- Steam App
- Star Nomad 2 (414950)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 17 January 2016 - 05:12:40 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
This update includes some major engine overhaul to lay the ground work for upcoming mod-support and a new save-data system. Firstly, I've modified the engine to be able to read data of ships, modules & tradegoods from simple text files. This means when its enabled, players will be able to tinker with these easily. Secondly, I've created a new text-format save-data system that stores your progress in small (~10 Kilobytes), easy to read or edit format. This gives gamers more choices, they can edit mistakes if they wish or even cheat. Importantly, it's much smaller than the current save-system which snapshots the memory and encrypts it (~5MB). The tiny save-file also should hopefully make Steam Cloud more reliable when it syncs. These changes are in parallel to the current system. This update serves as a bridge to the next update when these changes will be LIVE and the old data will be obso...