Major Update 0.9.3.0

Update - v0.9.3 With the release of v0.9.3 continues our Early Access release. this is currently available on Steam! You can buy it here to support the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2128430/Seven_Seas_Adventures/

This is a major update that includes the much needed Biome system - ports come alive, and your actions impact the world even more so! You'll encounter significantly more characters at sea - aid them, defeat them, and raid new land-based POIs.

Also included is more activities, like fishing!

• Improved the games weather system - this is largely not noticeable (yet!) but will be used in a future update.

• Added Fog of War System

• The main map is now obstructed by the FOW

• Visiting Ports for the first time will yield a small gold reward for discovery

• Added new Ports

• Montego Bay

• Reworked name generation

• Added AI agent generation system

• Added the Biome System

• Added the new "Prosperity" system to ports - this acts as currency that can be used to spend on port upgrades.

• Prosperity is earned based on the health of ports - have towns been raided? fisherman fleets sunk?

• Ports now have new characters - these are the "influential" citizens of a specific port - randomly generated on each play through!

• Added new resource nodes to ports (currently used by fisherman)

• Added fisherman fleets, owned by the influential citizens of a port. They'll fish daily and provide prosperity to ports

• Added Towns - these are new POIs that players can interact with - they can't be docked at, but benefit the connected ports Prosperity

• Added the ability to raid ports (this involves using your crew to rain the town, no naval battles here) - connect Port Prosperity is negative impacted when raided

• Added Raider camps - these are new POIs that players can interact with - they can't be docked at, but can be raided

• Spawns raiders when active - players can raid a camp to prevent the raiders from spawning for 3 in-games days (along with earning loot)

• Added Villages - these are new POIs that players can interact with - they can't be docked at, but can be raided.

• Added object pooling for ships objects and nameplates, reducing memory usage and preventing lag spikes due to object initialization

• Updated fleet rendering logic to work with the new Fog of War system to reduce memory usage

• Fixed an issue with ship object spawning and buoyancy - ships will no longer "bounce" while trying to equalize with the water level.

• Added Sea Shanty system

• When sailing in deep ocean, and at max speed, after 10 seconds of sailing in these conditions, your crew will start singing sea shanties - they'll stop if you slow down.

• Added the first song: Randy Dandy Oh

• Fixed an issue with not being able to close with Shipyard with the close button

• Fixed issues with Interaction system

• Dozens of fixes and performance improvements

This is a major update to the game, and while I strive to ensure releases are as bug free as possible, it's inevitable that I missed something! If you run into any issues, please let me know either in the Steam Discussions, or better yet, on Discord: https://discord.gg/hdkEAVhXXq