New Navigation and Coming Soon!

Status Report

DPIP IS Cautious

Ahoy there, land lubbers!

It's been quite a while, hasn't it!

We've all been a little bit... distracted, up here in the orbiting space station owned entirely by Department of Protected Inhabited Planets. No, wait, we shouldn't tell you that. Ahem. We've, uh, been hard at work doing things! Important things behind the scenes that are very important and completely legal in all major star systems.

Things like....

A Navigation Revamp? Boy howdy, that's shiny!

An Advent Calendar! Every day in December, pick up something nice - or not so nice! If you claim every single day, you get something extra special at the end :) The button will be on the homepage come December First.

(coming soon) A Diplomacy Revamp! The Natives are getting picky, so we're having to reflect that.

(coming soon) Examples of Mutations! Which are totally normal and definitely not the result of toxic leakages caused by crashed DPIP landers. We want to make sure everything has an example before we go on and make any more!

More items! Everyone likes new shiny things!

(coming soon) New Landmarks? They've always been here but we're documenting more about the world and its native inhabitants beyond just the tribes! Did you know there's a kingdom or two hidden out in the wastelands? I didn't either! Well, I did, being an all knowing DPIP agent, but I digress! If you want to help us document any of these places, please feel free to do so!

Navigational Tools are Changing?

The top navigation, that giant box of text and words and garble, will soon be replaced by the shiny new sidebar! We're leaving the top navigation up at least until the end of the year so people can get a handle on the side bar navigation.

There will also be a new page: Activity. This will have a brief overview of your colony including your max population, current population, and remaining slots. There will also be quick links to the hospital, breeding, your prompts and claims, your pending reports, your nursery, and your pending design updates.  There's also some ease of access population spot purchase buttons in this page! Due to this, the old Colony Expansion items will be retired.

Diplomatic Agreements will still be a thing that you can find and redeem for population spots like normal, but Colony Expansion items will no longer be sold.

Please let us know in the Discord if you believe anything to be amiss, including confusing navigation order/set up or links that you can no longer easily find!

Diplomacy Revamp you say?

Well! That's still being worked on in the back end like everything else, but it will implement the existing Raffles system and will allow for more people to try for discovered Natives instead of hoping you come across the one you want. The original finder gets the most tickets, of course, but there will be ways for other people to try to woo the Natives!

Examples of Mutations!

This requires a lot of art, we all are very thankful that you colonies have been extremely patient with us about this! Most mutations are rather loose with their descriptions and they may show up on different colonists in different ways, but we know some visual guidelines are always useful.

I love shiny new things

Here's some of the items we've added in the recent months but never announced!

What about the new landmarks?

Mostly just rumble-tumbling around and lost in our paperwork, but we're discovering some pretty intereresting locations out there. Did you know there's a giant hollow Fungal Tree in L'Hatzif? Probably not, but there is totally one! At least one. Maybe more.