Hey guys, these are the patch notes for the upcoming update! We'll set the update live on the beta branch during the next 16 hours. PLEASE NOTE: The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. Use at your own risk! WARNING: The current version is INCOMPATIBLE with your latest save files. WE WILL ADD BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY to existing saves during the week to ensure that you can use your old saves. You will be able to use your old saves once the update is live on the default branch. These are preliminary patchnotes and might not contain all changes that will have been made once the update will be live on the default branch.

Alliances

Players can now found alliances
Invite other players to join your alliance
Alliances work like their own factions: They have money, resources and an inventory
Players can be assigned ranks, defining permissions in the alliance
All alliance members are visible to all other alliance members on the map
Alliance members share all information on the galaxy map
When flying an alliance ship, the player does everything he does in the name of his alliance

Co-Op Flying

Alliance ships can now be flown by multiple players
Added seat management for crafts to manage who is able to do what (steering, firing, etc)

Out-of-sector simulation

"We'll be adding some more means for better control of which sectors will actually get updated on multiplayer servers. For now, sectors with lots of stuff will have a higher priority."

Sectors with player and alliance content are updated while the player is not inside the sector
Default amount of updated sectors per player on multiplayer is 6 (the sector the player is in, plus 5)

This value can be configured in the server.ini settings and will be a lot higher for singleplayer

If a player has property in more than 6 sectors, this happens:

Each sector will have a priority score
The 5 sectors with the highest scores will be updated
The score in the sectors is 3 for each player station, plus 1 for each player ship

Steam Workshop

Steam Workshop integration for ship and station models is complete
Saved ship plans can now be uploaded to the Steam Workshop
Subscribe to ship plans on the Steam Workshop

Gameplay

Added a new flight recorder block

Flight recorders will mark the death location of the ship on the map
Flight recorders will only work if they're *still on the ship* when the ship is destroyed

Trading posts always have dedicated cargo storage
Added licenses for stolen, dangerous and illegal cargo transportation
Added multiple mirror planes in building mode
Removed randomized building mode
Implemented whole ship modification

Scaling entire ships
Upgrading the material of entire ships
Rotating entire ships

Added selective block modification

All but one material or block type are faded out

Added a search field on the galaxy map
Turret factories sell a random, more expensive selection of the goods they require for building turrets
New Turret: Pulse Cannon

Pulse Cannons shoot ionized projectiles that have a very high chance of penetrating shields

Added respawning of resource-asteroids in sectors with large asteroid fields (will only be in effect for new sectors)

Balancing

"We're currently working on making shields less powerful, and one of the means to do that will be adding more weapons that are strong against shields, such as pulse cannons. But we also felt that plasma cannons didn't have the impact on shields that they were supposed to have, so we upped their damage to shields."

Doubled shield damage of plasma guns

Client

Reduced darkness of window shadows
Added a setting for limiting FPS
Improved rendering performance in sectors with lots of wreckages

UI

Improved performance of inventory grid displayers
Added filtering for inventory grid displayers
Added favoriting of inventory items with right mouse
Added marking of inventory items as trash with right mouse
Tooltips are only drawn when mouse is not obstructed by other windows
Improved borders of inventory items
Added loading screen tips for various new features
Added a button to sell all trash immediately
Added chat message channels for sector, group, everybody (default) and alliance
Added display of relative or total costs to saved ships window
Improved handling of multiline text boxes
Added a key for toggling strategy mode (default: F9)
Added an option to disable toggling of strategy mode by zooming
Added various tips about new or old features to the loading screen help
Gate connections now have a different color than wormholes on the map
Added a message when changing control scheme
Improved german translation
Added a textbox to quickly transfer lots of cargo and crew

Server

"Most important changes here: Better performance on the server (memory and runtime) and improved savegame security."

Crafts that were destroyed through database corruptions can be restored
Players can be moved to other sectors, including ships (just rename the files if the names clash)
Player & Alliance files are saved redundantly to avoid loss of data on file corruptions
Improved performance when players log in
Improved overall networking performance
Improved overall memory performance using lazy initialization of collision data
Improved performance of traders in sectors without players
Added detailed output about script memory usage to /status command
Sector content is now compressed before being sent, reducing traffic when changing sectors by 70%
Server files are now compressed
Implemented whitelisting of steam groups

There's a separate file group-whitelist.txt in the server folder where you can add 64bit steam group ids that should be whitelisted

Scripting API

Entity IDs are now 128bit UUIDs
Script memory footprint reduced

Scripts that are attached to the same object are loaded into the same lua VM, if possible, to reduce redundant data
Added namespaces so scripts can be distinguished from each other and to avoid name collisions and functions getting overridden
Scripts that have DIFFERENT namespaces will be loaded into the SAME lua VM, since name collisions aren't expected to happen
Scripts that share the SAME namespace will be loaded into DIFFERENT lua VMs
Scripts that have a namespace must have a comment '-- namespace NAMESPACE' where NAMESPACE is the script's namespace
Scripts that have a namespace must have a namespace table with the same name as stated in the namespace comment
Scripts that have a namespace comment must prefix all non-local functions and variables with their Namespace table (see scripts for more details on this)
Scripts that have no namespace comment statement will always be loaded into different VMs (which is exactly the old model)
It is STRONGLY recommended to modders that they rework their scripts to use namespaces to save memory performance!

Lua VMs aren't set to invalid after a normal error, but still on fatal errors (exceptions)
[Documentation] Fixed methods of inherited script classes not showing up in completion docs
[Documentation] Fixed broken base classes when base gets a [client] or [server] extension
CheckBox can be enabled and disabled
CheckBox can be configured to have its box on the left or right side
TextBox can have a background text
Added a VanillaInventoryItem item that can be used for scripting inventory items
Fixed an issue with infinite recursion in printTable()
Added a PlanSelectionItem item that can be used in selection grids to display BlockPlans
Added functions to access all plans that are saved locally or downloaded via the Steam Workshop
Added Timer and Profiler classes
Implemented API for async script calls [while theoretically functional, still highly experimental]

Misc

Several small performance improvements all over the place
Improved logging
Reduced size of ship .xml files
Player is placed in last craft upon login

Bugfixes

"As usual, user bug reports are marked with [UBR]. Thanks everybody for helping with the game!"

[UBR] Fixed extreme loading times due to too many inventory items
[UBR] Fixed a crash that occurred often during instanced rendering (asteroids and such)
[UBR] Fixed overflow of resources and money

Resources and money are now 64bit integers, meaning they can go up to 9.223.372.036.854.775.808
Overflowing is no longer possible

Fixed player being placed in his drone on use of /teleport command
[UBR] Fixed space bar not working sometimes in loading screen
[UBR] Fixed a hang when holo blocks decay due to missing repair crew
Fixed a (rare) player duplication issue
Fixed a crash when destroying/deleting a station
Fixed a crash when loading corrupt scripting values file
Fixed trading posts not having any cargo storage
Fixed a crash when loading an object with a script where the script file disappeared
[UBR] Fixed smuggler's market not working when too many stolen goods are on the ship
[UBR] Fixed a crash in patrol AI
[UBR] Fixed a crash in loading screen
[UBR] Fixed a crash when exiting the game while in strategy mode
[UBR] Fixed a crash when loading templates.xml
Fixed ships by faction on map not being saved/loaded correctly
[UBR] Fixed quick menu buttons being clickable through the building inventory
[UBR] Fixed keyboard and mouse up events not being registered in loading screens
[UBR] StructuralIntegrity effect is now always visible on the correct ship
Fixed translation of EnergyConsumer names
Fixed mining systems always showing asteroids for all players in a sector

Known Issues

"Some things that still need fixing, that didn't make it into the update. They will be fixed during next week."

Alliance sectors not being shared correctly on the map
Notifications for picking up items for alliances

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Avorion
Boxelware

Developer

Boxelware

Publisher

2020-03-09

Release

Indie Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop

Combat

Equip your ship with chainguns, lasers and other weaponry to take on your enemies and enjoy the sight of completely destructible ships breaking at the exact points where you hit them. Defend your allies from pirates, hunt down enemies for coin or even participate in wars between entire factions. Build hangars and command squads of fighters in your battles or destroy enemy freighters to steal their cargo.

Explore

Fly through beautiful nebulas and dense asteroid fields in search of hidden treasures and meet the many factions that populate and control their portion of the galaxy. Each faction has its own characteristics, such as peaceful, intelligent or aggressive, and has its own ship styles, meaning their ships and stations have a distinct look.

Explore the galaxy at your own pace to find valuable goods in old ship wreckages, undiscovered asteroid fields rich of resources, unchartered asteroids which you can claim for yourself, or clues as to what happened during the event a few hundred years back.

Build Your Fleet

There are no limits to ship size or complexity besides your resources. You're not bound to the standard voxel style and while building an awesome ship in Avorion you won't get lost in lots and lots of micro-management. You can focus on building a great looking ship, without having too much trouble to make it work. But make sure you still keep an eye on your ship’s maneuverability or energy requirements. Adjust your ships perfectly to their operational purpose by building light and agile or heavily armored ships.

Build specialized transport ships with lots of cargo space or heavily armored battleships with strong shields. Collect loot from defeated foes which you can use to upgrade your ship: New turrets, resources, trading goods or system upgrades. Install system upgrades that allow more weapons, ease asteroid mining or trading systems which detect trading routes over multiple sectors.

And why build only one ship? Hire captains to fly your ships for you, manage your crews, weapons, hangars and fighters and build your own fleet of space ships!

Trade

Extend your ship with a cargo bay, find profitable deals and haul over a hundred trading goods through the galaxy to make a profit and buy your way up the food chain: Build up a trading corporation and extend your influence in the galaxy by founding asteroid mines and factories that attract NPC traders who will buy and sell their goods at your establishments.

Co-op Multiplayer

You don't have to fight the galaxy alone! Avorion features co-op multiplayer, so team up with your friends to build stations together and destroy pirates and enemy factions! Work together to extend your influence in the galaxy and build your own empire. Or, you know, blow them apart in large PvP battles. It's a sandbox, you can do whatever you want.

In Avorion you choose your personal playstyle. Haul cargo, find profitable trading routes and found factories. Or maybe you're sick of being the good guy? Build your own battleship, equip it with powerful weaponry and blow away your enemies. Be the aggressor that starts wars with entire factions, raid freighters, smuggle illegal goods and scavenge old wreckages. Find your way to the center of a galaxy that gets more hostile, but also more rewarding the closer you get to its core.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Processor: Intel i5 @ 3.0 GHz or AMD equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 550 or equivalent (full OpenGL 3.0 support required)Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Middle mouse button. mouse wheel required. No Internet connection required for Singleplayer.
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Processor: Intel i7 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD equivalentMemory: 6 GB RAM
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia Geforce 1050 / Radeon RX 460Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Middle mouse button. mouse wheel required. No Internet connection required for Singleplayer.

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