Hi all, over the last 30 days since the Open Beta has been live for TextSpaced we have been blown away by all your support. We risen to almost 300 concurrent players (500 total) and are blessed to now have 30 patrons - all of this is just a month!

I've created this topic as due to the rising popularity it can serve as a central point containing all the information you might need to get started, useful links and a place to ask questions (although this forum is checked less frequently than other channels), since TextSpaced is no longer a new release.

First up, the game can be played at https://play.textspaced.com with the official website containing guides and databases at https://www.textspaced.com. On the official website you will find amongst other things:

What is TextSpaced: https://www.textspaced.com/discover/
New starters guide: https://www.textspaced.com/new/
A list of missions available (this is live information pulled from the game): https://www.textspaced.com/missions/
Ships available to purchase (100 base ships + 150 craftable ships): https://www.textspaced.com/ships/
Structures available to build (64 to date): https://www.textspaced.com/blueprints/
Weapons to craft and purchase (~4,000 across 90 lines): https://www.textspaced.com/ports/

The community is centrally located on Discord and this is where you can ask questions, log bugs and generally interface with the team and other captains, the invite link for the official Discord server is: https://discord.gg/pwTTNyn

The Discord server can also be viewed without requiring a Discord account so you can still check the change log and see what the community is talking about, by visiting https://www.textspaced.com/discover/ and scrolling to the embedded Discord viewer.

You can also log a bug in-game by typing @bug into your log followed by a description of the bug.

All of the aforementioned guides and content can also be found in-game. Within the computer window you will find a reference section that contains searchable FAQs, these FAQs are seeded by the questions we are asked and are always being added to. You will also find a tutorial section that allows you to progress through tutorials that cover the basics of the game at your own pace, these being: Buying your first ship, building your first structure, refining and fabricating with of course more being added as we go along (these are the same tutorials found in the getting started section of the official website).

Our amazing community has also starting recording weekly news broadcasts about new features, events in game and things to look forward to. These will be found on Discord and shortly added to the game as well but here is a sneak peak: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … /gwn-1.mp3

For patrons to get started (http://patreon.com/TextSpaced) you simply need to link your account to Discord to be able to view the rewards (music downloads, artwork downloads, soundscape downloads, patrons lounge, content requests) although the in-game perks will still work even if you don't have Discord (emotes, buoy broadcasts, portrait change, data dumps, API access, physical merchandise).

And if all else fails, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]

Here is a list of new features added over the last 30 days:

- 36 new skills to realise
- 22 new mission types
- FAQ system, tutorial system, introduction system
- Galaxy metrics (players online etc...)
- 8 new music tracks
- Procedurally generated mission system
- 600 new combat cards
- Squads system for teaming up with other people across different factions
- 500 new consumables
- New mention options and help options in chat and two new emotes
- New searching options for body types, consumables, commodities
- 4 new ships
- Extended accessibility changes to combat
- The ability to ferry passengers
- New crew abilities
- Ship roles now providing passive traits
- 16 new rooms added
- lots of accessibility, quality of life and interface fixes as well as lots of bugs squashed
- and plenty more you can read in the changelog

Finally, some things to look forward to that are being worked on currently:
- Exotic weapons specific to certain ships
- Raids and more quests (Outlander Flotilla being one)
- Consumable use in combat
- More missions, skills and a few more ships

Once again, thank you for all being amazing and supporting our game.

Apollo (Matthew), Zaria (Celina), Corpse (Andy), Kopp (Adam) and the TextSpaced community.