We’ve been experimenting around more with drones an AI and are starting to get those to work. Modeled a new cargo ship which will be used to transport and receive items from all across the galaxy(s).
We’ve also decided to make an entire Galaxy map, each galaxy contains 700+ systems.
Left to right: Eternium, Refined Eternium, Scrap Metal, Water, Crystal Shard, Velocium, Cobalt
There’s still more ores to come, and instead of explaining what each ore does, I’ll save that for another time, but I would like to focus on one; “Eternium”.
Eternium is going to be one of the most precious and quite possibly rarest resource in the game, and you may ask yourself why? Well, it’s because Eternium will be used to travel to new galaxies. The way it’s obtained hasn’t been discussed yet, but it’ll probably be through mining. Basically, Eternium is like a currency and each time you warp to a new galaxy you’ll spend some Eternium to get there. This could also mean you could get stranded in faraway galaxies if you don’t have enough Eternium to get back.
Some of you may have noticed this on the menu for the map where it talks about Eternium:
The Public Testing Universe that we have open has not been updated in like 3+ months so it looks pretty bad. We’ll most likely update it around the time this warfare update comes out we’re working on.
Anyways little update:
We’re working on our ship editor finally since i went ahead and meshed all of our ship turrets, so we’re beginning to code the ability to place them on ships.
Unfortunately there hasn’t been as much development progress since school has started in the last month, but I will try and continue to update you all on what’s been happening as soon as we have more news!