Short term TODOs

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Short term TODOs

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Sorry for my mini-disappearing act over the last week. As many of you have noted, we are a very small team, which means that along with being our lead programmer/designer, I'm also effectively our accountant, website developer, and CEO. And so when things come along that require me to play some of those other roles, there will be a necessary lull in updates and patches. The big distraction of the last week has been getting the preorder system setup -- something that I (with my CEO hat on) decided really needed to get forced to the top of the priority queue. That's now done, and I now have about a day and a half of game development time before leaving for the weekend to attend a memorial service.

This means that while you'll see a couple updates on Thursday, significant new features won't really start hitting the servers until next week.

External delays notwithstanding, we are getting *close* to our next scheduled milestone -- the moment when the closed beta will have it's first significant expansion.

The things we're planning to get done before that happens are, very briefly:

  • User interface tweaks -- right/left click behaviors will change in a number of places, and we'll take a shot at streamlining the tactical control system (a candidate patch for this may be done by Thursday).
  • A rough balance pass over the tactical game.
  • More encounter types, including but not limited to splinter colonies.
  • Assorted AI improvements.

That, along with fixing as many known bugs as I can find time for, is the basic TODO list for the start of March. There's a longer term road-map as well, which should probably be posted in a separate thread :)

Thanks again for all your help.
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Great news, Sven! Looking forward to new updates with anticipation :)
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Yep, very exciting! Keep plugging away!

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Sorry to hear.
But thanks for the update. Looking forward to the next patch.
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Post by mharmless »

Thank you for the status update.

I can see there is a new stable build, looking forward to banging on it tonight.
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