Despite the lack of news, progress has been fairly steady in recent months. The general mechanics of flight are coming together rather well. I'm finally ready to expand the alpha process to start getting a little bit more feedback. The alpha process is meant to implement missing features, and better shape the current features.
If you are interested in helping out with the alpha process, you are free to join. I have started a wiki for development located at http://devwiki.stellaremperor.com which will contain an up-to-date link for current alpha versions. It will also have notes on sections of areas in progress. I encourage anybody testing to edit any pages as needed (you need to register an account to be able to edit). I will also try to post notifications when new builds go up in a thread in this forum.
If you are reporting a bug (such as something that causes a crash), please reply to the forum thread corresponding to that client version.
If you want to give suggestions or offer corrections to any aspects, please put that on the wiki as those types of items may not stay version specific.
As of the time of this post, the following items are mostly implemented in a "it works" type of way:
- Ship movement, including redlining and energy/heat, and mouse-driven interface
- Radio
- Planet establishing/abandoning & surveying
- Ship visibility
- Galaxy & Prov maps with star locating
- Probes (not yet using energy)
- Shields (currently instant changes, no temperature changes)
- Local library of visited stars
- Drydock system
- Combat (lasers/torpedoes/missiles)
- Planetary attacks
- Team management
--Willis 324402