Update, Future & Possible Price / Reward Changes

Hey all!

Just wanted to give a bit of an update on where things are at, where things are going and possible changes I want to make in terms of rewards / price.

Update:

After a bit of finicky messing around, I've changed the text message system and the phone image system to be in line with the new architecture. It's much cleaner now, in terms of calling the events to fire and I've also changed the eventing so that you'll receive the correct text message regardless of what room of the ship you are in (before it relied you being in a specific room to trigger). 

Mia's progression is about half complete at this point, and I'm hoping to finish it off by the end of the week. So we're looking good to release on the final Friday of the month as normal! (31st)

Future:

0.9 is going to feature the first main story build, which is where I also hope to add in some of the new battle mechanics I've been working on as well as "Random mission" system. Which will allow players to earn money by talking to NPCs and completing a variety of random missions. This will also feature all the new sexy shower scenes for each crew member. (Consider this like a 1/4 of their level 1 progression.) 

0.10 will be all about the first batch of space pimp NPCs, adding in their individual stories and quests, so these two builds will feature a nice amount of juicy content!

Reward Changes:

So I've been thinking for a while that I want to make changes to the rewards and pricing. My current thought process is giving the beta build to all Space Pirates ($5) at the same time as Space Rangers ($10), but remove the voting from Space Pirates. This would make voting a unique benefit to the Rangers, but also means those that Pirates will get the build the same time as everyone else (rather than 2 weeks later). And of course Rangers will continue to receive sneak peaks of upcoming work for future builds. 

What other rewards would you like to see? Honestly this way of development makes delivering rewards very difficult that feel unique and worth it so I'd be really happy to hear ideas from you guys as I want to give back more to you as a way of saying thank you.

Anyway, stay safe and I look forward to hearing from you all!

 - Nergal