[Anatolian Expanse]

• Added an all new PvP Zone for claiming the Emperor of the Universe! Check out details in the following Dev Blogs: Dev Diary – Anatolian Expanse and Dev Diary – Emperor System, Wild Space and Aug Sourcing

[Wild Space]

• All new Termite Siege system. Read the details here: Dev Diary – Termite Sieges
• Command & Control base changes:
  • Command & Control Station Kit no longer can be irradiated and base becomes destroyed from radiation.
  • Command & Control bases must be deployed within 3k distance from the edge of a sun. The universe generation code been updated accordingly so that at least 3 suns are found in every Wild Space galaxy.
  • The Nullification Generator build time has been increased from 2 hours to 3 hours, but a new system has been introduced that can accelerate the build speed back down under 2 hours.
  • We have added a basebound factory called Nullification Generator Construction Support. This factory automatically constructs Ownership Booster Drones as long as it is equipped and supplied with materials. Ownership Booster Drones auto-deploy upon being built and orbit the station at a distance of 8k.
  • Each deployed drone provides a 16.7% build speed increase to the man-hours required to complete the Nullification Generator Blueprint. In theory, a team can reduce the build time for a Nullification Generator to approximately 100 minutes by constantly building these drones.
• Teams now track termite mounds in galaxies which have assets (bases, permanent drones) belonging to that team.
  • A list of galaxies with mounds is sent with the team message on login.
  • A termite mound now announces how long it is until the next attack wave, if there is one, when entering its galaxy.
• Adjusted suitability cap on Colony Enhancement items and the items now introduce a multiplier to the amount the colony is willing to buy per tick.
• Added Autopilot galaxy linking tags to the new galaxy reveal messages.
• When entering a galaxy your team owns, it will now state the time until it unowns if the galaxy is unstable.
• Updated the wording of the Galaxy Reveal notification message and added a new custom notification icon.
• Industrial Station Research: Y and Industrial Station Research: Z no longer are affected by Construction Speed Bonuses but have had their manhours reduced by 50%.
• Expedition Team is now locked to the Wild Space layer. Added a new Starter Expedition Team locked to Earthforce layer. Increased the cost of Expedition Team Blueprint from 100 tokens to 200 tokens.
• Increased the min and max yield of asteroids in random Wild Space galaxies by a factor of x10.
• Reduced Scorpius’s non-Fermium min and max asteroid yields by ~33%.
• Doubled the colony storehouse size for the colony commodities (Astral Silk, Troubles, The Spice, Storm Crystals, and Dragon Eggs).

[UI / Client Changes]

• Pop-up windows will no longer respond to enter/return to prevent accidental selections such as accepting docking ships.
• Added Level, Class and Subscription status to the Team Roster.
• Ship Subtype is now listed in the F10 Ship Information menu.
• Tractors now show rings between user and target.
• Mission locked Alternative Currency trades are no longer hidden, but shown as LOCKED, double clicking to try to buy anyway will list the mission requirement
• Replaced up/down arrow overlays on the galaxy map with icons above the DG and Juxta icons.
• *Installed blueprint’s tooltips will now state if the blueprint does not get Construction Speed Bonuses.
• Added a new button on the colony tab that disables/enables colony trading per base (Example: Can disable ExE bases from trading with colonies. While CA base on same planet can continue).
• Changed Orca, Orca+, Porpoise, and Porpoise+ to the new Merchant Navy textured. Added free skins for the original non-Merchant Navy textures.
• Chat now activates when using “Link Item in Chat”.
• Added Visibility to the squad/possessions small target tool tip.
• Fixed a bug with double clicking a name on the Team tab under Social that prevented opening a whisper private chat.
• Updated beam effects to reflect the dual colors on high+ graphics and not wash out with white glow.

[Skill Changes]

• Renamed the player skill “War Mongering” (not to be confused with the team skill “Warmongering”) to “Wartime Logistics”.
• Removed Class Zen skills from being trained in the Lyceum focus and class bases due to the Class Skills tab handling this.

[Item Changes]

• Bots will no longer automatically use Titanium Plating, Laconia Plating, or Adamantium Plating as they were previous just spamming. Players will need to manually trigger the tweak effect now.
• Increased the +Damage augmod on Kalthi Cuirass, Kalthi Armored Cuirass, and Kalthi Stinger Cuirass to +3%, +5%, and +3% respectively (originally all 1%)
• Added the effect description to Red Photon Doomsday Device, Electrified Defense Matrix, Nightfury Focus & Rage Generator, and Spice Protection
• Changed Red Photon Prototype Remote Weapon Augmentation to Rare.
• Red Photon Doomday Device no longer will no longer scale based off the target’s NT.
• Added effect descriptions to all the Shadow tweak superitems.
• Removed the +recoil on Kalthi Warrior Focus Heart and Body and replaced it with disable main weapons for 5 seconds.
• Fixed the inverted vulnerability buff on Kalthi Warrior Body (supposed to make you tankier for a brief moment, not the other way around).
• Gravity Well Stabilizer on the Voulge no longer applies to enemies and no longer has a negative range effect.
• Fixed some wrongly labeled descriptions on a few Diffusers.
• Increased Solarian Fighter Bay drop rate.
• Fixed a typo in a Blue Outpost mission item.
• Removed Boson Blower from being in a container.
• Changed Healing/Damage to Total Healing/Damage on superitem descriptions.
• Reduced Range debuff on Celestial Destabilizing Beam from -25% to -15%.
• Fixed Celestial Protection Beam’s effect so it doesn’t flicker.
• Marked several negative stat capacitors from early game as AI Only.
• Changed Fighter Over Drive Blitz to 150% damage and -50% recoil and increase effects duration to 10 seconds.
• Added Poseidon+ Drone Controller to Perpetual Motion.

[AI Changes]

• Reduced the damage of the UrQa attackers in Arctia.
• Bouquet Augmenter no longer drops from DG Basil and Balilus AI. They now drop from Roamer versions of the AI.
• Stede Bonnet now drops Bouquet Augmenters.
• Subspace Sas Outposts are capped at one spawn per galaxy.
• Adjusted Infernal Darkness drops.
• Removed several of Infernal Darkness negative auras from being Tweakable.
• Reduced Dark Doom’s aura from -50% Shield Max to -25% for 5000 range and reduced from -80% to -40% for 500 range.
• Reduced Doom’s aura from -50% Shield Max to -25% for 2000 range.
• Adjusted balance of various DG mobs and bosses. Some notable wild bots may have been affected.

[Next Universe Changes]

• Double the number random dungeon galaxies in both Earthforce and Perilous Space.
• Random DG bosses now have dedicated drop for augmenters. Read more here: Dev Diary – Emperor System, Wild Space and Aug Sourcing
  
• Added two more random Warp Beacons to Earthforce layer around Danger Factor 140/150.
• Adjusted various galaxies to no longer have point of interest and added various others.
• Adjusted the spawning Danger Factor of various galaxies.
• Removed the Building Academy Instance and Missions until they are reworked. Building Academy Entrance changed to be unable to place user bases within it.
• LACS 1894 renamed to Jungle’s Edge. Moved from Lyceum to Early Warp 2.
• Lyceum Research Concourse moved to late Warp 1.
• Added new drones and drone blueprints to Olympus, Infernal Darkness and Red Photon.

[Mission Changes]

• Added subscription requirement in the goal text for premium only missions.
• ‘A Fair Trade’ mission turned into a crate trade-in instead.
• Fixed an issue with several missions looking for Jujuso’qi for the kill.
• Fixed some missing spaces in Jungle mission texts

[Server]

• Accounts are now given a 24 hour grace period before going unsubbed. This means accounts that are auto renewed no longer should spam team message with expiring warnings.
• Energies, Station Extensions and Shields won’t unequip or shut off when a player station goes into Starving mode.
• Increased the number of ship slots from 25 to 50 and increase the Subscription bonus from 10 to 25.
  • Deployed bots now count as ship slots (excluding wild bots).
  • Number of slots available checked when docking wild bots (if possible), when transferring bots, purchasing ships, or opening an item form ship.
• Players can now transwarp from Instances (Still can’t transwarp TO Instance though).
• Warping from one layer to another will reveal any “Point of Interest” galaxies in the new layer.
• Added a True Damage type that bypasses resists for certain boss content.
• Added item linking to the event and squad chat for scooping items.
• Prospecting nodes now use a new system of terms to describe the size of the node based on the commodity: Trace, Hint, Vein, Haul, Wealth, and Bounty.
• Switching to a ship when docked now automatically adds any missing inbuilt items.
• Mission Icon indicators now vanish if you cannot “see” the station or select it.
• Fixed missing space before ‘(tweakable)’ in aura descriptions.
• Item type “Cloaking Device” is simplified to “Cloak”.
• Added EPS to weapons stats.
• Added base acceleration and turning speed to engines (based on the engine weight) for easier direct comparison.
• Cannot create Character names that match chat channel names now.
• No longer can enter an instance if your PvP Timer is active (much like entering a no PvP gal).
• Reformulated the size of asteroids and ore debris to scale less drastically.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed issue that prevented Parasites on beams from getting extra damage from a critical hit.
• Fixed issue with DNA Extraction beams that immediately extracted all 4 DNAs instead of turning off per extraction.
• Fixed issue with basebound items not being added with you preform a station upgrade with a new kit.
• Fixed an exploit with bots and squad’s bots transwarping with items marked with No Transwarping and Prevents leaving galaxy. These items are now lost and decayed on jump.
•  Fixed a bug where base kits which could not be upgraded could be upgraded via the base tech upgrade items.
• The Artifact Station Tech Upgrades will properly no longer spawn in ruins.
• Fix for a bug preventing repair of a station in owned gal if the original owner was in a different team.
• Fixed a bug that allowed for taking over multiple Command & Control ownership bases within the same galaxy on the same team.
• Fix for a bug causing galaxy ownership to always say “stable” when entering a gal, even when its about to lose ownership.
• Fixed bug in the combat bot swarm limit which set the minimum limit to 1 instead of 2.
• Ujqii Ishi fighter no longer does ~4x as much damage as it should.
• Fix for noScaling.txt override preventing windows dpi scaling not working on windows 11.
• Fixed a bug to not invite an AI with the same name as a player if it exists.
• Fixed Mobile Drone Desync.

[Wild Space Changes]

• Unowning galaxies no longer sends instant update to the map API but owning galaxies still does.
• No longer can force unown galaxies by abandoning all assets within a galaxy. Galaxies requires waiting for the unown timer.
• Ownership kit will now delete the nullification factory when galaxy ownership is lost. Blueprint with 1 use is added back at the same time.

[Fighter/Fighter Bay Changes]

• Fighter Bays have had majority of their damage bonuses shifted over to fighters and now gain damage mainly based off quality tier.
• Fighters damage now scale more with tech.
• Fighter bays now scale augmods with tech level and quality instead of being flat by tech level.
• Fighters now have a maximum launch range scaling on tech level.
• Added max distance to Fighter item tooltip.
• Fighter Bays now state “Does not work when equipped on Bots”.

[Loot Changes]

• Empyrean bosses loot chances have been increased.
• Demented Delquadrakimdan’s unique loot chances have been increased and the generic loot has slightly be reduced.
• Akuq’ba loot chances have been increased and added two weapons to drop table.
• Dragon Lair loot chances have been increased.
• Adjusted Infernal Darkness drop rate to reflect quality of items.
• Adjusted Kidd drop rate to reflect quality of items.
• Added some new fighters to the game to various content.

[UI / Client Changes]

• Made the following changes to the map:
  • Less jarring colors for different war navigations.
  • Protected galaxy icon no longer shown visually.
  • Changed Point of Interest galaxy icons to have the warp navigation color on the sphere with the white sonata star on the front.
  • New Up and Down with white and black icons respectfully much like juxta and dungeon circles around the outside of the sphere.
  • Improved the sphere image on the galaxy map to feel more rounded.
  • Adjusted the offsets of base icons from the galaxy circles in the galaxy map
  • Galaxy Map tooltip now always displays the Warp Navigation expectation based off the Danger Factor.
• Updated login screen background.
• Character Selection screen only shows a page 2 when a player has 6 or more characters and no longer shows the 5th character on the 2nd page.
• On character selection screen, right arrow and left arrow keys will switch to the next page or previous page of characters if they have 6 or more characters.
• No longer lists the credits required until going to the next screen in Neural Replacement (skill reset) and changed the text of the button on first page from “Reset Skills” to “Show Options”.
• Adjusted the mods to be after the item name when copy pasting from the inventory.
• When a server is down, the red Sonata Bot icon now shows as sleeping.
• Added separator lines to the right click context menu to space out certain options to prevent misclicks.
• Typing @[Gal Name] turns the text green and allows anyone in the chat to click on the gal name in chat to autopilot to the location. Useful for calling out galaxy names for Squads or Trade chat.
• Typing [[Item Name]] turns the text the quality of the item and allows upon click to have a window of item stats appear. Lets you share stats of an item easily with others.
• Added a new “Link Item in Chat” option in the right click context menu that puts [[Item Name]] in chat.
• Ship Subtype is now listed in the F10 Ship information menu but is not fully active yet.
• In the Ships tab when docked, the table now lists the ship’s tech.
• Transwarp menu now lists the layer of the galaxy.
• Changed Porpoise and Orca to new Merchant Navy textures (Free skins to original textures will be in later patch).

[Item Changes]

• Constant DPS on Twisted Panels and Mega Moe Engines changed to percent Damage.
• Removed BFE, Oversized BFE, and Gigantic BFE from being in containers when they drop.
• Changed the following on the Fighter Overdrive Blitz on Kalthi Armored Commander:
  • to only affect personal possessions.
  • reduced the charge time from 2 minute to 1 minute.
  • Adjusted tweaks to 125% damage, 40% recoil and 35% range.
  • Added back the Field Gen disabler.
• Changed the following on Commander Coordination Array on Kalthi Armored Commander:
  • To only affect personal possessions.
  • Changed the 5k flat electric charge on the drone’s pulse from +300% Electric Charge for 1s and Increased the damage bonus from 25% for 3 seconds to 60% for 2 seconds.
• Changed the following on Kalthi Armored Deployer’s Gemini Support Platform:
  • Removed the flat electric charge pulsing.
  • Reduced the time to deploy from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
  • Slightly increased offensive abilities.
  • Reduced cooldown from 5 minutes to 3 minutes.
  • Reduced the lifetime from 2 minutes to 1 minute.
• Increased the Damage on Kalthi Cuirass, Kalthi Armored Cuirass, and Kalthi Stinger Cuirass to +3%, +5%, and +3% respectively.
• Fixed Aether Escape Device to properly state it increases visibility.
• Updated Items Teleporter descriptions to remove reference that it has to be connected team space.

[AI Changes]

• “NPC-like” AI fighters (like the ones that come from the bases in new universes or Aveksaka Outpsots) will no longer get the bonus fighter evasion or be immune from deathblossoms.
• Added additional AI names.

[Next Universe Changes]

• Added additional Juxtapositions to deep Warp 3 Earthforce.
• Removed Juxtaposition, Concourses, and Subspace links in Wild Space.

[Server]

• Canceling a limited use blueprint build will now refund the uses (Known issue where the uses aren’t immediately updated).
• Show Stats for drones now displays Field Generators additional to weapons.
• Scooped items now show a list of the modifications instead of just a “*”. Note: this also affects the squad chat list of scooped items as well.
• Players no longer get OOC while docked inside player station is also under attack.
• PvP Timer now prevents characters from being Out of Combat.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed a bug where base kits which could not be upgraded could be upgraded via the base tech upgrade items
• Added a check to prevent repairing unattached bases in unowned galaxies due to them instantly blowing up on repair.
• Fixed a bug with parasites unable to create multiple stacks from multiple sources.
• Fixed a bug that caused the number text in transfer credits windows to turn red in certain situations improperly.
• Fixed a bug with caching accounts max character number that sometimes caused the Create Character window to appear even though the player has no open slots when logging in between multiple accounts.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed issue with Bila Zarkara (Equipment 22) that caused the boss to become permanently invulnerable.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed issue when transferring bots to another player.  It was improperly checking the current owner’s skills instead of the new owner’s skills.
• Fixed an issue with not checking augmenter’s skills after they’re equipped for bots.
• Fixed an issue with checking “Can’t remove”(formerly known as sticky) items when capturing wild bots.

[UI/ Client Changes]

• Overhauled the map to show “Point of Interest” galaxies with Star Sonata logo and changed the coloring of galaxies. This will help reduce clutter and better identify galaxies to go for tasks.
• Engine and effect graphics on your own ship or squad members are no longer hidden by being cloaked.
• “Take Credits” now uses the same style dialog as “Give Credits” when interacting with bots.
• Can now use t/m/b quantity shortcuts in give/take credits dialog after typing the number (still works the same way when used before as well).
• Adjusted the ‘Add Trade Good’ window inputs to allow for seeing larger numbers without having to move cursor. Moved the okay and cancel buttons to the bottom of the window.
• Fixed an issue with a lack of a space before owners name in the window when attempting to give or take credits.
• Fixed Mining Vulnerability tweak list color to be green for negative and red for positive instead of the opposite.
• “Toss Some” now defaults to 1 instead of all.
• Fixed display issues related to use of | in base names affecting base logs and bot dock order dialogs
• Added ability to right click Market Check via the Storage Locker.
• Updated event chat message when entering galaxy to not repeat galaxy twice and have proper punctuation between statements.
• Fixed a crash on the steamdeck.

[Item Changes]

• Electrified Defense Matrix charge time decreased to 4.5 minutes.
• Removed neurobound from the Calcite augmenter.
• Crack House’s cost changed from 1 credit to 80 credits. This is because this factory was the most cost effective factory while also being the lowest tech and cheapest to use.
• Adjusted all base kits to have a speed of 25 with Hotrod(32), Gonzales(30), Hermes(28) & Gaia(30) having custom speeds (Palace and Command & Control kits exempt).

[Skill Changes]

• Removed +weight from Bot Mastery.

[Next Universe Changes]

• Reduced the duration of the Vervaardiger Processing sun’s aura from 35 minutes to 5 minutes. Removed the negative beam vulnerability from the aura, as well.

[Server Changes]

• Players will no longer get sent map data of Warp Navigation levels they don’t have (excluding Points of Interest). This will also fix issues with /ap trying to use warp 4 shortcuts when character does not have it.
• Beacons in unrevealed galaxies should no longer appear as unexplored beacons in the transwarp list.
• AI allies will no longer become hostile by being tractored.
• Removed TrueDamage from resists window.
• Radiation death no longer bypasses escape pods.
• AI killed by Player bases and Permanent Drones will no longer will drop augmenters.
• Microwarpers changed to collide with all player and AI bases, wormholes, non-destroyed enemy drones.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed an exploit that allowed items that prevented transwarp to still be transwarped. Such items on bots now will decay when transwarped.
• Fixed a bug where another ship not under spirit/pod could be reclaimed when more than one character owned light stasis ship exists within the galaxy.
•  Fixed some Resource Distribution issues for next universe.
• Fixed a bug that caused an augmenter to ignore the skill requirement once equipped.

[Item Changes]

• Mini Madess Field Generator changed a 2.5 second gremlin effect every 10 seconds.
• Cloakpedo Mine and Hidden Cloakpedo Mines have had the following changes: properly debuff enemies rate of fire instead of buffing it, now has a 30 second recharge time, emits less particle effects, and reduces friendly visibility by 90% percent instead of 99.9%.

[System]

• Each character now gets one /limbo per universe. Due to this change – all characters now get an extra /limbo. Items that prevent leaving the galaxy, transwarping, or are layerbound will prevent limbo from occurring.
• Gremlin Effects now have a cooldown of 10 seconds on impact until another effect of the same type can cause an effect again. Example: if a gremlin effect of 2 seconds inflicts a target – it takes 8 seconds after it completes until that specific gremlin can affect the target again.
• Updated error to be more clear when attempting to mine asteroids in a owned galaxy your team does not own.
• Aura effects are no longer allowed in owned galaxies within Wild Space.

[Wild Space Changes]

• While a galaxy is unowned or turns unowned – destroyed attached bases will detach themselves from planets and moons.
• Can no longer mine asteroids in galaxies owned by team that is not your own.
• Termites now take much longer to mature and won’t spawn attackers right way but will spawn guards.
• AI Empires will no longer spawn with HPS stations.
• Adjusted Corrupted Cyborg Adamantiumized Extended Beam that was previously missed.
• Made Nullification Generator always equipped so it can’t be removed.
• Fixed issue with basebound items not being added with you preform a station upgrade with a new kit.
• Removed missed XYZ augmenter blueprints.
• Adjusted new resource distribution so the number of resources distributed to large galaxies (high solarbody counts) scale up.

[Item Changes]

• Renamed Twisted Honey Striker factory on the Twisted Honey to Twisted Honeycomb Fabrication.
• Ksaravisa parasite (From Visphotakapad Ksaravis’ayu missile) is now Unique, and will not impart multiple -Resistiance to Damage when fired by multiple players.
• Marked the Plague Virus as Unique as well, since it comes from a Seer only super item and was stronger than the Ksaravisa.
• Electrified Defense Matrix changed from +33% Shield Bank, +25% Electric Tempering, +50% Hostility for 5 minutes to +66% Shield Bank, +50% Electric Tempering, +100% Hostility for 5 minutes to match what its stats were when super item neuro tweaks were allowed to benefit from Neurotweaking. The Super Item’s charge time was decreased so that you can continuously benefit from the buff effect.
• Removed the Mining Vulnerability tweak effect from the Kalthi Capital Planetary Demolisher and change its description to fit. Its stats increased with this change.
• Reduced the magnitude of the Kalthi Elucidator Beam +Vis tweak effect.
• Removed the Experience bonus on the seer capital ship aura Psychic Foresight.
• Kalthi Coordinator Solar Array reduced from 75 flat Energy Regen to 50.
• Kalthi Capital Solar Matrix reduced from 25% Radar to 10% Radar. Reduced 25k flat Energy Bank to 20k.
• Kalthi Visionary Stealth Infuser reduced from -10% Visibility to -5% Visibility.
• Reduced blueprint costs for Kalthi Capital Planetary Demolisher, Kalthi Elucidator Beam, Kalthi Deployer Solar Panel, Kalthi Visionary Stealth Infuser, Kalthi Capital Solar Matrix.

[AI Changes]

• Subspace AI no longer have additional XP modifiers outside of the Invasion spawned AI.
• Changed the team of Kalthi Visionaries and Coordinators spawning in DF500+ back to Kalthi Armada.
• Subspace Outposts now deploy AI with scripting instead of as fighters.

[Universe Changes]

• Arctia bosses are now instanced and adjusted the galaxy layout of the zone to make it easier to understand where to go.

[Server Changes]

• Background changes to fuel check on energies so fuel costs are more accurate.
• Infrastructure for drone mobilization to help reduce desync.
• Unique tag on Parasites only allows one source to exist instead of allowing one per source. (e.g., Core Dumps with their parasite, doesn’t matter how many people use it, you can only ever have a max of one stack.)

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed a case where bots would fire at a stasis ship.
• Fixed issue with tractors being stuck on if the player has a DNA extraction beam on their ship.
• Fixed several cases where bots could fire at other players in no PvP areas.
• Fixed several issues that caused issues with “return” wormholes within instances (Serengeti, Infernal Darkness) and with wormholes within the same galaxy (Micron, Labyrinth).
• Fixed a bug where stations could do massive extractor/factory ticks when being repaired.
• Fixed a bug where constant DPS incorrectly applied to parasites from super item.
• Fixed a bug where constant DPS could make superweapons do healing/damage when they should do damage/healing.

[Wild Space Changes]

• See Dev Post - Wild Space Conflict: The Nitty-Gritty for a lot of details.
• New Wild Space system gradually reveals more galaxies over the course of the universe.
• Unidyne Core Dumps (and all lower tech versions) changed to a tech 20 super item. Blueprints also renamed to the T20 version.
• Readjustment of Base Weapons stats, notably with significant range reductions.
• All station gear with Transference Efficiency changed to Resistance to Damage
• All station gear with Transference Power changed to Damage.
• XYZ Station Gear and researches are now galaxy bound and given proper sizes and weights. Industrial Station Research: Y, Industrial Station Research: Z can only be built one at time now.
• X Gear that starts inbuilt on bases is now base bound and will not drop on death.
• Placement of bases or Permanent Drones causes aggression from AI Empires within the same galaxy.
• Removed Range bonus from Station Mastery skill.
• Repair kits are no longer used to repair bases and converted back to the station kit used to build them. Repairs are now done using actual station kits via the station upgrade system.
  • Must be docked and owner be online.
  • Must be an equivalent or greater station kit in tech and augslots.
  • If the kit is the same kit as the current base is – it’ll only repair it.
  • Repairs and Upgrades are now tracked in base logs.
  • HQ, Outpost and Command & Control Kits can only upgrade/repair their own types.
• Metals and Silicon will now decay on reset.
• Wormholes no longer block shots.
• Added new Advanced Extractors to Ring for most T1-T3 extractable commodities. T1 are tech 9, T2 are Tech 12 and T3 are Tech 16.
• Permanent Drones now follow the 1:1 healing system.
• Adjusted the base supers to new stats.
• Station Tech Upgrades have had their acquisition methods removed due to the new station upgrade system. The artifact ruin Station Tech upgrades items will no longer appear in colonies. Items will be fully removed in a future universe.
• IC Station Kits are no longer obtainable (outside of the temp universe).
• IC Augmenters can be obtained at Advanced Base in Building Academy via exchange for augmenters.
• Termites have been buffed and had their spawn rate increased.
• Industrial Commodities can no longer be transwarped and item teleported.
• Items with the following tags can no longer be Item-Teleported: decay on universe reset, cannot leave the galaxy, drop on death or can’t be transwarped.
• Changed the initial base placement vulnerability aura to be 100% until building is complete instead of starting at 500% and going down every 75 seconds.
• Construction bonuses do not affect Nullification Generator’s construction time.
• Base capacitors can no longer be scrapped for credits.
• Rename Shield Harmonization Overcharger to Energy Harmonization Overcharger.
• Added new colony terraforming items that decay on universe reset that raise the max suitability of a colony in Blue Photon Processing.

[UI/ Client Changes]

• Improved all the Zaphragi models and skins.
• Improved Guardian of the Lyceum model and texture.

[Skill Changes]

• Drone Research skill description updated to more clearly reflect all benefits to gives. Previously Drone Research gave one equipped slot per level and level 5 would give 2. Now it only gives one per level.
  • Increased the baseline number of drones each hull class can equip by one. Light Fighters: 10, Heavy Fighters: 13, Industrial Freighters: 19, Support Freighter: 19, Capital Ship: 16.
• Removed the ability to get Ancient Lore skills due to no functions relating to them.

[Item Changes]

• Deathblossom item descriptions now say “Multiplies” instead of your “Overloads” and no longer categorized as an Overloader item type.
• Reworked the Faranji Paragon Devices.
• Calypso’s Presence and Ismail’s Presence Field Generators changed from affecting everyone to only allies and self.
• Dementium is now labeled Rare instead of Exotic.
• Paxian Battle Frigate Wave Motion Laser Device is no longer automatically used by combat bots.
• Adjusted Particles for CDTDs, Polarized Catapult & Imperiled Polarized Catapult to try and improve visual clarity and improve FPS.
• Adjusted a bunch of low level drones to have proper energies and could can power now.
• Adjusted the energybank that the Celestial Drones use.
• Reduced quality of BFD 9000′s gear from Exotic to Rare.
• Gatling and Point Defense Transferences weapons now have .5 recoil instead of .2 recoil.
• Adjusted quality of Zebu Master Fighter to rare.
• Adjusted Fighter Inbuilts of Kalthi Commander Ships to the new fighter system.
• Reduced uptime of the Voulge Charge Drone and Flamberge Charge Drone from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.
• Reduced Zeus Charger from 15% Critical Resistance to 9% Critical Resistance and 5% Resistance to Damage to 4% Resistance to Damage.
• Updated descriptions for Envelope Device super items. Added shields, duration and if the envelopes are effected by friendly fire or not.
• Modified all obtainable fighter crates to break into 2 fighters each.
• Expanders now cannot be tossed unless unequipped first to prevent overhulling issues.
• Updated description of Celestial Defiler Blueprint to properly reflect the item is a long range torpedo, not a short range one.
• Red Photon Prototype Weapon Augmentation reduced from 25k range to 2.5 range.
• Adjustments to Fighter Overdrive Blitz to prevent mega stacking with other fighter super items.
• Native Warp Beacons are now identical to Warp Beacons other then being galaxy bound.
• Decays on Universe Reset additionally lists “Can’t Be put into Storage” automatically on items.
• Twisted Fate of Death Blueprint’s Twisted Token cost now matches the other ships.
• Fixed Nanotech Enhancing Beam effects actually lasting 5 seconds instead of 24 seconds.

[AI Changes]

• Adjusted bosses of high DF DGs to have better distribution.
• Removed Random Augs and Mods from the following zone’s Bosses and Minis: T20 skill zones, Red Photon, Olympus, Infernal Darkness, Brute Force, Black Nightfury, Subspace, Demented Delquad, UrQa’qa Vazuk Vo’kii, Twisted, Empyrean, Serengeti and Fallen Delquad.
• AI in dungeons will no longer attempt to scoop items.
• AI outside of dungeons will only scoop commodities excluding crates.
• Lowered damage of the space jellies in The Nexus, they will do half of their current damage so that they don’t one shot players who may be passing through in un-upgraded zebus. Also Increased the drop rate of the Jelly’s Acidic Blood item from space jellies.
• Reduced the number of weapons on DG guard Wattages.
• Removed the superitems on DG guards of Ghostships, Zebucarts, and Zebu Masutas.
• Made Termites within Emphatic Biology and Biologique be on teams now so there’s not a chance of fighting other mounds within the same galaxy.
• Increased the visibility of Tears.
• Slightly Reduced the Shield Bank of Mad Scientist.
• Moved the tweak effect descriptions on all Fleet Commander fighter aura superitems from the item description to the Actions on the item.

[Universe Changes]

• Empathy Field is now based around mining instead of planet extraction. Increased the size of the AI Station. Moved to Earthforce layer.
  • Carbon Hearts and Diamond Hearts are now galaxy bound.
• Moved Remote Control and Station Tweaking from Biologique to Vervaardiger Processing.
• Station Tweaking and Station Research from Emphatic Biology are moved to Lunacy.
• Equipment, Radar and Nanotech Plating moved from XYZ to Bonnet Hideout in Bonnet.
• Station Tweaking and Station Research moved from XYZ moved to Ruby Steppes.
• Added way to exchange class augmenters in The Acropolis back to Tokens.  Tokens can be exchanged for the previous scrap credit value of these augmenters.
• Lady Kelvin was removed.
• Added Prototype Prismatic conversion as an AC trade in in Arctia after the mission “Solar Prisms” is completed. Added a note to the mission “Getting Ready” to alert the player that they can get the Prototype Prismatic Conversion from the trade bay.
• Fixed AI Empire HQ’s to properly be set to Tech 20.
• Colored Empires renamed to Prism Empires.

[Mission Changes]

• Trader Signet, Insignia, Badge missions changed from flat XP to level based.

[Server]

• Missions and Epiphanies no longer get bonus XP from events, XP augmods or other external sources.
• Councilor XP from team mates has been removed.
• Updated grammar on error if you’ve never seen an item in or it’s not on the public market.
• When item is not on the public market place, the error will now clarify that it is not found in your ship’s inventory either.
• Base logs for AI docking and or trading now fall under the Bot category to not drown out player transitions and docking.
• Global MarketPlace representative now falls under Bot/AI docking logs to also not drown out player logs.
• Changed the level prevention to undock without a shield, energy or engine from level 10 to level 40.
• Adjusted Star Sonata discord link to be a shorter version the All Chat login message.
• Added a new bot action to More Bot Settings: Set Ship Name Alias. Allows to rename the ship alias when the ship is already deployed for combat, wild and trade bots.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed an issue that caused base to unequip items when attempting to equip a normal item.
• Moved a check so an already equipped item isn’t unequipped on a ship before checking if there’s enough space to remove the cargo tag.
• Fixed a display bug where weapons would list their self damage multiplied by the number of projectiles.
• Fixed a spacing issue in error when attempting to sell items that are “Can’t Remove” or “Can’t Unequip”.
• Cargo slot bonus from expanders now properly apply if you have more than 1 in a stack equipped.
• Made the visible sun Targetable in Celestial Encampment so players can get affected by Out of Combat.
• Fixed a bug where DNA extractors would not deactivate after successfully extracting a piece of DNA.
• Fixed issue with several AI Only Drones that had extremely low lifespans.

[UI/ Client Changes]

• Removed Ownership and Protection options from the Team options. Ownership will return under a new system next universe.

[Item Changes]

• Capital Ship Shield and Energy Bank Adjustments – Read here - the following ships stats have been adjusted and gets a /freeaugreset. Does not stack with existing /freeaugresets the ship may have:
  • Auroral’s Glacial Shard’s Energy Max from 250% to 190% and Shield Max from 233% to 183%.
  • Roscap’s Shield Max from 224% to 190%.
  • Bear’s Energy Max from 332% to 255% and Shield Max from 284% to 240%.
  • Primal Bear’s Energy Max from 359% to 275% and Shield Max from 308% to 260%
  • Gareth’s Energy Max from 395% to 280%.
  • Gawain’s Energy Max from 440% to 310%.
  • Mordred’s Energy Max from 470% to 330%.
  • Green Battleship’s Energy Max reduced from 460% to 340%.
  • Greenish Battleship’s Energy Max reduced from 515% to 360% and Shield Max from 372% to 325%.
  • Earthforce Frigate’s Energy Max from 463% to 288%.
  • Earthforce Destroyer’s Energy Max from 519% to 318%.
  • Earthforce Cruiser’s Energy Max from 575% to 348%.
  • Earthforce Battlecruiser’s Energy Max from 594% to 358%.
  • Earthforce Battleship’s Energy Max from 631% to 378%.
  • Earthforce Dreadnought Energy Max from 650% to 388%.
  • Hybridized Frigate’s Energy Max from 481% to 298%.
  • Hybridized Destroyer’s Energy Max from 538% to 328%.
  • Hybridized Cruiser’s Energy Max from 594% to 358%.
  • Hybridized Battlecruiser’s Energy Max from 613% to 368%.
  • Hybridized Battleship’s Energy Max from 650% to 388%.
  • Hybridized Dreadnought Energy Max from 669% to 398%.
  • Recon Frigate’s Energy Max from 288% to 235%.
  • Interdiction Frigate Energy Max from 288% to 235%.
  • Earthforce Overload Prototype’s Energy Max from 388% to 315%.
  • Lyceum Exploration Cruiser’s Shield Max from 419% to 323%.
  • Kikale Mzungu Frigate X’s Energy Max from 1400% to 575% and Shield Max from 432% to 333%.
  • Mastodon’s Energy Max from 1250% to 538% and Shield Max from 380% to 320%.
  • Hybridized Mastodon’s Energy Max from 1284% to 548% and Shield Max from 392% to 330%.
  • Anise’s Energy Max from 460% to 340%.
  • Swordfish Energy Max from 470% to 330%.
  • Zeus Throne and Zeus Throne+’s Energy Max from 515% to 360%
  • Hive’s Shield Max from 372% to 325%.
  • Honey Comb’s Energy Max from 1438% to 585% and Shield Max from 372%.
  • Red Photon Carrier’s Energy Max from 515% to 360%.
  • Red Photon Support Crusier’s Shield Max from 490% to 354%.
  • Red Photon Logistics Cruiser’s Energy Max from 823% to 435%
  • Sutaatiguruayu’s Energy Max from 530% to 370%.
  • Antuayu’s Energy Max from 530% to 370% and Shield Max from 459% to 353%.
  • Vaziayu’s Shield Max from 671% to 404%.
  • UrQa’qa Qu’ishi Qa’s Energy Max from 950% to 470%.
  • Twisted Fate of Death’s Energy Max from 530% to 370% and Shield Max from 404% to 340%.
  • Twisted Honey’s Energy Max from 1475% to 595% and Shield Max from 459% to 353%.
  • Empyreal Eclipse and Empyreal Noctis’s Energy Max from 481% to 365% and Shield Max from 459% to 360%.
  • Emperor’s Behemoth’s Thrust from 252% to 213%.
  • Divine Behemoth’s Thrust from 840% to 413%.
  • Massif IV’s Thrust from 299% to 237%.

[Server]

• Changed so trade bots can no longer mine in premium/semi-premium areas if not subbed.

[Bug Fixes]

• Added multiple checks and automated correction for edge cases where ships end up stuck after towing.
• Fixed bug causing bots to constantly open missile crates.
• Fixed several client crashes.
• Fixed a glitch that sometime cause your own docked ship to be visible on top of the base.

[FIGHTER AND DEATHBLOSSOM CHANGES]

• Item form Fighters now provide information about their weapons, shield, speed and resistances.
• Bots can no longer use Fighters or Deathblossom.
• Deathblossom will no longer target fighters.
• Fighters no longer have evasion to direct shots but have 90% evasion to non-targeted damage (splash, collision code, warhead effects from missiles, ect.)
• Removed fighter auras from Death of the First Born and Panther Kitten.
• Removed the debuff effect from Death of the First Born.
• Chihuahua Fighters no longer give a mining damage debuff.
• Fighter Bay slots: Capital Ships have 2 slots, Freighters have 1 slot.
• Capital Ship fighter bays now have 2x the aug stat budget of Support Freighters.
• Adjusted the Quality, Damage, Ship Diameter, and Launch Energy of all fighters. All fighters now take 1 slot to launch.
• Inbuilt Fighter Bays on Capital Ships and Support Freighters are now ship bound instead of sticky.
• Projectiles that are fired by fighters will not inherit velocity.

[Skill Changes]

• Changed Advanced Flight Controller to grant +15% damage to fighters instead of granting 2 fighter slots.
• Increased bonuses granted by Flight Controller from 15% to 20% for listed stats.
• Updated Bot Mastery and Radiation Expert skill descriptions to reflect the previously unlisted damage bonus.
• Radiation Expert provides 15% Radiation Damage and 25% Damage per level instead of 50% Radiation Damage. No longer passes to fighters.
• Zen of Support Freighter, Zen of Light Fighter, Zen of Heavy Fighter, Equipment, and Flying Monkey now pass on to bots.
• Bot Mastery no longer gives capacity bonus for bots.
• Bots now get 100% of capacity bonuses all skills (except for augmenter tweaking) but will not fire when overhulled.
• Zen of Engineer now states that it gives 1% of Resistance to Damage per level to Temp Drones. These bonuses were added in a previous patch, but were not listed on the skill.
• Shield Monkey level 1 now grants +30% Shield Bank on Support Freighters.

[UI/Client Changes]

• Added glowmaps for the Steam Gold Zebucart.
• Added Normal maps for a bunch of low level ships.
• Added red lightning to center hole of Dogeage model.
• Extended Battle Sphere skins to Zaphragi Ark.
• Added tech, description, weight and size to base construction preview window.
• Inventories can now be sorted to only show cargo items via button at the top of the window.
• “copy ap link” now copies “/ap” as well, making the copied result a directly usable command.
• Possessions menu now lists bots as either “Combat Bot” or “Trading Bot”.

[Item Changes]

• All weapons, except for Torpedoes, have had their recoil clamped. The highest recoil sits at around 5 seconds for beam weapons.
• Transferences weapons now have double the HPE. But Stealing also takes 100% more electricity then before.
• Surgical weapons have had their DPS increased but their DPE reduced slightly.
• Tripled the time it takes for Fires/Parasites to ramp up to max damage.
• Removed the Neurobound Tag from the class locked super items sold in lyceum.
• Spiced up the descriptions of various Kalthi gear.
• Increased the mobility factor of Empyreal Piercer Drone from 1.0 to 1.75.
• Hephaestus Research Module Blueprint has had its Copper requirement reduced from 2000 to 1000.
• Hermes Research Module Blueprint has had its Mercury requirement reduced from 1000 to 300.
• Semi-Blackhole Pulse Generator no longer is affected by Zen of Devices and charge time increased from 20 seconds to 30 seconds.
• Aphelion’s Overwhelming Darkness super item has had its Beam resistance granted to allies and self reduced from 50% to 25% and for enemies reduced from -33% to -15%.
• Added tags to Demented Delquad, Spice Pirates and Nightfury loot.
• Fix the description on the `Coordinator Gemini Support Platform` super item inbuilt to Kalthi Armored Deployer to correctly reflect the tweak effects granted.
• Empyreal Experimental Drone Controller no longer is Neurobound.
• Updated wording on Field Generators to clarify if it works when “equipped” on bots.
• No longer shows “works when equipped on bot” messages on base Field Generators.
• Demented Modules are now set to the Rare Quality.
• Imperial Seals, Unclean Seals, Tarnished Imperial Chests and their variants are now labeled as Exalted.
• Added Scyonara Pod to Kalthi Depths Exotic drop pool.
• Zeus Engine now has proper particle effects.

[AI Changes]

• Made Empyreal Fleet Leaders have constant names to prevent instance board havoc.
• Added a large number of new generic AI names.
• AI should no longer wander out to inspect comets.
• Normalized the drop rate of the Olympus boss fragments to 2 100% drops each instead of having random rates.
• Powerful Alien Deathblossom (On Antu minibosses, and Space Anomalies from RNF/BNF) now has 9 targets instead of 20.
• Increased Kalthi Armored Commander and Kalthi Wrathful Commander roaming AI bosses’ shields to 60 mil and 50 mil, respectively.
• Increased Kalthi Armada Commander shields to 20 mil.
• Increased the protection of the Envelopement used by the Kalthi Commander bosses during phase transitions to 1.5mil.
• Added an upgrade to the Kalthi Planetary Demolisher sourced from Kalthi Armored and Wrathful Commanders.
• Changed aura effects of Kalthi Armored Commander and Kalthi Wrathful Commander AI bosses’ invincibility auras not allowing the player to run away and leave a galaxy effectively (now buffs the radar on spawn so they can chase you down anywhere).
• Increase shield drain of Kalthi Armored Commander’s radiation field.
• Buff Kalthi Commander fighter super to allow its use more frequently like regular fighters.
• Nerfed Kalthi AI only drones’ damage and range significantly.

[Next Universe Changes]

• Reduce the quantity of Kalthi to make them more manageable to fight in the field.
• Fixed issue with Imperiled Shield Revitalizer being unlocked with the wrong mission.
• Electrified Georg Ohm no longer gives a global shout on spawn.
• Entering Protoplasmica will now pop-up the mission chain.
• Fixed issue with Merchant Navy in Kalthi Depths not attacking or fighting back sometimes.
• Imperial Polishing Machine will be available for purchase at Earth Central in Sol.
• Adjusted Dark Sun in Blue Outpost to allow easier detection of Space Blue Alpha AI close to sun.

[Mission  Changes]

• Added a second start point for the “Finding Mommy” intro mission for the Protoplasmica mission chain to the base in Biopsy.
• Converted Strontium missions from 21 days from completed date to the standard Monthly reset cycle. Will now appear in lockout tab.
• Fixed a spelling error in the mission “A Strange Sun?”.

[System]

• Cargo items are now capped at a weight of 1 mil.
• Ships no longer weigh x10 when in item form.
• Abandoning Temporary Drones now put them in a destroyed state.
• Can tractor your own and team assets in Wild Space now.
• RTS Command for your bot to follow you was updated to state “them” instead of “him”.
• Damage on tweaks/auras affect Transference Weapons again.
• Added new line to All Chat login message stating the Star Sonata Discord invite link.
• Possessions tab now lists bots as “Combat Bot” or “Trading Bot”.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed bug with unable to tractor your own bases/perma drones if the player or the base is unteamed.
• Fixed a bug where anything unteamed would always be considered visible to anything else unteamed.
• Celestial Destabilizing Beam and Celestial Protection Beam now work on ships and drones, instead of just drones.
• Squad menu will now update properly when you switch to an unsquadded character
• Fixed issues with Bila and Akhara instances.
• Fixed issue with the Kalos Anthos instance.(will be unlocked within 48 hours of patch.)