✨ Improvement
The Galactic Exchange Gets Its Market Icon Back
The Galactic Exchange button on the bottom bar now shows the green market graph the old Galactic Buyers Market used to wear. The Exchange is still the game’s item database, but for most captains it is first and foremost the place to buy and sell, the trading heart of the galaxy, so a database icon never quite said what the button is for.
⚖️ Balance Change
Pirate Base Salvage Follows the Law
What your salvage lasers strip from a felled pirate base now depends on how dangerous that base was. Safer bases give up everyday goods, while the toughest bases are the only place the more valuable salvage turns up. The amount was already larger at tougher bases, so a hard base is now worth more in both ways. Thanks to Orge Snorrsen for spotting that something did not add up.
🚀 New Feature
Keep Salvage Drones Off Pirate Bases
A new setting in your Account panel, beside Tabbed Drone Panels, decides whether your salvage drones work a destroyed pirate base. It is on by default, so nothing changes unless you choose. Turn it off and your drones stay on the ship wrecks, leaving the base for your salvage lasers. You can also flip it in the field: right click your salvage drone icon and use the Base switch at the bottom of the drone list. Thanks to Orge Snorrsen for the suggestion.
🔧 Bug Fix
Stripped Pirate Bases Now Always Clear Away
A pirate base you have destroyed and stripped of salvage is meant to vanish once everyone has left. If the server restarted while a stripped base was still open, it could forget the base had been stripped and leave it standing for good. It now remembers, so the site clears away as soon as the last captain leaves. Thanks to Orge Snorrsen for the report.