Glad to see you sorted it! Now for a quick update on some upcoming features:
Maps!
We're very proud of the amazing work our map guru "Osito" has brought to New Horizons so far, and following from that work you can expect some cool additions in this space in the near future.
Firstly we're adding every "minor race" as a playable option in the empire select list. If chosen by the player these empires will become "default" types, but if not they'll spawn as you're used to seeing them with reduced borders and limited diplomatic options. This change allows us to expand the options available to players without crowding out huge swathes of the galactic map.
Additions include: Trill Republic, Betazoid Houses, Denobulan Unity, Caitian Union, Rigellian Consortium and Kraylor Republic. Benzites and Bolians will now also default as minor races unless selected by players.
Secondly, we've perfected the techniques necessary to allow us to support both predefined galaxies and conditional empire spawns. In laymans terms, this means we will be adding the Xindi Council as a playable species option. If chosen by the player they will spawn in the Delphic Expanse. If not chosen, they will spawn as normal at the end of the Xindi early-game crisis chain. At the moment, selecting the Xindi Council as a playable empire will disable the current implementation of the Xindi crisis for Humans, and we will warn players of this at game start... but eventually we'd hope to come up with modifications that allow a tweaked experience for a human controlled Xindi Council. If not selected by a human, the crisis will remain as normal.
Thirdly, we've also resolved some issues that prevented us from offering maps that didn't cover the Alpha Quadrant. So expect us to add in Delta and Gamma quadrant maps designed to be smaller and easier on older CPUs. We're also looking to add smaller maps for the Alpha quadrant and the Beta quadrant, with unique event chains tied to them (think Romulan War and Cardassian border conflicts).
Lastly... well, I'll go into detail on our fourth map improvement at a later point. But as I've said in the past I think you'll appreciate this one, on reflection.
