As the game is now really massive and complicated, DJArcas is going to try and do a series of Dev Diaries, showing progress, with each of the videos focussing on a single gameplay element.
As the game evolves over several hours from a soldat-style run-and-gun to a very unique crafting-guns-and-tower-defence game, it's proving very hard to work out how to make long videos, so we'll try the short-video approach, and see what happens!
DropPods are used to return NPCs back to your base safely, without you having to babysit them. Currently they're free, but I shall be adding a cost in soon enough. With some luck, the DropPod patch will be available by the time you read this!