[2020] Space Haven Alpha 9 - Progress Report #03.

Greetings, Spacefarer!
We've been hammering away on Alpha 9 and we're ready to gather some feedback from the new update. This is the first draft of the Alpha 9 update. We want to test it in the experimental branch first before releasing it officially. Once the experimental game build looks solid and stable we will push it out officially to all players!

To know what we've been working on for Alpha 9 check the previous progress reports:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/979110/announcements/detail/2590083346809312103
https://steamcommunity.com/games/979110/announcements/detail/2516898401240766529



NOTE! Joining experimental is completely optional, and you should only do it if you are willing to risk that some new bugs are introduced, which could affect your game play and potentially break your save.

Please do not join the experimental branch if you don't want to risk breaking your save or have the game break on you in midst of play! If you want to play a more stable version please wait for the official release of the update.

Here is how you join The Experimental Starfarer crew:

1. Open Steam Library
   
2. Right click Space Haven
   
3. Select Properties
   
4. Go to tab 'Betas' at the top.
   
5. Select 'Experimental' in the drop-down.

To see what has been added, check the in-game patch notes.

Giving Feedback


Please give your feedback in the experimental branch forum. Link below:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/979110/discussions/5/

Let us know what you think of the new features and if something should be altered or tweaked in your mind. Perhaps something makes the game too hard or something is too annoying, let us know so we can get a feel for how the new features feel! =)

Full Alpha 9 Experimental Branch Patch Notes

• Environment hazards Implemented - Solar flares, Micrometeoroids, Nebulae and Siren Worlds.
  
• New Faction Interactions Implemented - Signaling, NPC Hailing, Distress State and Refugees.
  
• Signaling - Allows spaceships to communicate simple intents directly, like "we want to communicate", "we want to surrender", "we want to establish a cease fire and communicate".
  
• Distress state - Allows a spaceship and its crew to turn on a distress beacon and call for help.
  
• Refugees - A new character status in addition to the prisoner status, saved crew members from destroyed spaceships who are looking to be reunited with their faction.
  
• Suspicion - A new faction status, whereby another faction can be suspicious towards you that you are hiding something from them.
  
• Implemented a lot of new communication dialogue related to the new faction interaction implementations.
  
• NPC spaceships now signal and hail the player at times, asking if the player has seen their crew members who sent out a distress call.
  
• The player can now try to lie in certain dialogue scenarios.
  
• NPC factions can now help each other in distress situations as well.
  
• Solar flares - Overload your power nodes and may cause fires aboard your ships.
  
• Micrometeoroids - Rain down on your ships and strike your mining pods. Shields mitigate to a degree.
  
• Microbreaches - Small cracks which cause depressurization.
  
• Siren Worlds - Peculiar planets whose strange signals mess with the mind.
  
• Nebulae - An interstellar cloud of ionized gases, which has a draining effect on shields.
  
• Added Space Hazards individually to the game customization screen - Tweak their presence and make them non-existent if you so desire.
  
• Ability to set the resource amounts for derelicts added to the game customization screen.
  
• Harsh game difficulty is now rebalanced to be harder.
  
• Shuttles and miners can now become broken if hit by micrometeoroid.
  
• Broken crafts can't work and leak oxygen.
  
• Many Siren World character conditions added: Disorientation, Psychotic, Schizophrenia, Lost Appetite, Insomnia, Aggressivity, Urge to Destroy.
  
• New Character conditions and behavior possibilities: Committing suicide, poisoning, seeing a captive crew member.
  
• Implemented an improved way to override crew member schedules for a set amount of hours, for situations needing quick action.
  
• Crew member schedule overriding can be done by selecting a crew member and from the crew management screen.
  
• Tweaked Character conditions.
  
• Tweaked energium to energy rod ratio lower.
  
• Rebalanced trading prices of resources.
  
• Made the game log more selective of which conditions and events are listed.
  
• Hangars can be paused/unpaused to prevent craft from doing work.
  
• Crew members can fight each other if they get irritated enough.
  
• Added additional information for grow beds, to easily see if conditions are optimal for plant growth.
  
• Graphic assets Improvements and Polish: Toilet, Hypersleep chamber, Operations console, Power capacitor, Airlock, Assembler.
  
• Fixed in-floor power node restrictions to a degree.
  
• Tweaked the surrender trigger from bullet hits to function in a better way.

Please give your feedback in the experimental branch forum. Link below:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/979110/discussions/5/

Join Space Haven Discord: http://discord.gg/spacehaven
Space Haven subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceHaven/

Thanks for reading and see you again in the next update!