Hi everyone,

There’s a new patch coming early next week. The highlight of this patch is the addition of exploration history – previously explored star systems and planets will remain visible when they’re no longer in scanner range!

While implementing exploration history, we saw a suggestion in the community related to visibility. That it should be possible to see the owner of a UFO if you have a treaty with the UFO’s owner. We think it’s a great idea and want to do it, but thought about taking it a step further and wanted to run it by you first:

Hi everyone,

With Monday’s patch we introduced big changes to fleet management that many players really didn’t like. So, we’ve spent the last couple of days going through the feedback and considering the next steps. All of which we’ll cover in this post.

Problems with the original system

Going back to the beginning for a minute, let’s look at the original problems related to fleet management that needed to be fixed:

• Flagship levels were confusing for players

• The flagship level may have been 5, but whether you could actually fit 5 ships in the fleet depended on their sizes (see image below)

• But it wasn’t clear to the player why it wasn’t possible to merge when the flagship level hadn’t been reached