1.47e - update!

XO 1.47e "Yaw Be Careful Now"

This is primarily a balance and bug fixing update

Features

• All Harvester warships move much, much slower now. Reapers remain the same speed.
• The game now loads without displaying the ‘wait for program to respond’ dialog
• New item: Hyperspace beacon
• Added a number of new events
• Marine, Diplomat, Shocktrooper and Mercenary boarding parties can now rescue passengers from disabled ships
• You can now use Pirate boarding parties on disabled and disabled/abandoned ships to gut them for spare parts or steal their cargo
• Boarding parties now have spinward/antispinward options
• Tractor hold and Tractor retrieve actions are no longer greyed out when the tractor is charging
• Main camera and starmap camera were made less floaty

Balance/UI

• Mining ore and melting ice were rebalanced, your feedback is appreciated on this
• Made quite a few balance and logic adjustments to individual events based on your feedback
• Cargo pirates now take over cargoships if no cargo is found
• Tractor beam range is no longer used to calculate support/protect distance on equipped ships
• Stations that are forcibly evacuated or looted now have a chance to activate weapon systems or self destruct
• Added more player options/results for ships that break away from the fleet
• Scouts are more likely to find industryships and less likely to find cargoships when mustering
• Late game, Pact Destroyers will show up much more than Pact Frigates
• Expanded results for rescuing ships before hailing them, chance of rewards and quests
• Added a tooltip when hovering the water riot countdown timer
• Water riot countdown timer now pulses periodically
• ‘Thank you for sending feedback’ now only displays when all logs have completed sending
• Made Corp and Rover warships more aggressive at jumpgates
• Using Spare Parts is a little easier
• Harvester Taker is now no longer selectable/targetable when it is mated to the Harvester Carrier
• Releasing a ship no longer clears an existing melt ice/mine ore action
• Starmap: hovering a destination on the first jump, do not display resources (onboarding simplification)
• Improved the tutorial in mysteriously subtle but meaningful ways
• Added a tooltip for hovering the minimap
• Transfer actions are greyed out if the selected ship has tractored the target
• Salvaging ships with passengers aboard is no longer allowed

Bug fixes/tweaks

We also fixed over 60 bugs, many of which were submitted by you! Thank you again for your bug reports, suggestions and ideas! Check the in-game changelog for details on the bugs fixed.

What’s next?

We are rapidly heading towards a full release, so we’ll be doing user interface and quality of life improvements, adding more ships, some very interesting new items as well as more events in 1.48!