VO 1.8.336 includes:- New temporary placeholder "capship" stations in: Itan J11, Dau L10, Sol H13 and Odia M14. These will allow Trident owners to dock with these major capitols. The station configurations will be changing to something more customized to each sector (and nearby hazards, like asteroids), but for the moment they each have the same capship-hangar module, attached to the existing station.- Idle-sector timeout experimentally reduced from 5 minutes to 30 seconds, to potentially reduce server ram usage in high-concurrency situations (very large numbers of players). As we have recently made mines, capships and other content persistent, this change should not have a significant gameplay impact. Note, this is simply the sector-shutdown that occurs after all players have already left a given location.- Experimental "emergency instancing" added to all sectors: if a very large number of players should congregate in a single sector (many hundreds), additional players "jumping in" will be transparently sent to a secondary instance of the same sector, to better distribute load across the server cloud. This will only be an emergency-level tool to help deal with unexpected peak loads of huge numbers of new players (mobile-platform promotions, etc), and we'll be doing updated stress-testing to set it as high as possible. It can be dynamically defined on the server-side, to support very large future player-events, as needed.- Fixes to server-side issues related to players getting stuck at "entering universe" during the login process.Lots of other development work is on-going. Please keep in mind that we intend to expand the number of capship-capable stations to include all "capitols", but that some additional testing and development time is needed to roll things out more broadly. In the meantime, have fun everyone!

VO 1.8.336 includes:- New temporary placeholder "capship" stations in: Itan J11, Dau L10, Sol H13 and Odia M14. These will allow Trident owners to dock with these major capitols. The station configurations will be changing to something more customized to each sector (and nearby hazards, like asteroids), but for the moment they each have the same capship-hangar module, attached to the existing station.- Idle-sector timeout experimentally reduced from 5 minutes to 30 seconds, to potentially reduce server ram usage in high-concurrency situations (very large numbers of players). As we have recently made mines, capships and other content persistent, this change should not have a significant gameplay impact. Note, this is simply the sector-shutdown that occurs after all players have already left a given location.- Experimental "emergency instancing" added to all sectors: if a very large number of players should congregate in a single sector (many hundreds), additional players "jumping in" will be transparently sent to a secondary instance of the same sector, to better distribute load across the server cloud. This will only be an emergency-level tool to help deal with unexpected peak loads of huge numbers of new players (mobile-platform promotions, etc), and we'll be doing updated stress-testing to set it as high as possible. It can be dynamically defined on the server-side, to support very large future player-events, as needed.- Fixes to server-side issues related to players getting stuck at "entering universe" during the login process.Lots of other development work is on-going. Please keep in mind that we intend to expand the number of capship-capable stations to include all "capitols", but that some additional testing and development time is needed to roll things out more broadly. In the meantime, have fun everyone!

VO 1.8.335 includes:- PowerCell Blaster has been buffed to 215 velocity, 8 energy per shot, 60 drain.- We are now accepting Character Nation Change requests again. Once per character, per lifetime, submitted by Support Ticket. The character inventory will be WIPED (ships, items), but credits and stats will remain. Be sure to sell your character's inventory before requesting a Nation Change.- We are in the process of moving to a much more robust and distributed patch-update architecture. However, the transition may continue to have some bumps as we discover and resolve issues. Please be patient with any connection delays.- Updated the secure-HTTP connection functionality of the Android version, and added it to all other platforms and versions. Will help enable future game features.- Training Sector Beam Cannon defenses have been significantly buffed, to reduce threats to newbies by more advanced player capships.- Fixed issue with application full-screen interface on pre-4.4 Android devices.One of the bigger additions here is the ability to do administrative nation changes, once again. This required adding some custom functionality to our admin toolset, so hand-editing of character is no longer needed. However, please heed the above warnings.. the character's inventory is wiped, so be prepared to lose all items/ships when you change nations.Please continue to report any problems or delays with the game update server, on the Bugs Forums. Thanks much!

VO 1.8.335 includes:- PowerCell Blaster has been buffed to 215 velocity, 8 energy per shot, 60 drain.- We are now accepting Character Nation Change requests again. Once per character, per lifetime, submitted by Support Ticket. The character inventory will be WIPED (ships, items), but credits and stats will remain. Be sure to sell your character's inventory before requesting a Nation Change.- We are in the process of moving to a much more robust and distributed patch-update architecture. However, the transition may continue to have some bumps as we discover and resolve issues. Please be patient with any connection delays.- Updated the secure-HTTP connection functionality of the Android version, and added it to all other platforms and versions. Will help enable future game features.- Training Sector Beam Cannon defenses have been significantly buffed, to reduce threats to newbies by more advanced player capships.- Fixed issue with application full-screen interface on pre-4.4 Android devices.One of the bigger additions here is the ability to do administrative nation changes, once again. This required adding some custom functionality to our admin toolset, so hand-editing of character is no longer needed. However, please heed the above warnings.. the character's inventory is wiped, so be prepared to lose all items/ships when you change nations.Please continue to report any problems or delays with the game update server, on the Bugs Forums. Thanks much!