[2020] Things I am hoping for

First up let me say that if none of these things are ever implemented I won’t be disappointed. I think the game is cracking good and if it NEVER sees another update I will still feel I got my money’s worth. The developers are legends and this is in no way one of those ‘whinge posts’.

• some quests: some simple things like being asked to bring resources to a location or transporting a person (like the refugees) to another location. Could be cool if they are being hunted by pirates and you can choose to hand them over for cash or fight to the death for them.
• robot crew: mechanical teams that consume energy not food. I would love to build a pure artificial ship of intelligent robots.
• more furniture and comfort features: like it is super forgiving at the moment for the comfort of crew. I just cram them in like sardines but I would like to have to work a little harder at having to provide individual cabins with features etc. to keep em happy. Some recreation spaces could be fun. And some more cosmetic ‘aesthetic building’ stuff. (This is probs a later update so I am just voicing that I like the sound of it).
• some more rare events: I love the Mary Shelly ship and I think that is some cool thinking. I would love to be pursued by a fleet of pirates chasing me down after I had messed with them too much. That would be fun. Or getting a rescues hail from another system. Just stuff to make the universe feel a little more ‘lived in’.
• a crew rank system: I love that there is the flexibility to just name a crew the captain but it would be cool if there was a buff or something that came of that. Something that impacted decision trees when hailing other ships. It made fire teams perform better on away missions.
• ship status toggle: nothing like slapping a ‘red alert’ button that halts any task related to industry, farming and non-critical logistics. Priories fire-fighting and hull breach repair. The number of times I have been getting creamed and Steve is just happily loading fabric into the weaving machine and I’m like: “get to your effing station Steve!?!?!”. Perhaps even more alerts (blue/yellow) which have a different conditions for behaviour. One for dealing with invaders etc etc.
• hero characters: would love to see a high stats character pop up occasionally. Someone with a back story written into the log lore... general stat improvement process would be great too. Love training up crappy characters to be valuable.
• crew augments: equipment items like bionic limbs etc. I mean the character inventory has a bunch of slots for HEAPS of equipment so I am sure the devs are thinking about armour and tools etc. just excited about tooling up the Red Shirt squad to be like colonial marines with nukes, knives, sharp sticks etc.

I would love to hear anyone else’s cool ideas that this game has inspired. Again, just wanna say this is not a ‘bitch post’. I don’t wanna hear any “oh the blah system is broke it’s much better in other game”. Like that might be factually true... but this is a game that is still in alpha and the small team of devs making it are doing a great job.