The economy update is almost ready and available on the beta branch! In this patch, we've reworked factories, stations and a lot of things that have to do with economy. Our modding community will also probably be happy about the extensive updates to the script API, as well as its documentation! Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.

Gameplay

"Mostly quality of life changes, nothing too impressive. Crew is more predictable, so for example at mines you will find miners, while military stations will always host generals and other officers."

Predictable Crew: Hireable crew is more dependent on the type of station
Event: Resource Depots request delivery of a specific resource
Player ships can now be transferred to the alliance (no taksies backsies though!)
Added trading between players

Players can now trade money, resources, items and relation improvements

AI trading ships are now pulled towards/pushed away from docks with a tractor beam
AI trading ships avoid occupied docks
When an AI ship crashes into a still-standing player station, no damage is done and no relation changes will happen
Fulfilling delivery missions now improves relations

Economy

"In order to make stations more profitable, we reworked several things about them, like cheaper upkeep costs and enchaining possibilities."

Added cargo shuttle "fighters"

Cargo shuttles can be bought at equipment docks
Custom cargo shuttles can be built at a fighter factory

Factories can now be configured to send out cargo shuttles to sell or buy goods from other stations
Factories can be configured to request traders when they are full or run out of ingredients
Factory production time is influenced by value of the production and the production capacity
Factory station extensions now add production blocks
Rebalanced several goods and production chains to avoid completely over/underpowered factories
Crew payment is now only a third of what it used to be, matches with shown pay now
More secure stations

Stations require less repair crew
Station crew payment reduced by 75%

Station Building

Players can now found the following stations:

Biotope
Casino
Habitat
Equipment Dock
Fighter Factory
Research Station
Resource Depot
Smuggler's Market
Trading Post
Turret Factory
Military Outpost
Shipyard
Repair Dock

Station owners get a percentage of the money transactions of most stations, as well as cheaper prices

UI

Added tooltips to mission exclamation marks on the galaxy map
Added an icon to show when bulletin boards have missions
Improved names of stations in delivery missions
Fighters that are unable to land make an error message pop up at the top of the screen
Energy usage of energy weapons is now also visible when they're not firing
Automatically create new squad if there is no free slot when transfering fighters

If there is a free slot in a non-adjacent squad it is used first

Added description of relations to sector-controlling faction to galaxy map tooltip
Lost fighters without motherships can now be collected by other ships of the same faction
Added a hint for rearranging energy system priorities
Ambient (economy) payments that happen in another sector as the player is in aren't shown as notifications
Ambient (economy) relation changes that happen in another sector as the player is in aren't shown as notifications
Reworked chat window

Added filters for different channels
Added a scroll bar for the last few hundred messages

Removed own playername from dropdown menu when writing an email
Items marked as "trash" are now at the end inventory lists
Improved visibility of the trash icon
Trading routes are detected when both stations sell/buy for 0 credits

This is important for trading routes between player owned stations

Added a warning when a new key binding is already bound to another key
Removed a few outdated hints

Client

"With this patch, we've reworked a lot of the window and graphics code to make the game behave better on more platforms. If there are any issues coming up, please tell us, so that we can fix them."

Improved printing of GL errors
Added new MessageBoxes that work on Linux as well
Added a check for crashes at startup
Improved compatibility for older GPUs
Added lots of new loading screen tips
Added some Sci-Fi and actual science trivia to loading screen tips
Improved full-screen resolutions for computers with multiple, varying size displays
Improved handling mouse and windows for computers with UI scaling enabled
Improved networkd and client performance when removing multiple blocks

Server

Fixed an issue where /run would command not work with normal statements
Added a devMode setting to server.ini

Fighter minimum production limit is 5 seconds instead of 60
No hyperspace restrictions
entitydbg.lua script is attached by default to nearly all entities
Scripts can be refreshed with F5, Ctrl-F5 and Shift-F5

PvP Server Config Options

"While we'll probably never balance the game around PvP, we want to give players the opportunity to set some ground rules for servers that allow PvP."

Added a value to server.ini to restrict the maximum amount of blocks for player crafts
Added values to server.ini to restrict the maximum amount of volume for player ships and stations
Added values to server.ini to restrict the maximum amount of player ships and stations

Misc

Improved accuracy of fighter-to-station distance calculation
Added some minor bugs
When a player-owned, but non-player controlled entity jumps into another non-loaded sector, the sector is now loaded from disk or generated

Script API

"The Scripting Documentation has been massively improved with this update. Parameter names and return types are now correctly displayed where possible, and we added extensive documentation on how the predefined functions for entity, sector and other scripts work."

Massively improved generated Documentation

Parameter names are added correctly
Return value types are added correctly
Added documentation for predefined scripts and their available functions

Added a setCheckedNoCallback() function to CheckBox
Added a setValueNoCallback() function and a setPositionNoCallback() function to Slider
Added ValueComboBox class that can save key-value pairs
FighterAI generates script-readable feedback about what it currently does
Added a function startFighter() to start a single fighter
Added a new AI state to make a fighter fly to a specific location
FighterType of FighterTemplate is now accessible
Added entity and entityId properties to Components
entitydbg.lua can now spawn and transform factories
Added checks to FighterController if a fighter can start
Added a StartError enum
Added reference to Owner component
Added Hangar and Fighter script callbacks
Added a flag to Hangar to check if it's currently producing
Added a BlockStatistics class
Added Assembly, BlackBox and Gyro BlockType enum values
Added a Hangar():clear() function
Added a Selection.entriesHighlightable property
Components can now be constructed with a string, similar to Entity, or with their Entity
Removed payMoney() and receiveMoney() functions since they can be replaced with pay() and receive() without issues
pay() and receive() now allow an optional string as first argument that can be used as description for the transaction
Added a Format class that can be used for translatable money transaction descriptions
Added reference to DockingPositions component
Matrix now supports in-place transformation of vectors (less allocations, better performance)
ShipProblems HUD is now accessible through scripts
Fixed some default components being missing to entities created via Sector():createObject()
Fixed wrong documentation in several callbacks
getMissionLocation() can now return more than 2 coordinate values

See documentation for details

Added a class GameSettings() for access to the server and game settings
Added properties to access the ships and stations of a player or alliance

Parallel Entity Script Execution

"We've finally finished our parallel scripting interface. We're using 2 new functions for updating entities in a sector in parallel, but due to the nature of parallel computing and race conditions, access to other objects has to be limited."

Added several ReadOnlyXXX classes
Added an updateParallelRead() Entity script function

This function will be updated in parallel with other functions of the same name
In this function, access to all entities is granted, but only through ReadOnly classes

Added an updateParallelSelf() Entity script function

This function will be updated in parallel with other functions of the same name
In this function, only access to the own entity and the ReadOnlySector() is allowed

In the above functions, access to all other classes, such as Galaxy(), Server() etc. remains as it was already
updateParallelRead() is executed before updateParallelSelf()

Bugfixes

"As usual, user bug reports are marked with [UBR]. Thanks everybody for using the bugtracker and forums to report issues!"

[UBR] Fixed an issue where repair beams were not penetrating shields
[UBR] Fixed an issue where shield damage updates would cause lots of network traffic
[UBR] Fixed an issue where almost broken shields would dampen hits if multiple shots hit it in the same frame
[UBR] Fixed an issue where wreckage pieces that are part of a wreckage sector are cleaned up
[UBR] Fixed an issue where fighters would slow down a lot when returning to the mothership
[UBR] Fixed an issue causing sliders in crew board UI showing non-integer numbers
Fixed lots of GL/graphics/display issues
[UBR] Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to fully repair ships
[UBR] Fixed object detector not detecting Exodus mission beacons
[UBR] Fixed insurance mails being sent for 0 credits
[UBR] Fixed craft stats showing number of members instead of workforce
[UBR] Fixed quickmenu tooltip showing the wrong keyboard shortcut for mail
[UBR] Fixed an issue where alliance notifications would sometimes not be recognized as already there, leading to notification spam
[UBR] Fixed an issue where fighters weren't able to land when no player was in the sector
Fixed an issue where /run would command not work with normal statements
Fixed an issue where mail window would create unnecessary network traffic
Fixed exploit in turret factory
[UBR] Military outpost has a welcome text as well now
Fixed an issue where some freighters had no engines
Fixed an issue where alliance ships would not be able to be controlled by anti-smuggling patrols

Known issues

"These are some known issues that we will be fixing while the update is on the beta branch. There are several more, but these are the most prominent ones or ones that have been introduced with this update."

Cheaper prices for player-owned stations aren't yet shown to owner, but this is only a UI issue, the owner actually gets cheaper prices already
No client filesystem scripting API
Hangar landing areas must stick out of the bounding box of the ship/station for fighters to be able to land
AI Traders don't respect the price ratio of custom factories yet
Relations to players can't be lowered through a menu yet

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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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