Dear Lunar Pioneers,
wow we are once again amazed by what you've achieved. Right now we are looking at 770000 markings since our launch at gamescom in August!
Marking Improvements
A lot of you gave feedback in the steam forum and on our Discord that the marking experience could be improved and while we are still working on getting the more complex features in, we think we've been able to address the major painpoints.
Less punishing mistakes
Your He-3 Multiplier does not reset immediately when making a mistake. This was especially frustrating when encountering ambiguous or wrongly annotated craters. You now get 3 strikes per picture before we reduce the multiplier, so feel free to mark more boldly.
A new dataset of known craters
We've sat down and fixed up some of the craters in our database so there shouldn't be as many false negatives in the known images. This point caused a lot of confusion and was especially frustrating when it also reset your multiplier. So we hope these mistakes will be way less frequent going forward.
No more auto advancing images
While we are still working on a way to show you previous markings after advancing, we've come up with a simple fix for the situations where you want to take a bit more time to evaluate the marking feedback. Instead of auto advancing, we wait for you to press the submit button again before advancing to the next image.
Leave Fullscreen mode
You can change to windowed mode by pressing alt+enter. Some of you requested this feature to play on a second screen.
First evaluation results
As you know, this project is part of a scientific study and we've started the evaluation phase in October. This means we've collected all your marked craters and put them into a merging algorithm to stitch together all the images you've collectively marked. Just look at the awesome example results:
(Work in Progress: please note that the evaluation is not done yet, we are still working on the merging parameters)
With a database like this the ESA will be able to find safe landing spots, analyze the lunar surface and build autonomous landers and shuttles for the upcoming moon base.
All thanks to your contributions! Let's make it to 1 million craters!
Catch you on the moon,
The IMPACT Team
PS: We are working on new content as well but need a bit more time because we also need to do the science stuff now :D