05 · What Is Not Confirmed

Unconfirmed

(This page does NOT constitute any promise regarding features, timing, or content)

Page Purpose

This page exists to explicitly list the areas where no commitments or frozen judgments have been made at the current development stage.

All items listed here share the following characteristics:

They may change
They may be delayed
They may ultimately never appear

This section is not meant to generate anticipation,
but to prevent misunderstanding, over-interpretation, and false expectations.

Scope Notice:
The list on this page is not exhaustive.
Items not mentioned here
do not imply confirmation, freezing, or implicit promises;
they simply indicate that, at the current stage,
they have not been identified as uncertainties requiring explicit public clarification,
or fall outside the explanatory scope of this page.

This Section Answers One Question:

“Which aspects are explicitly not guaranteed at the current stage?”

I. Mod Support (Unconfirmed)

At the current stage, no decisions or commitments have been made regarding:

Whether Mod support will exist
Whether Mods will appear during Early Access
Whether Mods will exist in the final release
The form of Mod support (scripts / data / maps / system-level access)

Mod support involves several critical considerations:

Long-term system stability
Consistency and integrity of civilization records and history
Maintenance and compatibility costs across version evolution

Until these issues are fully evaluated and stable conclusions are reached:

FireMatch Empire makes no commitments regarding Mod support.

II. Language Expansion (Unconfirmed)

Currently confirmed and fixed language support includes:

English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

The following remain unconfirmed:

Whether additional languages will be added
Which languages those might be
When such expansions would occur (EA or full release)

Language expansion depends on:

Text volume and long-term maintenance cost
Readability and consistency of the civilization record system across languages
Whether translation quality can meet project standards

Until a formal announcement is made:

No additional language support is guaranteed.

III. Public Test Versions (Alpha / Beta / Demo) (Unconfirmed)

At the current stage, no commitments are made regarding:

Public Alpha releases
Public Beta releases
Demo or trial versions
Any timing, format, or scope of test releases

It is important to clarify:

All EA0.x phases are development and judgment stages
Early Access stages are not equivalent to public testing or demo commitments

Whether any public testing will occur depends on:

Whether system structures reach sufficient stability
Whether content carries a low risk of misinterpretation
Whether public testing is genuinely necessary to support design judgment

Until formally announced:

There is no default assumption that Alpha, Beta, or Demo versions will be released.

IV. Specific Gameplay Details and Numerical Forms (Unconfirmed)

The following aspects remain subject to change:

Specific gameplay implementations
Depth of interaction between systems
Numerical structures, pacing, and balance logic
Whether certain mechanics will ultimately be retained

Current-stage judgment principles prioritize:

Directional clarity over formal certainty
Structural validity over experiential completeness

Therefore:

No specific gameplay details are guaranteed to remain unchanged.

V. Versioning Pace and Release Timing (Unconfirmed)

The following remain unfrozen:

Duration of Early Access
Full release timing
Pacing and segmentation between development stages

This project will not:

Design backward from fixed deadlines
Freeze immature structures to meet time targets

Regarding release-related information:

It will only be announced once it is deemed stable and unlikely to change.

VI. Long-Term Expansion Content (Unconfirmed)

The following currently exist only at an exploratory or conceptual level:

Additional eras or civilization stages
Large-scale system expansions
Derivative content outside the core gameplay direction

Whether such content is realized depends on:

Long-term stability of core systems
Capacity of the civilization record framework
Actual development progress and holistic judgment

Closing Note

“Unconfirmed” does not mean chaos.
It means refusing to make promises that cannot yet be honored.

In FireMatch Empire:

Confirmed content is clearly marked
Unconfirmed content is explicitly isolated

The purpose is simple:

So players can clearly understand:
what is already stable,
and what is still under evaluation.

— FireMatch Studio