published on October 06, 2025 in devlog
The team met at simulogics HQ, Michi went on a side quest and the new economic report is out!
Michi (molp)
This week, Fabian, Martin and I held a short one-day team meeting at the simulogics HQ. We had various topics to discuss, all of them non-technical in nature, like marketing and organizational matters. Given that Friday was a public holiday in Germany, the week was rather short.
Nonetheless, I embarked on a little side quest. As you might know from past devlogs, the Prosperous Universe client is built in JavaScript, and we use webpack and npm to build and run it. Ofcourse we don't write all the code ourselves, but rather use npm packages and libraries wherever it makes sense. These packages need to be kept up to date, to prevent all kinds of compatibility (and other) issues. I decided it is time to at least update our threejs dependencies, as these tend to break the client whenever something new comes out. Naturally this wasn't the end, as this is a huge rabbit whole. For example: orbjs, the library that we use to calculate orbital trajectories for planets and ships, is as old as Prosperous Universe. It hasn't changed in 10 years, but itself draws in a dependency that is long outdated. Since the project is not maintained anymore I forked it, replaced its build and test system with something new and was able to remove the old dependency. I then uploaded it as a new package to the NPM registry and here I am, a fledgling package maintainer ;)
Fabian asked me to mention the forum topic about Faction Influence once more in the devlog to get more feedback on the topic. Faction Influence is a game design draft of a new feature that we might implement after the gateways are out. We posted it on the forums to get more feedback. Right now it seems that you, the players, want more cooperative options and not so much competitive ones. It would be interesting to hear more opinions. Also, if you have ideas for cooperative game play elements that fit into that concept, we'd like to hear about that too!
October is here, as is the monthly economic report. This time we also added another graph that shows data for the last three months. Enjoy:
Click the image for the full report
As always, we'd love to hear what you think: join us on Discord or the forums!
Happy trading!