Update Notes for April 10

🎧 Audio & Effects

• Improved wind audio behavior and microphone pickup effects

• Fixed Deois ATC audio dropout issues

• Added channel test buttons in Configuration Dialog

• Improved in-cloud sound effects

• Added a new atmospheric audio event... listen carefully

🌊 World & Atmosphere

• Expanded environmental immersion systems (ongoing work)

• Improved turbulence model with more natural, non-linear behavior

• Adjusted temperature calculations (ongoing refinements)

✈️ Flight & Systems

• Fixed approach detection and credit tolerance issues

• FAF/TDZ integration improvements for approach qualification

• Must now climb above pattern altitude to re-qualify for landing

• Groundspeed improvements

• OAP defaults correctly on death/rejoin scenarios

• Improved handling of aircraft vs non-aircraft logbook behavior

📖 Logbook & Progression

• Logbooks are now live

• Automatic session closing when vehicle is parked

• Day/night landing tracking

• Docking tracking added

• 0.1 hour logging increments

• Zero-time records no longer saved

• New time logging mechanism

• New experience calculator based on logbooks

• Legacy experience preserved

• New achievements:

  • Approach achievement

  • ZeroZero achievement

• Reinstated operational exposure-based death records

🚗 Vehicles & World Interaction

• Remote vehicle repair added

• Improved payload station functionality

• Fixed ground vehicle payload station issues

• Added refinery as recognized plot list type

• Car alarm biolock tamper (ground vehicles only)

• Improved parking scripts

• Fix for vehicle transfer edge cases (no pilot scenarios)

🏗️ Economy & Systems

• Loan payments enabled

• Loan offers now expire after 7 days

• Loan recalculation improvements

• Improved inventory handling (Rusty’s lot)

• Trade component min/max clamping added

• Dynamic land pricing

🧭 Navigation & UI

• Fixed waypoint bearing bug

• TDZ waypoints now tied to FAF

• Improved handling of unknown states and UI mismatches

• Better error messaging when server is offline

• Fixes for Angular out-of-bounds values

• Improved handling of null references and edge cases

👥 Account & Player Systems

• Referral system now uses ID instead of code

• New awards added

• Seed building deployment available via Player Portal

🛠️ Stability & Fixes

• Extensive null reference and exception handling improvements

• Fixed overnight bugs and nightly processing issues

• Improved Discord integration stability and logging

• Fixed issues with logbook updates and reference handling

• Fixed rental return issue

• Fixed colony deletion/runtime binding issues

• Fixed construction ARJ inconsistencies

• General bug fixes, cleanup, and spelling corrections

🖥️ Server Patches

• Major schema updates and backend restructuring

• Fixed bank-related issues caused by schema changes

• Improved API certificate handling and automated WACS

• Enhanced server-side logging and alerting (email on repeated station errors)

• Fixed nightly maintenance edge cases

• Improved price computation performance with caching

• Removed redundant stored price column

• Fixed cross-pollution issues between player data systems

• Improved WebListener and Player Portal stability

• Fixed disconnected messaging inconsistencies

• Prevented null data transmission over network layer

• Added support for extended playback timing (lerpSeconds)

• Restart cycle adjustments for maintenance loops

• Improved backend handling of offline server detection

👀 Notes

• Includes updates aligned with prior flight model PID improvements

• Additional experimental systems are in development

• Some features may continue to evolve in upcoming builds