v0.1.7 - Patch Notes & Developer Comments — DRONE SMUGGLER Steam update #242787

v0.1.6 has made way for v0.1.7 - here's the best I could do... not quite as good as the one from 0.1.5 but I think I can safely say I had longer sustained fun gameplay this time around so I'll take that trade :)That's also a significantly less-upgraded ship than the 0.1.5 high score ship! I'm pretty happy with getting over 9k.I'm also really happy with what the first HEX (hardware expansion) module - the Deployable Repair Kit (or DRK; what's a sci fi game without a million initialisms and backronyms?) - has brought to the game. It gives me a reason to risk flying in front of ships instead of avoiding them and sniping asteroids... if I take damage and need a repair kit, I can only get that from fighting an enemy ship.Eventually I'll probably add in some kind of resource mechanic tied strongly to the current level's color palette (maybe tied to a HEX that serves as a cosmic forge, turning ...