Indeed, i would like to see more posts on some stuff i'm hoping for, such as :

Player Build Structures + Territory Control, Terraforming,  Destroyers, More (Hopefully Bigger) Islands, AoE weaponary etc etc.

Mines and minefields me want

Nice! Especially i <3 artifacts and EC idea.
At last we will have a one BIG reason to fight for outposts: no just for pew-pew, but for new and valuable currency.
Awaiting announces about next patch with bigbigbig interest.

Very nice . I just wish more islands came earlier. they don't need to be perfect, you can make them to that later.
also if we are already searching for artifacts what about scanning down teleports which would lead to smaller islands with some pve content and possible nice reward? ok i know it's not original idea , but still would be nice to have something like this.

*tips hat and rides into the sunset*

Many thanks. It looks like some interesting additions are coming this year.

Some of the features show promise.
In particular EC and artifacts which could be the needed motivation to be in beta and own outposts.  And terraforming.  And of course new islands.

Artillery, New weapons could be good or could be terrible for game balance.

Hybrid robots - what are you thinking.  Robots are balanced between races by having the bad parts balancing out the good parts.  Hybrid robots in some abstract ideal is imagined to result in variety.  But the reality is that min/maxing will result in only a 1-2 OP cookie cutter fits being used that you cannot possibly nerf without rolling back the entire feature.  Hybrid robots is a good idea at face value but actually a game-wrecker.

New robot classes or new features added to current robot classes would be a much much better idea (which it appears you are doing with artillery and new weapons).

The new energy part seams exiting but I find it a bit strange that there isn't a part for the industrial player in it. You would think that making, converting, transferring energy is an industrial process.

"Using fragments of a rare kind of crystalline material, which can be charged with energy and can be found through artifact scanning mentioned above, you have to go out to shiny energy fields, deploy the crystal and wait until it’s fully charged, then return it to a terminal. Of course indigenous Nians also like to be around these energy-rich areas, so you won’t have an easy time doing this."

I see what you mean, there isn't anything for the production player listed here. But it does involve the industry players. You will likely need to a sequar or better to move any volume of the crystal, but hopefully the artifact digs do not require large cargo bots.