2020-10-06 Shores of Hazeron Moving to Steam

[Rockinsince87]

The universe database will NOT be reset. Resets in the past have generally been driven by some change or other, that made it easier to restart than to upgrade or fix the data. There are no changes of that magnitude on my list at all.

The Steam release will be December 1st or later, with no urgency to get it done. I am working on some significant changes that must be completed before then.

Outstanding!

The biggest change is enabling the solo play mode to do about everything the multi play mode can do, and to make the solo database persistent. The solo play mode then becomes a playable game.

The product released on Steam will be a single-player only variation of Shores of Hazeron. It has been dubbed Hazeron Starship.

Wut...are my dreams coming true? 

Would it be possible to include coop or some form of minimal multi-player using steam? I know that's asking a lot but I suppose I'm just very curious of the development goals and objectives of Hazeron Starship. 

Will there be AI empires with economy/trade and diplomacy? Think sins of a solar empire but HAZERON style. (hence the minimal multiplayer question, others can join/help you ((perhaps 4-8 max?))

Will the old ship designer be available for the single player game? Or will the current system remain with communication to the blueprint exchange? 

Shores of Hazeron will continue as the multi-player only variant of the game. I will restore the $10 per month fee, when I get around to it. This is a low priority and I don't mind letting things run free-to-play for a bit.

For about $25k, I can get a new server with 256 threads. It would replace seven of the Dell PE1950s, accounting for 28
threads (4 threads each). This achieves a nice upgrade to the servers without expanding into another cabinet, so my monthly server bill would remain unchanged. Those seven old boxes would move to the debug server grid.

That price is quite reasonable for the new server. Is that a Supermicro or Quanta server? Just curious, because that really is a good price. The chipset and processor architecture jump from 2007 (those PE1950s) to Now is amazing. The Xeon 5000 series processors were quite good for their time but the new processors blow my mind constantly. 

Well done.