Captain and officers, another update and some fancy new outfits are touching down at the starport. One of the new outfits is the matchy-match for the update released in #373, we've improved the Contact weighting tables to ensure all the new Contacts we have been adding show up fairly, we've buffed engine stats for Level 8 craft and tuned the maintenance cost for craft level 6-8 to make sure they didn't run away with the math.
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Once again, we are excited to debut two new outfit styles that can be used entirely or or mixed and matched with other outfits if you unlock the outfit combos. We have a new pirate or scavenger outfit available and a military marine outfit that releases the one previously released in Update #373 since we know (and always hear about!) how everyone loves to make their crew so matchy-matchy-match-match. Glad we could deliver this matching look in a reasonable time frame!
We hope you enjoy the new outfits!
With Update #375, we have pushed the engine stats of Agility and Speed higher for Level 8 Craft to ensure they properly exceed the lower level craft and justify their higher investment. Your top tier, snooty, Wing classes are sure to demand the very best, and these are the best!
We've also reviewed one of the costing equations used to generate the maintenance cost for craft and found that it started to "run away" after level 6, spiking too hard. With Update #375, we've pulled that equation's end range back into the reasonable range by enforcing some caps on the maintenance price of all craft above level 6. This helps the most with level 7 and 8 craft but does have some marginal improvement for the cost of keeping level 6 craft in your hangar.
A huge thanks to everyone who is still reporting the little things in the game - or has reported them in the past. We have a backlog of minor tweaks, rewrites and typos to adjust and are always watching the crash logs for places we can improve as well.
- Added 2 new outfits to the game - more armored marines in space!
- Improved weighting of all newer contact types to ensure they correctly appear on zones and match to Black Market opportunities
- Improved Agility / Speed for Level 8 Craft
- Reduced/standardized repair cost for Level 6, 7 and 8 craft by up to 10%
- Fixed typos in Rumors - thanks for reports!
- Fixed typos and reported crashes