There are some important changes in the works (particularly with capships). Big enough that I didn't want to announce or promise anything earlier in the week. The release target of Fri night has not worked out, but Ray will be continuing to work on it over the weekend. FYI..

Thanks for the update Inc. Don't rush for updates if it's not ready. Best to make sure it's all good instead of pushing a half-broken feature.

Good stuff.

Thanks for working the weekend for us, Ray, and thanks for the update Inc. :)

Cool!

CD buys Ray a pizza.

No, seriously. Ray: what do you want on your Pizza?
I can order Edwardo's online and have it delivered to the office.
You want it for lunch or dinner?

If Ray dosn't want the pizza, send it here. :)

Maybe Ray is on a diet.

Maybe Ray is like, actually working on the release instead of checking the boards? ;-)

Maybe Ray is a robot and he doesn't eat. Maybe he was invented by incarnate and that's what he's been doing for the past 2 years in lieu of regular content drops.

I have it on good authority that Ray doesn't like pizza.

:(

Heh, thanks guys :). Ray is working from home over the weekend, and we don't eat a lot of pizza anymore.

To the devs I send my respect and good wishes, and my subscription.

I'm curious what this update is going to be. I've seen 2 updates to the VO Android app since this weekend but no changes to the game files... Hmmm

Obviously it's going to be player-owned space ponies.

Duh.

It's not going to be a true pirate faction. No way in Hell.

Player capship shields are one aspect, that is in testing. We're also trying to make platform-specific "Free play" a possibility at least (not rolling anything out instantly, but at least trying to add the ability to handle platform-specific play differently).

The Android updates are unrelated, but were kind of required for various reasons.

I was reluctant to promise the shields by last Fri, in case something went awry. Which it did. Ray is still testing and fixing cases. Not specific ETA yet, but I'd be surprised if it didn't get out this week.

That's awesome cause i know making that work required you to overhaul many corner cases perhaps before you implement it pop open a strength suggestion because maybe they should not be as strong as the NPC shields..... *ducks*

oh and make pcb work through shields....maybe even drain shields *ducks and hides*