Ahoy Captains!
So this time it isn't a new update (yet) just a bit of news on what we're working on currently.
The next update will feature two new skills, so you'll have somewhere to spend your hard earned skill points (finally!). The first new skill is trade, it will progressively make your life easier when trading by keeping track of the best places to buy and sell stuff, reducing the city profit margin and even allowing you to smuggle (meaning you'll be able to trade with cities you're at war with, that also includes pirate settlements!).
The second new skill is diplomacy, it will give you new options when talking with the governor, it'll make it easier to identify enemies on the map, and as with trade it will allow you to always dock at cities (even if at war) and talk with the governor.
These skills won't be immediately available, you'll have to unlock them somehow (still figuring it out) before you can actually spend points on them, unless you pick the appropriate sponsor at the beginning of the game, that will allow you to start with one of them unlocked and the first rank already bought.
Also the faction menu will be improved, you'll have to discover the different factions before it shows you any information about them, and we're looking at ways of improving it in terms of visual feedback so you guys have a better understanding of your current relation status with a given faction and between themselves.
There's a few more things we're looking at but they're not super final yet, so if they're ready on time they'll come in as a bonus.
Your fellow Captain, Ivo.