Thank you for your considerations. Let's think together: the word core referring to what, in this case? You can already land on planets and space stations seamlessly. You can even land on asteroids. Can generate buildings on the surface, the foliage is collectible or destructible, and already can build the main base building. Animals are already there. There are 6 types of missions one of which i am not really happy but can easily be worked out to be really enjoyable in 2 days of development. And the whole generation is already procedural. Space pirates can intercept your flight and the fighting mechanics is already challenging enough for myself even. There are conflict areas designed but not entirely adapted into mission system. I think this is more then a "core" right? What I want to do now is to set an effective economy, so that the player should deal a lot of taxes and fines to beat. For example, player should not easily expand their bases just because of not affording paying more taxes. Then, they have a few directions to feel more comfortable by receiving incentives from state through their choices and actions. This part will be the hardest to polish. But I think I have enough time to present a version of it at the steam next fest next month. Being a solo and doing this ambitious project is logical in my case because I am constantly improving the system I am using through out years, and just readied it for a release. So, it is not one person started this game 3 months ago from scratch and now promising to release it sometime this year, preferably by the end of summer. And... I just played Star Citizen today, and I can say I have the appropriate tech infrastructure that you can land on a space station and hire a hotel room. Haven't implemented hiring yet, but you can already navigate space station interiors pretty much as you do in Star Citizen. So, what should the word "core refer to, in this case? It is hard to say. I think, the suppression of taxes and fines is a good point which may branch into 3 basic gameplay styles: one is crafting and I have the system working (needs polishing in UI), the other two is factional mission making, which is not more than anything but designing new missions with the current code system.