Galactic News: July 5th

Hi everyone,

Last Sunday the new faster Awakening of the Dark galaxy launched with a bang!

Have you played in the new galaxy yet? Let us know what you think on the forum after you have. We’ve seen some fantastic feedback already from players that are enjoying the new game mode. Why not try it and see for yourself?

A massive new patch was also released alongside the new galaxy, and this week the devs have already pushed out two more patches to address a couple of issues that came up after adding all that new content.

Let’s see how things stand after the first week of the new ‘Awaken the Dark’ galaxy…

Top Players: ‘Awaken the Dark’ Galaxy

• Top 10

The Top 10 players from the leaderboards (as of Friday morning)

Grand Emperor

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
1	–		Rae	52,507 –
2	–		trippdie	51,327 –
3	–		chiral	47,645 –
4	–		NegativeRadical	37,209 –
5	–		werwortmann	34,706 –
6	–		Gavoid	34,118 –
7	–		Belisarius	33,775 –
8	–		TheSythe	31,910 –
9	–		ConsortiumCzar	31,450 –
10	–		TotKtoZhret	29,682 –

Master of Warfare

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
1	–		Rae	50,931 –
2	–		Soulsinger	26,222 –
3	–		orolyn	21,537 –
4	–		ToriBDeadly	14,371 –
5	–		Belisarius	12,585 –
6	–		chiral	12,068 –
7	–		ConsortiumCzar	9,741 –
8	–		Roknor	9,527 –
9	–		Gavoid	6,766 –
10	–		NegativeRadical	6,533 –

For the first time we have a ‘Grand Emperor Master of Warfare’ – Rae. Congratulations Rae!

Rae’s Master of Warfare lead is pretty solid right now. But the Grand Emperor title looks like it’s going to be hotly contested over the next week with a strong chasing pack. Will anyone be able to push Rae off the throne or is this the beginning of an epoch, like with Rislem in the Main 2 galaxy?

So far we’re not seeing the same Syntis dominance as we saw in Main 2. The Ripchee look to be edging it right now and it’s great to see the Snithereal represented on both leaderboards this time around. But where are Mankind?

Galactic Expansion

• July 03

Player colonies (yellow dots) drawn over the ‘Awaken the Dark’ galaxy map. Kind of.

Colonies	2,529
Fleets	2,161
Minefields	2

The colony map above shows the new dynamically generated galaxy we’re testing for Awaken the Dark in action. This galaxy is incrementally expanded as new players spawn in, which is why we don’t see colonies spread out everywhere.

Dynamically generating the galaxy is great for guaranteeing new players plenty of space away from older players – but not so great to look at 🙂 In future we’ll probably zoom in over the colonized area and overlay battle activity based on the size and power of the fleets involved so it will be possible to see the significant conflict zones.

Players in the Awaken the Dark Galaxy

Civilizations		Players
	Syntis	112	37%
	Mankind	72	24%
	Ripchee	53	17%
	People’s Realm	47	15%
	Snithereal	21	7%

Averages per player
Colonies	8
Fleets	7
Credits	288,613
Techs Researched	37

Civ choice looks very similar to what we saw in Main 2. Syntis and Snithereal again the most and least popular.

The player averages after one week are interesting. Credits and tech are piling up. But the number of colonies and fleets looks quite economical. Which could indicate that more ships are being concentrated into larger powerful fleets?

Alliances

Alliances were added to all galaxies last week. You can access alliance features from the diplomacy tab on the main menu or check out the wiki for a quick overview right now.

Almost 40% of players have already taken up the opportunity to join an alliance. And there are many more smaller alliances than have been listed here (only alliances with more than 5 players were listed).

Why not create your own alliance and invite your friends to join and play alongside you?

Technology Unleashed

• Key Markers
• Most Unlocked
• Most Spent On
• Most Difficult

Technologies that indicate progress players have made along certain branches of the tech tree

Tech	Item	Owners
	Small Bio-Farm	9%	25
	Government Building T3	26%	78
	City Center T3	10%	28
	ODS T1	30%	90
	x2 Troop Defense Strength	5%	15
	Fleet Dock T1	1%	2
	Shipyard T3	21%	64
	Beron Mine T3	25%	75
	Farsu Mine T3	21%	62
	Cargo Modules T2	16%	48

Tech	Item	Owners
	Zero Gravity Engine	30%	90
	Dark Energy Engine	35%	106
	Battleship	9%	26
	Minelayer T1	18%	54
	Minesweeper T1	6%	18
	Cloaking Module	17%	51
	Torpedo Launcher T3	1%	3
	Medium Cannon “Hellfire”	17%	51
	Power Beam T3	3%	9
	Orbital Strike T3	1%	1

The most unlocked technologies – excludes tech unlocked by 50%+ of players

#	Tech	Item	Owners
1		Ship Generator T1	50%	151
2		Kinetic Cannon MKC-1	49%	147
3		Shipyard T2	46%	138
4		Shields T1	43%	131
5		Beron Mine T2	43%	130
6		Power Cannon SPC-2	41%	125
7		Farsu Mine T2	41%	124
8		Government Building T2	40%	121
9		Ziryl Mine T2	40%	121
10		Corvette	40%	119

#	Tech	Item	Owners
11		Entertainment Center T1	39%	118
12		Freighter T2	39%	117
13		Olzine Mine T2	37%	111
14		Limbalt Mine T2	37%	110
15		Planetary Scanner T2	36%	109
16		Dark Energy Engine	35%	106
17		Kinetic Cannon SKC-2	35%	104
18		Control Center T1	34%	103
19		City Center T2	34%	102
20		Power Station T3	34%	101

Technologies players have collectively spent most of their research power on (Spent = Cost x Owners)

#	Tech	Item	Owners		Spent
1		Scout Engine	17%	49	245,000
2		Hyperspace Energy Engine	16%	48	240,000
3		Beron Mine T3	25%	75	150,000
4		Government Building T5	5%	15	150,000
5		Ziryl Mine T3	23%	69	138,000
6		Ship Generator T3	9%	27	135,000
7		Battleship	9%	26	130,000
8		Small Bio-Farm	9%	25	125,000
9		Farsu Mine T3	21%	62	124,000
10		Cruiser	4%	11	110,000

#	Tech	Item	Owners		Spent
11		Minelayer T1	18%	54	108,000
12		Dark Energy Engine	35%	106	106,000
13		Limbalt Mine T3	17%	50	100,000
14		Colonization Module T4	4%	10	100,000
15		Cargo Modules T2	16%	48	96,000
16		Ship Scanner T3	7%	19	95,000
17		Destroyer T2	30%	91	91,000
18		Zero Gravity Engine	30%	90	90,000
19		Frigate T2	30%	89	89,000
20		Energy Shield T2	14%	42	84,000

The most difficult to research technologies due to their high research cost

Tech	Item	Owners		Cost
	Fleet Dock T3	1%	1	50,000
	Orbital Strike T5	1%	1	50,000
	Torpedo Launcher T6 (People’s Realm)	1%	1	50,000
	Orbital Bomber	1%	1	20,000
	Large Bio-Farm	1%	1	20,000
	Lightning Gun T5	1%	2	20,000
	Fleet Dock T2	1%	1	20,000

Tech	Item	Owners		Cost
	Syntis Fleets T6	0%	0	33,750
	Dreadnought	1%	1	50,000
	Ripchee Power Beam T2	0%	0	33,750
	Orbital Strike T4	1%	1	20,000
	Missile Launcher T6 (People’s Realm)	1%	2	10,000
	Torpedo Launcher T5	1%	2	20,000
	Armor Bane Cannon ABA-S	1%	1	10,000

Speeds are at least 10x faster in the Awaken the Dark galaxy compared to other galaxies. But technology research speeds were increased even more than this!

And you can see this very clearly here already. The ‘Most Difficult’ tech is already getting researched! It took many weeks in previous galaxies before any player progressed deep enough in to the tech tree to acquire one of these hugely powerful technologies.

How much of this newly acquired technology is going to be deployed over the next week? Will an enemy dreadnought come rumbling through your territory any time soon?

That’s it for this week, we’ll be back with more soon 🙂

– The Outscape dev team