Not to sound like a "bootlicker" but I hope many of the people complaining realize that for much of SpaceEngine's development, only *1* person was working on it. Yes, there are more people working on it now than ever before, but development takes time, and SE notoriously takes time to develop. It took 3 years for 0.990 to be developed, so who's to say that we can't wait longer for further developments? 

How is the conversion to vulcan going? 

Conversion to Vulkan is proceeding well. I don't have details, nor time to completion, though, as per usual.


Regarding the rest, in no particular order:
To be fair, the name for this thread should probably be shortened to "Work progress" only, it would make more sense now.

0.991 version, some of you mentioned, that was available as a beta choice on Steam (it wasn't an alleged fix btw, it was actually fixing the issue), only had the correction of the generation bug causing alternating terra-gas giant sequences, and that's it. Development in the meantime continued, and the fact that correcting that bug means breaking existing saved locations had the developers decide to hold that fix for a much bigger update.

SpaceEngine doesn't really want to mimic other games, otherwise we wouldn't spend development time to transfer scientific knowledge to meaningful code, so saying "SE is going to be obsolete" has no meaning for developers.
And just because NMS was mentioned, I don't think SE will have users teleporting in another place to find their own spaceship magically nearby.
It's a very good program nonetheless, but I'm not sure it will go in the same direction of SpaceEngine.
Or not? Do they share a roadmap with users?

People find in games what they like, the way they like it. Since platformer games and Mario's universes are still a thing after decades, I think there will be always players for SE-based games.

Something else very small I've noticed in recent builds.
Dwarfs that just barely straddle fusion mass used to fall into one of two radically different camps. You would either have a completely black Jupiter, or a spiky wad of mesh. Watching those red stars now. The very, very dim and cold little ones is just utterly breathtaking. The sheer violence and unpredictability of a red dwarf is on full display. Whatever shaderwork is being done on the corona is nothing short of amazing. It feels like it is a real object. 

I encourage everyone who reads this to search for Luhman 16A fly up close, set the time scale comfortably high, and watch the corona become a crackling stellar fireplace.

Hi guys, any updates?

You know, it wouldn't kill you to give some kind of update. Is this project being worked on at all? Last year, we were told to get more frequent updates, and yet here we are with still fewer updates about the progress.

You know, it wouldn't kill you to give some kind of update. Is this project being worked on at all? Last year, we were told to get more frequent updates, and yet here we are with still fewer updates about the progress.

As far as I know, they said the are moving to Vulkan, but I don't know if we have received any updates related to this.

You know, it wouldn't kill you to give some kind of update. Is this project being worked on at all? Last year, we were told to get more frequent updates, and yet here we are with still fewer updates about the progress.

While I'm sure that with "updates" they were referring to program updates, which are indeed more frequent, the conversion to Vulkan is progressing, as I posted few weeks ago. I'm sure that many would like to hear more in-depth descriptions of what devs are doing to translate existing code to Vulkan, and at the same time evaluating different ways to have the code ready and expandable for future needs. Many others would mainly know when it's done, and I have read wild speculations about it. The answer is always the same, the one in the FAQ.
I hope you don't read my answer as annoying, it's just that I can do paraphrasing with the same answer only to an extent. Problem is, if you don't see questions (or emojis) answered, it seems to be seen as bad as repeating the same answer again and again. Unfortunately, devs are not yet available to discuss their work.

You know, it wouldn't kill you to give some kind of update. Is this project being worked on at all? Last year, we were told to get more frequent updates, and yet here we are with still fewer updates about the progress.

While I'm sure that with "updates" they were referring to program updates, which are indeed more frequent, the conversion to Vulkan is progressing, as I posted few weeks ago. I'm sure that many would like to hear more in-depth descriptions of what devs are doing to translate existing code to Vulkan, and at the same time evaluating different ways to have the code ready and expandable for future needs. Many others would mainly know when it's done, and I have read wild speculations about it. The answer is always the same, the one in the FAQ.
I hope you don't read my answer as annoying, it's just that I can do paraphrasing with the same answer only to an extent. Problem is, if you don't see questions (or emojis) answered, it seems to be seen as bad as repeating the same answer again and again. Unfortunately, devs are not yet available to discuss their work.

I remember a post talking about how this project might get a more clear public roadmap or similar. Now, I'm pretty sure this was posted by a trustworthy person, but maybe I'm wrong. The point is, I still revisit this forum from time to time in order to gain some information, but as you mentioned, the answer is always the same. 'It's progressing', 'There is no finish-date', and now "Unfortunately, devs are not yet available to discuss their work.". Sure, I understand that some information is best kept for the interns, but how bad could it be to give some hope? The transition to Vulkan is ultimately what will lead to further updates, especially regarding graphics and visuals, and so without it there is no accessible information or even speculation. The developers hold the power to release or not to release updates regarding features or dates, but I don't see any reason to keep everything behind closed curtains.

The transition to Vulcan means that SE has completely abandoned its concept of being an engine. At the same time, it has not become a game in 15 years of development. Now it is not a Space Engine and not a Space Game. And what is it? Space Promises. More than a year ago, I wrote a big post about how the authors should either forget all the excuses right now and just start making content, not a swamp of invisible digits like this ridiculous shameful temperature update that does not affect anything, but real visible content. Otherwise, this project has no future. And now more than a year has passed, and there are no changes at all. You called me a hater back then. Look at the blog posts for the year, there are no changes except minor fixes and catalog updates and that's it. I predict that when I look here in another year, there will be no changes either.

P.S. People, you are not being given any roadmap because there is no roadmap. You are not being shown updates because there are none.