Hello, Pilots!

Continuing last week's trend, a developer update was released minutes after I posted the Giveaway, so from now on I will likely wait until later in the day to post them. Can't be mad @elindos for keeping up the great work, though!

📰News:

1. Settler Level, Colony Points, Planet Points, Activity Points, Happiness, and Tooltips have been added to the Away Teams Challenge Screen. You can get a basic overview of what everything does and what you can spend those points on within the screen. Basically, the higher your Settler Level, the more actions you can queue up without having to come back and do it manually. All of the other assorted 'points' are used for specific actions within your colony.
2. There are many new actions to claim, those being: Planet Preparation, Colony Preparations, Claim Some Rest, Help Passenger Settle, and Unload Cargo. Unfortunately for me, I will have to spend the rest of my time unloading cargo as my Stranded Trader + Kormen combo carries ~26 items, which means it will take me 26 days to unload with the current way that it works, lol. At least I've discovered every danger on my planet already!
3. UI enhanced. No longer will you have to click on every role and every character individually, there are now simple and easy-to-read tables where you can see who is best in each role.
4. Speaking of roles, we now have access to the Colony Roles, which you can see on the Away Teams Challenge screen. They require a bunch of different skills that I won't go into here, but it's pretty cool and I am super excited to explore my planet! Hopefully development takes at least 26 days longer so I can unload my cargo, lol.

🎁Giveaway:

This week, you have a chance of winning:

1x Narcotics Genefactory
Having a bunch of these factories seems like a lot of fun. You can be the Heisenberg of your solar system. I will probably try a full Syndicate build with as many Genefactories as I can bring, and supply that system with all of the narcotics. However, I'm not sure what will be required to actually make the drugs, so it will probably be best to bring along a researcher or two and some storage facilities. I hope my (most likely) drug-addicted crew doesn't steal any, either.

This card is worth $2.99 at time of writing.

🎉Previous Winner:

For the first time in 🍉 Giveaway history, we have the same winner twice in a row! It was bound to happen sooner or later. I doubt it will when EXODE becomes more popular, though. Congratulations @ua-promoter! You have been sent your prize.

➡️How To Enter:

1. Upvote this post
2. Reblog this post
3. Comment what your plan is for exploring your planet!
4. Optional: Let me know what you think of the new formatting!

The winner will be chosen by random on Monday, December 20th.

As usual, I will be tipping my favorite comments with the recently updated #hivepizza!

EXODE is a real-time strategy space colonization game here on the Hive Blockchain. If you still have not bought your starter pack and signed up, use this Referral Code(c956af8) and you'll also receive 2 free Alpha Booster Packs with 5 NFT cards each and a free Epic Alpha Character. For more information and links, check out the developer's page, @elindos.