CIG published the schedule for the CitizenCon (Star Citizen / Squadron 42 yearly convention). This year it will be in Manchester on October 19 & 20 (Saturday/Sunday, times below are local for UK).
Some comments/ideas what to expect (what is behind those points, in case you are interested).
- Brave New World: Possibly Planet Tech v5, what CIG will use/is using to build new moons/planets and fill them with life.
- A Social Universe: Less clear for me, possibly about Server Meshing, updated guild/clan features, multicrew gameplay, etc.
- Dressed to Kill: Sounds like more about StarCloth, clothes simulation, more options for the character creation, clothes/outfits, etc. Unsure about which legend will return, no idea to be honest, who they mean.
- Beyond Pyro: CIG will talk (show?) the next system(s) coming to Star Citizen after Pyro, most likely Nyx, as a part of Nyx was already in Star Citizen, but placed in Stanton before. They teased a jump point recently on Twitter with a short video, that didn't look like the jump point to Pyro.
- Redacted: Probably/Most likely about Squadron 42, we might see a demo or new vertical slice, maybe release date information (if you want to think positive that is ^^). They might bring Squadron 42 up for pre-order. The CitizenCon is themed around UEE and other Squadron 42 related content/ships (also the digital goodies pack).
- Crafting Your Home: Base Building is coming to Star Citizen, as they started to fully work on it this year just, I wouldn't expect crazy detailed base building yet. They teased some plans during last years CitizenCon and some weeks ago there was a small video teaser about small/basic buildings with some interior (again on Twitter/X).
- Captains of the Industry: More about base building and the ships used to create buildings, etc.
- The Stars My Destination: Star Citizen 1.0: High level overview of what is planned for Star Citizen 1.0, they talked about it for many many months, the roadmap is currently only filled until Alpha 4.0, so CIG is going to talk about what they see as Star Citizen 1.0, whatever they mean by that, Early Access/Beta/Initial Release, 1.0 would sound like the latter. Anyway the final panel will be about what is coming next for Star Citizen after Alpha 4.0 which is currently still scheduled for Q4 2024.
As for the current Star Citizen, the new update 3.24.2 is currently on the test server and available to everyone with a game package, including the new ship MFDs and some other major reworks and the first tech of Alpha 4.0. Today is also another server meshing test for 24h planned, where CIG is testing the new tech and stability needed for Alpha 4.0 and further versions. It was pretty okay/stable with 500 players (current limit on live servers is 100), the tests with 1000 players didn't work too well yet. Won't go into details about Server Meshing here though, too complicated and too much (it's not just about player numbers).