- systems now start with much lower faction influences

- added system events for the four major factions

• When first entering a new system, objectives for the different factions will be generated
  
  
• Completing objectives will cause faction influence for the faction to which the objective belongs to increase
  
  
• When a single faction completes their final objective, no more objectives will generate and the system will be marked as owned by that faction
  
  
• System event objective status can be checked out on the GRIP, through a new button at the top of GRIP's main menu

• Hurles Co. Objectives:
  
  • Faction influence required: 0
    
    • Gather Resource
      
    • Scout
      
    • Build Refinery Station
      
  • Faction influence required: 1000+
    
    • Build Assembly Station
      
    • Build Trade hub
      
  • Faction influence required: 2000+
    
    • Build Mining Outpost
      
    • Build industrial Complex
      
  • Faction influence required: 4000+
    
    • Mine large Asteroid
      
  
  
• Sentinel Security Systems Objectives:
  
  • Faction influence required: 0
    
    • Gather Resource
      
    • Scout
      
    • Build a Guns R Us
      
  • Faction influence required: 1000+
    
    • Defend Defense Point
      
    • Kill Skrill
      
    • Kill Drifter Station
      
  • Faction influence required: 2000+
    
    • Build Fort Bragg
      
  • Faction influence required: 4000+
    
    • Defend Supply Station
      
  
  
• Galactic Trade:
  
  • Faction influence required: 0
    
    • Gather Resource
      
    • Scout
      
    • Build GT Trade Sphere
      
  • Faction influence required: 1000+
    
    • Gather Rare Resource
      
    • Gather Iron (Better reward)
      
    • Meet trade demand - Ores
      
    • Meet trade demand - refined resources
      
    • Meet trade demand - Refined resources (better reward)
      
  • Faction influence required: 2000+
    
    • Meet trade demand - Rare resources
      
    • Meet trade demand - Constructed resources
      
    • Meet trade demand - Rare ores
      
    • Meet trade demand - Rare Refined resources
      
    • Build Trade Hub
      
  • Faction influence required: 4000+
    
    • Buy Advanced Fuel
      
  
  
• Drifters:
  
  • Faction influence required: 0
    
    • Gather Iron
      
    • Scout
      
    • Gather Scrap
      
    • Destroy any non drifter station (FI reward)
      
    • Build Mojo's Dojo
      
  • Faction influence required: 1000+
    
    • Gather Iron (Pirate drone spawnrate bonus)
      
    • Destroy S3 combat drones
      
  • Faction influence required: 2000+
    
    • Build The Black Pit
      
  • Faction influence required: 4000+
    
    • Hack station and steal hacking chipsets
      

- added new resources

• Advanced Fuel
  
  • Can be bought after completing GT final objective
    
  • Can put into regular hydrogen tanks
    
  • Lasts 10x as long as normal Hydrogen Fuel
    
  • Cannot be crafted
    
• Advanced Ammo
  
  • Is spawned on S3 Supply Station after completing S3 final objective
    
  • 60 damage per bullet
    
  • 2400 bullets per crate
    
  • Cannot be crafted
    
• Fluorite
  
  • Is spawned in a rich asteroid for Hurles Co. Final objective
    
  • Can be mined with Strip Miner
    

- added new tools

• Advanced Heatsink
  
  • Can be crafted in 3D Printer (cost: 50 Aluminium, 10 Beryllium, 20 Fluorite)
    
  • last 4 times as long as a T3 Heatsink
    
  • Can be used in reactor and ACTRs
    
• Chipset Break Firewall (Tier II)
  
  • Is spawned on Mojo's dojo after completing Drifter final objective
    
  • last up to 4 times as long as Tier I cartridges
    
  • can hack up to 3 times as quickly as Tier I cartridges
    
• Chipset Repair Firewall (Tier II)
  
  • Is spawned on Mojo's dojo after completing Drifter final objective
    
  • last up to 4 times as long as Tier I cartridges
    
  • can repair up to 3 times as quickly as Tier I cartridges
    

- ship owners (and members of their crew) now gain U-NITS for killing skrill based on skrill type, skrill faction influence and S3 faction influence

- rebuild commands now wait until all systems are removed (and thus saved) before notifying a rebuild is complete

- added an ingame encyclopedia to the upper left corner of the GRIP that lists all resources, tools, and devices

• click on a tool or resource to see the recipe
  
• double click on a tool or resource to see what use they have in other recipes
  
• filter on tools, resources, or devices
  
• click on devices to see what resources can be made with that device
  
• use the history buttons on the upper left to go back and forth between visited pages

- decreased Skrill debris

- Skrill Grunts

• minimum burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 20 ticks (from 15)
  
• max burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 40 ticks (from 20)
  
• bounty: 7.5k - 30k U-NITS

- Skrill Hunters

• minimum burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 20 ticks (from 15)
  
• max burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 40 ticks (from 20)
  
• Shield draining bullets now fire in salvos of 3 instead of 5
  
• bounty: 10k - 75k U-NITS

- Skrill Stingers

• Armor value: 100 - 150 (from 1000 - 1200)
  
• bounty: 15k - 100k U-NITS
  
• max speed: 600m/s (from 800)

- Skrill Disruptor

• Armor value: 10000 - 15000 (from 1000 - 1200)
  
• bounty: 35k - 250k U-NITS
  
• max speed: 500m/s (from 1000)
  
• minimum burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 20 ticks (from 15)
  
• max burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 40 ticks (from 20)
  
• normal Skrill bullets now fire in salvos of 3 instead of 5

- Drones now drop resources when destroyed regardless of whether they were carrying anything (on top of what they were carrying)


- teleporters now show name of ship creator instead of power usage

- transponding ships now show under transponding name in teleporter

- fix position of female astral armor fore arm pieces

- reworked Hacking terminal UI and fixed several bugs with it in the process


- fix crash in trade drone when there are no possible stations

- fixed crash in Fleet Rank member screen

- fixed two crashes in Main Menu

- fixed crash in ship flight screen

- fix ghost client crash in weapongroups

- added more logging on unintended ship removals

- fixed bug where server would crash if any entity that is not a ship tries to go through a rift

- fixed bug where loading screen would freeze if player logs in on a ship that no longer exists

- cleaned up some unnecessary loading of sounds (should save some memory)

- fixed bug where cargo on non-cargopad devices would not be included in ship construction

- fixed bug where rifts would sometimes move objects which are scheduled for deletion (killing players on arrival)

- fixed bug where galaxy meta data would not save after a full rebuild (causing player ships to not show up in store-o-tron)

- fixed divide by zero on trade drone AI

- fixed random for planet assignment for station generation to also include the last generated planet

- fixed a bug where the server could crash on destroying a drone

- fixed a bug where hacking chip sets that were used on your own ship would stop working after going through a rift

- fixed a bug where the editor could crash on props with non-existing device types

- fixed a crash in the hacking terminal


- servers and personal saves will have to be rebuilt using the 3rd redbuild option from the F8 admin menu. ("rebuildServer 2" in server console)
this may take some time to complete depending on save file size.

- systems now start with much lower faction influences

- added system events for the four major factions

• When first entering a new system, objectives for the different factions will be generated
  
  
• Completing objectives will cause faction influence for the faction to which the objective belongs to increase
  
  
• When a single faction completes their final objective, no more objectives will generate and the system will be marked as owned by that faction
  
  
• System event objective status can be checked out on the GRIP, through a new button at the top of GRIP's main menu

• Hurles Co. Objectives:
  
  • Faction influence required: 0
    
    • Gather Resource
      
    • Scout
      
    • Build Refinery Station
      
  • Faction influence required: 1000+
    
    • Build Assembly Station
      
    • Build Trade hub
      
  • Faction influence required: 2000+
    
    • Build Mining Outpost
      
    • Build industrial Complex
      
  • Faction influence required: 4000+
    
    • Mine large Asteroid
      
  
  
• Sentinel Security Systems Objectives:
  
  • Faction influence required: 0
    
    • Gather Resource
      
    • Scout
      
    • Build a Guns R Us
      
  • Faction influence required: 1000+
    
    • Defend Defense Point
      
    • Kill Skrill
      
    • Kill Drifter Station
      
  • Faction influence required: 2000+
    
    • Build Fort Bragg
      
  • Faction influence required: 4000+
    
    • Defend Supply Station
      
  
  
• Galactic Trade:
  
  • Faction influence required: 0
    
    • Gather Resource
      
    • Scout
      
    • Build GT Trade Sphere
      
  • Faction influence required: 1000+
    
    • Gather Rare Resource
      
    • Gather Iron (Better reward)
      
    • Meet trade demand - Ores
      
    • Meet trade demand - refined resources
      
    • Meet trade demand - Refined resources (better reward)
      
  • Faction influence required: 2000+
    
    • Meet trade demand - Rare resources
      
    • Meet trade demand - Constructed resources
      
    • Meet trade demand - Rare ores
      
    • Meet trade demand - Rare Refined resources
      
    • Build Trade Hub
      
  • Faction influence required: 4000+
    
    • Buy Advanced Fuel
      
  
  
• Drifters:
  
  • Faction influence required: 0
    
    • Gather Iron
      
    • Scout
      
    • Gather Scrap
      
    • Destroy any non drifter station (FI reward)
      
    • Build Mojo's Dojo
      
  • Faction influence required: 1000+
    
    • Gather Iron (Pirate drone spawnrate bonus)
      
    • Destroy S3 combat drones
      
  • Faction influence required: 2000+
    
    • Build The Black Pit
      
  • Faction influence required: 4000+
    
    • Hack station and steal hacking chipsets
      

- added new resources

• Advanced Fuel
  
  • Can be bought after completing GT final objective
    
  • Can put into regular hydrogen tanks
    
  • Lasts 10x as long as normal Hydrogen Fuel
    
  • Cannot be crafted
    
• Advanced Ammo
  
  • Is spawned on S3 Supply Station after completing S3 final objective
    
  • 60 damage per bullet
    
  • 2400 bullets per crate
    
  • Cannot be crafted
    
• Fluorite
  
  • Is spawned in a rich asteroid for Hurles Co. Final objective
    
  • Can be mined with Strip Miner
    

- added new tools

• Advanced Heatsink
  
  • Can be crafted in 3D Printer (cost: 50 Aluminium, 10 Beryllium, 20 Fluorite)
    
  • last 4 times as long as a T3 Heatsink
    
  • Can be used in reactor and ACTRs
    
• Chipset Break Firewall (Tier II)
  
  • Is spawned on Mojo's dojo after completing Drifter final objective
    
  • last up to 4 times as long as Tier I cartridges
    
  • can hack up to 3 times as quickly as Tier I cartridges
    
• Chipset Repair Firewall (Tier II)
  
  • Is spawned on Mojo's dojo after completing Drifter final objective
    
  • last up to 4 times as long as Tier I cartridges
    
  • can repair up to 3 times as quickly as Tier I cartridges
    

- ship owners (and members of their crew) now gain U-NITS for killing skrill based on skrill type, skrill faction influence and S3 faction influence

- rebuild commands now wait until all systems are removed (and thus saved) before notifying a rebuild is complete

- added an ingame encyclopedia to the upper left corner of the GRIP that lists all resources, tools, and devices

• click on a tool or resource to see the recipe
  
• double click on a tool or resource to see what use they have in other recipes
  
• filter on tools, resources, or devices
  
• click on devices to see what resources can be made with that device
  
• use the history buttons on the upper left to go back and forth between visited pages

- decreased Skrill debris

- Skrill Grunts

• minimum burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 20 ticks (from 15)
  
• max burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 40 ticks (from 20)
  
• bounty: 7.5k - 30k U-NITS

- Skrill Hunters

• minimum burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 20 ticks (from 15)
  
• max burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 40 ticks (from 20)
  
• Shield draining bullets now fire in salvos of 3 instead of 5
  
• bounty: 10k - 75k U-NITS

- Skrill Stingers

• Armor value: 100 - 150 (from 1000 - 1200)
  
• bounty: 15k - 100k U-NITS
  
• max speed: 600m/s (from 800)

- Skrill Disruptor

• Armor value: 10000 - 15000 (from 1000 - 1200)
  
• bounty: 35k - 250k U-NITS
  
• max speed: 500m/s (from 1000)
  
• minimum burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 20 ticks (from 15)
  
• max burst fire delay for normal Skrill bullets is now 40 ticks (from 20)
  
• normal Skrill bullets now fire in salvos of 3 instead of 5

- Drones now drop resources when destroyed regardless of whether they were carrying anything (on top of what they were carrying)


- teleporters now show name of ship creator instead of power usage

- transponding ships now show under transponding name in teleporter

- fix position of female astral armor fore arm pieces

- reworked Hacking terminal UI and fixed several bugs with it in the process


- fix crash in trade drone when there are no possible stations

- fixed crash in Fleet Rank member screen

- fixed two crashes in Main Menu

- fixed crash in ship flight screen

- fix ghost client crash in weapongroups

- added more logging on unintended ship removals

- fixed bug where server would crash if any entity that is not a ship tries to go through a rift

- fixed bug where loading screen would freeze if player logs in on a ship that no longer exists

- cleaned up some unnecessary loading of sounds (should save some memory)

- fixed bug where cargo on non-cargopad devices would not be included in ship construction

- fixed bug where rifts would sometimes move objects which are scheduled for deletion (killing players on arrival)

- fixed bug where galaxy meta data would not save after a full rebuild (causing player ships to not show up in store-o-tron)

- fixed divide by zero on trade drone AI

- fixed random for planet assignment for station generation to also include the last generated planet

- fixed a bug where the server could crash on destroying a drone

- fixed a bug where hacking chip sets that were used on your own ship would stop working after going through a rift

- fixed a bug where the editor could crash on props with non-existing device types

- fixed a crash in the hacking terminal


- servers and personal saves will have to be rebuilt using the 3rd redbuild option from the F8 admin menu. ("rebuildServer 2" in server console)
this may take some time to complete depending on save file size.

After a longer period than usual we are happy to release patch 0.1.51 bringing with it system events.

These system events allow players of any skill level and progression to participate and help nudge a system to be controlled by their faction of choice. Players will be granted rewards for most objectives they participate in. So, for example, an objective is to help gather resources to build a station, every time they hand in resources they will be paid for it.



System events will be present in every non-starting system which now means that in some star systems there will be no space stations until some event objectives have been completed. Note that some stations do still spawn over time in some instances.

Once all the objectives for a given faction are completed that system will become owned by that faction. And players will be granted access to special rewards resources with which they can build more efficient fuel, ammunition and more. In the near future we will be adding ways for players to retake systems for other factions. As well as investigate the possibility of player factions.



In addition we are also adding in skrill and drone bounties, regardless of where players destroy these threats players will be granted a small amount of money for their trouble. More difficult enemies will net higher bounties. We hope this will incentivise players to help keep their systems free of skrill. The skrill have also had their movement rebalanced so that they are more in line with the recent ship flight changes.



We’ve also added a new button to the GRIP, which will allow you to access the encyclopedia. In here you will be able to find the crafting recipes and a descriptions for every item, tool and resource in the game. This should eliminate any uncertainty as to what each item costs to make, or what it does.

As always, we’d appreciate any feedback you’re willing to provide, it will only help us make the game better. We have also set up a public discord server which you can join!
Feel free to drop by and have a chat, we’d love to hear your opinion and feedback!

Thank you all for playing and see you starside!

-The Split Polygon Team

As always, we’d appreciate any feedback you’re willing to provide, it will only help us make the game better. We have also set up a public discord server which you can join!
Feel free to drop by and have a chat, we’d love to hear your opinion and feedback!

Thank you all for playing and see you starside!

-The Split Polygon Team

Patch Notes for IR Alpha 0.1.51

Feedback thread

IR Discord Channel

After a longer period than usual we are happy to release patch 0.1.51 bringing with it system events.

These system events allow players of any skill level and progression to participate and help nudge a system to be controlled by their faction of choice. Players will be granted rewards for most objectives they participate in. So, for example, an objective is to help gather resources to build a station, every time they hand in resources they will be paid for it.



System events will be present in every non-starting system which now means that in some star systems there will be no space stations until some event objectives have been completed. Note that some stations do still spawn over time in some instances.

Once all the objectives for a given faction are completed that system will become owned by that faction. And players will be granted access to special rewards resources with which they can build more efficient fuel, ammunition and more. In the near future we will be adding ways for players to retake systems for other factions. As well as investigate the possibility of player factions.



In addition we are also adding in skrill and drone bounties, regardless of where players destroy these threats players will be granted a small amount of money for their trouble. More difficult enemies will net higher bounties. We hope this will incentivise players to help keep their systems free of skrill. The skrill have also had their movement rebalanced so that they are more in line with the recent ship flight changes.



We’ve also added a new button to the GRIP, which will allow you to access the encyclopedia. In here you will be able to find the crafting recipes and a descriptions for every item, tool and resource in the game. This should eliminate any uncertainty as to what each item costs to make, or what it does.

As always, we’d appreciate any feedback you’re willing to provide, it will only help us make the game better. We have also set up a public discord server which you can join!
Feel free to drop by and have a chat, we’d love to hear your opinion and feedback!

Thank you all for playing and see you starside!

-The Split Polygon Team

As always, we’d appreciate any feedback you’re willing to provide, it will only help us make the game better. We have also set up a public discord server which you can join!
Feel free to drop by and have a chat, we’d love to hear your opinion and feedback!

Thank you all for playing and see you starside!

-The Split Polygon Team

Patch Notes for IR Alpha 0.1.51

Feedback thread

IR Discord Channel

This experimental update is a bit bigger than usual, as we’re adding in system events!

These events are system wide missions that everyone can participate in, and that will net you better and unique rewards. These events consist of things like the creation of new space stations, the elimination of a large number of skrill, or simply scouting new locations. Most of these missions will reward you just for participating.

This however does mean that most star systems outside of the starter systems are going to be mostly empty. There might be a rift hub, but not much else. Which means these systems will need player interaction to become populated with space stations. As you complete system events the influence of a faction will increase in that system, leading to that faction constructing more stations on their own.

More types of system event missions will be added over time.

passive bounties for killing skrill and pirate drones throughout the star systems have also been added. Meaning that you will receive a U-Nits payout for every one of these that you take out. These rewards will be paid out in the same way as mission rewards among crew members.

We’ve also rebalanced the skrill to be more inline with the recent ship flight changes.

Note that these are not all of the changes we are making for the upcoming patch, in the coming days we will be looking at your feedback and making changes based on that as well as adding more balancing tweaks.

For full patch notes, and to leave feedback, see here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/363360/discussions/4/1484358860937360398/

Instructions on how to join the experimental branch can be found here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/363360/discussions/4/350542145693906320/

Thank you all for playing and see you starside!

-The Split Polygon Team

This experimental update is a bit bigger than usual, as we’re adding in system events!

These events are system wide missions that everyone can participate in, and that will net you better and unique rewards. These events consist of things like the creation of new space stations, the elimination of a large number of skrill, or simply scouting new locations. Most of these missions will reward you just for participating.

This however does mean that most star systems outside of the starter systems are going to be mostly empty. There might be a rift hub, but not much else. Which means these systems will need player interaction to become populated with space stations. As you complete system events the influence of a faction will increase in that system, leading to that faction constructing more stations on their own.

More types of system event missions will be added over time.

passive bounties for killing skrill and pirate drones throughout the star systems have also been added. Meaning that you will receive a U-Nits payout for every one of these that you take out. These rewards will be paid out in the same way as mission rewards among crew members.

We’ve also rebalanced the skrill to be more inline with the recent ship flight changes.

Note that these are not all of the changes we are making for the upcoming patch, in the coming days we will be looking at your feedback and making changes based on that as well as adding more balancing tweaks.

For full patch notes, and to leave feedback, see here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/363360/discussions/4/1484358860937360398/

Instructions on how to join the experimental branch can be found here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/363360/discussions/4/350542145693906320/

Thank you all for playing and see you starside!

-The Split Polygon Team

- fixed bug with the event ticker time out

- fixed bug where the delivery drones would not deliver any hydrogen if HydroPEX was out of hydrogen stock

- fixed bug where the game could crash on when updating the holotable

- fixed bug where client would crash when the ship would not have a damage component


- servers need to be updated! version 0.1.50b is not compatible with older versions.

- no rebuilds required

- fixed bug with the event ticker time out

- fixed bug where the delivery drones would not deliver any hydrogen if HydroPEX was out of hydrogen stock

- fixed bug where the game could crash on when updating the holotable

- fixed bug where client would crash when the ship would not have a damage component


- servers need to be updated! version 0.1.50b is not compatible with older versions.

- no rebuilds required

- fixed bug where server would crash on adding a new player

- fixed bug where server would crash defense drone AI

- fixed bug where server would crash generating a new system

- fixed bug where client would crash on entering a game

- fixed bug where player would receive eggnite message for every bullet and every device regardless of infection status


- Servers are joinable from 0.1.50a versions (without desyncs), but it is recommended to update servers to avoid server crashes

- No rebuilds required

- fixed bug where server would crash on adding a new player

- fixed bug where server would crash defense drone AI

- fixed bug where server would crash generating a new system

- fixed bug where client would crash on entering a game

- fixed bug where player would receive eggnite message for every bullet and every device regardless of infection status


- Servers are joinable from 0.1.50a versions (without desyncs), but it is recommended to update servers to avoid server crashes

- No rebuilds required