Patch a11.7 – Change Log

Game rules

• Max station scan radius set to 29 (waves @ Zerg).
• Game length set to 10 weeks (70 days).
• Membership lockdown set to 21 days before game ends (3 weeks, beginning of week 7).
• Alliance size set to 15 memebers.
• Beginner protection set to 7 days, up from 5.

Outposts

• Fixed a reference to coalitions in the Stargate text.

Buildings

• The Seat reworked. It now reads:
  • Produces credits for your empire.
  • Increases the station’s fleet operating limit by 1 per level for levels 11 through 20.
  • Labor production removed (at least for the time being).
• Solheim Institute name corrected.
• “the” added to Nightcorps.
• “Increases” on Barricades.
• “outpost” on The Workshead, Bespoke Outbuildings and Arbeiter Plaza.

Cards

• Ataka Contingent removed from the game.
• Overtime removed from the game.
• Mumei Nakamura no longer increases fleet operating limit.
• Fixed the text description for Director of Colonization.
• New Prime legendary fleet cards that are uncraftable and given out via NPC tasks.
  • Laser Cannon Prime
    • Adds [ 50 | 250 | 1250 ] [ firepower to light | heavy | capital ] ships in the fleet.
  • Graphene Armor Prime
    • Adds [ 125 | 625 | 3125 ] hit points to [ light | heavy | capital ] ships in the fleet.
  • Target Computer Prime
    • Increases the firepower and hit points of the fleet by 20%.
• New station module cards that are given out via NPC tasks.
  • Trade Route
    • Increases the credit generation of your empire by 1 per hour.
    • Earned when you completely wipe all defenders from the Legion Vanguard, Combine Production Plant, XAOC Slave Camp, MPL Mining Hub and XAOC Fireside NPC stations for the first time.
    • Has art.
  • Tianchao Stealth Generator
    • Fleets departing on scan movements from this station gain 400 stealth.
    • Earned when you completely wipe all defenders from the Tianchao Hideout NPC station for the first time.
    • Has art.
  • Fame
    • Increases the commander’s XP per hour by 5%.
    • Earned when you completely wipe all defenders from the Atlas Central NPC station for the first time.
  • Stolen MPL Tech
    • Increasese the metal, gas and crystal output of all your stations by 3%.
    • Earned when you completely wipe all defenders from the MPL Production Hub NPC station for the first time.
    • Has art.
  • Fervor
    • Increasese the labor output of all your stations by 2%.
    • Earned when you completely wipe all defenders from the Legion Military Base NPC station for the first time.
  • Stolen Atlas Tech
    • Increases the scan strength of the station by 200.
    • Earned when you completely wipe all defenders from the Atlas Complex NPC station for the first time.
    • Has art.
  • Interstellar Logistic Secrets
    • Adds 50 freighters to your empire.
    • Earned when you completely wipe all defenders from the Ancient Combine Installation NPC station for the first time.
  • Unification
    • Increasese the labor output of all your stations by 5%.
    • Earned when you completely wipe all defenders from the Tianchao Court NPC station for the first time.
    • Has art.
• Utility cards that increase a fleet’s tactical firepower reworked to give a bonus to FP and HP regardless of tactical superiority.
  • SimuLink now gives 4% firepower and hit points.
  • Fleet Synchronizer now gives 8% firepower and hit points.
  • Auto-Aim System now gives 12% firepower and hit points.
  • Target Computer now gives 16% firepower and hit points.
• 102 cards become 100 cards.
  • Metal Depot now gives 100 metal per hour, down from 102.
  • Gas Silo now gives 100 gas per hour, down from 102.
  • Crystal Vault now gives 100 crystal per hour, down from 102.
• Probe Duration I renamed to Basic Battery Pack.
• Probe Duration II renamed to MPL Probe Battery.
• Probe Duration III renamed to Probe Accumulator.
• Probe Duration IV renamed to Deuterium Power Cells.

Tasks

• Achievements can now be triggered by defeating specific types of Npcs.
• All tasks now have descriptions.
• Replaced “Traders” with “Brokers” in some task names.
• Task category 5 (Legacy) renamed to NPCs.
• Removed old NPC tasks.
  • Defeat a Level 1 NPC Station.
  • Defeat a Level 2 NPC Station.
  • Defeat a Level 3 NPC Station.
  • Defeat a Level 4 NPC Station.
• Created new NPC tasks.
  • Defeat the Marauder Camp NPC
    • Rewards: Waste Processing
  • Defeat the Marauder Outpost NPC
    • Rewards: Sleep Containers
  • Defeat the Marauder Settlement NPC
    • Rewards: Waste Processing
  • Defeat the Legion Vanguard Station NPC
    • Rewards: Trade Route
  • Defeat the Combine Production Plant NPC
    • Rewards: Trade Route
  • Defeat the Marauder Home NPC
    • Rewards: Sleep Containers
  • Defeat the Tianchao Hideout NPC
    • Rewards: Tianchao Stealth Generator
  • Defeat the XAOC Slave Camp NPC
    • Rewards: Trade Route
  • Defeat the MPL Mining Hub NPC
    • Rewards: Trade Route
  • Defeat the XAOC Fireside NPC
    • Rewards: Trade Route
  • Defeat the Atlas Central NPC
    • Rewards: Fame
  • Defeat the MPL Production Plant NPC
    • Rewards: Stolen MPL Tech
  • Defeat the Legion Military Base NPC
    • Rewards: Fervor
  • Defeat the Atlas Complex NPC
    • Rewards: Stolen Atlas Tech
  • Defeat the Combine Installation NPC
    • Rewards: Interstellar Logistic Secrets
  • Defeat the Tianchao Court NPC
    • Rewards: Unification
  • Prime Conqueror
    • Rewards: One of each of the prime fleet cards.

NPCs

• Shuffled NPC names about and created new ones.
• Set the tooltip title and body for each new NPC, please review.
• NPC tooltips reworked.

Map

• Map pins can now be viewed from any zoom level.
• Map pins can now be toggled on/off for each view mode.
• Recent battle and destroyed station icons should now be displayed again.
• Up to 100 top recent battles can be displayed now instead of just 10.
• Resource icons in resource view mode follow camera
• Grand Terrestrial Planets now linked to dyson; artifacts now in the center
• New sector: Descent.
  • The first segment of each “arm” is in this sector; it holds additional artifacts that are less valuable than the center artifacts
  • (we don’t know what the points will be just yet)
• Gas planets should no longer appear in clusters in the starting zones
• Black Hole sector is locked until day 36 (start of week 6)
• Black Hole sector speed penalty set to -.75
• All starting sectors now have the zero cargo raiding penalty against players
• Added “space debris” to the PvE NPCs.
  • (these do not have assets in this patch)
  • the Outer PvE and Inner PvE areas each have 3 levels of PvE NPC
  • NPCs in these PvE zones are next to one artifact per level of the NPC
  • (visual differentiation of the NPCs so spying isn’t required to tell them apart)

User Interface

• Overhauled Politics Overview panel, it now shows:
  • The current rankings of the alliances for the 3 victory conditions.
    • Domination
    • Dyson
    • Territorial
  • A game progress bar showing the time remaining until pivotal server events such as:
    • Omega Sector Opening
    • Alliance Lockdown
• Influence in rankings panel should now update properly.
• Station list no longer blocking map.
• Closing and opening private chat loads older messages.
• Alliance pins show alliance tags.
• Less spacing in map pin tooltip.
• Alliance notifications are clickable again.
• Combat reports should now display the correct Gas value.
• Abbreviated numbers that are in the millions so they don’t break text labels.
• Added font support for a few more special characters.
• New explanatory text for Daily Challenges in their UI.

Store

• Remove Featured, Weekly bundles and supply panels.
• New order route when opening store, based on what’s already bought.
• New Starter pack and Booster offers.
• Game based offers and new types of rewards.
• Waste Processing and Sleep Containers removed from the store.

Bugfixes

• Server Card offers now show up client.
• Creating an alliance should no longer require a relog.
• Fleets leaving a destroyed station should now update correctly upon landing at their new destination.
• Fixed an issue where many of the keyboard shortcuts would not work.

Performance

• Improvements to client initialization sequence.