It's a little late, but that's better than never, and we've still got all sorts of news!

• Last week ended with 76 total must fix issues: 10 blockers, 50 criticals, 14 highs, 2 moderates and no trivials. This week ended with 26.

• Most recent bug where the quantum drive is concerned is traveling way too slow in the system

• A big challenge is to fill the universe with interesting content and things to do

• Designers will use the Mission System and other tools to create interesting and reusable content

• The system can look into the universe and adapt missions to the location to make the universe feel more alive

• Subsumption allows complex systems to be broken down into components that can be quickly and easily combined

• Many of these Subsumption base components can be customized at runtime to respond to a given situation

• Subsumption has now completely replaced FlowGraph for creating missions

• Subsumption is still a visual scripting system but allows things to be build in a more modular way and reused

• An ongoing challenge is developing critical "endpoint systems" (underlying tech like pathfinding, Useables, etc.) sufficiently

• Subsumption Visualiser was developed because the on-screen debugging of activities was inadequate

• The Visualiser evolved to include mission debugging, editing variables at runtime, on-demand conversations

• Subsumption can access the Mission System, activities and reputation: it's basically the core flow of the game

• Subsumption and the game code are being built up feature by feature to give designers a massive toolkit to build content

• There are two types of missions: more story focussed missions from mission givers and more "random encounters in space"

• Designers can use timers and different logical triggers to affect mission flow

• Tony prefers using procedural tech to create a canvas for more handcrafted content over purely procedural content

• Content should feel reactive rather than strictly scripted, the occasional bizarre occurrence isn't out of the question

• Mission templates are designed to be open to "narrative dressing" to keep them interesting

• Designers work very closely, and productively, with the writers with a lot of back and forth