Starfaring entrepreneurs your time is now! With update 0.1.48 we are adding in player stores allowing you to set up your business empire to buy and sell goods!
To do this you will find the new player stores in the editor. Place these on a ship and you can set them to sell or buy any item or resource. You will need to assign cargo pads so your store will have a pad to place your bought items/resources, or where it takes the items from to sell. Each store unit comes with two stalls allowing you to sell two different items/resources per store unit.
This patch also includes a number of new drones which have been added to the Sentinel Security Systems fleet, ready to engage anyone who commits an offense. First up we have the hacking drones, this drone will hack a random ship system when its in range. These will only spawn in systems with a S3 rating over 2000.
Next we have the Missile drone, these drones attack you with missiles. These will spawn in a system with an S3 rating above 3000.
And lastly we have the Interdictor drone, these drones will stop you going to warp while you are within range of them. These will only spawn in system with an S3 rating of 4000.
This about covers the new security drones. But there is one new drone variant which is not as law abiding. The pirate drone is a small scrappy looking drone which attacks everything. Except anything or anyone affiliated with the Drifters.
We’ve also added in a new set of item lockers which accept all of the items. So unlike the wall locker and the weapons rack you can place everything with the exception of resources in here. They come in two varieties for now, a crate, and a more traditional locker that also includes two offset versions to allow more than one to be placed on a tile.
We’ve also made a few changes to the modify ship mode. When you delete a device from your ship and place it somewhere else. It will now remember what its status was before you deleted it. The same thing works when you load in a blueprint. It will try to keep as many devices with their current status intact even when placed in different locations.
As always, we’d appreciate any feedback you’re willing to provide, it will only help us make the game better, please leave it here. 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
Link to patch notes