Hello! We decided to make the next update a bigger than usual. Our main goals for the next update - create something which may be called "addictive gameplay" and also, make the game for new players as simple as possible. We want to solve a problems which are described in negative reviews on store page. Most negative reviews related to the lack of tutorial, so detailed interactive tutorial will be added in the next update. Also some people can't understand where is a "single-player" mode, so we added two different buttons in the main menu, as well as "Tutorial" button which launches the game immediately.
That is good for players who want to launch the game and jump in action immediately which is seems very important. Also, some authors of negative reviews think that Celestial Command supposed to be a fully realistic orbital simulator with complex planing of "Delta V" and hardcore orbital maneuvering. But it is not. Celestial Command designed to be a space game with very basic orbital mechanics and simple navigation.So good interactive tutorial will explain that "orbital planning tools" is not necessary for gameplay and tutorial will explain how to move the ship without it.
Another main issue which described in negative reviews - a lack of content / possibilities. There is interesting situation with this issue. Actually it is an illusion. The game may have a lot of possibilities, but until the game have only sandbox mode and everything is available right from the start - you may think that there is not too much to do in this game. And the game will not fascinate most players for a long time. This rule works almost for most games. Almost all popular games are successful due the "feel of progression". If a player will gather resources and perform tasks to achieve the more better and better abilities and items - the game will seems more interesting than a pure sandbox mode. For example, the simple game without complex mechanics but with well designed "sense of progression" most likely will be much more successful and attractive than a game with a lot of complex features, but only sandbox mode without any sense of progression. So this is an important problem of Celestial Command and we are going to solve it in the next update. In order to do it, we plan to make new trading system, AI, new distribution of resources in asteroids, new prices for all modules etc. Of course, it does not means that we will not to add new things. A lot of new things will be done in the next update. For example, we already redesigned trading system significantly. Current trading system is terrible, even we are not always understand how to use it :) But the new trading system have much more comfortable interface and much easier to use.
Also, in order to make trading more intresing, we should increase an amount of space stations in the system. But current space station have very significant impact on performance due its size (it contains a lot of modules). So in order to increase amount of space station, we decided to create completely new modules designed for space stations!
Such space stations not only looks epic, but also have much better performance than previous space stations which allows us to add a lot more station in the system with acceptable performance. For example, this world with 12 stations runs on 90 FPS and it still can be optimized.
Usually we prefer to split such a big updates into several smaller updates. But in this case, we want to release it only when we will be sure that this next update will be really interesting and it will guarantee that after the next update, much more people will be satisfied with the game. However periodically we will inform your about development and upload test versions in test branch. If you don't want to miss those test updates, please join our Discord chat where we will inform you when new test update will be uploaded.