No endless game afer boss battle?

[Coolinger]

Hi,

in the Readme file, it says

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Get to the 8th, ‘final’ sector to defeat the Rebel Flagship and save the galaxy. Play can continue infinitely after the boss.

I read that as kind of a sandbox after the boss fight, and was a bit disappointed.
Is this due to the beta or is the readme outdated?

Regards
Coolinger

[Matthew]

It was originally planned and was a very difficult decision to cut only just a few weeks ago.

Balancing the game to work "infinitely" was just not functioning well and, given the rarity of the Boss defeats, we decided that it would be more worthwhile to continue focusing on other aspects of the game. We think the current concise experience works really well and is sufficient for the final release.

That said, it's still definitely high the list of things we (and others) want, so if we were to do post-release updates it would likely get added.

Sorry about that. Just know that we were disappointed too, with only two of us working and deadlines looming it can be rough to do everything.

[Sacarathe]

Have you considered a View victorious ships screen, so we in the achievements list of ships so we can click on them and view the ship, the crew, the cargo etc. For learning, memorial or just vanity

[Watashiii]

Leveling system is made for buffing up and reaching the boss. It wouldn't be a challenge to play after that

[Gorlom]

Aaaw I'm sad to hear that Matthew.

[suttonmitchell]

Leveling system is made for buffing up and reaching the boss. It wouldn't be a challenge to play after that

Just because it wouldn't be a challenge after the boss, it would still be fun. I for one would enjoy having a sandbox option for post-game.

[azurereaver]

Or a sandbox option from the start that endlessly has two more nodes to pick from each time you get to the exit (no last stand)

Or a +new game that lets you bring x number of crew members from a previous run with their skills intact in place of the default crew. That way you could have your favorite crew member(s) run repeated adventures. Probably have to turn off achievements in this mode though. And still make them die permanently when they do eventually die!

You could have a crew hall of fame with all of their stats kept in tact, and a tour of duty listing for each. Ah the things that could be done with infinite development time.

[taylorott]

Awwwww. A functioning continue playing option was the one thing I was looking forward to.

I've dreamt of getting to wreck other ships with 4 burst lasers, a preigniter, stealth weapons, drone recovery arm, 2 level II attack drones, a bunch of zoltans, full shields, full cloak a lot of power in engines etc.

Please please please please please add the continue playing option as a functioning feature, even if it's post-release. I feel that it is the one feature keeping this game from being complete.

It doesn't even have to be good. it just has to allow us to keep going past the boss for as long as we want.

[GozerTC]

I for one look forward to either a New Game+ or a endless/free form mode so I can explore the galaxy without watching for the darn rebel fleet all the time.

Don't need it NOW as I have yet to beat the boss, but I'd like it "in the future" which it sounds like is the current gameplan.

[Coolinger]

Leveling system is made for buffing up and reaching the boss. It wouldn't be a challenge to play after that

I think the Post-Boss-Play should be something like Civilizations "Just one more turn" thing. You won the game, nothing more to win, play as long as you like. You already have the most powerful ship. Just fly around, it would be kind of god mode... No unlocking of ships. Just dominating the game