Happy summer holidays everyone! We’re back with a new experimental update for Interstellar Rift. As you might know if you’ve been following our Dev Streams, patch 0.2.10 will focus mostly on adding more settings for servers and server admins. Opening up a whole variety of new ways to customize the game to your play style.
We won’t go through all of the settings here, but we’ve listed all of them (including all existing commands for reference), on the wiki, and they are linked in the patch notes.
The new commands will allow you to, for example, tweak spawn rates of resources, rename systems and celestial bodies, create new asteroid fields and spawn in Skrill.
Besides all the new commands, we’ve also added a new version of the dropbox for server owners, which tracks what resources have been deposited into it, and writes the output to a file. To give an example of its functionality, it can be used in combination with the custom resources introduced a couple of patches ago to create capture the flag minigames, or as a way to have players hand in resources for special rewards.
We’ve also updated the A.C.T.R. and the Player store so they can also interact with the custom resources. If you’re not familiar with them, these commands are also on the wiki.
In addition to the new commands, we’ve also added new server settings. Be aware that some of these can’t be changed on the fly and will need server rebuilds if you want to change them after starting a server. New server settings include options like; tweaking Skrill spawn rates, initial NPC station spawn rates, CPU settings, power settings, tool durability settings and more.
During the experimental phase of this patch we’ll update and tweak some of these for improved usability, and add the server settings to the menu when you start a new game.
For full patch notes, and to leave feedback, see here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/363360/discussions/4/1640919103669383108/
Instructions on how to join the experimental branch can be found here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/363360/discussions/4/350542145693906320/
Thank you all for playing and see you star-side!
-The Split Polygon Team