• Balancing Competing Interests
  
  • A real city has not only doctors and engineers, but clerks and factory workers. Consider a system that requires balancing the needs of different economic strata to make a thriving city. Here's one example:
    

    Poverty - Working Class - Middle Class - Professional - Elite 

  • Working class are the backbone of the economy, but they need affordable housing and good public transit. Without adequate care though, they slide into poverty causing spikes in crime and declining health. Middle class and professional workers bring in higher taxes and work in better quality jobs, but if property values go too high, your city can attract too many elites--which consume prime real estate, have excessive demands, and are needed in scant few industries.
    
  • Providing good services for all citizens should be a real challenge, requiring thoughtful choices on how to provide them efficiently. Balancing for different economic strata also incentivizes building areas with different character. City’s need low-income tenements, middle class suburbs, and high-income downtowns.
    
• Region-sized Map
  
  • C:S was meant to be played on an 81-tile map. It is a drastic improvement over the cramped origami-like vanilla experience. Small towns start to make sense to support farming and mining communities and the urban core acts as a natural hub for manufacturing and logistics. In short, the city begins to look and feel much more natural.
  • Systems have gotten a lot more powerful since C:S was first released, and a redesign with better multi-core support and a larger map should be a priority. A larger region map recontextualizes the experience from city-builder to region builder. A four-times larger map could fit several urban cores, expansive farmlands, quaint mining towns, and national parks. Most importantly, it provides the appropriate scale to implement a more complex economy.
• Complex Systems
  
  • The industries DLC, despite being simple and clunky, did a lot of things right in improving economic complexity. CIties aren’t just where people live; they make stuff. A key decision for the player as they design their city should be “what does my city do?” A region with plentiful iron could make for a thriving mining town, and a city with steel and auto industries. Beaches and national parks could make for a tourism industry. A well-educated population could attract a banking and finance industry, or maybe make for a national capital with legions of bureaucrats.
  • The government systems could also use a bit more depth. Where is the city hall? How does a law enforcement system work without a courthouse or an education system without a board of education? These should have some role to play. City halls could define the various municipalities of a region (growing more grandiose as the city grows) while other government buildings could define the police/fire/school districts of a region.
• Visual Novelty
  
  • One of my biggest gripes with C:S is the repeat frequency of tall buildings. While each asset is creatively designed, the effect is ruined by seeing two of the same assets in close proximity. This can be addressed one of a few ways besides simply making more. First, tall buildings should be very few in number, difficult to achieve, and a reward for good stewardship. SC4 doesn't suffer from this problem as much mainly because getting more than a handful of skyscrapers is quite an achievement. Additionally, procedural generation is a clear next-gen feature for city-builders. Some seriously impressive work has been done in this area.
  • Architecture is also an extremely important element in the aesthetic of a city and should be a key tool available to the player. C:S has a modern style, which tends to feel sterile and lacks a sense of place. Paris without Parisian architecture doesn’t feel like Paris. Ideally, the player should be given the option to select architectural standards to apply to growables and city buildings within a given district. There’s endless fodder for DLC. 1930s New York City, DC Neoclassical, 1900s San Francisco, Parisian, Victorian, East Asian Traditional, Neo-futurism, etc.
• Better Zoning
  
  • The square based zoning system is obsolete and does not take advantage of the free-form road design tool. Imagine instead a zoning system that, coupled with procedural building generation, could produce results like this.
  • Also, the spectrum between rural farmhouses and high-rise apartments doesn’t fit well into the current low/high density binary, making the lack of medium density zoning kind of an odd choice that should be remedied.
• Improved Utilities
  
  • Utilities should be an opportunity for creativity and problem solving. C:S utilities are just drudgery. Power and water distribution is a rote task that isn't interesting or challenging. Power systems are complex, with boilers, turbine halls, switchyards, transformers, and substations. Even a light implementation of this would improve upon the old two step formula of:
    

    1) see low power notification 2) place a new power plant. 

  • Instead a “power plant district” could be defined where turbines, water intakes, and resource depots are placed. More turbines could be added or upgraded to alternate energy sources (coal > gas > nuclear) as the city expands. The plant itself becomes an opportunity for creative expression that grows as the city grows.
    
  • Power distribution could be made more interesting by adding two elements: switchyards and substations. Switchyards distribute high voltage lines to substations and substations service local areas. The city-builder Workers and Resources has an interesting, if overcomplicated implementation of this concept. Designing a renewable energy grid to deal with cyclical power generation would also make for an interesting challenge.
    
  • Water grids could follow a similar formula, with a water extraction/treatment “district” and a network of reservoirs (water towers, underground cisterns, etc.) and pumping stations to maintain pressure. The combination of both these systems would also make for a more interesting underground as sustaining large urban areas would require a fair amount of planning and space management.
    
• Customizable Transit
  
  • Each transit station should have a “configure” option. This could include aesthetic options such as choosing architectural styles (modern, traditional, neoclassical, etc.) and more practical options such as fitting a station along a curved road, adding new platforms, or connections to other transit types. Ideally a single “transit station” option could be turned into everything from a rural railroad platform to a grand central station with bus, tram, and metro connections. Transport Fever 2 has a great implementation of this concept.
  • Keeping with the philosophy of drawing the player’s attention back to developed areas of the city, logistic hubs (ports, railyards, and airports) should be highly configurable as well and be shaped over time by growing demand. For instance, a regional airport should be accessible early on, but gradually turn into an international hub. The same should apply to ports and railyards that expand in realistic ways due to the practical need for expanded capacity.
• Honorable Mentions
  
  • Planning tools (place stuff down in “ghost” form and tweak it before actually paying for it)
  • More powerful tools to build/tweak junctions and intersections (move-it, NEXT, CSUR, etc.)
  • Vehicle choices for mass transit lines
  • Bridge stacking / customization
  • Paintable town squares/parks/markets (good luck fitting anything into a triangular city block currently)
  • Seasons
  • More interesting terrain (marsh, forest, jungle, mountains, etc.)

Freestanding in Prague

Freestanding

• P1641: Freestanding Library: Rewording the Status Quo
• P1642: Freestanding Library: Easy [utilities], [ranges], and [iterators]
• P2013: Freestanding Language: Optional ::operator new

Errors and ABI

Other papers

P1385: "High level" Linear Algebra

P1935: Physical Units

Concurrent Queues, P0260 and P1958

P1944: constexpr and

A minute about minuting

Closing

Graphical results

New block comments

• I really like the survival kit and small battery.
• The Basic Assembler needs an additional port. Small Grid version of this Basic stuff would be awesome too.
• Hydrogen engines and in fact all power sources need some adjustments. Hydrogen in general needs work for power and thrusters. They are all to inefficient. Not so much output, but how much ice it takes to run everything.
• they create a better gameplay loop
• Disappointing
• The hydrogen engine feels like it only has two niches:
• - night-time base power on a base outside an atmospheric planet until uranium is available, and:
• - charging batteries on aircraft in long distance flights which aren't using nuclear energy for some reason.
• Batteries have enough energy density to not bother using engines on most rovers(except potentially mobile bases with easy access to ice), while hydrogen engines have a very bad power density that prevents them from being used as a main power source for most aicraft - especially with the added construction component requirement on atmospheric thrusters.
• Hydrogen engines lose out to batteries on energy storage density by volume, and very nearly also on mass. My personal balancing would place small grid hydrogen engines around 2 MW(moving power-to-mass and power density to roughly the level an aircraft engine would probably achieve in the 1960s if they weren't replaced by gas turbines or jet engines) and increase their energy efficiency to 20kJ/L.
• The hydrogen engine would make more sense as a fusion reactor.
• Make atomo thrusters more expensive. A jet and a car has a huge price gap in real life. :-)
• Balance on inventory size is necessary, especially the survival kit.
• Need smaller hydro and oxygen tanks for small grid, like 1x2, and a small grid hydro engine. Thanks for small battery!!
• They are a nice little step toward more survival gameplay, but it's still a tiny effort. There are things that are as cheap, or cheaper to implement that would add more content for the player. One of the cheapest example is the simple concrete blocks, that would give a role to gravel and a cheap construction material for atmosphere building.
• Love 'em and the progression they provide to the game
• we need more blocks, and a cheaper component like circuit boards that uses copper
• The block models all look good. I especially like the basic assembler. I do wish the hydrogen engine was a little more efficient, but I didn't test it extensively.
• A step in the right direction
• Wind turbines are awesome. Small batteries are nice to have paired with hydrogen engine since power is required to run conveyor to get gas to engine if blackout occurs. Small battery is easy to put anywhere in off-state, to turn on later. Nice to have cheap block for health regeneration, however if it is damaged we cannot refine silver for medical components until the large refinery is built.
• nice
• The H2 Engine is too hungry preventing h2 resupply while it was on
• Does the hydro engine run all the time? Can it be set to run only when needed to recharge batteries or power the grid? Does it need a hydrogen tank or only an h2o2 generator?
• We need a lot more variety
• Hydrogen engine depends purely on if you land real close to a ice lake.
• Turbines feel like they are too strong, infinite, more power tahn solar and even useable on a moon like Titan
• Survival kit has too much functionality, serving too many roles although it is painfully slow to build anything so that helps to balance it. Hydrogen engine is interesting but the hydrogen tanks as far too large to really make use of it on rovers or fighters where it would be ideal. Wind turbines should be generating far more power than solar panels. We need more armour block shapes and weapon options- having to rely on mod packs that break constantly is getting rather tiresome, this game will live or die after final release based on how rich the vanilla game is, and right now it is sorely lacking in a few key areas...
• Addition of Hydrogen Generators should coincide with the addition of smaller hydrogen tanks
• They need more explanation in-game. All blocks should have an info tab, like giving the basic refinery a list of things it can refine.
• Hydrogen engine needs rebalanced, not very useful as it stands
• Hydrogen engine ice consumption is to high to be usable. And it also tends to "steal" hydrogen from thrusters.

Progression tree comments

• It needs more refinement, some is good but other elements of it make little sense.
• A bit generic, but it does it's job.
• Not sure, not bad, but also feels like something is missing. Can't tell though.
• Not my thing. It’s too simple and I have no use for it. Been much better to have research instead of build this than build that. I’m glad I can shut it off.
• good idea but restricts you a bit too much, couldn't build an ore detector before i built a drill
• It should be toggleable clientside, not serverside.
• Probably good for new players
• Should be visually condensed
• Easy to progress. Make it harder. Travell far to progress etc.
• Blocks on drop should be unlocked. Tree needs better layout
• I have an impression that new progression system only does delay first survival steps and has no other purpose.
• In my opinion, unlocking conditions must be changed. Basic blocks must me unlocked from start. Advanced block blueprints (and maybe some uniques, more powerful) must be found in random PvE events (like Large Signals or Cargo ships), encouraging designing crafts for exploration and combat.
• It felt like a first iteration of one tool in the tutorial area toolbelt. Once debuged and with more back and forth with the players, it could be a good tool for new player. But for medium advanced players (let's say 30+ hours), it feels a bit gimmicky right now. So, it depends on why it was designed for.
• Could have a more in depth mechanism than just making the block needed in the tier.
• It's early days yet. I can see where KSH are going with this and largely like the idea but have'nt really had chance to explore the feature fully.
• There needs to be another layer to it like grind to learn, or a research tech. Possibly using the programmable block
• More focused better flow
• Needs a little more fleshing out, and some stuff doesn't make exact sense but works pretty well
• Since I already knew what things were, it felt like an artificial gate. I'd be curious to know if it actually helps new players learn more smoothly.
• The idea is fine, but some of the dependencies are odd. I'm filling this out after the test has past so I don't have the G-menu to reference. Also, I did not get the text on-screen after building the small-grid equivalent to state that I had unlocked blocks. A player does not have the resources to build large-grid blocks early in game. For example, the beacon.
• nice
• It clear how it's setup but when I tried to move around some parts of the new start ships I accidentally doomed myself (tried to move h2 and flight seats prevented control and power)
• Progression should be more involved such as finding blueprints or grinding already existing ones
• It seems like half a tree, it needs more tiers, more separation
• Would work better with an actual research system. Right now its just an annoyance
• its not a progression tree, no natural progression to be found. it just forces you into building things in a certain order. (keen just look at how minecraft handles this a million times better by using materials and places for progression)
• The only downside is that you are forced to build a block that you dont need early on to get one that you might enjoy using early on
• I feel it doesn't really change the game much, It honestly feels like it's not really there. I don't take away from the game, but it felt just like playing the game normally, except sometimes i'd have to weld a random block to unlock something.
• Feels... useless. I end up building and grinding blocks just to unlock it. No real sense of progression
• Seems very arbitrary- build random block to unlock a vaguely related/unrelated block. Progression system is best kept for training scenario worlds or a campaign/story mode where it would actually make sense.
• It's ok, but it could get annoying
• Useful for new players, but will be a option that will be turned off mostly as an experienced player.
• Needs to be a bit more complex.

Cargo ship / random encounter comments

• Sorry, I've always used the modded ones instead.
• Haven't find any because I played an hour or so.
• I like how they don’t broadcast their positions all the time. But we still don’t have planet based encounters. It’s a real shame mods have outdone keen on this aspect 1000% better. Works needs more life, not just random ships flying around. We need bases to find, and to defend against.
• More of them, please.
• Make them more like modular encounters
• I saw some pop up on the hud but didn’t chase them down
• Well I always play with Random Encounters mod on,, even on the public test. Reavers etc so didn´t try it out.
• Please add pirate stations to spawn that we can attack, would like to take Initiative in later game
• Encounters are too simple. Please add more missions and variations.
• Those improvements were NOT ENOUGH. Not by a long, long, very long shot. A good first step in that direction would be to buy the work of Meridius_IX for example, incorporate it and deepen the NPC mechanics and AI, and expend NPC presence in potentially every zone of the game (planets, planet core, etc. the key word being potential, NPC placement when a word is started need randomization). For a company so linked to a commercial enterprise making and seeling pro AI, Space Engineers AI feels a lot like a late 80's game. More work is needed.
• These are amazing. They need to be on planets as well otherwise there's literally no reason to stay on a planet.
• They seem to attack bases on moon and crash down, which gives free resources.
• Can we get some of these in planets, maybe?
• I played on earth-like and haven't gotten to space yet...so no cargo ships/encounters or violence of any kind for me either :-( I had wolves turned on briefly, but ran out of ammo since I only start with 3 clips!
• Cargo ships are far too rare and I found myself swarmed by raiding platforms and their drones
• A player on our server found one. He enjoyed the interaction.
• Non-hostile encounters could be more common, more ruins/abandoned bases on planets would be cool. Random distress signals could be used to have the player explore for them.
• More...
• I hope they are improved in the future.
• Would like to see those type of events take place planet side

New spawning system comments

• Don't like the auto respawn much
• dont really like not being able to select where you spawn
• It’s awesome
• I joined a faction late game after playing MP solo for days. I logged off in my ship before bed and in the morning spawned at the faction base 2000 km away. Thankfully i had a gos waypoint and a good person jumped me back to my ship. Completely powered, no damage, medbay active. Fail
• Like it on Single Player so you cant TP to planets etc.
• I like new system, but most of time your base got offline raided.
• You should only spawn near players in your faction, and the default should be farther away.
• Makes the game a lot less boring, being so close to other people's stuff.
• I don't play MP
• Spawning near others is good for playing with friends but other players quickly go to piracy and looting which make starting fresh dangerous.
• I would like a way, with a long cool down perhaps, to spawn at faction mates bases. To help them build or check out their creations.
• We found it a bit hard to get our faction together when starting out
• this system is so incredibly exploitable its not even funny. who though this was a good idea?! it completely ruins any and all PVP servers since offline protection is just not a thing and protection by hiding is impossible. the only way to protect against people spamming respawn to find your shit is to just QUIT
• It's fun to spawn next to friends, I worry about spawning next to random people on public servers
• It's kinda neat to be spawned near others, but it makes it hard to isolate yourself from them if you want to.
• After spawning on Mars, I did find the occasional enemy player starter ship and salvaged them. After traveling around For a few hours I realized that all Mars players were near my own spawn, and that the rest of the planet is basically barren. No reason to travel around since all resources and players are found in a rather small area.
• While i can see the appeal in spawning near other players, i think it’s much better if we could choose to spawn with specific players. (So that you don’t have to find your friends, but also don’t spawn next to every other player)
• I think there should clear user interface when respawning. And there needs to be a way to make sure you are not spawned near non faction players

Temperature mechanic comments

• it is good, not something too great to micromanage but quite realistic
• Seems to do nothing but drain your suit energy faster and kill you if you run out. It would be better if there was an in inventory recharge item like with Oxygen/Hydrogen bottles.
• Could be improved, I mean, is meh, too simple needs more features
• It works. Could be some mode negatives to staying in cold to long.
• What does it even do?
• Binary warm/freeze is NOT how you do a temperature mechanic.
• I want a puffer coat
• It's not explained in the game. If you want to explain it to players don't do it with text in form of good.bot, find an immersive way to introduce it to players.
• It is a nice touch. Dont need further improvement.
• It is barely documented, is it doing anything besides higher suit energy consumption?
• The only change is that I need to visit cockpit more often. What the point? At the moment, engineers life worth nothing.
• In my opinion, engineer's life should be more valuable than your crafts.
• Again, nice first iteration on an idea. Needs to be fleshed out a bit (or in fact a lot, but I'm keeping my expectation in check ;) ).
• I'd love to see this become a full-blown temperature system.
• More mechanics to encourage pressured vessels would be great
• I played on earth-like, so it wasn't that big of a deal. When I get to space it will be more dramatic I imagine and give another reason to pressurize spaces.
• I get why it was added but the drain was too fast in some cases like early game mining felt brutal having to dive back out of a asteroid just to recharge. My suggestion would be to add a multiplier setting similar to assembler and refinery settings but for cold/hot power loss
• I didn’t notice it or know what it effects.
• It could be a bit more involved than just affecting how much energy your suit uses, applying the temperature mechanic to ships would be nice.
• It needs way more depth in how it works, a better indicator
• It does add more of a challange, but it because annoying later on
• I noticed it existed in the bottom right, but I didn't see it have any changes to anything.
• Doesnt feel fleshed out, unclear mechanics
• Seems like a weak way of trying to improve the survival aspect of the game- there needs to be more environmental hazards ( wildlife, weather, npc ships and characters that actually work and aren't bugged out- please speak to Lucas about how he does the scripting for the dangerous encounters mod, or refer to W4sted's ongoing survival series to see how NPC ships should be behaving in order to add a real threat and excitement to the game ).
• Feels unecessary in it’s current state. Could be interesting if it affected the player more, like extreme cold causing your health to decrease over time.
• The damage done should be much less. You probably wouldn't freeze to death in 30 seconds
• Not sure what it does of what its purpose was in survival mode. You could freeze and not see any adverse affects besides knowing that you’re freezing with no consequence.

New chat / inventory size comments

• needs to be larger, shuttling resources early game is very time consuming and boring
• Tiny inventories suck. I don't care if i am having fun wrong. I want to be able to carry enough ore/components to make a whole block...
• Separate options for the Inventory size is needed for sure
• Grid size default is too big. Back diwn to 1 or 2 medium size cargo to fill my needs. Make us work for that cargo space.
• The 3x default is too small.
• I usually play on x1 inventory size.
• I played with 3x and always done that.
• I like fixed inventory size for cargo containers a lot. It should be done way sooner, when cargo mass was introduced.
• The chat need copy&paste. But good changes.
• The good bot should mention the changes to chat
• X1 was better
• Ship inventory multipliers should remain, especially in the light of old saves being affected. It'll automatically delete much of a player's accumulated materials.
• Faction tags should show in the chat, and the player inventory should be just a little bit larger.
• I changed personal inventory to x3, it was great how it wasn't tied to ship inventory. I only play SP, so don't use chat at all.
• Chat is good but small inv sizes make early game progression slow but if it was too large players could just hold m1 with the rifle (please add a reload and maybe add craft able weapon attachment instead of generic always pick the highest rate of fire rifle)
• Player inventory would be a great place to add different suits such as an armored suit or a construction suit with bigger inventory as well as different jetpacks like an atmospheric pack and a ion pack in addition to the now standard hydrogen pack.
• ship inventory size changed*
• A bigger inventory is always nice
• Im not entirely sure about the new chat commands, a comprehensive list would be awesome accompanying the launch.
• The inventory size of blocks needs to be increased. I get that it’s more realistic, but it’s just annoying.

Overall test comments

• I always want more, but Keen Decline everything
• pls more
• Ladders when
• The harder survival, the better
• This game needs a game mode like "How long can you survive". For example every 2nd or 3rd day you get a wave of drones that tries to kill you and wipe your base. Ofc it it easy at start so you can progress and build strong bases and ships.End goal, either reach and destroy their main base on a planet far away that only can be reached after wiping their bases on planets / space.
• Space Engineers feel a way more interesting game with survival update. It feels more alive, but still empty.
• I would like to ask to make some alternatives from grinding\welding\mining\taking or storing components gameplay. Simple economy system (EEM did it right with uranium as currency), NPC stores with trading (selling ships and buying from blueprint included).
• More NPC factions, encounters, planetary encounters would be neat.
  
• Combat system overhaul would be amazing. Bullet penetration system, ricochets.
  
• It overall felt like a step in the good direction, but a bit disappointing. The MP overhaul took an almost unusable feature and made it usable, good even. This doesn't feel like this, survival is 1/4 of the game and before this patch it felt it was 20% there, now it's 30% there. Good, but by far not nearly enough.
  
• Look at Subnautica, The Long Dark, Oxygen Not Included, Terraria, and so on. Space Engineers has thing they do not, they have things SE doesn't have (survival being only a fourth of Space Engineers). But on the survival gameplay mechanics, feedbacks, the way it integrate with the rest of the game, SE unfortunately isn't there yet.
  
• If there's more big patchs for survival, then for exploration (another 1/4th of the game that's somewhat empty and shallow), then it's OK it's all good, good work. If not, that's a big issue.
  

This is a pretty amazing update. Nice job, Keen! I look forward to seeing the full release. Here are a few things I really like, in no particular order:

• The new grid durability is nice. I like being able to actually have something left over when I crash into the ground.
  
• The new textures for voxels, as well as the new models for dropped ore, look amazing.
  
• - The new block models are absolutely gorgeous. I especially like the glass face on the basic assembler.
  
• - The fact that the game now spawns you near other players is amazing, and makes the game much more interesting and exciting.
  
• - The new chat system is so much better than the old one. It's really nice.
  
• - The new encounters are really nice. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the drones can actually use forward-facing weaponry now! Some gorgeous encounters. And they're actually findable, which is nice.
  
• - The new tree models are nice. Sadly, trees still aren't useful for anything.
  
• - The UI seems to have received some extra polish, which is nice.
  

With that said, there's still room for improvement:

• - As someone on the subreddit (RoninTheAccuser, i believe) pointed out, the caution stripes on the small grid survival kit are improperly done, with the yellow background not covering the full length of the stripes.
  
• - The new inventory size is just a bit too small. I believe it defaults to 3x? I think it should be 5x, instead.
  
• - I think the survival kit should be just a little more efficient at producing metals, to lessen the grind a bit.
  
• - The lighting seems to be just a little wonky, but maybe that's just me.
  
• - I think the hydrogen engine should be just a little more powerful.
  
• - You still can't copy text from the chat, which is a big problem. Please, fix this.
  
• - While we're on the subject of the chat, it'd be nice if it'd show faction tags, so you could see what faction a player is in.
  
• - There are still no planetary encounters outside of the Easy Start worlds, from what I've seen. Planetary encounters would make the game way more fun.
  
• - Since the last update, when you look at a block (such as a door, cockpit, etc.) that you don't have access to, it will highlight in red, instead of the normal yellow. This makes life easier, as I can actually tell if I can use a block. However, this effect only seems to apply to certain blocks. Cargo containers and other conveyor ports still highlight yellow. This is annoying, and should be fixed.
  

I also have a few things I'd like to see in future updates:

• - Make the rifles less accurate. Currently, they have effectively zero bullet spread at most ranges. I'd like to see this change.
  
• - Maybe introduce some other firearms, like shotguns or pistols, to give players more options when it comes to combat.
  
• - I'd like to see a food mechanic implemented. Farming and the like would add a lot to the game.
  
• - It would be neat to see the temperature and wind mechanics fleshed out. For example, have blocks generate heat, and make temperature management something you need to worry about. As for the wind, perhaps have it blow grids in one direction or another sometimes. Also, other environmental factors might be nice, too. Like maybe radiation hazards, when mining uranium, or when your reactor is damaged.
  
• - To expand on the above topic, weather. Weather would add so much to this game. I understand it'd be tricky to implement, but still. Weather.
  
• - To continue expanding on that, some basic aerodynamics would be nice. Reentry heating, air resistance, and the like.
  
• - NPC astronauts would be cool. You could have them walk around encounter bases, performing tasks, and pilot NPC spacecraft.
  
• - Also, perhaps add more wildlife to planets, other than spiders and wolves. Maybe animals that don't attack you.
  
• - Some more character poses would be nice.
  
• - Maybe add some limited story content (IE: quests). For example, maybe you encounter a destroyed base, and inside of it are GPS coordinates pointing you to something important.
  
• - I'd like to see procedurally generated planets, and/or more variety in the existing planets. For example, perhaps a variant of the Earthlike planet that's entirely covered in snow.
  
• That's all I've got for now. I'd like to congratulate whoever's reading this on actually making it through all that.
  

And to everyone at Keen Software House, seriously, great update. I love Space Engineers, and I love to see it improve. Keep up the great work!

• Planetary game-play is still missing. Love new earth-like textures & trees. It was great having the whole weekend to play update. No crashes or performance issues.
• nice
• We need more variety in player guns like pistol caliber smgs pistols attachments grenades c4 so that pvp and sabotage is more interesting (like sneaking on board a enemy ship with a suppressed weapon a planting timed remote charges to key points to distrupt key systems sorta like Star Wars battlefront 2 classic space battles how pilots can sabotage enemy ships from the inside
• wtf u doing keen
• New blocks are cool, I'd love to see even more work done on survival. I really wish there was more of a pull to going to visit other planets. There isn't any real reason to go to mars other than, look i'm on mars!
  
• I'd love a little more RP added to the game, maybe some sort of built-in currency mechanic?
  
• Feels disappointing to lose save games adter a few dats, though a backup of the steam folder does wonders.. :)
  
• I hope the final release has more content added to it, this test didn't go anywhere near far enough. The G menu and over all UI / HUD needs some love to make it more user friendly.
  
• I'm glad they're letting us test this
  
• I support an improvement to survival, but they need to focus on the obvious and/or basic things that are missing for some reason.
  
• What i mean is things like additional block shapes (even the most obvious and simple shapes are missing) and more options for certain blocks. (Like a camera or spotlight, shaped like a half-block and that faces to the side instead of ”up”)