== Typo’s ==
* Fixed a few “an” instead of “a” typos in extractor blueprints.
* Fixed “Aniihilation” typo in superitems.
* Fixed “Seta” typo in place of “Sets”.
* Fixed East Vindia fighter bay mission summary asking for a Trader Badge when it wants an insignia.
* Fixed some Paxian Battle Frigate mission typos.
* Fixed incorrect French grammar in Biologique’s AI base description (Elle est pas belle > Elle n’est pas belle).
* Changed the fighters used by space blue gammas from regular fighters to a fighter generator
* Fixed a typo in the Shielding 22 boss warning.
* Fixed Advanced Fire Control Drone description typo.
* Fixed Subspace Tra Blue Photon’s final mission endpoint, it should only end in Lyceum Wormhole Research.
* Added entrance information for some Strike Force Zeta chain missions.
* Fixed Subspace mission typos, including correcting some misnamed bosses in the mission text for tech 22 skill training.
* Fixed Infernal Tempest mission typo.
* Stilletto missile launchers have been renamed to Stiletto missile launchers.
* The Psionic Wave Amplifire Gamma has been renamed to Psionic Wave Amplifier Gamma.
* Fixed blueprint requirements for Capital Selenite Envelope Device Blueprint, Selenite Envelope Device Blueprint and Selenite Transwarp Blueprint from Selenite ship to Selenium commodity
* Fixed Hyperdrive Squad Transwarp blueprint to take selenium (the commod) instead of selenite (the ship).
* Fixed typo in Hyperdrive Squad Transwarp Blueprint description.
* Fixed seer mission name typo.
* Fixed some typos in mission “Assist the Nexus Station”.
* Additional Twisted boss shout typo fixes.
* Fixed Hyperion mission typo.
* MIRV Torpedo Productions and their blueprints have been renamed to MIRV Rocket Productions and associated blueprints.
* Fixed Beta Antares Paxian exploration mission typo.
* Fixed typos in Infernal Tempest missions.
* Fixed Golagoay Vazaha Defense Unit description typo.
* Replaced most instances of ellipsis that were not displaying correctly for the player.
* The Antuayu’s Alien Siege Mode inbuilt superitem now properly states it also reduces Electrical Tempering by 30%.
* Fixed typo in description of Large Paxian Missile ammo crate.
* Fixed a mistake in the description of the Sniper Analyzer
* The inbuilt superitem on kelvins no longer has an extra instance of the word “device” in its name
* Fixed spelling errors in “War on Earthforce” missions
* Updated Shield Remodulation and Missile Mastery descriptions
* Fixed typo in level name for players level 10,000 and up
== Cosmetic ==
* The Pax Stratos and Pax Heliosoleta can now use the Assassination and Rainbow Boomer skins from other Paxian ships.
* Added Zeus’s Banu skin to UrQa’qa Qu’ishi Qa
+ Fixed rings around various celestial objects from being too large.
* Added Eridiumized Paxian Battle Frigate skin
* The Paxian Probe for the Paxian Exploration Missions has been redesigned and improved. It can be found immobilized to the north of Reflector’s star.
+ Icy Redoubt pillbox in Snake Visions (Snake Hole) will no longer first appear as being 500 size, and will now stay at a consistent 200 size.
* The asteroids containing the Twisted Nikola’s Advance Protection Drone and Twisted Nikola’s Advance Command & Control Drone items have had their visages swapped correctly.
* Added rarity tiers to hull expansions
* Drones now have Quality tags.
* Kandara Dvarata will no longer have an intense, pulsating planet in the background. The effect is now smaller and more subtle.
* Updated rarities on Drone Controllers
== Quality of Life ==
* Increased the number of non-commodities that you can buy at a time from 50 to 1000
* Added base certificates to the other 2 academy stations
* Added prefab mission tab to remove all fighters. This will allow you to remove all ship bound fighters from your ship through the Alternate Currency system in The Junkyard.
* Experimental Fusion, Prototype Fusion, Fusion, Subterranean Fusion, Sky Farm Fusion, and Planetary Core Fusion extractors can now be unequipped. They will still decay on universe reset, and are still unable to be sold to AI bases.
+ “Return to Infernal Darkness” mission has had its endpoint in Sol removed. It will no longer autocomplete itself whenever you dock at Earthforce Headquarters. You can still start the mission and abandon it later to go back to Infernal Tempest.
* Items that take zero space when equipped (expanders and sticky items) will indicate it in the description
* AI’s and bots will intelligently turn their cloaks on and off depending on their visibility and current energy. They will turn it on if they aren’t short of energy and the cloak would actually make them reasonably stealthy. They will turn it off if they don’t have full energy and are not stealthy even with it on.
* Bots with cloaks in the same galaxy as their owner (the player) who has a cloak will turn on their cloak if their owner turns on their cloak, and turn off their cloak if they are less than 100% energy and their owner turns off their cloak.
* Improvement to V-formation code for when bots have “attack enemies” off but “attack my target” on (If the designated target is in range, they will keep facing it, rather than turning back the way the master is facing between each shot.)
* Allow alts access to all the ‘x’ menu options of bots and drones on the same account.
* Removal of Shard Tokens and Unstable Shard Dusts. All encounters that previously dropped Unstable Shard Dusts now drop the stable Shard Dusts. Neurobound tag was removed, you can trade them or place them in your TSL.
* Elemental Shards (Swift, Fire, Storm, Strife, Lightning) have been converted to Commodity items, you can now put them in your TSL and trade to alternate characters on the same account.
* All Unstable Shard Dusts have been converted to Shard Dusts, all Shard Tokens have been converted to Shard Dusts
* Updated Staff Quarters missions to no longer require Shard Tokens, instead requiring Shard Dust which tokens have been renamed to. Removed the conversion mission for 10 Shard Dust to 2 Shard Tokens.
* Converted the Shard Dust turn in and neurobound item mission to Alternate Currency system, the tractor beam turn ins were not converted as the missions describe the tractor.
* Increased the Weaponry 20 commodity half-life to 24 hours to match the Equipment 20 commodity half-life
* Fixed bug where decaying commodities on bots would show up in the player’s event chat
* Converted the turn in missions for Earthforce, Blue Outpost, Tortuga, Paxian, Infernal Tempest, Strontium-90, Subspace, and Arena Lobby Gear/Tokens to their respective AI bases.
* Station Repair kits are now available for purchase at the Shadow AI station.
* Converted the Station gear building missions to reward Tokens instead of gear, Tokens are turned in at The Junkyard. Also converted the dg drops of these items to station gear tokens as well. This means players can choose what station items they want.
+ The Junkyard’s Creaky’s Junkquarters station once more sells the Mobile Nuclear Waste Furnace.
* Fixed Mobile Metal, Silicon, and Nuclear Waste Furnace portable convertors; they should now properly convert resources.
+ Comet name list has been greatly expanded.
* Greatly improved Auto Mining Drones
* The two Bila Katur systems in the Bila Subspace region have been renamed to Bila Katur Namna and Bila Katur Upari.
+ The Compressed Dampener Blueprints have been moved from Lyceum’s Locus of Support station to Perpetual Motion, the Compressed Energy Dampener Blueprint has also been added to Perpetual Motion which was missing from Lyceum.
* The Pax Christmasicus has received an inbuilt update, you can use the /outfithull command to receive three new super drone devices. The Christmasicus’s Red Trick Device deploys a three minute lifespan heat drone every three minutes, the Christmasicus’s Green Trick Device deploys a two minute lifespan mining drone every three minutes, and the Christmasicus’s Blue Trick Device deploys a one minute lifespan surgical drone every three minutes. The Christmasicus’s Blue Trick Device also has its tech level and drone deployment requirement reduced from 8 to 5 from the regular Blue Trick drone, allowing Pax Christmasicus pilots to take advantage of the higher tech Blue Trick early!
* The Bulk Trader II and Bulk Trader II+ have had their second built-in Freighter Defense superitem replaced with an identical, differently-named Secondary Freighter Defense. You can use the /outfithull chat command to receive this new inbuilt device.
* The Kalthi Minion Protection Drone, available as a built-in drone device for the Kalthi Armored Commander, will now despawn once inactive. It also has a bigger diameter.
*The Big Roswell, Big Roswell+, and Reconditioned Big Roswell have had their second Roswell Drone Device renamed to Secondary Roswell Drone Device. You can use /outfithull to update your Big Roswell’s superitems and use both with ease now.
== Bug Fixes ==
* Player bases will no longer be tractorable in Earthforce layer if you were squadded with the owner
* Stacked items that can have mods will now stack any augmenter stats that they have.
* Combat bots scooping things will now show what they scooped in squad chat
- Fixed UrQa’qa Qu’ishi (Bana King’s) spawner, there was a phase after boss spawner events, which blanked all the events causing bugs.
* Fixed a major bug with a lot of high end drones that had a certain tag that was accidentally giving them a bunch of +100% aug stats that was not intended
* Changed how item generators use their timers to better accommodate lag and other situations where their output might be delayed.
* Fixed multiple cases of missions wanting multiple sets of augs but only saying 1 set
* The Strontium-90′s silver Drop kill mission can no longer be started, any characters with this mission can still turn it in for their final reward from it. Players can still start and complete the gold Drop mission.
* Fixed the Uparaksana Atiguru in Uparaksana Tra (in Tra petal), it will no longer launch Zebras as fighters and will instead launch Rahnti.
* Mausoleum minions have had their experience gains from killing them removed. The Mausoleum bosses will still give the same amount of experience as before.
* Fixed active missions no longer displaying their descriptions
* Zauron’s Mask field generator has had its increasing aura strength fixed.
* Nexus Drone Fighter Prefab is now shipbound.
+ The Aveksaka in Dark Jungle will no longer attack the Primal Elephant Wreckage blocking entry to the Cave system.
* Changed cadet nexus mission chain so that “Meet the Mole” doesn’t show up for pirate characters. The starting location of this mission has been moved to Janitor’s Outpost in the Nexus as well.
+ Fixed problems regarding comet resources not being correctly distributed.
+ More comets should now have resources.
+ Prevented resources, apart from Pyrite Dust, from spawning on the Pyrite Comet in Capella.
* The Roscap, Pax Lyrae, and Pax Vega have been given custom turret configs to fix their faulty default weapon positions. The Roscap has had them set up in a line near the front, while the Lyrae and Vega have their weapon positions set up in a V at the front of the ship.
+ Queen Hive’s shield aura (affecting both her and her Royal Hives) has been replaced with a +25% Resistance aura. Their healthbars will no longer desync near the end of the fight.
+ Fixed missing Tractoring 16 mission from Bipolar (the mission in question trains Tractoring from 15 to 16 at the cost of a Profane Thirst and Blasphemous Fervor).
* The Tractoring 22 Subspace uber, Janayitriadhara, will now continue to spawn bombs until 9% shielding from the previous 10%.
* Fixed bug where capped fighters would retain fighter specific stats
* Fixed Infinite Knowledge skill requirement for the Ult. Lyceum Combined Augmenter Blueprints.
* Fixed Depot Harvesting Dynamo that was under producing rations as well as Twisted Harvesting Dynamo and Harvesting Dynamo which were over producing rations
* Fixed Apollo Energy Capacitor and Arcadian Energy Capacitor not in the blueprint packs
* Fix for the drop table for UrQa’qa Qu’ishi (roaming Bana King)
== Content ==
+ Gold and Platinum can now appear in prospecting nodes.
* The Expedition Team Blueprint now builds into a Pre-Fabricated Expedition Team Blueprint similar to other terraforming projects.
+ Deep Space no longer has a warp beacon.
* The Kasper can once more be bought at most AI stations.
+ Reduced Ares Drone respawn time in Low Branches (Protoplasmica) from 120 seconds to 30 seconds. Reduced the Neural Keysync (gate keys) requirement from 3 to 1 in that room.
+ Ruby Carriers in Ruby Steppes will now target players based on the same level ranges as the Ruby Transports in the previous room, previously they were docile unless their team was attacked.
+ Reduced Blue Beta Drone respawn time in Rotting Leaves (Protoplasmica) from 120 seconds to 30 seconds. Reduced the Neural Keysync (gate keys) requirement from 3 to 1 in that room.
* Eridium Dust from Dungeon bosses has been replaced by Eridium Ore. Instead of only 5 Eridium per drop, you can now get between 5 and 10 Eridium from the new drop. Eridium Dust will still drop from comets.
* Shielding 22 Miniboss now has a more appropriately sized drone visage, changes weaknesses properly, and uses the appropriate damage type to signify said weaknesses.
* Added new hull expansions as rare loot
* Adjusted environment damage for Engine T22 boss, drones are no longer affected by environmental fire damage or fires. Environmental fire damage and fires no longer apply to ships within bubble from boss, retaining +99% fire resist within boss bubble.
* Fixed solarian gear and the twisted engines to have blueprint tech level require the tech level of item
* The AI base price for non-common cloaks greatly increased
* Added some new high level rare cloaks for next universe
* UrQa’qa Qu’ishi in Akuq’ba should now properly unequip its deathblossom when resetting.
* Baniq Jiqazuk’Qo in Akuq’ba will no longer attempt to execute the weakest enemies.
* Items with the “Junkyard Scrappable” tag have had that tag removed.
* Removed drops from Qokuji’qi in Bana Queen’s boss room, Bana Queen now has an extra 25% chance to drop an Urko Qa alongside her existing item drops.
== Balance ==
* Aku’ Qa has had its stats changed 471 Regeneration, 4500 Bank, 95 Size, 380,000 Weight, -7% Electric Tempering
* Some changes to cloaks: most aug stats on cloaks were doubled. Aug stats on cloaks will now only apply to the ship when the cloak is active. Aug stats on cloaks now cause their activation energy to be greater rather than their cloaking effect to be worse. Mods on cloaks still apply regardless.
* Adjusted how super item damage works with negative damage auras. Now just apply the negative aura to the final calculated super item damage, but before was something more complicated taking augs into account
* Organic Exterminators dps increased and organic parasites health increased to match the fire extinguishers and fires.
* Removed aug stats on a couple of exterminators that had them.
* Balanced DPS and DPE of exterminators. Drastically reduced activation energy of exterminators.
* Added two new, larger more powerful fire extinguishers as rare drops.
* Removed the Zeus Missile Launcher from Zeus and all Zeus minis
* The Agamemnon Fighter (used by Green Battleship AI) can now retarget like most other fighters.
* Created AI versions of the Kalthi ships, some of the weapons, and super items for the Kalthi to use. I have also included specific Exc. and Sup. augmenters in various Boss level Kalthi AI (Commanders, Destroyers, Terminators). This is the first in a series of changes aimed at making the AI more interesting to fight, more dynamic, and more rewarding.
* Slight adjustments to a few base lasers to conform to formulas
* Fixed Burning Blossom and Lacerating Blossom not having Mutalisk effects.
* Combat Bots will inherit half of their owners imperial and bar skills
* Kikale Mzungu Extractors have had their Mzungu Lore skill requirement removed.
* Expanders will now give a lot more constant hull space, but it will be constant, applying after augs and skills
* Expanders will now take zero hull space when equipped
* Added new missile launchers: Holy Claymore Class Launcher, Zeus Olympios Missile Launcher, Amped Zeus Olympios Missile Launcher
* Added Claymore Class Launchers to Hyperion.
* Increased size of Bule Abadi Blaster, this will increase the DPS and decrease the DPE and make it better than a regular Bule Blaster 4.
* Added a new tag for drones allowing devs to easily balance them by specifying a “goal dps” and having the game automatically adjust stats to wind up at that dps regardless of equipment and augmenters on the drone. This goal DPS will be further modified in-game by drone controllers, skills, and drone ops, as expected.
* Massive changes to many drones, all of the details were explained here (http://forum.starsonata.com/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=63489)
* Drones with specified DPS will display that DPS in their tooltip
* Drones will display any super items and the super item DPS in their tooltip
* Drone Controllers will no longer be affected by Imperial Tweak skill
* Drones are no longer affected by environment damage ticks
* Transference Facilitator Beam (Tech 5 to Tech 20) has been buffed to give Transference Vulnerability +66% – +100%, and the electricity costs have been drastically increased. This means that any target affected by this tractor beam will take increased healing.
* Changed Kalthi Planetary Blaster and Defective Kalthi Planetary Blaster from a magcannon to a pulse gun. They have less tracking and range, in exchange for more DPS.
* Nightfury Rage Generator and Nightfury Focus Generator now have a Damage Tweak tag, this means they cannot be used with other damage tweaks. Their charge time and energy costs have been reduced to 40 seconds and 4000 energy as well.
* Reduced the electricity costs of the Demon Tracking Device to 100 per second for 30 seconds, Quickened Demon Tracking Device to 200 per second for 30 seconds
* Small, Medium and Large Burst Missiles have been buffed to the level of other missiles. They are now AoE missiles that do Mining damage.
* Slight rebalance of engine sizes. Increased power for stealthy engines and engines with aug stats.
* Exterminators and parasites have been re-balanced.
* Hephaestus Ultimate Doomsday Weapon now fires 3 projectiles at a time.
