Once they’ve proven that they can handle a business on Mars local colonies will begin asking players for help and support as they also try to find their feet. Rather than competing for a monopoly of any given Martian Market, players will initially be simply fighting to survive. Gone are the free markets that rule Mars now, strict contracts and sheer scarcity will determine what (if anything) the player is allowed to buy and sell. Featuring 17 new singleplayer scenarios, LS will allow players to explore what Mars was like in the early days of colonization. Limited Supply is our new DLC, and it breaks Offworld’s rules in a way we haven’t done before. Offworld Trading Company has gotten a major patch and a brand new DLC this week, so we’re going to take some time today to break down what we’ve been up to for the past couple of months.

This will clear the way for us to focus on a more substantial patch later this spring, bringing some long-awaited changes to OTC. To bring things back Offworld, we’re looking to get a small patch out in the next few weeks with some minor bug fixes.

We’ll take a closer look at these companies and their goals in the coming weeks. And perhaps the most ambitious groups are already looking to begin colonization of Mars, planning to permanently settle on the red planet within the next 20 years. Others want to begin mining the vast resources available elsewhere in the solar system. Some are seeking to establish tourism in space, allowing short trips to space if you have the cash to spare. Many companies are now looking to lead the charge in spaceflight. This update to US law allows US citizens to 'engage in the commercial exploration and exploitation of 'space resources.'” This may sound familiar to some of our space capitalists. This eventually culminated in the passage of the SPACE Act. Since that time, private companies have slowly but surely come to play a vital role in space operations, with the red tape of regulation gradually being peeled away. Even so, it was still two more decades - in 1984 - before companies could consider launching these satellites themselves. It was back in 1962 that the first was step was taken, with the Communications Satellite Act (as you may expect, this essentially started setting the rules for commercial satellite use). The road to privatization began well before you may think, at least in the USA. While we’re still a fair ways off from the Martian Markets we know and love, many steps have already been taken to get us closer to that goal. It’d be pretty difficult to have an open, competitive market on Mars if we didn’t have companies there to do the competing. However, with the recent launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, this seemed a good time to touch on an idea that’s core to Offworld Trading Company: the privatization of space back here on Earth. Greetings Offworld CEOs! Work continues on Offworld, but we don’t have anything to show off just yet.

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