🔧 Bug Fix
⚔️ Exploration fights work again. Since our combat engines were split off, anyone exploring a derelict or a planet who ran into hostiles found that nothing worked. Fire Ranged, Melee, Cover, Tactic, Stim Pack and even Flee all came back with “Combat action failed. Try again.”
Thanks to Porrima for the report that pointed us straight at it. The cause was simple once we saw it. Those fights are looked after by the main game engine, but your actions were being sent to the new combat engines, which had never heard of the fight. They now go back to the right place, so exploration combat works exactly as it did before. Sorry to anyone who got stuck mid exploration. Confirmed working by Porrima & Alumoi.
🛠️ Turrets behaving,
Turrets and drones now repair when YOU are out of combat. Your turrets and drones only mend themselves once the fighting stops, but the game was asking whether anyone in the whole field was fighting, not whether you were. So if another captain was scrapping with a pack at the far end of the belt, your turrets never got their repair, even with nothing anywhere near you.
Now they mend whenever you are out of combat, whatever is happening elsewhere. And a turret that is being shot now stops mending until the shooting stops, just like your drones.
The long-range laser show is gone.
In busy fields with more than one captain, you may have seen pirates apparently firing clear across the map, or picking on the turret furthest away from them. The cause turned out to be how we named deployed Turrets.The game now always knows exactly whose turret was hit, and every turret gets a name of its own. A huge thank you to Snorrsen for two brilliant reports, and to Droffy for spotting the farthest turret pattern. These only ever showed up with two or more captains in the same field and those Captains fought at opposite ends of the Field, which made them very tricky to pin down.
A countdown before maintenance. When the server needs to come down for an update, the red warning bar now counts down so you know exactly how long you have: “Server going down for maintenance in 4:32”. When it reaches zero, the game locks and signs everyone out ready for the update, so please finish what you are doing and log out before then. You will see it in the combat arena too. This morning’s update was its first outing, and it went perfectly.
Fly safe, Captains. 🚀