Stellaris Mods: Progress Updates + Happy New Year! (Patreon)

N-not like you're the only ones I said that to s-so don't get the wrong idea! B-baka... (;¬_¬)

B-but... thank you for being here with me... I'm just grateful, d-don't read too much into it, okay! N-now let's get to what lies in store for Team Nessassity mods in 2018 before your heads grow too big!

We've made some new year resolutions for each one (and more beyond) and, as promised, we intend to work even harder and produce even higher quality content this year, with more regularity and... maybe this time try to be less distracted by side-projects and actually stick to our schedule n_n

"Wait... we have a schedule?" Shush, shoulder devil! We should!

The Asari Civilisation - "Stick to the plan!"

If you think about it, it's kinda amazing how much stuff we made for the Asari over the last couple of months... and how little of it was related to our actual priorities >.< What can I say? I'm uniquely talented when it comes to- OOOH! Shiiiiiiny! Look, it's a new maid outfit! It's soooo cute!

This has been happening a lot... ◠‿◠

But from now on, we're going to get back on track and finally wrap up the megastructures and AI personalities we need to finish before we officially move on to Project Chocolate Toffee.

Oh! But you can also expect a new outfit or two, including a higher quality maid outfit! Look how cute it is! <3

But yes, the long-promised Ringworld is finally coming as well! Hopefully I can share some screenshots soon.

Ship Classes Extended - "Give it the attention it deserves!"

SCX has always been a side-project, meant to supplement our custom shipsets and serve their needs. And that for the most part won't change, it has been excellent at that, providing great flavour and sense of grandeur to our more impressive ship models.

However, we've never been happy with its mechanical side. The constraints and bugs inherent to Stellaris ships, ship combat and overall warfare have always limited what we could do and forced us to water down and sanitise our ideas.

But with all the changes coming to Cherryh, all of this may change and we're very excited to delve into it! Not only the new mechanics but also improvements and bugfixes to components and ship designer that will (fingers crossed!) allow us to make our ship classes even more unique, with exclusive weapons and components and more refined mechanics!

2018 is looking very bright for anyone who was hoping for better warfare in Stellaris. It's unlikely that SCX will receive any more updates until Cherryh, but once Stellaris 2.0 is here, we can't wait to give it a massive makeover and finally make it what it was meant to be!

Elves of Stellaris - "Never too many elves!"

We've been a little quiet on what's been going on behind the scenes with the Elves, but not for much longer! n_n

Elves have been extremely popular and beloved by the users for the quality and quantity of content, amazing art assets and unique and fun mechanics. In many ways, Elves of Stellaris is the mother of all our other projects and the measure by which we judge their quality, depth and fun factor.

So what can you expect in 2018? In the short term, there's a massive art rework coming, overhauling portraits, hairstyles and clothes and adding new ones! But beyond that, just like Asari, the Elves still need their Ringworlds so that's also being worked on. And, of course, the Drow have been feeling a little neglected and they demand their own shipset! We have heard their arguments and found them very convincing. The sharp, pointy, coated with poison ones especially.

But that's not all! There's also a... super-secret-surprise we've been quietly working on! Space Elf China! Or, more properly, the Lhuren!

A completely new species of elves with their own outfits, appearance and culture loosely based on Han Dynasty China (with a sprinkling of Ming and others here and there) in SPAAAACE!

We won't reveal too many details just yet and there's no release date, but... let's just say we're just as excited to celebrate the Lunar New Year n_n Stay tuned to find out more over the coming weeks, there's a lot we want to show you!

Future Projects - "Expand!"

I keep talking about wrapping things up and moving on but it's not because we want to slow down or scale down. Quite the opposite - we aim to expand and grow. But to do that, we first need to make room and take care of major loose ends. Of course, that also doesn't mean the development of our existing mods will stop! There's still a lot of things we want to do with Asari and Elves, especially post-Cherryh, so there's always going to be updates and new features coming for as long as we feel there's something to add!

But 2018 will also be the year of new projects, major and minor and we can't wait to announce them. The big one - Project Chocolate Toffee - is going to be the first one to enter full production very very soon now so stay tuned, it's going to be the perfect new year opener! n_n

Patreon - "Treat it more seriously!"

First of all, I just want to say I'm absolutely humbled by the response the Patreon campaign has received. When I started it, I expected literally nothing! Modding being something that pays for itself and there being people who want to make it easier and less stressful for me... Cynically, I never thought that would happen. But I was proven SO wrong!

Ken Hagler, alextherus, Yama Ta, TheDeadZark, Patrick Green, Maarten van den Born, R.S, Andrew Topperwien, Inquisitor, St Munks (<3), Makiavelli, Giandalf, Remus Talaghan (b-baka!)

Thank you to all of you who supported me throughout 2017, it's been such a heartwarming and wonderful experience so... in 2018 I want to give something back to you! I don't have the specifics down just yet but I want to interact more with you and be more active on Patreon in general, post more frequent news, maybe do some polls and ask for your ideas and feedback more often. And I may also add some more "rewards" because I've been having a lot of fun delivering them! The dere roleplaying, especially, has been my favourite thing EVER so I need more excuses to do it (=^▽^=)

Hopefully I can come up with some sort of a solid plan by the end of the month. Thank you once again for your continued support, I love your faces <3 <3 <3