Hello players!
This entire week I will not work at fixes. Or the Inventory. Or the Hangar. Or remotly anything that hasn't to do with AI, because a ton of people have been requesting this feature.
AI will be realized with a thing I call bi-directional Location/Orientation. The Server handles all the position and orientation data, but to keep server load light, it will be assisted by all clients near the AI drone around calculating the rotation. Movement and aggression will be crude at the start, might be limited to one person aggro and they might not be very intelligent, but you've got something to shoot and I can say I've done some basic AI.
The first faction of AI enemies to join will be "Drones". They are small, easily killed and might just drop a few Ferrite, H³ and money when they explode. Later, bigger enemies will join.
And now, lets go to the deal I want to offer you:
If we can reach 60$ in Donations in the next two weeks, I'll (be able to buy and) add in the remaining ships, the Discovery, the Yorkshire and the Travae. for each 10$ above that, another Drone enemy diversity enters the game.
This box will update once a day with respective values. How you can donate? Head here (Yeah, click that link!)
You do the donations, I do the Awesome stuff - is that a deal?
PS.: I will be streaming the development of AI drones!
List of Donators:
T.S. (2€)