Hello! Despite the fact that there is no news from us for a really long time, the game actually is not abandoned as it may seems and in a very active development. This may will be a biggest update in the history of game development, but since it not finished we are really sorry that we are forcing you to wait for so long. We realized that there is huge amount of issues in the game which makes it unplayable at some point and we want to resolve all of these issues at once in order to provide really good gameplay experience for you. We realize that such a long update cycle is not good, and we will return back to "update each 1-2 month" cycle after this huge update. For now we just can't release it because many systems is completely reworked and currently in half disassembled state. What about planned release date, unfortunately we don't know yet because there is still a lot of work. Also the reason why there is not too many posts from us, is because there is so many changes in the game so it became hard to describe in words, while also we want to keep most info about most improvements hidden before release in order to achieve better "feeling of new content" for you after it will be released. Still, we will show something about upcoming improvements:
Main user interface much more clean and no longer cluttered with useless elements which only distracts you, now it will display only information which can be useful right now.
User interface of editor screen is improved the same way. Also overall usability of editor screen is greatly improved because ship constructor is a key feature of the game and players will spent significant amount of time here so it should be intuitive and comfortable.
Inventory window and its usability improved too. Usage of inventory no longer fill the screen with a bunch of icons which is hard to read and use. It should be much more comfortable now.
Currently color dots above asteroids performs its purpose (display contained resource) not very well, so we made a new indicators which visible only when any asteroids selected and does not distracts when you don't need this information.
We like the idea that cargo transfer requires a docking, but docking process itself could be very uncomfortable and overall it much harder than expected, so now all docking ports have convenient and reliable "magnetic docking" feature.
Same thing happens with shipyard. Requirement of shipyard is nice feature but proper positioning of ship inside shipyard can be frustrating, so now the ship will be positioned in the center of shipyard automatically.