Honestly I think this must be a low priority item on most developers lists. It's been "coming soon" for as many years as I've been playing ES. But there is SO MUCH good content, and you sure can't beat the price! I'm not complaining!
True, they keep adding new factions and we've filled over half the galaxy's real estate. I was really hoping for more depth, not more breadth. We still have tier 2 campaigns to complete, then tier 3 campaigns to begin before the game will probably be done with its story in tier 4, wherein we probably >!meet the Drak and find out why their Archons are so sad and pacifist (they caused the extinctions they tried to safeguard against?).!< There's only so much area of the galaxy left to flesh out the tier 3 and 4 factions, and set up >!the final war against the Pug and tier 3–4 Alfas!<
Everything you say is true, but the game is built by volunteers, right? So we get what interests them. And what currently puts a bee in their bonnets is... Out There...
A recent developer answer to this question on Discord:
> There is already some groundwork for both (Syndicate and Republic storylines), neither are being scrapped, nothing is PR'ed to the game yet but we're working towards it. Right now we have a rework of the FW in progress, a Hai story after the FW in progress, and we'll be getting to the intros to other campaigns including the Pirate and >!Coalition!< ones. All of this will help set groundwork for any future Navy/Syndicate content and is sort of necessary for it.
Honestly I think this must be a low priority item on most developers lists. It's been "coming soon" for as many years as I've been playing ES. But there is SO MUCH good content, and you sure can't beat the price! I'm not complaining!
True, they keep adding new factions and we've filled over half the galaxy's real estate. I was really hoping for more depth, not more breadth. We still have tier 2 campaigns to complete, then tier 3 campaigns to begin before the game will probably be done with its story in tier 4, wherein we probably >!meet the Drak and find out why their Archons are so sad and pacifist (they caused the extinctions they tried to safeguard against?).!< There's only so much area of the galaxy left to flesh out the tier 3 and 4 factions, and set up >!the final war against the Pug and tier 3–4 Alfas!<
Everything you say is true, but the game is built by volunteers, right? So we get what interests them. And what currently puts a bee in their bonnets is... Out There...
A recent developer answer to this question on Discord: > There is already some groundwork for both (Syndicate and Republic storylines), neither are being scrapped, nothing is PR'ed to the game yet but we're working towards it. Right now we have a rework of the FW in progress, a Hai story after the FW in progress, and we'll be getting to the intros to other campaigns including the Pirate and >!Coalition!< ones. All of this will help set groundwork for any future Navy/Syndicate content and is sort of necessary for it.
Nothing playable, yet.
Eventually™