🚀 What's new

• Social (1st iteration): profile, friends, missions, corps, groups, economy/wallet
• Universe simulation: goods (ore, food…) simulated per village and warehouse, recalculated every 5 min. In case of a shortage, an automatic mission is generated (can be accepted, not yet completed)
• Launcher v1.0 (thanks Anthony): social features working (friends, corp)
• 🧊 Feature freeze: until Monday, bugs and optimization only

🚚 Vehicles and batteries

• Engine and Battery wiki pages added (sub-pages of Components)
• Bug fixed: Godot's default engine braking, which made 2 engines faster than 1
• Now 103 km/h max (empty, on flat ground) with 1 to 3 engines, only acceleration changes
• ⚠️ Road roughness is at 0.5 versus 0.9 for the ground, so some slopes are harder on the road than next to it. Proposal: switch to 1 (ddurieux is looking into it)
• 🔋 Recharging on the ground markings at garages: about 8 min from 0 to 100%
• A garage in every town/village, factories every ~47 km (versus ~250 before)
• New game design channel: battery charger (in-game item for the MVP)

🗺️ Map and level design

• Main plateau updated with the real colors
• Materials spreadsheet opened (sandbox)
• Village: buildings and street furniture defined, 3D handoff coming soon
• 📌 List of 3D assets pinned in the creative forum. Additions go through WarpZone
• New 3D modelers have joined 🎉 Street lamps validated (designer look for big cities, industrial look for mining villages)
• ~60-70 villages, ~20,000 spawn points

🐛 Bug reporting process

• One post per bug in the QA-Report forum, see the news
• Screenshot including the right-hand panel (lat/long) for holes, stuttering, etc.
• Emoji reactions (duplicate, fixed…) still to be defined and explained
• Known bug: roads over canyons add dirt instead of building a bridge (fix in progress)

🖥️ Monday the 19th test: Server Meshing Dynamic

• Goal: 75 players/server, then maybe 100-130
• The point is to measure server load and network
• ⚠️ Teleporters do not work between servers
• NPCs will fill in if we're short on players. The more the better, so spread the word! (stream possible with Hugo)

📅 Coming up

• QGIS export Thursday or Friday, once the reported bugs are fixed (~15)
• Drawing roads in QGIS: never two people editing at the same time
• Post from bitogno about the wiki corrections
• Post-test idea: a camera mode (no HUD, free flight) for videos