Hello dear space farers, pirates, miners, explorers, and faction war wagers! It's the end of the (work) year for us here at Boxelware and we'd like to take the time to share our plans for Avorion for 2023 with you. Sadly, it looks like we were a little too ambitious with some things on our 2022 update schedule, so some features will have to be postponed to 2023. We've been hard at work, but some things just take time and we want to make sure to deliver only the best updates in the future. For 2023, we now have a clearer schedule/roadmap/milestones (call it however you want) for the planned updates (yes they'll be free) which you can find on our updated roadmap! They include more content, blocks, a photo mode, and also some improvements to factions. With each update we also always want to include quality-of-life improvements, content, bug fixes, and, if possible, performance improvements. Some of the latest performance improvements that we were working on are already available on the beta branch, and you should definitely check them out! Over there, we have [b]improved general performance[/b], but also greatly [b]reduced loading screen times[/b] and [b]memory usage[/b] of Avorion. If you want the full overview, check out the updated roadmap here: https://avorion.fandom.com/wiki/Roadmap We hope you have some great fun with whatever solstice festivities you celebrate, happy holidays and a wonderful new year 2023. We'll see you then! - Boxelware