Nexus Legacy news & patch notes

Mining Fleet Combat

• Mining Fleet Attacks can be launched from planets, moons, or Alliance-controlled stations containing your personal fleet.

• Players with Combined Operations can create combined attacks against mining fleets. Alliance members can join through Alliance → Convoys using fleets from planets, moons, or stations.

• Every participant’s own research, leader bonuses, Command Vessel effects, and hangar configuration are calculated separately.

• Battle reports include all attacking and defending participants.

• Debris created by these battles is initially visible to battle participants before becoming public.

• If the target mining fleet leaves before the attackers arrive, the attack is cancelled safely and the fleets return with a report.

Mining Fleet Defense

• You can now send a defensive fleet to your own active mining fleet.

• Combined Operations allows you to defend mining fleets belonging to Alliance members, allied Alliances, and personal allies.

• Defensive fleets remain stationed with the miners and participate if they are attacked.

• Incoming mining attacks now include a Send Defense action in the Fleet interface.

• Field Scan reports also offer a defense action for eligible friendly mining fleets.

• Defensive fleets automatically return when mining ends, the miners are recalled, the target disappears, or the diplomatic relationship no longer permits support.

• Mining fleet attacks now generate proper browser and in-game warnings for the miner and their Alliance.

Command Vessel

• Direct Command Vessel relocation is now represented as a real mission in the Fleet interface.

• Command Vessel movement can be tracked and recalled like other fleet missions.

• If the destination becomes unavailable while the Command Vessel is travelling, it returns safely.

• Command Vessels can now accompany asteroid field scans and pirate camp reconnaissance.

• A Command Vessel equipped with espionage capability can perform supported reconnaissance without accompanying recon ships.

• Command Vessel movement and reconnaissance received additional queue-recovery protection against interrupted or duplicated processing.

Reconnaissance

• Planet, Moon, Outpost, Station, asteroid field, and pirate camp reconnaissance now consistently accepts only:

  • Probe

  • Spy Probe

  • Stealth Ship

  • An optional Command Vessel

• Reconnaissance missions use peaceful travel rules instead of strategic combat-fleet timing.

• Pure recon fleets retain their dedicated rapid-launch profile.

• Failed or interrupted reconnaissance is recovered safely without repeating random results or leaving fleets stuck.

Fleet Travel & Interface

• Debris collection now always uses the peaceful travel profile, including pre-positioned collectors and collection near contested stations.

• Fleet cargo and mining-resource values are displayed as whole units instead of unnecessary decimals.

• Source Moon names are now shown correctly for incoming mining fleet attacks.

• Fleet-slot calculations are now consistent across ordinary fleets, patrols, Command Vessel movement, stations, moons, outposts, and Rift operations.

New Player Start

• When a new homeworld is created, its starting system is guaranteed to contain an ordinary Ore Belt if none currently exists.

• If an older belt was completely depleted, a later newcomer can create a replacement.

• The field uses the normal richness and resource rules for its security zone.

New Frontier opens on August 4, 2026 15:00 CEST and 13:00 UTC.

This will be the first seasonal server in Nexus Legacy. Unlike S0, New Frontier has a clear ending and a clear winner. The first alliance to seal the Rift wins the season.

The server will feature faster economic development and faster research, so players will be able to build their empires and reach the main conflicts of the season more quickly.

Dead Space will also become a truly dangerous place. It will offer increased planetary resource production, but players who want to benefit from it will have to establish planets there and accept the risks.

Mining, anomaly exploration, wormholes and pirate hunting in Dead Space can only be launched from planets located in Dead Space. Shields on Dead Space planets can remain continuously active for no more than 8 hours, and the AI Officer evacuation option will be limited to Scatter.

This means that Dead Space will no longer be a place where you can safely collect its rewards from somewhere else. You will need to live there, defend your planets and compete with other alliances for control.

Prepare your alliance and get ready for the race to seal the Rift.

Fleet Travel Rework

Travel inside one system now uses orbital distance between planets, moons, stations, asteroid fields and outposts instead of treating every local destination as the same point.

Peaceful and Aggressive Fleets

Fleet missions now use different travel profiles: Peaceful missions include most transport, mining, survey, collection, PVE and logistics operations. They use the faster civilian travel profile, with a minimum travel time of one minute. Aggressive missions use the strategic travel profile, which includes fleet assembly, launch and navigation time. These include:

• Planet and moon attacks

• Raids

• Outpost, station and asteroid-field attacks

• Cyberattacks

• Covert mining

• Mine deployment

This means attacking fleets require meaningful preparation and can no longer move as quickly as ordinary logistics fleets. If either the departure point or destination is currently under a confirmed incoming attack, peaceful fleets interacting with that location also use strategic travel. This prevents instant evacuation or reinforcement during combat. Reconnaissance and scanning missions alone do not create this restriction. Flights involving stations normally use strategic travel, while permitted logistics departing from a station can still use the peaceful profile. Probe, Spy Probe and Stealth Ship fleets retain their rapid-launch profile when they travel without ordinary ships or a Command Vessel.

Anomalies

• Survey duration has been reduced from 25 minutes to 12 minutes.

• The temporary anomaly reward increase has been fully reverted. Resource rewards are back to their original values.

• The system Survey cooldown remains unchanged.

In-Game Polls

A new in-game polling system has been added.

• Active polls appear directly in the main game sidebar.

• Players can vote and update their choice while a poll remains active.

• Results can be displayed after voting closes.

• When no poll is active, the poll entry remains hidden.

This update started as a fleet travel rebalance, but it grew into a broader systems patch covering navigation, anomalies, salvage, fleet management, outposts, logistics, localization, and a number of long-standing bugs.

Fleet Navigation Rework

I have rebuilt fleet travel into one consistent system.

• Same-system travel now uses the actual orbital positions of planets, moons, stations, outposts, asteroid fields, and trading hubs. Local flights will no longer complete in a few seconds.

• Long-distance travel preserves the original cruise-speed differences between ship classes, while launch and local navigation compress the extreme gap between very fast and very slow ships.

• Research, artifacts, Leadership, modules, damaged-ship towing, Jump Gates, and other existing modifiers remain integrated into fleet timing.

• The old special two-minute minimum for hostile missions has been removed. The new navigation model creates consistent travel overhead for every mission instead.

• Fuel consumption and fleet range remain separate from the travel-time rebalance.

Anomalies and Rested Rewards

Longer travel naturally reduces anomaly farming frequency, so I have adjusted their rewards.

• Base resource loot from anomaly investigations has been doubled across common, uncommon, and rare events.

• I have added rested anomaly rewards.

• After an eight-hour grace period, players accumulate one rested charge every two hours, up to 20 charges.

• One charge doubles the direct resource reward of the next successful investigation that produces resources.

• Rested charges do not multiply recovered ships or artifacts.

• Reports and the anomaly interface now show when a rested bonus was applied and how many charges remain.

Expedition, patrol, wormhole, and rift reward tables are not being changed in this patch. Their flights simply use the new navigation system.

Debris and Combat Salvage

• Debris created by your anomaly battles and mining operations now remains personal until it expires. It will no longer become public after ten minutes.

• Other combat debris continues to follow the normal visibility rules.

• Permanently destroyed ships now place 50% of their resource cost into debris, increased from 30%.

• The base repairable share of combat losses has been reduced from 60% to 30%.

• A surviving Repair Ship now raises the repairable share to 45%, instead of the previous 75%.

This makes actual ship destruction more meaningful while creating substantially more valuable salvage fields after serious battles.

Command Center: Fleet Overview

I have added a new Fleet tab to the Command Center. It provides an empire-wide overview of:

• Fleets stored on planets, moons, outposts, alliance stations, and trading hubs.

• Fleets travelling, performing activities, returning, or deployed.

• Ship compositions, damaged ships, cargo, carrier assignments, and attached Leadership vessels.

• Fleet-slot usage and patrol capacity.

• Mission sources, destinations, routes, and current ETAs.

The overview includes search, filters, system grouping, expandable fleet details, and direct links to relevant locations. It refreshes automatically every 60 seconds. Manual refresh has a five-second cooldown to prevent unnecessary server load. The Command Center resource overview now also includes stored and produced antimatter on planets and moons.

Combined Assault Improvements

• The alliance Combined Assault panel now supports planet, moon and station targets.

• Joining an assault now opens a source selector showing every compatible fleet location.

• Fleets can be selected from planets, moons, or alliance stations where supported.

• The selector includes available ship counts and the location of the Leadership command vessel.

• Moon-origin fleets can now join combined attacks against planets.

• Combined Operations research is now correctly required before using the join flow.

• Combined assault timing and notifications are kept synchronized when joining from these additional origins.

Moons and Logistics

• Automated moon collection can now collect antimatter, including when using the “collect all” option.

• Station and outpost routes now correctly reject antimatter because those locations cannot store it.

• Jump Gate cargo previews now include research bonuses, Leadership bonuses, shuttle bonuses, flat cargo bonuses, and specialized cargo-hold restrictions.

• Fleet Phalanx reports now include the target system’s name.

Lobby and Localization

I have completed a broad player-facing localization pass across all 26 currently supported languages. This includes the Command Center, fleet dispatch and reports, anomalies, mining, patrols, pirates, expeditions, wormholes, the galaxy map, alliances and chat, stations, moons, markets, logistics, Leadership, buildings, research, the shipyard, profiles, account management, purchases, notifications, dialogs, errors, and the lobby. I have also:

• Added a detailed Diplomat doctrine information window before joining a universe.

• Clarified homeworld and doctrine descriptions.

Additional Fixes

• Fixed station fleets bypassing maximum fleet range checks when travelling to planets or other stations.

• Added the corresponding missing range validation for planet-to-station fleets.

• Fixed antimatter market orders being incorrectly rejected by the generic 1:20 raw-unit ratio restriction.

• Fixed Leadership “Return Stolen” and “Raider Trail” combat reports being impossible to dismiss.

• Fixed wormhole battle reports omitting Leadership attack, hull, and shield-regeneration modifiers.

• Fixed in-flight fleet timing updates when equipping or changing fleet-speed artifacts.

• Fixed multiple fleet previews and dispatch paths using different timing assumptions.

I’ve increased flight times over short distances and within the same system. I understand that this will be a painful change for many players, but in my opinion, it is necessary for the long-term health of the game. You can now at least step away from your phone for a few minutes without being attacked within two minutes. Flights within the same system are still relatively fast, however. Anomaly missions have been affected the most. This nerf will largely be compensated by increased rewards and the addition of debris fields. I will also publish another important change regarding the AI Officer as a separate in-game message for all players.

Leadership XP

• Fixed Command Vessels sometimes receiving no XP after successfully completing a Wormhole or another mission if the vessel was destroyed or detached before the reward was processed.

• Mission participation is now preserved for the full mission lifecycle.

• Fixed successful Dead Space mining returns incorrectly granting Sentinel-zone XP.

• Mining XP now consistently uses the security zone where the mission actually took place, including missions interrupted by pirate attacks.

Command Directives

• Improved the reliability of timed and parallel directive stages.

• Failed directive timers will now retry and recover automatically.

• Fixed directives becoming stuck after all parallel objectives had already completed.

• Fixed rare cases where a directive completed but its XP, crew reward, Command Vessel unlock, or following directive was not granted.

• Old or duplicated timer jobs can no longer advance a directive twice or duplicate rewards.

• Notification delivery failures no longer prevent directive progression.

Leadership Interface

• Corrected misleading signs on module, crew, and perk effects.

• Cost reductions now display as reductions, while genuine speed and production bonuses remain positive.

• Older effects labelled as reduced construction or refit time are now displayed consistently in the Leadership overview.

Exploration & Patrol Update

Pirate Hunt Rework

• Pirate Hunt patrols now actively search surrounding star systems for pirate bases.

• Three search patterns are available:

  • Local Search expands outward from the departure system.

  • Sector Sweep prioritizes systems within the current sector.

  • Route Interdiction searches along a route toward a discovered system.

• Pirate Hunt fleets now require at least one suitable reconnaissance ship.

• Search progress depends on fleet reconnaissance strength and actual time spent patrolling.

• Recalling a patrol early preserves completed scans but does not grant unfinished progress.

• When a pirate base is located, a separate report is created immediately and the base becomes available in Pirate Operations without waiting for the patrol to finish.

• Active Pirate Hunt missions now display their system-search progress.

Patrol Improvements

• Salvage Patrol rewards have been improved.

• Several dangerous patrol encounters now cause fewer ship losses.

• Route patrol effects now use the security zone of the location being protected.

• Existing patrols already in flight remain compatible with the previous search system.

Wormholes

• Early Wormhole rewards have been improved to make C1 exploration more worthwhile.

• Rare C3 discoveries now provide stronger rewards appropriate to their difficulty.

Dead Space & Rift Expeditions

• Resource rewards from Dead Space and Rift expeditions have been improved.

• Antimatter reward ranges remain unchanged.

• The risk of unconditional fleet loss has been reduced.

• Partial losses from failed evasions and emergency recoveries are now less severe.

• Successful specialist fleet composition remains important for reducing expedition risk.

• Pirate interception during beacon recovery is now less frequent. Beacon contents and enemy strength are unchanged.

Cosmetic Rewards

• Obsidian Eclipse cosmetic codes no longer drop as random rewards.

I reviewed rewards from expeditions, wormholes, and patrols against their actual operating costs, including fuel consumption, repairs, time commitment, and potential ship losses. Resource yields and risks have now been rebalanced so successful missions should be economically worthwhile on their own. Artifacts, fragments, and other rare discoveries remain valuable, but should feel like exciting bonuses rather than the only results that make these activities profitable.

Command Vessel stats

• The Command Core now displays the Command Vessel’s real combat statistics after all equipped modules and crew effects are applied.

• Hull, shields, weapon damage/type, damage reduction, evasion, and per-round repairs are now shown correctly.

• Hull modules now visibly increase both current and maximum effective hull while preserving the vessel’s existing damage percentage.

• Equipping or removing a module immediately refreshes the displayed combat stats and Active Bonuses.

• Crew-effect amplification is now included in the displayed bonus values.

• The unused Attack, Defense, Logistics, and Insight attribute counters have been removed from the header.

Wormholes

• Command Vessel mass is now calculated from its real fitted hull instead of its unfitted base value.

• The Wormhole dispatch window and the server now use the same mass calculation.

• Hull-enhancing modules can therefore meaningfully affect which Wormholes the Command Vessel can enter.

Command XP progression

• Daily diminishing returns are now shared by activity type instead of being separated by zone, depth, or difficulty.

• The five daily categories are: Mining, Anomalies, Expeditions, Wormholes, and Pirate Camps.

• The first five XP rewards in each category grant 100% / 60% / 35% / 20% / 10% of their normal Command XP. Further rewards in that category grant no additional Command XP until the daily reset.

• Risk still matters: harder zones, greater expedition depth, stronger pirate camps, and higher Wormhole classes continue to grant higher base XP.

• Separate events remain separate. For example, completing a mining cycle and defeating a pirate attack can still grant two XP events, but both use the shared Mining efficiency pool.

Fleet & cargo improvements Debris collection

• The ship selector has been cleaned up and divided into clear groups.

• Transport ships are shown as the primary choice for ordinary debris collection.

• Combat escorts are shown when a debris field is guarded by pirates.

• Cargo capacity from eligible escort ships is still counted when they participate.

• Cargo values are now displayed consistently beside eligible ships.

Trading Hub pickup

• Tankers can now be selected even when the Hub currently has no Hydrogen available. They can still be useful for extending fleet range.

• Specialized cargo holds are now allocated correctly when mixing Tankers, Ore Freighters, and unrestricted transport ships.

• A single restricted hold can no longer be counted multiple times for different resources.

Cargo validation

• Cargo assignment is now calculated using the actual compatible holds available in the fleet.

• The same authoritative rules are used across normal fleet transports, Trading Hubs, moons, stations, alliance trade, and evacuation.

• Hub and Moon “Max” controls now respect specialized holds and other cargo already selected.

• This should prevent misleading selections followed by an “Insufficient resources/cargo capacity” error when dispatching.

Interface improvements

• Alliance Events now have the same readable panel background as other Alliance sections.

• Alliance station destinations in Logistics now include the station’s system name, making stations with similar names easier to distinguish.

The Command Vessel is now treated more consistently as a real ship across the game.

• Command Vessels can now be attached to fleets travelling between planets and moons, recalled from moons, dispatched from moons, and moved through lunar Jump Gates.

• Station support has been expanded to attacks, defense and garrison missions.

• Command-only fleets are now valid for supported moon and station operations. Regular ships are no longer required when the Command Vessel is attached.

• A Command Vessel assigned to station defense remains as an active, recallable orbital defender instead of becoming an inactive station bonus.

• Surviving Command-only station defenders remain stationed correctly after combat.

• Command Vessel speed, fuel use, cargo capacity and local module bonuses are now included in moon and station route calculations.

• The Fleet Overview now shows the attached Command Vessel, including its callsign and level, and includes it in the fleet size.

• Fleets carrying a Command Vessel now use its dedicated sprite on the Galaxy Map.

• Command Core navigation has been reorganized with destination images, moons grouped beneath their parent planets, and separate sections for outposts and alliance stations.

• Planet production values now refresh immediately after relevant Command Core movement, talent, module and status changes.

• The Command XP panel now shows the existing daily efficiency system, including activity usage, the next XP multiplier and the reset timer. Leadership missions, research and wormholes remain exempt from this reduction.

• Command XP rates were not changed in this patch. The existing system is now visible.

• “Escort the Miners” now correctly states that all 10 mining cycles must be completed without recalling the fleet.

• Bon Dor’s mining directive now clearly shows when the next objective is to survey systems in the current sector.

ALLIANCES, STATIONS & COMBAT REPORTS

• Alliances now have a dedicated Events tab.

• The event feed records member joins, departures, removals, role changes and leadership transfers.

• Diplomacy proposals, acceptances, rejections and terminated agreements are recorded.

• Recruitment changes, description and emblem updates, announcements, vulnerability-window changes and scheduled disbanding are recorded.

• Station captures and losses are included in the alliance history.

• Events can be filtered by Members, Diplomacy, Management and Territory.

• Older alliances receive an available historical baseline, while all new events are recorded as they happen.

• Alliance member lists now show when each member joined.

• The entire event system has been localized for all supported languages.

Station combat received an important correctness pass:

• Docked station garrisons now use research and leader bonuses of the actual ship owner.

• Allied orbital defenders are calculated separately instead of inheriting another player’s bonuses.

• Command Core local-fleet effects apply only to the fleet carrying that Command Vessel and can no longer affect allied fleets.

• Command Vessels now participate properly in both solo and combined station attacks and defenses.

• Post-battle station persistence now correctly handles surviving or destroyed Command-only defenders.

Combat reports now display the Command Vessel as a separate combat unit, including:

• Hull before and after combat.

• Shield before and after combat.

• Whether the Command Vessel survived or was destroyed.

• Correct ownership inside combined-operation participant breakdowns.

This reporting is supported across PvP attacks, raids, station and moon battles, outpost attacks, mining raids, pirate camps, anomalies, salvage operations, expeditions, wormholes and Leadership mission battles. MARKET, WORMHOLES & UI IMPROVEMENTS

The resource Order Book has been redesigned around the action the player actually wants to perform.

• Choose Buy or Sell first, then select what you are trading and what you want in return.

• Resource selectors now use clear “You buy”, “You pay”, “You sell” and “You receive” labels.

• A swap button quickly reverses the selected resources.

• Market levels now show direct exchange rates and the actual offered and received amounts.

• Only offers relevant to the selected action are displayed.

• Fees and the final amount received after commission are shown clearly before confirming.

• Immediate trades now report the actual net amount received after fees.

• The settlement route clearly shows where payment is taken from and where purchased resources will be delivered.

• Bid, ask, spread and last-price information remains available under Advanced Market Data.

• Existing order displays now use a consistent 1 resource : price resource format.

• Legacy escrow rounding inconsistencies have been reconciled, improving cancellation and refund reliability for older orders.

Wormhole reliability has also been improved:

• Entering a specific wormhole is now remembered even after old run records are cleaned up, reliably enforcing one entry per player for that wormhole.

• Arrival, recall and recovery can no longer process the same wormhole fleet simultaneously.

• Wormhole mass reservation and entry are now handled atomically.

• Fleets rejected because a wormhole collapsed or exceeded its mass limit now return through the normal fleet-return flow.

• Recalled wormhole runs now transition correctly into the returning state.

• The wormhole interface refreshes immediately when a fleet arrives.

• Wormhole combat reports now include Command Vessel hull and shield results.

Several smaller report layouts were also updated so Command Vessel status remains visible and consistent throughout fleet activity history.

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Take control of your own command vessel, shape its role with powerful modules, recruit a specialist crew, and build a command style that is truly yours. Choose from 407 modules, 174 crew specialists, 20 commander perks, and 18 talents, then turn your fleet into something no rival can ignore!

Market, Leadership & QoL Update

Market

• Added a real-time Market Order Book with bids, asks, spread, and latest traded price.

• Players can create limit buy and sell orders.

• Added Buy Now and Sell Now actions from selected price levels.

• Immediate orders use the best available prices first.

• Unfilled immediate-order resources are automatically refunded.

• Market calculations now use whole resource units without fractional leftovers.

• Cross-hub trading remains available: both participants can settle at their own Market Hubs.

• Split-order market fees now match the fee of an equivalent single transaction.

• Interrupted immediate orders now have durable recovery and duplicate-request protection.

• Existing market exchange-ratio restrictions remain active.

• Market Hub base capacity is now 2,000,000 resources.

• Trade Mastery adds 750,000 Market Hub capacity per level.

• Capacity includes available, locked, and currently transported resources.

• Direct deliveries cannot exceed capacity, while proceeds from completed trades may temporarily exceed it.

• Added capacity indicators, warnings, and localized error messages.

Push Notifications

• Incoming attack push notifications now include the attacker, target, and estimated arrival time.

• Tapping the notification opens the relevant galaxy system.

• Push alerts now cover attacks against planets, moons, outposts, and mining fleets.

• Outpost attacks also appear in the persistent incoming-attack banner.

• Alliance members receive the appropriate outpost defence alerts.

• Combined assaults no longer generate a separate duplicate push for every joining fleet.

• Attacks hidden by Alcubierre technology remain hidden from alerts.

Moons And Fleets

• Lunar Shuttle speed has been corrected from 300 to 30.

• Planet raids can now be launched from moons and alliance stations.

• Moon and station dispatch screens now support retreat thresholds and raid priorities.

• Carrier hangar assignments are available for raids launched from moons and stations.

• Pact-breaking confirmations and standard hostile-mission restrictions now apply consistently.

• Hostile flights from moons and stations respect the minimum two-minute arrival window.

• AI evacuation, Warden protection, and attack notifications now react correctly to these missions.

• Added long-term Stealth Deploy missions against enemy moons.

• Moon counter-intelligence and Stealth Field defences now affect probe detection.

• Both sides receive localized notifications when a stealth ship is detected or destroyed.

• Foreign stealth observers are safely recalled when a planet or moon is abandoned.

• Defense Platforms can no longer be constructed on Sentinel Space moons protected by the Warden.

Stations And Logistics

• Added a Collect Station logistics route for stations where the player has withdrawal permission.

• Station collection routes automatically pause if that permission is lost.

• Membership and role permissions are rechecked both at dispatch and arrival.

• Station withdrawals no longer fall back to member access when membership is missing.

• Station resource withdrawals are now recorded in the audit log.

• Incoming cargo is included when logistics calculates destination capacity.

• Logistics will no longer repeatedly over-dispatch resources already travelling to the destination.

• Plasma Core and other rare-resource storage calculations now use the correct storage category.

• Collection routes use exclusive outbound handling to prevent overlapping collection fleets.

Artifacts And Reports

• Identical artifacts are now grouped into compact stacks.

• Added artifact search, rarity filtering, planet filtering, result counts, and reset controls.

• Players can discard one artifact or an entire stack.

• Artifact transfer controls now remain above the potentially long artifact list.

• Battle, survey, mining, and mine reports now localize ship names, categories, resources, and buildings.

• Wormhole enemy names and additional combat labels are now localized.

• Deleting a personal combat report no longer removes the shared alliance report for other members.

• Survey report actions, rewards, and timestamps have been aligned to reduce unnecessary vertical space.

Additional Fixes

• Daily and weekly exploration contracts now track progress even if the Contracts screen was not opened first.

• Contract progress refreshes immediately after surveys, wormholes, expeditions, and pirate activity.

• The AI Officer evacuation fuel estimate refreshes when fleets depart, return, reconnect, or the tab becomes active.

• Outposts no longer protect mining fleets belonging to other players.

• Covert mines placed on another player’s planet can now be remotely destroyed by their owner.

• Phalanx scans now display asteroid-field names for fleets operating at resource fields.

• Sub-1% asteroid-field reserves now display correctly.

• Fixed the compressed two-column Outpost layout seen on some iPhone models.

• Added or updated translations across all supported languages.

Artifact Market

• Artifact listings now show the newest offers first by default.

• Added sorting by newest or oldest listing.

• Added search by artifact name, description, and effect.

• Added filters for artifact tier, trading hub, and payment resource.

• Artifact listings are now paginated, making large markets easier to browse.

• Artifacts can now be purchased using resources stored either on a planet or at a selected Trading Hub

• When paying from a hub, the available balance is displayed and purchases are disabled if the selected hub cannot cover the price.

• New Artifact Market controls have been added to all supported language packs.

Trading Hubs

• Returning a docked fleet from a Trading Hub now checks the destination planet's storage capacity.

• If the transported resources will overflow storage, the game displays a warning and requires confirmation before departure.

• Players may still proceed, but any resources exceeding storage capacity will be lost on arrival.

Debris Collection

• Debris collection fleets can now continue collecting newly created debris fields at the same planet, moon, station, or outpost.

• Fleets no longer return immediately when their current field is exhausted or expires if another accessible field has appeared at the same location.

• Collection continues until cargo capacity is exhausted or no suitable debris field remains.

• Recovery handling for missing or expired debris fields has been improved.

Moons

• Fixed inconsistent stacking of research bonuses affecting lunar production. Resource production bonuses now combine additively, matching planetary calculations.

• Moon building cards now display their actual effective hourly output.

• Displayed values now account for moon-type modifiers, research, resource consumption, power settings, and energy shortages.

• Buildings that consume resources now show their real net effect instead of only their base production.

• Negative moon-type modifiers are now formatted correctly.

• Recalling ships from a moon now correctly respects the player's available fleet slots.

Sensor Arrays

• Level 8 Activity Scans now reveal the exact system where a detected mining fleet is operating.

• Level 8 reports also show the complete mining fleet composition with localized ship names.

• Detected miner locations and pirate systems can now be opened directly from the scan report.

• Lower-level scans no longer reveal exact mining locations unintentionally.

• Level 5 scans continue to identify the player and total fleet size without revealing the exact system.

Starter Directives

• The Science Outpost Salvage directive can now use regular Freighters when the player does not have enough Salvaged Freighters.

• Any combination of Salvaged Freighters and regular Freighters is accepted, provided the required total of three ships is met.

• The exact reserved ships are returned correctly when the directive completes or expires.

New Player Placement

• New homeworlds now prioritize suitable Sentinel Space systems located closer to Open Space.

• Placement also favors less populated eligible systems before gradually expanding farther away.

• This should provide new players with better access to the galaxy while preserving spawn distribution requirements.

Universe Settings

• New Frontier is configured for a permanent x2 game speed.

• Leadership is not being enabled on S0 or New Frontier with this patch.

Resource Beacon Reports

• Pirate ambushes during Resource Beacon recovery now always generate a persistent Expedition Report, even if part of the fleet survives.

• Reports show the recovery location, collected resources, and ship losses.

• Fixed cases where ships lost during a beacon ambush appeared to vanish without explanation.

• New reports now appear immediately without requiring a page refresh.

This update lays major groundwork for New Frontier, expands the early-game story, improves multi-universe support, and includes a broad collection of mobile, fleet, combat, and interface fixes.

New Frontier remains in preparation. NF-specific rules listed below do not change existing S0 gameplay rules.

New Frontier Preparation

• Dead Space planets in NF receive +35% regular resource production and +60% rare-resource production.

• Dead Space mining, anomaly exploration, wormholes, and pirate attacks must depart from a Dead Space planet.

• Outposts may still mine Dead Space fields.

• Players can configure a daily 8-hour protection window for their Dead Space planets.

• Protection schedule changes activate after 24 hours and can be adjusted once every seven days.

• Dead Space planets do not enter normal shield reinforcement after attacks.

• Only one economic building can be placed under PvP pressure at a time.

• Damaged economic buildings have a 24-hour repair window before a later successful attack can remove a level.

• Starting repairs before the deadline protects the building level.

• AI Officer evacuation in NF is limited to Scatter.

• Mission windows now clearly show which Dead Space colonies are valid departure points.

• Combat reports explain when an attack was blocked by the Dead Space protection window.

New Commander Experience

• New commanders can now choose their starting homeworld type:

  • Terra: +50% population capacity and doubled Bio Complex output.

  • Rocky: +30% ore and +20% silicate production.

  • Crystalline: +50% silicate production.

• New homeworlds are placed only in areas with several nearby systems, reducing isolated and inconvenient starting positions.

New Directives And Story

• Added a new six-part science directive chain after the first recovered-freighter mining mission.

• The chain includes drone flights, signal analysis, a neighboring-system survey, and dismantling an abandoned mining outpost.

• Some directive research steps now temporarily reserve real planetary energy.

• Added clearer requirements, progress states, timers, advisor messages, and rewards.

• Reworked Doctor Voss’s Project Ark message after constructing a level 15 laboratory.

• New directive and advisor content has been added to all supported languages.

Multi-Universe Support

• Different universes can now remain open simultaneously in separate tabs, browsers, Steam, or native apps without overwriting each other’s sessions.

• Added a dedicated Return to Lobby action that does not log the player out.

• Added Log out everywhere to revoke all active browser and app sessions.

• Improved authentication recovery and universe switching.

Mobile And Native Improvements

• Improved top navigation and sidebar behavior on phones and tablets.

• The expanded resource panel now closes automatically after changing pages.

• The sound controls now fit smaller screens and scroll correctly.

• Improved mobile lobby, profile, homeworld selection, and menu layouts.

• Native external links now behave consistently across Android and iOS.

• Added the foundation for the future iOS version, including native sign-in, push notifications, and App Store purchase support. The iOS app is not publicly available yet.

Fleet, Combat And General Fixes

• Fleets scheduled to return before an incoming battle are now restored before combat begins, even when mission processing is delayed.

• Prevented the same fleet return from being processed simultaneously more than once.

• Improved consistency of returned ships, cargo, reports, and mission completion.

• Combat reports now display damage actually dealt instead of theoretical attack output.

• Improved building repair reliability when repairs and PvP damage occur close together.

• Fixed temporary energy reservations interacting incorrectly with production bonuses.

• Improved source-colony selection across mining, surveys, anomalies, salvage, wormholes, and pirate missions.

• Added clearer unavailable-state information for universe-specific AI Officer actions.

• Various interface, session, report, and mobile usability fixes.

Automated Logistics

• Logistics routes now account for cargo already in flight when checking destination capacity.

• Fixed routes repeatedly dispatching more resources than the destination could store.

• Fixed Plasma Core and other rare-resource deliveries being blocked by unrelated rare resources already in storage.

• Improved delivery handling for planets, moons, and outposts. Resources that no longer fit upon arrival will return with the fleet instead of being lost.

Building Demolition

• Demolition previews now display the correct completion time, including research, workforce, and starter speed bonuses.

• Refunds and times are now calculated separately for demolishing one level and demolishing the entire building.

• Updated the demolition confirmation interface to show both options clearly.

Wormholes

• Fixed multiple wormhole encounters occasionally triggering almost simultaneously.

• Fixed stale recovery jobs causing duplicate battles.

• Improved recovery for fleets stuck while entering a wormhole.

• These fixes also apply to the Leadership “Strange Wormhole” mission.

Station Defence

• Fleets sent to dock at a station during an active capture operation will now join the orbital defence when eligible.

• Fixed some station defence fleets returning immediately after arrival.

• If the capture ends while a defence fleet is arriving, the fleet will remain only if the station is still friendly; otherwise, it will return home safely.

Ship Information

• Updated the Carrier description in all supported languages.

• The description now explains how Carrier Operations expands fighter, bomber, and shuttle hangar capacity.

No balance values were changed in this patch.

Carrier Operations

• Assault Shuttles can now be assigned to carrier hangars during defensive missions at planets, moons, stations, outposts, and Rift objectives.

• Assigned shuttles remain protected inside their carriers during orbital combat. They cannot attack or be targeted until their carrier is destroyed.

• Carrier UI now correctly mentions the dodge bonus granted to assigned Fighters.

• Carrier assignment controls have been made consistent across defensive locations and missions.

Planetary Shields

• Planetary Shield strength now scales with the total resources invested into the Shield Generator, while retaining a guaranteed minimum strength per level.

• Shield regeneration now scales with the shield’s actual maximum strength.

• Outdated shield values are automatically refreshed before combat.

Expeditions & Wormholes

• A properly prepared expedition fleet can now detect some catastrophic events in time to perform an emergency withdrawal.

• Emergency recovery still destroys part of the fleet and all recovered cargo, but may prevent complete fleet loss. Expedition risk can be reduced, but never eliminated.

• Damaged ships are now correctly preserved between successive Wormhole encounters instead of occasionally disappearing from the expedition fleet.

Fleet & Mission Fixes

• Failed colony races now reliably return the Colony Ship and accompanying support vessels.

• Colonization processing is now protected against duplicate or interrupted arrival processing.

• Recalled missions carrying population now correctly return that population and immediately refresh production values.

• Outpost dock capacity now includes deployed and incoming ships. Simultaneous deployments can no longer overfill an outpost.

• Fleets that cannot dock due to a changed capacity limit will safely return home.

Interface

• Command Center infrastructure timers now use consistent server time.

• Active research in the Command Center now displays its target level.

• Fleet cargo, including station supplies, is now visible consistently in Fleet and Overview mission cards.

• Internal mission metadata is no longer incorrectly displayed as cargo.

• Paused Moon demolition projects now display the correct target level and can be cancelled normally.

• Updated carrier descriptions across all supported languages.

AI OFFICER: SCATTER

• Scatter is now a true evacuation mission instead of transferring the fleet to another colony.

• Fleets return to the same colony after 30 minutes and consume hydrogen for the full round trip.

• Active rules, priorities and enemy strength are rechecked shortly before departure.

• Healthy and damaged ships are evacuated. Damaged ships consume fuel but provide no cargo capacity.

• Resources exceeding storage capacity when the fleet returns are lost.

• Scatter processing is atomic, preventing duplicated fleets, resources or fuel deductions.

CARRIER OPERATIONS

• Carriers can now be assigned to Fighters, Bombers or Assault Shuttles when dispatching fleets.

• Carrier Operations research now correctly increases effective hangar capacity.

• Assignments are supported across regular missions, mining, expeditions, wormholes, pirate camps, moons, outposts and stations.

• Defensive assignments can be saved for moons, outposts and station garrisons.

• Combined battles preserve each player’s individual carrier assignments and bonuses.

• All assignments are validated against the carriers and supported craft actually present.

COMMAND CENTER

A new empire-wide Infrastructure table now displays:

• Building slots and construction queue usage

• Active or paused research and construction

• Ships being built, repaired or dismantled

• Moon activity beneath its parent colony

• Live timers and queue statuses

• Empire-wide totals

Entries can be opened directly. The table also supports responsive horizontal scrolling on smaller screens.

SHIPYARD FIXES

• Fixed shipyards occasionally remaining locked after an upgrade.

• Planetary and orbital construction lanes now pause and resume independently.

• Recovery logic now handles stale paused jobs and outdated building states.

• Paused ship and building queues are displayed correctly in the Command Center.

RESOURCE DISPLAY

• Fixed alloy production appearing to continue when ore or silicates had been exhausted.

• Planet and moon resource bars now display the effective production rate based on currently available input resources.

• Production resumes automatically when the required resources become available.

CONNECTION AND PERFORMANCE

• Fuel estimates are now debounced when fleet selections change rapidly.

• Identical requests are combined instead of repeatedly reaching the server.

• System loading and fuel estimation now use separate retry limits.

• These changes should reduce unnecessary “Too Many Requests” errors during normal navigation.

• Related interface text has been updated across all supported languages.

Moons, Salvage, Expeditions, Patrols & Alliances**

Moon Warfare

• Colonized moons can now be targeted by dedicated Recon, Attack, and Allied Garrison missions.

• Moon attacks support both solo and combined assaults.

• Moon operations can be launched from planets or other moons.

• Attacking a protected moon displays a pact violation confirmation before dispatch.

Moon Economy & Shipyard

• Damaged ships stationed on moons can now be repaired.

• Repairs use an available Moon Dockyard, or a stationed Repair Ship when the dockyard is unavailable.

• Repair costs, duration, queue state, cancellation refunds, and damaged ship reservations are handled consistently.

• Moon production now refreshes correctly after relevant research is completed.

• Energy and production research bonuses are applied separately and consistently to lunar buildings.

Salvage Operations

• Fleets can now be pre-positioned to salvage future debris at planets, moons, sector stations, outposts, and pirate camps.

• A dedicated Salvage action and icon have been added to the galaxy map.

• Pre-positioned fleets only collect matching debris created after they were dispatched.

• A fleet returns empty if no qualifying debris exists when it arrives.

• Existing debris fields can still be collected directly as before.

• Any compatible cargo ship can collect debris, while additional ships may accompany the fleet as escorts.

• Salvage is now a continuous loading operation rather than an instantaneous claim.

• Cargo capacity and applicable ship bonuses are respected throughout collection.

• When several fleets collect the same field, available debris is distributed proportionally according to the work contributed by each fleet.

• Fleets return when their cargo is full, the field is exhausted, the field expires, or no additional resources can be loaded.

• Existing anomaly and system debris remains compatible with the regular collection flow.

Expedition

• Fleet composition now has a meaningful effect on expedition outcomes.

• Stealth Ships improve the chance of detecting and escaping pirate contact in the Dead Zone.

• Scouts provide the corresponding pirate-warning role in the Rift.

• Hacker Ships improve the chance of upgrading the quality of Dead Zone expedition loot.

Artifacts & Expedition Depth

• Expedition artifact drop chances now depend on both the expedition zone and depth.

• Dead Zone expeditions focus on common and rare artifacts, with deeper expeditions shifting the distribution toward rare finds.

• Rift expeditions can produce every artifact rarity.

• Deeper Rift expeditions improve both the overall artifact chance and access to higher rarities.

• Artifact Analysis is still required.

• Existing artifact, commander, and account bonuses continue to modify the base result where applicable.

• Rift expeditions now use their intended depth range.

Patrol Improvements

• Route Patrols now protect both endpoint systems rather than only the selected endpoint planets.

• Hunt Patrols now separate reconnaissance and combat roles: recon ships discover pirate camps, while combat ships suppress mining raids.

• Partial pirate-camp intelligence persists between patrols.

• Camp intelligence and visibility reset correctly when a destroyed camp respawns.

• Sweep Patrols retain partial clearing progress instead of losing incomplete work between ticks.

• Sweep Patrols no longer remove minefields belonging to alliance members.

• Overlapping patrol effects use the strongest applicable patrol instead of stacking every patrol together.

• Patrol completion reports now show mines cleared, camps revealed, intelligence gathered, raids prevented, spy attempts affected, and incoming mines intercepted.

• Patrol loot reports now display only the cargo that was actually delivered after capacity limits.

Merchant Contract

• The former Bounty Board is now presented as Merchant Contracts.

• Contracts can request pirate camp destruction, anomaly investigations, wormhole exploration, or deep-space expeditions.

• Contract generation respects the research available to each player.

• The same activity cannot be counted repeatedly toward a contract.

• Contract rewards can include rare resources and are delivered correctly to the selected planet.

Sector Stations

• Owned sector stations now receive passive resource income from mining completed within their sector.

• Station income supports both basic and rare resources.

• Income is periodically settled into station storage and appears in the activity log.

• Resources that cannot currently fit remain pending rather than being discarded.

• Pending income belongs to the station and follows it if ownership changes.

• Station battle debris is now associated with the station where the battle occurred.

• Defense fleets are no longer incorrectly recalled while committed to an active capture operation.

Alliance Diplomacy

• The number of simultaneous Alliance pacts is now limited.

• Non-Aggression Pacts remain unrestricted.

• Breaking an active Alliance pact applies a replacement cooldown to both alliances.

• Alliance capacity and the remaining cooldown are displayed in the diplomacy interface.

• Existing Alliance pacts will be converted into Non-Aggression Pacts so alliances can deliberately rebuild their diplomatic structure.

• Existing pending Alliance proposals will be cleared.

• Ending a pact now reconciles planetary and lunar garrisons and refreshes alliance-dependent production effects.

Additional Fixes

• Shipyard cards now display technology-adjusted ship speed.

• Ship detail pages now display the same effective construction time used by the shipyard.

• Cancelling a Laboratory upgrade no longer resets the visible progress of paused research.

• Laboratory power settings are preserved when paused research resumes.

Fixes & Improvements

• Moon shipments now warn you when the destination cannot store all sent resources and excess cargo would be lost.

• AI Officer evacuation rules now reject invalid destinations, including the source planet, foreign colonies, and unavailable colonies. Invalid legacy rules are automatically disabled.

• Fixed outpost defense persistence. Surviving and repairable ships now return to their original garrison or supporting fleet.

• Artifact research bonuses now refresh immediately after activation, expiration, or transcendence.

• The market now displays the exact commission amount instead of only the percentage.

• Added a major localization update across all supported languages, filling missing text and correcting numerous translations.

• Improved detection of unsupported automation scripts. Affected sessions receive a localized warning and temporary gameplay restriction.

The new station capture system is now live

Ship Command Point Values

Probe 1 | Spy Probe 1

Stealth Ship 4 | Scout 1

Fighter 3 | Interceptor 4

Torpedo Frigate 5 | Cruiser 10

Carrier 21 | Battleship 20

Bomber 13 | Missile Cruiser 15

Dreadnought 300 | Titan 2,000

Assault Shuttle 8

Hacker Ship 4 | Colony Ship 5

Engineer Ship 13 | EW Ship 15

Mine Layer 7 | Freighter 2

Salvaged Freighter 2 | Transport Shuttle 3

Tanker 4 | Bulk Carrier 11

Ore Freighter 8 | Miner 5

Gas Collector 7 | Ice Drill 8

Excavator 11 | Repair Ship 11

Lunar Shuttle 5

Update: Combat, Fleets, Outposts, and Interface Improvements

This update delivers a large collection of fixes and improvements across combat, mining, logistics, stations, and the user interface.

Leaders and Combat Doctrines

• Leader and doctrine bonuses now apply consistently in regular and combined attacks, raids, field battles, outpost and station combat, pirate encounters, wormholes, and Rift Core battles.

• Fixed bonus application in battles against detected covert mining fleets and other uncommon combat scenarios.

• Battle reports now display leader bonuses to attack, hull strength, and shield regeneration separately.

• Hull bonuses no longer heal damaged ships or restore destroyed units.

• Shield regeneration bonuses correctly amplify existing regeneration but do not create regeneration without the required technology or effect.

• Survey reward bonuses now apply to all rolled resources, including rerolled reward tiers and merchant quest investigations.

Allied Defenders

• Allied garrison ships now use their owner’s research, advanced combat effects, doctrines, and carrier configuration.

• Planet and outpost owner bonuses no longer incorrectly affect allied ships.

• This has been corrected for regular attacks, raids, combined operations, and outpost defense.

• Allied survivors and repairable losses are now returned to the correct owner and garrison.

Planetary Defenses

• Planetary defenses now prioritize targets that are already damaged.

• Targeting considers both missing shields and hull damage.

• Defenses continue focusing damaged ships throughout the same firing pass.

• Civilian ships remain protected by their combat escorts.

• Regular fleet weapons continue to use their standard targeting rules.

Carriers

• Carrier defense configurations are no longer limited to 100 ships per individual role.

• More than 100 units can be assigned when enough carriers are physically present on the planet.

• The server now validates the total number of assigned ships.

• Outdated or invalid configurations are safely limited to the number of available carriers.

Shields and Attacks

• The confirmation shown when dropping reinforced planetary protection now clearly explains the one-hour reinforcement lockout.

• If the owner drops protection to launch a hostile mission, reinforcement cannot be restored for 60 minutes.

• Concurrent battles can no longer incorrectly reactivate or extend protection.

• Field attacks now have the same minimum two-minute travel time as regular attacks and raids.

Outposts

• Fixed cases where an outpost could survive after a successfully resolved battle.

• Improved concurrent battle handling and persistence of surviving defenders.

• Destroying an outpost now creates a collectible debris field.

• Debris contains 50% of the Engineer Ship cost, paid outpost levels and buildings, any upgrade currently in progress, and stored resources.

• Standard debris from ships destroyed during the battle is added as well.

• Supported debris resources include Ore, Silicates, Hydrogen, Alloys, Cryo Ice, Quantum Dust, Plasma Cores, Bio-Extract, and Dark Matter.

• Outpost debris is initially visible to battle participants and can be collected using the normal debris collection system.

• Mining pirate raid reports now show turret level, salvos per round, turret damage, and the exact amount of damage absorbed by the outpost shield.

• The next Extractor upgrade cost is now visible directly in the outpost interface.

Mining and Logistics

• Cargo Expansion now increases mining holds as well as regular ship cargo capacity.

• Missions and reports now show actual capacity after research and other relevant bonuses.

• Damaged mining ships cannot extract resources, but their holds can still carry resources on the return journey.

• Existing mining missions already in progress remain compatible with the updated calculations.

• Logistics Hubs no longer dispatch multiple identical fleets to collect the same resource shipment.

• Once cargo has been collected, another route may proceed without waiting for the previous fleet to return home.

• Regular one-way supply routes can still be dispatched without unnecessary restrictions.

Fleets and Exploration

• Resource transfers now warn players when the destination planet’s current storage cannot hold the entire shipment.

• The check covers both common and rare resources. Players may still confirm and send the shipment.

• Long-term foreign stealth surveillance no longer permanently prevents a colony from being abandoned. The observing fleet will be safely recalled.

• Fleets currently inside wormholes are now displayed in the active fleet overview.

• The Wormholes tab now shows a badge when newly detected active wormholes are available.

• Returning xenoarchaeology expeditions now create permanent reports listing recovered resources, precursor fragments, and unidentified artifacts.

• Expeditions that return empty are also recorded.

• If station access is lost during a return or repair operation, ships are redirected to the player’s homeworld instead of the inaccessible station.

Stations

• Station turrets now participate in both solo and combined station battles.

• Turrets defend the station’s owner, but will not protect an enemy fleet currently occupying that station.

• The station interface now displays the turrets’ total attack and hull strength.

• Virtual turret units are no longer recorded as lost ships and do not generate additional debris.

• The interface no longer allows another station upgrade to be started while an upgrade is already in progress.

Interface and Quality of Life

• Galaxy zoom buttons now preserve the center of the current view instead of moving the camera toward the center of the galaxy.

• On mobile devices, undiscovered systems are slightly brighter at close zoom levels. Their size and appearance at the initial galaxy scale remain unchanged.

• Debris and salvage collection windows no longer change height when cargo capacity warnings appear.

• Market order exchange rates are visible again on mobile screens.

• Galaxy bookmarks can now be created without a note, and notes may contain up to 500 characters.

• Dismissing an incoming attack banner now keeps it dismissed when fleet data refreshes. The mission remains visible in the Fleet interface.

• Fixed incorrect alliance member counts on the rankings page.

• Replaced misleading advisor text that assumed an early expedition had been successful.

• Removed the incorrect claim that Dead Space cannot be colonized from all available localized versions of the manual.

Important: Station Capture Rework

• The full station capture rework is not being enabled with this update.

• Alliance Leaders and Deputies may only preconfigure the starting time of their daily four-hour vulnerability window in CET.

This setting will not affect station capture until the rework is enabled separately.

Developer Note: Station Vulnerability Windows & Planetary Defense

Station Vulnerability Windows

Alliance Leaders and Deputies now have 24 hours to configure their alliance’s daily four-hour station vulnerability window.

The new station capture system is not active yet. This preparation period allows alliances to select their preferred window before the system is enabled.

Full details of the new station system, including how vulnerability windows and station battles will work, will be published later today.

Planetary Defense Balance

I have also taken the next step toward strengthening planetary defenses.

Fleet composition now matters considerably more in both attack and defense. Mixed fleets will have a more meaningful role in absorbing damage, protecting valuable ships, and breaking through planetary defenses. Choosing the right combination of ships will become increasingly important compared with relying on a single ship type.

Fleets and Combat

• Attack and raid missions now have a minimum travel time of 2 minutes.

• Other mission types are unaffected.

• Fixed AI Officer evacuation failing to trigger for attacks launched within the same system.

• Combined assaults now correctly respect minimum travel time and convoy timing changes.

• In Dead Space, the Advanced AI Officer no longer automatically loads resources during evacuation. Ship evacuation still works.

Resources and Construction

• Fixed a rare synchronization issue where the UI displayed enough resources while the server and construction calculator saw an outdated lower amount.

• Added authoritative resource reconciliation with the planet’s server state.

• Building completion, repair, and demolition now settle resources and recalculate production atomically.

Mining

• Fixed asteroid field replenishment.

• Remaining resources are now measured against the galaxy’s original field capacity, which no longer shrinks when depleted fields are removed.

• This prevents the replenishment target from gradually decreasing over time.

Interface and Messages

• Advisor messages are now queued and displayed one at a time.

• Closing one advisor message no longer marks all other messages as read.

• Improved the presentation of quest fields, anomalies, pirate bases, and expeditions.

Combined Operations

• Combined Attack Capturer operations can now be launched to defend an alliance-owned station under enemy occupation.

• Friendly station fleets are excluded from these battles; only the occupying alliance defends.

• If the station’s capture state changes before arrival, the operation is safely cancelled and participating fleets return.

• Recalling the original initiating fleet now cancels the entire combined operation and returns all participants.

• Other participants can still recall only their own fleet.

• Improved recovery of fleets from interrupted or cancelled combined station battles.

Minefields

• Minefields no longer trigger against fleets belonging to current members of the mine owner’s alliance.

• This protection applies only to members of the same alliance, not diplomatic allies or personal pacts.

Fleet & Resources

• Fixed false “Insufficient resources for cargo” and cargo-capacity errors when using Max for market deliveries.

• Improved resource settlement before dispatching fleets from planets to markets, stations, moons, and outposts.

• Fixed several fleet-slot and concurrent resource-update edge cases.

• Resource amounts using K and M notation now display two decimal places for better precision.

This patch addresses a broad set of fleet, research, market, galaxy map, mining, and interface issues reported by players.

Galaxy Map

• Fixed systems occasionally remaining stuck on “Loading system data…” indefinitely.

• Improved handling when rapidly switching between systems or reopening a recently viewed system.

• Galaxy data is now properly refreshed after changing accounts, universes, or sessions.

• Prevented old requests from a previous session from overwriting current galaxy data.

Research

• Fixed active research losing its accumulated progress when a Laboratory upgrade was cancelled.

• Research should now correctly pause and resume when Laboratory availability changes.

• Improved synchronization between building completion and paused research.

Fleet & Moon Transfers

• Fixed the Max button in planet-to-moon transfers entering an arbitrary oversized value.

• Max now respects:

  • selected ships’ remaining cargo capacity;

  • resources available at the source;

  • hydrogen required for the transfer.

• Attempting to send more cargo than the fleet can carry now returns a clear capacity error instead of an internal server error.

• Improved validation and consistency for moon transfer missions.

Reports & Navigation

• Fixed Back to Reports sometimes reopening the same combat report and requiring a second click.

• Fixed similar navigation problems affecting espionage reports.

• Combat and espionage report history should no longer redirect to a previously opened report unexpectedly.

• Browser back and forward navigation now behaves more consistently inside report views.

Market Hub

• Antimatter can now be delivered to and collected from Market Hubs.

• Fixed inconsistencies where antimatter could be traded through the market but rejected by Market Hub logistics.

• Updated regular and alliance market resource handling for consistency.

Resource Display Order

Resource lists have been standardized throughout the game, including:

• fleet movements and cargo;

• combat and expedition reports;

• Market Hub deliveries and collections;

• logistics and mining interfaces;

• planet, moon, building, and administration views.

Resources should now consistently follow the familiar planet and fleet ordering, beginning with Ore, Silicate, Hydrogen, and Alloys.

Colony Abandonment

• Fixed colonies being incorrectly blocked from abandonment by active mining or fleet missions associated with unrelated outposts.

• Missions genuinely involving the colony or its moon will continue to prevent abandonment as intended.

Dead-Space Mining

• Corrected access reconciliation for alliance-controlled dead-space mining zones.

• Mining access now follows the alliance currently controlling the required stations.

• Stale access is removed when control conditions are no longer met.

• Existing and manually generated mining fields are now reconciled consistently.

• Improved ownership validation to prevent conflicting control states.

Shipyard

• Reduced layout shifting when changing the number of ships to build.

• The Build button should no longer move beneath quantity controls when the estimated construction time changes, reducing accidental queue submissions.

Alliance Chat

• Improved wrapping for messages written by players with long names.

• Multi-line messages now use the available chat width instead of being compressed into a narrow column.

• Message actions and timestamps remain aligned more reliably.

Additional Fixes

• Improved cargo-capacity error reporting across relevant fleet operations.

• Standardized resource-column handling between gameplay systems.

• Added several server-side consistency checks around mining fields, extraction stations, outposts, moon logistics, and resource transfers.

• Improved client caching and request handling to reduce repeated galaxy requests without leaving stale information on screen.

A new reward cosmetic system is now live.

Discover Ship Skins

• Rare ship livery codes can now be found while investigating anomalies, defeating pirate camps, and completing wormhole expeditions.

• Each code corresponds to a specific skin for a specific ship hull.

• Different skins have different rarities, and duplicate codes can be discovered.

• Every discovery includes a Military Advisor message with the skin name, source, and visual preview.

• The first discovery also explains how activation and cosmetic trading work.

Obsidian Eclipse Collection

• The first collection, Obsidian Eclipse, contains 30 individual ship liveries.

• These cosmetics are visual only and provide no combat, economic, or mechanical advantages.

• Equipped liveries are also represented by their appropriate ship sprites on the galaxy map.

Activation

• Discovered codes appear under Market → Cosmetics.

• Activating a code consumes it and permanently unlocks that livery for the account.

• Unlocked liveries can be managed and equipped under Profile → Cosmetics.

• A code cannot be activated again if the corresponding livery is already owned.

Cosmetic Marketplace

• Players can list unused cosmetic codes for a fixed price in Credits.

• Listing prices use whole Credits only.

• Unsold listings can be cancelled and returned to the owner’s inventory.

• Identical listings are grouped together, showing the lowest available price and the number of codes currently offered.

• Seller identities are not exposed.

• Already owning a skin does not prevent purchasing another code, allowing duplicate codes to be collected or resold.

• Purchases include a confirmation window showing the exact Credit charge and warning that the transaction cannot be reversed.

• Price changes are verified at purchase time to prevent accidental purchases at an unexpected price.

Combat

• PvP targeting logic has been updated so battles now distinguish combat, support, and civilian ships more intelligently.

• In battles around planets, stations, outposts, and asteroid fields, fire should now more often focus military targets while they are present.

• Civilian and logistics ships should be less likely to be wiped out first when they are protected by combat ships.

• This applies to regular PvP, combined attacks, combined defense, station battles, outpost battles, and attacks against mining fleets.

• Escorts and combat screens should now matter more when protecting miners, transports, and support fleets.

AI Officer

• Fixed Advanced AI Officer evacuation with resources.

• The AI Officer should no longer try to load resources as if it needs to fill the entire planet storage.

• Required hydrogen for the evacuation flight is now reserved more correctly before loading cargo.

• If resources cannot be loaded as expected, the AI Officer should now still attempt to evacuate the fleet instead of failing the whole action.

• This affects both normal evacuation and scatter evacuation rules.

Mining & Dead Space

• Fixed asteroid field replenishment logic.

• The server should no longer spawn huge numbers of extra fields while still thinking the resource pool is too low.

• Rare field replenishment should now better reflect the actual remaining resource pools.

• Access to rare Dead Space fields is now checked more consistently across scans, lists, outpost actions, fleet routes, and mining actions.

• Hidden or controlled fields should no longer leak through alternate views or actions.

• Outposts can no longer be built, attacked, defended, or relocated on fields the player cannot access.

Stations & Alliances

• Fixed a case where a combined station assault could continue processing a capture without a valid alliance.

• If the attacking alliance no longer exists or loses its valid link to the assault, the capture should no longer create a broken state.

• Scheduled alliance disband processing is now more reliable, so one failed disband should not block the rest.

Outposts & Reports

• Outpost battle reports should now remain available even if the related outpost is later deleted.

• This should reduce broken or inaccessible old reports.

Moon Economy

• Fixed rare resource cost reductions in the moon dockyard.

• The displayed ship cost should now match the actual build cost before pressing Build.

• Build validation should now agree with the reduced cost shown in the UI.

• Moon building demolition refunds are now granted when demolition completes, not when it starts.

• Cancelling demolition no longer grants a free refund.

• Cancelling a normal moon building upgrade still refunds correctly.

• Low-G Refinery now requires the intended research and operates as a production building with input resource consumption.

Galaxy & Search

• Improved galaxy map player search, especially for very short names and short mixed search patterns.

• Some scans and activity views now respect controlled asteroid field visibility more consistently.

Fleet & Combat

• Incoming attack alerts can now show the attacking fleet composition when the defender has Quantum Sensors.

• Fleet composition intel is shown in the notification bell and the Overview foreign fleets panel when available.

• Station attack alerts now use the actual system-specific station label instead of generic station names after reload.

• Mining fleet attacks now target only fleets already mining in the field. Outbound mining fleets should no longer appear as attackable targets before they arrive.

• EW Ships can now be used as valid ships for attacking mining fleets. Tankers may still accompany the attack for range/fuel support.

• Ground raid reports and returning fleets now correctly account for Assault Shuttles destroyed by AA fire during landing.

Mining & Outposts

• Outpost pages now show the remaining asteroid field resources, percentage left, and an estimated depletion time.

• Outpost relocation now shows a route estimate before launch: target field, target system, distance, hydrogen cost, travel time, and whether enough hydrogen is available.

• Outpost relocation will now warn/block invalid launches if the target temporary field would expire before arrival.

• If a relocation target disappears while the outpost is already in transit, the outpost now safely ends up drifting in the intended destination system.

• Mining templates now skip ships incompatible with the selected field and warn when a template has no compatible mining ship.

• Outpost Dock text now correctly displays its garrison slot bonus.

• Quantity controls were improved in outpost and station panels.

Galaxy & Search

• Galaxy search ranking was improved: exact system names are prioritized, player-name searches are better, and planet/system results are ordered more predictably.

• Coordinate-style searches now fall back to normal search when no exact coordinate match exists.

• Nearly depleted asteroid fields are cleaned up more safely: fields with active fleets or outposts should no longer disappear underneath active gameplay.

Espionage

• Blocked spy probe notifications now identify the attacker when counter-intelligence catches them.

• Spy reports now separate normal buildings from defensive structures more cleanly for planets, outposts, and stations.

Research & UI

• Research-time artifact bonuses now apply more consistently across the research list, starting research, and queued research auto-starts.

• The mobile resource bar now supports tap-to-open detailed resource breakdowns.

• Planet/moon switcher dropdown sizing was improved for smaller screens.

• Mining reports now show the colony associated with the mining operation.

• Building detail pages now show extra defensive stats for Shield Generators and AA Turrets.

Other Fixes

• Abandoning a planet now also cleans up minefields attached to that planet.

• Temporary/expired asteroid field cleanup no longer treats relocating outposts like lost mining fleets.

Combat

• Victorious PvP attacks no longer spread leftover fleet firepower across many colony buildings. This mechanic is being paused until it can be properly rebalanced.

• PvP economic damage is now focused on one basic resource building per successful attack.

• Planetary defense buildings can still take combat damage and fight at reduced strength until repaired.

• Combat guide text has been updated to match the new damage behavior.

Galaxy Map

• Improved galaxy system loading performance.

• Repeated system clicks are now throttled more intelligently, reducing server load without changing normal map usage.

Market & Trade

• The Pickup from Hub resource quantity field is wider now, making larger numbers easier to read and edit.

Today’s patch focuses on bug fixes, fair limits, and quality-of-life improvements.

Mines

• Fixed a loophole that allowed players to bypass the mine limit by sending Mine Layer ships one fleet slot at a time.

• Mine limits now count both already deployed mines and mines currently in flight to the target planet.

• Mine deployment is checked again on arrival to prevent race-condition overdeployment.

• Mine numbers now match the intended design:

  • Mine Layer: 5 mines per ship.

  • Planet limit: 10 × Mine Warfare level.

  • Mine damage: 150 HP.

• Excess mines above the limit were cleaned up on S0.

Fleet Slots

• Fixed an issue where relocating an outpost could exceed the normal fleet slot limit.

• Outpost relocation now correctly uses the standard fleet slot system.

• Patrols still use separate patrol capacity and do not consume normal fleet slots.

Outposts / Repairs

• Fixed a risk where ships repaired at an outpost could disappear.

• Damaged ships are now safely reserved while the repair timer is running and restored when repair completes.

• Outposts can no longer be relocated while an outpost repair is in progress.

• Outpost garrison operations are now safer against parallel repair/recall actions.

Research

• Research is no longer paused when a Research Lab upgrade is only waiting in the build queue.

• Research pauses only when the Research Lab is actively upgrading.

• Starting research is now more atomic, reducing race conditions around duplicate starts or paid-but-not-started research.

• Research cancel/refund behavior now uses the actual paid cost more consistently.

Galaxy Search

• Galaxy search no longer reveals a player’s full planet list outside your visibility.

• Search results now respect the existing player/alliance visibility rules.

• Planets and systems outside your allowed visibility should no longer appear through player-name search.

Mining QoL

• The mining fleet send window now has a repair button directly under the damaged mining ship warning.

• This repair button appears only for mining/maintenance ships, not for all ship types.

• You can now repair damaged drills without closing the galaxy/mining flow.

Loot / Salvage / Debris Collection

• Auto-select for loot collection no longer picks mining ships or random utility ships.

• The selector now prefers proper transport ships based on speed, cost, and cargo capacity.

• Salvage collection now requires unrestricted cargo transports.

• Debris collection supports restricted transports where appropriate, such as ore freighters for ore/silicates.

• Guarded debris may include combat/EW escort, but cargo still requires compatible transport ships.

Combat / Reports

• Field attacks now target the specific mining fleet selected from a scan when available.

• If the field attack target is gone by the time the fleet arrives, a clear “Target gone” battle report is created.

• Battle reports now display planetary defense damage more clearly.

• EWAR ships are correctly accepted as escort where relevant for PvE/guarded debris scenarios.

UI / Misc

• Damaged building cards now show repair costs.

• Large-number input in Trader/Market exchange now supports separators like spaces, dots, commas, and apostrophes.

• Added missing translations for the new battle report lines across fleet locale files.

This update focuses on alliance extraction, minefield counterplay, PvP warnings, and several fleet/combat fixes.

Alliance Dead Space Extraction

• Fixed the Dead Space Extraction tab on the alliance page.

• The tab now shows alliance-wide Quantum Dust and Dark Matter mining totals.

• Added a player contribution table so alliances can see who mined how much.

• Added clearer field visibility rules:

  • 3+ controlled stations in a Dead Space sector reveal Quantum Dust fields.

  • 4+ controlled stations reveal Dark Matter fields.

  • 5 controlled stations add 3 extra Dark Matter fields.

• Fixed alliance mining logs for cases where the mined field’s target system was not saved correctly.

• If an alliance loses enough station control, excess Dark Matter fields are now cleaned up properly, starting with the most depleted fields.

Minefields

• Your own minefields no longer block your fleets from leaving a planet.

• Patrols now correctly help against covert mine deployment on your planets.

• If a patrol intercepts part of an incoming covert mine deployment, the remaining minefield is revealed to the defender.

• Covert mine deployment detection now scales with actual local defenses:

  • Empty planets with no fleet and no planetary weapons can still be mined with 100% success.

  • Planetary weapons add detection chance per building level.

  • Stationed fleets add about detection chance per ~10 ships.

  • Counter-Intelligence increases detection.

  • Signal Intelligence and EW ships reduce detection.

• Garrison, traps, and shield generators do not help detect covert mine deployment.

This update focuses on fixing several edge cases around combat, diplomacy warnings, logistics routes, market/hub resources, and temporary resource fields. Combat & Retreat Fixes

• Fixed a bug where defending fleets could retreat automatically in some PvP battles even without the AI Officer / auto-evacuation feature.

• Defender retreat is now opt-in only where it is explicitly supported.

• AI Officer retreat behavior still works where intended.

• Fixed combined assault repairable-loss handling:

  • Damaged / repairable ships are now distributed accurately between participants.

  • This prevents rounding issues where a participant could lose more or fewer repairable ships than the battle result actually allowed.

• Fixed combined station assault reports/returns when the same player joins from multiple origins:

  • Participant fleets are merged correctly in the breakdown.

  • Surviving and damaged ships are assigned back more reliably.

Diplomacy & Pact Warnings

• Added pact-warning confirmations to more hostile actions:

  • Attacking mining fleets.

  • Attacking outposts.

  • Attacking stations.

  • Station-launched attacks.

• These warnings now cover both alliance-level pacts and personal commander pacts where applicable.

• Personal NAPs are only broken after the attack dispatch succeeds.

• When a personal pact is broken by an attack, both sides receive notifications.

• Alliance-level pacts are not automatically broken by individual attacks, but the attack now clearly warns that it violates the pact.

• Personal alliances still cannot be attacked directly. They must be ended through Diplomacy first, and the attack cooldown still applies.

Shield Reinforcement Warning

• Hostile missions launched from a shield-reinforced planet now show a confirmation warning.

• If confirmed, launching the hostile mission removes shield reinforcement from the source planet immediately.

• This now applies more consistently across hostile actions, including:

  • Planet attacks / raids.

  • Cyber attacks.

  • Covert mining.

  • Attacks on mining fleets.

  • Outpost attacks.

  • Station attacks.

Logistics Routes

• Logistics routes now update source and destination planet resources before checking route triggers and storage.

• This should fix cases where automatic routes failed or stalled because a planet had not been opened/refreshed recently.

• This affects supply routes, outpost collection/supply, and moon collection/supply routes.

Market, Trade & Resource Amounts

• Market hub pickup handling is safer:

  • The fleet only brings home resources that were actually released from hub escrow.

  • Small legacy float drift in hub escrow is tolerated.

  • This should reduce cases of resources being stuck as locked on hubs.

New Commander Portraits

• Added 30 new free commander portraits.

• Each leader type received 6 new free portrait options.

• You can use them from Profile → Cosmetics.

New Avatar Pack

• Added the new Sealed Suit Portrait Pack to the store.

• The pack includes 10 helmeted commander portraits.

• Each leader type gets 2 matching sealed-suit portraits.

• Portraits are account-wide and can be used from Profile → Cosmetics.

Building Demolition

• Building demolition time has been reduced.

• Demolishing a building now takes 10% of the original construction time.

This should make commander customization broader and colony rebuilding less painful.

Defense Rework,

Planetary defense has been reworked. Previously, each defense building behaved too much like one large combat unit. This made defenses worse at absorbing damage than intended, especially compared to fleets where many ships can split incoming fire.

• Now defense buildings work more like full defense networks:

• Defense strength is now based on total resources invested into the building level.,

• Each defense building is split into multiple virtual batteries during combat.,

• These batteries can absorb hits separately.,

• Attack and HP values shown in the UI now use the new combat calculation.,

• This should make planetary defenses more meaningful without turning them into an instant wall.

Defense Repair Changes,

• Defense no longer fully restores for free after combat.

• 60% of defense damage is repaired automatically after the battle.,

• 40% of actual defense damage becomes persistent damage.,

• Persistent defense damage must be repaired with resources.,

• Defense repair now takes time.,

• Defense repair runs outside the normal building queue, so it does not block normal construction or upgrades.,

• Economic building damage still uses the existing repair behavior.

Mobile UI Fixes,

• Several fleet modals were adjusted for mobile screens:

• Pirate camp attack modal layout improved.,

• Hub delivery modal layout improved.,

• Market pickup / delivery screens received mobile layout fixes.,

• Ship selection should be easier to read and use on narrow screens.,

Debris Visibility Fix,

• Debris fields from old abandoned/deleted colony areas should no longer keep showing up incorrectly when you no longer have a valid nearby presence.

Wormhole Reports,

• Class 3 and Class 4 wormhole encounters now generate battle reports like lower-class wormholes.

• Added battle reports for deeper wormhole combat.,

• Added new NPC ship icons for deeper wormhole enemies. This should make C3/C4 outcomes much clearer instead of feeling like “something happened in the dark.”,

Outpost Battle Reports,

• Outpost attack reports now contain better context:

• Outpost name/location is shown more reliably.,

• Reports can show outpost damage state.,

• Destroyed outposts are now represented more clearly in reports.,

Account / Discord Cleanup,

• Improved Discord unlink/delete cleanup logic.

• Discord roles should be revoked more reliably when an account is unlinked or deleted.,

• This is mostly backend cleanup, but should reduce stale Discord-role edge cases.

Alliance & Stations

• Added station resource withdrawal permissions.

• Alliance leaders and deputies can now choose who may withdraw resources from alliance stations.

• Added station resource logs, so alliances can see who deposited or withdrew resources, what resource was moved, and when.

• Station resource logs now load in smaller chunks to keep the page lighter.

• Station resource access and admin controls are visible again in the redesigned station page.

• Added alliance combat records for recent battles involving alliance members.

• Added sorting options for alliance members, including role and score-based sorting.

• Leaving or being removed from an alliance now automatically cancels active alliance trade orders and returns the listed resources.

• Fixed a rare alliance trade edge case where orders could remain locked after a player changed alliances.

• Added extra safeguards around alliance and station actions to prevent incorrect access after ownership or membership changes.

Fleet & Missions

• Fleet templates are now available to all players, not only Command Center users.

• Fuel usage now scales with the fleet’s actual cruise speed.

• When faster ships travel together with slower ships, the faster ships no longer burn fuel as if they were flying at full speed.

• Fleet range calculations were updated to use the same effective cruise-speed logic, including tanker-assisted range.

• This should make mixed fleets behave more logically and make fuel and range estimates closer to what players expect.

• Improved fuel and cargo calculations in mission previews involving special fleet bonuses.

• Added clearer ship selection controls in several mission modals, especially on mobile.

• Improved fleet cargo handling in several return paths.

• Fixed cases where rare resources could be lost when fleets returned to stations or when supply cargo had to be returned home.

• Fixed resource handling for station-origin fleets carrying rare resources.

• Active fleet missions are now sorted by their next relevant timer, making the fleet list easier to read.

• Opening a battle report from a direct link or notification should now select the report tab and load the report more reliably.

Logistics

• Fixed Logistics routes continuing to run after the Logistics Hub on that planet was demolished.

• Routes tied to a missing hub are now paused and shown clearly in the Logistics UI.

• Fixed Logistics ship selection not properly accounting for Cargo Expansion when choosing transport ships.

• Improved handling of supply deliveries to outposts if the target becomes unavailable while the fleet is already in flight.

Market

• Public market browsing now has better filters.

• You can now filter by:

• resource being sold

• resource being requested

• minimum rate

• maximum rate

• trade hub

• Market orders are now limited to a maximum 1:20 ratio to prevent extreme or accidental offers.

• Trade Hub building descriptions were updated.

Outposts

• Outpost construction and building upgrade timers are now shown more clearly in the outpost UI.

• Outpost shield reinforcement is now shown on the galaxy map when relevant.

• Outposts with an active reinforced shield can no longer be attacked until the reinforcement ends.

Galaxy & Exploration

• Improved survey and investigation mission UI.

• Updated galaxy overlay rendering for filtered markers.

• Asteroid-field markers should no longer visually drift or shift when combining resource filters.

• Asteroid fields with less than 1% resources remaining now display “<1%” instead of rounding down to 0%.

• Espionage field resource values are now shown as whole numbers instead of long decimal values.

Pirates

• The Pirates tab now shows a small marker when newly discovered pirate camps are available.

Debris & Salvage

• The collect-loot modal now tries to auto-select a more efficient cargo fleet instead of always preferring the largest hauler first. This is currently in beta.

Sentinel Space & Minefields

• Mine deployment is now blocked in Sentinel Space.

• Existing minefields in Sentinel Space were removed to prevent safe-zone colonies from being locked down.

Mobile & UI

• Improved mobile layout in ship selection rows where ship names could be cut off.

• Fleet selection rows in modals were adjusted for narrow screens, especially Android devices where ship controls could overflow horizontally.

• Fixed a few UI states that could show stale or incomplete information after backend changes.

Profile & Bonuses

• Added missing display support for flat cargo capacity bonuses in leader/profile bonus lists.

• Improved bonus display consistency across supported languages.

Buildings

• Demolishing buildings now displays as “Demolishing” instead of incorrectly showing as “Upgrading.”

Bugfixes

• Fixed several edge cases where cargo could be returned incorrectly or partially ignored.

• Fixed several rare resource handling issues involving stations, returning fleets, and supply cargo.