Space Clouds

Server Micropatch – 7th May 2016 + Extras

Today’s micropatch:

* Made it so you can sell cantpawn (unsellable) items to user bases
* Fixed the new mobile furnaces which were claiming to only work on space stations
* Fixed factory descriptions on factories with more than 3 ingredients
* Fixed some server crash bugs
* Added base slot numbers to scan results

Also, here are some extra notes which we’ve compiled due to recent comments about patch notes.

New this universe (everything done since last uni reset that wouldn’t take effect until a new uni):

+ New base field generator blueprints in Free Market and Sol
+ Added T18 and T20 kits to Iq’ Bana and the End of the Universe.
+ Added Hybridized Demon Expansion and Ultimate Demon Expansion in Lyceum
+ Improved the spawn rate of Gabriels Neurolichs in Penance
+ Olympus Shard missions automatically start in Fiery Lemnian Plains, in case you forget.
+ Moved the specialised trade goods mission from randomly scattered around the universe to tortuga main station. Still daily missions
+ Removed the anti farm tags on roaming olympus ai spawners
+ Removed Paxian Holocubes from Paxian ruins (they’re obtainable from the asteroids in Enigmatic Sector).
+ Doubled drop rate on Solar Prisms in Prism+ New tech 21 and 22 ruin items
+ Separated Steppes and Ruby Steppes to be multiple galaxies, instead of one large galaxy. Fixing annoyances with wild slaves.
+ Improved various visuals in various custom galaxies:
  * Strontium-90
  * The Mausoleum
  * Nihilite
  * Hyper
  * The Serengeti:
    * Manyara Mire
    * Manyara Dam
    * Lake Manyara
    * Serengeti Blockade
    * The Searing Rift
    * Serengeti Nebula
    * Serengeti’s Eye
    * Crater Highland
    * Emperor’s Peak
  * Olympus Entrance
  * Graveyard
  * Temple Grounds
+ Gave Nihilite an outer ring of drones.
+ Reduce all chat spam from Timotheus the Red.
+ Moved Giant Space Still to Capella (from Serpica). Due to Fine Space Whisky now being part of the Industrial Commodity set.
+ Added Industrial commodity factories to Capella.
+ Added repeatable missions for various items:
  * PWIs in Serpica.
  * Seer items in Lyceum.
  * Ancient Scoutship in Enigmatic Sector.
  * Strontium-90 reward items.
  * Xenobiology Research for Alien Incubation and DNA Beam
  * Stable Overloaders in Copper.
  * Combined Augmenters in Copper.
  * Crystalline Reserve variants in Prism.
  * War on Earthforce missions in Brigand’s Stronghold.
+ Allowed Programming to be trained up to level 60 in Kalthi Stronghold for Kalthi Manufacturing Parts
+ Universe generation changes:
  * Suns are now significantly larger
  * Planets now have random sizes, within their gravity class, and occasionally become gas giants, which have 5 station slots and 50% chance of having 6.
  * Fixed the concentric galaxy type to no longer generate planets with overlapping orbits
  * Added a small change for T1 commodities to spawn in asteroid belts, made asteroid belts have varying levels of Metals, Silicon, Nuclear Waste and Fermium.
  * Fixed a bug where moons would orbit too close to their planet (sometimes inside)
+ Fixed the Aveksaka echoes drop table, the table for Zailaguru Ksatra Cara, the level 6k Aveksaka Perilous Space roaming uber.
+ Fixed issues with Strontium-90 stations rotating
+ Added the tweak superitem blueprints to Shadow
+ Added tech 1 to 19 ship upgrades to the station in Beta Antares
+ Fixed various odd things in custom galaxies, like wormhole positions and visages for uni reset
+ Lowered the galaxy count for Wild Space (700 -> 600), changed seeds for the universe
+ Added a neutral Warp Beacon for Transwarps to Glass Matrix.
+ Added Mobile Nuclear Waste, Metal and Silicon Furnaces, like the Junkyard versions for space stations. Available from The Junkyard
+ Added a mobile item cook book which can compress Quartz Crystals, Nanosilicon and Phased Metals into crate items (for unpacking later). Available from Ring.

Everything from last patch (which was mostly covered on the day):

* Fixed bugs in missileshotgun (mag and pulse gun) and laser balance sheets.
* Reworked rarity on scoops
* Adjusted Kalthi skill commodity build costs:
  * http://forum.starsonata.com/viewtopic.php?p=754866#p754866
* Blue Photon fighter squadrons now launch fighters
* Missile rebalance:
  * Missile range is now scaled to tech (roughly, tech*100)
  * Some missiles received damage buffs for shorter range, others received nerfs for longer range.
  * Buffed Napalm fires (Incendiary Missiles).
  * Made Bunkerbuster Missiles do mining damage (instead of physical).
* Various improvements for sun graphics
* Added Argonaut MagCannon Blueprint to the MagCannon blueprint pack
* Various improvements to background textures
* Fixed one of our tiled cloud textures
* Fixed clipping on some sun textures
* Improved the Expanding Ring Texture (used in Ngorongoro Crater).
* Added some stat tracking for superitem use.
* Increased the speed of the Very Slow Missile Hull used by the Volcom base in the Nexus from 30 to 45.
* Added some stat tracking for when players hit specific levels and which side of the Nexus they done.
* Fixed a bug where slaves could equip ship tech upgrades while undocked (thus bypassing tech and slot restrictions).
* Renamed TSL to Storage in dialogs.
* Made it so certain tutorial events will not occur if you’ve fired recently, so as to be less annoying.
* Added a visage for Target Dummy Drone Mk II
* Changed the visage of Warptastic Drones to look like a Ruby.
* Made Nihilite and Warpastic Drones easier to cap.
* Changed “Source” to “Author” in the bulletin board.
* Improved some of our vapor cloud textures
* Gave Emperor Shaddam Kilrathi IV 70% extra thrust so he drifts around a little less.
* Added Shippy McShipFace to the list of AI names.
* Fixed a server crash.
* Added superitems to a large number of missiles which give them high turning and low thrust/speed on launch, to be swapped out for high thrust and speed and low turning.
* Lowered the cooldown on the Heavy Capacitor Device to 5 minutes (was 7 minutes 30 seconds).
* Buffed Space Blue Beta hull space from 325 to 340.
* Fixed a bug with new tractors rules
* Slight increase of tracking for Burst weapons
* Updated mission descriptions to accept shard dusts, unstables, and shard tokens
* Reduced Whiskey Outpost respawn times.
* Changed Earthforce Outpost mission to just require a kill of the outpost instead of kill and loot.
* Buffed Unt Faranji Diffuser
* Fixed Zobitan’s Hareem and changed weapons so they’re viable wild slaves again.
* AI will no longer sell commodities at less than a third of the item value (AI base buy at half). This should prevent AI from selling their stuff to playerbase buying it at 1 credit.

From the micropatches in April (iirc, this was never posted):

* Phunky Coaxer has been restored to its previous stats
* BFD 9000 damage and elec regen has been increased
* Added the “prevent warp” tag to platform and defender drones.
* Fixed Long Scope and Quick Scope (Sniper Adv. class skills) from being exclusive to one another
* Fixed issues with Sniper Analysis not resetting correctly when unequipping your Sniper Analyzer
* Changed microbes warp and amoureses to preventwarp rather then dieonjump
* Fixed the extreme ruin prices. More tweaks will come to these soon.
* Fixed the automatic event system from activating when it shouldn’t on live.

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