Patch b1.6 - Change Log

Patch goes live Tuesday May 12th.

Optimization galore!

Map movement and UI interaction has been greatly improved!

• Disabled the world camera while in full-screen UIs. The camera being enabled had a dramatic effect on interacting with these UIs (fleets, stations, inventory, station planner etc.).
• Removed a bunch of legacy tooltips that were being unnecessarily called but never displayed.
• Moving the camera over the map is now much smoother with fewer lag spikes.
• General performance improvements for map interactions.

Balance changes

• Policy Radio Silence‘s penalty to unit firepower decreased from -30/-25/-20/-15/-10% to -20/-15/-10/-5/0%.
• Policy Merchant Fleet‘s bonus to freighter speed increased from 3/4/5/6/7 to 3/6/9/12/15.
• Building Distribution Hub‘s bonus to freighter speed increased to 3 per level, up from 2.
• Base speed for freighters increased to 30, up from 21.
• Policy Volunteer Program‘s decrease to labor increased to -10/-15/-20/-25/-30, up from -6/-7/-8/-9/-10.

Fixes

• Care Package can now be properly opened and contains two Crescent Crux cards.
• Policy Space Lanes now properly gives a penalty.
• Policy Scramble now properly gives a penalty.
• Policy Battle Stations now properly gives a penalty.
• Policy Viva La Resistance! now properly applies penalty to all heavy units, including Troop Carriers and Gunships.
• Policy Unveil Universe no longer stacks the probe lifetime attribute when sending out multiple fleets on a single scan movement.
• Removed old code that recalculated movement speed for return from mission movements. Fleets will no longer recalculate their movement speed when returning from missions.
• Fixed issue preventing Empire culling reports from being published to global API.
• Combat reports now display the correct bombing results.
• Localization fixes.
  • Updated most references to metal, crystal, and gas to include icons where possible.
  • All references to ice now correctly state it is harvested and converted into labor. Like magic.
  • Federal Armory description now correctly states that it affects all fleets. Previously mentioned “raiding and combat fleets”.
  • Fixed a typo on Alliance Traffic Control and made the description more straightforward.
  • Corrected various confusing references regarding:
    • Influence is what buildings, outposts, and organizations give you.
    • Experience per hour is what your influence gives you.
  • Fixed policy Battle Stations level 2 showing the incorrect malus reduction.
  • Various spelling mistakes fixed!
  • Added green and red tags to various policies denoting a bonus or a malus.
• Alliance operation title requirement text should now be displayed if the title is valid.
• Fixed bug and improved flow of how local code redemption rewards are deposited to game servers.
• Map resource view now has the correct labor icon. The size of the resource bars has been increased and removed the bar outlines.
• Troop Carriers can now be transferred from hanger to fleets on your own stations.
• When a mission is completed only other incoming mission movements to that hex are cancelled.

Changes

• Stealth attacks are now properly marked in report headers and combat report details.
  • Added stealth to attackers for all combat types as well as scan strength to all stations and sabotage target types.
  • Assault and Raid combat can now be marked as stealthed if scan strength on the target is less than the stealth of the attacker.
• Multitude of WebAdmin fixes giving GMs a wide variety of new information and options.
• Hexes in exclusion zones (where players can not build) all now have a tooltip explaining the exclusion zone and a flavour text.
  • Vortex areas.
  • Omega sector, additionally the tooltip here displays a countdown timer until the sector unlocks.
  • Stars.
  • Dyson Spheres (both inner and outer exclusion zone).