Starfighter General News

Hello,

I have a friend who is a good coder, smart, knows UI well, and studies games like this. He is a valuable companion and loyal so I can trust him. Development is going to be 10x as fast as before I believe.

UI is being overhauled

Topics at hand:

1) Story Missions going in

2) Menu system overhaul

3) Tutorial

4) Fleet Management and individual micromanagement and upgrading of ships.

5) Galaxy Conquering Strategy Mode

Hold on, and get your base upgraded to get a head start.

,Jim

Hello,

Those mouse bugs we found before Thanksgiving. I got around to fixing a bunch of them. Using mouse as a controller is getting better. I need to make it so you can move your stations with a mouse, and to pan around your base. Right now you can only do that with keyboard/Xbox360 Controller.

Things look very good for mass updates on this game. We will be pushing ahead at about 10x dev pace.

,Jim

Happy Thanksgiving, and do not expect flying turkey capital ships.

This patch is preparing for a close friend and partner to join development with me. Not only will he clean up the UI and bugs, he will keep me focused to keep devving this game. So basically development pace just increased by 5-10x as much. Expect big things.

In joining, he uncovered bugs with the mouse base control. Basically mouse control was tacked on. The real control is aimed at Xbox360 controllers and also Keyboard. Those have no known bugs. But Mouse was tacked on and not well play tested. Do not use the mouse if you can avoid it. It will lead to bugs. The next patch will address this, but we just discovered them now and it is the holiday.

I still want a soonish patch to have the story line mission play.

Then I want to do Galaxy Conquering Strategy where combat resolution is in game.

There are big things planned. I hope you stay on board with us over the next several months.

,Jim

Hello,

Once this game goes free to play, everyone who had an account prior will get bonus Triderium more than if they purchased it.

Until then, it would be nice to have more play testers. I cannot simply make it free in case we get swamped and cannot pay server expenses.

This move makes perfect logical sense.

I'm polishing and patching steadily.

I look forward to adding mission mode which will be a major update in hopefully a few weeks.

,Jim

Fixes:

Easy/Normal/Hard needs unlocked for your safety as a new player.

Mouse controls.

Turret AI updated so they don't get punked (Don't get too close)

Missions being added soon. The script is good so far.

Another developer getting added possibly. He is a cool dude. He wants to make UI.

God bless,
Jim