Hey, everyone!

As I love informing you guys on everything, I’ve asked the others from the dev team if I could post information from our weekly meetings (yes, we have those!)

Whenever possible, I’ll make some notes on the weekly meetings and I’ll update you guys on what’s been done, and what’s being planned in the near future (except for surprises, because, you know… surprises).

Anyway, we’re off!

So, who’s done what?

Blue Dwarf

Blue Dwarf’s stopped easter. (Boo!)

He’s also worked on some achievement bugs for Steam. He’s working on implementing achievements such as building a base, etc.

Ryan

Ryan has been working on the payments through Steam, to allow you guys to buy both spacepoints and subscriptions through Steam. He also figured out a bug with subspace spawners that were causing hundreds of ai to spawn an hours and fixed it. Before the fix there were over 1606 ai ships in a gal!

Jey

Jey’s been working on the integration of the new server, doing a lot of testing of it all. It looks very positive. Quoting him, the database is “swimming in ram”, the server should hold our live + test servers quite easily.

He’s going to do a full patch, hopefully friday or monday (in the best case scenario. If he encounters any issues, this could be delayed). If all goes well, the server will be migrated the following day.

Jeff

Jeff has been working on banners for Steam. Here’s a few of them! These are some first versions, we’ve been discussing on which ships we should use for this. They should be interesting, but not too high tech (so players can pilot the “banner” ships quite quickly in the game). They also shouldn’t be too dark, since it’s often against a dark background so the ships would get lost in it.

Suit

I’ve been… Making this blog, I guess? I have no idea.

I’ve been playing around ingame, spawning stuff for people in the Colosseum, which was really fun. I got to talk to a lot of you guys, you all gave me some really nice input and/or feedback which I’ve also discussed with the team. I’ll definitely try and be ingame more often.

So, that’s it for this week! As I’ve said ingame, after the server migration, we’ll be able to hand out some Steam beta keys. I’ll keep you updated on this.

See you next week!