Might be an idea to turn them off completely until the servers can stay up for longer than a few hours. tons of people on the discord are sat there unable to do anything about the boulder of impending doom rolling its merry way towards them..

Would it not be more flexible and financially viable to hire in freelance work on an NDA basis?

i.e - I need someone to create character models. will pay X for the job
    - I need some default ships designed for the blue print exchange. (voluntary)
    - need bug stompers for a 3 month job - will pay x
    -  I need someone in timezone X to maintain the server when I'm getting my beauty sleep.

it means you can get the work done as you need without having to hire one "jack of all trades", or hyper focussed skillset.
if you want to tinker at your leisure you just can without having to pay someone to make the tea.
you get highly skilled people to do specific jobs really well without having to hire a bunch of people.


I dont know - just an idea.

BG Music. Unless Ive got some setting turned low or off i dont tend to hear much. Hazeron is a fairly quiet game.

A bit of ambient sound or even some free source bg music might be good to add atmosphere? if not to hard to add that is.
I tend to listen to like lowfi space sounds or chillstep type stuff when playing. it does add something.

I know there is some ambient sounds like rain, wind etc but im thinking more like jungle sounds in wooded areas, animal noises, rumbling volcanic sounds on inferno planets etc.

Ship designer allows for super unique and pretty ships, but is not user friendly at all.

My suggestion would be to have a hybrid of old and new.

Old designer to do interiors, doors, berths, weapons and all that jazz; then use the super intricate new designer to build the outer hulls.

again im no game dev, but as a player, my opinion is that these things need to be a little bit accessible without having to be on youtube/forums/ a cad designer etc.

Patreon - Client programs now have web links and reminders to wave people in to our Patreon page.
A Patreon splash appears every four days. It waits to be clicked for ten seconds. You can quickly bypass it by hitting Esc.
The initial response on the Patreon page has been very encouraging.

Server Lockups and Crashes - I started an aggressive campaign to eliminate server crashes and lockups. There has been a steady stream of them. They get steadily worse as the number of players on line increases.
The update today has some slight changes that may eliminate the worst of the problems. We'll see what remains after that.

Hey guys,

Returning player here from around a decade ago.

Im strictly pve and have no interest in attacking other players, or being attacked by them.

Got to space age in my new game and realised i accidentally joined the pvp server, ahores of hazeron.

Couple questions then if i may..

1. Is there a way of moving my empire to the pve server?
2. If not, given the size of the galaxy, how likely am i to be wantonly griefed and attacked by the first player i see? Best to just write off the last week and start a new game.

I surprised why no one asked about this before, and hope Haxus will answer on that question

Why you use gdb to freeze crashed server process, instead of gathering core dump and restarting it?
If you have binlog enabled in your sql db, then i suppose restart will not lead to any long term unsolvable problems

People have suggested for years that I check out Patreon. I finally did. My new Patreon page is at www.patreon.com/hazeron; 'soh' was already taken.

People have also suggested for years that I make the game free to play and just take donations. That is essentially what Patreon is. Shores of Hazeron is free to play now but it still costs a lot of money to operate. Please consider becoming a patron. Any little bit you can chip in will help.

So far, the free to play part resulted in an immediate increase in the number of people playing. Let us hope the Patreon part works to generate some income so I can hire a minion.

You may find the upper tiers on my Patreon to be a little silly; I did. The Patreon documentation recommended creating some high cost tiers, for those who feel particularly generous. There is an old saying, "If you want to catch big fish, use big bait."

I produced a report of the time remaining on everybody's account, as of Friday the 14th when the game became free to play. I'll be sending email to anyone with more than a month of time remaining, to see if they would like a refund. Then, hopefully, they will spend that money on Patreon instead.

This may be the last thread created by me in this Updates section. The first most basic "benefit" of becoming a patron is receiving patron-only communications from the developer. From now on, I will use Patreon to post the changes in each new update, to fulfill that benefit. It will also communicate to patrons that I am industriously working on the project.

where you can allocate ships into a pool that will defend the system when a enemy enters

i see it has potential for subscriptions service where you get some ore anti decay land plots if paid a monthly subscription

basicly have the hotkeys shown in a corner of the screen like this to help new players who join the game