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'.

"We had a few issues with PDCs being way stronger during the early game than intended, so we changed their damage type to the same as anti-fighter cannons, leaving their specialty of destroying torpedoes and fighters intact, but reducing the damage to everything else."

• PDCs now deal fragment damage, ie. more damage to torpedoes + fighters, less damage to other things
• This only affects new PDCs
• Damage to torpedoes and fighters remains the same
• Damage to other things is decreased to 10%
• Persecutors no longer spawn in sectors with alliance or player ships that wouldn't trigger the spawn by themselves
• Scaled down damage of used turrets in fighter factory based on their slots

"Improved visuals to better display torpedoes, so you know where they come or came from and what exactly hit you."

• Added a torpedo engine tail
• Tail has the same color as the warhead to show which torpedo is coming

"Mostly convenience things, and we also added a way to change the ingame difficulty without you having to edit .ini files."

• Turrets no longer lose their favorite or trash marker when built onto a ship
• Added a combo box for the ingame game menu to change difficulty
• Only in singleplayer or when you have the correct permissions on the server
• Added borders to dropdown menus of UIComboBox
• Added a pause key

• Added more debug info on exception in workpool thread

• Added a /difficulty command to change the difficulty of the server

"As always, user bug reports are marked with [UBR]. Thanks guys for reporting and helping us make the game better! Keep it up!"

• [UBR] Fixed an issue that caused one-way gates
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where the order of stations in the station founder gui wasn't stable
• Fixed an error in german translation
• Fixed several client-sided crashes
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where wreckages in a stationwreckage sector had an active deletion timer
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where travelling merchants had the civil-ship icon instead of their specific trading one
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where bonus stats in a turret factory would change when transferring it to the alliance

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'.

"We realized that you might also want to manage your alliance ships and stations, so now you can switch sectors to those as well. Being shot down and sent all the way back while playing coop was also a real bummer, especially when your group members survived, so we added a way to continue playing together even if one of you gets destroyed."

• Players can now switch sectors to alliance ships
• Players can now switch sectors to sectors with their *online* group members

"Persecutors are really harsh for new players and were designed with experienced players in mind, from whom the feedback has been very good so far. However, they can be very punishing without any announcement, so we tuned them down a little for the 'Easy' and 'Normal' difficulties. They behave the exact same way as they did before for 'Veteran'+ difficulties."

• AI torpedoes are slower on lower difficulties
• Reduced one-shot potential of AI torpedoes against player & alliance ships on "Normal" & lower difficulties
• Persecutors spawn less often on "Easy" and "Normal" difficulty
• Persecutors spawn more further inwards to the core on "Easy" and "Normal" difficulty
• Persecutors don't follow players on "Easy" difficulty
• Adjusted balancing of loot-range boosters
• Lower energy, better scaling with rarity, lower price per range
• Changed name of loot-range boosters to something a little more immersive

• GameSettings class is now available on both client and server
• Difficulty enum is now available on both client and server

"We've been getting reports about crashes, so in order to ease future bughunts we've added a lot more thread-related debug output."

• Added more debug logging output
• Threads print out what they were last doing on crash and where (sector)
• Threads print out when they're started and stopped
• Chat window now prints messages to the console

"User bug reports are, as always, marked with [UBR]. Thank you everybody who helped and reported, keep it up!"

• [UBR] Fixed a rare crash when an object was moving and changing its bounding sphere (we've been looking for this one for a while, thanks to the Rusty Server Crew for helping us!)
• [UBR] Fixed non-existing ship styles at alliance shipyards
• Note: This only affects new alliances
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where damage of enemies could become infinity
• Torpedoes no longer have shield penetration when they detonate due to a miss

With the last patch we've introduced a mechanic with which we wanted to make salvaging more interesting, but instead it created a whole array of new problems.

We wanted Salvaging Lasers to do less damage to blocks to be a way of making players salvage the correct blocks, to show you immediately that some blocks are not worth salvaging and thus not worth your time. The damage decrease was also meant to give you immediate feedback on the rates of blocks, but instead it crippled salvaging-specialized ships. We also didn't think of AI salvagers and salvaging fighters while implementing this change. This is on us, and one of the biggest reasons why we're releasing this patch.

I'd also like to clarify a few misconceptions that we've seen in the comments and posts around here.

• We never changed the drop rates for items like cargo, upgrades or turrets, you still get the same amount of those.
• We never wanted to punish or inhibit you from using salvage fighters.
• We never wanted to forbid AI salvaging.

So with this patch we're reverting the damage changes to salvaging lasers, making captain controlled ships and salvage fighters viable again.

We still stand by our change to the resource yield for common blocks, since those rates were just over the top.

• Salvaging lasers no longer have reduced damage against blocks with low yield

• Fixed several occurrences of text going over its bounds

It's time for the economy update! We're proud to present a lot of improvements to the economy and production chains of Avorion!




You can now build nearly all stations, including Shipyards, Repair Docks, Turret Factories, Equipment Docks and many more!
The owners of these stations get a 20% tax of the income of these stations, as well as cheaper prices!


Players will now be able to actually trade with each other, allowing them to set their offers and then accept them, instead of having to write mails and hoping that the other player will respond.




In order to keep your production chains running, we've now added cargo shuttles to the range of features!
You can buy cargo shuttles and configure your stations to either deliver their goods to other stations or fetch required production components from other stations, be it AI stations or your own.


In addition to cargo shuttles, you can now configure the price margin for your factories, which will directly influence the amount of traders that will either buy or sell their goods there.
Factories can also be told to actively request trading ships to deliver goods to them or buy products when your factories' cargo bays are full.




With the economy update, we've also overhauled all production chains to make sure they're all profitable over time.
Additionally, factory and station costs have been drastically reduced to be profitable. Life on a station is way less dangerous than on a space ship that might fly into battle or asteroids, so your station's crew shouldn't ask for that money, right?
You'll also like to hear that some derpy AI cargo ship pilots will now get docking assistance through tractor beams.


We've made some big improvements to the Chat Window! You can now (finally) scroll in the chat window, and we've also added more channels that you can select and filter by, so that you can keep an overview of all the things that are going on.




In order to ease building of huuuuuuge space ships we've added a nice little comfort feature:
At every station where you can hire crew, if your relations are good enough, you can request transports for huge amounts (300 or more) of crewmen, that will instantly crew your entire ship.
No more flying from station to station just to get that battleship going.


Apart from the above changes, we've added tons and tons of other small improvements: Much better performance during fights and building, improved UI, more events and many more.
If you'd like to check out the full patchnotes, we've collected them here (it's a long read though!):

http://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/1451712669489440312
With this update we're also starting to add earlier versions of Avorion to the betas, so that you can go back to any final version of the updates in case you liked that particular update back then.

We wish you lots of fun with the Economy Update!

The economy update is here! 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!

"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
• Stations can now hire crews from themselves
• Added a requestable crew transport that delivers an entire crew to the ship that requested it
• Stations can now hire crews from themselves

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

• Added cargo shuttles
• 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%
• Relations to AI factions can now be worsened in diplomacy tab for players and alliances
• Added new factories: Coal Mine and Oil Rig
• Hangar starting positions now always stick out 150 meters over the bounding box of the craft
• The spawning of traders now depends on the prices set at factories
• Low prices: More traders that like to buy
• High prices: More traders that like to sell
• Missing ranking officers no longer prevent players from buying crew
• Instead, morale drops over time
• In turret factories, independent targeting can now be enabled with Targeting Systems
• Factories can now be upgraded in their config menu

• Players can now found the following stations, too:
• 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

• Reduced amount of reputation loss when smuggling by 50%
• Biotope buys plants now
• Crew leaves the ship only after 30 minutes of 0 morale, instead of 10 minutes
• Missing ranking officers only affect morale after 20 minutes, instead of 10
• Loyal Officers: Officers are no longer influenced by morale (but will still leave the ship when morale is 0 for too long.)
• Interaction distance for ships is now 500m instead of 200m

• Adjusted ambient lighting on ships to be less bright and blinding when lots of light blocks are in the same area
• Reduced blue tint for shield effect

"We've reworked the way the chat window works, apart from that, you'll mostly see quality of life changes in this section."

• Reworked chat window
• Added filters for different channels
• Added a scroll bar for the last few hundred messages
• 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
• 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 between player stations are now detected
• Added a warning when a new key binding is already bound to another key
• Removed a few outdated hints
• Increased amount of UI background threads to 4
• Added several more loading screen tips concerning building and crew
• Added warnings depending on the available amount of vram
• Added a hint for pressing ALT to select attachment block for templates
• Tabbing through textboxes in multiple places works as intended now
• Auto-save of builds in build mode can be turned on/off
• When a local dedicated server is started, singleplayer button gets disabled
• Collected all buy/sell turret, upgrade and fighter windows in one "Trade Equipment" window
• Collected all (potential) good trading windows in one "Trade Goods" window
• Mines no longer have 2 separate options "Buy/Sell" and "Sell"
• Shortened bulletin board interaction from "Electronic Bulletin Board" to "Bulletin Board"
• Added ship problem messages for low morale and missing ranking officers
• Added warning icons for crew issues to crew tab
• The block size of the normal place block brush in building mode is now persistent
• Added processing power display to ship stats
• Changed "Press space to jump..." to "Tap space..." in tutorial for improved clarity

"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

• Collision data in building mode is now calculated asynchronically for better performance while building
• Improved performance of building stats preview when placing/removing a block
• Auto-saving of ships is now done asynchronically for better performance
• Stats for ship/station plans, shields, integrity and collision data are calculated asynchronically now for better performance throughout the entire game
• Improved performance of plan deserialization and thus loading screen, block deletion, shipinfo update, ctrl z, ctrl y, etc.
• Improved network and client performance when removing multiple blocks

• 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
• Scripted server commands appear in /help overview now
• Improved formatting of /help command output

"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

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

"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
• Reenabled client IO and OS libraries with security checks in place
• Client-sided IO can only write to the %appdata% path
• Added an Entity function to wait for async work
• Fixed a crash when registering a new script interaction during an ongoing script interaction
• Server no longer returns non-initialized players in getOnlinePlayers() function
• When AttackState is set to attack an entity without a plan it switches to its parent or no target
• Caption of windows can be read out now
• Tabs in tabbed windows can now be moved all the way to the right
• Scripts can now re-register for the same window that another script already used, enabling them to receive window-related function calls for that window
• Added an option to enable word-breaking in Label class

"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()

"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 an issue in turret factory that having stolen cargo would give turrets for a very cheap price without goods
• [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
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where fighters could pick up crew leading to huge amounts of crew brought back and required by fighters
• [UBR] Repairable wreckages claimed by alliance ships now actually belong to the alliance
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where camera movement didn't update if entering strategy mode while pressing left mouse
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where turrets were being returned to the player twice on lower difficulties
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where borders of inventory selections were resetting
• Fixed an issue where data packages for the player would sometimes get discarded during loading screen
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where good prices wouldn't be displayed correctly for alliances
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where fighter-related scripts could crash when interacted with the drone
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where consecutively interacting with a fighter factory as player and alliance would not update the price
• Fixed error message argument in smuggler's market
• Fixed a few spelling errors
• Fixed an issue where client wouldn't shut down correctly when a UI thread was still running
• Fixed an issue where the maximum volume per ship could be circumvented via "modify entire ship"
• Fixed a few script documentation issues
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where transforming a block would also change its color
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with the display of atmospheric fog on Intel devices
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with the display of point sprites
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where items would only be picked up on the server
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with error sending in fighter factory
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with jittering of fighters with very high agility
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with fighters getting lost on client side when pressing "Transfer All" buttons for fighters
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with wrong prices in trading after selling or buying goods
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with trading routes not updating their prices correctly for the current sector
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where turning speed and independent fire of turret loot wasn't saved
• Fixed an issue that could lead to overflow in faction payments
• Fixed overheating displayer showing black bars instead of yellow/orange
• [UBR] Fixed damage going down for some turrets in turret factory
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where seeking missiles fly to the wrong target in co-op steering
• [UBR] Fixed a crash during building when selecting to show only one block type
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where player ships would not be able to strafe after docking
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where hangar door visuals would remain after transformation of a hangar block into another block type
• [UBR] Fixed several issues with the building stats diff view
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where transformation brush would not create a preview for changed stats
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where homing missiles assigned to unoccupied seats didn't seek the target selected by the first pilot
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where cultists would only attack one disturbing player
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where negative numbers would appear in scientific notation
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with stats diff in building mode after pressing Ctrl Z, Ctrl Y or when transforming a block
• [UBR] Fixed mining and salvaging lasers being able to just "tag" a target to get full resources on destruction
• Fixed a crash with /help command
• [UBR] Fixed AI stations (mostly shipyards and repair docks) decaying
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with factory configuration for buying/selling from others always resetting to true
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where cargo in ships or factories would not be recognized by the UI
• [UBR] Resolved multiple issues with GL initialization and GLEW
• Fixed an issue where fighters could lead to a black screen
• [UBR] Fixed a crash when crafts change and their stats had to be updated
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where "Collect Lost Fighters" button wouldn't work
• [UBR] Fixed a few inaccuracies with crew requirements
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where rifts and faction territory weren't displayed around the player's location
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where hyperspace countdown was out of sync with server
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where the ship systems tab showed the requirement for unlocking two more slots instead of one
• [UBR] Fixed an issue that led to hologram blocks not being able to be merged
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where noble metal mines were displayed more than once
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where player-to-player damage was wrongly enabled for alliance ships
• Fixed an issue where alliance ships wouldn't be able to always interact with their player stations and vice versa
• Fixed an issue where ships and stations wouldn't be able to "dock" with themselves

With crews now showing and needing all officers from the beginning, it's a little more difficult to gather your crew when you found a big ship.
In order to make up for that, we've rebalanced several values considering morale and crews leaving.


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'.

• Reduced morale influence for missing sergeants, lieutenants, commanders and generals
• Crew leaves the ship only after 30 minutes of 0 morale, instead of 10 minutes
• Missing ranking officers only affect morale after 20 minutes, instead of 10
• Loyal Officers: Officers are no longer influenced by morale (but will still leave the ship when morale is 0 for too long.)
• Stations can now hire crews from themselves

• [UBR] Fixed an issue where leave and morale counters weren't reset when crew is empty, leading to crews leaving immediately after hiring

Fixed an experimental crew calculation change that snuck into the update.

NOTE: You may have to restart Steam in order to get the update immediately!

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'.

• Reverted an experimental crew calculation issue leading to too high requirements for sergeants, lieutenants, commanders and generals

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'.

• Added an error message to factories as to why they don't produce
• Added processing power display to ship stats
• Changed "Press space to jump..." to "Tap space..." in tutorial for improved clarity

"Bug reports by users are, as always, marked with [UBR]. Thanks for helping us improve the game, everybody!"

• [UBR] Fixed an issue where "Collect Lost Fighters" button wouldn't work
• [UBR] Fixed a few inaccuracies with crew requirements
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where "Auto-Assign Crew" would dismiss crewmen
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where rifts and faction territory weren't displayed around the player's location
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where hyperspace countdown was out of sync with server
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where the ship systems tab showed the requirement for unlocking two more slots instead of one
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where mirrored building would enable overlap of blocks
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where mirrored building would lead to invisible or see-through blocks
• [UBR] Fixed an issue that lead to hologram blocks not being able to be merged
• [UBR] Fixed an issue that led to factories in economy notifications being displayed with ${} variables
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where noble metal mines were displayed more than once
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where player-to-player damage was wrongly enabled for alliance ships
• Fixed shielded fighters sometimes starting with empty shields

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'.

• The block size of the normal place block brush in building mode is now persistent

• Reduced blue tint for shield effect

• [UBR] Fixed a crash during building when selecting to show only one block type
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where player ships would not be able to strafe after docking
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where hangar door visuals would remain after transformation of a hangar block into another block type
• [UBR] Fixed several issues with the building stats diff view
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where transformation brush would not create a preview for changed stats
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where homing missiles assigned to unoccupied seats didn't seek the target selected by the first pilot
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where cultists would only attack one disturbing player
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where negative numbers would appear in scientific notation
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with stats diff in building mode after pressing Ctrl Z, Ctrl Y or when transforming a block
• [UBR] Fixed mining and salvaging lasers being able to just "tag" a target to get full resources on destruction
• Fixed a crash with /help command
• [UBR] Fixed AI stations (mostly shipyards and repair docks) decaying
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with factory configuration for buying/selling from others always resetting to true
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where cargo in ships or factories would not be recognized by the UI
• [UBR] Resolved multiple issues with GL initialization and GLEW
• Fixed an issue where fighters could lead to a black screen
• [UBR] Fixed a crash when crafts change and their stats had to be updated
• Fixed an issue where Tesla Guns were getting the same specialties as Lightning Guns

We've fixed the issues with crew morale and we've also added a command /addcrew so you (or an administrator) can restore your ship's crew in case they left because of the bug.
We've also fixed an issue where the output of the /help command was incomplete and we've improved the formatting, so you can scroll through the commands.

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'.

• Fixed several issues with crew and morale for missing officers
• Added hints and more error messages to make crew behaviour clearer
• Added a new command /addcrew
• Scripted server commands appear in /help overview now
• Improved formatting of /help command output

Hey guys,

This is the patch for the economy update, that should resolve lots of issues that we didn't get around to fix for the first update to the beta branch. We've also made quite a few performance improvements, which you should especially feel during battles and when building ships.

If everything goes well, we'll set the update live on the main branch during the next week.

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'.

• Relations to AI factions can now be worsened in diplomacy tab for players and alliances
• Added new factories: Coal Mine and Oil Rig
• Hangar starting positions now always stick out 150 meters over the bounding box of the craft
• The spawning of traders now depends on the prices set at factories
• Low prices: More traders that like to buy
• High prices: More traders that like to sell
• Missing ranking officers no longer prevent players from buying crew
• Instead, morale drops over time
• In turret factories, independent targeting can now be enabled with Targeting Systems
• Factories can now be upgraded in their config menu

• Reduced amount of reputation loss when smuggling by 50%
• Biotope buys plants now

• Adjusted ambient lighting on ships to be less bright and blinding when lots of light blocks are in the same area

• Collision data in building mode is now calculated asynchronically for better performance while building
• Improved performance of building stats preview when placing/removing a block
• Auto-saving of ships is now done asynchronically for better performance
• Stats for ship/station plans, shields, integrity and collision data are calculated asynchronically now for better performance throughout the entire game
• Improved performance of plan deserialization and thus loading screen, block deletion, shipinfo update, ctrl z, ctrl y, etc.

• Increased amount of UI background threads to 4
• Added several more loading screen tips concerning building and crew
• Added warnings depending on the available amount of vram
• Added a hint for pressing ALT to select attachment block for templates
• Tabbing through textboxes in multiple places works as intended now
• Auto-save of builds in build mode can be turned on/off
• When a local dedicated server is started, singleplayer button gets disabled
• Collected all buy/sell turret, upgrade and fighter windows in one "Trade Equipment" window
• Collected all (potential) good trading windows in one "Trade Goods" window
• Mines no longer have 2 separate options "Buy/Sell" and "Sell"
• Shortened bulletin board interaction from "Electronic Bulletin Board" to "Bulletin Board"
• Added ship problem messages for low morale and missing ranking officers
• Added warning icons for crew issues to crew tab
• Factories can now be configured when the player is inside them

• Removed printing of .svg file from /status command (.html file is still there)

• Reenabled client IO and OS libraries with security checks in place
• Client-sided IO can only write to the %appdata% path
• Added an Entity function to wait for async work
• Fixed a crash when registering a new script interaction during an ongoing script interaction
• Server no longer returns non-initialized players in getOnlinePlayers() function
• When AttackState is set to attack an entity without a plan it switches to its parent or no target
• Caption of windows can be read out now
• Tabs in tabbed windows can now be moved all the way to the right
• Scripts can now re-register for the same window that another script already used, enabling them to receive window-related function calls for that window

"As usual, we mark bug reports by users with [UBR]. Thanks again for all the help and reporting, and keep 'em coming!"

• [UBR] Fixed an issue where fighters could pick up crew leading to huge amounts of crew brought back and required by fighters
• [UBR] Repairable wreckages claimed by alliance ships now actually belong to the alliance
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where camera movement didn't update if entering strategy mode while pressing left mouse
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where turrets were being returned to the player twice on lower difficulties
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where borders of inventory selections were resetting
• Fixed an issue where data packages for the player would sometimes get discarded during loading screen
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where good prices wouldn't be displayed correctly for alliances
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where fighter-related scripts could crash when interacted with the drone
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where consecutively interacting with a fighter factory as player and alliance would not update the price
• Fixed error message argument in smuggler's market
• Fixed a few spelling errors
• Fixed an issue where client wouldn't shut down correctly when a UI thread was still running
• Fixed an issue where the maximum volume per ship could be circumvented via "modify entire ship"
• Fixed a few script documentation issues
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where transforming a block would also change its color
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with the display of atmospheric fog on Intel devices
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with the display of point sprites
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where items would only be picked up on the server
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with error sending in fighter factory
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with jittering of fighters with very high agility
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with fighters getting lost on client side when pressing "Transfer All" buttons for fighters
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with wrong prices in trading after selling or buying goods
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with trading routes not updating their prices correctly for the current sector
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where turning speed and independent fire of turret loot wasn't saved
• Fixed an issue that could lead to overflow in faction payments
• Fixed overheating displayer showing black bars instead of yellow/orange
• [UBR] Fixed damage going down for some turrets in turret factory
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where seeking missiles fly to the wrong target in co-op steering