The aim is to prevent the feeling that you're just "doing one thing after another". Instead, the you and the game should construct a little narrative each time you play. You make meaningful decisions which affect the rest of your game, and you can see causal links between things.

The number of encounters in the current dev versions is pretty small compared to the number there will be in the release version. (And indeed there will be several months at the end of development where the game engine won't really change and we'll be busy writing encounters.) But even now, I try to strive for a well-connected game. Compare these two diagrams.

 

The first one is a diagram of the connections between encounters in dev 6, and the second is the same diagram for dev 7. (With the encounter names obscured, because there are now some plot-related encounters in there I want you to discover for yourself.)

As you can hopefully tell, the second diagram is much more interconnected and confusing than the first one. (And features such lovely terms as "vvivv' tetetehete".) As I add more encounters, this diagram will become more and more interconnected, and less and less readable, until we end up with a giant tangle of connectivity-wool.

That's what we're aiming for - a giant tangle of connectivity wool.

There has also been a lot of code cleanup and bug fixes, which will really help the project in the long run. Next up for dev 8: tactical space combat.

Since we're still very interested in your feedback, we've made a proper website for the game and started up a forum. So if you have any comments or suggestions, or need help with the game, visit the forum.