Prime time! After a few nasty speed bumps we are ready to push this update to live! This week we are bringing rescue drones, the long awaited tool store and a series of much needed optimizations.
First off the tool store will now let you buy and sell items such as plasma pistols, ammunition, upgrade cartridges and more. These tool stores will be found on all of the starter stations with more stations to follow in the near future.
Next we have the delivery drones. These little buggers can be summoned from the “Services” menu on the GRIP to bring you fuel and to repair your ship if you are in trouble. That said these services do not come cheap. You will be paying a premium sum of U-nits for the fuel and repairs. These drones should make it a little easier for new players learning the game to not get stranded. Note that rescue drones will first have to find the fuel and resources before they will travel to help you so it make take some time before they arrive.
And lastly, in the previous update we overhauled the space generation particularly when it came to asteroids, this caused the server save files to become massive and would result in very long loading times when using rifts to travel to other star systems. We’ve optimised this process and rift travel times should now be significantly less than they were before. In addition we’ve added a brief period of invulnerability to ships when leaving a rift so even if you exit the rift in the middle of a skrill swarm you will have about 30 seconds to react.
As always, we’d appreciate any feedback you’re willing to provide, it will only help us make the game better. We have also set up a public discord server which you can join here!
Feel free to drop by and have a chat, we’d love to hear your opinion and feedback!
Thank you all for playing and see you starside!
-The Split Polygon Team