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We have big plans for Sound and a great team working on it that understands a lot of the nuances that come with it. Looking forward to when we can share more as we move forward but for now be content in knowing that it's something being worked on.

Greetings Citizens, Thank you to all who voted in our Term 2 elections and for being patient with the couple of technical difficulties the ballot pages had. This term's election has seen even more people participate in voting! It's exciting to be able to announce the councilors for Term 2. In...

Such a concise introduction of everything kiraen, love it!

Plays into some other planned mechanics, so there might be a place for it, we'll have to see.

In current drafts of our plans for the game both captain's chairs and ship cores will still be practical elements of the game. Yes from a code perspective the core is most definitely required, as it represents the 0,0,0 point of the ship and the blocks are stored relative to that. This is what...

Thanks for your suggestion, the barren planet thing is interesting. I'm not sure what Schema's thinking in regards to planets but from the news post and interview it sounds like he has some ideas. Faction wise we've got some sweet plans some of which play into your ideas.

Excited for 2016. Crew, Fauna, Objectives/Missions, new Factions, and that's not even scratching the surface of what we have planned!

Yeah we're aware and looking to resolve it as quickly as possible.

There will be a way that as part of a faction, at a certain rank, you'll be able to have some sort of oversight over the faction.

Not ruling it out

Agreed, and we did discuss the possibility of adding it, however hit the data flow roadblock that would require a bunch of going and changing how existing systems work to make it viable. It's a similar data flow issue that is also one of the roadblocks preventing logic gates being able to...

Not for quite a while, it's a limitation of some of the mechanics and would require a rework of the permission block systems and the way C/V linking handles its data.

^ Basically all what Andy said above. Actually compiling the last build for release took a bit over 50 minutes; so regardless of the speed of making any change, your're looking at at least an hour not including upload time.

Near future? No, we have other things we're working towards

As some have hinted, a lot is in the dev direction document, so a lot is planned. We'll be striking the balance ensuring that there's enough to engage with without it feeling cluttered, so void systems actually being void, and clusters of interest you need to discover.

While it's true each team has a focus, everyone works on multiple things at once. For example our modeling team also assists with in-game assets, and our rebalancing team also has been handling a lot of the development of the economy and FP systems. All I can say is that since I've been driving...

I understand the difficulty in seeing the big picture when you don't have the pieces. One thing to consider is that we have a number of different teams, one of which takes care of looking at rebalancing. Often rebalancing is able to be done through the config a rather than core gameplay code, so...

Thanks for your reply. The team at Schine are actively working towards adding in a number of gameplay improvements and additions. With such an audacious plan it takes a lot of pieces put in place to build the foundation. Rest assured every update is designed to take us one step closer to that...

who knows, maybe we'll just add in NOR and NAND blocks into the game.