Welcome to our 44th newsletter on Star Atlas! This is a weekly newsletter, published by Aephia Industries, that is focused entirely on Star Atlas. Here we try to aggregate all the newsworthy tidbits that were dropped by the team throughout the past week
We had another quiet week in Star Atlas development, with not much new info being shared by the team. The lore team did, as always, share their Roadmap Scan (#18) however, shedding more light on the mysterious origins of the creature Atoph.
Star Atlas DAO
The team spent the pst week fixing some bugs in the ATLAS Locker that were discovered earlier. The plan is to wrap that up this week.
Perhaps more exciting is that development is on-going on a dark mode for the DAO portal and the creation and publication of developer tools to interact with the POLIS-, and (upcoming) ATLAS Lockers.
Lastly the product design team is working on the design for Proposals.
SCREAM
The blockchain team has started working on the Starbase crafting program and on Fleet Configuration. They also have been working on the Hangar system. Ship escrowing has reportedly been completed!
Meanwhile, the economics team shared that they have started modeling of the XP system.
Finally the web-team has continued work on “Outliner” and has also started work on combat functionality. Additionally they have been busy updating the camera views and controls, while also updating the movement logic and user experience.
Other Progress
- The Volant Studio Showroom R1 is done and the team continues to work on its distribution.
- Work is being done to finish the first few issues of the upcoming Graphic Novel, while the team is also still working on that product’s distribution.
- The Marketplace Royalty Fee program has been deployed to devnet and testing is underway. Logic for fee reductions has been implemented.
Finally, the team has been working on various bug fixes & quality of live improvements for the Galactic Marketplace, including:
- The address that sells the R4 is now represented as “Star Atlas DAO”.
- Some sell orders could not be cancelled - Fixed
- Enable click to copy buyer/seller address
Ships
In an interesting turn of events, despite an earlier announcement, no ship was released last week. The original tweet -announcing the upcoming arrival of an insect-like looking ship- has since been deleted.
No new ship was announced last week and it is unclear when the next ship will be released.
Education
The final episode of Michael and the Metaverse was published online, with this one focusing on the grand vision behind Star Atlas.
The finale of our Michael and the Metaverse series has arrived, and we want to thank each one of you for joining us on this journey! ✨
Check out @at_mwagner walking us through Star Atlas’ goals and vision! 🚀 https://t.co/kXhyClrXEr
iBUYPOWER
Star Atlas’ very own Ashley showed up with the iBUYPOWER crew last week to record them assembling the grand prize that was awarded to an audience member during the first ever COPA. During this fun exercise they of course discussed Star Atlas as well.
Our final stream of #IntelGamerDays is LIVE RIGHT NOW! ✨
We are joined by the amazing Metaverse Media Host of @staratlas, @Ashes_LS to build a special Star Atlas PC! 🚀💥
➡️Live now here: https://t.co/vMsi4fQfxD https://t.co/kqAw1ba8n4