1.47e - update!

XO 1.47e "Yaw Be Careful Now"

This is primarily a balance and bug fixing update

Features

• All Harvester warships move much, much slower now. Reapers remain the same speed.

• The game now loads without displaying the ‘wait for program to respond’ dialog

• New item: Hyperspace beacon

• Added a number of new events

• Marine, Diplomat, Shocktrooper and Mercenary boarding parties can now rescue passengers from disabled ships

• You can now use Pirate boarding parties on disabled and disabled/abandoned ships to gut them for spare parts or steal their cargo

• Boarding parties now have spinward/antispinward options

• Tractor hold and Tractor retrieve actions are no longer greyed out when the tractor is charging

• Main camera and starmap camera were made less floaty

Balance/UI

• Mining ore and melting ice were rebalanced, your feedback is appreciated on this

• Made quite a few balance and logic adjustments to individual events based on your feedback

• Cargo pirates now take over cargoships if no cargo is found

• Tractor beam range is no longer used to calculate support/protect distance on equipped ships

• Stations that are forcibly evacuated or looted now have a chance to activate weapon systems or self destruct

• Added more player options/results for ships that break away from the fleet

• Scouts are more likely to find industryships and less likely to find cargoships when mustering

• Late game, Pact Destroyers will show up much more than Pact Frigates

• Expanded results for rescuing ships before hailing them, chance of rewards and quests

• Added a tooltip when hovering the water riot countdown timer

• Water riot countdown timer now pulses periodically

• ‘Thank you for sending feedback’ now only displays when all logs have completed sending

• Made Corp and Rover warships more aggressive at jumpgates

• Using Spare Parts is a little easier

• Harvester Taker is now no longer selectable/targetable when it is mated to the Harvester Carrier

• Releasing a ship no longer clears an existing melt ice/mine ore action

• Starmap: hovering a destination on the first jump, do not display resources (onboarding simplification)

• Improved the tutorial in mysteriously subtle but meaningful ways

• Added a tooltip for hovering the minimap

• Transfer actions are greyed out if the selected ship has tractored the target

• Salvaging ships with passengers aboard is no longer allowed

Bug fixes/tweaks

We also fixed over 60 bugs, many of which were submitted by you! Thank you again for your bug reports, suggestions and ideas! Check the in-game changelog for details on the bugs fixed.

What’s next?

We are rapidly heading towards a full release, so we’ll be doing user interface and quality of life improvements, adding more ships, some very interesting new items as well as more events in 1.48!