(+changes require a new uni)

[Subscription Changes]

• Added the following benefits to accounts with an active subscription:
  • 25% extra XP from kills.
  • 10 extra docked ship slots.
  • 1,000 extra storage space in the TSL.

[Attendance Rewards]

Login everyday to collect your attendance rewards! They reset daily at tickover, 00:00 UTC.

• +Added AC trade in Sai’s Retreat for new Holoprojectors.

• +Added AC trade in Earth Central for Midas Pouch.

[Class Changes]

[Seer]

• Fixed an issue in Seer’s Psionic Shrouding description. Psionic Shrouding granted 20% evasion per level when you are invisible (vision) to the attacker, updated the description to match the behaviour.
  • Changed Seer’s Psionic Shrouding Evasion bonus to depend on if you’re detectable, not visible, to the attacker.

• Shadow Ambush and Psionic Shrouding class subskill locations have been swapped.

[Gunner]

• Destruction and Juice Junkie class subskill locations have been swapped.

[Fleet Commander]

• Class skills reworked, progression is now Class 1: Energy Charge, Class 2: Range/Tracking, Class 3: Field Generation. Class subskills Flight Controller and Bot Mastery locations have been swapped.

[Speed Demon]

• Class skills reworked, progression is now Class 1: Rate of Fire, Class 2: Electric Tempering, Class 3: Speed/Docking. All class subskills swapped, Subskill 1: Speedy Firing, Subskill 2: Dogfighting, Subskill 3: Speedy Movement

[Berserker]

• Impervious Armor and Ordnance Supremacy class subskill locations have been swapped.

[Item Changes]

• Base Thruster Containers no longer decay on uni reset.

• Adjusted the Solarian MagCannon blueprint to require 1000000 metals.

• Reduced weight of UrQa Kasa Akuk’oj Ukoq(base solar panel) from 112,500,000 to 1,125,000.

• Pax Felicitas built in aura “Auxiliary Navigation Subsystem” now gives +50 bonus speed instead of +350.

• Corrected the Paxian Battle Frigate Blueprint from T21 to T20 to be the same tech as the ship it produces.

• Removed the -20% Resistance, Energy bank, and Shield bank augmods from the Berserker Power Transfer to match the other Berserker travel fields.

• Fixed Wave Rider having no thrust.

• Removed inbuilt XYZ Station Upgrade and Station Industrial Blueprints from all stations.

• Removed manhour discount for Industrial Research Y and Z for multi-builds

• Reduced energy cost for Ancient Dragon Device.

• Reduced Junkyard Two-Way Jammer Pill and Two-Way Jammer Pill from 1 hour to 60 seconds and -85% Visibility to -25%.

• Reduced Junkyard Marksman’s Aim Pill and Marksman’s Aim Pill from -25% Visibility to -10%.

• Reduced Junkyard Scanner Magnification Pill and Marksman’s Aim Pillfrom -25% Visibility to -15%.

• Reduced Junkyard Sonatian’s Explorer Pill and Sonatian’s Explorer Pill from -50% Visibility to -20%.

• Changed the Automated Attached Miner Kit IV Blueprint from needing 30 Junkyard Scrapnotes to 10 Station Gear Tokens to build.

• Updated several Kalthi Super Items to be more clear of the actions they perform.

• +Removed the T17 Ares Combat Controlbot from Staff Quarters until a new T21 version is created.

• +Created Mobile Vortex Conv ship factory and added to the same locations as the base only version.

• +Added Mobile Enrichment Plant to Metal Processing, Inc. in Arena Lobby.

• +Added Rapid ENIAC Inspection to platonic academy as AC for 1 gold bar and 2 mentions.

• +Added the Rapid ENIAC Operations and Rapid ENIAC Venture blueprints to drop tables in dgs.

• +Added Starter Capital Fighter Bays and Freighter Fighter Bays to East Vindia.

• +Converted the Whippet Light Fighter Blueprint, Dachshund Light Fighter Blueprint, Bulldog Light Fighter Blueprint, Terrier Light Fighter Blueprint, Border Collie Light Fighter Blueprint, to AC in East Vindia.

• +Added small Surgical Strike Type 1, Incendiary Type 1, AP Type 1, and Kinetic Type 1 crates for sale in Hyperion.

• +Added medium Surgical Strike Type 1, Incendiary Type 1, AP Type 1, and Kinetic Type 1 crates for sale in Lyceum.

• +Added 2 breadcrumb missions in Locus of Fleet to direct players to Hyperion And East Vindia for missiles/fighters.

• +Removed Freighter Fighter Bays from dg drop list.

[AI Changes]

• Reduced most Rat and Flyswatter shields to pre-shield rebalance numbers. This should result in Rats being easier then Flyswatters again.

• Adjusted the Qokuji’qi and Qokuji’s tractor to be AI only instead of sticky. This will require the Tractoring skill of at least Tech 15 to be able to radex them.

• Removed Heavy Laser and Shield Salvation from Tanzanite in Color Empires. This allows it to have enough room to be capped.

• Reduced Recoil of Deflector/Reflector drones from 2 seconds to 1.6 seconds.

• The UrQa ships have had their fade effect fixed, they will no longer suddenly brighten or darken for a second during their animation. Additionally, they will only fade to half opacity before fading back in, rather than fully fade out to black.

• Reduced the respawn time of the Temporal Anomalies in the Paxius Interdimensional Rift from 6 minutes to 2 minutes.

• +Adjusted the pillbox in Snake Visions to no longer launch Icepick fighters.

• +Added Icepick spawns in Snake Visions that drop Neural Keysyncs.

• +Fixed issues with AI entering Steppes and Ruby Steppes.

• +Dungeon bosses with scripting have had their named target shouts fixed.

[Missions]

• Added tags to repeatable missions, supported tags:
  • [Repeatable]
  • [Repeatable Chain X of Y]
  • [Mission Chain X of Y]
  • [Timed Repeatable]
• [Daily]
• [Weekly]
• [Monthly]
• [Uni]
• [Yearly]

• Fixed the Rumble 2 Paxian Mission credit cost to reimburse the full cost of the Super Nova weapon it requires.

• Removed mention of neurbounding from the cerberus fighter mission as the fighter is no longer neurobound.

• Removed the various Pirate Crest requirements and updated the mission text for the Oversized Trader missions.

• Changed the Blue Photon 4000 Series Transwarp mission and its repeatable version to no longer require premium status.

• Added equipment skill requirement to the transwarp missions equal to the tech of the fleet transwarp items, to prevent the possibility of ending up with a transwarp you can’t use and having to waste credits buying another one.

• Removed mention of scanning the wormhole entrances in Mausoleum, and instead made mention of scanning the Death’s Eye sun in the galaxy. For the Dulce et Decorum Est, Pro patria mori exploration mission.

• Readded the Zen reset missions accidentally removed in an earlier patch.
  • These have been manually added to Sai’s Retreat in Sol.

• +Added series of daily missions in Handels Cove.

• +Removed The Ancient Asteroid Being mission start and end from Prism ai station, as well as the Ancient Asteroid Being spawn in Prism.

[Universe Changes]

• Adjusted the capitalization on the warps in the Twisted zone instances from “Return to prejudice” to “Return to Prejudice”

• The planets within Building Academy are now stationary.

• +Locked Bonnet to the Southern Arm with the rest of the Spice Pirates.

• +Removed the static interference from the exit out of Absolution.

• +Recentered the Lavanite cloud effects, restoring them to their position on the main star.

• +The Vault has been removed from Kalthi Depths.

• +Converted Zebra Armada Crests to Honorary Diploma and Honorary Mentions Missions into Alternative Currency and placed on the Serengeti Research Labs station.

• +Locked Serengeti Research Labs station to Premium Only.

• +Reduced the level of Infinite Knowledge from 20 to 10 to dock at Serengeti Research Labs.

• +Adding 200+ new galaxy names to the universe generation. Removed several names due to being immersion breaking, overly long, UrQa/Subspace names or confusing to existing gal names.

• +Converted Ariadnites in Labyrinth from being planet extraction to being a respawning prospectable resource.
  • +Removed building privileges.
  • +Increased local AI spawn and made more aggressive.

• +Converted Plasma Crystals in Hyper from planet extraction to a mining resource.
  • +Removed building privileges.
  • +Unteamed Hyper base.
  • +Made local AI aggressive to all players.

• +Removed Industrial Station Gear X Blueprint Pack from Acropolis.
  • +The original Industrial Station Gear X Blueprint Pack has been installed into all stations above tech 9.

• +Added Scoop to trade bay of Nexus Station.

• +Removed trade resources from the station in Hephaestus that required Weaponry 25 to dock at

• +Arctia and Building Academy will now generate off of Sol. Their intro missions have been moved to start at Earthforce Frontier Station in Sol.

• +Changed the warp locks for Zebra, Panther, and Rhino bosses in the Serengeti to be based on if the ambushers are dead or not.

• +Removed “Asteroid” from the list of moons to prevent confusion.

[Typo Fixes]

• Fixed the Ayudhinlaghu Akrama Blueprint, which was mistakenly named “Ayudhinalghu”.

• Fixed the effect description of the Red Photon Prototype Remote Weapon Augmentation.

• Typo fix for Colored Empires Black Court mission “The Art of Assassination 101″, “politian” > “politician”.

• Typo fix for East Vindia mission “Nukes”, “afterall” > “after all”.

• Corrected the Nanite Infusion Device’s description, dealing a 150% damage multiplier rather than the 100% damage multiplier it previously stated.

• Corrected the inconsistent name of a planet within Building Academy.

• +Corrected station name, Earthforce Headquarter->Earthforce Headquarters.

[System]

• Added a new target reticle that clearly defines the backstab range at the back of a selected ship. It also provides visual cues of what is the front and rear of the selected ship in two 180 degree spheres. (Credit to Dark Wolf#7153)

• Fixed prospecting nodes spawning on invisible solar bodies.

• Fixed Possessions tab from refreshing a few seconds after selecting the tab. It will now properly default to sort the Category column by default and sort alphabetical.

• Changed the AI Base Skill Tab to be sorted by Alphabetical and no longer jump around when skilling.

• Changed the Focus Skill Page must be Level 10 instead of 5 as the requirement.

• Changed the Transwarp menu to be expanded down. Sorts by alphabetical by default now.

• Set the lockout tab to sort by Mission Type first and lockout name second.

• Mission Tab now states Difficulty instead of just D for sorting. Sorts by Mission Status first – mission alphabetical second.

• Updated the Storage tab to make references to being TSL again but left the tab labeled as Storage.

• Added the subtype for some gear and ships to the info box. The subtype makes gear with that subtype only equippable on ships with that subtype. Gear with this feature was already in the game, but the subtype was not displayed.

• Made it so that userbases and drones consider a hostile player entering / logging in a galaxy as a “combat action” causing them to react almost instantly instead of waiting 5-10seconds before shooting.

• Updated combat bot rules to follow PvP rules in galaxy, fixed combat bots bypassing PvP rules.

• Added a requirement of Leadership 2 to the Emperor’s Crown to ensure that any crowned emperor’s will end up with at least Leadership 3 (which allows them to dock in the emperor’s club).

• Made it so bots in V formation won’t shoot irradiated enemies.

• Can no longer attach bases to asteroids.

• Fixed a bug where the web api couldn’t report the number of bases in a gal over 127.

• Added the ability for the server to send new skill names, descriptions, costs, etc to the client, so different servers can have different skills.

• +Fixed Autopilot behavior within Hallway to Mother when trying to leave.

At long last, now that we’ve been approved for release, we’re ready to announce that Star Sonata 2 will be releasing on Steam on June 12th, 2020!

There have been many changes to the game over the years, but one thing has remained consistent: the passion for this universe that we all spend so much time in both as developers and as players. It goes without saying, but I think we’re all very excited at the opportunity that releasing on Steam will present to bring new players into our community!

We’ll be sharing ways that players can help us spread the word, but one of the most important will downloading and playing the game through steam during the launch window. We will absolutely continue to support direct downloads through the website, but this will be critical in helping us spread the word on our launch.

We’ll be hard at work up until that day making improvements and additions. We’ll have more announcements to come in the weeks ahead!

Hi everyone! I want to give you a quick update on some improvements we have been making to the player feedback system. Earlier this year, Community Manager Kilando set up the #ideas and #feedback channels on the public Discord server, and we have collected a lot of great feedback from you all. The one downside we see with the current system is that it’s hard for devs to catch all the different ideas as they fly by in the chat, resulting in some good ideas getting buried.

New Suggestion System

In order to keep track of everyone’s comments, we are launching a community suggestions page. On a weekly basis, we will create focused discussion channels on Discord for the top-voted suggestions to help keep everything organized. On top of this, Senior Content Developer Hober Mallow will hold a weekly town hall meeting to discuss the top suggestions of the week. He will be assisted in this role by Kilando and myself, in addition to a number of community members who have volunteered their time as “Paxian Balancers” to help keep the new discussion channels flowing well. With the new system in place, we hope to collect and act on community priorities much more quickly than ever before.

How To Participate

So you’ve got an idea that would make Star Sonata better. Here’s how you get it into consideration.

1. Create a suggestion explaining your idea and why you think it would improve the game. You may wish to first workshop your idea informally in the general Discord channels so that you come up with the best presentation.

2. Vote in favor of your suggestion, and encourage others to do the same. If you see any other good suggestions posted, consider voting for them as well! It’s not a competition–any reasonably popular suggestion will get its own dedicated discussion channel.

3. Keep an eye out for the dedicated discussion channels that will be created for popular suggestions. The better a suggestion gets polished in these channels, the sooner it will be placed on a town hall meeting agenda.

4. Accounts that are either subscribed or have a level 100 character are eligible to vote/create a suggestion. Eligible accounts start with 30 votes and get 30 new votes every month. Creating a suggestion costs 3 votes. Eligible accounts can only vote 3 times on a single suggestion.

5. If you are especially passionate about game balance, you may consider applying to become a “Paxian Balancer” community volunteer. If you are interested, reach out to Hober Mallow to learn more about the roles and responsibilities of Paxian Balancers.

The Story

The Seer subskill Psionic Shrouding has been on our “radar” lately. On April 27 we began to receive reports that Seers were dodging beam attacks from bases while sneaking around killing trade bots. This surprised us because Seer doesn’t have any source of Evasion, or so we thought. After a look in the code, we discovered that Psionic Shrouding provides a hidden source of dodge chance: a hefty 20% per level! Based on how the code was written, this bonus is only meant to apply versus non-targeted damage, i.e. when a stray shot happens to pass over the Seer. The logic is that a cloaked Seer should have a pretty good chance to avoid getting hit by shots that are intended for someone else, or when the attacker can’t see them anymore.

The Problem

The problem is that the scenario being reported didn’t match our expected behavior. The bases could see the Seer and shoot at it, and yet the Seer was able to dodge. After further review of the code and comprehensive testing with the help of some players, we figured out the problem. The code was checking if the Seer was “invisible” to the attacker, not “undetectable.” As a result, any time the Seer was detected by radar, but not in visual range, they would receive the bonus 60% dodge chance from Psionic Shrouding.

Why Now?

This isn’t the first time Seers have been reported sneaking around galaxies to “pop” trade bots. That type of sabotage has been a staple of player conflicts for years. Why is it that we have only just identified the problem? In this case, unlike all previous ones, the player who reported the issue was able to provide us with new information we had never heard before: that Seers were dodging targeted beam attacks from bases. In all previous instances, the reports we received were solely that Seers were killing trade bots, which could have simply been due to lacking radar bonuses on the defensive bases. We had no reason to suspect a bug until now.

The Changes

1. The Psionic Shrouding bonus of 20% dodge chance per level has been changed to only apply when the attacker cannot view or detect the Seer.

2. The client description of Psionic Shrouding will be updated next patch to include the 20% dodge chance per level versus attackers that do not detect the Seer.

Disclaimer

I want to be frank that this mechanic was brought to light by the war between Eminence Front and Star Revolution X, and that the proposed change may have some effect on that war. Large-scale conflict between endgame players always tends to expose quirks and bugs in the system, so this is nothing new. However, I want to respect players’ time and not make unnecessary changes to the game while a war is in progress. For that reason, I sought feedback from twenty-four current members of the affected teams (Eminence Front and Star Revolution X) who also work in various roles on the dev team. The proposal received unanimous support as a sensible change that addresses an obvious bug.

As many players already know, I am always available on Discord @enk#3571 if you have any questions or comments about the game or the operations of the dev team. Drop me a line!

The researchers at Lyceum have nervously announced that, during some routine maintenance at the Engineer’s Workshop, someone accidentally tipped over the Self-Accelerating-Universe-Cruncher, and the universe as we know it will come to an end.

The engineering school graduate that made the device had a nasty run-in with hungry space urchins, the brightest minds in Lyceum can’t figure out how to turn it off, and everyone else is too afraid to try.

Scientists have sealed the device in an old storage closet, but a display on the screen of the device says ‘MAY 23’. Presumably, on that date it will crunch this universe, and — if luck holds — spit out a remarkably similar one.

Lyceum warns pilots to pack up their bases and remove the credits on their trade bots to ensure that they make it safely into the new universe!

The universe reset will be held on Saturday, May 23rd.
BST: 18:00
EDT: 13:00
CDT: 12:00
MDT: 11:00
PDT: 10:00

(+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.

Easter is here! The bunnies have setup shop in Eastern Warren accessible from Sol, Elmer Fudd has returned to Handel’s Cove and is on the hunt for rabbits, and egg boxes litter the universe. The event will run until April 24th.

Happy hunting!

A lot of people are stuck at home and bored, so Star Sonata will be launching a temporary new, totally free, PvP oriented server! The PvP server will last for 30 days with prizes for players who beat certain challenges.

This special event server will launch on Saturday, March 21 at 1:00 pm EST.  It will end after Sunday, April 19.  Hopefully we’ll be allowed out of our houses by then.

There will be some minor difference compared to Liberty, the main server.

• All areas except Nexus will be open PvP

• Repair costs are increased and death will cause 10% durability damage for increased credit drops after a PvP kill

• Universe size will be smaller and Wild Space will have a unique shape

• Subspace will be disabled

• Reworked Zen of Shield and Energy skills

• Item mod rate is increased

• Every aspect of playing on this new server is completely free. No subscription required for anything.

• Logging in to the PvP server requires an account on the main Liberty server.  For your rewards to transfer to your main account, log in with that account. If you are returning and no longer have an account on Liberty, please create one there before moving over to the PvP server.

The server challenge rewards are:

To claim one of the first 4 rewards, send a screen cap of your accomplishment with your character name to an admin, and we will verify on the admin panel. Winners will be announced as we go. Once 190 characters have reached level 601, we will make an announcement and copy down a list of those people. Their stuff and rewards will be granted at the end of the event.  Let the chaos commence.

If you haven’t already, join our Star Sonata Discord channel.

As of the patch on March 3rd, premium characters (p2p) are now able to log back onto their accounts with f2p status!

The following list describes exactly what this means for you today, and a few more changes that will go into effect next universe reset.

Lapsed Subscription Changes

Current Universe Changes

• Trade skills are enabled
• Bases cannot be placed in Wild Space
• Bases in Wild Space will function normally
• Trade Bot orders will be executed normally
• T21+ skills will be retained (this won’t change)
• PvP in Wild space is enabled
• Access to premium zones (Perilous Space, Kalthi Depths, Subspace, etc) is disabled.

Next Universe Changes

• Trade skills will be disabled
• Bases cannot be placed in Wild Space
• Bases in Wild Space cannot fire, extract, or trade
• Trade Bot orders will not be executed in Wild Space
• T21+ skills will be retained (this won’t change)
• PvP in Wild Space is disabled
• Access to premium zones (Perilous Space, Kalthi Depths, Subspace, etc) is disabled.

**All of these changes are subject to alterations between now and reset.

Additional Changes

Next Universe Notification Changes

• Any subscribed account without auto-renew enabled will receive an email notification one week before the subscription expires.
• A team message will be announced one day before bases lose bonuses (optional toggle in settings)

Future Subscription Bonuses

• XP boost: 25% more XP from kills
• 10 extra docked ship slots
• 1000 extra TSL capacity
• Setting up auto-renewal will reward one extra SP per month renewed!

(+changes require a new uni)

[Item Changes]

• Adjusted the Commodities order within the Trade Bay and the Bot Trade Order Menu to be more friendly to players for QoL.

• Added Antu Agniparvata and Vazi Pralinata to appropriate laser drop list.

• Adjusted some Super Item effect descriptions to properly show what they do.

• Added new transference weapon to Demented Delquad boss loot.

• Fixed a bug that caused Pretender Poseidon not to do any splash damage.

• Poseidon Splash fighters now do splash damage as they are intended.
  • Poseidon Splash fighters no longer have a Trident Prong equipped.

• Gave the Red Photon Doomsday Device a new visual.

• Modified Queen’s Hive Missile to be non-neurobound.

• Liposuction scrap value has been fixed.

• Adjusted Honey, Wasp and Twisted fighter weapons that were incorrectly set due to a bug. Resulting in slight reductions in range and increase in recoil.

• Changed Dark Shielding Blueprint from T21 to T20 to reflect the tech of item being built.

• Corrected the Advanced Eucration Flux Blueprint from T20 to T21 to reflect the tech of the item being built.

• Corrected Mzungu Energybank Blueprint and Mzungu Protector Blueprint from T15 to T16 to reflect the rarity of the item being built.

• Adjusted the tech of Large Blue Photon Stock Missile Production from T15 to T20 to reflect the tech of the missile being produced.

• Updated descriptions for Energon and Peasants.

• Removed the out of combat speed boost and evasion from Green Defense Fighters.

• Var Zuladura Katur, Var Zazatamzu Katur, Var Mizra Katur, Var Bhisaj Katur have been given the same energy as their Tra counterparts.

• Change weight of Crate of Pirate Crest, Crate of Veteran Pirate Crest and Crate of Master Pirate Crests from 7 million to 100 and changed from breaking into 5 to 4 to 6 to match the strongboxes of the same item.

• +Removed the only drop of Crate of Master Pirate Crests from Barbe Noir and replaced with a Master Pirate Strongbox.

[AI Changes]

• Reduced the weapon range, recoil and slightly increased damage for the Deflector drone. This restores the stats to what it historically was.
  • +Moved Deflector and Reflector drones 50 farther out from the center so they don’t kill the Light Nuzzle and Aqua Nuzzle on irradiation.

• Corrected missing visual for the Target Dummy.

• Removed the evasion from the fighters Master Flylet and Master Maggot use.

• +Fixed an issue with Queen Hive phases not activating.

[Missions]

• Adjusted Ahab’s Training Mission from 10 rat kills to 5 kills.

• Adjusted Ration Relief mission to start at the same time as Ahab’s Training.

• +Added Priority Target mission for Lord Mulligan boss.

• +Increased expected levels on Strontium KD AI kill missions (this means you will get more exp from them at higher levels).

[Universe Changes]

• Irradiated Subspace Anomaly visuals have been fixed. Bad timer values resulted in their radiation cloud effect flickering and twitching constantly.

• +Added upgraded DPS kits for AI empires

• +Removed the Warp Beacon from Glass Matrix

• +Removed the Warp Beacon from Iq’Bana.

• +Added a new custom warp beacon to Beta Antares.

• +Unteamed the Free Market Warp Beacon.

• +Changed the entire Serengeti zone to non-PvP.
  • Removed the lockout for killing some of the Panthers in the Serengeti Nebula instance. Only killing Baron will grant the lockout now for this gal of the instance.
• Removed Single Panther from Lake Manyara instance and replaced it with an additional Rhino.
• +Removed the keys for instance warps in Ngoronoro and Ngoronoro crater other than Lion and Emperor.
• +Made Zebras and Panthers in Ngoronoro guard their respective warp.
• +Replaced 2 Zebras for Rhinos in Ngorogoro Crater.

• +Removing the Scrap Prefab Missions from Creaky’s Junkquarters in The Junkyard.

• +Moved credit cost of Andaman Extermination Blueprint from periodic to initial to match other extermination bps.

• +Changed “The Dark” from locking to the north spiral to locking to the south spiral of Earthforce layer during uni generation.

• +Removed the link and wormholes between Lyceum and Lyceum Wormhole Research.

• +Updated and revised the shouts that DG bosses use.

• +Added new Condenser Augmenter Packs to the Augmenter Lab station within Acropolis.
  • Removed Augmenter Condensers from drop tables.
• Adjusted rarity of some Blueprint Packs.

• +Corrected the “Investigate the Pretenders” mission to end at Olympus Entrance instead of Serengeti Blockade.

• +Changed Hallway to Mother to no PvP.

• +Added 40 additional random AI team names. Removed inappropriate AI team names.

• +Added an AC turn in mission to trade 1 Allied Commendation for 600 million credits at the E.F.V. Avenger at the Allied Staging Sector.

[Typo Fixes]

• Fixed Typos in “Cleaning House” Mission.

• Fixed Typos “A Blue Connection” Mission.

• Updated the description of the Hidden Nanite Infusion Device to correctly state 175% instead of 200%. The damage has been 175% but the description just falsely states 200%.

[System]

• Added the no discount indicator to blueprint tooltip from construction tab.

• AI Empires now follow galaxy lockdown.

• Unattached bases can now be used as attached bases if you have an acceptable solarbody selected to attach them to.

• Fixed a bug when attempting to cancel a build for which no blueprints are on base.

• Expired premium players can now login as a free to play.