There was no news from us quite a while, this is because we are working on some big improvements for the next update which requires to do some research about new methods and features, so we were not ready to show result before we will be sure that these new features will work as desired.

The upcoming improvements will be related to the most important aspect of the game - construction of ships.

Currently in the game most modules has the same size and most ships also has the same size, of course there is some a bit larger modules and also you can build a ships of any size you want, but even larger ships mostly looks like a large, flat construction made of small parts.

This is not intentional design choice. From the first day of development, Celestial Command supposed to be the game about ships of very various sizes, where smaller vessels will be able to fly inside a hangars of huge carriers and battleships.

Earlier we had more priority tasks related to core systems instead of a lot of new modules of various sizes, but now we decided to focus on this direction.

For the next update we started to use a new method which allows to create large amount of modules in reasonable time. Now some modules consist of two parts, superstructure above and standardized base structure below.

Besides that, some modules have optional variant with different vertical profiles, allowing to create a huge ships which does not looks flat.



Initially we thought that such method may create undesired "repetitive tiling" effect because base structure of different modules will looks the same, but turned out it is not a problem because most of the time you observe ships from above where superstructure overlaps most of its area, plus different vertical profiles creates very interesting shapes.

Here is some early examples of what is possible to build using new modules:













Besides that we will add huge hangar parts, a lot of new weapons and many various functional improvements, such as mirror tool, magnetic docking, more challenges and a lot more.

That is how research and development area of new modules in 3D editor:



When it will be released? We are not sure yet, we want to make it high quality because when people will start to design and save new ships we want to be sure that save files will not be wasted due some changes in the another update after.
Also we want to provide some kind of game goals to create a purpose for a newly designed ships.
We will keep you informed about update progression.

Thanks for the patience! : )