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Welcome to Star Sonata, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, where you captain a spaceship in a vast, hostile, and fascinating universe. Space Trading Game. Discover profitable trade routes. Create "slave" ships to fight at your side or to run trade routes. Build bases to mine moons or planets, build items from blueprints, create and control colonies on suitable planets. Create a team and vie with other teams for universal dominance. Deploy drones either in the heat of combat or to protect your galaxies or trade routes. The ultimate prize: be crowned emperor and rule the universe! Free Download, Unlimited Free Play The whole universe is open for free to players for an unlimited length of time, however, eventually you will hit level 20, past which a subscription is required to continue gaining levels. Please make your way to the Tutorial section and learn how to safely operate your new vessel or read more about the game in the About section.
Patch Wednesdays   February 21st, 2010 Patch Wednesdays We are updating the way we do patches in Star Sonata. We are going to start scheduling them for the second Wednesday of the month at 5:00 pm PST (1:00 am Thursday GMT). This will allow you to schedule around them; you don't want to start an Emperor's run when you know there is going to be a patch, and now you'll know! Now remember there will be out of band patches that we will announce like we always have. We sometimes need to fix problems that must be repaired before a patch Wednesday, but we hope our new system More.... Updated Help Desk   February 17th, 2010 We have just updated the help desk system. It has a new knowledgebase function that we will be populating with articles of common in-game issues. It also includes some stuff that will help us manage back-end issues which players don’t care about. We think it will help us be more responsive to your help More.... New Universe February 27   February 12th, 2010 The aged universe is starting to collapse upon itself, and the big crunch is upon us. Scientists in Lyceum estimate final crunch sometime around 11:00 am Pacific time, 2:00 PM Eastern time, with a subsequent Big Bang sometime after that, as fast as the servants of the great Adum can do their backups and do their mystical creations. The Lyceum scientists would estimate the time of the big crunch in GMT, but they get confused by such More....
Unclaimed The universe has achieved a sufficient level of civilization to support an emperor. Minimum colony population necessary to claim the throne: 5%   Help! What does this mean?
1.   Hellfrost     Death Mental 2.   Jiraque     Strawberry Pancakes 3.   Russian Power     Red Faction 4.   feanor     Death Mental 5.   TimeOfDeath     The Forgotten Colonies 6.   Hermes     pantalones 7.   DIE     iWin 8.   swingarm     Strawberry Pancakes 9.   Lord Nibbler     Death Mental 10.   Lord Nibbler2     Death Mental   1.     Death Mental    1030 2.     The Forgotten Colonies    773 3.     Strawberry Pancakes    758 4.     Zephyr    710 5.     pantalones    706 6.     Eminence Front    705 7.     Resident Evil    678 8.     Light Commerce    672 9.     Aidelon    581 10.     Traders    572
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Server Patch (and new universe) Feb 27   February 27th, 2010 AI - Make DG AI spawn at once when the server starts - Added better radiation resists to several difficult AI - Made fighters return to their owner when they lose track of their target. - Added boss scripting to hives - Increased loot on Hives - Restricted delquad to perilous space - Slight increase to the difficulty of Anaconda - Reduced AI range of interest to so that they hopefully don't go wandering off and getting lost - Reduced the range at which an AI will decide that it is lost before it will attempt to return to the center of a galaxy. Items - Increased Primal Lion thruster docking More.... Server Patch February 10   February 11th, 2010 - Reduced the size of Fine Tuned Mercurian Pharos - Added Snipers Spotty Beam - Increased visibility from flares - Blueprints will now say [Neurobound] if the item they create is neurobound - Fixed a server crash - Fixed an exploit that could occur with zero shields - Fixed the radar mods to what they were supposed to be before they accidentally got messed up - Changed some of the AI's that had Adum's radar to have flarite instead, since adum's radar got changed to level 99 - Reduced AI range of interest to 20k - Removed velocity from blackboxes - Fixed the bug with the translocator - Reduced the range More.... Server and Client patch February 3   February 4th, 2010 * Smooth shields and smooth energy. Instead of things that generate shields and energy giving a chunk every second or so and things that draw energy take away a chunk every second or so and constantly sending updates to the client, calculate a total energy per second and shields per second and send that to the client as well as use it for the server. Shields and energy will smoothly go up or down on both client and server. Type "/charging" to see your current eps and sps. * Reworking of Sniper skills. (See Dev notes thread) * Added +1% damage per More.... Xmas content patch - December 21   December 21st, 2009 - Added in Xmas drops - Added new Rattie Moe ship and stats - Reduced stats on the Midas Touch and gave Midas the Meaner Midas Touch - Improved vision on high level radars by about 50%, reduced detection by about 33%, slightly adjusted sizes and electric costs of radars according to More.... Server patch - Dec 14th, 2009   December 14th, 2009 Patch Notes: *Fixed the recent crash cause related to the /like More....

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