Pirate ships that dock with your station may now also attempt a pirate raid. Pirates will try and break through your airlocks, board your station and attack items. Don't worry though, your crew with fight them, just make sure you have enough workers to fend them off! Combat is an emergency job so make sure you have enough crew set to do those tasks, at least when pirate ships appear. Make sure you have droid maintenance to repair any combat damage, plus crew quarters if your human workers actually take health damage. You can see damage, with new health bars that appear above crew and pirates during combat. Patch notes:-

• Pirate ships can now spawn pirate raiders.
• Pirates will attempt to attack your station items and crew.
• Crew will attack pirates as part of the emergency job type.
• Any visitors will return to their ships when pirates attack.
• Health bar addition to characters in combat.
• Pirate raid numbers added to game stats.
• Improve: Game will drop to normal speed if running at x2 speed and high alert message occurs (Can be disabled in gameplay options).
• Improve: Human jobs now cancelled en route if item no longer exists (sleep/eat/heal/recreation).
• Fix: Worker cancelling a repair job due to emergency failed if position was next to repair.

Nick

[ 2024-08-29 09:23:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

"Welcome commander to your first non simulated mission. You are in control of our mining startup station, which has just reached our licensed territory in this sector. Mission begins now."

Deep Space Outpost is a sci-fi base builder with resource gathering and base management. Create your space station, mine asteroids for resources and make your mission a success.

Features:-

• Build your own space station tile by tile. Start with a small startup craft and expand to achieve your mission.
  
• Current game modes:- sandbox, several scenarios and station builder.
  
• Gather resources by mining asteroids or capturing passing meteoroids/scrap. Refine into building materials, water, fuel and oxygen.
  
• Manage your power production and usage. Watch out for solar storms and electrical damage.
  
• Build defense turrets to protect your station from space threats such as pirates and meteoroids.
  
• Trade resources by bartering with passing trader ships.
  
• Job management - Prioritize worker droids to repair, build, transport or deal with emergencies.

We want to expand this list greatly, take a look at the Early Access section for details of our roadmap and Steam discussions to see what we're currently working on.