the third time we have the honor to look back at a year of Empyrion / HWS and wish you a great coming happy new year!
It was a mixed year of events and incidents, from great to very bad. We had thousands of new HWS Connect users, over 4000 new players on EU / NA and the overall playhours exceeded way over 20 000 on both servers.
Beside these “stats” great people came to HWS, some great players left HWS.
Lately with Alpha 9 it’s a bit of a challenge I think to keep up the hope that Empyrion get the love in MP it totally deserves.
We have already cool features, we have already fun overall, but we really want a smooth, bug-free game, which in the end reduces the stress for Server Owners, reduce the toxicity due accusations, gives just more time to create cooler events and sub-features, you can dive into them.
Anyways, please watch the HWS Firework Event teaser video to know more about our new happy new year event.
On 31.12.2018. From 11:45PM until 0:15AM 01.01.2019
I know a lot can’t participate but for the lonely souls who can make it, you get a warm reward of
2,019 million credits
2019 HWS Reputation Points
HWS Roadmap
It’s hard to say what will come, if you are that much dependent on coming patches. Alpha 9 showed again that all preparations can go nuts, no matter what you did.
But beside that, we have following ideas:
More interactive events for Solo, COOP and Teams
Fill the whole EGS HQ Stargate room with Missions
Create more deeper story elements between Origins and NPC Factions
Rework EGS Recycle to 10 levels
Release of HWS Skill Tree 2.0, where your Origin gives you different attributes and boni
Finalize the Commodity Trading system by integrate different Origin boni and mission rewards all together
HWS Connect 5.0 - a realtime experience
Let’s see how fast 365 days flies by next year…
For everyone who supported HWS — either with feedback, contributions (POI), playhours, Patreon or money: we really thank you that you make all of this possible for thousands of players!
And Rex. Please change this. I’d love to participate, but that time zone you chose there, nobody who has same time as server time, will be on by then? People will be out shooting off fireworks, and stuff. Maybe by 20:00 or 01:00 but by midnight? Please reconsider this. Or at least make it last longer.
Totally intentional to give the poor guys who have to celebrate alone a nice chance of fun. Not made for the mass mainstream, due explosion lag fest.
But maybe we start it 15 - 30 minutes earlier.
Since I don’t know the gameplay of some NA guys and if they do CSW or not, they have to come back to me.
For now they got the 2019 RP on HWS EU. But if they do a CSW back to EU, it will get overwritten.
Overall it was a fun event and a video will be uploaded later of it.