Ion Games shares what they’ve been working on and their upcoming goals for Echoes of Empire.

Greetings, Spacefarers!

It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through the year, but here we are! With Galaverse happening as we speak, we are so proud of the team. Preparing for this event has dominated our development cycles for the last couple of months. The team worked relentlessly to deliver the playable demo for Galaverse, so that we could let players experience Echoes of Empire for the first time.

We want to thank our community again for the tremendous support, and for participating in our first Fireside Chat event. We didn’t record it this time around, but we will plan to do so for future Fireside chats to ensure that everyone can listen at their leisure. We wanted to try the highlights method for the first event, but the feedback overwhelmingly said that the community wants to be able to listen to a full recording.

As we move past the event, the focus in our studio will shift back to a more typical production cycle, and mark a return to our modular development method. Our main focus will be to continue to build on the strong foundation of the demo, while wrapping in more of the content and functionality.

The economy will be seeing some upcoming love along with crafting and trade systems. This will involve refining features such as inventory, taxes, research and more. We will be releasing more of our feature write-ups around this work as we dive back into the game’s regular roadmap.

Mapping the Cosmos

We are currently working on a new player facing roadmap, to refresh the one released at the beginning of the year. Our hope is that this gives a better overview of what’s being worked on and when. This question was raised during our first Fireside chat, and we definitely agree that it’s time for an update to the existing roadmap.

As with any plan, things can and will change over time, but we will continue to be transparent with the community– refreshing the roadmap as plans come into clearer focus. To that end, we will focus on smaller periods of time going forward rather than one extended roadmap. In this way, we can better ensure that the information we have out at the time is current and relevant.

We will also be beginning work on the very much requested Echoes of Empire video to offer a tease into the game and give you a glimpse of what’s yet to come. While we now have some demo footage from Galaverse out there in the wild, we’re still happy to bring out more video content to show the game as it grows!

Upcoming Echoes

Finally, we are working toward a summertime ship sale. This will be the first opportunity to pick up our NFT Flagships! While we can’t get into the details or exact date yet, it’s not too early to begin preparing for the sale. We want to give everyone the most notice possible on this to ensure that those who want to purchase ships can position themselves to do so.

This summer is going to be a busy and eventful one here at Ion Games and we’re excited to have all of you along for the journey!

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Starting today, you can now reveal the locations of your new Eternal Paradox Land Plot!

Plot locations claims in Elysium have begun, and players can now exchange their Land Claim Deeds for Land Plots.

The location of the land you reveal depends on the rarity of your Land Deed NFT, with higher rarities revealing much wider plots that are closer to the void area on each section of the map– a location exuding powerful energy that can boost the efficiency of Castles on your land.

Learn more about Land in Eternal Paradox

Trade-In Time

Here are step by step instructions on where to go and what to do to get that sweet Land and secure your homestead in Elysium.

Step 1: Go to the Gala Games Store

Step 2: Purchase an Eternal Paradox Land Deed NFT

Step 3: Go to Eternal Paradox in your Gala Games Inventory and check the new option: Exchangeable NFTs.

Step 4: Click on the Eternal Paradox Land Deed

Step 5: Click on the exchange option. You will be asked to confirm the exchange and pay the gas fee.

Step 6: Once complete, the exchange can take 30+ minutes to complete. You will receive a notification from Gala Games after the transaction is complete.

Step 7: Check your Gala Games inventory for the new EPX group with your NFT in it.

After that you can click on the NFT and follow the link to your land. Home sweet home, right in Elysium.

Can I Still Get Land?

The sale that started during Galaverse will be ongoing and follow this structure. Each phase of the sale, the whitelist opens to more of the community. Tomorrow, Jun 9th begins the public portion of the sale at 1:45pm Malta time (4:45am PT).

• Whitelist: GV attendees: Jun 6th
• Whitelist: Founder’s Node license holders: June 7th
• Whitelist: Gala Gold: June 8th
• Public sale: June 9th

Learn more about the Land Deed Sale

Just head over to the Gala Games Store when the sale opens to you and grab that Land Deed– then go reveal your new Eternal Paradox Land Plot!

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Eternal Paradox

Guy Incognito is on the case. Risking life and limb, he’s infiltrating the Galaverse to give you the latest clandestine intel!

My contact called me late Sunday. She was cool headed– a quick thinker and ice cold under pressure. But not this time. Something was different. She didn’t say much, but there was fear in her voice that let me know I needed to get there right away.

I grabbed my hat and hopped a bird across the Atlantic, headed towards the Mediterranean. She said she’d meet me in Malta and to make sure no goons were tailing me. I’ve heard that one before. I’m not the best damn investigator in the business for nothing, and nobody gets the drop on Guy Incognito.

Under the Maltese Sun

I landed in Malta on Monday morning and slipped through the back avenues and alleys to the spot she said she’d meet me. Didn’t take long for me to see that something about this island was more off than a cockroach in an overcoat. I watched from the shadows as masses of people strolled the tiny island wearing long, dark, hooded cloaks with a strange cube logo on them. I couldn’t tell what they were up to, but they were all converging on one massive event center… and I knew they couldn’t be up to any good.

When I met my contact, she explained that all these hooded figures had descended on the island over the weekend. They were here for some important meeting, but she had been unable to gain access or get any intel out of the strangers.

They had been friendly enough, but under questioning about their interest in the island they seemed to slip into their own language she couldn’t make heads or tails of. Said they seemed to be some kind of fanatics who worship a giant chicken– unsettling stuff. God knows what they’re up to in there, but she said they’d all been invited to come “into the Galaverse.”

This sent my head reeling. Malta is a tiny island. How are all these people going into whatever this “Galverse” is? She was right to call me. I like seafood as much as the next man, but something that wasn’t coming from the harbor struck me about all this.

Into the Galaverse

My client had an extreme interest in finding out what was happening inside that building to share with their community, and that’s all I needed to know. No cloak-wearing cube cultists are going to scare me away from getting the job done. Guy Incognito always gets his mark.

I told my contact to get off the island as fast as she could. I didn’t know how all this was going to go down, but the risk was mine and mine alone. She handed me one of the cloaks she was able to grab off a stoolie who may have taken a drink too much of the golden lagers popular in this stretch of the Mediterranean. We said our goodbyes and lingered for a minute– our eyes telling each other more than our words could bear to say.

As she walked away, I put on my cloak and overcoat and fixed my hat before walking out into the hot Maltese summer sun. I slipped into a passing crowd of cloaked figures unnoticed as they processed towards the building. They seemed to be in a kind of daze of excitement and wonder. I pulled my hat low and put my hood up. It was time to get down to business figuring out what this “Galaverse” was.

My clients hire me because they know I get results. It’s time to follow the clues, dig up the dirt and crack this case. Nothing is too secret or too exclusive for Guy Incognito to infiltrate!

Next Steps

As I make my surroundings and piece together the clues, I’ll organize bits and pieces to feed back to you, so stay frosty, gumshoes!

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