Patch Notes 09.07.2026

Combat

• PvP targeting logic has been updated so battles now distinguish combat, support, and civilian ships more intelligently.

• In battles around planets, stations, outposts, and asteroid fields, fire should now more often focus military targets while they are present.

• Civilian and logistics ships should be less likely to be wiped out first when they are protected by combat ships.

• This applies to regular PvP, combined attacks, combined defense, station battles, outpost battles, and attacks against mining fleets.

• Escorts and combat screens should now matter more when protecting miners, transports, and support fleets.

AI Officer

• Fixed Advanced AI Officer evacuation with resources.

• The AI Officer should no longer try to load resources as if it needs to fill the entire planet storage.

• Required hydrogen for the evacuation flight is now reserved more correctly before loading cargo.

• If resources cannot be loaded as expected, the AI Officer should now still attempt to evacuate the fleet instead of failing the whole action.

• This affects both normal evacuation and scatter evacuation rules.

Mining & Dead Space

• Fixed asteroid field replenishment logic.

• The server should no longer spawn huge numbers of extra fields while still thinking the resource pool is too low.

• Rare field replenishment should now better reflect the actual remaining resource pools.

• Access to rare Dead Space fields is now checked more consistently across scans, lists, outpost actions, fleet routes, and mining actions.

• Hidden or controlled fields should no longer leak through alternate views or actions.

• Outposts can no longer be built, attacked, defended, or relocated on fields the player cannot access.

Stations & Alliances

• Fixed a case where a combined station assault could continue processing a capture without a valid alliance.

• If the attacking alliance no longer exists or loses its valid link to the assault, the capture should no longer create a broken state.

• Scheduled alliance disband processing is now more reliable, so one failed disband should not block the rest.

Outposts & Reports

• Outpost battle reports should now remain available even if the related outpost is later deleted.

• This should reduce broken or inaccessible old reports.

Moon Economy

• Fixed rare resource cost reductions in the moon dockyard.

• The displayed ship cost should now match the actual build cost before pressing Build.

• Build validation should now agree with the reduced cost shown in the UI.

• Moon building demolition refunds are now granted when demolition completes, not when it starts.

• Cancelling demolition no longer grants a free refund.

• Cancelling a normal moon building upgrade still refunds correctly.

• Low-G Refinery now requires the intended research and operates as a production building with input resource consumption.

Galaxy & Search

• Improved galaxy map player search, especially for very short names and short mixed search patterns.

• Some scans and activity views now respect controlled asteroid field visibility more consistently.