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Hello and welcome to StarMade,
this update introduces StarMote, a very powerful administration and monitoring tool for StarMade.
StarMote
The game is finally much more easy to administrate. Admins no longer have to start up the game - they can just startup StarMote, select a previously saved connection and hop on the server as a virtual player. StarMote is taking almost no CPU, so it's easy to run multiple instances permanently if you are administrating more then one server.
Key Features
Future Modding Possibilities
This tool not only shows the beauty of abstracting the network and game interface, it also presents a much more compact interface for future modding. Integrating an external chat for example will be no longer impossible. Also the use of this interface for custom implemented bot players will be possible.
Game Features
I apologize that there haven't been any game changing features lately. The reason for this is mostly because I'm currently at a point where I wanted to solidify the game core. I'm on a very good way: the seamless universe was the first step. The second step was this admin tool, which future features will profit from. The third step will be streamlining the game files & configuration. This is necessary since the demand for multiple universes and customizable config-file-locations (to run multiple servers from one installation) has gotten higher.
This will also include a tool to check on a server's health, ping, and player counts, as well as possibly a master server which servers can make themselves public to (if wanted), so players can discover their favorite StarMade server from within the game.
I will work on the galaxy map along the way.
As always, bugfixing & optimization have the highest priority.
Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema
this update introduces StarMote, a very powerful administration and monitoring tool for StarMade.
StarMote
The game is finally much more easy to administrate. Admins no longer have to start up the game - they can just startup StarMote, select a previously saved connection and hop on the server as a virtual player. StarMote is taking almost no CPU, so it's easy to run multiple instances permanently if you are administrating more then one server.
Key Features
Console to receive chat and server message
Chat like you are in the game
All admin commands available
Full player information and tools (kick, ban)
Efficient catalog administration
Full faction administration
Tools like warping players to, or repairing a sector
Future Modding Possibilities
This tool not only shows the beauty of abstracting the network and game interface, it also presents a much more compact interface for future modding. Integrating an external chat for example will be no longer impossible. Also the use of this interface for custom implemented bot players will be possible.
Game Features
I apologize that there haven't been any game changing features lately. The reason for this is mostly because I'm currently at a point where I wanted to solidify the game core. I'm on a very good way: the seamless universe was the first step. The second step was this admin tool, which future features will profit from. The third step will be streamlining the game files & configuration. This is necessary since the demand for multiple universes and customizable config-file-locations (to run multiple servers from one installation) has gotten higher.
This will also include a tool to check on a server's health, ping, and player counts, as well as possibly a master server which servers can make themselves public to (if wanted), so players can discover their favorite StarMade server from within the game.
I will work on the galaxy map along the way.
As always, bugfixing & optimization have the highest priority.
Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema
