We are currently working on some Docking Module code.
Ships that were docked prior to today's restart will not be registered at the ship they were docked at, and should not be undocked.
Their docking registry will (hopefully) be restored with tomorrow's restart.
ART
- Changed: Contact list player name font changed.
- Changed: Cruiser Ion Blasters now have a new effect.
- Changed: Fighter and freighter explosion fuses are now more varied.
- Changed: CSV switched to a better cockpit model.
BALANCE
- Added: Gunboat, Cruiser and Battleship Siege Cannons. These weapons are balanced for regular PvP, but will be able to damage PoBs during sieges after a (near) future PoB siege rework.
- Added: A Junker Freighter Engine to the CSF's ship dealer package.
- Added: Junker Freighter Engine now sells on Junker bases.
- Changed: ASMD damage decreased by 20%.
- Changed: ASMFD hull damage decreased by 20%; shield damage increased by 20%.
- Changed: Player Owned Bases health values updated for future siege rework.
- Changed: Outcast Gunship mass slightly increased, agility slightly reduced.
- Changed: 'Light' Fighter Missiles' damage reduced by 10%.
- Changed: Hellfire Rocket Pod damage doubled, ammo increased from 800 to 4000.
- Changed: Scorcher Bombs & Neutralizer Bombs now do 10% more damage.
- Changed: Fighter & Bomber gun power usage formula adjusted to weigh alpha damage and velocity more heavily. In addition, significant dispersion now lowers power usage more than it did before.
- Changed: Mining Drone mining laser price set to 0 so it cannot be sold or transferred.
- Changed: CSF chase & turret view cameras improved.
- Changed: ASMFD Railgun hit points further increased to match other Bomber Heavy Weapons.
ECONOMY
- Added: Synth Paste recipes to Hydroponics Bay. Bonuses for Freelancers, Synth and Zoners.
- Changed: Refined HRCs now sell for at least 3x their base price, rather than 2x, increasing refining profitability.
- Changed: Hydroponics Food Rations recipe bonuses expanded; Freelancers, Bowex, Farmer’s Alliance, Gateway, IDF, Samura.
- Changed: Military Salvage reclamation bonuses expanded; ALG, BMM, Bowex, Bristol, Core, Corsairs, DHC, DSE, EFL, GMS, Hessians, IMG, Junkers, Kishiro, Kruger, Outcasts, Order, RGS, Samura, Zoners.
- Changed: Halved most module construction requirements.
- Changed: Halved most non-CODE equipment manufacturing requirements.
- Changed: Durban no longer resells Light Arms, making it a viable destination.
- Fixed: Profit outliers for extremely short routes.
- Fixed: Molybdenum now behaves like an 'HRC', as intended.
- Fixed: Typos in the economy source file(s) resulting in missing commodity buy/sale points.
- Fixed: A number of errors with manufacturing recipes.
ENCOUNTERS / NPCS
- Changed: Fighter NPC AI has been fixed and improved.
- Changed: NPCs should no longer drop mines while passing other NPCs or players quite as often.
- Changed: NPCs AI updated to encourage mine use in different ways.
- Changed: NPCs are not equipped with railguns as often anymore.
- Changed: Missions NPCs will now use missiles and torpedoes.
- Fixed: NPCs carrying 11 Wasp CD Launchers or 3 Fortress CM Launchers.
- Fixed: Outcast Gunboat NPCs no longer drop 595 H-Fuel.
INFOCARDS
- Changed: Deployable container description now notes that blowing it up allows for tractoring it back in.
- Fixed: Valletta Shipyard mistakenly referred to as Valetta.
- Fixed: Corsica NPCs no longer believe they are actually on Valletta Shipyard.
- Fixed: TREMOR infocard typo.
SYSTEMS
- Added: Wrecks to Sigma-15 debris field.
- Added: Gunboat equipment now sells on Freeport 6.
- Changed: CSV now sells on Rochester. The Bulldog previously sold there now sells on Allentown.
- Changed: IDF, GMS, EFL & Royalists no longer use GNS as their large ship prefix.
- Changed: All Scrap Metal fields in Gallia that were disabled are now enabled.
- Changed: Alaska minefields tweaked.
- Changed: Mines and gas pockets' detection radius increased to 80.
- Changed: Ile-de-france debris music removed in front of New Paris.
- Changed: Malta debris music removed.
- Fixed: Many duplicate or misplayed bar/station NPCs.
- Fixed: Sigma-15 nebula/field visual errors.
- Fixed: Excessive radiation damage in Uncharted 3.
- Fixed: Undocking from Wichter Station no longer places you as close to the station.
- Fixed: Many more issues with Wichter Station, ranging from NPCs to infocards.
- Fixed: Sigma-15 - Frankfurt jumphole rotation.
- Fixed: Cadiz given a proper exclusion zone.
- Fixed: Meadville Ice Field not dropping water.
- Fixed: Removed outdated news items from bases.
- Fixed: Missing news icon.
- Fixed: Champagne pop zone.
CREDITS
@Aingar - Coding, Systems, Story, Economy
@Alex. - Coding, Systems, Keeping It All Running
@Antonio - Systems, Balance
@Groshyr - Systems
@Haste - Balance, Art
@jammi - Story, Economy
@Kauket - Art
@Markam - Systems
@pillow - Balance
@Titan* - Art, Encounters
@Wildkins - Systems