Was wondering since I didn't see any mention of roids besides making the fields denser, will the new ore types come along with this redux?

And how far away is the redux? Months or weeks? ... or Soon(tm)?

Yes, the ore redux will come. First I need to test the dense fields in some of the newly-foggy Deneb regions.

The redux is basically happening now, but it'll probably be months before it's universe-wide and complete. I'm doing one thing at a time and on a small-scale, to make sure everything works. There's going to be a lot of development that will happen because of the fog and other areas, some of which is planned and some probably isn't. I'm some bugs or problems will crop up too, and make things slower (like the NPC navigation issue we ran into on Saturday).

So, that's all kind of vague, but realistic, hope that makes sense. I'm also not forgetting things like finishing the faction stuff and economy, I'm trying to do those in-line while people are working on one thing or another.

I need to test the dense fields in some of the newly-foggy Deneb regions

That's going to be a laugh fucking riot, I'm sure. You'd better be giving the advanced mineral scanner some much-needed love, Inc.

Eh? What, that mineral scanning will take longer? Honestly, the degree of mining in a relatively small percentage of the Deneb system is not my biggest concern. I'm more worried about stuff like "the 3D engine is exploding due to the sheer number of objects in the sector" or "holy crap everything is slow" or "wow, the server is dying every time NPCs fly in there". It'll be functionally tested on the Test server, and then rolled into production because (as is often the case) I need more widespread feedback on issues that crop up.

But, really, it's just the central ring in one system, not a huge area of the galaxy or anything.

If people anticipate various issues with scanners or.. whatever, they're welcome to bring them up on Suggestions. I anticipate a lot of stuff needing to be changed, to either adjust for the fog, or to make it more meaningful to gameplay (waypoints, the old sector-list problem, etc).

I'm thinking longer term, when more ores are found in such sectors in other systems. If it's limited to just Deneb, it's seems like a pointless waste of time but not an issue re: roid finding/mineral scanning.

If I recall correctly, the idea is for the more lucrative (new) ores to be in gray space, as they should be. Maybe the testing just begins off in deneb.

..yes. That's why I said "First I need to test the dense fields in some of the newly-foggy Deneb regions." Anyway, it is a universe redux, not a Deneb Redux, I'm just using that as a tesbed because it a bit "out of the way" and also involves a lot of NPCs flying around trying to kill each other (DW/BS) which tests a lot of the basic use-cases.

Fair enough Inc . Any particular sectors in Deneb we should have a look at for the purposes of testing ?

I can't get to Deneb. :(

Itani ALT, here I come?

davejohn: not yet. "Somewhere" in the fogged center ring is the most I can say for now. When I actually export some sectors, I'll post on here or to the VO Twitter about where they are.

For now I'm mostly experimenting on test and stuff, and we're looking at various issues with the NPC navigation and such.