Yes. They are working hard on their Christmas time update. They haven't shared any teasers yet though, so only the devs and maybe inside testers know what's coming.
I'm getting curious about what that Christmas update contains as well. But according to Eleon, it's a Christmas present so we will have to wait. No one has yet been able to peel away a corner of the wrapping to see what's inside. Eleon guards their Christmas tree well! Bit of a gamble to be honest, and I hope it pays off. Fuelling up a hype train means that it will have to be something really meaningful. If it's just more fluff, then that train could derail and wreck hard. Like expecting to find a new BMX under the Christmas tree and getting another pair of socks instead...
I'd love if they someday could find a way to have content from Steam Workshop being added to the core of the game in real time. For instance: 1. You have a savegame you're already playing for a long time; 2. Then you go to Steam Workshop and subscribe to a user POI; 3. The next you load the game, the new POI would be added to the probability of it showing up in a never visited solar system. Caveat: When the player unsubscribe from the POI in Steam Workshop the game would have to clean all instances of that blueprint. This way, you could have unlimited content.
very much looking forward to the next update and hoping it has some good new content. Empyrion is beginning to stagnate a bit for me.
I always enjoyed the Dev upcoming Alpha previews and Q&A's they use to do on Youtube with people like Spanj. I would always watch the entire video even when they were 3 hours long. Be so awesome if they would do that a couple weeks before this Christmas update again or any updates in the future.
