At the heart of our development philosophy lies the strong belief that the best games are created in collaboration with the community that plays them. As such, we are incredibly grateful for the dedicated and passionate community that has formed around V. To ensure that the changes and updates to the game align with your expectations, we have been conducting player votes on our Discord server. Your votes have been invaluable in shaping the future of our asteroid mining simulator, and we are excited to present the top priorities that came up as a result of the first post-1.0 vote:

High Priority

Here is the list of areas that caught most of your attention. These will be prioritized with updates:

• Gameplay and Mechanics (223 votes): Refining the core mechanics and introducing exciting new features to ensure your asteroid-mining adventures are more engaging than ever.
• New Ships (177 votes): Both completely new ship hulls and some new variants of already existing ships are coming to supplement your fleet.
• More Hardware (156 votes): Expanded catalog of mining hardware choices, ranging from advanced point defense mining lasers to resource scanners, new heads-up displays, and brand-new equipment categories, empowering you to extract resources like never before.

Medium Priority

Issues on this list were still popular but didnt make it to the top three of the most wanted. We will work on these as time allows:

• Mod Support (149 votes): Support for modding and Steam Workshop, giving you the freedom to craft your unique mining experiences and share them with the community.
• More Events (132 votes): New story events you can encounter while you explore and excavate the Rings. Thrilling challenges, rare phenomena, and unexpected discoveries that will keep your mining ventures full of surprises.

Low Priority

These things caught the least votes and are probably better suited as expansions for another time, later down the line:

• Quality of Life (97 votes): Enhancements that streamline your operations and make your mining endeavors more rewarding.
• Immersion Features (96 votes): Expanding the game lore, additional interaction options, and dialogue choices that make the game world a living and breathing place.
• Story Arc 2.0 (83 votes): Following the next big narrative after the anarchist conflict.
• NPC AI (72 votes): Enhancing the behavior of NPC ships you encounter and wingmen, both when mining and when fighting.
• Performance (48 votes): Improving performance is an endless task, each steep moving the range of playable systems additional few months back, allowing the game to be played on older hardware.

Stay tuned for more updates and sneak peeks as we fly towards V: Rings of Saturn 2.0! Happy mining!

[ 2023-07-28 18:52:02 CET ] [ Original post ]