Community5 Oct 20178 new Skins to collectWith the start of the Sixo Vaporis galaxy, we have added 8 new skins. All these skins are linked to special codes that you can activate in your account management area . The Skin code hunt is open! Lord British & Lord Chaos These two skins are a tribute to Ultima Online and two of its creators: Richard Garriott and Starr Long . They refer to the two characters they incarnated: Lord British and…
Death to the permadeath! Gangs of Space has been designed from the beginning to be a permadeath game (even before we introduced the “roguelite” elements like subsystems; our inspiration is taken mostly from old arcade games). Even though we - and many players - like it this way, it is true that losing a ship can be a demoralizing experience for a new player. So today, we’re introducing a permad…
Version 0.31.11 Tiesday, September 19, 2017 FEATURES · Added permadeath protection as a passive item Auto-Warp that is equipped by default on all ships. · While the Auto-Warp is equipped, any fatal damage will warp you back to the Motherbase instead. · The Auto-Warp prevents you from equipping a passive item, it gives -25% to Sector Points & Credits during sector conquest , and prevents you fro…
Version 0.31.10 Friday, September 15, 2017 FEATURES · Added a setting to make the mouse cursor bigger (4 different sizes). · Added a facultative key binding to open/close all Warehouses at once . · The name of drops that are reserved for other players is now darkened to differentiate them better in a big pile of loot. SMALL CHANGES · Added a confirmation window when quitting the game. · The Ski…
Galaxy Tertio Vaporis has been conquered in 10 days, 11 hours, 1 minute et 6 seconds ! On the ladder side: · DJOKKATAJA wins the TOP GRIND with a very impressive score of 1,174,894 SP. A new record! But Zed is just behind… on purpose, maybe? · Because on the TOP SKILL side, Zed improves his previous best score, and reaches almost 33K SP/h! Jhirin and kragnir beat their previous records too, but…
Version 0.31.9 Sunday, September 10, 2017 FEATURES · The Empire News Network is now the Galaxy Conquest window: · All 3 ladders are now displayed in the game: Grind Ladder , Skill Ladder and Gangs Ladder . · The estimated time until the conquest ends is now computed and displayed in the game and on gangsofspace.com ! · A tooltip has been added to show the ladder rewards. · Please note that the…
Version 0.31.8 Thursday, September 7, 2017 PERFORMANCE · Significantly reduced the number of server lags. BALANCE · Reservation time for jettisoned items has been increased from 1s to 3s (to let you fix an erroneous jettison, without impacting trading convenience too much). SMALL FEATURES · Hide inaccessible maps in the Navigation window. · Do not allow to rebind the left mouse button, in order…
Version 0.31.7 Monday, September 4, 2017 SMALL FEATURES · Hide other players docked in the same dock as you. · The game music is now properly stereo and MUCH higher quality! (sorry Alex, wrong settings on my part >_<') · The sound spatialization has also been improved for explosions and gate proximity sounds. · You can whisper to players with space in their name by using the following syntax: /…
Version 0.31.6 Saturday, September 2, 2017 SMALL FEATURES · You can now see the history of previous Conquests on the website. · Added to the game many of the namings for crews, sectors & systems that were provided by Pack buyers . · You can now always see your individual and Gang rank in the ingame ladders , even if you are not in the top 1000. · Improved the wording of some ingame tips , and a…
Congratulations all, you have eliminated 15,000,000 Pirnats points in 7 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes and 30 seconds! OVER THE TOP Without further ado, let’s examine the top of the ladders: · On the TOP GRIND , Zed sets a new record with 576k SP. Congratulations! · On the TOP SKILL we also find Zed . It’s the proof of a great talent! With 27k SP/h, he will be quite the challenger to beat. Will krag…
Version 0.31.5 Tuesday, August 29, 2017 SMALL FEATURES · Private messages have been re-enabled: use <code>/w <player name> <message></code> · Share dividends are now listed on your account management page on gangsofspace.com . · You can remove your title if you don’t want to display any. · Collected Credits and blue DNA strands have been re-designed visually to be more readable. · 2 new sounds…
Congratulations to all players and all Gangs: you conquered the Primor Vaporis Galaxy in 8 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes and 28 seconds! OVER THE TOP Let’s have a look at the final ladders: · On the TOP GRIND , we have a new Commander imposing his style: Touch Me wins by a fair margin his title and his champion skin, with over 400,000 SP. Congratulations! · On the TOP GANG ! Esports get their first…
Version 0.31.4 Saturday, August 19, 2017 BALANCE · Credit rewards for conquest have been significantly increased for all Tiers. · We are now giving Credit rewards when unlocking new ships , of the build cost of the ship. This will ensure you can always immediatly build a ship you just unlocked. · For example, unlocking the Gemeter SX will give you 1,000 Credits, and unlocking the Gemeter DX wil…
EDIT : Maintenance is finish, you can start to play again ! Thanks for your patience. ================= We are sorry, an unexpected problem appeared during the maintenance of the servers. We are doing everything we can to resolve this issue, but we do not know yet how long we will be re-launching the servers. To keep you informed, thanks for following our Twitter or joining our Discord . Thank…
Version 0.31.3 Tueday, August 15, 2017 BALANCE · All drops are now reserved for 30s (instead of 5s / 8s / 15s depending on the rarity). SMALL CHANGES · Added a bot to give pre-made answers in the chat, controllable by mods & devs. · Added an orange marker for the mods in the chat. · Multiple performance improvements on the server side.
Version 0.31.2 Monday, August 14, 2017 SMALL CHANGES · Redesigned slightly the Sellout Panel to make it more readable. BUG FIXES · Fixed a serious issue where the client would freeze & crash (or take a very long time) to join some systems. · Fixed (again) the boss phase display. · Stars on ilvl 13 items are always yellow, not some weird green or red.
Version 0.31.1 Sunday, August 13, 2017 SMALL CHANGES · Added the Sellout Panel to remind you of all the magnificent benefits of purchasing one of the Gangs of Space supporter packs. If you like the game, this is the best way to ensure we can continue working on it! (Note: yes, this panel is ugly. That’s what you get for letting the developer do it without any input from the designer… It might g…
Version 0.31 Thursday, August 10, 2017 MAIN FEATURES · Gangs of Space is now available on Steam Early Access ! · With a brand new title screen. · 3 new skins & titles that can be purchased in Early Access Packs. · Foreword from the developers on first launch of the client. · Changes to the conquest system : · Conquering each zone now gives Credits instead of DNA (or Greed). · Conquest is now th…
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