Server/Client Patch 4/9/2020

(+changes require a new uni)

[Item Changes]

• All engines have been given appropriate rarities, for most engines this will result in no change to stats. For some engines it will result in an improvement. For other engines it will result in a reduction.

• All hull expanders have been given appropriate rarities, for most hull expanders this will result in no change to stats. For some hull expanders it will result in an improvement. For other hull expanders it will result in a reduction.

• Reduced Zebucart Turning Augmod from 50% to 25% to increase the level of control new players have when attempting to maneuver.

• Silent Death Overloader is now Tech 20, it now gives +53% Damage instead of +23% Damage.

• Reduced the size of Ganglinite MagCannon from 52 to 16. This is closer to its pre-rebalance size and should result in new players not having to sell all their weapons to be able to fit it on their hull.

• Removed neurobound tag from Qokuji’qii and Space Blue Delta fighters (the other mission reward fighters in these series were not neurobound.
• Changed drops of Small Tamed Wasp Generator on hives to Small Tamed Wasp.
• Changed drops of Ujqii Ishi Qua(drops from Qu’ishiii Qo in Mira) , and Vulcanite Hatchery(from Magmarar in vulcan) fighter generators to Ujqii Ishi and Mini Vulcanite Fighter fighters.

• Set the following prefabs to complete instantly on build start on the planet: Space Oat Hydroponics Project,Deep Core Mining Project and Deeper Core Mining Project.

• Changed Shattering Hunyelite from Uncommon to Rare due to the blueprint’s drop rate.

• Changed all of the drop tweak superitems(that have bps sold in Shadow) to have 20s charge times to match the dropped tweaks they are based off of as intended.

• Reduce max workforce of Cirdan’s Proton Stream Blueprint from 10k to 1k, to reduce amount of prom needed per tick from 2000 to 200.

• Bases that can only be attached or unattached now state this fact in their info box.

• Changed the tech of Lynx Auto Mining Drone Blueprint from T20 to T18. This results in the blueprint matching the tech of the drone.

• Removed Aug Slots from Taurus, Perseus, Lynx Auto Mining Drone.

• Changed Olympus Entrance drone and Red Photon Complex Drone to non-scoopable.

• Red Photon Shield Booster Generator and Red Photon Energy Booster Generator are now Shipbound instead of Sticky.

• Rabbit Hunter Assistant’s no longer drop in crates.

• Micro Vulcanite, Mini Vulcanite, Ujqii Ishi, Slumber Mc Chrome Face Fighter, and Bulker Guard Fighter crates are no longer shipbound.

• +Added in a new drone and a new blueprint for a drone to Bonnet bosses.

[AI Changes]

• Kalthi Terminators’ will now fire their chaining beam weapon more often and for less damage, while having significantly less tracking and chain range. However, the damage drop off from each successive chain has been removed. The visual thickness of the weapon has also been increased so as to increase its visibility.
• +Kalthi Terminators and Destroyers will no longer attack players that they do not have personal or team hatred towards.

• The Vaidya (Shielding 22) uber will now clear all parasites, fires, and nanites upon remodulating their resistance profile. With this change, firestacking during a heat vulnerability phase will no longer heal the boss after they change to a new vulnerability.

• Fixed the spawns in the instances of Akuq’ba and Dragon’s Lair to spawn all at once instead of one at time.

• Made bots not randomly enable “Activate Primary Cannon” and “Disable Primary Cannon” super items on the Trepidation Fridate. It can still be toggled manually via the inventory by the player.

[Missions]

• Removed mention of “ship module”/aka planetescanner from the 2 breadcrumb missions to Paxius.

• Fixed the “KILL THE MAGGOT!!!” mission not giving experience due to a missing difficulty value.

• Changed the Marco’s Demise mission to clearly state that the player must travel to Perilous Space to be able to kill the Grim Revear.

• Changed Continuing Defense to auto-complete instead of requiring player interaction to launch one of the random boss kill missions.
• Changed the Continuing Defense mission to complete on warp into KusoQ’kur instead starting one of the 3 missions.

• Added locations to mission summary for the Jungle missions to kill the bosses.

• +Added a new mission at Beta Antares to introduce new players to the damage testing range.

• +Removed Fine Space Whiskey from Mzungu Angani, Sol, East Vindia and Whiskey Outpost.

• +Added a breadcrumb mission to the Engineer base in Lyceum bringing you to Perpetual Motion at level 25.
• +Added a level 25 mission that gives players that visit Perpetual Motion and dock there a free Minor Damage Drone Controller.
• +Moved the AC Drone Controller combination turn-in missions from Shadow to Perpetual Motion.
• +The Drone Controller mission in Perpetual Motion grants the first level of Astral Injection for free.

[Universe Changes]

• Reworked Blue Photon Test Range to have higher HP targets, fewer targets, a stationary sun for panels, an ai base to change loadouts, and AI aura drones to recharge energy.

• +Moved the AC Drone Controller combination recipes from Shadow to a new base in Perpetual Motion.

• +Relocated all levels of Astral Injection to Perpetual Motion, it is now trained via a new mission line at the central station.

• +Increased the respawn rate of the drones that drop keys in Copper 4.

• +Changed The Seregenti wormhole to Ngorongoro from showing the locked image to being a normal wormhole image since the keys have long been removed.

• +Added a comet that drops a variety of Blue commodities to Blue Outpost.

• +Sun auras in Red Photon Research will now affect drones

• +Removed Gear Glue from the Metal Processing, Inc. in Arena Lobby.

• +Extended NB Roman gear AC to weapons, engines, cloaks, and radars in Olympus Entrance.
• +Added AC trade for 10 shard dust to 1 pretender shard in the same base.

[Typo Fixes]

• Fixed Typo for the Strontium Tier 4 Platinum Bounty for Caracaras incorrectly stating Harriers in the mission text.

[System]

• Added support for adding commas to numbers over 1 trillion.

• The /ap command will now search the current galaxy for a space object with given name and autopilot to it if galaxy with given name is not found.

• Grant 2 Class Skill skillpoints at level 10 instead of one at 5, one at 10.

• Added mods support to actionbar, modded items put in the actionbar should now properly remember which mod it was and will search for the item matching the mod before picking another one.

• Improved the algorithm used to auto recenter ships that have been drifting. It should now cover more cases even if players are around.