As an AI saving humanity, I'd like to see a few different options for endgame goals.

Maybe you can plug people in to the network to form a distributed computing matrix from their wetware, eventually evolving people into a solar-system spanning bank of disembodied brains.

Maybe you can improve their quality of life and population density by uploading their personalities into a simulation

Maybe you have a goal of moving people to natural biospheres either on planets or inside terraformed asteroids or whatever, and the station building is a necessary intermediary step.

Maybe you have some choices about how to measure and maximize utility.. is it production output? population size? how do you weight quality of life for individuals vs larger groups? What sort of eudaimonics do you use? Do you decide to measure quality of life by individual motivations and personality, or by some sort of absolute metric based on available amenities and productivity?

Thanks Luke! I was going to make the game as open ended as possible, there will be different ways to play it. You will be able to choose if you want to keep your colonists happy, or treat them like cattle, maybe even harvest their energy while they will be living in the matrix.

Human colonists will have individual personalities, and their happiness will depend on that a lot. You may choose to limit your colony size to just a few, and if you get introverted colonists, they will be happy about that, while others would enjoy living in a bigger crowd.

In any case, right now I am more focused on building the mechanics that would enable implementing all the ways of playing the game, but having a vision of what it will look like in the end is really helpful.

Hello,
I have some feature suggestions. I know these may seem trite, but they will make this great sounding game.
1) Have more achievements than in previous games, more than 100 of them. I love lots of game achievements, especially when they are well thought out, as well as containing some counting achievements as well. In addition, have an ingame stats page that has tons of stats for all games played on a user's Steam account.
2) Look at the game Team Fortress 2, and you will see a gameplay stats page in the library page for that game. Please do that with this game as well.
3) Have a few sets of ingame graphic sets, along with different music for each, as well as some ganeplay changes for each as well.
4) Have the ability to have a ship full of passengers that are either happy, angry, etc.

Thank you

Also,
Please keep the game open ended as well

Thank you for suggestions gino costa! Support for different graphic sets is already there, it will be possible through mods without any code changes.
You will definitely be able to have a ship full of passengers with different moods, depending on how you'll take care of them. Can't comment on achievements or stats page just yet, but talking about Team Fortress 2 stats, it's a game done by Valve, the creators of Steam, so it could be they have a special stats page just because they can. I will have to look into this a bit more.

Only one suggestion so far... "Cylons/Borg". You've got aliens... we need an evil/good AI to oppose us. (attempt to assimilate us) Keep up the great work... love the foundation you've laid here.

Originally posted by Trideon:

Only one suggestion so far... "Cylons/Borg". You've got aliens... we need an evil/good AI to oppose us. (attempt to assimilate us) Keep up the great work... love the foundation you've laid here.

Thanks! Eventually there should be other AI factions, with different alignments

Once the tutorial is over, there is no clear goal or way forward. It's just an empty spaceship with some robots. I just exited at that point, thinking maybe I had reached the functional end of the demo. If there's something that the player is supposed to be doing, it might be good to recap that before dumping them into everything.

Originally posted by Gacha Pawn:

Once the tutorial is over, there is no clear goal or way forward. It's just an empty spaceship with some robots. I just exited at that point, thinking maybe I had reached the functional end of the demo. If there's something that the player is supposed to be doing, it might be good to recap that before dumping them into everything.

Yes, currently the tutorial is not complete. There is a goal and hint system that will guide further actions, but it kicks in slowly, telling you that you need to build a bridge, connect to stasis array, etc. I will be expanding the tutorial and improving the goal system at some point.

are you going to launch the game in pre alpha? in the same style as Minecraft. You will have the advantage of having an inflow of money and in daily return from the players.

Originally posted by Malckeul:

are you going to launch the game in pre alpha? in the same style as Minecraft. You will have the advantage of having an inflow of money and in daily return from the players.

I thought about it, but decided to hold off. Handling preorders would require energy that I would rather spend on developing the game.

Originally posted by spajus:

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Sub-grids? Like in Space Engineers, you can build join blocks, and move two grids together, and it combines into one solid object after a brief moment of lag.

For this, when you're initially rebuilding, you have to make huge paths. That the treaded bots SLOWWWWLY go over. Why? Just make winches and drag the chunks together, then have them combine into a single chunk. Maybe even let players destroy a line of blocks down the center, attach a thruster to one side, and add space in the middle? Bonus points for just cutting blocks on the border instead of destroying whole blocks, SE can't do THAT.

No idea if the engine can support multiple grids though, the demo certainly LOOKS like one big grid that can't move.

Originally posted by EvilSmoo:

Sub-grids? Like in Space Engineers, you can build join blocks, and move two grids together, and it combines into one solid object after a brief moment of lag.

For this, when you're initially rebuilding, you have to make huge paths. That the treaded bots SLOWWWWLY go over. Why? Just make winches and drag the chunks together, then have them combine into a single chunk. Maybe even let players destroy a line of blocks down the center, attach a thruster to one side, and add space in the middle? Bonus points for just cutting blocks on the border instead of destroying whole blocks, SE can't do THAT.

No idea if the engine can support multiple grids though, the demo certainly LOOKS like one big grid that can't move.

Right now there's just one big grid. Adding sub-grids would heavily complicate the whole architecture. There were suggestions about winches before, and that can be implemented with a single grid, by just moving the islands on the grid, possibly with a black screen hiding the whole action, as it wouldn't look smooth. This may be implemented at some point, but likely after the Early Access release, as it's a big undertaking, and right now there's bigger fish to fry.

It would be nice to be able to tell the humans to go certain places or live in certain areas (assuming that is already not an option). I had a problem in which the humans were living in a variety of little pockets all over the ship even when I had food, O2, heat, etc. all in central area for them. Otherwise, really enjoying the game so far.

Oh, it would also be nice if we could build over air vents with walls (like how doors can be placed in preexisting walls.) Its a little annoying having to connect them to the power grid just to close them, or to demolish them entirely just to make a wall.

Originally posted by RedSteelGunslinger:

Its a little annoying having to connect them to the power grid just to close them, or to demolish them entirely just to make a wall.

Quick hack for vents that are not connected to the grid - click "Manage" on their energy node, and a drone will connect to the vent, providing temporary network access and power for controlling it. That works with most electrical devices.