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Frontier Intelligence is in development. This roadmap brings together working foundations, features under construction, and planned game systems. Scope and order can change as the game is built and reviewed; delivery dates remain open.
Features present in development builds. Full MMO, final visual quality, and cross-platform validation remain ahead.
Arrange personal items and ship cargo in shaped grids, move packed containers with their contents intact, and fit equipment into compatible mounts through physical handling.
Reviewed working v1 in the Mac development build.
Allocate the available power, manage component state, and repair damage with finite supplies. Fitted equipment needs the power and condition required to operate.
Reviewed working v1 in the Mac development build.
Travel under impulse or Surge, align with a target, brake on arrival, and continue through air traffic control, docking, and departure.
Reviewed working v1. Travel tuning continues through playtesting.
Explore an Atlas combining catalogued nearby stars and Solar System bodies with a reconstructed wider Milky Way. Physical scale provides the foundation for meaningful distance.
Working Atlas in the Mac build; exploration content continues to develop.
Fit and power a scanner, acquire observations in the ship's scan cone, and store reports on finite-capacity drives. Copy reports while preserving their observation time and source data.
Implemented for Mac playtesting. Report sales are planned separately.
Fitted Machine Intelligence performs fixed-function route following, alignment, Surge travel and arrival braking after the captain plots and engages a supported route.
Implemented for playtesting. The current navigation MI is not a complete autonomous trade or combat system.
Playable pieces are being developed and reviewed before the wider gameplay loop is accepted.
Station service prototypes connect finite-stock purchases and sales to physical cargo, refueling, repairs, and equipment comparison.
Playable service prototype under review.
Selected game directions to build or complete as the frontier develops.
Join a cargo job or purchase, a flight to another port, a delivery, payment, and a useful ship upgrade into one complete trip. Deliveries are intended to restore supplies that local services depend on.
The complete trip is the next economic milestone to demonstrate.
Connect existing scan reports to a market for copies. Sellers keep their own reports; freshness, scarcity, and the buyer's finite budget are intended to make knowledge economically useful.
Planned connection from stored observations to paid information.
Discover finite mineral deposits, fit extraction equipment, and bring raw materials into the economy. NPC miners are intended to draw from the same physical resources.
Designed; implementation of the mining journey remains ahead.
Allow discoveries that can transform a captain's circumstances, including valuable resources and unusual, powerful, one-off items. Such a find could matter early in a player's experience.
Intended direction. Reward forms, rarity, acquisition, and balance remain open.
Advanced Machine Intelligence carries programs you create. Direct ship and operational activity through captain-authored automation, continuing while you are logged out of the running shared world.
Design crystallized. Implementation of programmable AMI and broader unattended operations remains ahead. MI and AMI are not conversational AI characters.
Own and manage fleets of ships and space stations, outfit vessels for different roles, and coordinate operations through MI and captain-programmed AMI.
Approved intended game feature. Fleet-scale management remains to be built or completed.
Build and operate player-owned space stations and planetary structures, establishing a foothold for your ambitions in the frontier.
Approved intended game feature. Player-owned construction and operations remain work ahead.
Pursue hacking, piracy, or combat in a frontier where information, preparation, and consequences matter.
Approved intended game activities, not claims of completed gameplay in the current build.
Connect a compatible personal AI agent to the running game client and direct it through conversation. The agent is intended to operate your captain under the same game rules, with access you control.
Separate future integration recorded in the earlier design article. The current game focus is MI and programmable AMI; external application compatibility remains unverified.
Develop the full shared MMO around persistent captains, ships, fleets, stations and activity. Configured operations continue in the running world after logout. True AI characters and relationships are a separate later feature, distinct from MI and programmable AMI equipment.
Long-term direction, building on local multiplayer and persistence foundations.