Patch a11.8 – Change Log

Stations

• Forward Operating Base
  • Fleet operating limit
    • Base fleet operating limit set to 40.
    • Hangar Bay increases the fleet operating limit by 4 per level for 5 levels.
    • Total FOL: 60.
  • Jump rules
    • FOBs jump timers are now universal (there are no longer special rules for jumping towards owned strategic hexes or Dyson Spheres).
    • Base jump range set to 100 hexes.
    • Particle Accelerator now increases jump range by 5 per level for 10 levels.
    • Total jump range: 150 hexes.
• Alliance station
  • Fleet operating limit
    • Base fleet operating limit set to 40.
    • Alliance Logistic Base increases the fleet operating limit by 2 per level for 10 levels.
    • Total FOL: 60.
  • Concurrent alliance assaults
    • Maximum concurrent alliance assaults allowed set to 3.
    • Alliance Command no longer increases allowed alliance assault movements.
  • Alliance assault fleet operating limit
    • Maximum fleets in an alliance assault set to 20.
    • Maximum fleets in an alliance assault increased by 2 per level by the Alliance Command building for 5 levels.
    • Total AA FOL: 30.
  • Participants per Alliance Assault
    • Maximum participants in an alliance assault set to 5.
    • Alliance command now increases the number of participants by 1 per level for 5 levels.
    • Total participants per AA: 10.
  • Participants per Alliance Build
    • Set to 15.
• Dyson Sphere
  • Base fleet operating limit set to 60.
  • Building queue length set to 60 minutes.
  • Base resource capacity set to 50K.
  • Buildings
    • Removed coalition references from buildings.
    • Removed extra GT conditions from buildings.
    • Removed Federal Court building from the game.
    • Changed the description of Dyson Shell to reflect the Dyson Sphere win condition.
    • Ring Structure is now ten levels and increases the fleet operating limit of the Dyson Sphere by 2 per level.
      • Total FOL: 80.
    • Navigation Beacon is now five levels and increases incoming allied deployment speed by 1 per level.
  • Set up a new warehouse schema for gating other buildings.
  • New sphere total stats:
    • Total time cost: 49 days.
    • Total resource cost: 185M.
    • Total hit points 5M.

Outposts

• Mining Colony
  • Harvest yield is now 80% per level, down from 150%.
  • Augmentation now increases its harvest rate by 8% per its level.
• Habitation Dome
  • Changed harvest yield to 90% per level, down from 100%.
• Heavy Ship Assembly
  • Fixed an error in the description.

Buildings

• Civilian Militia now increases the fleet operating level of the station by 2 per level, up from 1.
• Public Transport now has the correct costs of a tier 4 building and now increases the harvest yield of Habitation Dome by20% per level, up from 10%.
• Colonial Relay now increases the harvest yield of Mining Colony by 20% per level, up from 10%.

Cards

• Added the raid requirement into the text for NPC reward cards.
• Restricted Director of Colonization to industrial fleets.
• Added an explanatory text to Director of Colonization on how to acquire the card.
• Build-R (1440m) is now legendary (meaning it won’t drop from mission caches, only common, rare and epic BRs have a chance to drop from missions).,
• Willy Gamish no longer fits level 2 stations, only level 1s.
• Fixed a malus displayed in green instead of red on Resource Silos.
• Fixed a formatting error for MPL Harvester short description.
• Novice Scout can now be crafted and broken down.

Tasks

• Fixed a localization error quoting the wrong level requirements for completing level 5 outposts.

Map

• Fixed typo in Terrestrial hex names.
• Removed a 1 hex no build radius around Grand Terrestrial hexes.
• Renamed Alien Artifact to Mysterious Mechanism and set its strategic point value to 1.
• Renamed Ancient Mechanism to Enigmatic Mechanism set its strategic point value to 3.
• Reduced number of large nodes available in the ice belts
• More planets were added in some locations that had large areas without a planet or moon.
• Moved some resource nodes around so all starting positions have viable locations for both a Mining Facility and Trading Port.
• Additional NPCs added to the PvE sectors

User Interface

• The disband & leave alliance dialogues should no longer disappear as soon as they appear.
• Minor UI/animation fixes.

Bugfixes

• Operating Fleet Limit is now updated when stations are upgraded.
• Fixed a bug where API Credential updates were not being scheduled if the game was run from Launcher.

Performance

• Improvements to client initialization sequence.