Happy New Years, Star Sonatans! 2013 was a pretty good year for us, and I hope 2014 will be even better.
Within the game, 2013 saw the new Subspace Assault Expansion, with a large new area, alien invasions, and tech 22. We added prospecting, Bindomite, TSL, and transwarping. We restructured Olympus, and improved the galaxy map. We continued to improve the Nexus, and rearranged and improved a lot of the low to mid level content and missions. We’ve continued to optimize and improve both the client and server and increased both the speed and reliability of both.
We did a huge revamp on the website, which now looks and functions way better than the old one, and is much more tightly integrated. We did massive upgrades on the billing system, and improved the whole Space Point system. We added the suggestion list, where we can propose new features that either we come up with or the players propose on the suggestion forum, and players can vote on them to let us know where out priorities should be.
We’ve recently updated the suggestion list so that it will better track what is currently under development and what has been completed. As you can see, the solo wave-based challenges are underway, as are the class based super items that will be the rewards for those instances. Both are coming along really well, especially the super-item rewards that we’ve been working very hard on to help make Star Sonata a little bit more action oriented and increase the cool abilities available to players. These will be major improvements to the game that you guys should see in the early part of 2014.
Completed, and waiting for client and server patches are new extensive high score tables and improved in-game news that will bring all the lasted developer blog posts to the in-game log in screen.
The other major project we are making great progress on is a big class rebalance spearheaded by yclepticon and s_m_w. There have been lots and lots of discussions, maths, and testing going on, and these class balance changes are already in large part on the test server. This is going to give more active and interesting roles to every class and improve the game for everyone across the board.
After the class balance and class super items go in, we plan another big round of suggestions and suggestion voting to help determine the major improvements to bring you during the rest of 2014.
We love working on Star Sonata and constantly improving it. Thank you to everyone who plays Star Sonata who make all of this possible.
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