A roaring celebration of summer has descended up Steam and Star Traders: Frontiers is 25% off! In honor of the sale, we've released a new major update with new rumors and additional Trade Law effects across the existing rumor set.
Spice Festival
The spice festival are extensive celebrations declared often in honor of an astronomical event or the completion of a massive construction project in the zone. These raucous celebrations overwhelm the spice halls of the zone as well as the one inside the Star Trader's controlled district with a heightened atmosphere of revelry. Spice flows freely -- spicing the crew does not consume the zone's spice count. High quality recruits flock to these events, and everyone recruit from the hall of Contact gains +1 level. Trade Law is lack as even the officials are partying and Trade Law is at -2. Finally, Smugglers can be hired directly as crew from the Spice Hall!
Rumors and Trade Law
We have tied an additional six rumors at the system and quadrant level into trade law. Entire quadrants will see their trade law shift now as the changing conditions of the galaxy impact their economies.
Landing Tasks Improvements
We've fixed a significant issue with the new landing tasks system where you could not open the subscreen for services like Refuel or Spice if you lacked the funds to complete even some of the action. This is now fixed -- if you need the subscreen to open, use the popout arrow in the expanded version.
We're receiving a lot of great feedback about this new setup and will continue to improve.
We've also improved the keybindings for these -- by default "1" will hit the All button, and there are keybindings for all of the other services. So, now you can play without clicking at all.
v2.2.85 - 6/23/2018
- All new Rumor Type: "Spice Festival" (endless spice, recruit Smugglers, better recruits, lower trade law, Contacts gain Influence)
- "Merchant Fleet" Quadrant Rumor reduces Trade Law
- "Heavy Patrols" Quadrant Rumor increases Trade Law
- "Pirate Fleet" Planet Rumor reduces Trade Law
- "Ion Storm" / "Meteor Storm" Planet Rumors greatly reduces Trade Law
- "Blockade" Planet Rumor increases Trade Law
- Spice Hall and Contact recruiting now properly report level correctly under all bonus conditions
- Fixed starting ship Scout Cutter to have a Passenger Cabin
- Fixed issue where you could not access zone service subscreen (spice leave) with too low funds
- Fixed issues where Zone Rumors might not match -- boosted starport when there is no viable starport
- Fixed some issues with custom difficulty and high difficulty curves