This week’s update will cover a multitude of bug fixes that took place last week and a new feature that will soon be in the game.
This is going to be a bit shorter for a weekly update since most of my week was spent handing support tickets and bug reports from the forums — that is to say, I spent a lot of time tracking down bugs! The following is a brief list of what was fixed up!
- Augmenter Bonus stat strings are being removed from drones to avoid stat string confusion.
- Updated a few zones in Perilious Space so they’re properly flagged as premium space so non-premium players can’t access them with transwarp devices.
- Fixed an issue where irradiated Permanent Drones were being destroyed preventing capture.
- Fixed an issue with the Ship Statistics window not displaying hostility in the permanent bonuses table.
- Fixed the tooltip text for the docking button on the lower bar of the client.
- Fixed the issue causing destroyed drones to lose their visage and go invisible.
- Fixed an issue causing subspace outposts to get additional limited spawns.
These are just a few of the more noticeable issues I took care of and with those fixes finished, I closed the week out with a new feature.
For those of you not familiar with it, we have a system in game to automatically level out the number of skill points a player has to the proper amount should they get into a situation where they have too many or too few. This situation is called a Skill Point Debt (or Credit). If a player has too many skill points, they’ll only gain 4 per level up instead of 5. If they don’t have enough, they’ll gain 6 per level up. This has been around for quite some time, but it’s feasible that very few people really know about it since there wasn’t any way in game for players to actually know they had an incorrect amount of points.
If you are in debt, or need to be credited, there is now a line in the Avatar dialog that will denote this. If you have the proper amount of points, this line won’t appear for you at all. In addition, when you level up you will now be told how many skill points you are receiving in the even chat tab. This is extremely useful for new players since they’ll more clearly be able to link leveling up with skill points (if they skip all the mission dialogs). In addition, if you have a debt or credit, it will also display how many points you are in debt or need to be credited.
That’s it for this week’s update, I’ll be back again next week with another update about the next project I am starting on! Until then feel free to post questions, comments and suggestions in the forums!
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