This is the largest update since the game went live! There are tons of quality-of-life improvements, new interface panels for viewing lists of items or ships, 80 leaderboards with weekly and monthly rankings, plus much more!
The largest change is that all players now join a single server instead of regional servers. Additionally, players can create multiple characters per account instead of being limited to just one!
-= v1.5.0
- All servers merged into one mega-server
- Leaderboards for players & corps (Week, Month, Life)
- Players can start new characters on their account
- New item, ship, achievement, leaderboard list panels
- Crafting: Void Kit converts non-void items to Void rarity
- Reward Points: Re-Void Kit re-rolls an item's Void bonus
- Defense units gain much larger benefits from slow weapons
- Combat slowed during large PvP events (Time dilation)
- Many improvements to network lag during large events
- Ship +Xp% Bonus grants more XP to Player and Corporation
- Hack Ram + Hacking III targets and purges repair-over-time
- WEEKEND POWER event: Bonus loot and PvP skulls plus more!
- Bug fixes related to grapple, cloak and network lag
- Adv Hacking III purges repair-over-time and hacks target
- Alliances need 7 citizens to control Security Rating 8 maps
- Defense unit protection shields last between server reboots
- Removed many annoying popups
- "Tech Points for Resources" trade gives almost 2x more bonus
- Nova Explosion and Garrison Strike hit more targets
- Battle Ram damage can splash to multiple targets