Dear HWS Community @everyone,
today is a special day. A new patch, 1.18.1 got released and with that, after more than 10 years, you can hunt for very first Steam Achievements in Empyrion now! 
Also, on Steam you can get Empyrion for free over the weekend. Historically only happened once and it was a big success. A lot of players can make use of it and so we might/hopefully see more players on HWS as well - please welcome them warmly as you always do 
Originally my master plan was to start the new season for this period but life happens sometimes…
Nevertheless 2 news from my side:
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Since it is a special patch, I activated over the weekend a Welcome bundle those players / you can get just in case you have some money lying around you don’t need for your cat/dog food, vacation or any other important things in life.
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The master question from everyone: when wipe!?! Please don’t dead pin me down but after getting slowly back in my flow again and evaluating the things still needed to be done, I marked in my Calendar the 6th August for our big new Season with the consolidated / merged HWS RE and HWS + Scenarios. So three weeks longer than planned. I saw couple of questions what consolidated / merge mean, so I try to come up with a nice overview as soon as possible (+ tackling all your feedback from the channels I saw).
Thank you very much everyone for your support and especially your patience! Have fun with the new patch for now.
RexXxuS
P.S.: this patch also fixes ||(should, might, could)||, after more than 6 years of pain, the LCD bug! (sometimes all LCDs were offline, which were only fixed with a relog)
(Link to this Discord Channel message: Discord)