Estimated ETA for next release?

This is a very big problem in SE. There are many nice GPU-based algorithms like flow noise for animated clouds, particle systems with physics and interaction with bodies, N-body gravity and gasodynamic simulations, etc etc. But they all are simulations, ie iterative algorithms, they starts calculation from some initail state and then perform one iteration every time tick. In SE you might arrive at a planet at any time in its history, so to obtain the actual texture of clouds, the engine must run all iterations from initial state (planet birth?) to the current time. This is toooo expensive! You cannot easily accelerate the time scale - the calculations will take forever. And you cannot reverse time - almost all iterative algorithms may run only in the forward time direction. The solution may be in resetting the system to an initial state every 1000 cycles and start completely new iterations, blending it with previous iteration to hide transition effect.

I definitely think that even when space engine is a game, it needs two modes, game and planetarium

- Keep Planetarium Mode like it is now, so without any collision simulator or any other thing, maybe only editor... - Make a new mode (New game/Load game etc)

What would be really cool would be a first person shooter against AI or multiplayer on planets/moons/asteroids with physics based on the gravity of the body.

Or a built in flight simulator

Or a racing game

Maybe even a universe conquest game with all of the previous features.

I actually made a basic driving game in blender using an exported heightmap from space engine.