Cory and I draw so much inspiration from the community -- suggestions, bug fixes, motivations, new ideas -- your stories, your victories and your defeats. This update, we've focused on cycling some of the most critical of that feedback into the game. Thank you for post, sharing and helping us improve the game.
Rumor Adjustments
We've made important adjustments to 3 Rumors -- Civil Unrest, Quarantine and Starport Boosted. The changes are to remove the traps or blockers that these rumors create, which are completely out of the player's control.
For Civil Unrest, all of the spice hall services are still shuttered. This is not a fun place to land. However, you can reach Contacts. But, reaching a Contact require leaving the controlled district and risks the chance of being attacked by rioters. The chance to be attacked by rioters is reduced somewhat by your crew's Tactics score, but the risk is always there. If you are attacked by rioters, you must defend yourself and the local security forces do not take kindly to your stirring up trouble -- you will lose Rep. However, you can reach your Contacts, albeit with higher risk.
Quarantine is now within your captain's control to end. If you reach a quarantined planet, you can perform patrolling actions over the planet. Special Quarantine reduction cards are dealt into the hand and each one will reduce the Quarantine by 26 weeks. With some Talents some dedication, you can break a Quarantine rumor completely and land on the world.
Starport Boosted now ensures that the starport is ready to repair and provide juicy upgrades to your ship. No more chance to sail the stars only to reach the Rumor world and discover it was a nasty trick.
New Missiles and Railguns
We've expanded and filled in the catalog of missiles and railguns to include both more small slot Railguns and medium slot Missiles. This increases the options for players as well as for the AI ship builder, which will now be able to build a more versatile set of enemies to face you. To help differentiate between S and M missiles, we've renamed some of the small slot missiles to the Dracos line.
Officers in Luxury
Small slots on a ship are often at a premium. We have now added Officer Suites -- a set of two separate officer cabins. You can now trade 2 small slot Officer Cabins for one medium slot Officer cabin.
We've also fixed a host of bugs, improve UIs and resolved crashes. Every report, post and thread helps us to keep making STF better so thank you!
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v2.3.39 - 8/14/2018
- Added 6 new small slot Railguns and medium slot Missiles -- for sale in starports now!
- Renamed some small slot Missile weapons (Dracos missiles)
- Enemy ship builder uses more flexible long and mid-range weapon configurations
- Added new medium slot Officer Suites which holds 2 officers and Reinforced Officer Suites with shielding
- Updated Quarantine Rumor: still prevents landing but can be broken by Patrolling actions pulling special Shorten / End Quarantine cards
- Updated Civil Unrest Rumor: still shuts down spice hall but allows attempt to visit Contacts with a risk of being caught in crew combat with rioters and rebels
- Updated Boosted Starport Rumor: now boosts all Starports that have the Rumor to at least +6
- Updated Boosted Starport Rumor: now increases ratings of Starport for all uses, not just Upgrades
- Rebalanced time requirement for landing on a planet
- Improved UI for interuptions during attempted landings in Blockades, Pirate Fleet Rumors, etc
- Enemy AI no longer incorrectly uses "Burrowing Shots" Talent against you
- Fixed bug where Zealot's "Retribution Justice" Talent was never going on cooldown
- Fixed misleading prompt in Stash Missions when you have exactly the right amount of cargo
- Fixed issues with Mission waypoints not updating in Quadrant Map
- Fixed bug allowing duplicates in combat if automatically selected
- Fixed description of Morale healing Talents in ship combat, like Furious Prodding
- Fixed issues with 'Starport Closed' not fully closing Starport