Prime time! We’ve got another update for you! This time bringing in the the gas clouds and gas cloud harvesting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfnxa50kQlg
From now on you will encounter gas clouds which you can harvest using the new ramscoop device.
These gas resources are needed for the construction of high tier devices! Such as the large drone bay and the strip miner.
Gas clouds come in several varieties, and can be combined through the ram scoop into different colors which correspond to new types of even rarer materials. First you will need to gather these gases by using your ramscoop. Simply fly your ship into a gas cloud and check your ramscoop what types of gases can be harvested. Then you can turn on your ramscoop to gather them. If you wish to change the composition of the cloud you will need to gather the appropriate color and release it into a different gas cloud in order to get the composition that you need.
Gathering these new gases is not without its risks though. Blue gas clouds are electrically charged and will occasionally discharge their electricity to the nearest conductor. Which can be your ship or any other object in the cloud. Green clouds are acidic and will also start to eat away at your hull after a while. And red clouds are hot, and have random gas explosion. There is also a new heat system but those mechanics have not yet been implemented other than their visual component.
Skrill however have decided that they no longer like the cold outskirts of systems, and now only spawn in regions of sufficient heat. This means that ships that exit a Rift will now end up far far away from the center of a system, instead of right next to the sun.
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!
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