[Emperor Contest Rework]

The Emperor Contest has been rebuilt around control of Midas influence galaxies rather than the previous Anatolian influence drop-off system. If you want to learn more about it, click here.

• Midas influence galaxies are now marked on the universe map and generate Influence while controlled.
• Teams receive a one-time Imperial Strand reward for being the first to claim an unowned Midas influence galaxy during an active contest.
• Emperor standings, station bulletins, server status messages, and the web status page have been updated for the new contest structure.
• Emperor standings can now update for docked players without requiring them to redock.
• The Anatolian Expanse has been removed.
• The station in Anatolia is now always visible.
• Fixed typo in Anatolia coronation messages saying the team was ‘lead’ by instead of ‘led’ by.

[Anatolian Surges]

• Added Anatolian Surges, timed events that deploy special Anatolian forces throughout Perilous Space and Kalthi Depths.
• Perilous Space surge enemies can appear throughout Danger Factor 240–380.
• Kalthi Depths surge enemies appear at Danger Factor 440 and above.
• Stronger surge enemies award more Imperial Strands and Anatolian Crests.
• Adjusted Anatolian Crest rewards across all Anatolian forces.
• Anatolian enemies no longer award obsolete Influence items.
• Anatolian enemies will not attack until provoked and have received offensive or defensive improvements.
• Anatolian Crests and Imperial Strands are no longer layerbound, and players can now undock while carrying them.

[Next Universe]

[Subspace Overhaul]

The Aveksaka presence throughout Subspace has been extensively rebuilt.

• The Aveksaka have reinforced their claim over Subspace:
  • All Subspace gals will now have Aveksaka AI in them, with only a few exceptions such as the Paksapata graveyards. The majority will now try to fight together and all of them will no longer roam (some may still jump away when injured!).
  • A variety of Hatchery Guardian and Stronghold Guardian pillboxes have been deployed, found farther into Subspace regions.
• The Aveksaka will now spawn in set level ranges varying per region, with farther gals having overall higher level enemies which raises their stats:
  • The Ekam AI have gone from a static level ~250 to ~100-275.
  • The Dve AI have gone from a static level ~500 to ~225-400.
  • The Tra AI have gone from a static level ~750 to ~350-525.
  • The Katur AI have gone from a static level ~1,000 to ~500-1,000.
  • The Pajca AI have gone from a static level ~1,750 to ~1,000-1,750.
  • The Sas AI have gone from a static level ~2,000 to ~1,500-3,000.
• Set Aveksaka in Subspace to attack players regardless of level difference, from previous up to 4x higher level than them.
• Roaming Aveksaka will now use the singular ‘Aveksaka’ team instead of a variety of subteams per-region.
• Roaming Aveksaka respawn times standardized across regions.
• Global experience boosts can be found in Subspace now, with one per region. They can spawn at any danger factor outside of protected gals.
• Alien Defense Alliance now protects LACS S1969 in the Dve region of Subspace.
• Alien Defense Alliance now protects LACS S1986 and LACS S2637 in the Tra region of Subspace. The asteroids in LACS S2637 will no longer spawn Aveksaka ambushers.
• Renamed the Aveksaka AI in LACS S8472 to ‘Deceased Aveksaka’ to better communicate why it doesn’t fight back. Reduced its experience given from 0.1x to 0x and removed its Alien Husk Fragments drop.
• Kumari is now owned and protected by the Alien Defense Alliance team.
• Removed LACS S230 from the Dve region of Subspace. The mission ‘Testing the Hypothesis’ asks the player to scan three Subspace Anomalies in different gals, LACS S230 was one of these and has had its mission goal given to the previous mission location LACS S190 which spawns closer to the hub.
• Updated the pillboxes used by Subspace Sas invasion outposts. They are now named Outpost Guardians and they use randomization on their spawn positions and their count has been increased from 2 to 5 per outpost (each is its own spawner with its own limited respawns). Their size has also been decreased from 200 to 125 to bring it in-line with the guardian drones from other regions which have been brought back in the form of non-invasion assets to help the Aveksaka in deeper parts of Subspace.
• Subspace Sas invasion AI now use spawn/despawn effects.
• Subspace Sas invasion outposts will now respawn their garrison much quicker, from 30 seconds (give or take 3) to 20 seconds (give or take 10). Their pillboxes, now named Outpost Guardians, have had their respawn time reduced from 300 seconds (give or take 30) to 20 seconds (give or take 10). All of these spawners retain their current limited spawn counts preventing infinite respawning, this change better allows them to deploy their reinforcements before the outpost is killed.
• Fixed LACS S1018 wormhole names being misleading.

[Subspace Missions and Rewards]

• Allied Front now offers 10 Honorary Diplomas per Gurujana Remains sold from the prior 1.
• Allied Front now offers 15 Paxian Medallions per Gurujana Remains sold.
• Subspace dailies have had their Allied Commendation rewards boosted from 1 to 3 per daily completion.
• Subspace Pajca monthly has had its Allied Commendation reward boosted from 10 to 15 per monthly completion.
• The Subspace monthly missions have had their kill requirements reduced from 200 Aveksaka to 100. Starting in the Tra region, an additional kill requirement of 5 Hatchery Guardian drones has been added. Pajca exclusively has an extra kill requirement of 3 Stronghold Guardian drones added. The mission summaries have been updated to inform what Danger Factors these drones can be found in.
• The Ekam region mission ‘Into the Breach’ no longer requires killing three Aveksaka spawning specifically in LACS S1597, instead it can be completed by killing any five roaming Aveksaka.
• The mission ‘Organic Parasite Research’, a Lyceum daily in Allied Front of Subspace, has had its items updated:
  • The commodities have been converted from decayable commodities to mission items that will decay if the item-holder doesn’t have the required mission.
  • The mission items have been reduced from 1 size to 0, and two have had their weight increased from 5 to 50,000 (the third has 5 million weight).
  • The spitter aliens will now start the fight with their spitter superitems already charged, which is what is used to inject the mission items. Their charge time was also reduced from 30 seconds to 12 to help reduce wasted time when they miss or multiple are required for a squad.
  • The spitter aliens will now fire it when below 95% shields remaining instead of 15% shields remaining. The mission summary has been updated to inform players that they must injure the Aveksaka to get them to inject the mission items.
• When sufficiently injured, Antu and Vazi Aveksaka now have an initial two-second delay before transforming into their cocoon states with an additional blood explosion effect to show the impending transformation before it happens.
• Fixed several Subspace mission summaries.

[Drones]

• Drones with overrides now correctly display their shield bank, shield regeneration, energy bank, and energy regeneration.

[Experience and Construction Standardization]

• Explicit levels have been assigned to nearly 200 dungeon bosses and more than 90 named lockout bosses.
• Boss levels now better correspond to their content tier and expected experience range.
• Named bosses now have quality values based on the highest-quality standard equipment they can drop.
• Experience multipliers have been updated by quality. Players below the level of a boss with a quality rating will receive substantially more experience. Players significantly above a boss’s level will see a much smaller increase, and because many bosses have also had their levels reduced, players who substantially outlevel a content tier will receive less experience from it.
• Blueprint construction times have been standardized across more than 600 blueprints using new 10-minute, 4-hour, 12-hour, and 36-hour build-time tiers.
  • Most affected blueprints now build faster, although some high-tech Empyreal and Aurora blueprints have increased build times. Associated module build times have generally been reduced.

[Paxian Foothold and Red Rogue Trackers]

• Added missions for Paracausally Attuned Temporal Trackers and Temporally Attuned Keycards.
• Added Lieutenant Barbarossa Bane as a tracker and roaming boss encounter.
• Red Outpost missions now award troves containing rare loot instead of Obscure Pirate Crests.
• Tracker resource requirements will be updated after the universe reset to require Kalthi Depths Wreckage or Obscure Pirate Crests.
• Fixed missions requiring Paxian Peacekeeper’s Signaculums so that they indicate the proper quantities needed.

[Other Changes]

• Removed the pre-determined north-west wormhole position in Paxian Stronghold, all wormholes should now appear in the correct directions for their destinations.
• The galaxy, Edge of Reason, has been removed.
• Added alternative currency exchanges for the Radiation Cone, Monkey Shield Transference I-III, Monkey De-Puzzeler, Monkey Reformatter, and Monkey Un-Reformatter in Liberty (Radiation Cone also available from Copper as the mission for it ends there).

[Content Changes]

[Kalthi Depths]

• Increased the drop chance of non-augmenter loot from Kalthi Depths dungeon bosses.
• Added dedicated loot tables for the Masala and Partisan bosses so both of their unique rare rewards can drop correctly.

[Red Outpost]

• Dark Earthforce Juggernaut, Scarra, and Carmine Cutter now drop more rare items.
• Carmine Cutter now displays an indicator when performing his barrage attack.
• Added mission popups in The Fighting Pits stages 1 and 2 for their repeatable reward missions.
• Red Outpost rift reward missions no longer require the previous mission required by the squad leader to accept, allowing them to properly popup instead of needing all members to dock and accept them.
• Primordial Ship Blueprints now create ship upgrades instead of duplicate ship items.
• Dark Earthforce Defense now has less shield regeneration and a larger shield bank.

[Celestial Encampment]

• Adjusted the Crescent Augmenter and Heavenly Foresight Augmenter.
• Rare Celestial Augmenters purchased with AC are now Exotic and Neurobound, with associated stat adjustments.
• Empyreal Steel Blueprints now require Urk’ Qokujiii Qa’ik instead of Urk’ Ukukuu Qu.

[Nexus and Early-Game Missions]

• Reworked the initial Electrical Engineering and Cadet Energy missions:
  • Electrical Engineering is now trained before purchasing an energy bank.
  • Players now purchase the Tech 1 Cadet Energy directly instead of purchasing a precursor that is converted afterward.
  • Improved auto-accept and auto-complete behavior for early Cadet Academy missions.
  • Mission summaries and descriptions now more clearly separate simplified instructions from full explanations.
• Removed experience rewards from rats in Dalawa and the Staging Area to prevent players from bypassing early training missions.
• Added directions explaining how to open the mission interface.
• Set various content guide entries to require a minimum level of 20 before appearing.

[Miscellaneous Content]

• T11–T18 Gate Shields are now Uncommon instead of Common and have had their stats adjusted.
• The Adamantium Sheet Smelting Schema now requires Steel Girders instead of Metals.
• Updated several Tech 21 module construction costs:
  • Converted periodic Metal and Nuclear Waste requirements to Industrial Commodities equivalents.
  • Added missing periodic costs to the Rubicite Matrix Sheath Blueprint.
  • Corrected Mercurial Docking Clamps Schematic’s initial credit cost from 10 million to 100 million.
  • Moved Ablution Crystals to the initial cost of Range Crystallizer Blueprints and Schematics.
• Fixed the Speedy and Spacy augmenters incorrectly inheriting all Dilution tags.
• Added effect descriptions to the Harmonic Shield Restoration Device, Support Drone Device, Forward Operating Base Deployment Device, and Combat Focus Defensive Device superitems.

[Item and Balance Changes]

• Sterwyn Aervin’s Lance now applies its secondary effects to all applicable targets instead of only drones.
• Rewired modification can now be applied to Energy-only Capacitors, instead of only Shield and Combined Capacitors.
• Fixed enhanced Rewired shields using mirrored energy and shield values instead of their configured values.
• Fixed Mzungu Obfuscator mistakenly increasing illumination instead of reducing it.
• Fixed shield-stealing weapons charging their electricity cost twice when Multifiring.
• Corrupted Guardian’s weapon has had its debuff converted from -75% Energy Bank to +187.5% Electric Tempering (magnitude multiplied by four).
• Updated AeonLabs extractor blueprints to specify if they build 1 or in packs of 10.
• Fixed Rubicite Matrix Sheath and other blueprint cost inconsistencies listed above.

[Server and System Changes]

• Mission completion messages will now give an AP link to the station in addition to the existing link to the gal.
• Pinned items can no longer be traded via Ship 2 Ship trading with other players.
• Fixed outposts sometimes being unable to transfer to another team despite the receiving team having sufficient capacity.
• Fixed ownership booster construction using an outdated manhour bonus for periodic material clamps.
• Fixed Outfithull bonuses not applying correctly to bots joining the universe after a reset.
• Long-duration neurotweaks now restore correctly on docked ships after a server restart.
• PvP items no longer prevent undocking.
• Fixed hostile PvP death tow prompts and confirmations ignoring the tow timer.
• Fixed DNA extraction beams treating player-owned bots as invalid alien targets.
• Managed Nest termites are no longer saved through server restarts, preventing duplicate termite groups.
• Scoop error sounds are now limited to once per second.
• /roll now works in squad and team chat.
• /scoop history has been reduced from two hours to one hour.
• Market Check searches for blueprints, AC exchanges, and similar lists now show the first 20 matches to prevent excessively large result lists.
• Ship-to-ship trades now generate activity-log entries.
• Fixed several server messages containing misspellings of “character” and “stations.”
• Fixed the unfueled energy warning to correctly say that production is reduced by 25%, rather than reduced to 25%.

[Client and Interface Changes]

[Interface Scaling]

• Added 1×, 2×, and 4× UI scaling options. Available maximum scaling depends on display resolution.
• Galaxy-view nameplates now follow UI scaling.
• The mouse cursor now follows the Windows pointer-size setting.
• Fixed positioning of generic input dialogs when UI scaling is enabled, including the quantity-to-build dialog.
• Fixed item tooltips becoming stuck after snapping to the edge of the screen.
• Fixed UI-scaled cursor positioning for item tooltips.
• Moved the Escape menu above most other interface elements.
• Fixed the title being clipped in the Toss Item confirmation dialog.

[Mission Interface]

• Mission previews in station and agent dialogs now include the mission summary, matching the Character page.
• In-progress mission popups now display flavor text.
• The Character page mission viewer now displays the mission giver’s name.
• The mission-text panel on the Character page can now be resized and has been given more default space.
• Adjusted the minimum, maximum, and default sizes of mission-dialog windows.
• Improved mission dialogue spacing and layout.
• Fixed mission target indicators remaining after objective progress changed in the current galaxy.
• Tutorial messages now wait for the current tutorial message and voice line to finish before playing.
• Normalized the volume of tutorial voice lines and reduced the volume of the Space Rat sound.

[Inventory and Hotbar]

• Remote inventories and bot inventories now support selecting multiple items and equipping the entire selection.
• Fixed Transfer Some from TSL to ship not correctly replacing the entered quantity.
• Fixed Transfer Type from TSL to ship.
• Fixed Transfer All from ship to TSL.
• Saved hotbar items now refresh when an item is Neurobound, stripped of modifications, or otherwise changes state.
• Fixed hotbars failing to load correctly after entering a new universe or creating a new character.
• Fixed hidden confirmation dialogs continuing to react to the Enter key after being closed.

[Visuals and Skins]

• Fixed several holes on the sides of and underneath the Kangaroo, one on each of the four engine pods. The geometry from the Lion was re-used but those spots had an extra fin that the Kangaroo doesn’t have.
• Fixed broken normal map name preventing functionality for the Heaven’s Eagle, a skin for the Heaven’s Chariot.
• Fixed broken normal map names preventing functionality for several ships.
• Patched model hole on the top of the Red Photon Oversized Turret platform / Beta Antares Testing Range target platforms.
• Changed the squad and allied interface color from orange to green to match allied targeting rings.
• Fixed delayed skin results from one ship appearing while viewing another ship.
• Added the following ‘imitation’ skins:
  • Leviathan, usable by the Leviathan+
  • Behemoth, usable by the Behemoth+, Assault Behemoth, Assault Behemoth+, and Divine Behemoth
  • Behemoth+, usable by the Assault Behemoth+ and Divine Behemoth
  • Assault Behemoth, usable by the Assault Behemoth+ and Divine Behemoth
  • Assault Behemoth+, usable by the Divine Behemoth (note: the AB and AB+ look identical currently, this is safeguarding for possible future changes)
  • Wingship, usable by the Wingship+
  • Wingship II, usable by the Wingship II+ (note: the Wingship II Pro was excluded due to using a different model)
  • Wingship III, usable by the Wingship III+
  • Wingship IV, usable by the Wingship IV+
• The Behemoth, Behemoth+, Assault Behemoth, and Assault Behemoth+ can now use the Dark Behemoth and Industrial Behemoth skins, previously only usable on the Divine Behemoth.
• Blueprint debris will now have rarity-based particles and lightning effects.
• Ore debris will now have rarity-based particles and lightning effects.
• Fixed Space Blue Prototype ship having no texture.
• Fixed Oversized Defense Turret in Red Photon Research having a broken texture.
• Improved the sharpness of the Shrimp Tiger Prawn skin.
• Fixed team flags potentially disappearing after large numbers of floating messages.
• Floating interface messages can now overlap rather than rapidly shifting when many appear in the same area.

[Miscellaneous Client Changes]

• Updated station ‘Toggle Team’ button’s tooltip to no longer state that teaming is required to own a team galaxy.
• Improved the message shown when attempting to purchase an item without the required skills.
• Spawner timers now correctly display one minute at exactly 60 seconds.
• Added a dedicated Buoy category to vendible tabs using the Drone icon.

[Bug Fixes]

• Station constructions requiring additional free space to complete will now give their required number with commas added.
• Warnings about being short on space will now use commas to make them easier to read.