Well that's a bold guess seeing how there's only 5 more days. I honestly forgot for a moment in-dev patch notes are a thing and thought Alex is just gonna release everything at once. Actually I'm kinda curious now, let me go check when the ''I should probably put some patch notes sooner rather than later'' response was.
Ship orders were actually confirmed in the latest blog post I think, but that's a bit hard to find mentioned here since it's buried under piles of pages. I honestly can't wait to not rush build Heavy industry just so I have a decent ship, or have one of the rare ones that don't show up whole game.
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I probably should put some up sooner rather than later, though. Otherwise it'll become more and more of an expectation that patch notes == impending release!
It would seem it has been a while...