[i][b]Hey Space Travelers![/b][/i] [b]The Ship Combat[/b] (v0.13) major update is almost ready for public release! We are grateful to everyone who playtested it in the alpha branch. Your feedback and bug reports helped polish all the rough edges, as usual. We’re always listening and taking your feedback into account, even if it might not seem so. We know some of you didn’t enjoy the Hyperspace update, as it introduced new restrictions to space travel and made survival more difficult. We’ve listened to your feedback. The Ship Combat update will address many of these inconveniences:

• [b]Return Beacons[/b] will allow you to fast travel to previously visited locations.
• [b]Automated deep scanning[/b] will [i]“find”[/i] (spawn) several new resource deposits in almost every location, making it easier to acquire resources.
• Two new types of [b]Warp Drives[/b] will let you jump to sectors and regions without using hyperlanes.
• [b]NPC ships[/b] traveling the universe will make it almost impossible to get stranded, as you can trade with them or even ask for fuel when you’re in trouble.

Other than these inconvenience-fixes we’ve also stacked the update full of balancing changes, various UI fixes and of course, the whole Ship Combat thingy. We’re now going back to radio silence. [i](Unless you’re in the discord, of course. We’re active there as usual.)[/i] [i][b]Early next month [/b][/i]everyone will be able to enjoy a new Stardeus universe full of life and adventure, with hundreds of NPC ships traveling about. [i]See you soon! // Spajus & Lizz The Community Manager[/i]