I meet the Slaveguild every place. I guess you all also. And i guess, you and me are trading with them.

As their name is Slaveguild, maybe it would also be nice, that they sometimes sell Slaves. Expensive, and before you buy, you can see, what stats the slave have, what his old proffesion was and so on. and after you buy the slave, you can let him slave (work more, need less food and so on), or you can free him. maybe there are also a bonus when you free him like in fight he never surrender or somethink.

I've been doing some overthinking, and imagined a spaceship where there is actually somebody setting the crew's priorities and sometimes giving specific commands like assigning a job, prepare hyperjump, or the draft commands.  How would that happen?  There could certainly be a captain sitting in one the ship's rooms monitoring a bunch of video screens and issuing orders via intercom.  It is also not much of a stretch to pick out one of the crew and decide "This one is the captain."  Named after yourself.  That crew member could have cybernetics that let them observe the ship and give commands remotely.

Perhaps it was from watching the anime The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye that I considered that a ship's AI can do all of these things, and wouldn't show up as a physical crew member.  Makes a convenient fit in my mind, but Space Haven never makes that out to be a fact of the game.  I believe that is for the better, as we are allowed to roleplay as the officer in command of the ship.

Now to recent news.  At present, the crew of Space Haven ships conduct their priorities, schedules, jobs, and drafts unquestioningly until they drop unconscious from exhaustion.  They never disobey direct orders, rebel, or defect.  My kind and benevolent self gives them time each day to rest and mostly recover their energy, but there are several jobs where the guy chronically falling asleep on the spot causes no harm, they just work slow.  As of DevBlog #38 that will not always be the case.  Environmental conditions and mood/needs issues can cause crew to neglect their tasks, cause accidents, and/or start fights.  I consider these excellent additions to the game.  Once a ship or two are fully constructed and armed, the game gets pretty easy.  At some point, depending on abundance of resources encountered, we can just start flying through systems without stopping for anything, and totally annihilating any pirates in the way.  Or we can declare war against everyone and go about collecting all of their crews.  Star systems along down the line have no challenge or threat.  It's the first several where I have to flee pirates and genuinely worry for resources.  These environmental hazards and the opinions of my crew are new levers to present challenges that could become dour, even for fully staffed and armed fleets.

So back to the player.  In some situations we'll temporarily lose control of our crew.  Omniscience spoiled.  Is it their captain, commander, AI, or despot they ignore?

We're super happy with how the Early Access release has gone. It has been a very stressful time, with the release day being especially stressful. Things always seem to happen at the last moment, we found some bugs and got frantic, there were some obstacles and panic moments but it all worked out in the end.

Space Haven soared like a rocket at release and was within the top three global top sellers within an hour of release. It stayed there for all of its first day, and within top 10 probably the first week. All in all the game is definitely a success and we're so happy to finally succeed well enough to stabilize our indie company after 8 years of constant financial struggle.

We want to thank you for being there with us and for all the support we have received. It means a ton to us and the Kickstarter success enabled us to take the game to a point it needed to be at Early Access release. Space Haven is now released as Early Access and we're so relieved to see the game getting a good response from players. It has been a lot of hard work, many years of hard work.

With many updates already pushed for Alpha 8 in the past 6 weeks we have now had some time to start on a new Alpha iteration! Here's an update on what we've been working on for the upcoming Alpha 9 so far.



We've been working on the first new features for the upcoming Alpha 9 update, and it is time to show what we've been able to produce so far! We're introducing Space Hazards and since one of the hazards affect crew members directly we found a good opportunity to add some new implementations towards adding a bit more depth to characters as well.

Space Hazards we're currently working on:

• Solar Flares
  
• Micrometeoroids
  
• Siren Worlds
  

Is there any plans for a ironman mode?

Hi there!

During my first playthrough, I'm missing the option of being able to make a manual log for every sector you visit. This way, when traveling between sectors, you could write reminders about scavenged or non scavenged derelict ships, about asteroids almost fully mined... so if you rushed a few sectors to find energy minerals or something like that, you could easily know what sectors still have potential for you to come back.

Could be a manual log, or could be automated so you know what's left of interest in sectors that have already been visited!

Anyway, let me say THANK YOU for the work you're doing.This game has instantly become my fav of the year!

After seeing the small sale on steam, I picked the game up at the weekend, on saturday morning. 
I then proceeded to mess about, building lots of random stuff and just trying to learn some stuff and following the guided plan a bit. 
Basics are sort of in place now, and looking to try a proper work through over the coming week ahead. 
I seem to have got a vague feel for mining, but cannot work out how you get crew to go to the derelict ship. Is that something that pops up later? 
Crew interface seems to be my biggest hardship atm, there is a lot going on there to work out. 
Supplys are my other issue... Trying to work out what i have, and how i can get more is not jumping out at me just yet. 
Enjoying myself so far, and looking forward to actually working out a working starter ship to explore a little more.