Hi everyone,

Patch 0.966 has just been released today via Steam to all players. It contains fixes for some of the bugs you’ve reported to us over the last couple of days:

• Income from a colony was displayed wrong in the game client on colony’s with 100% happiness and city centers (see here for details – it was a display bug only and the correct income was being calculated on the server)
• It was possible to trigger an error by entering too many characters for the blueprint name (blueprint names and fleet names are both limited to 20 characters now, we considered increasing it but it looked better to keep this max length)
• Some of the descriptions for reinforced armor weren’t displayed
• Joining the galaxy sometimes triggered a crash

Hi everyone,

We’ve just released a new patch. It follows today’s earlier big announcement about the new Pre-Beta galaxy launching this Sunday August 11th. If you haven’t seen that announcement you can find it here.

In this patch we have a new tutorial system, some usability improvements, client and server performance optimizations and some annoying bugs have been squashed.

Hi everyone,

The game servers have been offline since Monday afternoon, which is the longest downtime we’ve had for a running galaxy (and this one’s been running since the end of last year). But they’re back online again now – along with a new patch.

It’s a thin patch – since the last patch a lot of the dev’s time has been spent on the server environment. But it does contain one important fix though that corrects the issue with minesweepers sweeping 4 times faster than was intended!

Hi everyone,

We’ve got another patch for you. Alpha patch 0.95 has just been released and although it’s been little over a week since the last patch, there are a couple of cool changes included.

Troops reworked

It was a bit odd how troops worked before. There were defensive troops that were intrinsically linked to military bases, and there were assault troops that were magicked into existence by transferring colonists onto assault troop carriers. It caused confusion among players and just didn’t make sense (it was a feature we half-implemented a long time ago that we hadn’t been able to get back to until now).

Hi everyone,

We’re pleased to announce that Alpha patch 0.94 has finally been released! It’s been well over a month since the last patch went out so its arrival is well overdue. And it’s a big one. You can find the full list of changes at the end of this post.

Please note: the Skirmish galaxy was also closed with the release of this patch (we included a reminder this was happening a few days ago).

But without any further ado, let’s dive into some details…

Private messaging

A new private messaging tab has been added to the chat window