Beta Branch Update 0.29 - Economy Difficulty

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'.

Existing Saves

"IMPORTANT: This concerns existing saves! The galaxy generation algorithms have changed and sectors visited BEFORE the update still have the factories of the old algorithms. This means that the supply/demand prediction will mismatch around those sectors. You can fix this easily by simply visiting those sectors. Their factories will be updated into the galactic trade network and supply/demand prediction around them will correct itself. But, if you've been thinking about starting a new playthrough anyways, now would be a good time."

Technical Background

"In order to make these changes happen, we had to do some major restructuring of the procedural generation algorithms. We are now able to reliably predict most of the content of a sector, without having to generate it (thus saving a lot of performance). This is probably mostly important for modders, but it's going to help us a lot with development in the future. Yay!"

Implemented reliable prediction of what will be generated in a specific sector
Implemented reliable prediction of which productions (and thus factories) there will be in a specific sector

Economy

"We revamped the economy so that factories create a perceptible supply and demand. This supply and demand is regional and will directly influence the prices of goods. High demand -> low prices and vice versa. Most importantly: You can influence this by founding or destroying factories!"

Factories create a supply and demand area of 25 sectors around them for the goods they require and produce
Consumers create a (less strong) demand area for the goods they buy
Sellers create a (less strong) supply area for the goods they sell
Supply and demand influences the prices of goods

When supply is high, prices drop
When demand is high, prices rise
Impact of a factory on supply/demand doesn't influence their own prices

Added querying of supply and demand to Trading System Upgrade (details: see below)
Supply and demand rates influence the prices of all stations in a sector
Founding (or destroying, hehe) a factory or mine will impact supply and demand (and thus prices) of nearby sectors
Added tags to goods: Basic, Industrial, Technology, Military, Consumer
Added specialized regions where mostly Industrial, Technology, Military, Consumer goods are produced
Added specialized sectors that produce only a single good to mix up supply and demand
Trading Posts no longer buy a random range of goods, but instead a sample of goods that are being traded in the nearby vicinity

Goods that are traded a lot (high supply and demand) have a higher chance to appear in a Trading Post
Trading Posts now both buy and sell the same goods

Added a turret factory supplier station that sells turret parts

Balancing

"With the prices of goods being influenced by supply and demand, we want to shift balance more towards that and away from the randomness that it was before. We also made some changes to some goods and how and where they're available to enable a healthy economy."

Changed the range of goods that consumer stations buy to create a more reliable supply & demand
Reduced factory lowest and highest personal, random price factors (+/-30% to +/-10%)
Reduced influence of relations on trading good prices (15% to 5%)
Trading good prices are now dependent on supply and demand in surrouding regions (+/-30%)
Prices are now influenced as follows:

Stock: -10% to +10%, full vs. empty
Relations: 0% to +/-5%, neutral vs. allied (plus/minus in favor of player)
Relations: +/-90% to 0%, hostile vs. neutral (plus/minus not in favor of player)
Supply Demand: -30% to +30%, depending on high demand/supply (high supply: prices drop, high demand: prices rise)
Factory Base Price: -10% to +10% (random for AI factions, configurable for player)

Factory base price influences the general price range of your factory (buy AND sell prices)
Factory base price influences the amount of buying/selling traders that will visit your station

High base price: More traders that sell at your station, Low base price: More traders that buy at your station
Note: The base price mechanic was not changed, it's just listed for the sake of clarity

Increased size of Energy Cell to 1.0 (from 0.5)
Decreased size of Water (1 to 0.35)
Reduced amount of Energy Cells produced in a single batch (40 to 25)
Reduced randomness of turrets and upgrades
Force turrets now vary less in power and scale with tech (can now be up to 5x as strong as before)
Reduced price of Shield Reinforcer and Transporter Software
Increased loot dropped by big pirate ships
Increased time between headhunter spawns

Difficulty Changes

"We're changing the difficulty settings. We got a lot of feedback telling us that the game is too easy, and we saw that the current 'Insane' difficulty is actually more of an 'Expert' mode. At the same time we know that we have a few difficulties that seem arbitrary. We're fixing this now. Please note that a lot of these changes are still experimental, and we will adjust them based on community feedback."

Renamed "Difficult" to "Expert", "Hard" to "Hardcore"
"Expert" is going to be the same as the current "Insane" difficulty
Adjusted AI ship damage reduction (which is there to make one-to-many-ships combat more fair and fun):

Beginner: Damage Reduction remains at 97.5%
Easy: Reduction down (92.5% to 90%)
Normal: Reduction down (80% to 70%)
Veteran: Reduction down (60% to 40%)
Expert, Hardcore, Insane: No more reduction

Normal & Below:

Protection against too bad initial relations with immediate neighbors
Ship blocks are protected from breaking off as long as the ship's total HP are above a certain threshold
No breaking until ship reaches HP: Veteran: 80%, Normal: 40%, Easy: 20%, Beginner: 0%

Veteran & Up

Meaner Enemies: Enemies will take more advantage of long range weapons (should they have any)
Increasingly improved chance to get a better loot drop rarity

Expert & Up

Mean Enemies: Enemies will take full advantage of long range weapons (should they have any) and stay at a distance if they can
Other factions will have increasingly worse initial relations to the player
Your own ship's blocks can break immediately on hit, not just after its health going below a certain threshold

Hardcore & Insane

Perma-Destruction: No Reconstruction Tokens, no Insurance. Once your ship was destroyed, it's gone for good - including upgrades & turrets
Once you switched down from Hardcore or Insane, going back up is no longer possible

Added detailed explanations in menus about the exact impact of the various difficulty levels
Game difficulty is adjusted on first load, to avoid unpleasant surprises

Trading System Upgrade

"This thing just gained a lot more meaning. Use it to view a sector's supply and demand and find good locations to found your factories!"

A Trading System of Exceptional or higher can query local supply, demand and prices of goods from the galactic trade network

Exceptional: Query supply and demand in current sector
Exotic: Query supply and demand of nearby 15 sectors (visible on Galaxy Map)
Legendary: Query supply and demand of nearby 25 sectors (visible on Galaxy Map)

When using an Exotic or Legendary Upgrade, you get new UI elements on the Galaxy Map
Prices can be viewed as a coloring of nearby sectors from cold (-30%) to hot (+30%)
Supply and demand can be viewed as a coloring of nearby sectors from cold (high demand) to hot (high supply)
Improved tooltips of Trading System Upgrade
Added a detailed supply/demand overview tab for current sector

Factory Configuration UI

"This menu definitely needed some love. You can now see a detailed overview of what's going on, and how much money it already made (or burned)."

Reworked layout of Configuration UI
Renamed "Price Margin" slider to "Base Price" as that's what it actually does
Added an exact outline about the factories' production, including all goods and parallel productions
Added overview about influence on prices through nearby supply/demand
Added overview about money gained/invested by the factory
Added many tooltips for better clarity

Sector Maps

"This is a feature we have long wanted and it basically came for free with the reliable prediction of sectors. Enjoy!"

You can now buy maps of a faction's territory at their Equipment Docks
There are maps for a single quadrant of a faction's territory or their entire territory (allies only)
Traveler's Quadrant Map: Reveals gate connections in the faction quadrant
Explorer's Quadrant Map: Reveals faction sectors in the faction quadrant
Faction Quadrant Map: Reveals all sectors, including stations in the faction quadrant
Faction Territory Map: Reveals all sectors, including stations in the entire faction territory

UI

"Upgrades now stack, we removed the $ sign for the sign (because - redits), and made some smaller adjustments & improvements to the UI."

System upgrades can now be stacked in inventory
Added the ability to highlight supply & demand and price devitations on Galaxy Map
Replaced textual occurrences of "Credits" and "$" with the "" character
Renamed "Organize Goods" mini-mission to more correct "Procure Goods"
Loading Screen: Added new hints and reworked hints to fit new economy system
Implemented scrolling by typing in ComboBoxes
General improvements to trading UI formatting
Trading goods are now sorted alphabetically in UI
Increased icon size of useable items and vanilla items
Sorting by rarity no longer separates upgrades and turrets from each other
Reduced size of top-right buttons
Buttons added via script are now highlighted until they're mouseovered
Ships Tab is now sorted by Entity Type (Station vs. Ship)
Added warning message when player sells his ship at scrapyard
Player is now moved into drone before their ship is sold at scrapyard
Added a server-global message when Wormhole Guardian respawns

Scripting API

[Server:]set/getGlobal() functions now support tables
Moved several sector scripts to a new "sector/background/" folder
Added more tags to civil ships to distinguish freighters, miners and traders
Renamed global function "getSectorSeed" to "SectorSeed"
Renamed global function "getGameSeed" to "GameSeed"
GameSettings: Added permaDestructionEnabled property
GalaxyMap: Added new properties to control visualization
GalaxyMap: Added a new custom color layer for showing custom colors
Rect: Added a "center" property
Increased the amount of async lua worker threads to 4
Renamed "onEntityCreate" sector callback to "onEntityCreated"
SectorView: Extended API a lot
GameInput: Added various functions for key pressing/releasing checks
Rarity: Added a "type" property
Galaxy: Added aiFactionExists() allianceExists() playerExists() functions
Galaxy: Server-Global Scripts can now be added to Galaxy

This moves data/scripts/server/server.lua to data/scripts/galaxy/server.lua

Added some docs to init.lua scripts
Added docs for callbacks still happening after callbacks were unregistered

Server

Adjusted warning message when scripts can no longer be found to not confuse players with minor errors

Bugfixes

"As always, bug fixes marked with [UBR] stem from bug reports we got from users. Thank you so much for helping and keep it up! :)"

Corrected "Aluminium" to "Aluminum"
Corrected "Silicium" to "Silicon"
Fixed an issue where Oil Rigs would not count as mines
Fixed an issue where Mineral Extractors would be counted as mines
Fixed an issue where "Petty" rarity fighters and turrets were displayed as "Common"
Fixed an issue where cargo and crew shuttles were displayed with "Petty" rarity
Fixed several issues with factories not buying/selling from your own ships when buy/sell from others is unchecked
[UBR] Fixed several issues with AI ships docking
[UBR] Fixed an issue where relations of a faction to itself were changeable
[UBR] Fixed an issue where Docks were highlighted for docking when inside station
[UBR] Fixed an issue with head hunter attacks happening in neutral zones
[UBR] Improved behavior of scrapyard reputation loss when fighting in a scrapyard sector and hitting the just-destroyed ship
[UBR] Fixed an issue where there were smuggling controls while in your own sector
[UBR] Pirates no longer attack their own sectors
[UBR] Fixed an issue where Fighter AI doesn't attack newly turned hostile entities (i.e. Xsotan) when on defend
[UBR] Improved behavior of player-owned, AI-piloted ships firing torpedoes
[UBR] Fixed an issue where inventory selections flickered when hovering recent items
Fixed some issues with wording of several texts
Fixed some hangs in server during script callbacks

[ 2019-11-20 10:30:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

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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