you will inevitably be disappointed. You will expect things the update can't possibly do.

Why am I saying this? Ever heard of a little game called No Man's Sky? Oh it came out last year, space based game, you collect reosources, you fix your ship and go from planet to planet. Hm, sounds familiar, right? Sounds like an interesting game. Well...the issue was that the hype got out of control and the game launched with fans having sky high expectations. THe game, admittedly, launched in a poor state but even if it'd launched decently....it would never have lived up to expectations.

Point is, for this update.....don't ever go hyping anything up, be it games, books, TV, music and so forth Because you will inevitably be disappointed.

That being said, Danny, don't rush the update. From my PoV being involved in game dev (and I know I've mentioned this to you before) I know how the cycle goes, and I also know not every single feature makes the final build. Just put in the stuff you want to put in that works, is fun, and stays true to what the update promises, and I for one will be a happy player.

Also, I will laugh if I run across a Gavin. You know what I mean there (Seriously. Why doesn't he have his own planet yet? If you ever add him...he better live up to his reputation)

Is a new version out? Or is the update on the server?

@Caio, the only Gavin I know of is a fictional character from The Lightbringer saga.

@the person who inquired about something to do with ships not using menus, I had it set up like that in an extremely early version of the code, it ended up getting the axx because it proved to be difficult when navigating at the speeds that our ships would normally travel, such as 1000. By difficult, I mean by the time you herd something, you had most likely already flown right through it, which would then usually result in a lot of you having to turn back, essentually you were constantly resseling with the controls. I'd be open to such a system again if a solution could be figured out to get around that. As for the question of earth being over crouded, the building system is avaylable on all planets. Like I said, the code is the server as it was when I killed it yesterday, with the acception of the new features, so the space system is exactly as I left it.

I have a sort of solution for the old problem, Danny. Put a beep on the target. So people would be able to hear it and would be able to slow down
their ships accordingly. As in you hear the beep too close and you press the deacceleration key a few times this way when you zero in on the beeping,
you'll be able to start with your maneover. I'm a fan of this system because it allows space combat to be a more... Should we say viceral thing in
the sense you'll have to dodge fire and fire back at your oponent.. I think it gives things a more.. Action feel. Well just my thoughts really.

Makes sense. We would have the best of both worlds. The arrows system would be as you said a sort of manual flight system and the menu would be left
for autopilot.

I like where this game is going! but I'm not sure what's wrong, but when i try to play single player or offline cant remember what it's called, i just get this beeping sound, or is that off as well?

khup chan  so nice   but  lavdya nee   swataha cha  ghamand  controll madhay thevava   translation: building wil  include  make are own space station or  any planetory boddy or  space system/

i cant even connect i downloaded the game from the link at the first post  made in this forem by danny am i missing something?

Maybe it doesn't work because you missed Danny's last post?

Short version. Update's being worked on and server was stopped according to his last post.

cause its near the end of the page.

I see noone  being rude here, sir, haha
the  announcement is at post 139
I am really looking forward for the update too