3.17 is live and it adds some of the following to the mix
- Refuelling - Anyone out there with a Starfarer, now's the time to see what they can do
- Better AI - (They do seem a little more active than before on ship and ground combat), also desync is getting better.
- Selling - Okay trade has always been a thing but it's mainly spreadsheet stuff, but now you can loot a dead body, guns or boxes and sell the stuff back to the shops.
- Looting - Lots more boxes to loot with rare items.
- Mining gadgets - New reusable devices that allow you to crack open rocks easier, there is a 50:50 change the device may be destroyed in the process.
- New water stuff - Seas have been in for a long time and were pretty deadly, but now with the introduction of a river on MT they have overhauled it.
I've also noticed they have sneaked working airlocks back into the game.
So for those wondering.... this is what is currently in game.
- Bounties - Ship and ground, ground is usually in an outpost or cave system, ship is in or out of atmosphere.
- Trading - Buying and moving stuff for shiny profit or not.
- Deliveries - Pick up box from point A and deliver to point B, get paid.
- Recovery - Same as above but point A may be in a wreck site and possibly have baddies.
- Investigation - Client sends you to check something out, maybe search for bodies or black boxes (may include gunfire, but this would be alluded to in the text)
- Mining - Probably the most complex game loop in at the moment with gems, small/medium/large rocks and asteroids.
- Mercenary - Lots of shooty stuff, defending a site, destroying a drugs lab, clearing an enemy hideout, blowing up hacking satellites, neutralizing space guns and more.
- Medical - You can heal and revive people, in your team or sometimes someone (real player) might activate a medical alert beacon for a rescue.
- Baddy stuff - Criminal activities.
- Stuff I missed - Because BRAIN.
New ship in 3.17 is the Hull-A, a transforming small freighter. 3.17.1 is in Evo at the moment and will introduce the Scorpius, an X-winged 2 man fighter with co-pilot turret.
And last but not least, it is so damn pretty.
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I'd be up for gathering at some point. Sorry I missed last night mind you.