Starbase news & patch notes

• New Siege feature: Station Foundation Security and Capital Security Field Generator.
• For Stations: - The Foundation Unit's station area will be automatically applied as the Secure Zone of the station when its loaded after the update. - During a Siege, players can respawn from the Foundation Unit (for now without restrictions or any sort of cooldown etc.) - The middle area (that is last to be captured) is surrounded by a "safezone" field, that protects all objects inside from damage, but does not protect players from damage. - Also blocks hostile and neutral players from entering, only those that chose your side for the Siege can enter.
• For Capitals: - A new craftable object "Security Field Generator" needs to be placed somewhere on the Capital and activated. - That build area will become the Secure Zone and will function identically to the Station's one. - If multiple Security Field Generators are activated at a Capital, only the most recently activated will take effect during a Siege. - Players can also respawn from the Security Field Generator, just like a Station's Foundation unit.
• The Secure Zone, be it on Capital or Station, is always the last zone that needs to be captured to win and won't be available for capture until all other zones have been taken. - The Secure Zone will be dispelled when all other areas of the Capital/Station are captured. - If there is no Security Field Generator activated at the Capital, Siege Terminal will determine the last capture area like before.
• Fixes:
• Potentially fixed Capital Ship devices disconnecting from Device Nexuses on their own for no apparent reason or after warping. - This is a difficult and inconsistent issue to reproduce, so if you still get this issue after the patch, please file an F1 ticket with details and we'll check it out.
• Further snap fixes to station editor parts and part groups, additionally, objects that have no priority snap points are no longer ignored for overlap checks.
• Fix to prevent some object gap problems in station editors, newly placed objects (not snapped to old objects) should adhere to a more strict "grid".
• Optimizing saved data sizes of station objects.
• Fixed Decal recoloring not being saved properly unless copied.
• Fix for the first module placement after game start taking very long to finish on certain large stations.
• Shield breaker count is now calculated by the total on the Capital Ship, instead of the size of the largest snapped together stack.
• Fixed object placement getting stuck in Station Editors when the station existed in certain positions.
• Fixed being unable to start a Siege if the optimal attacker Capital Ship position was occupied already by another Capital.
• Fixed Siege UI and safezones sometimes toggling on and off periodically when the universe had multiple Sieges in progress.
• Fixed players not seeing the player names of their allies during Sieges
• Fixed station damage not working at all.
• Known Issues:
• Security Zone does not yprevent ships from passing through the area.
• Stations cannot yet use Security Field Generator to set their own last area.
• Players can still respawn via Station's Security Zone foundation, even if it is destroyed, or the area's control is lost to the enemy.

• You can now remove station access rights to other player's stations for yourself in station menus.
• Fixed lag and short freeze when opening the personal window (ex. via H, O or J), when player had access to many player's stations.
• Optimized station device data, fixing Capital ship statistics in the resource and fast travel terminals not showing due to very many devices connected in a large network. - Fixed large resource amounts being improperly reported by the station utility grid terminal.
• Fixed Capital Ship integrity issues that were caused by parts poorly choosing the area they belong to when overlapping area borders.
• Added a chat error if Capital Ship has multiple different frames that are disconnected from each other inside a build area. Triggers when player is in Integrity view inside that build area.
• Fixed hangar hall beams sometimes getting offset and rotated from purchasing a ship.
• Added online player numbers to Station Area, Friends, Steam Friends and Company menus - STU only: Station Area also has a special player number showing "Session/Matching" player counts, should shadowrealm happen, the right "matching" number should be higher than "session".
• Players now appear online in Friends, Group and Company social screens even if they are not loaded in nearby.
• Significant improvements to station editor object snapping for small or large groups of copied/moved objects.

• Shadowrealm workaround implemented. - Improvements made to the limiting of initial connection amounts present in previous implementations as well. - We can now configure this limit serverside without patching, so it can be changed on the fly if necessary. - There will be a new Shadowrealm community test soon, see a post about it in discord later.
• Station's Class is now shown consistently at stations and via Siege Panels once the whole station is loaded after this patch.
• Fixed Siege panels to correctly check player's Navigation Chips for Siegeable stations around a 200km radius of the coordinates, instead of players having to visit faraway stations in the same session to be able to Siege them.
• Fixed a station content client crash when deleting station blueprints

• Fixed Recycling tool being unable to recycle parts that were made up of non-default materials.
• Fixed parts with non-default materials having incorrect armor values when dropped into the world.
• Improvements and optimizations to station designers when working with large amount of objects (moving, copying, deleting, etc.)
• "Open or manage blueprints" dialog is now closed after a station blueprint replace operation has been selected.
• Fixed replacing a station with a max size blueprint getting the designer stuck in loading.
• Potential fix for station devices freezing computers with low available threads.
• Fixed stations replaced with a blueprint sometimes failing to load after the blueprint was deleted after.

• Fixed Capital Ship building area claim working only once per editor session.
• Fixed the editor building area claim message to accurately tell the amount of areas that player can claim.
• Fixed some station objects not supporting Decals. (even legacy objects support them now.)
• Fixed Decal limit being hit erroneously in Station editors by just placing objects when not near the building limit.

New Features

Event tab (Found in the personal UI, same UI level as crafting, stations, etc)

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• Shows all upcoming and active Sieges in the Universe.
• Siege can be right clicked to open a map view of where the Sieged station is.
• Additionally in progress or upcoming Sieges are also shown in the Galaxy Map temporarily for its duration, even if you have not discovered the station for yourself.
• However, there is no indicator yet in the map for a station that will be sieged, no timer or in progress icon, so currently, cross referencing with the Event menu is necessary.

Decal tool for station editors.

• Same functionality and Decal list as in SSC.
• Station Paint tool was also updated for decal coloring and now matches the SSC's variant.
• Paint tool now refers to "objects" rather than "ship parts".

Fixes

• Significant module data optimizations, making it much harder to hit the size cap (or crash the module servers) - This should make loading and editing faster as well - However these changes affect only newly made/re-added stations/station parts. (replace with an old blueprint won't optimize the station either)
• Fixed freeze and performance issues when charging a warp with a spaceship that had a massive amount of propellant.
• Fixed "No FCU" -ship warp error blocking other errors from being shown.
• If an in progress ship warp is interrupted for any reason, a warp beacon is now always generated at the location where it finished.
• Fixed a crash that was related to being a passenger on a warping ship.
• Fixed ship warp menu and ship binding menus disappearing if pressing R while grabbing them. - Fixed the ESC menu breaking due to grab staying active as well.
• Fixed Durability view switching to integrity view when hovering over any of the durability cubes.
• Fixed a case of errors and crash happening when moving parts in station editors.
• Fixed being unable to create a new Capital Ship to an empty dock when another Capital was already docked on the station.
• Fixed an edge case of Capital Ship docks not detecting the Capital Ship inside, prompting player to create a new one in an already occupied dock.
• It is now possible to claim station areas in Station Planner/Station Editors without having to leave the editor.
• Disallowed manipulating active factory halls inside station editors.
• Improvements to the consistency of warp beacons appearing in the Galaxy Map.

• Increased the limit of initial connection requests that is part of shadowrealm fixes
• Improvements to ship lod updating, ex. ships showing damaged lods post repair - Ships that are split into many ships and those build in universe should now have lods too (these still disappear though if not claimed and get unhosted)
• Fixed players being unable to start ship warps on ships not hosted by them

• Potential fixes for the shadowrealm issue.
• Further optimizations and fixes for the Module Server.

• Optimized Module server data usage and performance
• Fixed a bug where station parts would get deleted and editing the station would cause server disconnect due to parts outside of station zone.
• Removed Ghidorah Mk2 and Mooray ships from SSC premade folder due to creator requests.
• Fixed empty capital ship at station dock causing siege to never end.
• Fixed crash caused by reconstruction machine on a sieged player station.
• Fixed siege not being immediately repeatable with STU settings due to post-siege protection.
• Fixed ships spawning to wrong location from hangars in some coordinates.
• Improved reconstruction machine respawning reliability.

• Fixed another invisible UI in the Station Editors. - Due to this fix, the station editor UI boxes will reset to their default sizes and orientations after this update.
• Fixed ctrl + a being able to select capital ship dock corner holograms in capital ship designer.
• Made temporary changes to P2P connections: - This will likely cause increased latency, but will help us to pinpoint the "shadow realm" issue's origin depending whether or not it still occurs.

• Station blueprints now have a max file size, so the very biggest of stations may not be able to be saved or used to replace stations anymore. - As such, very large stations may get the "Station too large to perform blueprint operation." error, even if otherwise within building budget limits. - However, we have optimized station data usage slightly, with more significant tweaks to come in the future, so the max limits shouldn't be so easy to reach. - If you run into the error now, we ask for your patience as we will alleviate this issue in the future with further fixes
• Fixed using reconstruction machine sometimes sending players in middle of Eos.
• Optimized station areas to unload when enough damaged modules are present to prevent performance issues.
• Damaged station modules are removed after losing 60% of their contents to prevent performance issues.
• Applied minor fixes and additional logging for the issue where players would not see each other. - If you come across with players in the area not loading for you, please make an F1 ticket as this will provide us with info on this situation and please include information such as time when this happened and name of the user that is in the "shadow realm" from your perspective.
• Fixed replacing station with a blueprint causing the station and its modules to stop functioning normally. - Previously made blueprints will remain broken and still cause issues.
• Added Laser Rifle, Energy cell, Weapon Crafting Benches and its upgrades to the cheat tab (STU Only).

• Added filler tools and arclighter magazine to dev tool tab.
• Added NSY03-LFR Mammoth, NSY14-LPS Merino, NSY15-DIY Malamute I, NSY20-LMS Magnus MnA, Ds-01, Marauder, DS-02 Mooray, DS-03 Minotaur and NSY19-SPS Marmot-PS spaceships to the premade ship folder in spaceship designer.
• Fixed ships sometimes not being despawned to a correct station when multiple stations were in vicinity.
• Fixed test server settings for dismounted/spaceship max loaded showroom ships not doing anything.
• Changed stations to unload incrementally, eliminating freezes on opened station change.
• Fixed some missing description locales from station designer assets Decorative Column C and Window 216x864.
• Fixed "Base Beam 90° 12x54 cm" and "Decorative Surfacing Ceiling Plate 4" locales.
• Fixed ship warping causing moon collisions to shift, which in turn made it possible for players to collide with invisible walls.
• We discovered that station blueprint saving fails if the station has a reconstruction machine with any endo kits in it - We hope to have this fixed soon, but in the meantime if blueprint saving fails, remove any reconstruction machines and try again

• Added GhidMk2 ship to spaceship designer premade ships folder. - Note that you need to save premade ships to yourself first before you can purchase them - Reminder, that STU has a ship override in effect in SSC, where all ships that are purchased need no ore or credits to buy
• Fixed pilot chair parts not bolting together.
• Reduced research cost of all technologies to 0.
• Added options to test spaceship LOD settings (STU only). - Can be found in Settings -> Test Server
• Fixed station blueprints counting towards the max station limit.
• Fixed ship warping being cancelled if the ship got unloaded by another player.
• Fixed station resignation not correctly removing the station from station list until game is restarted

• Reduced Galaxy Map's station discovery range from 500km to 20 km
• Made the Galaxy Map match the default orientation of Origin stations (flipped right way around).
• Fixed ship mouse control overlapping with Galaxy Map and staying active with the map open
• Prevented Galaxy Map from being opened while in the Main Menu
• Fixed large (8k+ modules) stations and capital blueprint saving causing broken module/inventory references
• Added remote explosives and moon base foundations to STU cheat inventory

New features

Ship Warp

• A method of fast travel usable on all ships, pressing X while seated on a Pilot Chair brings up the menu.
• Can warp to a map target, warp ping, navigation chip location or pointing a ship at a direction and manually determining warp distance.
• Ship warp has a five minute cooldown after usage and during the time warp is charged ship must remain close to the spot charging was started at.
• A charge can be held for five minutes before it is released and propellant is used during charging, which is not refunded if the charge is allowed to expire.
• Added Ship Warp Signal settings under Transponder settings
• Ship warping is prevented while another ship is in tow
• Warping creates a warp signal for 10 minutes so other players can see and warp to the same location if they are near enough

Universe Map

• Added an interactive map that can be opened via default bind "M"
• Stations and Capital ships are discovered when a player is nearby to them, and remain in the map after the fact.
• If changes happen in universe to for example station location, the map updates these only when player has been in range to see these changes for himself.
• The map can be moved around by clicking on planets and stations with Mouse1, or by using WASD/space/control
• Players are able to add custom markers in their map and use them for ship warping with Mouse2 (while sitting on pilot chair)
• Warp Pings also appear in the map if players are within range to see them (300km), and can be selected for warp like with custom markers

Station Editor

• Capital ships, moon bases and stations can now be edited in a new station editor which can be accessed from Esc-menu while within a station's area.
• Currently for the PTU no resources are needed to build any parts inside the Editor
• Changes made in the editor are instantly reflected into the universe.
• Stations can be saved as blueprints to make repairing and setting up new ones faster.

Station Blueprints

• Station Editor has a similar dropdown menu as SSC, and in the File tab, you can choose to Save new blueprints or open existing ones
• Pressing Save As, saves the currently opened station into a blueprint name of your choice
• While you have your station open, accessing the open or manage menu of blueprints and right clicking a blueprint allows you to replace the current station with a saved blueprint
• Station Editor can also be opened in the "Station Planner" mode, which is accessible anywhere in the universe, allowing you to save and modify blueprints but not replace stations with them
• Stations cannot have docked capital ships and cannot be moon bases, in order for the blueprint save to work. (Moon Bases are not supported in this system.)

Ship Reconstruction (Ship Insurance)

• Ships can be repaired for free (at the moment), with just a one hour wait, can be done when within a Station's area.
• Ship Reconstruction can be accessed and performed in the "Ships" UI by right clicking a ship in the "Owned Ships" screen.
• Ships Reconstructed this way will be sent and repaired to the current station the player is at when reconstruction begins.
• Ship Reconstruction can also be initiated from a repair panel at Origin Spaceship Designer Hangar or at Hangar Hall's panel.
• It is possible to queue multiple ships that will be repaired after the last one has finished.

Planets

• Fixed an issue where ships could hit invisible collisions above the surface
• Fixed the moon killzones interacting with ships that came close to the surface and deleting them erroneously

Binds

• Changed default ship blueprint toggle bind from "M" to "Y"

Ships

• Implemented a fix to prevent ships from being sent to "other station" during despawn
• Fixed ships sometimes spawning into origin Spaceship Designer instead of hangar hall it was bought from
• Fixed transponders of ships not existing in universe appearing in space (Ships expire and are removed from universe after 365 days of being inactive, be sure to store them on station!)
• Adjusted loaded remote ship rendering distances to show full rendering later (when ship is closer) but with less delay (5s->2s)and avoid switching back to lod later (when ship has been outside rendering range for longer (5s->10s)
• Increased max loaded ships (3->5), load distance (300m->400m), and max loaded ship showroom ships (2->3), and asteroid load distance (200m->400m)
• Increased the speed limit at which other ships stay fully loaded.
• Fixed ships leaving behind transponders when no longer present in the universe.
• All current ship transponders are removed from the universe once the update hits. Ships need to be hosted for their transponders to show up as before again. This resolves the Ghost Transponders issue.

Spaceship UI

• Added station location for spawn panels and ship menu to show where the ships are despawned at.
• Ships that have despawned incorrectly are now displayed as "Lost".

Stations

• Fixed an issue where players would be pushed out of station zone when resigning a station
• Increased maximum amount of loaded station areas to 20
• Added a setting for adjusting station load distance, this can be found in settings under Graphics
• Fixed station LODs not showing up past 1 km distance, they should now be observable over 100 km away (Though you may not notice them without weapon zoom at that distance!)
• Fixed ships merging with station part if a station part is in its spawn location
• Optimized object placement on moon bases to reduce FPS spikes during placement
• Hangar hall despawn timer has been increased to 10 minutes
• Fixed an issue where moon bases would not load correctly and parts would start disappearing due to structural failure.
• Added error highlight for capital ship frame modules that are not part of the main frame.
• Made it so that foundations are no longer recyclable.

Spaceship Designer

• Added confirmation message when deleting blueprints
• Fixed localization for building budget being exceeded when placing an object that goes over the limit
• Changed localization of "Highlight overlapping objects" option to reflect its actual performance impact.
• Added fixed torpedoes and missiles to asset browser. (Fixed = consists of one part, non-modular)
• Removed old store ships from spaceship designer premade ship list
• Added Mako_Mk1, Ke-1, Skytanker A1 Alien, Scythe Elysium, Hellfire Laser and Askannon Laborer 2 to spaceship designer premade ship list

Inventory

• Fixed navigation chips not being searchable in the station inventory by their custom name set via navigation logger.
• Added station inventory space counter.
• Fixed trying to delete all of specific multipart objects causing all multipart objects to be deleted instead.

Ship easy build mode

• Fixed an issue where ship modules were not properly checking snapping and allowed them to overlap

Sieges

• Added localized errors messages to siege panel

Devices

• Optimized YOLOL chips
• Optimized network usage of Mining Laser and Grid displays
• Fixed Large Generator Exorium Tank Core emptying when dropped into universe from inventory
• Lowered tow beam electricity requirement from 5 to 2 electricity per 1,000 kg
• Increased plasma cannon magazine ammo capacity from 150 to 200
• Increased autocannon magazine ammo capacity from 500 to 700
• Increased autocannon container ammo capacity from 3500 to 5600
• Increased rail cannon container ammo capacity from 700 to 800
• Increased laser cannon container ammo capacity to from 4200 4800
• Increased plasma cannon contain ammo capacity from 1050 to 1400
• Reduced visual effect of laser turret hits.

Lod Generation

• Increased generated lod quality especially for ships

Asteroids

• Reduced ship collision damage from collisions with asteroids by 50%

Auction House

• Fixed not being able to receive more than 92,233,720 credits from a single auction.

Social

• Fixed new players not being able to be invited to groups after completing the tutorial

Tutorial

• Added a ship reward for each of the three starting job tutorials
• Each starting job tutorial gives a different version of laborer as reward.

Crashes

• Fixed Nvidia Surround causing a crash on wide enough resolutions (possibly affected AMD Eyefinity too).
• Fixed a crash that happened when attaching torpedo/missile to a station.

PTU/STU

• Regular and Public Test Universe version of Starbase have been separate to their own products on steam library
• Added missing ores, weapons, mags, empire armors, kingdom armors, endo kits and station foundation to cheat inventory
• Added extra siege options to the siege panel for ease of testing. Most of these are visible when siege is active.
• Made it possible to update station siege schedules instantly.

Known Issues

• Bloom has become blurry
• Universe Map camera is upside down
• Asteroids visually disappear at certain position and angles while in asteroid field
• Ship Reconstruction does not work for Company Ships
• Station Replacing can cause the new station to appear kilometers away from the player's current location.
• Warp pings may not show on the map after using editor(s)
• For more, less severe, known issues the official Starbase Discord has an STU known issues category

Roadmap

Cargo Crisis Event Info

• You can get to Moon City using the Fast Travel Gate from Origins
• Moon Merchant Haven station has a transponder and is around 50km away from Moon City
• Cargo drops will be between these two

Tournament News

Development News

• Capital ship charge change (removal of charge time) is planned for early next week. No more charge waiting, just flying time!

• You can get to Moon City using the Fast Travel Gate from Origins
• Moon Merchant Haven station has a transponder and is around 50km away from Moon City
• Cargo drops will be between these two

• Inventory crash fix
• Autobolt crash fix
• Station crash fix
• Potential fix to freezing on capital ships and stations, caused by bugged components that have shifted outside their build area

• You can get to Moon City using the Fast Travel Gate from Origins
• Moon Merchant Haven station has a transponder and is around 50km away from Moon City
• Cargo drops will be between these two

Cargo Drops & Merchant Trader

Cargo Drops - Saturday Aug 27th 11:00-20:00 UTC @ Ghost Station Relicta

Merchant Trader - Sunday Aug 28th 18:00 UTC @ Markka Station

• Glass - 15k
• Alium Alloy - 25k
• Bastonium Alloy - 35k
• Exutium Alloy - 55k
• Tallium Alloy - 225k

• Fixes for ten most common crashes
• Removed corrupt data from moons