🔧 Bug Fixes
📬 Your inbox now knows what day it is. Thanks to a sharp eyed Captain who spotted mail from days ago still marked “Today”, we have tidied up how your Communications inbox shows the age of each message. Today really means today. Ages are now counted in calendar days, so you will see Today, Yesterday, then “3 days ago”, “1 week ago” and so on.
Ages now follow the game’s own clock.Your inbox used to work out “3 days ago” from the clock on your own computer or phone, so if that clock was out, every message looked the wrong age. It now uses the server’s clock, so the ages are right whatever your device thinks the date is. The full date and time shown when you open a message has not changed. Tip: if anything else in the game ever seems to be running on the wrong day, it is worth checking that your device is set to update its date and time automatically.
🎯 Click to move now lands exactly where you click in the desktop app. Another great catch from Snorrsen. In combat fields, if you were playing in the desktop app, clicking to move put the green marker a little south of where you clicked. It was easiest to spot when clicking right on a grid line. The cause was the app’s title bar. To keep the game clear of it, the app nudges full screen views down slightly, and the combat field was measuring your clicks from the very top of the window rather than from its own edge.
It now measures from its own edge, so the marker lands right under your cursor. Playing in a browser was never affected, and there is nothing to download: the app loads the game fresh each time, so the fix is already there the next time you launch. Thank you Snorrsen, keep them coming! Fly safe, Captains. 🚀
🤖 Drone Experience now goes to drones that do the work. Thanks to Snorrsen, who spotted that Drone Experience could be earned simply by sending drones out and calling them straight back, over and over. Fun for the clicking finger, less fair on everyone training the Drone skill the long way.
Mining drones no longer pay their 5 Drone Experience the moment you deploy them. Instead you get it with the drone’s first hour of mining, on top of the usual 1 Experience per hour it already earns. Leave your drones out as normal and you will not notice any difference at all.
Defence, combat and repair drones in combat fields still pay 2 Drone Experience when you deploy them, but now at most once every 5 minutes for each type. A normal fight is completely unaffected. Nobody loses any Experience they already have. Thank you Snorrsen, honest bug reports like this keep the game fair for everyone.
🛡️ The turret button now tells you exactly what it will deploy. Yes, Snorrsen again! If you carried more than one kind of defence turret, hovering the turret button in a combat field could mislead you. It named one turret but counted every turret you had aboard, so one Sentry and two Lodestones showed as “Sentry Turret Mk1 ×3”. Now the button names the turret a left click will actually send out, the one you have pinned or otherwise the weakest one your Engineering allows, so your best turret is never used by accident, and shows how many of that model you have: Deploy Sentry Turret Mk1 ×1 | 0/2 out To see everything else you are carrying, right click the button as before to choose a model. Thank you Snorrsen, our very own human bug detector!
🧳 Passengers no longer book a trip to where they already are. Thanks to Porrima, who spotted two passengers on Synoliho’s board wanting to travel to… Synoliho. Distance 0.0, fare paid in full.
The cause: when a captain cancelled a passenger, the passenger was put back on a board, but not the one they came from. It picked the first passenger office in whatever system the cancelling captain happened to be in. So a fare for Synoliho, cancelled while in Errat, ended up back on Synoliho’s own board. Every fare put back this way also showed a distance of 0.00.
The fix: a cancelled passenger now goes back to the office where you picked them up, with the real distance shown. For the few older fares that do not remember where they started, they go to another office in the system that is not their destination, and if there is none, the passenger simply heads off on their own. We have also tidied the boards: a handful of these stay-at-home fares were removed, and a few genuine fares that were wrongly showing 0.00 now show their real distance. Thank you Porrima for reporting it rather than running a very short taxi service! Fly safe, Captains. 🚀