a few more since the edit:
-If storms get more dangerous it might be nice to have some sort of emergency shelter we could carry to wait it out
-weather system to predict sand and rain storms
-if you wanted ideas to make sand storms more dangerous you could combine them with boulders to cause damage to habs, cat, and be a good way to introduce ores
-it would also be nice to be able to control whether we want both music and sound effects ..... the random ones really trip me up but I enjoy the music
-It woiuld be cool to recieve missions or items by delivery like the set up boxes so we have to find them
- it would also be neat to have temperature ranges - ice only being availible during certain times and plants 'growing' in others (but I like the way the trees fruit now)
-while I really enjoy the cat design - it might be interesting to beable to upgrade the suit, just changing the color or affecting the stats or even adding a tail
I also have a question, does anyone know how updates effect saved games? i only really started playing hard core after the last update and saving longterm games