Aww, I knew what you meant; I was just saying why I hadn't posted much lately. (I can't speak for anyone else, obviously, but it wouldn't shock me at all to discover that's is why there's all this silence.)

I check back at least once a day, still. Just to see.

Lots of stuff happening next week.   

It's absolutely killing me waiting.

Bump!

Now that E3 has come and the teaser is out....   can any of these questions be answered?

Go for it. I’ll catch up.

Well, I've asked a couple of times about that ship of mine that likes to kamikaze itself against the asteroids and that green fog of war, allowing itself to die a miserable death without any assistance with my weapons...

...whassup wi' dat?

as I've said in a few other locations, I work with a company that does software design/sql implementations....

As someone familiar with revision testing that software goes through and how stressful deadlines and what not are I just have to say that Brad and the Stardock team spoil us fans.  You spoil us.    The amount of extra customer touch points you create honestly boggles my mind.

Thank you for being so... willing to talk to your fans and even your anti-fans.        that I can ask a CEO of  multi-million dollar company a question and have him answer it quickly is seldom done and those who do it (Musk with Tesla as an example) and you are unique and awesome exceptions to the rules.

Thank you again

Sadly DJashdj  the mac version is more in Apple's Court than Stardocks.

Apple is pushing the Metal API for graphics and ending support for all others, including OpenGL.     
As the Engine for StarControl uses the Vulkan API (which is supported by Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia, Playstation, Xbox etc but NOT Apple) the only way to run it on an apple is to do some sort of Windows Emulation of duel booting.

Any modern graphics card will run Vulcan... except if you stick it into an apple computer.

This is completely on Apple.

PS4?    

Underneath Star Control is CIDER which is our next-generation game engine.  This engine uses Nitrous as its core.

All the components were designed to be ported and Oxide (the devs of Nitrous) have already begun porting it to Linux and Nitrous already supports Vulkan and DirectX 12.

We also have to port the Cider pieces as well and that will also likely go to Linux first as it's the most "open" platform.  Once you're on Linux, lots of other platforms become easier.

Then it's a matter of which console makes the most economic sense first.

Well, it's not first-person, for one thing.

As for the rest, I have to guess--since I'm not part of Stardock--but based on how similar this seems to SC2 (which came out way before NMS), I think these won't be way far off:

It has a well-defined story, unlike NMS.

Interactions with aliens won't be so stupidly generic; they'll actually speak to you like you're having a real conversation.

Those interactions will lead to story-changes.

I'm sure the Stardock crew can tell you more, but those are the ones that stick out to me first.

Doing that requires ritual sacrifice.

You do have an altar and peasants available, right?

The betas have ended in anticipation of the release.