Good Evening Dear HWS Community @everyone
I’m very busy with the release of HWS+ and every day there is something on my todo list I’m happy to check off.
This brings me to good and bad news.
The good news:
Cleaned up HWS Connect
As you know, you can play Empyrion / on HWS to a degree over our website HWS Connect. Be it managing your structures, uploading items to your Orbital Cargo Drone (OCD), farming your Orbital Auto Miner (OAM) or trade like a professional via the HWS Connect Marketplace ||(we have over 5935 transactions this season already btw.)||
So instead of typing commands in chat, you can just click buttons in HWS Connect, via your web browser, ingame steam browser or your mobile phone to do the same but much more convenient.
Yesterday I added even more convenient buttons / commands for you.
- Reduce your BP Factory Spawn time via HWS DNA
- Ship Jump feature, finally just type the coordinates you want to instead of wrapping your head around the command syntax (see my very first Youtube Shorts video: https://youtube.com/shorts/A9q9p2t-lMI)
- Added titles to most buttons instead of command syntax
- Added EGS Insurance feature into HWS Connect, see below
Added the new EGS Insurance feature
Finally you can read about this feature in our Guide or use it directly over HWS Connect.
To not copy paste everything into here, please go here to read more about it: https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/egs-insurance/38621
This is the first iteration of the feature. Any numbers are subject to change based on your feedback. Please make use of the proper <#1002075186826330214> <#1004685018804785213> channels. Especially for HWS+ I consider to add dedicated PvP playfields where you can use the feature for free to have a dedicated, most fun PvP event, not worry about your losses.
Don’t wanna read? I made a video about it as well 
In the end it’s a very powerful feature you might appreciate in the long run:
Cleaned up and restructured our HWS Forum Guide
This was a bigger TODO but kinda necessary since it was quite outdated. There are still couple of pages I have to go over, especially for the HWS+ release and mention the differences between HWS RE and HWS+ here and there.
Having an up to date and especially complete guide is very important as some of you requested. The HWS Star Fragment hunt for example is also finally in the guide now.
After completing this todo, I will run a script to automatically convert and extract the whole guide from the forum and put it into your ingame PDA for your maximum convenience.
The bad news:
HWS+ Release
I’m very sorry all of that took me longer than anticipated. I know how excited some of you are and following the recent discussion in the <#324130927691169793> channel boosted my motivation a lot (keep it up)! Reading about your hopes and expectations is awesome, especially when I hope to fulfill them!
So yeah, I wanted to release it today but couldn’t… With the mentioned TODOs out of the way and adding new features left and right, I think I can finally fully concentrate on the HWS+ release. I’m scared to not make it good so I hope you forgive me that I polish it here and there before the release. In the end though it is a big disclaimer that it will be a living project where I rely on your feedback to make it as good as possible! And for that I have to accept to release it rough here and there.
That being said I need a bit longer for the HWS+ release, given that many of you would like to have the Scenario as Creative Workshop version out before the release. I try to make it possible. (have to rework the start there, don’t want to drop you without any context to an empty planet). I try to push as good as I can for the 16th May now!
Sorry again and thank you in advance for your patience! 
RexXxuS
