Changelog

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We operate a thematic release procedure where a new release will be centred around a specific theme, new features and mechanics will be added around this theme and all existing mechanics, features, items in game and balances will be changed along this general theme.

Version 1.3: Communication

Version 1.3 has a strong focus on characters you could chat to using dialog paths as well as direct messaging other players. This version also included dozens of feature requests from players as well as quality of life improvements.

• Bug: A new Product Recall mission has been added to the reasoning factor. Completing this mission will raise your Mechanical Fleet buy limit.
• Bug: A new Radiogenic Collector structure is now available to build.
• Bug: Fixed an issue where using the engage option for a squad member that wasn't in a system, would cause an error.
• Bug: Fixed an issue with paging of weapons that resulted in not all weapons being shown.
• Bug: For war declarations, the time since the war started was showing as a negative number.
• Bug: If an error occurs with disabling or enabling a structure, the error is now shown.
• Bug: If your sublight speed was calculated as less than 0.01, it would cause estimates to state infinity as your travel time.
• Bug: It was possible on occasion to salvage the same wreck multiple times.
• Bug: It was possible to hit the spin button on slots while they were already spinning.
• Bug: Karma for completing missions was not being logged.
• Bug: Outposts with no power were still issuing missions.
• Bug: Renaming a system was not refreshing the command window.
• Bug: Sometimes the primary navigation would stay highlighted on the last window you used when engaging FTL.
• Bug: The category name of cards in the tactical window were not capitalised.
• Bug: The commodities to refine when viewing a factory were not paging correctly.
• Bug: The prices shown at the Mechanical Fleet were not reflecting an active Memory Error boost.
• Bug: The weapons parts section of a structure hold did not have pagination.
• Bug: Toll Gates were always being used even for wormholes in a system where a gate was present.
• Bug: Wormhole tolls will now be taken from user credits if the faction does not have enough credits in the treasury.
• Feature: A new Cogs of War season has now been added to the rotation.
• Feature: A new Energy Syphon power structure is now available to build.
• Feature: A new Exotic Crafter skill is now available to realise in the perfectionism factor.
• Feature: A new filter now allows searching for a mission by issuing faction.
• Feature: A new House Trained mission has been added for the obedience factor.
• Feature: A new Interior Designer skill has been added to the reasoning factor.
• Feature: A new log download for patrons allows an inventory of all structure holds to be downloaded.
• Feature: A new mech is now available to discover.
• Feature: A new ship investment is now available by the Civilian Guild for the Builder.
• Feature: A new ship investment is now available by the Civilian Guild for the Cargo Liner.
• Feature: A new Solar Settlement structure is now available to build.
• Feature: A success sound effect is now played when completing a cryptographer mission.
• Feature: A terraformer role of crew is now available to hire.
• Feature: A total of 5 new emotes are now available for patrons to use in chat.
• Feature: Allies will no longer accumulate negative karma from broken rules or any other means with the exception of hostility.
• Feature: An active speed boost will now increase the sublight modifier in the metrics window, if you are not taking in the new player period.
• Feature: As well as the current boost, upcoming boosts are now listed in the boosts section of the computer window.
• Feature: Cluster Mines are now available as new consumables to use in combat.
• Feature: Commodity synthesis will now restart automatically once finished, if there are enough of the same commodity.
• Feature: Crew may now train in rooms in structures you are currently training in.
• Feature: Drinking alcoholic drinks will now increase your intoxication. When intoxicated the game interface will blur periodically, but your vitals will increase for hunting as well as your aggression and offence.
• Feature: Drinking focusing drinks such as coffee will now increase focus making you "wired". While wired, crafting success is higher as well as critical finds during mining. The game interface will also turn to grayscale with the exception of buttons and inputs.
• Feature: Faction founders can now clear all rules for every owned system using a new interface, in the karma section of the command window.
• Feature: Faction founders can now release treasury dividends to all faction members adding credit to their accounts, from the services window.
• Feature: Faction founders can now set bulk rules from the karma section of the command window. This will apply a specific rule to every currently owned system.
• Feature: Factories in the crafting window are now ordered by distance closest first by default.
• Feature: Food and drink purchased at the Mechanical Fleet now costs Pure Gold.
• Feature: From the search in the cargo window, you can now search for equipment and weapons on sale by structures with the trading ports service.
• Feature: If you have no hold space while completing a mission, the rewards are instead placed as adrift.
• Feature: Log downloads for patrons now have a dedicated window accessed via the preferences window.
• Feature: Planetary shields of other allied factions can now be ignored to chart, gather and hunt on planets.
• Feature: Quick jump links are now available under the header, allowing you to instantly jump 0.1 LYs in either direction.
• Feature: Search has been improved across all categories in the cargo search section.
• Feature: Select ships and structures now support Apple visionOS and AR Quicklook on the public website.
• Feature: Stunned wildlife or crew are now indicated as part of their name while hunting.
• Feature: Terraforming a planet will now change the abundant consumables and wildlife and require the planet do be charted again.
• Feature: The Hornet class of ship now has an exotic port available.
• Feature: The Impact Mining section now also shows nearby mining sites.
• Feature: The Interior Designer skill is now available to realise in the Reasoning factor.
• Feature: The Jingoist Proficiency skill is now available to realise in the Dominance factor.
• Feature: The Peregrine class of ship is now available to purchase from Family Samsan and all factions that invested in its production.
• Feature: The Peregrine class of ship now has an exotic port available.
• Feature: The Scrap Metal consumable can now be used in any system with a Junk Yard. Using the consumable consumes it all with a chance of parts being recovered.
• Feature: The search filter for consumables in your hold will now also search category and sub category names.
• Feature: The ship gifting table now has pagination and it sorted alphabetically.
• Feature: The Ship Refining skill is now available to realise in the Tension factor.
• Feature: The Solar Cruiser class of ship is now available to purchase from the Civilian Guild and all factions that invested in its production.
• Feature: The Solar Cruiser class of ship now has an exotic port available.
• Feature: There is now a dismantle all option in the armoury for equipment and weapons.
• Feature: There is now a filter for the combat log allowing you to see everything, log entries just related to you or just your friendly team.
• Feature: There is now a merge all option for the Tinkerer skill for equipment and weapons parts.
• Feature: There is now a small chance you will gather a consumable abundant to the planet, while hunting.
• Feature: There is now an option to unfit all ports from the tactical window.
• Feature: Three new personal weapons have been added.
• Feature: When scanning a ship you can now also see any docked ships.
• Feature: When taking part in the raid for the first time you will now receive the 'Raider' title.
• Feature: When the Mechanical Fleet arrives this is now noted in the chat stream with a direct link to their position.
• Feature: When you manually enter a sublight position, if an invalid position is entered it will now default back to your current position.
• Feature: You can now build bases, which will build a list of predefined structures at the orbiting body. Bases can be built from the engineering window under blueprints.
• Feature: You can now build structures if you have a construction role ship docked in a bay, without needing to switch to it. The structure components will still need to be in the mother ship.
• Feature: You can now deconstruct multiple levels of a structure at once using a slider.
• Feature: You can now fit and remove rooms to structures and use these to train. Rooms can be accessed by clicking into an owned structure that has customisable room space.
• Feature: You can now play casino games from any location, with the closest structure supporting the service being the supplier.
• Feature: You can now publish trade requests regardless of RRP difference.
• Feature: You can now search by weapon level and weapon level tier name in the weapons section of hold.
• Feature: You can now see any fitted rooms when viewing a ships details.
• Balance: During hunting, scavenging wildlife is now performed one corpse at a time for better scavenging odds.
• Balance: Engineering crew will now repair fitted ports at a slow rate passively.
• Balance: Faction members will now automatically use highways established by other faction members at 10% effectiveness.
• Balance: Karma neutralisation was too aggressive and has been decreased in frequency.
• Balance: Medical services are no longer provided by the Mechanical Fleet.
• Balance: Offering a relic to faction now grants a skill point in a random factor instead of just warmth.
• Balance: Some rooms now require a specific Interior Designer skill level to be able to view and fit.
• Balance: Stun effects in personal combat now stack.
• Balance: The Mechanical Fleet multiplier has been changed to a buy limit. By default, every player starts with a buy limit of 2. Each time the fleet leaves all limits are set back to 2 if they are below this value.
• Balance: The wildlife parts search in the cargo window now excludes planets with shields.

Version 1.2: Traits

Version 1.2 was centered around traits, personalisation, person to person trade and general character development. The highlight features being the ability to create person to person trade requests, to be able to join guilds to elevate your play style and understand your character with richer information about their traits, personality, morale as well as more character driven conversation. The full list of items in the release are below.

• Bug: Being in a construction role ship was not passively supporting other faction structures and ships repairing at the same position.
• Bug: Corrected an issue where structure images were not always showing when reviewing a blueprint.
• Bug: The overall level when viewing the me window was not being rounded.
• Feature: A new ammo consumable category has been added for the Warmongers guild.
• Feature: A new behemoth size of wildlife can now be encountered.
• Feature: A new Civilian Star Chart Intel contract has been added to contracts in the mission window, which will enter into the faction log the closest unclaimed system to your current position.
• Feature: A new intel consumable category has been added for intel consumables as used by The Intelligence Order.
• Feature: A new intel section is now available in the logs section of computer for members of the Intelligence Order.
• Feature: A new no skill filter has been added when browsing available missions.
• Feature: A new prefabs consumable category has been added containing firstly drones for the Starfarers guild to use.
• Feature: A new psyche section has been added to the me window under statistics that shows morale and equanimity.
• Feature: A new random player combat scenario has been added, which will create a simulated combat session against another random player.
• Feature: A new ship trading advanced service has been added to helm search, which will show locations of Shipyards. These structures sell next-generation ships.
• Feature: A new unclaimed section has been added to the search section of helm, which shows any unclaimed systems you faction has discovered within 1,000 LYs.
• Feature: A new viruses consumable category has been added for computer virus consumables as used by The Intelligence Order.
• Feature: A total of 100 new points have been added that affect factors.
• Feature: A total of 25 new base ships have been added.
• Feature: A total of 50 attire pieces have been added across all guilds to choose from.
• Feature: A total of 83 different ammo consumables have been added for Warmonger guild members to use.
• Feature: All skills will now show when browsing skill to realise and will note why they cannot be realised.
• Feature: Any guild requirement to purchase a ship is now show in the ship details.
• Feature: Any selected mechs will now show in a players profile.
• Feature: Characters at the same location in the same faction may now communicate with each other, with the conversation shown as narrative text.
• Feature: Crew will now receive hiring buffs and training buff in accordance with the guild description.
• Feature: Guild attire will now generate rep in accordance with the guild description.
• Feature: Level 100 fortresses will now automatically upgrade to Strongholds which provide precise training services. Precise training costs 1 B-Chip but has zero chance of failure.
• Feature: Medicine is now more effective for those in the Evax Company.
• Feature: Members of the Evax Company will now always have a retreat card at turn zero.
• Feature: Members of the Evax guild can now use replication bay technology by using the replication ship card in combat.
• Feature: Members of the Merchant Guild can now use a higher RRP difference when creating trade requests.
• Feature: Members of the Merchant Guild now have improved trade modifiers.
• Feature: Members of the Merchant Guild will now be informed by their character of exotic items for sale nearby.
• Feature: Members of the Miners Guild can now use advanced mining beams.
• Feature: Members of the mining guild can now refine commodities onboard their ships, by using the contextual option when interacting with commodities in their hold.
• Feature: Members of the Mining Guild can now see and mine Dark Matter from Blackholes, Flux Matter from Whiteholes and Quantum Matter from Spatial Filaments.
• Feature: Members of the Mining Guild will now regally generate man-made commodities when idle.
• Feature: Members of the Movers guild are no longer affected by negative region effects.
• Feature: Members of the Movers guild now have access to advanced Hold Extenders.
• Feature: Members of the Movers guild will now automatically have their ports unfitted and stored before being destroyed from fatigue.
• Feature: Members of the Pioneers faction will now chart planets faster.
• Feature: Members of the Pioneers guild can now access eight different mechs for use in combat, charting and gathering.
• Feature: Members of the Pioneers guild now have access to advanced Afterburners.
• Feature: Members of the Pioneers guild will now no longer miss discovering systems due to speed.
• Feature: Members of the Research Federation guild will now passively generate research points for their faction.
• Feature: Members of the Research Federation will now see fabrication crew generate higher level parts.
• Feature: Members of the Starfarers guild can now use generational ships to collect and settle colonists.
• Feature: Members of the Starfarers guild will now repair ports as soon as they are newly added to their hold.
• Feature: Members of the Starfarers guild will now see their ports slowly repair over time.
• Feature: Members of the Union guild can now upgrade structures beyond level 100.
• Feature: Members of the Union guild will now passively generate structures components when idle in a construction role ship.
• Feature: Members of the Union guild will now see new structures built to a higher level.
• Feature: Members of the Vanguard guild will now see defence cards that apply to self and friendlies apply to the entire friendly team.
• Feature: Player profiles when searching for them or looking on the public website are now richer, including details about attire, guilds, companions and the players biography and history.
• Feature: Screens with a height of 800 pixels or less will now use the tablet layout.
• Feature: Signets members can now give direct orders to enlisted ships to instantly eject cargo, report on their surroundings, retreat from any active combat as well as start combat.
• Feature: Signets members will now provide instant skill buffs to hired command crew and facilitate them to train faster.
• Feature: Special equipment and ships owned now show on the public profile of a player.
• Feature: The contextual floating menu will now move up if you are close to the bottom of the page.
• Feature: The mining progress indicator now flips between percentage of hold filled to estimated remaining time.
• Feature: The number of slots a companion uses is now shown in the reserve window.
• Feature: The Outlanders now have a new class of ship named Ragtag.
• Feature: Weapons and equipment can now be fitted to medium and large wildlife for those in the Hunters Pact guild.
• Feature: Wildlife that finish training and become companions now start at a higher level for members of the Hunters Pact.
• Feature: You can now browse skills to realise from the factors window even with skill points below zero.
• Feature: You can now create trade requests between other players where you offer cargo for cargo, from the missions window.
• Feature: You can now join and leave guilds from the profile section of the me window.
• Feature: You can now select different attire to wear from your profile in the me window, with your character collecting attire as time progresses. Guild attire will accrue faction rep as described.
• Feature: You can now set or randomise your characters biography from the me window under a new profile section.
• Feature: You can now set or randomise your characters history from the me window under a new profile section.
• Balance: Level 100 fortresses will now launch Fighter G2 craft instead of Fighters.
• Balance: Started SR Training now improves the Reality Composer skill.

Version 1.1: Companions

Version 1.1 was centred around capturing and training wildlife to become companions, allowing crew to be disembarked at faction Reserves, away missions for crew and elite crew contracts. It also increased complementary items such as hunting consumables, personal weapons, gear as well as new missions, idle activities, a new "Ark" ship and new artwork.

The full list of all the changes in v1.1 are listed below.

• Feature: A "Seasoned" title is now granted if you unlocked the level 100 reward in any season.
• Feature: A Civilian mining team crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A Civilian Wrecker elite crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A Crusader elite crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A Curved Lines banner is now available to choose.
• Feature: A Descendant Security elite crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A Family Robar Slaver elite crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A hunter elite crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A Mechanical Being elite crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A new away mission section has been added to the missions window, allowing you to send your crew on away mission to gain skill and faction research points.
• Feature: A new boost will no longer be the same as the previous boost.
• Feature: A new Grenade Proficiency skill is now available to realise in the confidence factor.
• Feature: A new Hunter Gatherer season is now available.
• Feature: A new reserve section is now available in the ownership part of the command window, allowing you to manage the reserve.
• Feature: A Soul Harvester elite crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A sound effect is now played when using consumables while hunting.
• Feature: A thief elite crew contract has been added.
• Feature: A total of 1,500 new attacks have been added for companions to learn as they level.
• Feature: A total of 50 new personal weapons have been added.
• Feature: A total of 7 music tracks have been added for the idle activity of wildlife training.
• Feature: A total of 7 videos have been added for the idle activity of wildlife training.
• Feature: A total of 93 ambient soundscapes have been added to represent different weather conditions when hunting.
• Feature: A total of six new non-lethal personal weapons have been added to aid capturing wildlife.
• Feature: A total of ten new grenade types have been added for personal combat.
• Feature: A wildlife training boost has been added.
• Feature: Awarded facts for factions are now shown on the public website.
• Feature: Elite crew can now be hired to join your roster as new contracts within the missions window. The time until they depart your roster is displayed in their details.
• Feature: Factory fabrication will now also use consumables in storage structures on the same body.
• Feature: Four new ambient music tracks have been added.
• Feature: Mechanical Beings may now drop Ancient Capsules at random positions during any given week.
• Feature: Mission instructions are now included when viewing the details of a mission.
• Feature: Owned companions and awarded facts for players are now shown on the public website.
• Feature: The Ark class ship is now available to purchase from Civilian Guild shipwrights.
• Feature: The dismiss button for crew has been removed and replaced with a contextual menu, so that you can dismiss crew or disembark crew from this section.
• Feature: The Hunter skill is now available to realise in the apprehension factor.
• Feature: The karma log will now still show entries from players that have deleted their accounts.
• Feature: The log comms channel has been added back to the comms menu.
• Feature: The mission section is now separated by personal, crew and faction missions.
• Feature: The missions board now only shows five missions at a time but includes filters to find exactly what you are looking forward and all the information to be able to accept the mission from the same page.
• Feature: The Quantum Recall skill is now available to realise in the perfectionism factor.
• Feature: The search for rooms when wanting to fit a room, will now also search associated names of skills the room supports training for.
• Feature: Wildlife will now support you in charting if they have that capability based on their level and speed.
• Feature: Wildlife will now support you in gathering if they have that capability based on their level.
• Feature: With the Hunter skill you can now use the X-Net consumable while hunting in an attempt to capture wildlife.
• Feature: You can now view the details of a companion from the crew and companion section in command. The window includes the attacks the wildlife has learnt, its statistics and capabilities as well as an image where applicable.
• Feature: You can now view the status of pens onboard a ship with the Wildlife Pens perk.
• Balance: Missions are now skill gated and will only show if you have the skill at the mission level or higher.
• Balance: Missions no longer have reward modifiers, so the rewards listed are what you will get.
• Balance: Wildlife have a chance of dying the longer they are kept onboard a ship in a pen.

Changelog

• 2023-09-18 12:43:26, Balance: In one week, ships will no longer be able to be enlisted by crew or colonies.
• 2023-09-18 11:43:24, Balance: The role of command crew and counsel crew has changed. Command crew will now increase the level of all other crew, while counsel crew will improve morale.
• 2023-08-27 11:43:45, Bug: Embarking passengers was causing warmth to lower instead of increase.
• 2023-08-25 11:43:44, Bug: Fixed an issue with the news archive attempting to show Mechanical Fleet announcements.
• 2023-08-22 10:43:44, Balance: Recipe results from successful cryptography will now only provide exact matches.
• 2023-08-21 12:43:45, Bug: An error occurred when attempting to transfer consumables from a parked ship.
• 2023-08-21 11:43:48, Bug: It was not possible to use intel briefing consumables which increased crew levels.
• 2023-08-21 10:43:49, Bug: Fixed an issue with NPC ships joining the incorrect side in spatial combat.
• 2023-08-11 10:43:45, Bug: When adrift commodities were detected the expected sell price of commodities was different to the actual sell price.
• 2023-08-08 15:43:47, Bug: Fixed an issue with ships not always being rewarded from completing a cryptography attempt.
• 2023-08-05 14:43:47, Bug: Logistic craft skill was not increasing when completing missions which increases the solitude factor.
• 2023-08-04 17:43:45, Balance: Reclamation Centres will now disable themselves after each cycle, giving faction members a chance to inspect the result and choose to enable it again.
• 2023-08-04 16:43:45, Bug: Fixed an issue with the chance calculation for dismantling ports.
• 2023-08-04 15:43:48, Bug: Passive shield recharging outside of combat was sometimes getting stuck at 10 ZWs and not recharging further.
• 2023-08-04 04:43:46, Balance: The reactive cards used by the Planetary Shield to protect friendlies, now have a higher number of triggers.
• 2023-08-04 03:43:46, Balance: The Ground Fortress and Spatial Fortress will now have a special card to launch a fighter.
• 2023-08-04 02:43:48, Balance: The Wisp turret used by Orb Drones now deals 12 shield damage and 20 hull damage.
• 2023-08-04 01:43:44, Bug: The Pride combat card was only applying if friendly Descendant Pride ships were friendlies in combat.
• 2023-08-04 00:43:44, Bug: When an Antimatter Reactor was destroyed in combat, it was not damaging any ground structures currently in a combat session.
• 2023-08-03 23:43:47, Bug: When ships were entering combat, sometimes their friendly buffs were lower than the current stats of existing entities. Now the highest value is used.