Lyceum Bulletin:
The Blue Pirates have stumbled upon a temporal wormhole and unloaded munitions into it. Lyceum scientists have inspected the wormhole and discovered that it is destabilizing rapidly and will rupture into a temporary unstable universe on April 30th.
This unstable universe will collapse on May 14th giving way to a stable one. Scans indicate that there are many changes to these universes that can be examined in a coming message.
However, preliminary scans indicate that the temporary universe goes through daily changes to its structure that increase varying fields of exploration, combat, and production.
Radiation is flooding into our universe from the rift and will cause alterations to the foundations of our universe as the end of our current universe approaches. Earthforce has stated that the radiation will halt all purchasing and extraction of material on April 23rd, followed by a reduction of all weekly lockouts on April 28th!
After extensive examination of the radiation leaking from the explosion site, top scientists predict the collapse of the universe to be on April 30, 2022. Citizens are asked to ensure all personal assets and fleets are properly stored.
Schedule
- April 23rd: All AI base consumption and player extractors stop functioning
- April 28th: All weekly lockouts now reset with the daily timer
- April 30th: Temporary Universe Reset, Daily Events begin, Weekly Lockouts restarted
- May 14th: Universe Reset, Daily Events end
Event Schedule
- Saturday (30th April and 7th May): 500% Augmenter Drop Rate Increase
- Sunday (1st and 8th May): 500% increase to Bindomite Drop Rate
- Monday (2nd and 9th May): 300% Increase to Mod Chances on Dropped Gear
- Tuesday (3rd and 10th May): 500% Increase to Prospecting Extraction
- Wednesday (4th and 11th May): 2000% increase to comet drops
- Thursday (5th and 12th May): 1600% Increase to prospecting node respawns
- Friday (6th and 13th May): 500% Increase to XP
Along with a daily event, there will be two week long events occurring throughout the temporary universe as well.
- April 30th – May 7th: AI will drop Halloween drops
- May 7th – May 14th: AI will drop Christmas drops
The AI that spawn normally during these events will not spawn. Normal AI will drop the event items.
Dev Notes
- Bases, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
- Player ships will not be affected.
- If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
- Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
- Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
- All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
- After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station. For the first 72 hours of the new universe, you can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere.
- For those familiar with the limbo command, going forward the timer has been extended from 24 hours to 72.