This update significantly expands Command Vessel support and fixes several fleet, garrison, combat, and travel issues.
The Command Vessel is now treated much more consistently as a real ship across the game.
Command Vessels can now join regular garrison missions.
They can reinforce planets, moons, stations, and outposts.
They can be deployed to and recalled from station and outpost garrisons.
Command Vessel-only deployments and recalls are supported where applicable.
Station and outpost interfaces now display docked Command Vessels.
Allied garrison overviews now show attached Command Vessels.
Command Vessels count toward station and outpost garrison capacity.
Their cargo capacity, fuel usage, speed, research, modules, and commander bonuses are now included in relevant mission calculations.
A ready Command Vessel stationed at a planet, moon, station, or outpost now participates in its defense.
Command Vessels attached to allied defensive fleets participate in combat correctly.
Support has been added across normal attacks, raids, combined assaults, moon battles, outpost battles, station attacks, and station capture battles.
Each Command Vessel uses its actual owner’s research, modules, doctrines, and other combat bonuses.
Hull damage sustained in combat is now preserved correctly.
Destroyed Command Vessels enter recovery as expected.
A defensive mission remains active if its regular fleet is destroyed but its Command Vessel survives.
Command Vessels docked at stations can now be recalled normally.
A Command Vessel may launch a station attack directly from a station.
Allied Command Vessels can participate in station defense.
Command Vessels included in station defense consume Command Points and respect the existing defense limit.
Once committed to an active station capture, a Command Vessel cannot be withdrawn, refitted, or otherwise changed until the operation resolves.
If a station is captured, surviving Command Vessels belonging to the former defenders are evacuated.
Command Vessels attached to defensive fleets return with those fleets.
Destroyed Command Vessels enter recovery instead of remaining at the captured station.
Several timing-related combat issues have been fixed:
Recalled ships are no longer restored by an older battle snapshot.
Damaged and repairable ships remain assigned to the correct dock or defensive mission.
A stationary Command Vessel on an abandoned planet or one of its moons is evacuated to another owned planet.
If the Command Vessel is travelling or participating in an active mission, abandoning the planet is blocked.
This prevents Command Vessels from becoming stranded on planets later colonized by another player.
Transport missions launched from moons now correctly benefit from Transport Speed research.
Legacy asteroid fields and outposts with old orbital coordinates no longer produce extreme intra-system travel times.
Synthetic quest fields, including Bon Dor fields, now use valid local orbital distances.
When performing actions in Dead Space, the currently selected eligible planet is now automatically selected as the mission origin.
This applies to activities such as anomalies, debris collection, and similar operations.
Manual selection is still required when the current planet is not eligible for the selected mission.