We've pretty much been doing this already.
I didn't say that was a news post, we also have a news post from last week. What I meant by that, is that post is there to show release cycle changes and will show when we do news posts.
Sorry, just been noticing how quiet these forums have gotten over the past month, just thinking of stuff to resurrect some of the old players
workin' on?". ie, what's going to change in the next Update? In the past we could clearly see what schema is working on (albeit, after the update has come out) just by reading the update news releases. But now with the much needed extended release cycle we're getting allot more communications along the lines of requesting more feed back from players. Recently the requests have been for bug reporting with release candidates. And I don't think anybody will soon forget the request for opinions regarding the power overhaul.
You can see a lot of what we're working on here: Trello"What'sschema is working on (albeit, after the update has come out) just by reading the update news releases. But now with the much needed extended release cycle we're getting allot more communications along the lines of requesting more feed back from players. Recently the requests have been for bug reporting with release candidates. And I don't think anybody will soon forget the request for opinions regarding the power overhaul.
That document is not a promise, or an absolute indication of what will happen. It is what it claims to be, a post about the direction of the game. No mentions of when this will happen, merely a post to give people an idea of what we aim StarMade to be.For example look to the Development Direction post by
It's an endless hole, we're saying more than we've ever said before. There's really not much more we can open up. You'll be getting a regular news schedule, you'll be getting development updates (which we've already done).
We put out "dev blogs" when we have nothing else to put out. There are plenty of posts and news by me, schema Bench and others which go into far more detail than a dev blog ever does. We haven't had a dev blog for a while now, simply because we've been sharing a lot of information already. Just a heads up, the person who posts the news does not necessarily mean they are the writer
I've posted news that had very little involvement from me, and others have posted material I've written. It's a group effort.
I couldn't aggree more. A post like this one for example could be the "Dev Blog" and it could be posted on home page in the new cycle.There are plenty of posts and news by me, schema Bench and others which go into far more detail than a dev blog ever does. We haven't had a dev blog for a while now, simply because we've been sharing a lot of information already. Just a heads up, the person who posts the news does not necessarily mean they are the writer
Sure, as I mentioned above, we're working on our news cycle at the moment.
Last news post was a week ago, we're taking a little break and you'll likely see that question I made last week, answered within the next 7 days.
That's been there since Jun 3, 2015, it's in the proposed section, so it was proposed by the Council (from community suggestions). It's been there for a long time.
that is a very limiting idea for those that play on multiple servers
something like this should be discussed by whats left of the community, another idea ive seen on other forums is asking the community questions like "what is the best/worst part about something?" and find ways to improve in areas and get them talking about that subject
Forum activity and general StarMade activity decreases from January to June, where it picks back up in the second half. This is often the case with most other games and even films. There's not a lot to be concerned by, we'll be taking the time in this part of the year to work on more "controversial" features/reworks, before we hit the big spikes in the second half. We're not really interested in bringing back old players just yet, there's the universe update currently in planning and a power proposal, one will require a world reset and the other rebuilding ship systems. It makes little sense to do this in a time of high activity. We haven't marketed the game since 2014 Steam EA release, so, activity is bound to gradually decrease over time.
Previous talk on this:
With the universe update, it's allowing us to work on plans for beta launch and map out our first marketing campaign. Right now, most of our focus is going into universe (power proposal is pretty much done), it's a lot of planning and is the basis for a lot of features to work correctly. It'll be hard to get right, and will likely take a lot of our time to power through. For the next few months, a lot of the work we do is probably going to see people having to reset and change. But once we've gone over that hill, a clear path should be there, and if plans go correctly, a nice stream of cool content to look forward to (not sure exactly what just yet, that's all scheduled to be sorted in universe planning).
That may be so, but the implication is still that you guys would be moving in that general direction over the next year or so: crew, quarters, fleets, NPC factions, fauna, the chairs people have been waiting for since this game first released to the public, and other related mechanics. Out of those 6+, we got about half of two. I understand that the schedule changed, but we weren't really notified about this for quite a while, leaving everyone to believe that Schine literally just pulls random things to implement out of a hat and occasionally throws out a promising-looking dev blog, then proceeds to randomly do something else again. Likewise with the whole impression that we'd get significant AI improvements soon after the NPC faction update, and IIRC, unloaded fleet combat, better fleet features, and something about a War Score system for NPC faction wars.
