Star Sonata 2 news & patch notes

• Added the Turboforge feature to Neuroforging.
  • Using the Turboforge feature, you can spend Bindomite during the process of Neuroforging to add xtraForge levels to every available Neuroforge roll option before you choose an option.
  • There is a maximum amount of additional forges you can add, costing different amounts of Bindomite depending on the quality of the item.
  • For example, if you were attempting to Neuroforge an Exotic item which would normally only allow 1 choice, using 10 Bindomite up to a maximum of 4 times will allow you to Neuroforge a total of 5 times with only a single item consumed, greatly increasing the mileage of a single item copy!
  • Exalted and Legendary items retain their base 2 Neuroforge attempts.
  • Turboforges are only available for 48 hours after a Neuroforge is performed. If you save your Neuroforge roll and want to Turboforge it, make sure to do so before the timer expires.
• Sterwyn Aervin now has a chance to directly drop a Legendary Bindobooster!
  • Legendary Bindoboosters can be used on any item that can be neuroforged in place of an item copy.
  • Legendary Bindoboosters decay on universe reset.
  • Legendary bindoboosters will only be available from the current hardest boss. When a new boss comes out, the Bindobooster drop may move to it if it is more difficult than the previous hardest boss.

• All Magcannon weapons have had their stats changed.
  • Increased damage, weight, size, visibility and energy cost across the board. Details listed below the patch notes

• Solar panels now benefit from Energy Charge.

• Starting next uni C&C will be on permanent tractor disruption when in an unowned galaxy. With a message explaining it when the tractor is attempted.
• Fixed Bule Outposts dropping a Bule Mentallity Blueprint which is an item renamer for Bule Mentality Blueprint.
• prevent base thrusters from working on ownership kits in unowned galaxies (wont apply till next uni)
• Dungeon Shadow Turtles have been updated from level ~420 to 700. Roaming Shadow Turtles are weaker and will remain at their original level. No stat changes were made.
• The Overlord, a more powerful Nephil found in dungeons, has had some changes made to both difficulty versions of its spawners:
  • The lower difficulty spawners will receive -50% Shield Max and Damage and -34% Knockback. They will remain limited to a spawncap of 4 per room and have been reduced from level 850 to 750.
  • The higher difficulty spawners will receive -34% Shield Max and Damage.
• Micron changes with new universe:
  • Micron race track separated into multiple gals to make it easier and clearer to go through.
  • Race track no longer allows bots or warp beacons to be deployed.
  • Wormholes and keysync spawn positions can no longer be obstructed by gremlin drones. If they spawn too close, they will be destroyed automatically.
  • Keysync spawn position is now marked by a targetable nebula and the debris is named as what it is. Respawn time reduced to 1 second.
• Barbe Rouge is now a rift boss, with the rift wormhole starting with the second of three gals in Tortuga.
• Tortuga’s wormhole to Barbe Rouge’s Antechamber has been moved to the east and is now guarded by two Stalker ambushers who must be killed to unlock the wormhole forward.
• Removed two of the six Stalkers from Barbe Rouge’s Antechamber, these were aura-only without weapons and didn’t fit in with the more modern wormhole unlock system of killing AI to unlock.
• The three Cruiser AI in Barbe Rouge’s Hideout will no longer respawn.
• Topaz Eye Jimmy and Barbe Bleu bosses in Blue Outpost have been moved into rifts.
• Updated wormhole sizes throughout the Serengeti to match normal sizes.
• Removed old debris spawners from the Serengeti zone entrance as their Neural Keysyncs are no longer required to progress.
• Lord Mulligan in both Earthforce Space and Perilous Space will now:
  • No longer attack other AI, nor any of its spawns will either. They will now especially hate the player that killed the original Zebucart.
  • Better disguise themselves as normal Zebucart traders. The biggest change is their 'Martyr' Zebucart that spawns them and can now use the Zebucart Mark 2 skin.
  • The Zebucart 'martyr' that spawns Lord Mulligan has been set to be immune to Radiation Damage to prevent Lord Mulligan from failing to spawn upon the 'martyr's' death.
  • Always spawn up to 10 Zebu Scouts instead of a maximum of 1 under certain conditions.
  • No longer spam the Advanced Blockade and Swifty-Spry Onslaught superitems throughout the fight, instead only using them during its intended phases.
  • Function properly after respawning from its first death.
  • Despawn after 25 minutes.
  • Respawn significantly faster.
  • Roam properly at the same Danger Factor range as the Zebucart 'martyr' they spawn from, previously they were only able to jump to a new gal if it was Danger Factor 300.
  • Spawn waves of Zebuceptors and Zebucops.
  • Space out its spawned minions, as well as spawn from afar when the Zebucart 'martyr' is killed.
  • Lord Mulligan and its minions will now use spawn/despawn effects.
  • Only spawn Zebu Scouts when no enemy players are in the gal.
• Two of the Angry Seraph AI in Penance of Absolution have been converted into Amnesty AI, which are upgraded Absolution AI used as guards for Cardinal Bellarmine.
• The wormhole to Judgement from Penance now requires killing at least three guards to progress, from its original requirement of a Gabriel’s Neurolich commodity as a key.
• The wormhole to Penance from Absolution now spawns two Angry Seraph AI as ambushers to kill to progress, from its original requirement of a Solar Cleansings commodity as a key.
• The Subspace Anomalies in LACS S1018 and LACS S1138 can no longer be clipped through, ships will now travel over them properly.
• Anatolia now additionally stuns any ships that leave the center, at the same range as the Shield Charge debuff and environmental damage effects.
• Fixed Ancient Asteroid Being giving a 24 hour lockout starting upon the time of kill instead of being part of the fixed 24 hour reset timer.
• Asteroid drops throughout Prism Empires have been removed save for anything useful or specially designed for fights.
• Fire Opal missile crates from Orange and Purple Empire in Prism Empires are now more consistent to acquire from wreckages, instead of half the wreckages giving Metals or Silicon instead.
• Renamed the ‘Rift to Juxtaposition’ in Paxius back to its original name ‘Interdimensional Rift’ to match its mission appearance name.
• Cybernetic Gonzales now shouts the name of the target that killed her.

• Fixed Goblin Controller mission item dropping from Doc Goblin in Protoplasmica, which would get immediately deleted as it isn’t intended to drop and is not used for anything.
• Halved the distances, spawn trigger radii, aura ranges, and visual effect sizes of most things inside of the Serengeti’s miniboss rooms.
• The Great Rift star in Great Rift Valley before the Lion boss room will no longer inflict -10%/-25%/-50% speed to all nearby ships. This also means the Lions will no longer be slowed by it either.
• Reduced Micron race count to train Engines to 20 from five races to one. A new repeatable practice race has been added for the ability to improve one’s best time at Micron.
• Micron no longer requires a key to access the blue race track.
• Standardized Serengeti Giant Space Alien ambush spawners throughout the rifts for a respawn time of 60 seconds and updating a few of the rooms to move away from the old-style ‘one per direction’ ambush spawners and instead a single omni-directional ambush spawner.
• Removed unpolished dust cloud visual effect from middle of Zebra boss Prince Ar’hath Rhak’kai’s arena when on Very High graphics settings.
• Doubled the size of the lightning effects in Panther boss Princess Takhagha Rhak’kai’s arena.
• Fixed broken name on one of the Active Volcano AI in Corrupted Guardian’s arena Crater Highland.
• Made the debuff auras in Rhino boss High Vizir Rakhnis Grahad’rhi’s arena visible as purple nebulae. Increased their Shield Recharge and Energy Recharge debuffs from -50 to -500 to make them more impactful with modern player stats and decreased the range of all but the central nebula slightly so their ranges can be consistent with one another for their visual size.
• Asteroid drops throughout the Serengeti have been removed save for anything specially designed for fights.
• Zebra Prince boss arena asteroids with the tweak drop now have a yellow tone and emit particles to mark them out as special.
• Asteroids in the Panther miniboss room have been centered from their north-west spawning area.

• Unstable Hephaestus Drones have been standardized from 2 minutes to 3 minutes for lifespan.

• Fixed all wild Kalthi not spawned by Kalthi (Armored/Wrathful) Commanders not giving experience when killed.
• Asteroid drops throughout the Twisted zone have been removed save for anything specially designed for fights.
• Optimized Twisted asteroids to have 1/8th as many particles as they previously had, which will also prevent them from occasionally ‘running out’ of particle budget and losing their trails intermittently.
• Twisted Nikola drones have been standardized from 30 minutes to 3 minutes for lifespan.
• Twisted Nikola now has a new set of four “Scavenged” drones that can be obtained instead of his drones from the arena’s asteroids, being identical to the original Twisted drones but having 1/4th the energy cost and as before being unscoopable and decaying upon jumping out. This change will also allow the drones to better remain in-line over time as the original nikola drones were very different from the player-obtainable versions.
• Twisted Nikola’s new “Scavenged” drones can drop 1-3 per asteroid instead of only 1, and each of the four drone asteroids has 7.5x greater chance to spawn than before.
• Twisted Nikola’s new “Scavenged” drone asteroids have lightning effects around them and a trail of smoke to better help them stand out as something of interest.
• Twisted Nikola drone asteroids now have appropriate sizes for their drone visuals/drops.

• The Bila Akara Subspace rift for Engine 22 boss Adhara Akara has had its environmental damage effects restored for the two miniboss rooms. The first wormhole you enter through will now properly give heat resistance as well, protecting you if the rift has been open for more than a few moments and the mobile wormholes inside have already flown off.
• Zarkara Adhara (Equipment 22) will now directly drop the Hantr Psu, Raurava Bhava, and Zarkara Sattva augmenters currently at a 33.3% chance for one augmenter to be picked to drop.
  • The minibosses will no longer drop the augmenters. To compensate for the augmenter removal, Hantr and Raurava have been given overall shield and damage buffs to increase their difficulty and better match Zarkara.
  • This removes the incentive to use surgical damage or train the piracy skill to increase your odds for these boss drops, which optimally would have been slightly less than the new chances, as well as removing the need to lock players out for killing the minibosses. The Zarkara Sattva augmenter was also broken and not dropping for a long time now, this fixes it as well.
  • Removed Radar boss's missile launchers from dropping from the Equipment boss, replaced with the augmenters.
• The following missions in Subspace have had level or difficulty changes (the missions will be offered at more appropriate levels now, difficulty is the max level you can be before you receive reduced experience rewards):
  • Lyceum mission chain had its max level of 9999 removed.
  • Report to the Allied Front has had its minimum level boosted from 500 to 1500.
  • Equipment 22 for the boss kill was mistakenly set to difficulty 1000 instead of 2000, fixed to give the same amount of experience as the rest.
  • Bhinna Avapata mission chain with the UrQa changed from minimum level 1000 and difficulty 1500 to 1500 and 2000 respectively.
  • The Allied Offensive changed from minimum level 500 and difficulty 2000 to 1500 and 3000 respectively.
  • Pajca Allied Defense Orders changed from minimum level 1000 and difficulty 1500 to 1500 and 2000 respectively.
• Subspace DNA Extraction Beams have been increased from extracting 4 DNA per alien to 5. This brings the required number of AI to extract DNA from to build a fully grown Aveksaka ship from 13 Sahvitra eggs, 7 nascent forms, and 7 adult forms down to 10 Sahvitra eggs, 5 nascent forms, and 5 adult forms.
• Subspace DNA Extraction Beams no longer automatically shut off until all five DNA has been extracted from a valid target, at which point it will immediately deactivate and inform the user that the target has had all DNA successfully extracted.
• Subspace DNA Extraction Beams will now immediately deactivate and warn the user if any validity checks fail, and in a specific order to be more helpful:
  • If the target is valid for tractoring but is not a ship: “DNA extraction beams can only be used on alien ships.”
  • If the target is a valid alien ship but is player-owned: “You can only use this DNA extraction beam on non-player-owned ships.”
  • If the target is otherwise an invalid ship: “Invalid hull type for DNA extraction, valid aliens can be found in the Pajca and Sas regions of the Subspace Dimension.”
  • If the target has no DNA remaining: “This alien has already had its DNA extracted.”
  • If the user has no free hull space: “Insufficient hull space to extract DNA from this alien.”
• Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22) will now despawn all bombs when vulnerable at the end of the fight, and cannot be killed until they’ve been despawned. This should prevent any remaining cases of bombs killing the boss and denying players the kill credit (meaning no loot dropped).
• Fixed Janayitriadhara’s (Tractoring 22) damage and rate of fire being low, increased the shields on the Paxian Bombs to compensate.
• Reduced Janayitriadhara’s (Tractoring 22) shielding by 2/3rds, making the fight significantly faster.
• Removed startup from the music in Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22) arena, as there’s no miniboss rooms to go through prior.
• Halaraksa Chid Adiz Mardana Var drones from DD22 Subspace boss have been standardized from 25 minutes to 3 minutes for lifespan.

• Sterwyn Aervin’s Legendary item drops now have individual chances to drop, meaning it is possible for more than one to drop and players have more chances to obtain an item.
• Red Rogue Reavers and Carmine have had a visual added to their barrage attack to help players better see the incoming attack under chaotic conditions.

• Neurobound Exotic Celestial Gear no longer requires modules.
• The following AI-only debuff effects have been converted from negative Shield Bank to positive Vulnerability to All:
  • -10% Shield Bank to +10% Vulnerability to All for roaming Pax Astronomica AI, Barbe Noire, Captain Albatross, Captain Bartholomew Roberts, Dark Curse, Nathaniel Courthope, Sputty Nutty, and Vigilante.
  • -20% to -60% Shield Bank to +20% to +60% Vulnerability to All for the six roaming Earthforce capital ship AI from Frigate to Dreadnought.
  • -20%/-70% Shield Bank to +20%/+70% Vulnerability to All for Brute Force depending on distance.
  • -25% Shield Bank to +25% Vulnerability to All for Doom Guard.
  • -25%/-40% Shield Bank to +25%/+40% Vulnerability to All for Dark Doom Guard depending on distance.
  • -50% Shield Bank to +50% Vulnerability to All for Guardian of the Lyceum, Corrupted Guardian, and High Vizir Rakhnis Grahad'rhi (Rhino boss).
  • -75% Shield Bank to +75% Vulnerability to All for Astro-Grinch.
• The following AI-only debuff effects have been converted from negative Energy Bank to positive Electric Tempering (with magnitude multiplied by four):
  • -50% Energy Bank to +125% Electric Tempering for Doktor Kobaldstein and Dark Kobaldstein.
  • -75% Energy Bank to +187.5% Electric Tempering for Astro-Grinch.
  • -90% Energy Bank to +225% Electric Tempering for Copper Blob and Zeus' final phase warhead effect.
• Mad Expander Blueprint is now tech 18 to match its product.
• The DogeAge ship has a new shiba-themed effect to replace its old electrified center effect carried over from the Ampage and Voltage ships its visual is based on. The original doge photo is unavailable for use due to copyright, so a new CC0 1.0 licensed Shiba Inu’s face is being used sourced from https://pixabay.com/photos/shiba-meadow-serious-sad-garden-2937639/
• Added a new DogeAge Meme Drive engine to the DogeAge ship, complete with new particles and in-flight meme text straight from the good old days. Stats are based on the Nyan Power engine from the Nyan’s Reaver.
• Many holoprojectors have been updated to be exotic or higher quality if permanent.
• Added three new holoprojectors, recolored from Anniversary Server reward versions:
  • Aurora Hacker Holoprojector, from Matriarch Aurora
  • Empyreal Pillar Holoprojector, from Grand Empyreal Eclipse
  • UrQa Flurry Holoprojector, from UrQa’qa Vazuk Vo’kii (Bana King)
• The following bosses had a fix recently applied to prevent them from spamming their initial and reset shouts repeatedly, which consequently broke their ability to reset. This fixes that, as well as applies the original fix properly:
  • Ancalagon the Black
  • Fallen Haraka
  • Fallen Kuhani
  • Haraka Station
  • Matriarch Aurora
  • UrQa’qa Vazuk Vo’kii
• The following bosses will now clear parasites from their hull upon resetting their fight:
  • Fallen Haraka
  • Fallen Kuhani
  • Haraka Station
• Callisto and Ganymede in Olympus are now the only required targets to kill to pass through Near Jupiter Orbit, the Zeus Henchmen no longer count towards blocking the wormhole forward.
• Pan-Universal Neural Plasticizer spawners (Global Exp Boosts found floating in space) will now properly randomize their spawn location after being scooped instead of spawning in the same gal every single time.
• Brute Force is once more impossible to survive a hit from. A single impact will always kill you, consider yourself warned. Seriously.

• Repair Rejigger Drone Devices now apply an Advanced Blockade-like auratweak to the personal user’s drones within 1,000 range.
• Heavy Repair Rejigger Drone Device charge time reduced from 120s to 60s to match the lower tech Repair Rejigger Drone Device.
• Field Hospital and Repair Rejigger Drone Device superitems now have effect descriptions detailing how they work and feature a new visual effect for their auratweaks.
• Temp drones will now keep firing even when an envelopment is in the way.

• All Hands on Deck, the Pax Scutum super item, now applies +100% Transference Power to the player once again. In addition, it injects a nanite that reduces all other damage types to 0.
• collision hits are now considered “indirect damage”
• Fixed the AeonLabs Station Industry Booster Blueprint only giving 1 worker, it now gives 299.
• Updated Mini Madness effect info to state it also increases the user’s visibility by 300 for 2 seconds.
• Fixed AeonLabs Building Academy Augmenter blueprints having 42,000 manhours instead of 1, these were the Resilience, Fortress, Cordon, and Guardian Z Augmenters.
• removed the level requirement on the account for “Core Skills Neural Boost”
• also removed it from “Master Neural Boost” and fixed both descriptions.
• Updated the description of Celestial Reaching Empowerment Platform to correctly state that it reduces Damage for increased Range.
• AeonLabs blueprints have had their dilution costs set to no longer provide discounts for mass building.
• fix for an issue with stacked radioactive mod adding over 100% per stack.
• made it so stacked items applying AugStats now apply in the same way as different stacks with the same AugStats.
• Prismatic Conv Blueprint has been reduced from 40 size to 10.
• Reduced Space Blue Alpha Blueprint cost for Blue Aether from 5 periodic to 3. Reduced Space Blue Alpha Advanced x1 Blueprint cost for Blue Aether from 10 periodic to 5. This smooths out the cost increases for the Space Blue ships, especially the Advanced x1 which requires an Interceptor to build.
• Updated Dark Maelstrom’s Rocket(DMR) and Stygian Fist particles to be a lot brighter. DMR is now blue to match a lot of Infernal Darkness assets.

• Blueprints with only 1 manhour now complete instantly, most notably the majority of AeonLabs blueprints will be affected by this.
• Trade bot orders now include all items from tradebay you have access to in the current galaxy, instead of being limited only to commodities.
• Players can now move up to 200 speed difference from solarbodies when placing stations from the original 100 speed difference.
• All rifts are automatically set to open PvP now, allowing allied debuffs to work within them.
• When a player dies without an escape pod, their spirit will now start at 0 speed matching escape pod behavior to prevent drifting out without noticing.
• When an Epiphany is used over its maximum level limit, it will now state its maximum level in event chat instead of the level title belonging to that level. For example, it will now specify level 1,500 instead of level Meijin.
• Fixed being unable to equip itemcookbook factories (currently only the Subspace Mining Compressor is applicable) when your ship has temporary drones equipped.
• Added some small improvements to towing messages in event chat, including listing the remaining time when attempting to tow for a second time within 30 seconds and being on tow cooldown for up to 30 seconds remaining.
• Stations that are both destroyed and starving will no longer repeatedly notify of starvation in the station logs. This will allow the logs to remain a lot less cluttered with what’s effectively useless information if the station was destroyed already.
• Fixed the code behind spawn and despawn effects, previously only certain spawners had the effects functional. A lot of spawners throughout the early to midgame have been given spawn and despawn effects over the past year, this will allow them all to properly work.
• Added AP links and fixed some incorrect terminology in the warnings for stations and permanent drones being too far from solarbodies.
• Removed extra line break from Bindomite tooltip.
• Energy boost items, currently the Lucius items from The Colosseum, will no longer display massive energy vulnerabilities in their tooltips.
• Target Tracker directions will now have the first letter of each direction capitalized, with a hyphen between the two words if it’s an intercardinal direction. This should make it easier to identify at a glance.
• Correctly fixed tractor beams deactivated by the target jumping to another gal causing the energy drain removal to be done on them instead of the source of the tractor.
• Lifespan-limited trackers (currently the trackers for Angre and Gonzales dropped by them when they escape) will now correctly state their signal strength as time goes on. This begins with strong, then stable, moderate, weakening, flickering, and finally with less than 60 seconds remaining it will now say critical and inform the user they have less than a minute left to find the target.
• Lifespan-limited trackers will no longer occasionally recalibrate with ~60 seconds remaining on their lifespan.
• Added support for partial construction progress when the full workforce available may be too much for the limited periodic materials available and consequently halt construction. Full credit cost must still be present for partial construction to occur. This will notably impact blueprints with large amounts of periodic Promethium and Enriched Nuclear Material requirements.
• moderator ui now shows players logged in the past 2 hours instead of currently online. So that player can't log off to make it more annoying to mute them

• added Auto UI scale, this give 1x on 1080p, and a close relative scale equivalent for higher resolution
  • added shader based scaling for proper scaling at fractional value. and added 25% intervals to the options
• Fixed the DogeAge engine mount being off.
• make squad scoop chat use exalted pink
• fix for a client crash when item tooltip link-color callbacks return after the tooltip is gone
• Fixed the size of the corona6.jpg texture on certain stars being too small for the star’s size, rendering the corona within its edge.
• fix for transfer some from storage to ship not properly overwriting value when pressing a number
• fix for transfer type from storage to ship not working
• fix for transfer all from ship to storage not working

• The wormholes to and between the hubs around Kumari have been increased to standard wormhole size.
• Aveksaka Debris Fields have been renamed from Paksapata Ekam/Dve/Tra to Paksapata Katur/Pajca/Sas to match the leaf they appear in. The duplicate Paksapata Sas has been removed.
• Aveksaka Debris Fields have been moved from max leaf Danger Factor to about halfway into each leaf (15 Danger Factor above the initial amount).
• Marie in Protoplasmica and Engineer Kaylee Grand in Underworld, for one of the Engineer class missions, are now allied AI.
• Guardian of the Lyceum and Lyceum Engineering teams now use the Lyceum flag.
• Capella's planet Thirty-Eight has had its ring fixed, which was previously hidden due to a bug in its setup.
• Fixed Dungeon Forgones and Icepicks often not assisting the Dungeon Boss in combat until the boss is killed.
• Fixed Allied Front to be protected like the other Subspace hubs.

• The two Nexus missions teaching about the Zebucart built-in superitems have been given a five minute auto-abandon timer, as their mission indicators on the UI can otherwise stick around if you don't know which missions are placing them on your screen.
• Restored Dark Maelstrom's visual effect where it would fade away every few seconds. Doubled the length of the effect to a total loop length of seven seconds.

• Fixed Wild Space sun interference settings

• The Doomsday Device in Kumari has had its hitbox halved in size to be more appropriate for its visual size, which is unchanged.
• Lyceum Exploration Cruiser will now display the user's name properly.
• Lyceum Exploration Cruiser now has visible engine mounts.
• Added exit wormholes to the Subspace boss rifts.
• Added the Subspace bosses to the rift leaderboard.
• Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22) will now despawn all bombs when vulnerable at the end of the fight, and cannot be killed until they've been despawned. This should prevent any remaining cases of bombs killing the boss and denying players the kill credit (meaning no loot dropped).
• Fixed Janayitriadhara's (Tractoring 22) damage and rate of fire being low, increased the shields on the Paxian Bombs to compensate.
• Reduced Janayitriadhara's (Tractoring 22) shielding by 2/3rds, making the fight significantly faster.
• Removed startup from the music in Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22) arena, as there's no miniboss rooms to go through prior.

• Arena of Darkness entrance will no longer place the first player to enter the rift on the wrong side of the arena.

• Fixed certain missions showing the wrong missiongiver portrait when completing them.
• Mad Expander Blueprint is now tech 18 to match its product.
• Causal Domain Device now imparts its debuffs for 20 seconds instead of 10 seconds.
• All Anatolian mobs that dropped Gilded Sigils or Imperial Tetradrachms now drop Gleaming Diadems instead at a lower drop chance. The actual total influence from these AI are unchanged.

• Mechanical Engineer can now swap a deployed drone in place by using a drone on their own tractored drone in the same galaxy. It no longer has the ability to repair in combat. The ability to repair drones in combat on engineer class 1 remains as is.
• Fixed a bug on the Resilient Advanced Class Subskill that was preventing it from applying to temporary drones.
• Insatiable neurobound drones now give +2.17% critical strength and -1.30% Electric Tempering per level.
• Watchful neurobound drones now give +1.39% damage, +1.00% indirect-hit resilience, and +10.87% radar per level.
• Mechanical Engineer description now specifies +3 temporary drone equip slots.
• Temporary drones will now continue to fire when an envelopment is in the way.
• Removed the Resistance to Damage on temporary drone bonus from Zen of Engineer.

• Added new visual effect for the Golagoay Vazaha Archetype X's built-in superitem Singularity Shield Device.
• All non-squad transwarps now have the same radius of 750 for transwarping bots.
• Equipped energy stack should now give the same bank and regen result whether 1 stack of 2 or 2 stack of 1.
• Renamed all T9+ station XYZ 'lasers' to 'beams' to match the rest.
• Celestial Reaching Empowerment Platform now applies an aura with +50% Range, and -33% Damage to temporary drones. This replaces the -15% Shield Regeneration aura effect.
• Olympian Travel System now gives % thrust instead of flat thrust.
• Fixed Striped Emphasis engine missing their particle definition and defaulting to the fallback visual, recreated it based on its C1 look.

• target energy info now works for any selected husk instead of only owned/squad objects.
• Weapon fire will now stop properly a state changed to make it not allowed anymore (galaxy becoming owned is one such example)
• Market check will now only list the first 20 match for blueprint, ac trade and such to avoid overloading the list with hundreds of entries for things commonly used.
• Moved scoop message from Event channel to "SquadScoop" channel. It will appear on loot when in a squad. /showsquadscoop can be used to suppress these messages.
• /scoop has been reduced to the past hour instead of 2 hours.
• Ship-to-ship trade no longer allows equipped and other untradeable items to be put in.
• Active player ships will be checked once per restart for invalid slots and put in stasis if needed.
• Players can no longer reenter a ship from stasis if the ship's item slots are invalid. The ship must be towed and from there, the slots can be fixed.
• Tweaked scoop messages to include bot scooping, other than mining bots.
• Items scooped by bots now show up above the bot as floating messages instead of above the owner.
• Fixed an issue with some systems not accounting for projectile velocity modification correctly, which affected leading moving targets. This impacted a drone's ability to properly aim at targets when affected by a Projectile Velocity tweak.
• Metals will no longer show at 0 quantity on all blueprints even if they have no metals.

• Reduced some ship skin texture sizes.
• Improved flag resolution and sharpness for Lyceum, cleaned it up a bit to read a lot better.
• The Pax Heliosoleta model has had its missing rear webbing fixed.
• Dragging and dropping items into space now asks for confirmation.
• Fix for a bug causing autopilot link in /mc dialog to not work if temporary tweak “window was visible.
• Transfer some from storage to ship should now properly set the value in the transfer UI and react as expected to input.
• Fix for transfer some from storage to ship not properly overwriting value when pressing a number.
• Fix for transfer type from storage to ship not working.
• Fix for transfer all from ship to storage not working.
• Added UI scale option 1x, 2x, 4x (1080p display is limited to 2x, 4k can go up to 4x). This will also scale nametag in the galaxy view. This replaced the ability to scale the text on the client within our settings menu. You can still find the ability to scale text within the file usersettings.xml within the client’s folder.

• Allies throughout Nexus have been set to be allied properly.
• Updated Nexus to have floating text shouts.
• S.R. Tycoon 7479 spawnpoint moved from Free Market to Shadow to help prevent spawncamping by player stations with aggro on its team.
• Infernal Darkness no longer requires a mission to enter.
• Reduced Ice Drone respawn time in Glass Matrix from 2.5 hours to 15 minutes.
• Trader Lazrack will no longer drop his soul on death.
• Guardian of the Lyceum has been moved onto its own team, and Lyceum no longer protects Serengeti Blockade. This will remove the need to disable your safety lock to attack the Guardian of the Lyceum.
• Lord Mulligan in Earthforce Space will now roam a larger Danger Factor range.
• Lord Mulligan in Earthforce Space will now respawn significantly faster.
• Lord Mulligan in Earthforce Space will now have its respawn location randomized after death.
• Added new Earthforce Mining Operations team for several of the roaming AI in Earthforce Space to use.
• Split Infernal Tempest and Infernal Darkness rifts into separate rift wormholes.
• Space Blue and Earthforce AI in Blue Outpost now receive 10% the usual hate for being attacked. This will make them quicker to forgive players, in the event that a higher level AI is accidentally targeted and the resulting hate prevents a lower level character from accessing this popular leveling area for a while.
• Removed Free Market Zebucart miners, as the asteroids they mine were removed long ago.

• Added Emperor galaxy name 'Silverbloom' for Elaeagnus Multiflora who became Emperor around October 2025.
• Added Emperor galaxy name 'Shadow's Grumblin Chamber' for Shadow Wolf who became Emperor in early 2026.

• Added new namelist for the Zebucarts in The End of the Universe.
• Dark Hole and Darker Hole AI in The Dark have had their mission item drop chances increased from 80% and 70% to both 100%.
• Dark Curse now drops the Destroyed Dark Cloak commodity used for Cloaking to 20 skill training from a drop rate of 50% to 100%.
• Dark Guards in Roberts's Convoy will now use the Dark Commerce namelist instead of generic random names.
• Lord Mulligan in Perilous Space will now have its respawn location randomized after death.
• Added sound emitter to the secret stations in Temple Grounds, giving a proximity cue for when a player gets near it and allowing players to go towards the sound.

• Hermes' Track Start has received a small visual overhaul to backdrop the asteroids.
• The Green Battleship and Red Wattage in Arena 1 in Olympus will now properly fight each other instead of Ares Spectators.

• Lyceum Wormhole Research wormhole structures are now targetable as 'Wormhole Stabilizer' structures.
• Paxian Front has been replaced with Alliance Fleet Beachhead, now renamed to Allied Front.
• Removed P.S.S. Nebula station from Allied Staging Sector.
  • Moved Sas Monthly to E.F.V. Avenger in Allied Staging Sector.
  • Moved Allied Commendation exchange to all three stations in Allied Front (previously Paxian Front).
  • Moved tech 22 skill training missions for Allied Commendations to L.R.S. Discovery station in Allied Front (previously Paxian Front).
  • Moved exchanges for Pax Stratos, Pax Heliosoleta, Grand Navigator's Offensive Augmenter, and Grand Navigator's Defensive Augmenter to P.S.S. Emission station in Allied Front (previously Paxian Front).
• Earthforce Survivors mission item asteroids now located in LACS S8950 from their original location in Alliance Fleet Beachhead (now Allied Front pajca hub).
• Allies throughout Subspace have been set to be allied properly.
• Added some new allies for Subspace: the Lyceum Kasper, Lyceum Exploration Cruiser, Blue Photon Frigate, and the Pax Sheliak.
• Added allies to Lyceum Wormhole Research, Kumari, and LACS S1969. Some allies in other areas have been changed around.
• Prefixed the Subspace boss rifts, they'll now start with 'Subspace:' so alphabetically they'll appear grouped together in the lockout tab.
• The Gurujana Ekam mission now awards Gurujana Ekam Trove treasureboxes. The rewards have been improved from the original random reward mission. Any existing Allied Medal of Valor mission items have been converted to Gurujana Ekam Trove treasureboxes, with the Valor Rewards mission reward of 1 billion credits being moved onto the Gurujana Ekam mission.
• The minions for Rajanicaragupta (Cloaking 22 boss) have had their spawn effect fixed.
• Pajca and Sas Aveksaka will now target players of all levels.
• Paxian Protection Field Emitters are now targetable structures with a different visual to better distinguish them from the bombs.
• The Paxian Commander in the Tractoring 22 rift is now a targetable fake ship.
• Bhinna Avapata now generates at DF 225 instead of 200.
• The Doomsday Device in Kumari is now targetable, has received a visual overhaul, emits sound, and emits interference. The quantity of interference isn't enough to block autopilot.
• Subspace boss entrances have been consolidated to only appear in the Pajca region of the Subspace layer, instead of one per region from Ekam to Pajca. All five have had their wildness requirement changed to Danger Factor 215, so halfway into the Pajca region.
• Separated the ten Subspace bosses from each other, now each one has its own rift and associated lockout.
  • Roughly half the minibosses and more than half of the gals have been removed.
  • The minibosses will no longer drop items, credits, or give experience.
  • The Sahistha Egg (previously Pristine Alien Egg) drops and additional exclusive droptable of typically a Sahvitra gear item from Janayitrivar miniboss has been moved to Janayitri Sahistha (Piloting 22 Boss).
  • Sahistha minibosses have been standardized, each of the five variants are now equal in chance to appear wherever they're fielded.
  • Aveksaka Protection Field Emitters, found in the Adhara Akara rift (Engine 22 Boss), are now targetable structures.
  • Subspace boss music has been changed from Iq' Bana track to Dead track. The entrances will now use the Chill track instead.
  • The Subspace boss gals will now show locked wormhole visuals when applicable.
  • The Weaponry miniboss platforms will now use their appropriate names.
  • The Weaponry boss's Praheti Adhara and Rahnti Adhara platforms will now be randomized between the two variants per each of the three spawns, instead of each of the three always being specific variants.
  • During the fight with Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22 Boss), a total of two Sahistha minibosses will be spawned in phase 3 and 4 to add additional combat to this otherwise almost tractor-only fight.
  • Janayitriadhara's (Tractoring 22 boss) arena's wormhole now orbits around again.
  • Janayitriadhara's (Tractoring 22 boss) arena's Subspace Anomaly is now visible and orbits around the arena.
  • Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22 Boss) is now nestled into the platform beneath it, and will no longer bank (tilt) when turning.
• Aveksaka and Paxian Protection Field Emitter bubbles in the Subspace boss areas will now pulse a lot more frequently, more quickly protecting assets as they enter and more quickly removing their protection from assets that exit.
• Fixed custom Irradiated Subspace Anomalies having visual loop issues.
• Moved T22-related offerings from Lyceum Research Concourse to L.R.S. Discovery station in Allied Front (previously Paxian Front). Hybridizations were copied over. Swapped out Pax vendables for Lyceum vendables.

• Increased the chance of getting Obscure Pirate Crests from DGs by 1000%.

• Made all t0 AeonLabs Industrial Commodity factories convert at the same rate as the upgraded Industrial Commodity factories.
• Increased the drop chances for the following bosses: Captain Kidd, Demented Delquad, Dark Diablo, Dark Kobaldstein, Dark Maelstrom, Dark Scorch, UrQa'qa Vazuk Vo'kii, Red Photon Warship, The High Prophet, Pretender Zeus (specifically the chance to drop his Exotic drop list since it has a neuroforgeable weapon).
• Decreased the build costs for all Pretender items.
  • Removed T21 modules from rare blueprints, made sure that all built gear only required 1 piece of gear from the previous build in the chain.
  • Reduced the amount of Mercury needed for Hermes gear by 90%.
• Adjusted the stats of Demented Delquad augmenters so they would be more desirable relative to their costs.

• Updated description on Transwarp Coil which still referred to it as decayable.
• Olympian Travel System disables the use of items for 2 minutes when activated.
• Red Burst missile now increases Weapon Recoil by 15% instead of .15
• Added -% lifesteal and transference efficiency debuff effects to the following items
  • Red Photon Asteroid Drill, Advanced Red Photon Asteroid Drill, Light of War, Mastodon’s Tusk (Super item on Mastodon), Fallen Secondary Desolation Beam, Grand Eclipse Extracting Drill, Angre’s Demolisher, Sterwyn Aervin’s Nipper, Causal Domain Device, Operative's Cascade, Redbeard's Temporal Tricks.
• Adjusted the stats of Aku Qui'Oj and Gonzales Redundant Capacitor.
• Updated Drone Expiration holoprojectors to now work in two stages, remaining hidden for 150 seconds until flashing a warning at 30 seconds. The drone icon for the expired visual has been slightly lowered, and the rings around it have been largely lowered.
• The following bosses will no longer spam initial and reset shouts repeatedly under certain circumstances:
  • Ancalagon the Black
  • Fallen Haraka
  • Fallen Kuhani
  • Grand Empyreal Eclipse
  • Haraka Station
  • Matriarch Aurora
  • UrQa'qa Vazuk Vo'kii

• Added Rainbow Shrimp skin, created by Community member Shadow Wolf. This will be given to players who completed the Sterwyn Aervyn Contest.

• Increased diameter of Cadet Officer hull to remain bigger than the Cadet hull.
• Updated the Earthforce Overload Prototype hull from Common to Uncommon rarity, boosting some of its base stats slightly and adding +10% Damage.
• Fixed various typos in the Perpetual Motion drone unlock missions.
• Qokujiii Qa'ik in Iq' Bana now drops the UrQa KoQuii Qa ruin cloak used for Cloaking to 20 skill training from a drop rate of 4% to 25%.

• Subspace bosses have had their drop rates increased, as well as now occasionally dropping built rare gear and augmenters.
• Subspace Tractoring boss Janayitriadhara now has equal chances to drop rewards as other bosses.
• The Subspace dailies have had their starting faction choice removed. Now, you can complete an Earthforce, a Lyceum, and a Paxian daily per day.
• Removed rift lockouts from the Paxian Hatchery and Mothership daily missions in Subspace.
• Janayitrideva (Weaponry 22) boss will no longer roam to one of the three planets in its arena prior to the player's arrival.
• Adjusted the stats of many T22 Subspace items, specifically non-weapons, to make them more desirable for players progressing through the zone.
• Removed T21 module costs from T22 Subspace gear blueprints.
• All Aveksaka DNA no longer decay.
• Renamed the ten T22 skill commodities from their various Aveksakan names to Gurujana Remains.
• Pristine Alien Egg renamed to Sahistha Egg.
• Undamaged Aveksaka Cortex renamed to Gurujana Cortex.
• The new Gurujana Remains as well as the Sahistha Egg (previously Pristine Alien Egg) have had their weights set to 100,000 from their original 5 weight.

• Removed drops from asteroids in Red Photon Research Complex for the Red Photon Warship Prototype boss.

• Increased drop amount of Selenite and Lunarian blueprints from Avengers.
• Saadya's Fair Trade now correctly states how many possibilities for rewards there are, being 57 instead of 50 possibilities.

• Fixed several Celestial Encampment rift galaxies being on the wrong map layer.
• Celestial Bank, Drive, and Haven no longer requires any of the rare items for the trade in at CHS Primordial Light.
• Grand Empyreal Eclipse will no longer use its Mass Repulsor ability when no players remain. This was causing issues with using it once upon killing the last player asset regardless of distance.
• Improved Grand Empyreal Eclipse's shouts to have more variety, as well as new shouts for some of the guard spawns and on death.
• Add unique visual effects for the High Celestial Demolition, Blockade, and Solar drones.
• Empyreal Total Eclipse's Total Empyreal Destabilizer now uses the proper warhead, instead of the Empyreal Destabilizer Warhead. This means it applies a 9 second disarm effect instead of a 7.5 second effect.

• Asteroids in the Sterwyn Aervin boss galaxy, Outback, no longer zoom at ridiculous speeds.
• The number of Pristine Bottles that can be mined from asteroids in Outback Entryway have been increased.
• The Outback boss room now has significantly less asteroids orbiting the central sun.
• The Heist Across Dimensions mission now requires players to kill the Juggernaught, some Tiger Prawns, and some Mantis Shrimp in addition to the Crate of Zaphragi Musk in order to complete the mission.
• Arena of Darkness Matriarch Aurora's Mobile Nullifier Mines will no longer prioritize nearby Trade Bots.
• Scarra the Crimson and Carmine Cutter loot missions automatically start upon warping into their respective galaxies.
• Adjusted the stats of the following items
  • Dark Earthforce Array, Dark Earthforce Sensor, Blazefist's Charger, Stormreaver's Charger, Warfang's Charger, Stormlord's Charger, ElseWhen Reserves, Curious Accumulator, Gifted Capacitor, Dark Earthforce Juggernaught Bay, Dark Earthforce Beam.
• Fixed the Wallaby's Bite and Primordial Wallaby's Bite super item, they should now impart a debuff effect for the appropriate amount of time.
• Increased the number of rare items that drop from Sterwyn Aervin, and the number of rare Troves given by completing The Heist Across Dimensions mission.

• Each kit’s highest available Aeon Labs T0 extractor now appears in the Construction Bay on station deployment.
• Deprecated Uncommon blueprint station kit packs, Now all levels of kits can be upgraded directly to the highest tier kit using the AeonLabs system.
• Nullification generators have received halved Fusion Cells commodity costs and new Dilution costs per week. This Dilution cost will depend on the rarity of the gal.
• Renamed Command & Control Station Kit to AeonLabs Dynamic Command & Control Station Kit. This new station kit will change its rarity based on the gal it's built in.
• Implemented the new scout sieges termite methodology. This causes there to be waves of termites for 7 days straight.
  • NOTE: They are much weaker than pre patch termites.

• Added Industrial Plasticity Management Contract
  • Gain 10 trade bot slots per character, plus 50 "flex" base slots and permanent drone slots that can be spread across any combination of characters. The extra slots expire at the next universe reset. Limit one purchase per account per universe.
  • It costs 60 SP. It is on sale for a limited time to be 50 SP.
• Chat Communication Cleanup project:
  • Player Station PvP team chat messages for stations or drones taking damage or being tractored has now been replaced with a combined message that plays for any permanent asset PvP action. It only triggers in each galaxy once every three minutes.
  • squad scoop logs were removed from squad chat, instead are now in event chat and a new /scoop command is available to get a display of the last 2 hours worth of scooping in the squad.
  • The initial login message no longer triggers channels to be marked as unread. Now if a channel is unread, a new message was truly sent to it. This state persists across relogging.
• Expired mobile drones automatically return to the ship inventory if in the same galaxy
• Tweaks with more than 10minutes duration remaining are now restored through server restart
• you can now select which line to copy in clipboard from the message box instead of only being allowed to copy the whole block. Ctrl - shift work as expected to multiselect.
• Add event message for pvp kill. (killer did not receive one)
• Blueprints that auto-install on completion and have infinite uses will now be added correctly instead of disappearing.

• Added a button to the Class Skills tab to level Zen of Focus and Zen of Class faster
• Fix client side stealth tracking for invisible targets
• Improved flag resolution and sharpness for Earthforce and Dark Earthforce flags.
• Added new flag for Alien Defense Alliance and replacement flag for the Aveksaka teams.
• Hotbar action with a tweak item now ignore equipped status, if no tweak with same equipped state is in inventory.
• Made mission agent dialog now resizable up to 700 x 400 to make reading mission text easier.
• Made the mission agent name more visible in the mission agent dialog.
• New Squad Loot button in the squad window can be used to open a log of items scooped by squad within the last 2 hours.
• Added a feature that allows the squad member display to be popped out and moved around the client. This can be toggled via the squad menu using the “Floating Squad” button. This feature was created by a community member named Claire.
• Added some additional information to the Anatolia guides.
• Added a new button on the class training interface to maximize zen skill levels with a single button click. This appears as a plus with two up arrows next to the standard training button.
• Added a config option to disable forcing high performance gpu mode on startup
• client message box (blackbox, mc etc) now support item and ap link.

• Engineer class 1 now correctly enables repairing (specifically) drones in combat. (Mechanical engineer subskill still allows repairing anything in combat. This skill will be changed to be something more interesting at a later date.)
• Removed beta client requirement to dock with other ships
• fix for character switch logging you out a few seconds later if connected via steam
• fix bug where tooltip can remain stuck onscreen when hiding the dialog that created it
• fix bug where performing keybinding would cause control inputs to take priority over text input for the rest of the client session
• fix for hotkey firing during chat after editing a keybind
• crash fix on item trade.
• fix for fighter and missile pvp hits not updating the owner's hostile timer

• Introduced the Ship to Ship Trading system.
• Introduced the AeonLabs Modular Construction System.
• Drones & The Engineer class has received a major rework focused on Neurobound drones.

• Players can now trade items and credits directly between ships in a dedicated UI.
  • This is performed by using the dock keybind while your ships are overlapping with theirs. This must be done while stopped and cannot be done in combat.
  • Items with half lives cannot be traded

• Introduced the AeonLabs Modular Construction System.
• Added new AeonLabs station components, blueprint packs, extractors, Command & Control kits, and construction items.
• AeonLabs blueprint packs have been added to all tech 12 and above player obtainable station kits.
• Common augmenters can now be dissolved into Dilutions, displaying their outputs directly on the item. This is done by selecting then opening the context menu on any number of common augmenters while docked, then selecting the new "dissolve" option. This is cannot be reversed.
• Pre-installed blueprints for drones constructed from industrial commodities have been moved to be held within the technology tree of the AeonLabs system.
• The blueprints to build X/Y/Z gear on stations using Industrial commodities that came pre-installed on most station kits have been removed.

• Added the Neurobound Drone system allowing drones to be modified with selectable mods.
  • This is performed by opening a context while selecting a single drone while docked, then using the neurobind option.
• Added three new drone skills:
  • Insatiable
  • Watchful
  • Fortified
• Different drone mods now apply different fractions of these skills.
• Drone duration and charge times have been reworked.
  • Drone duration is drastically lower, and drone charge time is drastically faster.
• Drone skills can now be trained up through The Acropolis, Platonic Academy, Olympus Entrance, Lyceum Research Concourse, and Paxian Foothold.
• Added Honorary Doctorates and a related turn-in mission in Platonic Academy.
  • Some Tech 23 blueprints have been tagged appropriately so that they can be turned in for Honorary Doctorates.
• Nanobot Repair Drone has been removed.
• A, temporary, free Augmenter Reset has been added to Lush Incision in Shadow that is available for all players. This will be removed at the end of the universe following this current universe at the time this blog post is released.
• Engineer class 1 now allows engineer to scoop drones they tractor regardless of distance.
• Engineer class 1 now allows engineer to repair drones at all time while out of combat.
• The Advanced class subskill "electrical engineer" no longer increases drone charge rate.

• Fixed buff icons displaying vertically on userbases. (Requires client update.)
• Improved hotbar responsiveness when items are added or removed from inventory.
• The hotbar now considers item mods and equipped state when matching items.
• Fixed issues with right-click transfer when selecting ships further down the list.
• Fixed an inventory confirmation issue where inventory changes could cause actions to apply to the wrong item.
• Improved blueprint load error handling.
• Added galaxy linking to “base under attack” team chat alerts.
• Galaxy names in mission completion messages now convert into autopilot links correctly.
• Fixed galaxy linking in mission event messages.
• Fixed action bar compatibility with the live server.
• Added three new content guide entries:
  • Anatolia: Exchanging Crests
  • Anatolia: Gathering Influence
  • Anatolia: Call to Arms Surge Event

• Weapons with Splash and AoE On Hit effects do 20% more damage, and the range of their On Hit effects is 20% larger.
• The Oppa Stoppa's stats have been changed.
• Ancient Pax Medals now automatically become Paxian Medallions and the exchange missions at the first Paxius station that performed this action has been removed.
• Removed extra skill requirements from the Emperor's Behemoth, Massif III, and related blueprints.
• Singularity Sphere and Battle Sphere blueprints now require Steel Girders instead of Metals.
• Warden's Lasso is now Shipbound instead of Sticky.
• Fixed incorrect Electric Tempering values in Rewired capacitor descriptions.
• Added effect description to the Singularity Shield Device built into the Golagoay Vazaha Archetype X.
• Pax Gladius, Spatha, Pugio, and Scutum have had their stats adjusted.
• Build requirements for Neutralizing, Earthshaking, Lacerating, Demolishing, Burning, Lancing, and Smashing weapon blueprints have been reduced.
• Grand Eclipse Pavise, Total Eclipse Pavise, and Total Eclipse Array blueprints have had their build requirements reduced.
• Changed the stats and super items of the Empyreal Total Eclipse and the super items Empyreal Grand Eclipse.
• Empyreal Total Eclipse Upgrade can now apply to both the Empyreal Grand Eclipse and the Empyreal Eclipse.
• Added several new Exotic items and blueprints as drops from the instances in Celestial Encampment.
• Wallaby now uses Wallaby's Ambush and Wallaby's Bite, replacing the Marsupial Bank.
• Adjusted Wallaby super item sizes and qualities.
• Honey Badger Incinerator on Honey Badger Drones no longer causes self-damage, and have had their damage reduced as a result.
• Splendid Troves rewards have been adjusted.
• Adjusted stats for Lustrous Focused Ordnance Assemblage.
• Adjusted stat spreads for several Lustrous and Luminous augmenters.
• Adjusted build costs for Rare blueprints from Celestial Encampment instances.
• Lustrous and Luminous blueprints can be exchanged for other Lustrous and Luminous blueprints at a 5:1 and 10:1 ratio in Celestial Encampment, after completing the prerequisite mission chain.
• Reduced the damage and resistance bonus, and removed the projectile velocity bonus granted to assets by the Scarra's Oppressor super item "Scarra's Temporal Doom".
• Reduced the damage bonus granted to drones by the Ruined Kuhani's super item "Forerunner's Shelling Focus".
• The drop rates of unique items from the Kalthi have been increased.
• Adjusted the descriptions of super items on Empyreal ships.
• Added Dark Shrimp, Golden Shrimp, and Honey Badger skins to the Tiger Prawn.
• Reduced the amount of Venusian gear needed to build Mercurian gear.

• Electrified Georg Ohm's guards now despawn after five minutes of idling or when the boss is killed or reset, and will no longer count towards the boss's damage immunity when they fly too far away from the boss.
• Carmine Cutter and Scarra the Crimson instance limit increased from 4 to 6.
• The Heist Across Dimensions
  • Made adjustments to the galaxy Sterwyn Aervin resides in.
  • Increased decay timers on several Red Outpost commodities including Volatile Musk Catalyst.
  • Reduced spawn time for the Zaphragi Musk Synthesizer and Zaphragi Musk Packager.
  • Zaphragi Musk Packager requires 2 Zaphragi Musk instead of 10 Zaphragi Musk in order to make a Crate of Zaphragi Musk.
  • Tiger Prawn and Giant Space Alien drop 2 of their commodities instead of 1.
• The mission A Touch of Dementia will no longer appear and remain locked after completing Team up with Orange. Instead it will remain hidden until Scan EVERYTHING Too is completed, which leads into and unlocks it.
• The mission target Mob Boss Black in Prism Empires is now teamed with the nearby Black Defender drones in Pitch Black.
• The wormholes in Pisidia in Anatolia have been swapped around to match the direction of the other galaxies on the map.
• Made multiple balance adjustments to Kalthi mobs that roam the Kalthi Depths.
• Significantly increased the drop rates of items from Celestial Encampment and Ruined Sanctuary instance bosses

• Fixed ships becoming stuck while turning and low turning speeds.
• Improved blueprint loading error handling.
• Fixed several crashes related to galaxy loading and drone behavior.
• Userbases can no longer apply Gunner Mark to targets.
• Crates that give items will now use their Cargo size to determine whether or not they can be opened.
• Item size 0 can no longer be flagged as cargo.

Dilutions

Extraction

• Fixed a bug where newly deployed drones were not sending their shields and energy values to the client to be used in the squad UI element.
• Enabled changing the width of the Tweak List dialog.
• Galaxy Map improvements:
  • Added hint hover button to Galaxy Map.
  • When using the autopilot chat command (/ap), the galaxy being travelled to is selected on the map. This allows for using shift+v to resume auto pilot.
• Transfers / Storage (TSL) fixes:
  • The "Info" button in the context menu when clicking on items in the TSL now works correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where the station context menu for transferring items was sending items to one ship later in the list when docked at either a player base or a AI station.
  • Fixed transfer-some for storage transfer.
• Fixed missing options in the squad member right-click menu (e.g. Add to Friends / Invite to Team).
• Fixed various client message punctuation/formatting issues.
• Mission UI: “(LOCKED)” text is now displayed as “Locked” to match other mission text.
• Updated wording in the wild bot slots dialog.
• Fixed UI bugs involving inactive input, tooltip visibility, and floaty target selection.
• Crash/stability improvements, including a crash fix with corrupted chat and reduced risk of out-of-memory crashes.
• Rolled back the ability to see item links in Blueprints. This was breaking chat word wrap which is now working again. This may return later in the future.

• Red Blocker now applies a 6 second GREMLIN_DISARM effect immediately upon use.
• Fixed an issue where Carmine Cutter had his ship stats changed inappropriately in the last patch. Carmine Cutter should have the same stats it had prior to the previous patch.
• Primal Mantis Shrimp spawn faster, and have a higher chance to drop Primal Gland Resin.
• Zaphragi Heist mission timers removed/adjusted:
  • Dark Earthforce Juggernaught mission no longer has a timer.
  • The Heist Across Dimensions mission no longer has a timer, and now awards an Outback Zaphragi Trove upon completion.
• Red Rogue mission items (such as Damaged Peacekeeper Technology) no longer prevent Fast Travel via transwarping.
• Removed double Obscure Doubloon cost from the Dark Earthforce Mount blueprint.
• Removed all time limits from Red Outpost instance missions.
• Primordial Tiger Prawn perk changed from Armored Lightly to Stats Electric Tempering+.
• Angre's Demolisher no longer has -1 Constant Weapon Slot, and is 75 size bigger and about 50k weight heavier.
• Zauron's Mask and Heart of Sol equipped visibility reduced from 200k to 2k.

• AI in Arctia will no longer dock at the local AI Stations.
• Space Blue AI in Wolf 359 will no longer dock at the local AI Station.
• The Earthforce Cargo Crates debris around Wolf 359 have been renamed from "Earthforce Debris" to "Earthforce Cargo Crates" and updated to be easier to identify.
• The six debris spawners in Wolf 359 will now all give Earthforce Cargo Crates instead of half of them giving Scrap Metal.
• Re-adding Pirate's Whisky Generator and Pirate's Whisky Reservoir to Levasseur's drop table.
• Temporally Entangled Regression Chamber's can now be turned in for 30 Paxian Peacekeeper's Recommendation.
• Temporal Trackers in Kalthi Depths now look for a galaxy starting from Danger Factor 400 up to their maximum danger factor, instead of only searching within a small Danger Factor band.
• Fixed mission summary for the What is a Causal Collapse mission (corrected required Paxian Peacekeeper Signaculums).

• Fixed a bug with colony storehouse loading
• Spawner Trackers are now much less likely to pick a galaxy very far from your current location.
• Further safeguards were created to prevent unintended damage spikes relating to the RoF cap.

New: Arena of Darkness (Temporal Rift)

Zaphragi Heist Updates

• Added new T23 Exalted ships: Kangaroo, Wallaby, and Tiger Prawn (each with inbuilt items), plus blueprints for each ship.

• Blueprints now support working item hotlinks, and several chat link issues were fixed (misalignment/bad returns).
• Radar: clicking on the radar now cycles through targets.
• Context menu improvements:
  • If you have both pinned and unpinned items selected, the context menu will show both Pin Item and Unpin Item.
  • Fixed an empty selection entry at the end of the Possessions context menu.
  • Added extra separators in Possessions / Mission / Squad context menus to reduce accidental clicks.
• Transferring improvements:
  • Fixed an issue with transferring while docked at a station (extra empty field in the context menu).
  • When transferring while docked, the context menu now shows Station (name) instead of base and adds a separator if there are ships docked too.
  • Added the ability to transfer goods via inventory context menus to Storage (formerly known as TSL).
  • Added the ability to pin/unpin items in Storage (TSL), plus refresh improvements so changes display properly.
• Item description UI:
  • Re-added Cargo to item descriptions with a new color.
  • Icons in item descriptions now match the color of the text after them.
  • Mod description icons now reflect the color properly.
• Minor fixes: spelling fixes in the inventory manager and neurodoc.

• Zauron’s Mask and Heart of Sol once again grant 2000 visibility when equipped.
• Fixed missing Electric Tempering text in Rewired capacitor descriptions.
• Carmine’s Temporal Protection, Redbeard’s Temporal Tricks, and Scarra’s Temporal Doom received multiple balance passes; final versions now use cooldowns / updated effects and durations, including longer debuff durations in some cases.
• Scarra’s Temporal Doom and Redbeard’s Temporal Tricks buffs/debuffs were updated (including intended duration and debuff values).
• Scarra's Drone Controller no longer gives a bonus to hull space.
• Players who owned Scarra’s Oppressor, Redbeard’s Rogue, or Carmine’s Reaver in their possessions before January 1st are eligible for a free augmenter reset.
• Juvenile Tiger Prawn Blueprint costs were significantly reduced.
• Juvenile Tiger Prawn’s Presence no longer works on Trade Bots.
• All Empyreal ships that have -%Tracking now have a reduced -%Tracking malus (e.g. -50% -> -15%).
• Increased the augmod bonuses on the Dark Earthforce Mount.
• Removed Kalthi Planetary Blaster as an ingredient from Gonzales Trion Blaster Blueprint.
• Adjusted the stats of the Empyreal Grand Eclipse and Empyreal Total Eclipse.

• Earthforce layer: Juxtas are now locked to their half of the spiral; only Concourses will cross the spiral.
• Paxian Foothold: Paxian Operative ships no longer require Tech 21 ships and Tech 22 Hybridizations to purchase, and are now sold as Ship Upgrades for the Hybridized T22 Pax ships (instead of being sold as ships).
• Wild Space galaxy naming updates:
  • Added Fate of Ninx as an eligible galaxy name.
  • Edited Tornado’s Alley to Tornado Alley.
  • Added Vics DJ Booth in honor of Vicious01.
• Guaranteed/bonus exotic item chances added to Angre’s and Gonzales Treasure Vaults.
• Reduced blueprint costs for exotic quality Matriarch Aurora items (up to 50%).
• Added the 6 Kalthi skills to the same AI bases that sell Imperial Seal skills (Sol, Glass Matrix, Bonnet, Iq Bana, Temple Grounds) with the same costs.
• Reduced Olympus Entrance Item Exchange weapon costs
  • From 100 Shards to 25
  • From 25 Honorary Diplomas to 10
• Adjusted multiple Red Outpost boss-related drop tables and rewards.
• Added a large dust cloud to all galaxies in the Zaphragi Heist instance.
• Dungeon minion requirements for Paxian Peacekeeper’s Signaculums were reduced (from 30 to 8 per tier), and Signaculum requirements for Peacemaking 12–15 were reduced.

• Neuroforge: for items with low enhancement level, the Neuroforge will no longer offer extremely small enhancement increases (e.g. +1 enhancement level).
• Crates now allow Item Linking.
• All husks which cannot have their inventory interacted with now get fuel for free if they had a fuelled energy (wild bots, fighters, drones)
• Adjusted default drone slide speed to improve drone movement behavior
• Improved description of Composite mod on weaponry (text clarity only).
• Updated Treasure Box item type text to be clearer.

• Fixed an additional edge case preventing use of Enveloping Monkey / similar effects when weapon damage is 0.
• AI spawned from asteroid ambushes will now get intended stat changes that non-ambushers of their type get, if any.
• Boss spawn scripting fixes and cleanup
• Fixed Strontium mission styling on the Nurse Orc mission.
• Fixed various typos in missions and items.
• Achievements: fixes for station laying, prospecting, and capturing ships; plus clarification text updates for certain achievements and Zen of Ranger.

• Extractors other then space oats shut off, colonies will no longer make purchases to/from user stations, AI stations will no longer decay goods 7 days before end of the universe. Will be a reminder post.
• Player stations, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
  • Player ships will not be affected.
• If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
  • Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
• Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
• All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
• After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station.  You can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere. There is no longer a time limit.
  • You can purchase additional limbos via Limboing Tow Service at Friedman station in Free Market for 5 billion credits each.

• Fixed an issue that prevented one of the skins for Empyrean Total Eclipse.
• Fixed Stop Ship was lowercase in KEY options.
• Renamed to ENTER STASIS for self destructing.
• Integrated Zevior's ResizeableGenericList (Market Check) mod directly into the game.

• Thalaron Radiation no longer has a decay rate but instead decays on universe reset.
• Made all Torches do 0 damage to prevent issues with Speed Demon and Shield Monkey mechanics.
• Added space in between secondsand for Paxian Bubblenator description.
• Added Olympus tag to Olympus fragments (Hermes Fragment, Ares Fragment, etc).
• Untanglers now also apply to all your drones, fighters and missiles in the galaxy.
• Red Tweak had a backend change to prevent bots consuming the tweak. Can only be manually used now.

• Removed Dark Kobaldstein's Offensive Injector and Dark Kobaldstein's Defensive Injector as eligible drops from Dark Kobaldstein. Their blueprints have also been removed.
• Added new and improved shouts to the Grand Empyreal Eclipse boss.

• Light Nuzzle and Aqua Nuzzle drones in Deflector and Reflector galaxies will respawn faster.

• Item Exchanges no longer will take equipped items as materials for the exchange.
• Item Exchanges will now prefer unmodded items over modded items.
• Added a Tweak Effects section to /showstatsources, displaying all tweak-modified effects — including weaker ones that are not currently active.
• Weapons that do zero damage should no longer get Constant DPS added to them.
• Added support for Station, Prospecting, and Capture ship achievements and added new T23 Skill Achievement.
• Speed Demon Rof and Electric Temp scaling no longer works on weapons with 0 damage.
• Shield Monkey Enveloper visual effect will no longer display when the weapon’s listed damage is 0.
• Untanglers (items like Graviton Disruptor) when activated now also activate for all drones, missiles and fighters within the same galaxy as the player.
• Changes to drone movement
  • Greatly lowered drone slide speed.
  • Greatly lowered drone max speed. This impacts situations like tractoring drones and deploying drones while moving.
  • Mobile drones now brake 10 times as fast as stationary drones.

• Fixed a bug with Microwarpers that prevented No Neurotweaking tag from working. Some Microwarpers effects will be reduced.
• Fixes for drones that were not meant to move that were created during galaxy generation were able to move for various reasons.

• Fixed a display bug that wasn't showing the stats of some enhanced mods correctly scaled by item quality.
• Fixed a bug where items that only have 1 possible other secondary wouldn't offer a secondary swap.
• Added a "No change" text to the default option when Neuroforging when the enhancement is at max rather than no text at all in the diff box.
• Changed it so that it would still offer the option to lose a secondary in exchange for a bonus roll at max enhancement, even though it wouldn't benefit from the normal bonus to enhancement with that option.
• Fixed a bug where bonus rolls on unchosen roll options were not getting properly loaded from the XML.

• Revamped the Add Trade Good / Modify Trade Good inputs. Now only accepts number inputs, auto displays commas while typing.
• Scaled muzzle effect for beams and on hit effects on the size of the ship.
• Added the following Content Guide entries:
  • Activity: Bonus Weekend Events
  • Activity: Dungeon Galaxies
  • Activity: Map Exploration
  • Activity: Merchant Guild Missions
  • Activity: Prospecting
• Added Dread Doubloon (Gold) skin for Space Blues and Red Rogue ships.
• Right Click Context menu in inventory now appears on Right Mouse Release instead of Right Mouse Click Down/Hold to feel more natural.
• Team Tab:
  • Added "Add to Friends" to the Member List Context Menu.
  • Fixed a bug creating a blank option on the context menu.
  • Added Separators to prevent accidental clicks (eyes Boot).
• Fixed Cute Drive / RDX-7000 Engine particles to no longer move faster forward than the user.
• Added various new flags for AI Teams.
• Added Separators for Trade Bay for shop owners for Modify and Remove to prevent misclicks.

• Changed Dark Maelstom's Closet from 3% Critical Resist to 3% Turning.
• Updated most Hermes radar descriptions.
• Added a visual to the Capital Ship Traveling Field items, reminding you they're still equipped when going into combat.
• Bule Wormhole and Celestial Wormhole temporary warp beacon drones have been given a new shield and a stronger shield capacitor to increase their survivability.
• All temporary warp beacons will now have standard drone resistances.
• Transwarp Devices by default can warp to Temporary Beacons now. In the future, there may be additional Transwarp devices that cannot but it won't be a feature of a specific class but instead just a nuance of the the device.
• The Reconditioned Massif, Reconditioned Massif II, Reconditioned Leviathan, and Reconditioned Behemoth ships have had their diameters updated to match the original ship's diameters.
• Scarra's Modifications changed from Tech 22 to 23. Resistance to Damage augmod changed from -12% to -5%.
• Separated the Prospecting Scanner item group into Planet Prospecting Scanner and Galaxy Prospecting Scanner, matching the two Extraction Scanner item groups.
• Reduced the Fusion Cell costs from 1.5 mil to 500k on Empyreal Total Eclipse Upgrade Blueprint and Empyreal Total Eclipse Upgrade Blueprints.
• Removed Lunaria Protection Array and Empyreal Launch Assembly from of Empyreal Total Eclipse Upgrade Blueprint.

• Added new mission in Vulcan for acquiring the newly-added Vulcan Mining Blaster Drone. (Next Universe)
• Added new mission target and wreckage field to Crater Entrance in the Vulcan zone. (Next Universe)
• Fixed Bonze instead of Bronze, and Silver Bar instead of Silver Bars in mission text for Perpetual Motion drone unlock missions.
• Downgrade the Flux Encasement+ to regular Flux encasement and Gigantic Tesslator to Oversized Tesslator for the Arson Drone unlock mission.
• Downgraded many other + items to regular versions on other unlock missions.
• Ahab's Recurring Nightmare is now a weekly instead of a monthly.

• Grand Empyreal Eclipse:
  • Increased the loot drop rate.
    • Unique eclipse loot now uses quality and neuroforgability as paramters when determine what items to drop.
  • Added a new knockback mechanic if the player goes on top of the boss.
• Added visible vulnerability effect to Terror Frigates Alpha and Beta in the Bonnet Drake boss fight.
• Hermes' miniboss Pan will now start in the center of the arena and deploy Hermes Quicksilver Claymore mines as originally intended.
• Added player presence check to Poseidon in Olympus. This will prevent him from deploying Whorl Drones prior to the player's arrival to that part of the rift.
• All Ares' areas and Hermes' boss room in Olympus now have friction clouds, which will strongly push things back towards the center.
• Hephaestus boss in Olympus will now teleport to the center of the arena upon engaging. This will prevent him from equipping his superweapon, used when outside the asteroid belt of the arena, before players can enter the arena.
• Corrected Critical Resists on Mega Moe and its minnons to what's appropriate for T22.
• The Guardian Ambushers during the Olympus Messenger Quarters mission chain will now hate the player that spawned them.
• A new Friction Cloud will push ships off of the central sun until Pretender Hermes is killed.
• The Subspace skill bosses' wormhole exits will now be locked until the bosses are eliminated. Janayitriadhara (Tractoring) and Rajanicaravizvadrz (Cloaking) will only lock their arena exits midway through the boss fights.

• The following locations now offer Remote Control skill training:
  • Blue Outpost to 3, for 3 Blue Whisper per level.
  • Vulcan to 5, for 3 Heated Metals per level.
  • Mira to 7, for 3 Paxian Medallion per level.
  • Jungle to 10, for 3 Primal Jungle Powercore per level.
• The following locations now offer Drone Deployment skill training:
  • Vulcan to 7, for 1 Heated Metals per level.
  • Mira to 9, for 1 Paxian Medallion per level.
  • Jungle to 12, for 1 Primal Jungle Powercore per level.
• Changed several Subspace custom galaxies' and roid Aveksaka spawner teams to use the correct team for that region.
• Added Capital Ship Traveling Field to Beta Antares and Blue Photon Subspace Facility. Removed Capital Ship Traveling Field from dungeon drop tables.
• The Temporal Rifts in Enigmatic Sector will now respawn much quicker. This only affects the three spawned by the relevant mission, and does not affect the two that ambush regardless of mission progress.
• The Debris (named AI) in Enigmatic Sector have been renamed to Capsule Casing to reduce confusion and they respawn much quicker. Their appearance will now send an event chat message in addition to their existing galaxy chat message.
• AI mobs in Arctia no longer spawn all at once and instead trickle spawn in.
• AI mobs in Vulcan no longer spawn all at once and instead trickle spawn in.
• Custom Empyreal teams will now use a custom flag.
• Prejudice (Twisted) zone is now owned by Twisted teams.
• Corrected the drop rate on Kalthi Coordinator Nebula and Kalthi Visionary Nebula making them ten times more likely to drop than before.
• Corrected the drop rate of Kalthi Armored Cuirass Blueprint and Kalthi Coordinator Solar Array Blueprint on half of the 500 DF Coordinators to match the other half's intended higher drop rate.
• Added a mission for new players to have a handful of starter Bindomite that are neurobound after the main Vulcan mission chain is completed.
• Increased rate of Golden Augmenter drop from Goldenboy Statues.
• Increased the number of Roaming Serenity in EarthForce Space.
• Large Eggbox AI will now roam throughout Perilous Space, previously being unable to roam past Danger Factor 300.
• Easter Huge Rat AI will now roam throughout Perilous Space, previously being unable to roam past Danger Factor 350.
• Holiday AI will no longer spawn in Wild Space.
• The Friar's Lantern, Jack O Lantern, Ignis Fatuus, New Blood Vampyre, and Count Vampyre AI will no longer appear in Earthforce Space. A bug caused them to previously spawn there.
• Added the following new permanent holiday holoprojectors available for purchase using their existing temporary holoprojectors and Space Points from Friedman station in Free Market:
  • Christmas Ghost Facade
  • Halloween Ghost Facade
  • Witch's Decoction Facade
  • Witch's Drink Facade
  • Witch's Elixer Facade
  • Witch's Hat Facade
  • Witch's Potation Facade
  • Witch's Remedy Facade
  • Witch's Tincture Facade
• Timotheus the Red, Angre, and Cybernetic Gonzales will now include autopilot links in their location shouts.
• The Feline Familiars from Halloween in late Earthforce Space / Perilous Space have had their shielding reduced by 50%.
• The Feline Familiars from Halloween in Kalthi Depths have had their shield reduced by 50% and their shield regeneration reduced by 75%.
• The Halloween Ghosts and Christmas Ghosts in late Earthforce Space / Perilous Space have had their shielding reduced by 50%.
• The Halloween Ghosts and Christmas Ghosts in Kalthi Depths have had their shielding reduced by 60% and their shield regeneration reduced by 77%.

• AI may now take more pot shots if they can't hit their primary target.
• New slide off mechanic for Drones and Stations:
  • Player Stations will now slowly slide off other Player Stations and AI Stations if they get placed or tractored on top of another.
  • Drones will now somewhat quickly slide off AI Stations, Player Stations, planets, moons and other drones if they are deployed on or tractored on top of them. If a Station is dragged on top of a drone, the drone will slide away to make room.
  • Drones will not have their deployment blocked by AI Stations, Player Stations, suns, planets, moons or drones. You can deploy your stack of drones all on top of each other and they will slide apart.
• New behavior for tractoring and knocking back stations and drones.
  • Allows for smooth of tractoring drones and Player Stations
  • Strong friction is applied after an asset is no longer moving
  • Drones have a weight modifier that makes them heavier then their item form so that they are not tractored as easily or knocked around as easily.
• Updated Resonating mod description on energies concerning fuel usage.
• Clarified Amorphous and Sleek mod descriptions to affect 'Total Weight' instead of just 'Weight'.

• Fixed spelling error for Resonating mod description.
• Fixed a bug where tractored drones where jumping all over because of client desync issues.
• Fixed a bug where user bases were jumping while being tractored because of client desync issues.
• Fixed a bug where hotbar is blank upon joining the universe the first time.
• Fixed a bug where NB mission rewards would NB all of an existing stack. Made it so cargo and non-cargo items won't stack in certain stuations.
• The Guardian Ambushers during the Olympus Messenger Quarters mission chain will no longer be able to dock at the local stations.
• Fixed a bug where rewired mod on stacked shields and energies wasn't mathing right.

• Uncommon quality and up now can have 8 mods. Junk and Common are limited to 3 mods.
• Mods power scale on quality with Rare quality being the previous baseline.
• Consuming an item to Neuroforge on a Legendary or an Exalted item gives bonus rolls to that item rather than compound rolls.
• Made it so the left and right choices in the Neuroforge will be different category types and no longer will provide duplicate choices.
• Super Conducting mod renamed to Superconducting.

• All of The Fighting Pits missions now lead to separate instances.
• Carmine Cutter has had the following changes:
  • Minions can no longer spawn with modifications on their items.
  • Carmine's Confounder has been changed to Carmine's Prototype Confounder, which has a much less debilitating debuff effect on the shockwave.
• Scarra the Crimson has had the following changes:
  • Boss now has ~40% less shields.
  • Minions no longer spawn with augmenters or modifications, their damage has been increased to compensate.
  • Boss has had her own version of a bullet spray added to her super rotation.
  • Scarra's drones last 10x as long and are 60% less resistant to damage.
• Scarra and Carmine no longer drop uncommon items when killed, they now drop Obscure Doubloons.
• Blueprints from Scarra the Crimson and Carmine Cutter have had their Obscure Doubloon requirements reduced to 1/10 their values.

• The Cybernetic Zebucart can now use the Steam Zebucart and Steam Zebucart Mark 2 skins.
• Empyrean Total Eclipse now uses Grand Empyrean Eclipse bosses' model with extra spikes.
• Easter and Halloween Rats will now wiggle around like normal Space Rats.
• EarthForce Space layer has been renamed to Earthforce Space.
• Added new Content Guide entries related to Player Station building:
  • Building: Station Management Skill
  • Building: Station Deployment and Solarbody Scanning
  • Building: Feeding Workers
  • Building: Trade Skills
  • Building: Extraction and Industry
  • Building: Mining Bots and Asteroids
  • Building: Upgrading and Demolishing Stations
  • Building: Permanent Drones
  • Building: Planetary Colonies
  • Building: Skill Training
  • Building: Team HQ and Outposts
  • Building: Wild Space Ownership

• Adjusted various skill spacing, spelling and description issues.

• Removed Trepidation Frigate Reformation Blueprint exchange.
• Honey Badger Drone Blueprint no longer costs Adamanturized Rage Augmenter and reduced Prawn Pieces from 32 to 16, Zebra Armada Crests reduced from 25 to 12.
• Hybrid Kidd Drone Blueprint and Mad Kidd Drone Blueprint had Prawn Pieces reduced from 24 to 16, Zebra Armada Crests reduced from 25 to 12.
• Heavy Kidd Drone Blueprint had Prawn Pieces increased from 5 to 16, Towels increased from 1 to 3, and added a cost of 12 Zebra Armada Crests .
• Honey Badger Incinerator was improperly set to T22 on a Honey Badger Drone that was T21. The weapon stats have been lowered accordingly.
• Fixed the quality of the Mercury cloaks to Exotic and increased the -Weight augmod slightly to make them attractive upgrades.
• Removed UrQa tag from Apollo Augmenter.
• Fixed the quality of the Singular Jupiter Thruster from Rare to Exotic.
• Junkyard Neurotweaks are no longer neurobound. Will only affect new purchases.
• Fixed tech level of Junkyard Light Feet Pill from 10 to 5.
• Removed Fertile from most of the Subspace parasites.
• Small Warp Beacon has been given a stronger shield and a new shield capacitor to increase its survivability.
• Removed repeatable Transwarp Device missions from Beta Antares and put them for sale in the trade bay. The initial missions for half-priced Transwarp Devices are still available.
• Fixed Bule Abadi Spectre X's inbuilt Bule Systems Jammer: updated its weapon debuffs and visuals including new victim injection visual.
• Removed Advanced HQ Defense Field from the Advanced Demented Team HQ and Advanced Adamantium Team HQ, as the buffs they provided were already present on the improved field generators found on these station kits.
• Removed Royal Rat Gland commodity, obtained from Halloween Plaguespace. They are no longer needed to access Broodmother's Lair.

• Reduced the cost of DWO Drone Research mission from 3 Gigantic Halved Antimatter to 1.
• The mission "Shipment of Armageddon Laser+" now gives experience like all other trader missions.
• Improved summaries on the Making Improvements mission chain in Beta Antares, including informing of the Danger Factor roaming range for Earthforce patrol ships.
• Blue Empire missions requiring various essences will now also require a radiation kill and capture on the relevant targets. This should help make it more obvious that one of the objectives isn't simply to capture but also turn in a special commodity from the captured ship.

• Nullifier Shield is now locked in position in front of Matriarch Aurora.
• Gurujana Ekam's three minions (Hantr, Raurava, and Zarkara) will now properly fight and can be killed. They will now despawn after several minutes of inactivity. They will now have spawn and despawn visual/audio effects. As before, they cannot drop their respective augmenters. The augmenters only drop from the Equipment 22 fight against Zarkara Adhara in the Bila Dvarata rift.
• Reduced the number of fighters roaming EarthForce capital ships, Massifs and Hives can launch down 2-4 and adjusted ship stats.
• Changed the drops of Perilium in Empyrean bosses to Perilium Pieces.
• Dark Diablo's Gremmer Minion's weapon now has a special visual with increased range and reduced rate of fire.
• The Captive Green Battleship and Captive Wattage in Arena 1 of Olympus should now focus on attacking each other instead of Ares Spectators.
• The wreckages in Zeus's area of Olympus have had their visuals and sizes updated to conform to their modern values.
• The Alien Defense Alliance team will now use the Earthforce flag.
• Roaming and boss Aveksaka teams will all use the correct flag now.
• Roaming Kalthi teams will use the correct flag now.
• Roaming Olympus teams will use the correct flag now.
• Bonnet Bulk Traders can no longer drop Blue Interceptor Augmenters. They will now spawn with a random augmenter in place of it.
• Added player presence check to Samgrahaka Saahistha minibosses in the Subspace boss rifts. This will prevent them from deploying drones prior to the player's arrival to that part of the rift.
• The following changes were made to Mother:
  • Mother's projectile weaponry is now much more visible.
  • Mother's aura will no longer disable possession's engines. They will now receive a -90% Thrust penalty instead. Main ships continue to have engines disabled.
  • Mother's room now has a friction cloud, which will strongly push things back towards the center.
• Added Amethyst Panel and Pyrite Panel to drop from Purple/Orange Emperor in Prism Empires.
• Remove inbuilts from the Imperiled Scutelogica to prevent it spaming its All Hands on Deck superitem in Paxian Stronghold and annoy players with the Hyper Beam Charge sound it makes.
• Omega Platform and Super Omega Platform AI have had their station radiation fields removed. This will fix their energy issues as well.
• Super Omega Battlestation, Loyal Hive, Branding Claw, and Undomesticated Sahvitra have had their station radiation fields removed. Kalthi Depths DG Bosses with station radiation fields will still have them.
• Significantly increased the trigger radius of the Paxian Expedition spawner in Prism.
• The Bhisaj Sahistha in Vihara Sas (Shielding 22 miniboss) will no longer repeat shield remodulation damage types, until all three available damage types have been picked once and has galaxy chat shouts for when its shield remodulation occurs, similar to Vaidya (Shielding 22 boss).
• Janayitri Sahistha (Piloting 22) will only become killable after Janayitri Antu Catur is killed, now requiring all four to be destroyed.
• Changed Angre and Gonzales shouts for too many players to be every 10 minutes instead of every 1 minute.
• Subspace boss rifts will now be owned by the relevant Aveksaka teams.

• Transwarp Beacon in Kumari is now teamless (hopefully to address missing on transwarp menu bug) and doubled its size.
• The Jungle boss rifts now have standard rift visuals in place of their old wormhole visuals.
• Jungle wormholes have had their sizes increased to match typical wormholes.
• Wolf 359 is now properly owned by Earthforce.
• Added spawn/despawn effects to various AI throughout the game.
• Removed target name from Barbe Bleu's shout on fight start. This was causing the shout to become blank.
• Lowered the suns throughout Prism Empires, to prevent ships from flying underneath them.
• Changed suns in Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity from M class to be K class to improve player vision in these areas.
• Holiday Hub's wormholes will now use typical names, including a fixed name for Easter Warren.
• Moved Mega Moe item exchanges from The Junkyard to Graveyard.
• Nexus AI Stations have had their vending lists fixed, offering a wide selection of ships and equipment once more.
• Plasma Vents weapon now available for purchase throughout Nexus.
• Flamlite added to Arctia AI Station.
• Fixed Swirlation item exchange in Lyceum to no longer require itself and the materials required on the blueprint.
• Removed Plasma Capacitor mission item drops from Arctia and Vulcan AI, used for an Engineer mission and intended only to drop from Blue Pirates.
• The ambush spawners used during the Siege of Mzungu Angani mission have had their trigger distance increased greatly.
• The ambush spawners used during the Siege of Mzungu Angani will now announce their spawn in Galaxy chat in addition to Event chat.
• The 'Giant Asteroid!' mission's repeatable version now requires the original mission to be completed before becoming accessible.
• The 'Vazaha Defense' mission changed from 4 to 3 Iq' UrQa Guard kills to complete.
• Increased shields on the Earthforce capital ship roamers, minus the Interdiction Frigate which will receive a reduction.

• Tractoring hate is now based off the power of the tractor instead of being always a flat 25 hate.
• Trade bots can no longer use galaxy scanners.
• Added a check that prevents skills from passing on to Fighters/Missiles launched from Stations.
• End of the Universe event now correctly delays the ownership buffer and extraction modifiers until one week is left

• Fixed a crash when using an item while a ship isn't in a galaxy.
• Dark Kobaldstein's mechanics have been fixed. He will now properly cycle through different attack modes with associated shouts and actions.
• The Alien Defense Alliance has sourced new bomb triggers for the Paxian Bombs used against Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22). They will now detonate properly as before.
• Fixed broken Fallen Mine spawner in Fallen Minelayer fight in Ruined Sanctuary.
• Removed target name from Earthforce Captive from Infernal Tempest' Infernal Confinement shout upon being attacked. This was causing the shout to become blank.

• Added new missions, loot and instances for Red Outpost.

• 20th Anniversary Zebucart skin added to game.
• Added new skin for ships that drop from Matriarch Aurora.
• Fixed a bug that prevented middle mouse click to work on tables.
• Added new context menu with Autopilot, Avoid Galaxy and Avoid Team to the Galaxy map for right clicking on a galaxy. The previous functionality of centering on a galaxy is now double right click.
• Added the ability to search items by Hull Restrictions, "Station" (type and station locked gear), "Industry" (station type items outside of blueprints and kits)
• Rift Difficulty now displays on main Squad dialog directly above Set Rift Difficulty button. Currently this only shows the correct difficulty for the squad leader.

• Added 20th Anniversary holos to the game.

• Fix things like \ from becoming a squad link, expects to find at least a single number after \

• Right clicking a squad link now copies it to chat for easier sharing (previously left and right click both joined squad).

• Moved "Choose between ships" text element behind "Barf's" button to prevent players from being unable to click part of the button in Ships tab.

• Corrected Class toggle label cutting off text in the F10 menu.

• Renamed Test 1 to "Public Test Server" for future preparation of a dedicated player test server. Will be a post announcing when this is ready.

• Seer no longer has a Warp Navigation bonus as part of it's skills. Any seers on login will automatically get the appropriate level of warp navigation they had.

• Adjusted Academy Thatch, Gelato, Thatch, Singularity Sphere and Merchant Navy Contriver Vis, Reflectivity and Diameter as they were missed during the freighter size changes.

• Red Drone has had new Shield, Weapons, and Energy for the Red Drone. This will result in a removal in augmods, increased shield bank and energy bank but less energy and shield regen, the weapons now have On Hit effects (the beam has Splash and the pulse has AoE). Increased the Mobility Factor of the Red Drone from 200 to 300.

• Adjusted Red Caiprianha, Salvation, Blocker to be 30 second duration tweaks with 90 second cooldowns. The magnitudes of their effects have been changed to reflect their increased duration. Their secondary effect applies immediately upon using the tweak instead of after a delay.

• Adjusted Red Afterburner tweak to apply a forced thrust effect.

• Red Tweak now lasts for 1 hour and grants 7.5% Hull Space as well.

• Replaced Transference Efficiency with Damage, Transference Power, or Critical Hit Strength on Expanders, Ship Hulls, Overloaders, Shields, Solar Panels, and Engines. Replaced Transference Efficiency with Rate of Fire on Transferences.

• Corrected Panther Instinct and Primal Panther Instinct's descriptions (sense -> sensed).

• Added text to Anatolian Crown and removed double punctuation on Anatolian Trade Orders.

• A rotating blocker auto equipped to all CnC kits sticky that activate while the CnC is damaged and give -80% damage taken for 60 seconds on a 180 seconds charge time.

• Reduced the On Hit effect damage of the Bounce effect from 125% to 100%. Some of the weapons this effects are: Empyreal Extracting Cannon, Empyreal Solar Pulse, Celestial Heavy Autopiercer, Celestial Autopiercer, Celestial Particle Cannon, Experimental Celestial Autopiercer, Luminous Destabilizing Implosion Rigidifier, Operative's Blaster, Grand Eclipse, Extracting Bombard, Angre's Demolisher.

• Station Weapon:

  • Super Lasers have had their DPS increased, DPE decreased, and Range increased

  • X/Y/Z Lasers have had their Range and AoE range increased.

  • MagCannons have had their DPS increased, DPE decreased, and Range increased.

  • Note: The Annihilator Cannon and Adamantiumized Heavy Cannon have NOT had their range increased.

• Blue Photon Fore Missile Tubes item has been deleted. While it was already removed from the Blue Photon Corvette ship, this will remove any existing unremovable copies left.

• Halloween line of Pumpkin Seed tweaks now last for 7.5 seconds instead of 20 seconds.

• Added AIONLY tag to the + neurotweaks, used in the generic tweak superitems.

• Removed Oilheart's Afterburner+, Shield Salvation+, and Tiny Power Punch+ neurotweaks from vending list. These were accidentally added to the vending list due to the originals having the TYPE tag set to common, back when it was still used.

• Removed Charge Afterburner neurotweak from vending list, it was created for a superitem to use.

• Changed Halflife of the following commodities to 168 hours:

  • Conclusion Icicle, Xeno Energy Remains, Xeno Shield Remains, Giant Goblets, Gargantuan Goblets.

• Temporal Dipole has been changed on the Cybernetic Zebucart: Instead of a nanite granting bonus damage to specific damage types,  now the item applies a permanent +40% damage bonus tweak when equipped.

• Fixed no start vendor for the "A Beginning of an End" mission in Paxian Foothold galaxy.

• Updated Paxian Foothold Cloaking 23 mission to refer to Cloaking instead of Piloting.

• Strontium-90 mission "\ Kalthi Dungeon Guards" now requires the player to hunt for 30 Super Omega BattleStation instead of 30 Omega BattleStation.

• Fixed Omega BattleStation kills for Strontium Gold missions not counting.

• Qu'ishi Qa now has reduced the respawn time during the final phase's Envelopment circling drones and added a one time blocker to the start of this phase.

• The Vihara Dvarata instance's wormholes to Vihara Dve and Vihara Tra in Vihara Ekam have been swapped around to their correct positions as per the map and their corresponding wormhole positions in Vihara Katur.

• The Vihara Dvarata instance's Vihara Tra gal now properly locks the exit until all nearby enemies are eliminated, and will update its visual lock status accordingly.

• The Akhara Dvarata instance's early encounter with Rajanicaravizvadrz and Rajanicaragupta in Akhara Tra will now play a warpout sound effect and properly display a visual portal effect when they retreat to their arenas, and they can no longer be killed early (this did not give loot or affect their later fights).

• Aveksaka in all Subspace boss instances and in Avidhi Sas now have floating text when they shout.

• The Kandara Dvarata instance boss Mahazaya Var Indrakoza now has proper punctuation on its shouts.

• The Vihara Dvarata instance boss Vaidya will no longer enrage prior to entering their arena, allowing players to safely enter as originally intended.

• The Praheti that transform into Sahvitra, found in some Subspace boss instances and other areas' asteroid belts, will no longer spam a brake tweak every few seconds after their first evolution. That egg form is now named Praheti Sahvitra.

• Adjusted various boss shouts to be floaty additional to galaxy chat.

• Fixed issue with Sun in Saros mini before Grand Empyrean Eclipse not working for OOC.

• Adjusted the Cybernetic Zebucart and Masala King roamers:

  • Both bosses have much higher respawn rates

  • Both bosses no longer globally shout when they respawn or upon killing a player. Their other global shouts remain.

  • Both bosses have a new mechanic that will cause them to reset and recenter upon being far away from the center of the galaxy they are being fought in.

  • Speedy Gonzales' vulnerability phases have been changed.

• Empyrean Weekly Boss kill mission will auto starts on entry to Celestial Encampment.

• Added a bunch of additional planet and moon names to universe generation.

• Drastically increased damage of Fuzz.

• Non-PVP galaxies should prevent Tweak Inflicting Item from applying negative effects if shooter and target are player objects

• Torpedos should now follow the same z-motion as plasma, except only moving on Z after they start tracking.

• The four NCC-Bulk and NCC-Special skins (Indigo Beige NCC, Jet Eminence NCC, Cerise Purple NCC, Coquelicot Sea NCC) are no longer available for purchase due to a technical issue with the skins and the tinting system they use. These have been refunded and removed from accounts that currently have them.

• Fixed Aurora bubble visuals on Matriarchal Overwhelming Fury to match the tweak time.

• Bots will now refuse to RTS scoop PVP items.

• Fixed a bug where tractor could remain on when the source is in stasis.

• Irradiated ships that placed Fires or Parasites on targets prior to being irradiated will no longer block OOC.

• Previously invisible Lightning Bolt missiles from Olympus will now have a yellow particle trail as their visual.

Announcement: 20th Anniversary Event

Help us celebrate twenty years of Star Sonata! With our little game completing its second decade, we feel it’s only right to run an equally spectacular event to commemorate the occasion! We’ve done so many events over the years but the most storied and popular was the “PvP Server” event of 2020. So, we would like to formally announce Star Sonata’s 20th Anniversary Event: A ten-day fresh start server on temporary characters with the rate of progression turned up to 11. This event will run from June 13th to June 23rd.

The Rundown

Here’s what you need to know about the upcoming celebration (more details to follow as the event gets closer):

• The event will run from June 13th to June 23rd 2025.

• You will log in to your regular account, but on a separate server labeled “Event” in the server drop down. The Live server will continue as normal.

• On the Event server, your account starts with no characters. Any characters you create will be completely fresh at level zero. These characters will only exist on the Event server and won’t migrate to the Live server afterwards. You don’t have to worry about overwriting anything on Live.

• You can create as many characters on the Event server as your account normally allows.

• Pay to Play and Free to Play statuses will be copied from Live. If you would like to subscribe, do so in the usual way and your subscription status will immediately copy over to the Event server.

• Standard restrictions for Pay to Play and Free to Play will apply on the Event server.

• All character and team names will be available and are first come first serve!

• Remember that any characters you create on the Event server will not be saved once the event ends. Any items you collect, stations you built, and skills you trained will be lost.

• There will be no web based features for characters on the Event server.

• Experience gain, item drop rates, lockout rates, construction rate and colony tick speeds will all be greatly increased!

• The server will be a full-featured universe with all skills, zones and bosses accessible. However, Warp Navigation skill levels will be time gated to set the pace during the early part of the event.

• There will be individual, teamwide and server-wide goals to complete, with various rewards on the Live server for completing them! These will be detailed later. Any individual awards will be cosmetic in nature.

• To get into the retro spirit of the event, the Earthforce layer will be PvP enabled (except for the protected galaxies around Sol).

The follow on post will give specifics on the timeline of the event as well details on the goals and rewards.

I hope you are excited as we are to celebrate twenty years of Star Sonata!

• Fixed description of Resonating mod on energy to state the usual shield/radar effect in addition to the half chance to use fuel.
• The rate at which you are offered the option to swap your Enhanced mod goes down as the Enhancement level of the mod goes up.
• Options to swap secondary mods, remove secondary mods, or add a new secondary mod, will be offered more as you are at higher levels of enhancement.

• See Link
  • Not noted in the blog post: Influence is no longer lost upon joining a team.

• Added new Squad Link feature in Squad menu for creating an clickable invite link in chat.
• Added 8 skins to the Cybernetic Zebucart, 2 of which are exclusive to it.
• Added new skin for Ruined ships called Neon Nightmares.

• Ranger:
  • Sniper empowered shot changes:
    • Critical Hit Chance used in damage calculation is now reduced by targets Critical Hit Resistance.
    • No longer benefits from Critical Hit Chance greater than 100% (after the reduction from Critical Hit Resistance)
    • Beam hits do empowered damage to collision code targets, like projectiles already did
  • Re-added 10% Damage per level for Heavy Fighters on True Grit skill.
    • Ranger still retains the 7 total marks
  • Ranger marks now decay every 5s after the first decay at 40s (while no new ones are being applied), instead of 40 seconds per mark.
• Speed Demon:
  • Overdrive energy charge no longer dissipates on jump.
• Shield Monkey:
  • When a Shield Monkey deals transference damage to a target, the shields they gain via stealing are not mitigated by the resistances of that target.
    • The damage dealt is mitigated by both the target’s shield stealing resistance and beam resistance.
    • Both damage dealt and shields gained are still mitigated by class based mitigation mechanics, Like  Speed Demon’s glance and Berserker’s frontal shield.
  • In the last patch we adjusted the rate at which shield stealing does damage and restores shields. These values were reverted to what they were before they were changed. You can see these values on the Shield Monkey Class 3 skill.
  • Made it so Transference Power auras will affect how much damage is done with a Shield Monkey Enveloper
  • Shield stealing self healing is no longer reduced by stealing resists.
  • The Shield Monkey Enveloper can only give up to 10% of the Shield Monkey’s current shield bank as bonus damage per shot.
  • Shield stealing resistance mechanic has been refactored. Resistances should now be consistent in both effect and how they are displayed to players.
• Berserker:
  • 33% of On-Hit effect damage is used for Lifesteal from the Berserker Shield Redistribution Device.
  • 0% of Damage Over Time effect damage is used for Lifesteal from the Berserker Shield Redistribution Device.

• Faranji Flower Power, Empyreal Extracting Cannon, Empyreal Solar Pulse, Celestial Heavy Autopiercer, Celestial Particle Cannon, Luminous Destabilizing Implosion Rigidifier, Operative's Blaster, Korbolko's Quantum Breath, Grand Eclipse Extracting Bombard, Angre's Demolisher changed to 2 bounces from 6.Their DPS, DPE, bounce range, and damage multiplier on bounces have been adjusted as well.
• Mini Madness has been changed from an aura generator to a super item, and requires a super item slot. Its effect remains unchanged.
• Angre's Garam Masala has had the following changes:
  • Changed the -Recoil buff from -20% to -40%, this makes the tweak about ~10% better used on cooldown than Perilous Burst with neurotweaking, instead of being ~7% worse.
• Various Scanners now list the Max Speed Difference for scanning on the item description now.
• The following Fighters have had their radar stats increased: Bulker Guard Fighter, Bulker Light Fighter, Bulldog Light Fighter, Dachshund Light Fighter, Dolius Hermes, Domesticated Killer Wasp, Greenish Fighter, Panther Kitten Fighter, Tamed Wasp, Terrier Light Fighter, Whippet Light Fighter, Vulture Hatchling, Condor Hatchling, Hawk Hatchling, Roc Hatchling, Harrier Hatchling, Caracara Hatchling, Kalthi Redeemer, Blue Photon Shrike, Blue Photon Raptor, Death Winger, Leopard's Kitten, Kidd's Henchman, Nightfury Hatchling, Crystal Shard Fighter, Red Fighter.
• Red Cell has had the following changes:
  • Shield Recharge increased from 2% to 5%. Increased Radar from 5% to 7.5%.
• Red Drone, Red Phaser, Red Fighter, Red Displacer have been adjusted.
• Cybernetic Zebu has had the following changed to its super items:
  • Temporal Dipole no longer randomly deducts shields twice. Only deducts 10% current shields instead of 20% when cycling.
  • Causal Domain Device has 10 second debuff duration increased from 5 second. Transference vulnerability and shield recharge debuff increased from -33.3% to -50%. Electricity needed increased by 100%.
• Outpost drone is no longer able to be acquired and has been made a temporary drone.
• Operative's Escorting Field has had its Critical Immunity effect removed (Effect did not work as expected).
• Several Ship Scanners with 'Ship Scanner' labels have been updated to 'Ship Item Scanner' and 'Ship Hull Scanner'.
• Matriarchal Overwhelming Fury no longer consumes current shields when used.
• Nightfury's Burst tweak has had its stats cut in half, its Unique With Damage Tweak status removed, and its quality level changed to Uncommon.
• Red Loop Pill had its Recoil increased from -20% to -25%.
• Red Glow Pill had Energy Charge Increased from +120 to +240, added -5% Beam Vulnerability for 5 minutes.
• Pax Scutum's All Hands on Deck superitem is now Unique With Damage Tweaks, and can be unequipped.
• Cybernetic Nullifier Shell's Matriarchal Blessing superitem is now Unique With Damage Tweaks, and can be unequipped.
• Bhisaj'ayu Shield Overcharger superitem is now Unique With Damage Tweaks, and can be unequipped.
• Cybernetic Nullifier Shell's Matriarchal Blessing superitem description reflects how actually works in it only affects self.

• Improved summary on 'Making Improvements' mission line in Beta Antares.
• Added additional clarifying text to some low level missions that unlock Item Exchanges.

• Reduced the shields of most AI in the Nexus.
• Added Celestial Blueprint Cache - Primary/Secondary/Tertiary to Celestial Encampment trade in via AC to acquire rare blueprints in exchange for Primordial Tokens.
• Jungle Crests for Mentions are now a one time mission and now are an item exchange in the AI Station.
• Cybernetic Gonzales has been reworked.
• Fixed trade in for "The Fast and the Pulsius" incorrectly taking "Xeno Energy" instead of "Xeno Energy Remains".

• Paxian Foothold is marked as a Special galaxy on the galaxy map.

• Made the stated Shield Stealing resistance in the ship scanner reflect diffusers and auras, but not beam resist.
• Made Resistance to Damage aug stat not give Transference Resistance.
• Shield Stealing resist will now be sent to your ship window as your Transference Resistance(resist towards healing is still a separate line item).
• Added message for how many shields a ShM stole if you have /showdamage on.

• Rounding calculated weapon slots down to the nearest 0.1 to address the error where the client and the error messages think you have enough weapon slots for another half weapon, but you don't actually.
• Universe shortcuts should no longer be able to randomly choose the same from/to gal twice.
• Fixed a bug with torpedo tracking when moving while shooting.
• Fixed range restriction on Targeting Computer not being enforced.

• New Red Outpost bosses and loot next universe.

• Moved AI Stations to new galaxies away from the entrance.
• Added Fragmented Imperial Signet turn in for 1000 Imperial Strand.
• Imperial Strands acquirement method will be explained closer to the Emperor contest.

• Added 3 new skill unlocks:
  • Galaxy Builder Neural Boost (100 SP): Increase Station Management to 20, Combat Bot Tweaking to 30, Station Tweaking to 18, Programming to 60, and Drone Research, Bot Research and Station Research to 5. Your character needs to be at least level 1000 to unlock this.
  • Sonata Degree Neural Boost (50 SP):  Increase Infinite Knowledge to 20, Advanced Transwarp Navigation and Transwarp Turbocharging to 5, Astral Injection to 10, Nanotech Plating to 25, and Piracy to 20. Your character needs to be at least level 1000 to unlock this.
  • Master Neural Boost (180 SP): Level your character up to level 1000 and gain all the skills from the Core Skills Neural Boost, Galaxy Builder Boost, and Sonata Degree Boost. Your need a character of at least level 1000 on your account to unlock this.

• Added support to Colony screen for right click context menu with "Add to Trade Bay" and "Market Check".
• Added "?" icon to the transwarp menu to highlight hotkeys and a close window box.
• Previous Modifier (defaulted to Shift) + double click now selects all of the same type within the galaxy. (Drones, Stations, Combat Bots, Trade Bots, Wild Bots)
• Previous Modifier (defaulted to Shift) + triple click now select all assets within the galaxy.
• Fix for right click -> transfer being incorrect order due to a bug.
• Added toggle to Display section of options to disable Mouse Wheel Zoom.
• Adjusted Ship Stats window's spacing.

• Shield Monkey:
  • Shield Monkey Enveloper and Advanced Shield Monkey Enveloper: Shield Monkey enveloping shot is now from ShM class skill 2, with a more advanced version of it as the advanced subskill.
  • Swapped Shield Monkey skills 2 and 3 stats.
  • Added your flashing shield bar when you do a ShM enveloping shot.
  • Added an effect when you start shooting with ShM enveloping effect
  • Enveloping Monkey advanced subskill allows for a better ShM enveloper and allows your deployed temp drones to get the effect of your equipped enveloper.
  • Shield stealing will use most vulnerable of the targets resists, rather than having no resists, but will not gain vulnerability for extra damage.
  • Shield Stealing now does 50% less damage but self heals for the same amount as before.
• Gunner:
  • Gunner Targeting Computer takes 33% electricity instead of 20% for every extra shot, and has a 15 second cooldown instead of a 60 second cooldown.
• Ranger:
  • Removed the 10% damage from each level of True Grit. Gave Marksman an extra mark on each level instead.
  • Updated the skill description with the new amount of mitigation per mark now that the ranger has 7 marks.3.33% mitigation per mark -> 2.85% mitigation per mark. There is no change in mitigation when at total marks.
  • Empowered shots on Beams now use the proper formula instead of the old critical hit way.
• Speed Demon:
  • Speed Demon Target Tracker has had its Duration increased to 10 seconds, and its Charging Time reduced to 20 seconds. It has also gained a 10 second evasion bonus on activation/refresh
  • Note: The Target Tracker will now cause Torpedoes to launch towards the target when active.
  • Removed the Speed Demon Escort Device.
  • Speed Demon Overdrive Device has been changed, it is now an equipable item with 2 modes that can be toggled via using the item. It will also automatically enter Discharge Mode when full, and Charge Mode when empty. In Charge Mode, it stores 40% of the firing energy of your active weapon when that weapon hits a target. In Discharge Mode it offsets a portion of the energy costs that would come from your energy bank from the device's capacitance instead, scaling up as your current energy bank decreases. While Discharge Mode is active, your weapons will gain 35% more damage.
  • Speed Demon Class 3 now Mitigates up to 50% of the damage taken when traveling close to perpendicular to the impact angle. Moving slower than the speed of the impact lessens the effect. Note: If the impact is from a projectile the speed of the projectile is used, if the impact is from a beam the speed of the firer of the beam is used.

• Updated Transference Control's description to reflect that it doesn't do anything at this time.

• Increased Damage Multiplier of On Hit weapon effects by 1.25x.
• Quantumly Attuned Temporal Tracker's for Angre the Spice Baron and Cybernetic Gonzales will decay after 15 minutes.
• Reduced Angre's Garam Blend's rate of fire bonus from -50% to -22.48%.
• Jungle Spirit augmenters now cost 1 Honorary Mentions instead of 2 Jungle Armada Crests.
• Zauron's Mask and Heart of Sol are now size 0 and shipbound, instead of unequipable. Zauron's Mask now grants 2000 visibility when equipped just like Heart of Sol.
• Fleet Commander locked fighter super items (Commander's, Captain's, Admiral's, Chelonic Call) only effect fighters launched by the user.
• Bunkered Offense Protocol super item on Kalthi Armored Deployer only effects drones deployed by the user.
• Empyreal Zenith's Coalition Regenerative Field Emitter now only effects drones deployed by the user.
• Chelonic Call can no longer be equipped with another Aggressive Protocol.
• Colony Industrial Commodity value increased by 100%.
• Commodities used to make T0 Active IC's have had their Half-lives' increased to 168 hours.
• Matriarchal Overwhelming Fury now has a 40 second cooldown, its bonuses last 7 seconds, and it removes 30% of current shields instead of 35%
• Torpedoes
  • The damage, speed, DPE, burn time and range of regular Torpedoes (ex. Titan Torpedo) has been adjusted. They should be much more reliable to use now, and some may have less DPS.
  • Thoraxes and Clenches have a 1 second shorter Engine delay.
  • Rockets have increased DPS and tracking.
  • Bombs have increased projectile speed and tracking.

• Removed erroneous mission lock on Aveksaka that required killing Ruby Carriers.

• Blue Photon Test Range will no longer give a PvP warning upon entering the rift.
• Angre, Gonzales and their minions no longer will spawn with augmenters or mods.
• And Angre’s minions had diffusers removed and the Chai fighters had their shield bank and shield regen reduced.
• Removed Energy / Laser Diffuser drops from Basils.

• Cybernetic Gonzales and Angre the Spice Baron's mobs now despawn if they do.
• Buffed KD DG Minions (Lots of minions were adjusted, some in small ways others in bigger ways)
• Nerfed KD DG Bosses (Most of these were made to have less shield regeneration but more bank, there should be more variety in the bosses and difference between banky bosses and regenerative bosses).
• Increased the drop rate of Slumber Augmenters from roaming Slumberchrome variants by a factor of 5-10 and removed them dropping from DG versions.
• Increased the drop rate of Slumber Augmenter to guaranteed on Slumber Muncher.
• Increased the drop rate of Herbal Sensor Blueprint from roaming Basils by a factor of ten.

• Augmenter drops are now the same category as other debris for targeting.
• Added new dev support for more advanced scripting for future bosses.
• Using a fighter bay to recall fighters now returns 75% of the launch energy scaled with the remaining flight time.
• Removed the mechanic where drones would recharge their shields in your inventory. They just get set back to full shields.
• Upgraded the ship window to make the ship stats more legible.
• Adjusted Boss reset logic when players are using stealth to prevent a reset.
• Ai/bots now dock at 80% of the player max docking distance (based on ship/base sizes), instead of a static 50 distance.
• Pinned item can no longer be consumed by Neuroforging.
• Added "Shield stealing resist" to ship scanner output for Shield Monkeys.
• Added "Resist All" info to ship scanner output.

• Potential fix for major desynchs for both player and AI caused by grem effects.
  • These could have been caused from anything from AI super items to player grem weapons.
• Empowered shot with large negative crit chance can no longer cause negative damage
• Fixed several spelling errors in various places of "neccessary".
• Wormhole check for PvP entering a safe area now checks for Public Instances.
• Fixed missing space typo in the 'Report back to' mission message.
• Fixed an issue with Matriarch Aurora's phase 2 weapon disable not working during one of the phases.
• Fixed the Galactic Control team skill's description, the number of gals ownable with lvl 0 is 30 not 20.
• A mission that reward a skill the player already has will no longer fail to complete and instead will skip the skill reward with an event error message about it.

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• Gonzales the Cyber Demon has been added as a Kalthi Depths roamer.

• The shield bar no longer flickers when looking at something being damaged that you have never targeted.
• Added search bars to Ships tab when docked at a station and the Possessions tab under the Character menu.
• Adjusted the right click -> transfer context menu order of ships to reflect the sorting of the ships tab.

• Updated the description for Seer’s Shadow Ambush and Brooding Gaze to be more descriptive
• Trade bots no longer get the Zen of Ranger bonus.
• Removed several unlisted instances of Ranger retaining old Sniper projectile impact and projectile speed modifiers.

• Adjusted the Grand Empyreal Destabilizer, it now disables weapons of enemies for 3 seconds and then increases their weapon recoil by 50% for 7 seconds.

• Updated “It’s a Trap” mission to be clear that the player needs to go near the E.F.V. Sovereign to cause the waves of mobs to spawn. Fixed misnamed ambush mobs that caused them to not count as kills for the mission.
• Temporal Trackers are now offered via missions when progressing through the Red Rogue storyline in Paxian Foothold.
• "Optional: Angre the Spice Baron" mission has been changed to "Temporal Hijinks". This mission requires players to gather Damaged Peacekeeper Equipment, and kill 1 of each of the Kalthi Depths DG bosses.

• Angre the Spice Baron has significantly more shields and does more damage, is immune to damage when his minibosses spawn, and Manuel de Castro and James Plantain must both be dead for Angre to start taking damage again. Angre now begins despawning as soon as he is engaged, instead of starting to despawn when 5+ players are present.
• Added Soul Beam to DG/Uber drop list.
• Only Arsonist now gives a lockout when fighting in Rumble Colosseum. Mobs in the instance now longer spawn with augmenters.
• Several Spice Pirate ships no longer spawn with diffusers.
• Increased the cooldown on the Empyreal Equinox's warp device.
• Removed Speed Demon skill from Handmaidens and replaced with appropriate augmods to prevent extreme damage when multiple tweaks are used.
• Infernal Tempest and Infernal Darkness will no longer give PvP warnings upon entering the rifts.

• Reduced range and damage of Slumberchromes and MF Slumberchromes.

• Bindomite Changes:
  • Made DG Bindomite drops scale from 10% to 40% depending on DF.
  • Reduced the Bonus Weekend Bindomite bonuses back down to 25% and 100%
• Bots will now value the attack power of DOT (damage over time) weapons higher.
• Seer Remodulator now works against stations and drones.
• The notification showing the start of the Emperor Contest will now be visible three days prior to the start instead of one day.
• Sun vulnerability auras no longer apply to attached bases.

• Fixed several typos in mods.
• Splendid Trove information now correctly indicates it gives Honorary Diplomas in a quantity of 5 per cache.
• Fixed acceleration/turning stats on fighters showing as 0.
• Fixed issue with Temporary Drones not firing at objects with envelopments.
• Fixed a bug where influence could be accrued outside of a emperor contest.
• Targeting computer will no longer fire when the ship is in stasis.

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• Renamed Advanced Targeting Computer to Gunner Targeting Computer. Changed to 10 second duration, 60 second cooldown, and 33% damage extra shots. Capital Ship only. It now automatically fires at target's regardless if the player is.
• Changed Gunner 1 from 60% Damage, 40% Electric Temping and 40% Weapon Hold to 1+ Free Shot in Captial Ship, 25% damage and 40% Weapon Hold
• Added 15% damage to Gunner 3.
• Increased Big Guns from 25% per level to 35%.
• Increased Juice Junkie's Electric Tempering from -10% to -16% per level.
• Destruction increased Damage from 10% per level to 30% per level but lowered mark's ability to increase damage from all other sources from 100% to 50%.
• Aveksaka Targeting Computer now has the same stats as the Gunner Targeting Computer. Note: Will replace the Aveksaka device with a Super Item in the future. It can no longer be acquired until it is replaced with a super item.
• Twisted Fate of Death's Twisted Targeting Computer now has the same stats as the Gunner Targeting Computer. Note: Will replace with a Super Item in the future.
• Bots can no longer use Targeting Computers and have been removed.
• Gunner mark amplified damage in event chat is now tied to /showdamage instead of damage floating message.

• Slightly adjusted the chances of choices.
• Fixed misspelling in "Keep Neuroforging" pop up window.
• Added the list of mods for Neurobounding and Mod Stripping in the text of Item Name.
• Fixed bad description on Dynamic mod for Cloaks. Dynamic gives bonus critical hit chance when ambushed while cloaked.

• Emperor contest no longer distribute rewards relative to influence.
• Player can no longer leave squad while inside the Anatolian layer.
• Team's will lose 2% influence whenever a new member join during the contest period.
• Emperor contest winner now get 8 Imperial Signet..
• Strategos spawn now drop guaranteed 7 Fragmented Imperial Signet while the contest is active and not in overtime.

• Mouse wheel scroll now adjusts zoom of ship.
• Transfer to context menu now sorts options by Alias first and then Ship name second.
• In Ship tab, changed so Alias is sorted first followed by ship name by default.
• Tweak window now allows you to clickthrough it completely other then the small section at the top for dragging it.
• Added search bar to the lockout tab.
• Added "?" icon to the transwarp menu to highlight tips and a close box.

• Fighters and Fighter Bays:
  • Reduced the augmods on Fighter bays and baked those stats into fighters.
  • Overhauled all fighters and they now are hull type "Automation".
  • Added detection, vision, acceleration and turning to Info tooltip for Fighters to help players make better choices.
  • Should result in more survivability for most fighters.
• Solar Panels:
  • Dramatically increased the regen of panels and their size but ships now have less slots. Effectively giving most ships more net more regen without needing as many panels.
  • Non-Station Solar Panels now only charge when within 1k of a sun.
  • Various panel's augmods were increased or adjusted.
  • Solar Panel augmods now stack with multiples of the same item.
  • Slots have been updated to the following:
    • Capital: 7 slots
    • Support Freighter: 5 slots
    • Heavy Fighter: 4 slots
    • Light Fighter: 2 slots
    • Industrial Freighter: 3 Slots
• Reduced the size of Capital Ships and Industrial Freighters.
• Augmenters now display the value for a tenth of a percent.
• Mission Items now blink red and then return to normal commodity box colors instead of turning pitch black.
• Super Phunka's Field Generator Phunky Coaxer is no longer affected by Neurotweaking and has had its speed increased from +20 to +40.
• Mini Madness Field Generator no longer works on trade bots.
• Fixed issue with lack of a space in Iquea WorkshopBlueprint.
• Renamed the Unclear Qi'Uka BluePrint to Unclear Qi'Uka Blueprint.
• The Absolution hull's inbuilt "Absolution Device" has had its Electron Cloud visual opacity reduced from 100% to 25%.
• Astro-Grinch Sleigh, Battle Thatch and Battle Sphere no longer have Multifiring and instead have Damage, Rate of Fire, Critical Hit Strength and Critical Hit Chance stats. Their speed, weight, electric tempering have been buffed as well. They've been given forced aug resets.
• Matriarchal Overwhelming Fury is now 1 size instead of 39.
• Earthforce Blackboxes now decay on universe reset.
• Kalthi Deployer Solar Panel now drops as an item instead of a blueprint. Its quality was reduced from rare to uncommon. The drop rate was dramatically increased.
• External Weapon Mount (T20) will now drop in T20 content instead of T22 content.
• Overloaders can no longer be unequiped while weapon is charging, and must be equipped for at least 200ms.
• Reduced periodic cost of Kalthi Essence on Selenic Crystals Blueprint from 10 to 3.
• Perilous Burst is now -50% Recoil and -25% Range for 2 seconds.
• Red Loop Pill had the following changes: -40% recoil reduced to -20% recoil.
• Removed the +20% Electric Tempering malus on Perilous Burst.
• Fixed a " ' " notation on "Progressively mitigates damage based on attacker's distance.".
• Renamed most Sniper references on items to Ranger.
• Buffed Luminous Iterative Excavation Platform's surgical weapon to have 4x projectile speed and half the projectile spread for roughly -15% DPS.
• Reduced the DPE penalty for Debuff and Control missiles
• Missiles that fire in a single salvo do more damage.
• Removed extra shield the Healer drone had.
• Fixed spelling error on ranger scope description.

• Reorganized the introduction missions for Paxian Foothold, they now send players to the Temporal Interstice to kill a few AI and then immediately send them on a Tracker hunt that progresses them towards the higher tier trackers.
• The "Squadron 492 Ship" wreckages needed to be scanned for the mission "Lost Squadron" in "LACS S1864" will no longer fly around.
• Fixed missing e at end of eclipse in "A Different Kind of Eclipse" mission.

• Fixed an issue with the Matriarch Aurora fighter phases that caused all the fighters at once instead of in ways up to a max.
• Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22) shouts from "Paxian Commander" now float above the Paxian Commander's ship orbiting the arena.
• Any Absolution AI no longer spawn with the hull's inbuilt "Absolution Device".
• The Absolution hull's inbuilt "Absolution Device" has had its Electron Cloud visual opacity reduced from 100% to 25%.
• Termites will no longer ignore abandoned bases.
• Empyreal bosses no longer drop Rare Blueprints, now they drop the actual items from those blueprints. At a later date - blueprints will be added at the station as an item exchange.
• Buffed Qokujii Vazuk (Mira boss) Damage and Resistance to Damage.
• Red Rouge Trackers:
  • Temporal Trackers do not spawn minions that drop loot anymore.
  • The difficulty of the tracked targets has been adjusted, and the Red Rogue Reaver has a longer charge time for its beam attack.
  • Red Rogue Reaver and Captain Redbeard now have very strong fighters.
  • Temporal Quirks and Salvaged Equipment can now drop in crates instead of individually.
  • Uncommon Loot is more common on lower end Trackers, and Rare loot is more common on higher end Trackers.
• Added Single Target T17 and T20 Energy, Mining and Physical missiles to Lyceum Gunner base. (Needs live edit by Admin).
• Added Single Target T23 Energy, Mining and Physical missiles to Paxian Foothold base. (Needs live edit by Admin).

• All AI Stations in Subspace and Mira have been set to infinite visibility.
• All ship-like AI Stations and background effects in Subspace and Mira will now point forward in their orbits. Any in rifts were already working.
• The wormholes in Refuse and Waste have been fixed to be in the correct positions from one another.

• Mission locked Item Exchanges now display the locked mission required completed prior to checking if the player has enough credits to purchase.
• Changed the SPEX purchase message from a notification box (like SAS / Anatolia) into a popup box so its not missed.
• Docking no longer grants instant Out of Combat.
• Weapon slots can no longer go bellow 0.
• Removed unneeded return from Bindomite description.

• Fixed bug that prevented field hospital super item drones from using their transferences.
• Fixed a bug with shield bars being intermittent or not working.
• Potentially fixed a desync when ship acceleration is changed directly by AI attack patterns.
• Fixed several crashes.

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• See Blog Post: Here
• Added ability to Neuroforge items once Neurobinded.
• Existing NB Items can now be Neuroforged.
• The number of mods you can get added with Bindomite is limited up to two.
• Items are now limited to a certain number of mods by quality.
• Tech 20 and above non-base items that are rare or higher quality now have a chance for mods when constructed from a blueprint.
• Removed the option to NB, Neuroforge, and mod strip in remote inventories to prevent issues with modding / stripping wrong items.
• Added ability to mod strip items. Added a safety check to prevent pinned items from being mod stripped.
• Neurobound gear no longer gets a power increase due to now being able to be modded.
• Added new mods Vectored, Hot Pockets.
• Expanded certain mods onto additional item types.
• Radioactive now is percent Energy Charge instead of flat.
• Super Intelligent and Evil no longer give slightly more bonuses on weapons.
• Added Aug Resets to Shadow for this and next universe. They are not bankable. Use them or lose them!

• Ranger (formerly Sniper):
  • See Blog Post: Here
  • Ranger Class 1: Add +150 (up to double) and 50% projectile velocity.
  • Ranger Class 2: Overloaders are 2x effective in Heavy Fighters.
  • Ranger Class 3: Removed the ability to use Sniper Analysis (no longer exists) and added 20% Physical Damage and 30% Damage.
  • Marksman (Sub Skill 3 levels): replaces Stalking as a subskill and Stalking is now an Adv Skill. Use a Ranger Scope to gain empowered shots and mark enemies for bonus echo damage, Level 2: Max marks increase to 4, Level 3: Max marks increased to 6. -10% Visibility, 10% Damage
  • Sharpshooting (Sub Skill 3 levels): Changed to up to +24% range and +10% damage per level when under 40 speed. 10% Tracking, 30% Damage
  • True Grit (Sub Skill 3 levels): Formerly called Efficiency. When damaged, 20% of incoming Damage is converted to a parasite with a 30 second lifespan when in a Heavy Fighter. 10% Damage, 10% Shield Recovery while in a Heavy Fighter.
  • Zen of Ranger: Changed to 2% Thrust and 2% speed per level aura added to ship and bots per level when under 40 speed. 1% Shield Recovery per level.
  • Survivalist (Adv Skill): Formerly called Long Scope. Ranger Marks on enemies cause 3.33% more of their damage to you to be converted into Grit.
  • Quick Scope (Adv Skill): Unlocks the Ranger Quick Scope, which charges 25% faster. (5 second to 4 second charge time)
  • Grooved Bores (Adv Skill): Changed to 50% Projectile Velocity, -33% Tracking, 20% Damage
  • Stalking (Adv Skill): Formerly Marksman. Firing visibility decreases twice as fast. -15% Visibility.
  • Removed Sniper Analyzer.
  • Added new Ranger scopes at Lyceum station.
• Gunner:
  • See Blog Post: Here
  • Gunner Class 1: Removed Multifiring. Replaced it with +40% Electric Tempering, +60% Damage.
  • Gunner Class 2: Removed Capital Ship lock to Resistance.
  • Gunner Class 3: Changed from 56% damage to 20% Missile Damage, 30% Shield Max.
  • Big Guns (Sub Skill): changed from 15% Damage per level to 25% Damage per level. 15% Range Reduced to 7% Range.
  • Juice Junky (Sub Skill): Removed Electric Tempering to be no longer cap ship locked.
  • Destruction (Sub Skill): Changed to your weapons apply a mark to your target, increasing all incoming damage (up to 100%) from all other sources. Your Missiles and Fighters can consume 20% more marks.
  • Mass Destruction (Adv Skill): Formerly Automated Reloaded. Increases the amount of damage the Gunner's Missiles and Fighters can consume from Gunner Marks by 40%.
  • Shield Remodulation (Adv Skill): Changed from +10% Elec Tempering to -10% Damage.
  • Gunboat Diplomacy (Adv Skill): Changed to +1 Super Item slot, +35% Missile Damage, 100% Shield Max, 100% Energy Max. All bonuses applied to Heavy Fighter or Support Freighter.
  • Zen of Gunner (Zen): Added 1% Shield Recovery per level.
  • Targeting Computers no longer restricts main weapon from firing.
  • Adjusted various Targeting Computers stats.
  • Added Bot only Targeting Computers for Capital Ships.
• Berserker:
  • See Blog Post: Here
  • Berserker Class 1: Removed +40 bot multifire and added 60% Weapon Hold.
  • Berserker Class 2: Added 20% Resistance to damage.
  • Ordnance Supremacy (Sub Skill): Reduced damage from 36% to 10%. Added -11%  Electric Tempering.
  • Impervious Armor (Sub Skill): Changed to 10% damage resistance per level when taking damage from the front (120 degree arc). 7% Resistance to Damage
  • Arsenal Expertise (Sub Skill): Changed to 20% Damage, 7% Capacity in Heavy Fighter.
  • Berserking Classic (Adv Skill): Changed to +1 free shot, -20% firing rate when firing 4 shots, -30% firing rate when firing 5+ shots. 100 Multifiring.
  • Berserking Berserker (Adv Skill): Changed 30% speed to 10% speed.
  • Eye for an Eye (Adv Skill): Reduced 25% Resistance to 7% Resistance.
• Recon:
  • Added 30% Shield Recovery to Recon Focus 1,2,3.
  • Added +1 Hull Extension Slot to Recon Focus 2.
  • Expansionist: Moved +1 Hull Expander to Recon Focus 2. Skill now doubles Cargo Hold slots on expanders and +1 Weapon Slots.
• Speed Demon:
  • See Blog Post: Here
  • Speed Demon Class 1: Changed to Rate of fire beyond 10 shots per second is converted to + Damage and + Electrical Tempering. 20% Speed, 33% Damage, 60% Docking Speed.
  • Speed Demon Class 2: Changed to Rate of fire beyond 10 shots per second is converted to + Damage and + Electrical Tempering. 25% Projectile Damage, 12% Rate of Fire.
  • Speed Demon Class 3: Changed to Rate of Fire beyond 10 shots per second is converted to + Damage and + Electrical Tempering. 45% Damage, -22% Electric Tempering.
  • Dogfighting (Sub Skill): Removed -10% Range.
  • Acrobat (Adv Skill): Reduced Inertial Dampening from -50% to 33%. Removed -50% Critical Hit effect Duration, Added 20% Shield Recovery.
  • New Speed Demon Target Tracker added and Demon Tracking Device/Quickened Demon Tracking Device were removed from game.
• Seer:
  • See Blog Post: Here
  • Seer Class 1: Changed to Allows bonus warp navigation. +2% Damage for every 1% Shields lost against targets up to a maximum of +100% Damage. 18% Damage, -10% Visibility.
  • Seer Class 2: Allows bonus warp navigation. +100% charge rate on microwarpers and translocators. 25% Damage
  • Seer Class 3: Allows bonus warp navigation. Ambushes count as backstabs. 25% Range.
  • Shadow Ambush (Sub Skill): Changed to +10% backstab damage, 15% Damage
  • Psychic Sight (Sub Skill): Reduced Radar from 60% to 15%, increased Damage from 12% to 20%. Reduced Critical Hit Strength from 33% to 15%.
  • Psionic Shrouding (Sub Skill): Changed Visibility from -15% to 10%, removed 33% Critical Resistance, added 10% Damage and -10% weight.
  • Wraith (Adv Skill): Changed to 35% Critical Hit Strength bonus against targets below 50% shields.
  • Clairvoyant (Adv Skill): Removed +5% Critical Hit Percentage, added 25% resistance to damage taken from the rear.
  • Assassin (Adv Skill): Changed to Backstab bonus duration increases to 7 seconds. Extra Warper slot.
  • Zen of Seer: Changed Visibility per level from -0.50% to 0.20%.
  • Psionic Radar/Targeting/Weapons Jammer's made AI Only and removed from the Seer class Lyceum AI station.
  • Nanite Devices were removed from game.
  • Added new Seer Remodulator at Lyceum station.
• Engineer:
  • Engineer Class 1: Changed Temp Drone non-Transference damage from 35% to 55% and added +1 deployed drone.
• Shield Monkey:
  • Updated Shield Stealing skill description to state -33% damage when stealing instead just "66% efficiency" which was unclear.
•  Misc:
  • Droney: Drone Controllers get 100% tweaking on non-Engineer classes, and 15% tweaking on Engineer.
  • Bot Ph.D.: All assets now have 50% baseline for inheriting skills. Bot PhD now adds 10% additional stats from skills for bots.
  • Resilient: Changed to you and your possessions (Combat Bots, Drones, Fighters) take 20% less damage from any indirect damage.
  • Strategic Deployment: 50% speed out of combat.
  • Expansionist and Big Banker no longer work on trade bots.

• Additional Berserker Specialization Crystalline Research mission is now repeatable.
• Added Empyrean ship skin for Contest "Phoenix Flame".
• Added "Frozen Masala" skin for Masala.
• Added new Paxian skin "Paxian Mainframe" and "Rainbow Operative".
• Added new Operative paxian ships to Paxian skins "Assasination" and "Rainbow Boomer".
• Fixed a issue with In Flight Use and Station buttons being backwards for remote inventories.
• Changed "Base" button for filtering in inventories to "Station".
• Improved some beam and lightening visual's quality. Credit: Xantra.
• Shield Bar will now only appear if the player can detect the enemy.

• Reduced weight of a variety of items in game:
  • Reduced Fighters weight by 80%.
  • Reduced Missiles weight by 85%.
  • Reduced Drones weight by 83.33%.
  • Reduced Capital Ships weight by 40%.
• Rebalanced all weapons with Damage over Time. This will result in decreased DPE for all weapons that impart Parasites/Fires.
• Updated sizes of some beams and transferences. Really big beams and transference are no longer excessively large, and really small transferences are no longer excessively small.
• Rebalanced Missile Bays and Missiles.
• Starting at T22 ships get 25% per level of Critical Hit Resistance.
• Updated the stats on the Empyreal Grand Eclipse/Total Eclipse.
• Various ruin items that required a Lore Skill (KMW, etc) no longer get a power increase.
• Rebalanced various shields. Regen based shields been increased significantly.
• Rebalanced various On Hit Effects.
• Shipbound supers no longer count against your super slots when equipped.
• Inherent Warrior Focus: Heart has had following changes:
  • Disable main weapon effect replaced with Weapons Disabled gremlin.
  • Energy Charge changed from 750% to 500%.
  • Shield Charge changed from -100k for 1 second to -15% of current Shields.
  • Electric Tempering to all allies and self from -30% -to -20% and to allies only.
• Kalthi Warrior Focus: Heart has had following changes:
  • Disable main weapon effect replaced with Weapon Disabled gremlin.
  • Shield Charge changed from -100k for 1 second to -10% of Current Shield.
  • Charging time increased from 90 to 120 seconds.
• Kalthi Warrior Focus: Body has had following changes:
  • Disable main weapon effect replaced with Weapon Disabled gremlin..
  • Immunity to Critical Damage changed from 15 seconds to 5 seconds.
  • Gremlin Immunity did not work as intended, so it was removed.
  • Removed +5% lifesteal bonus and -50% Vulnerability
  • 50% Speed moved to happen after after Shield Regeneration and Critical Damage immunity effects end.
• Kalthi Warrior Focus: Mind has had following changes:
  • Radar bonus reduced from 500% to 200%.
  • Evasion bonus removed.
• Kalthi Railgun Protocol has had following changes:
  • Rewrote the Description to be clearer and more concise
  • Reduced the -Speed and Forced Thrust debuff on the projectile from 10 seconds to 3 seconds.
  • Reduced the Damage bonus given to the user from 300% to 150%.
• The following supers are now shipbound instead of unequipable and are now unique with damage tweaks: Operative's Nook, Bisarme Bombard, Fallen Shelling Focus, Forerunner's Shelling Focus, Masala Blend, Matriarchal Overwhelming Fury.
• Matriarchal Overwhelming Fury adjusted from Damage +50%, Recoil -40% to Damage +100%, Recoil -20%.
• Fallen Shelling Focus adjusted from Damage +50%, Recoil -20% to Damage +90%.
• Forerunner's Shelling Focus adjusted from  Damage +50%, Recoil -20% to Damage +90%
• Masala Blend adjusted from Recoil -33%, Damage +50% to Recoil -55.5%.
• Bisarme Bombard adjusted from Damage +50%, Recoil -20% to Damage +87.5%.
• Operative's Nook adjusted from Recoil -40%, Damage +50% to Recoil -60%.
• Adjusted the following Neurotweaks with Radar bonuses:
  • Galileo's Telescope reduced to 75% Radar from 196% Radar.
  • Constables Attitude increased to 50% Radar from 40% Radar.
  • Nexus Tweak decreased to 30% Radar from 90% Radar.
• Adjusted most sources of flat visibility to percent visibility.
• Increased Annihilator Platform's range to Achilles and slide all the other platforms' range down to the previous level's range. Annihilator Platform's weapon no longer has splash also changes AI Empire's drones.
• Reduced the projectile count of Empyreal Propagation Cannon from 5 to 2. This weapon is used by Celestial Harasser drones.
• Removed -100% turning from Reaver Laser. Left on AI only version.Shadow Shield Tweak and Shadow Shield Tweak+ changed to be - vis instead of + vis.
• Increased Tech of Empyreal Comet Cracker from 22 to 23. Stats have increased accordingly.
• Twisted Fate of Death no longer has the Multifiring. This has shifted its stats around.

• Removed repeatable tag from Ring missions and added Item Exchanges that can be unlocked once completed once.
• Removed repeatable tag from Dementium Blueprint missions in Lunacy and added Item Exchange unlocks for Dementium Blueprints after missions are completed.
• Added the following blueprints to Saadya's Fair Trade: Neutralizing Blast, Earthshaking Barrage, Lacerating Blossom, Demolishing Blast , Burning Blossom, Lancing Talon and Smashing Talon Blueprint.
• Additional Berserker Specialization Crystalline Research mission is now repeatable.

• Increased drop rate of Singularity Brake Blueprint.
• Reduced radar on Empyrean bosses.
• Increased mass of Grand Empyrean Eclipse mags by 50%.
• Solar Annihilator Missile's launched in the last phase now retarget if their original target dies.

• AI Empires:
  • Expand again during the universe again
  • AI Empires will respawn an HQ in a owned galaxy, if possible.
  • Repairing, Claiming or Transferring a station will cause hate from an AI Empire.
  • AI Empires will prioritize defending suns instead of wormhole for asset placement.
  • You cannot get AI Empires to forgive you via Towing.
• Added Quantumly Attuned Keycard mission to Paxian Foothold to unlock a new tracker.
• Added missing "Basic Class Augmenter Token" item exchange to Engineer station in Lyceum.
• Reduced the trade in cost of Paxian item ACs in Paxius Warehouse to match the costs in Mira.
• Fixed missing tech level on Ada Module Templates.
• Fixed Blobular Cooling Systems Blueprint was not replaced with Schematic version in Iq' Bana.

• Radar tweaks now modify vision. Previously only modified detection.
• The End of the Universe will now disable and kill termites.
• Increased drop rates of Bindo events.
• You cannot get AI Empires to forgive you via Towing.
• Going into Spirit form will no longer remove hate - only towing in the same galaxy will.
• Missiles now also have extra evasion from non-targeted damage akin to Fighters.
• Entering stasis now cancel galaxy scanners.
• Plus items that are auto generated by the server now reflect the quality of the of non-plus version.
• Reworked the text formatting of hull scanners and added Critical Resistance of the ship to the scan.
• Improvement to reduce desync on other ships when gremlin are being used.
• Transference weapons can now be multifired.
• Added a "Show Class Skill DPS Modifier" checkbox to ship dialog. Still in beta.
• Stations now show the number of unused weapon slots.
• Added ability to equip fractional weapon slots (mods).

• Fixed a bug where hate pulsing from a lockout boss would not keep hate on player to make them valid for lockouts/hate if they didn't do a hostile action.
• Fixed spawn blocker tweak that was broken in various zones.
• Fixed bug where planets and moons would get resources with 0 extractor slots
• Fixed a bug with Market Check that was returning one distance in some situations for jumps away.
• Fixed a bug that allowed missiles on bots to be manually launched.
• Corrected Nuclear Fusion Collectors to show as such in the build menu, where before they were shown as "drills".
• Fixed a bug that allowed for a stack of weapons to pass multiple instances of mods on instead of just one.

• For Seer:
  • "Damage for every 1% Shields lost against targets up to a maximum of +100% and backstab do not affect DOT damage. This may or may not change in the future.
  • Critical Hit device only guarantees a single hit when multifiring instead of all projectiles. Multi-projectile weapons work correctly.
• Shield Bar sometimes stops displaying.
• The radar circle can get stuck and not reflect a snipers changed improved range for going under a certain speed.
• You can click through the Neuroforge overlays to what's behind it.
• On the Class Skills tab icons sometimes display the wrong thing.
• Vectored -vis thrust doesn't currently work.
• Rewired values are slightly off to /showstatsources.
• Various beams still give flat vis instead of intended percent vis.

The Big Announcement

• Neuroforge Update: Forging Items
• Neuroforge Update: Gunner & Ranger
• Neuroforge Update: Other Class Skills and Critical Hit Changes.

Let’s Review

More Bindo

Wrapping Up

Dev Notes

• Extractors other then space oats shut off, colonies will no longer make purchases to/from user stations, AI stations will no longer decay goods 7 days before end of the universe. Will be a reminder post.
• Bases, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
• Player ships will not be affected.
• If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
• Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
• Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
• All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
• After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station. You can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere. There is no longer a time limit.
• You can purchase additional limbos via Limboing Tow Service at Friedman station in Free Market for 5 billion credits each.

Evolving Critical Hit Mechanics

Reimagining Seer

• Seer now does 100% bonus damage to targets that are under half shields, receiving a fraction of this bonus against healthier targets.
• Backstabs and Ambushes will now grant a 30% damage bonus for 5 seconds.
• We have replaced the Nanite Device and the Psionic Jammers with the Seer Remodulator, which guarantees a critical hit every 2 seconds.
• Wraith now grants the Seer 35% Critical Hit Strength against targets below 50% shields.
• Brooding Gaze makes beams ethereal against backstabbed or ambushed targets.

• We added 25% more Range
• We added Shield Recovery to Recon Focus
• We reduced Weight by 30%
• Seer’s Warp Devices charge 2x as fast
• Clairvoyant gives a 25% Resistance to Damage bonus when struck from behind
• Assassin allows the Seer to equip another Warp Device

Speed Demon

• Much better uptime with projectiles.
• You get a damage boost to projectiles.
• We have tuned the damage of the class to compensate for the loss of the damage boost on the Target Tracker.

Berserker

• Berserker Classic will now additionally reduce the number of weapons you need to have in order to Multifire by 1. This means if you want to MF3 you are only required to have two of the same weapon equipped.
• For example, if you pick this skill your 3 equipped weapons will act as if they are 4. If you equip 4 weapons you will max out with an effective Multifiring 5.
• Impervious Armor now additionally reduces damage in a frontal arc by 30%. This means you take 70% of the damage.
• In exchange, we have shaved some of the Resistance to Damage bonus from Eye for an Eye and Impervious Armor. This is still a significant mitigation buff when taking damage in the frontal arc.
• So with regards to Lifesteal, only 10% of the damage done by On Hit effects or Parasites are eligible for Lifesteal. So instead of Lifestealing 25% of their damage, you will lifesteal 2.5% of their damage.
• The speed bonus on Berserkering Berserker was reduced from 30% to 10%.

Engineer

General Advanced Class Subskills

• Bot PhD
  • We have taken most of the bonuses from Combat Bot Tweaking and Bot PhD and given them to everyone. This means that combat bots get 50% of your skills, or 60% if you take Bot PhD. Bot tweaking doesn’t contribute to that stat anymore.
• Droney
  • We have taken the skill inheritance bonus off of this skill and given it to everyone, and instead of giving another deploy drone it gives +100% Tweaking to Drone Controllers for non Engineers. If you are an Engineer it gives 15% instead.
• Resilient
  • Now causes you and your possessions to take 20% less damage from indirect damage and on hit effects.
• Centered
  • Causes you to gain 20% of your shield regeneration as Energy recharge if you are not damaged for 2 seconds. While this effect is active, your hostility is increased by 100%.
• Strategic Deployment
  • You and your possessions gain 50% speed out of combat.

Heat Weapons

On Hit weapon effects

Beam weapon sizes

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Ranger Rework

Damage Ramping

Damage Mitigation

Heavy Fighter? Light Fighter?

Gunner Enhancements

Shifting the Meta

• Example 1: Lets say the Gunner is doing 100k DPS, and their ally does 200k DPS. The Gunner is injecting 700k fractures per second, and their ally will consume 200k of them to double their DPS. Overall, the Gunner and its ally will not be dealing 300k DPS, but will instead do 500k DPS.

• Example 2: Lets say the Gunner is doing 100k DPS, but it has a bunch of allies and its allies do 1.5mil DPS in total. The Gunner is only generating 700k worth of Fractures per second, and the squad is using all of them and cashing in the full 700k. There aren’t enough around for all of their damage to get doubled, so the squads damage is increased by 700k and the total outgoing DPS is 2.3mil as a result of the Gunner. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8190917/e013517ff9a2da25f1368870feb82759f554613a.png As you can see, depending on the Gunner’s weapon DPS, and the total DPS of their allies the fracture mechanic will have a variable multiplier on the squads total DPS but that multiplier will generally be significant and the more the Gunner invests in their weapon DPS the greater their contribution. Even better, the more Gunners you have the more fractures they create!

  Expanding Playstyles

  Even in solo play, this mechanic still works—fractures boost the damage of your bots, missiles, and fighters. The Mass Destruction skill amplifies this further by significantly increasing the amount of fractures your missiles and fighters can exploit. This system offers more depth for Gunners, as they must now consider balancing their own damage output against their allies’ in order to maximize their influence on the battlefield. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8190917/cb258a6bbb8ba618bc8a670a01627735a1500bfb.png Missiles have seen an update in terms of launch patterns, timings, and mechanics. They are more reliable when it comes to their maneuverability, are unaffected by collision code, missiles solely meant to do damage fire in a salvo, missile stats now scale off of quality level, and they benefit from a bonus to missile damage specific to the Gunner class. We’ve also removed the Multifiring bonus, but have given a significant increase in damage to compensate, since the Gunners bots are also getting the ability to multi-target. We have also reduced Range and Tracking bonuses since Targeting Computers have less restrictions. This streamlines combat while ensuring Gunner still packs a punch in both fleet and solo scenarios. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8190917/d3c9d247bc69ce0a0f290227152f3d9027467951.png

  Summary

  These updates to Ranger and Gunner are meant to create room for deeper, more dynamic playstyles. From Ranger’s faster damage ramping and mitigation to Gunner’s fleet-centric fracture system and the Targeting Computer, these changes are designed to keep both solo and squad-based gameplay exciting. We’re eager to see how players adapt to these new mechanics!

  Follow along with us

  The Neuroforge update will have a lot more going on than just the addition of the Neuroforge. We will be posting follow-up blogs to detail what is being changed with the Neuroforge update. In the meantime, we are opening up access to our test server for players to try out the systems we have designed before they go live. The changes on this server encapsulate all of what the Neuroforge has to offer so far. There are plenty of class changes and other fancy things to explore as well. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8190917/314b73ce7b5215ebf7038aec9f609e2384d066e2.png You will need a totally different client to connect to this server. You will need to connect to “Test Server” using the Delta Client. You can get this client at the follow link: https://www.starsonata.com/dl/StarSonata_2_delta.exe You can find the “Test Server” on the login screen by using the Server Drop down on the login screen end then selecting “Test Server.” For more information on how to use the test server or to provide your feedback, please use the Star Sonata community discord server. Disclaimer: Anything on test servers are subject to change at any time and may not be representative of what will be seen when the live server is updated. The test server is subject to be shutdown, reset and restarted at any time.

High Level: Neuroforging

Mid Level: Enhanced modifications

• Neuroforging is a process that can be done multiple times, but you can only ever have one enhanced modification at a time.
• Enhanced modifications are coupled with an enhancement level. This tracks how much extra power above a basic version of the modification is being provided.
• Some modifications get special benefits for being enhanced. These special benefits do not scale up their bonus with enhancement level.
• Not all modifications are eligible to be enhanced.
• Enhancement level has a cap, it’s not infinite!
• The higher quality the item, the better it can become. Enhancement Cap and Total modification count scale with item quality.

Keep Rolling

What do I do with all of these items?

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• During Anatolian contest the leading team will lose influence on player death and a smaller amount on bot or drone death.
• The influence that can be gained is capped during the contest. It starts at 1 million influence and linearly approaches 4 million by the end of the contest. The current cap can be seen on the bulletin board. After the contests standard duration the influence gain is uncapped.
• Adjusted the quality of Imperial Polishing Machine to Exotic.
• Adjusted the quality of Imperial Restoration Forge to Exalted.
• Strategos has a different shout on death and now has a small chance to drop the Imperial Restoration Forge.
• Added Imperial Restoration Forge to drop from Strategos, used to turn Fragmented Imperial Signets into an Imperial Signet. These are used to level Imperial skills past level 5 in the Anatolian Expanse.
• Fragmented Imperial Signets are acquired through participation in the contest for the Imperial Throne in Anatolia or by winning Emperor itself.
• Imperial Restoration Forge can no longer be sold for 100k Anatolian Crests, instead it can be sold for 30k Anatolian Crests.
• Strategos minions now properly spawn in an area around Strategos instead of in the center of the galaxy.

• Potential fix for dark screen on login.

• Removed No Discount tag from Modules on Schematics.
• Changed Ancient Baby Dragon Hatchery Blueprint to require 2 Perilium, 3 Stabilized Plasma Fusion Core, 5 Dementium.
• Removed Drop on Death and No Fast Travel tags from Astral Silk, Fixed Trobble, The Spice, Storm Crystals, Dragon Egg.
• Removed an unlisted +20 flat speed and changed from -100% thrust to Engines Disabled gremlin effect on Matriarchal Fortification Bypasser super item inbuilt. Also was listed at 2 seconds but did 4 seconds of effect. Now only does 2 seconds as super states.

• Grand Empyreal Eclipse:
  • Boss no longer spawn with augs or mods.
  • Saros in second room of Grand Empyreal Eclipse Rift no longer display on Rift Leaderboard.
  • Added boss to Rift Leaderboard.
  • Fixed Grand Empyreal Eclipse missile phase so it properly targets random targets instead of one single.
  • Greatly increased Inertial Dampening on Boss.
  • Swapped sun in boss room to be a planet.
• Fallen Station can no longer be knocked back.
• Converted Janayitriadhara (Tractoring 22) to be immune to Transference during immunity phases and the Paxian Bombs to now use True Damage.

• Fixed a division by 0 in colony commodity price that caused negative numbers to display.
• Fixed a bug in Multi Factories that caused a crash.

• Fractured Galaxies now have Attack Windows. This window is a 90 minute period that happens every 72 hours. Stations are only vulnerable during this window.
  • A given Fractured Galaxy will always be vulnerable at the same time during the day for each attack window.
  • The universe contains an even distribution of attack window start times.
  • Server's Daylight Savings Time (ET) may shift this by one hour in some cases.
  • When warping into a fractured galaxy, the time until the next attack window will be put in your event chat.
• Ship to ship and ship to permanent drone combat is enabled at all times in fractured galaxies.
• Stations can only be placed once the first attack window for a newly revealed fractured galaxy begins. After that time stations can be deployed at any time in that Fractured Galaxy, but will not participate in or be affected by any PvP actions except during the attack windows.
• Termites can no longer spawn in fractured galaxies.

• Fixed a issue with In Flight Use and Station buttons being backwards for remote inventories.
• Changed "Base" button for filtering in inventories to "Station".

• Colony Active ICs:
  • Removed the Goop cost from the five Colony IC factory blueprints.
  • Reduced thematic t3 IC cost to a nominal amount.
  • Reduced Perilium, Dementium, and Stabilized Core costs greatly.
  • Changed Commodity Sale Events -- Removed Colony Resources (The Spice) and replaced them with Colony Active ICs (Spice Infused Confits), for sale. These can be sold to the AI base for a significant fraction of the price they could be sold to colonies.
• Reduced the negative augstats on Crescent and Eclipse Augmenters, shifting some of the positive stats down as a result.
• Spelling error fix for the Lunaria Rampage Preserver Blueprint description.
• Fixed an error with "Laconia Sheet Smelting Factory" and "Laconia Sheet Factory" where they were not using the correct number of Metals (10k instead of 100k).

• Added a hint to Paxian Exploration mission for players to find the right station for the Complex Matrix of Solidified Water to Glass Matrix.
• Reduced the amount of sensitive intel needed per mission of the pretender Hermes daily mission chain from 4 to 3, and from 7 to 6.

• Cybernetic Battleship/Cruiser Roamers:
  • Removed Augs and Mods.
  • Reduced various stats.
  • Increased projectile velocity on Battleship.
• Increased Palatial Pax Turning.
• Decreased Lucerne and Cybernetic Dropship Thrust
• Reduced tractor power on Obsidian Freighters.
• Slightly reduced diameter of Selenite and Selenite Avengers so they weren't the same size as the Lunarian variants.
• Removed self recoil from Forgone's physical knockback super item. It will still knock back the targets hit.

• Anatolian Expanse:
  • Added Imperial Skills to level 7 to Anatolian Expanse using a new item called Imperial Signets.
  • Polemarchos and Taxiarhos no longer spawn.
  • Strategos:
    • Will no longer spawn disguised and will instead spawn multiple instances in multiple galaxies, with 6 spawns in total.
    • They will spawn with a horde of protective soldiers and be worth 30k influence by themselves with their minions being worth around another 30k.
    • Strategos spawns will spawn every 4.8 hours, and despawn after 25 minutes. Each Strategos will take, at a minimum, 10 minutes to kill due to the invulnerability phases. It also has a holoprojector effect to show how long until it despawns, and when it phases into an invulnerability phase it becomes significantly slower.
    • Drastically reduced vis on Anatolian Crests.
    • The mobs guarding Strategos stats are buffed and are now worth more influence and more crests.
  • All galaxies in Anatolian Expanse have had their asteroid fields changed to knock everything back into the center.
  • Increased the weight of Anatolian Crests and their containers.
• Captain Redbeard / Exotic Trackers:
  • Adjusted exotic drop rate and separated Consumables from gear in the Red Rogue Exotic drop lists. So gear should be much more plentiful.
  • Added a mission to unlock an item exchange for Captain Red Beard Trackers
• (Will change with reset) Unstabilized Plasma Fusion Core are now commodities instead of mission item. They will now only drop if player is Premium player instead of requiring the mission to be active. Stabilized Plasma Fusion Core are now unlocked as a Trade Bay Exchange after performing the Scientist of Lyceum mission the first time at Spartan Garrison.
• Module Rework:
  • Created "Schematic" versions of T20 and T21 module blueprints which removes the Gizmo requirement. These modules now need only lower tier Modules + Sensors + Augmenters.
  • Created "Template" versions of T20 module blueprints which removes Gizmo and lower tier Module requirements. These modules now only need Augmenters + Sensors + various Sheets.
  • Created a new station in Platonic Academy (called "Taphos") to house old blueprints and factories for use by players with leftover Gizmo commodities. Note: this may depreciated in the future.
  • Created various trade-ins to allow players to trade their old Blueprints for Schematic/Templates in Taphos.
  • Created new T20 "Schematic" and "Template" packs for sale in Palaistra.
  • Moved T20 "Tablet" blueprint packs to Taphos.
  • Replaced T21 Blueprints with "Schematic" versions in all the places where the original T21 Blueprints were purchasable.

• Can no longer dock limbo ships in a public rift (instance).
• Can no longer remotely toss items from ships docked in public rift / rift (instance) without being in the galaxy.

• Fixed fighters sometimes flying away when they should be returning.

Limboing Tow Service

Item Teleporters

Packing

Unpacking

Trade Bay Import/Export

Transferring Stations and Bots to Characters on the Same Account

Bot Orders

• Added a new galaxy and a 5-player limit instance boss to the empyrean layer next universe. Locked until 2 weeks into the new universe.

• Updated Store icon to be Gold to better stand out against the rest of the icons.
• Updated Options Menu icons.
• Added a new "switch" button to options menu to go straight to the character select menu.
• Increased the minimum horizontal size of the ship inventory window so the cargo button is always visible.
• Fixed a client crash due to a tint texture corruption.
• Fixed a bug where the galaxy map used for bot jump orders would not display the correct galaxy if the player re-opened the map after disconnecting and reconnecting while the map was open.
• Fixed a bug with the bot order window that caused it to not hide when a player lost connection.
• Shield bar above ships no longer flickers when affected by a +max shield aura or tweak effects.
• Fixed an issue where colony suitability bonuses were improperly displayed as rounded down by one.
• Fixed an issue where 0 quantity item would display in the inventory window.
• When a context menu submenu opens and it hits a border of the screen - it will now open to the left instead of just float on top and be right most aligned.
• /ignore should now also ignore floating message from galaxy chat.
• Docking/Construction/Management Privileges can no longer be changed by scrolling the mouse wheel.
• Added "Link Item in Chat" to trade bay context menu.
• Made Base Cost, Average Buy, and Average Sell sort properly by numerical value in the Add Trade Good dialog.
• Sorting alphabetically in tables will now ignore whether or not the first letter is capital. (Previously did A-Z and then a-z).

• Shop sale on Station Skins for 1 SP.
• Non-physical Pulseguns, Magcannons, and Sebastopols now cause less knockback on impact with their target. Radiation weapons have increased knockback recoil on firing.
• Station Tech upgrades will now decay on reset.
• On Hit effects have been adjusted
  • On Hit Effect range no longer scales inversely with weapon range.
  • AoE ranges have been brought closer together.
  • Chain now has more jumps, and jumps do not do extra damage. The DPE of the longer jump chain weapons is lower.
  • Bounce ranges have been brought closer together, and have been given more bounces as well. The bounces no longer do extra damage, and their DPS and DPE have been adjusted accordingly.
  • Splash ranges have been increased significantly.
  • AoE ranges have been reduced.
• Corrected the periodic silicon cost of the Tycoon Shield Poltice Blueprint from 1 to 16200 to match the other periodic commodities.
• Changed descriptions for Team HQs and Team Outposts to remove outdated information on galaxy ownership.
• All Admixium blueprints now require 75% less ingredients.
• Portable Ship Factories now state they can be used on space ships on item description.
• Multi factories now properly display as factories and will sort as such.
• Removed most sources of Trans Efficiency from tweaks and supers from game for now.
• Added the following note to Ship Tech Upgrade item tooltip: "Does not increase augmenter slots".
• Fixed Masala Blend Tweak to correctly state 35% instead of 50% damage. This isn't a stat change just fixing the description to reflect what's actually occurring.
• Changed the maximum workforce of small warp beacons from 100 to 1000.
• Lustrous Cybernetic Nullifier Shrike and Luminous Cybernetic Nullifier Magpie damage were increased.
• Luminous Iterative Excavation Platform has had its surgical weapon changed into a pulse gun. It will do less damage but will shoot far more often.
• Redid visuals for Empyreal Transference, Celestial Surge Transference, and Celestial Astrarium Wand.
• Reduced spread angle of Molten Metal Sprayer.

• Medium Fallen Station (Torpedo Station) now does a colliding chain effect (aka asteroids can block it) and has a drastically reduced chain range.
• Significantly reduced the knockback on Mother's projectile weapon.
• Removed -Turning and -Thrust and added Engine Disabled debuff to Mother, T20 tractor boss. The debuff prevents any thrust but allows turning.
• Increased diameter of Psionic Glare.
• Reduced chain damage on Cybernetic Destroyer's beams and increased projectile speed on its pulse.

• Drastically reduced comet orbit time.
• Reduced the number of mobs that spawn in the Boreal Cliffs.
• Added the tech 5 Prototype Capital Fighter bay to East Vindia AI station trade bay.
• DG Mini Kasper mobs will no longer use their inbuilts.
• Reduced commodity drops by 25%-35% within Kalthi Depths.
• Added another fuel station to Deep Space.
• Changed the DG version of Nathaniel Courthope to have a respawn time of 10 minutes instead of 30 minutes to match the other DG lockouts.

• Unqiuewidth items now behave similarly to other item with equip restriction, if another item is equipped it will first try to unequip it and "swap" the item instead of giving an error unless there is other requirements that are not met. (IE Equipping a Perilous Burst when Perilous Strength's is equipped will now swap them instead of just error).
• Improved reaction time for Shields to start / stop charging.
• Trackers now store their information on the character and target can't be changed by attempting to use another tracker of the same type. Trackers can now stack.
• Missiles now check for Collision Radius instead of center of an object when detonating.
• PVP timer will no longer get reapplied on impact while a player is in pod or spirit. This should make it less likely to be trapped in a gal because of damage over time on enemy ships.
• If /limbo fail due to bound item, a player can now do /limbo again within 30secs to execute a partial limbo. Ships that were causing the error will remain and it will limbo everything that it can.
• Added Remote Control 19 and 20 to content guide.
• Fixed engines and drone deployment issues on content guide.
• Updated the /help message for /limbo to clarify it works the whole universe not just first 72 hours.
• Item repairs are now capped to non-Item Exchange AI Station prices (when buy and sell).

• Fixed a bug in Twisted Honey that prevented getting kill for mission.
• Fixed a bug where Boss AI that regen to full for their phases also reset their hate when full.
• Fixed an issue with shield not charging when energy bank is bellow 10% even if that 10% would be more than enough to keep charging for a long time.
• Fixed bug with various degrading-over-time blockers Bosses used in endgame content.
• Radar range circles now update when range stats change.
• Projectile velocity augmenters and drone controllers will now properly increase projectile velocity of drones.
• Torpedos now properly handle projectile velocity augmod (for both ships and drones, neither worked before).
• Fixed a bug introduced in a previous patch where cloaks constantly applied their bonus instead of only when activated.
• Fix for some item exchange listing not showing up in /mc.
• Fixed a bug with the new /mc was not properly handling items that were removed from trade bay.
• Fix for a bug where a destroyed base could end up not updating its workers being used count.
• Active ship no longer attempts to switch when selling a non-active ship.
• Fixed bug with Nanobot repair drone where 'repair field' appeared to be on the repaired ship instead of the repaired item durability updating.
• Fixed Operative's Desolator super item on the Pax Spatha, it will now impart Desolation.
• Fixed Operative's Nook super item on the Pax Pugio, it will now impart 15 seconds of increased recoil after the reduced recoil effect wears off.
• Fixed display of flat thrust on neurotweak tooltip to display properly.
• Fixed issues where both Roaming Hermes were not spawning mobs correctly in Perilous Space.
• Fixed a bug with mining bots sometime getting stuck when commodities decay entirely.
• Fixed an issue with common and uncommon fighters that had their repair costs set to low.
• Fixed a bug that prevented disabling weapons when outside of Aurora's bubble.