This weeks dev update

[ArithonUK]

Lots of info today in the Frontier development update.

Hi everyone,
 
For this week’s dev update the focus is on the 1.1 update which will go  into beta next week. First we have some good news for explorers. We’re  adding the discovered by tag to the system map so when you view a body’s  information you will see which commander first scanned and returned to  sell the data for that body. Supplementing this we’re also adding  information when you sell exploration data of the bodies contained  within the exploration data being sold for a specific system. There’s  also a change to enable selling exploration data a page at a time to  help those who have been on long journeys of exploration!
 
In last week’s update I mentioned the community goals feature which will  be added in the 1.1 update. Here we have two specific examples of what  we will be doing with those goals. The first is a minor faction seeking  to expand their military capability by constructing a capital ship (one  of Farragut Battlecruisers or Majestic Interdictors) which is obviously a  huge undertaking so they’ll require a lot of support and resources to  successfully construct the warship. The commander who contributes the  most to the construction will have the opportunity to name the ship.  We’ll need to vet the name of course :-)
 
One of the other community goals will be a more involved process  enabling the expansion into an unpopulated system. This will be a three  stage process. The first step is for us and the DDF to establish a short  list of candidate systems. The aim for this initial colony is to  support further exploration and to act as a hub for other expansion in  the region. Once we have the shortlist players will be invited to map  the candidate systems and whichever system has the most data about it  sold will be the target system. A community goal will then start to  gather the resources needed to build an Ocellus starport that will be  deployed in the chosen star system.
 
As well as the new features we’re continuing to fix and investigate  issues, some fix highlights include improvements for AI docking and the  docking computer, better handling of ship to ship collisions, balancing  dumbfire missiles and shield cells and balancing of heat generation by  weapons.
 
Last week I shouted out about the community news item thread and that is  off to a good start with some stories already being used. If you have a  community event in game or something newsworthy then you can submit it  via this thread:
 
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=101801
 
Thanks!
 
Michael

[albert]

Clarify for me if you would but, when are Wing updates being introduced? I thought it was 1.1.

[vobler]

Clarify for me if you would but, when are Wing updates being introduced? I thought it was 1.1.

It was in Newsletter 58. Something about 1.1 coming " in preparation for 1.2’s major Wings update in early March."

So I will wait until then....

[ArithonUK]

Clarify for me if you would but, when are Wing updates being introduced? I thought it was 1.1.

1.1 is community goals, exploring, etc.

1.2 is Wings (March)