1.31 lets you get out of your ship at colonies, brings NPCs you can text chat to, and even hire to fly your ships! — Ascent - The Space Game Steam update #38872

http://www.thespacegame.com/archons.png We are at last live with the first iteration of our NPC AI and adds the "Full disembark" feature to colonies. Now you can travel around the Transport Grid network of your colony, meet your own colonists at an Entertainment Centre, and even hire them as crew or to fly ships for you. The NPC AI and text chat libraries will be extended over the coming months to support our upcoming features - smuggling, crime and punishment, assassination and bounty hunting. Today's release is an exciting step along the path. Updated to a new version of the Unity Game Engine Fixed numerous bugs with NPCs and NPC traders/pilots Fixed some stock market bugs Fixed several small disembark, landing bay bugs Fixed annoying OSB/Colony warehouse page bug Added Outer Star Base (OSB) Stock Markets Added autopilot button for current user colonies and osbs only Added disembark to...