I've reworked an extremely basic function that formatted the way time is displayed here. It was done poorly before. Now it is hopefully done less poorly.

I'm hoping it works well everywhere, but if something just doesn't look right, let me know!

Also - hey, the year! It shows now! Huzzah, now I can see exactly how hold some of those really old posts are =D

Oh, and I added a "10 day average" to the Daily Stats. Something I've always wanted - lets you eyeball how well you're doing today vs. your recent playtime!

First things first, I might need to revert this. But let's check it out for now.

Basically, what I've done is guarantee you will respawn next to a friendly station, and far from an enemy station. By far, I mean, there won't be one within 10 cells of the station you spawn near.

Unfortunately, this turned out to be a hefty database search. I was able to clean it up and process the command in just 0.2 seconds directly from the database, but... for whatever reason, when the webserver does the same command, it takes 12-15 seconds.

Now, this, so far, appears to only affect the user who is respawning. If it starts to affect everyone everywhere each time someone respawns, then I'll need to undo this change. I have an even more efficient method lined up if I need to, but that method is the "wow this is a lot of work" method that I'd like to avoid. But, I really like this respawn method - it can really help respawning next to a friendly station to get a boost in HP and Fuel.

I'll likely work on the super efficient method anyway, simply because it will probably be a healthier approach for the game in general.

I've slightly reworked how items are rewarded when ships are destroyed. There are 2 categories of targets that matter here:
1: Players and Player Bots
2: AI Bots

Players and Player Bots can win items. AI Bots cannot.

Players and Player bots LOSE items when destroyed. AI Bots do not.

This was primarily to fix certain bots from not dropping their "items." What this means is any items in an AI bot's inventory never change (since they can't gain items from players, nor lose them to players) so the items they have are always up for grabs; no more needing to inform admins when you kill something and don't get loot.

This comes with two caveats:

1) Probably every single bot will need to have it's inventory "set" - junk removed and goodies added to strong bots, that sort of thing.

2) In the future, if it is determined "Salvation should have 2x Remains and 3x Super Hull" then there is a chance you will win a single Super Hull and nothing else; from this point forward, that wouldn't be a bug, but just the odds. I could add a check to guarantee X number of items from particular bots (say, Jugg always drops 5x items, and has 2 each of 10 different items it could drop, for example). I'll let the staff inform me of out things should play out here.

Hello everyone, We are aware of a current bug that is making players and bots lose all the items they have on their ship. I assure you it's being looked at will hopefully be fixed soon. Until then keep important items in your base and try and keep a log of that you have in your inventory. If you find you've lost items in your inventory send me (Eagles) a list of the important things and i will give you them back.

Since bots are not dropping items we will only give items from killing certain bots. Juggernaut (mysterious dox), Assailant (blueprints), Salvation (remains). Im sure i forgot a few key bots. If you think of a bot i forgot post in the comments here and i will update this post.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

First off - We'd like to wish a all our American players a happy Independence day. With that being said we have a competition running in the forums by our own benanater15 - http://game.galaxywarfare.com/?section=forums&type=postlist&topic_id=1758

Everyone is encouraged to participate since everyone who scores at least 100 points will receive one tularian remain

Hey everyone, just wanted to give a quick news update on things here. I re joined staff after a hiatus that lasted a few months so I hope to get things moving here a little more again.

What we're currently working on now is redoing the missions and adding a "mission madness day," thats just to start things off.

Anyways, to wrap this up just wanted to say it feels good to be back

-Eagles

Hey all, as you know recently I was promoted to admin and tasked with fixing (attempting) the community and regain activity. It has been tough I will not lie, but not impossible.

I wanted to inform you all and keep you up to date on what's happening now and what will be coming.

staff changes
Lots of staff changes have been made. Some noticeable, some not so much. We have lots of great players here, and lots of helpful individuals who have helped by joining the ranks of staff.

I'd like to take a minute and say thank you to all the staff that helped out so much around here. Many have been around for a while like pitch black who is an old HC member and good friend of firestream and I wwwwwwwwwmmmm who has been another long time member especially in the HS games.

Of course we cannot forget Vreedognight and ironhead who were extremely helpful and welcoming and nice to the new members. Also a shout out to mexor who helped personally with some graphics around the site!.

Now with that. Staff changes have been made, for the time being, AO iz Back will be a guard and still help out around the site and moderating the chat.

I'd also like to welcome Samlane and Jonnyxmaxed to the team as blue guards!

Pure fire, what exactly have you done other then that?

Good question.. The answer is.. not as much as I intended, but I have managed to get some things done around here.

1.new bots were created varying in levels.
2.New missions have been created
3.shop prices for super hulls were changed to 15,000 credits from 30,000 credits.
4.Umir desolator and VR Kongo was created for the higher levels..

Now it may not seen like much but I'm trying. Give me a break will ya?

New (old?) Coder
Big news I'd like to extend out to everyone is we have a new coder.. or an old coder for some of you older players out there.

P2mc28 will be helping with the coding around here and changing things within the games code and adding and possibly removing stuff.

Please let's take a minute and thank him for stepping in and taking time out to do this for us!

THANKS P2MAC28!

Anywho, that's all for now. More will be posted up later about the direction of the game.

Hey all! So things have seemed a little rocky here in recent weeks. Activity has dropped considerably from around the time I tried to setup league restrictions (and retracted). Activity has been split by a lot of active folk between here and DestinyRPG.com as well. It's unfortunate, but something I considered might happen when I decided to start DRPG.

I sent out an email about a week ago to all players asking for feedback. I got about 10 responses out of 3500 emails (which I know many of you might not have gotten due to spam?). That was discouraging though, not going to lie as I expected a few more repsonses. I hate to see this place start to decline, especially in what feels like such a rapid way. I did get some good ideas, some good feedback and some bad feedback. I'll admit also that I'm a bit stretched between this project and DRPG.

So here's where I'm at. I do NOT want to see Galaxy Warfare decline to a point where it's practically dead, but I cannot put much development effort into the game right now. I'm seeing very large levels of activity on DRPG and I am going to focus on that game for the coming months. It's not even out of Alpha and seeing 3-4X the number of active players compared to GW. I think those numbers will only rise once we go into Beta, get a few apps out and with Destiny 2 on the horizon more and more destiny fans might come across DRPG.

With that said, I consider DRPG an investment into Galaxy Warfare, and here's how. I have *always* wanted to build a better version of this game. I've been thinking about it for a couple years now, but started and sputtered out once or twice on that notion. The codebase for DRPG will lead directly into Galaxy Warfare 2 (GW2) or some variation of the name. I expect I can start on that near the end of this year or early next year once DRPG is solid and running. I'm rebuilding things there that will be needed for a new & better Galaxy Warfare. That excites me and I hope it excites you!

So what about this game?
It means that this game can continue to run just fine. We have made some staff adjustments and will see a ton of activity-growing events from this point on. As you know, Pure Fire x2 is an admin and he is doing a fantastic job working out events, ideas, new bots and missions and more. Him along with the rest of staff can make this place fun and great even without code updates (that said, I do intend to do some small tweaks and changes for them). GW will continue just as it has.

Also, I feel like your efforts here will not go without reward. I can easily tie your progress here into special things in GW2 and I plan to do that. I'm excited honestly to work on GW2 in the coming months as well.

Finally, I've started a profile on Patreon and it has already helped me to get a 2nd server to handle the load of two active games. I think it's really cool that a number of you are supporting me directly on my efforts! If you want to go the extra step and support my Patreon, you'll be more in the know on what's happening and have early access to things as I build them. Of course if you are already a subscriber on Galaxy Warfare I also appreciate that! I know it might seem pointless to subscribe if the game isn't being developed, and I understand that, but it still helps pay the monthly bills of the game as well. (and you still get some cool perks!)

http://patreon.com/firestream
https://destinyrpg.com
http://magicandwires.com

I'm excited to announce Pure has joined the ranks of red as an admin here! I've asked him to take on a larger role so that I can keep working on Destiny RPG.

Pure already spends a lot of time here and has been a member of staff for a very long time. He constantly has ideas to keep activity up as well, so this promotion should allow him to more easily run contests and events and will be a big help to me as I'm splitting my time more.

Congrats Pure!


In other news: League restrictions on attacking have been removed. I studied the data and stats for the last few weeks since the change and see no real change in player retention or activity. All I see are the more hardcore players playing less. So while in theory it was a good idea (maybe), the change only reduced play here instead of helping it.

The key to success in this game is a strong network of people to help you / protect you, and a good Fleet. I think there can still be some changes down the road to help things, but the way it was before seems to be better ultimately.

Hey all! The DestinyRPG project has been going really well! It still has a TON of work needed to get it where I want it to be, but I have realized I cannot continue to only focus on it. So, starting next week, I'm going to do a better job of splitting my time between GW and DRPG so that both can move forward.

I'll be around daily here and there, but the plan will be something like Mondays GW, Tuesdays DRPG, Wednesdays GW, Thursdays DRPG and Fridays neither. That's all subject to my real life work, family and more, but it at least means I can give both games attention so that things don't get to stale at either place.

Thank you for your patience!

MAJOR CHANGES:
First, Leagues are back in view and you can now only Attack/Mag players in the same league as you (or higher) or the one below you. Leagues are based on your level. The same is true of the red line on the advanced scanner. Player bots follow the same League Rules. System bots do not and should behave as they always have.

Second, LKL and LDL are only visible to you for players that are in the same league or one below you. Now, Most Wanted players always show LKL on the Most Wanted page.

Third, Ship Wreckage can now possible give you Super Hulls and First Aid Kits, as well as Titanium. You could even get all 3 from a single wreckage.

Fourth, the Subscriber Warp Panel now remembers the last location from the drop-down. If you wanted to constantly warp to a random location you could, or more easily have a place in mind for a quick warp without having to select it over and over.

After some feedback, some building limits have been raised:
- Nebula Traps: 250 (previously 100)
- Warp Gates: 100 (previously 50)
- Arrows: 100 (previously 50)

My brain has been too focused on DestinyRPG as of late, but I'm trying to cut that back some so that I don't neglect what needs to be done here too. I love Galaxy Warfare and this community! Thanks for your understanding.

Hey all! Just checking in to say that I'll be back to work here soon! I've been really really focused on DestinyRPG.com and things are going really well on it. I've had a number of people in it playing, helping, etc. The feedback is really positive as well.

With that said, as soon as I can get it to the point of a public alpha I'll be back to some updates here. Here's what's is on the radar for GW in the near future:
- Looking at a Medal system for actions here
- Halodex from HS2 ported into GW as a new in-game card game
- The Umir Super Boss will have a purpose
- Eventually a Class Sytem

So, I've been quiet/busy on things, but I will be back at it soon!

Level 1 - 20
1st place: Halo Wars 2* for Xbox One + 5000 tokens -BROOKES
2nd place: $20 Xbox or PSN code + 2500 tokens - JustBlaze
3rd place: 1500 tokens - Jonz

Level 21- 45
1st place: Halo Wars 2* for Xbox One + 5000 tokens - Jester
2nd place: $20 Xbox or PSN code + 2500 tokens - DavidMcC1989
3rd place: 1500 tokens - Soulshine

Level 46-55
1st place: Halo Wars 2* for Xbox One + 5000 tokens - Cawapadux
2nd place: $20 Xbox or PSN code + 2500 tokens - Nihilant
3rd place: 1500 tokens - DeadbodyzZ

IMPORTANT: If you are a Halo Wars 2 winner, contact Pure Fire X2 with your mailing address!
If you are a Game code winner, contact Firestream with Xbox or PSN

BONUS for Subscribers:
1st place: $20 Xbox or PSN code + 500 tokens - Cawapadux
2nd place: 500 tokens - Nihilant
3rd place: 250 tokens - DeadbodyzZ

1st place, top 10 and top 25 will get these awards (by Mexor):


These players each get 500 tokens for getting 500 score:
Cawapadux
Nihilant
DeadbodyzZ
Zaspie
Sinturion
SamLane
GrimVeggie
Jonnymaxed
Dominus
Necroscope
Taldemac
HADES
Elitejbzzz
Tom Shelby
Cam
California Uber Alles
Brax
Pitch Black
Liquid Otacon
Donatra
Artanis
Jaunte
Bourne 2 klll
Boggratt
Treyskyy3
AcidTrip
P2Mc28
Stormer
54an3
AO iz BACK
Nightstalker
pure fire x2
Kiwadian
ChaoticOverdose
KingCloudStrife
Jester
DavidMcC1989
Soulshine
Cinnamon
Jango Fett
penscythe
Trickster
KrillN
Bnoolk
Kingcloudsnephew
the king
123BOB321
Wakko
Daoist Voidheart
gboneyard
Evilbunny101
BROOKES
JustBlaze
Jonz
NvrCaredAtAll

CrazyT had a great contest idea!

Howdy all!

So Season 5's gonna be starting soon, and we'd like to see some faces here! New, old, current, doesn't matter! But, and we have a big but here, I kinda miss seeing some old faces here. So I'm giving you guys a proposition!

For every 2 players that sign up here during this season and refer to you as their "recruiter", or for every person that you convince to return here (aka the "I miss you!" button), I will grant you 1 system revamp!

- Players that join on the same IP are not counted.
- The referred/returning players must claim at least 400 planets within the season's time frame to count. Not just to chit chat!
- They must be able to back you up when it comes time to tell me you've recruited/returned them. You cannot simply say "X joined because of me!"
- This will begin at the start of the season, and end once the season is over.

And, to make things a little spicy, I will throw in a $20 PSN/Xbox/Steam card (choose one) for the one who can recruit/return the most players!

IMPORTANT: Use this forum thread if you are participating in this!
Bring em back contest thread

Season 5 - Feb 22-28

For Season 5, I hope you're hungry! Time to get out there and eat those planets! Here's how the scoring will work during this season:

Planet claim = 3 points
Lose a claim = -1 point
Attack a ship = 2 points (human ships only)
Get attacked = -1 point
Scores can't go under 0!
Bot claims don't count toward your score!

Now, for prizes, I'm going to break this up into tiers based on your level, making this more fair for lower levels players to have a chance. Your level tier is whatever level you end up at by the end of the Season.



Level 1 - 20
1st place: Halo Wars 2* for Xbox One + 5000 tokens
2nd place: $20 Xbox or PSN code + 2500 tokens
3rd place: 1500 tokens

Level 21- 45
1st place: Halo Wars 2* for Xbox One + 5000 tokens
2nd place: $20 Xbox or PSN code + 2500 tokens
3rd place: 1500 tokens

Level 46-55
1st place: Halo Wars 2* for Xbox One + 5000 tokens
2nd place: $20 Xbox or PSN code + 2500 tokens
3rd place: 1500 tokens

BONUS for Subscribers:
1st place: $20 Xbox or PSN code + 500 tokens
2nd place: 500 tokens
3rd place: 250 tokens
The way this works is if you are a subscriber of any type, I'll award the top 3 of you the prizes listed IN ADDITION to prizes in the level tiers.

Any player who scores 500 points or more by the end of the competition gets 500 tokens. All participants and winners will get player page awards as well. (will update this post with the graphics at a future date)

* Special thanks to pure fire x2 for graciously volunteering to contribute the copies of Halo Wars 2 to the winners!

** We will be checking for alt accounts here as well as any possible cheating. All scores will be vetted before official results are posted. Zero tolerance here.

The Mining System has been available to subscribers only for the past week. It is now open to everybody! This is a timer based system where you place mining buildings onto a grid and collect from them periodically. If you played HaloSphere2, this will look very familiar. There are a few improvements in this version.

In order to start, you need a certain level of planet claims required before you can buy a grid. Then you buy buildings and place them. Each building has a certain amount of health that goes down if you fail to collect from them in time. If you are on top of the system it can be very lucrative!

PS. I still owe the hug leaders from last week something, and I haven't forgotten!

For the next 24-26 hours, we are celebrating the Galactic Day of Peace! This day is full of hugs, unicorns, rainbows, hearts, stars and more! You are free to roam around the galaxy. Enjoy a day of exploration and hanging out without any battles, without sadness and without death*

There's a new Daily Leaderboard: Hugs
The 25th is the one that counts though, so give as many hugs as you can!

* You can still die from objects that damage your unicorn...erhm... ship. There might be other ways you can die too, not sure.

Love,

Firestream

Wednesday January 25th, 2017

Warfare is tiring. I think we all need a break, one filled with peace, harmony, rainbows and unicorns. So on January 25th, 2017 we celebrate the first ever Galactic Day of Peace! For one day only, you will be able to explore the galaxy without fear of death, making this a great opportunity to find some great items.

- Battles will be disabled on that day
- Planet Renew with Tokens will be disabled
- Most items will have rarity dropped considerably
- Other possible surprises

UPDATE!
- The Timezone is US Central time
- If you "attack" players as you normally would, you'll actually give them a hug. The players that give out the most hugs will get a cool prize!

Hey all! After feedback and discussion, the Pulse Emitter AND Def. Shield have both been changed slightly, for the better I believe.

The Pulse Emitter will no longer affect your own ship when used. It will continue to hit all ships on screen, no matter what faction they are, but it will no longer affect your own ship.

The Deflector Shield can now protect from the Pulse Emitter, if you already have it on BEFORE you get hit with a Pulse Emitter. Ideally, in a battle you'll want to throw on the Def Shield ASAP anyways. (In a future update I'm planning for a ship modification you can buy that will auto-defend by turning on Def Shield and Cloak when an enemy ship comes within range of you.

Other small updates:
- Some reset bugs have been fixed (I reset my own account yesterday to play again from the start to continue to fix things here!)
- Mini Subscriber status is live! Just $2 a month for some good perks, IMO.
- Plasma Particle rarity lowered
- Artifact Shard rarity increased (all 10)
- Online list and Game Stats added to mobile under Stats tab
- Lower tier quests have improved credit payouts
- A few other small bug fixes.

Pure Fire X2 said:
So. Yearly voting is finally over and the counts have been tallied! First and foremost, as before I'd like to extend my congratulations to all have got nominated into the prelim's and who carried over to the finals.

The finals have come to an end and out of everyone, the winners are decided by the community. There are some categories that people just completely blew away in, and there are others that where close. But enough of that...



Also, everybody give Pure Fire X2 a hand on the work here. He put this together and ran in from start to finish and its a lot of work to do something like this!

July 25:
* Fixed "trainer kills" not being recorded
* 10 Day Averages on player's Daily Stats
* Reworked how dates and time are displayed
* After successful testing and tweaks, cranked up the item archiving to 11.

July 24:
* Some back end item archiving code to eventually help with sporadic lag

July 21th:
* WZP hourly drain removed for anyone below 20,000 WZP

July 20th:
* New respawn method; always respawn near a friendly Station, and never near Enemy stations

July 19th:
* Buildings are now listed in alphabetical order on the fleet page

July 14th:
* Tweaks to how items are handled when ships are destroyed
* Players and Player Bots can win items
* AI Bots cannot win items.
* When an item is won from a Player or Player Bot, it is taken from the target's inventory
* When an item is won from an AI Bot, it is duplicated from target's inventory

This is mostly how it's always worked, the primary differences are:
AI can no longer win items
Player Bots can now win/lose items like players.

Thursday, February 23:
Mobile Updates:
- New Go to Top button added near the bottom of the game screen
- Wiki added to main menu
- Player and Item Search buttons added to Stats tab

A lack of updates update:
Hey all! It's nearly March 1st. I haven't made many updates in the last week for a few reasons. 1) I don't like to change the game code during a season. 2) I have a side project that is distracting me. Just letting everybody know that updates will resume again in the coming weeks once I get a few other things out of the way.

Monday Feb 13:
- Training ship kills no longer count toward your ships destroyed stat

Tuesday, Feb 14:
- We have a new Guard! Welcome to staff Mexor!
So Mexor was brought on to support the game in the graphics department, something that has been long overdue (I've done the bulk of the graphics around here, and while I love doing it, its not my fav thing and I enjoy coding more). Mexor is clearly talented, a big fan of the game and very excited to join the team. Expect to see a lot of his work here in the coming months :)

Wednesday, Feb 15:
- When you update your player log, a chat notice will get posted into global chat
- There are some new player destroyed descriptions
- Auto-link usernames will work again with parenthesis Just put them around a username and it should auto link to their profile: (pure fire x2) -- off again due to interfering with links in alerts :(
- The Umir Super Boss has entered the Galaxy!

Wednesday, February 1:
- Certain planets and objects will have the option to renew for tokens disabled, so that rarer items and places are still a challenge to obtain.
- A small speed fix has been implemented, but it seems to be making a difference
- Faction Goverments have been set!

Admin Changeup:
EaglesxLegend has stepped back to being an Honor Guard, due to some time constraints. He has been and continues to be a big help around here. This is not formally a demotion, just a change in status for the time being.

Kiwadian is now an Admin and will be able to work with Faceless and I on game updates, new quests, missions, items, places, etc over the coming months. He has been a big part of the game for a long time now.

Friday, February 3:
- Some more speed fixes made
- Tracking Beacons have a slightly better alert mechanism
- Enemy station damage varies based on your level now

Tuesday, February 7:
- Nickel and Diamond buildings have increased Mining Levels before they can be built.
- Aluminum building types added to Mining
- Item building types for mining have increased Fuel costs

Wednesday, February 8:
- Two more Mining leaderboards added and it is now in its own grouping. Refresh desktop version to see this update.
- Player Bot Ships can have their attack/defense upgraded with specific items (remains, weapon aug, etc)
- Mining Points added to Weekly LBs
- Mining Points added to Daily stats on profiles

Friday, Feb 10th:
- Building limits imposed on nickel buildings and removed on aluminum buildings

Monday, January 23:
- Max credits possible for players, factions and fleets has been raised to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 (first player to reach that amount wins 1,000,000 tokens!)
- Stations no longer attack new players (level 10 and lower)
- Chat swear filter added to Faction Chat
- Fixed bug with stations blowing up not alerting the faction
- New Fleet Planets Claimed LB
- Bobblehead sale prices cut by half again
- If you like/comment on news posts (updates and logs too), it should remain on the correct tab now
- Comments and Likes on Player Log Entries will now be alerted to the author of the log entry

Tuesday, January 24
- New Auto Defender Advanced System is available. This system is built from a cloak, a def sheild, a bonding strip and an antenna cluster. It should be pretty easy for most players to make and install this system. Once you have it installed and on (via a faction station), when another human ship attacks you, if your cloak and shield aren't in cooldown, they will automatically enable to help you out.
- Player log links added to profiles if player has written any logs

Thursday, January 26
- New layout of the system buttons below the grid! Big changes here, but I think it's better and really works well on mobile.
- Mining is a new addition open to Subscribers only at the moment. It will become a very large part of the game soon!
- Warping now moves your screen back to the grid

Friday, January 27
- Items in base storage now link to recipes
- New Mining Achievements added
- New Mining Points Leaderboard added
- Mining Info now appears on profiles
- New 12hr and 24 Nickel and Iron Ore buildings for Mining
- Daily Box info improved on Training
- Faction bank gets paid now when Mining Grids and Buildings are purchased
- War Zone restored

There's a new item out there you can create called the Plasma Bomb. Right now it's main use is blowing up Faction Stations. Yep.

The recipe is fairly complicated, but you guys will have what you need to make this item. Then, simply land on an enemy faction station and plant the bomb! Get ready though, because the faction is alerted to this in their Faction Chat. They then have 10 minutes to defuse the bomb by entering the correct code between 1 and 50.

If the bomb goes off the station is destroyed! Also, any ships around the station take Mag Shock like damage (500hp). There is a new leaderboard for Stations Destroyed, a couple new achievements and some other stuff in the works around this new strategy. Destroyed stations can be repaired, but it's costly!

That's pretty much it, but I'm open to tweaks and suggestions!

Friday, January 20:
- New grid-less galaxy
- Changed planet control glow to be circular
- Updated some galaxy graphics

Saturday, January 21:
- Option to turn back on gridlines added to My Options
- A few more graphics tweaked
- Sell prices added to Item Recipes
- Claim color border removed from Faction Stations
- Other Players Training list added to Training Match List
- There is a new Player Log Entry system

1-10-2017
- Added some sorts to various Fleet dropdown lists
- Increased the amount of tokens you get from liking a news post or voting in a poll to 5 tokens.
- Turned back on the option to become a Subscriber or Super Sub
- Fixed Super Subscriber stars to show correctly in the Online list
- You can put brackets around usernames now and they will auto-link to profiles

1-11-2017
- Modified the orange color on Adv scanners for enemy bot ships
- Moved messages up to My Messages on mobile and grouped with other links
- Added Adv Scanner Color Legend to My Ship
- Fixed margin and spacing on mobile for smaller devices
- WZP drain is now based on your (Level / 2), so that weaker players won't lose as fast
- Fixed a planet resource acquiring bug we've had a while
- You can once again sell bobbleheads at faction stations

1-13-2017
- New log on desktop: My Bounty Log. This will show your active player bounties you have out there on other players. Open to suggestions on what else I should add to this!
- Fixed a bug related to earning WZP from training. It was based on win streaks going up, but I have fixed that. You should not be able to increase your win streak from training or earn much if any WZP from it.

1-14-2017
- Changed up how My Items looks in terms of Item name, description and sell price. Fits better on phones and tablets this way and gives you sell price at a glance.
- The option to Manage Items on My Bots has been added back
- If you have bot ships, you can set them to be any ship you own now. My Bots

1-15-2017
- Ships in NZ no longer appear on Adv Scanners
- Mobile version of game now has Quests Panel on Missions Tab

- Bobbleheads are no longer sellable to the Faction Stations. They can still be auctioned though. They are fairly easy to obtain and led to very fast draining of faction banks.

- Fixed a bug with some mobile detection not working (thanks iGrind)

It's been a productive morning here for me! Here's what's new:

QUEST RELATED
- There is a new Active Quests Panel just under the Ship Console on the Desktop version of the game! This will help you keep track of what you are supposed to be doing in a Quest much easier than it has been. You still have to go to Quests to actually complete the Quest.
- For high level players there are 2 challenging new Quests for you to tackle.
- I adjusted how Quests show the progress on item fetching and I hope it makes more sense.

SUBSCRIBER BENEFITS!
- Subscribers now get 1000 tokens per month! This has been raised from 800 previously.

PLANET RENEWAL
- You can now speed up the renewal of Planet Resources with tokens, based on how long the planet has left before it renews normally. I think the price at this point is pretty good, but may tweak as people use the option.

OTHER STUFF
- New Achievement for selecting a Character. If you have one already go to the Change Character Screen and pick it again.
- If you are a low level player the same faction penalty for attacking is greatly reduced.
- New Daily Box after 25 Training matches! So each day you can choose a box with an amount of EXP or Credits. If you aren't happy with the box you can pick another one for FREE, but after the 2nd time you have to spend tokens to pick again. It's just a fun little mini-game each day!

WEEK OF DEC 12 UPDATES:
- Quick Bid added to Auction
- Auction next bid amount raised to 100
- Item Search added (look under Most Wanted)

After some thinking and discussion, we have decided to make the following change to the Pulse Emitter:

- When used it will now affect ALL ships on screen, including you and faction members. Before, it would exclude your ship and faction members, but this has been changed. You will have to think more carefully about the use of this system now that it affects everyone.

Other Bug Fixes:
- Fixed Max Storage for Tokens bug
- Fixed Fleet Alert bug

I'll probably start trying to do a post a week, vs daily on updates made around here. I'll update this post for the next few days with additions/changes. Here we go!

Monday Dec 5th
- Umir Queen now respawns out deep and a new Umir Gate is created when this happens. It will be somewhere in the core galaxy with a new password each time.
- When you use cloak, if your bot is with you and has a cloak installed it will cloak as well.
- Ship Console font adjusted and it fills the space more. This is due to having less width now that we have a 3rd column. The font was increased.
- Missions panel cleaned up a bit. The League info has been removed. The Planet control and Faction Banks bar has been cleaned up as well.
- There are 4 new master trainers in Training (not one for Umir). Each has a moderate amount of HP (5000) and has very high PWR. You will get banged up battling these ships fast. The reward is a System Revamp on each.
- Scanner results gives you location info for structures around you
- Auction bids now start 1 credit higher than the last bid

Tuesday Dec 6th
- Each day you can raise your Max Lottery tickets by 50 with 25 tokens. It's a daily thing, in that it will go back down to the normal max the following day. This is useful though if you want to up your chances of winning the day's lottery.
- Fuel from ship wreckage lowered
- Ship Systems on Profiles got a complete overhaul! I think the new icons work out really good.
- Weekly top 10s exclude bots and fit better in the new layout now
- Lots of other UI cleanup all over with the new layout.

Wednesday Dec 7th
- If you have a bot, go to My Bot Ships and you can move their items out by clicking Manage Items now. You have the choice of going to your ship or any base you have access to.

Thursday Dec 8th
- Titanium from ship wreckage reduced to 1 in 6 chance. We have too much floating around now.
- The cost of crafting items now gets paid to the Faction Bank
- Bots correctly go in and out of the NZ now.

Had to close the item shop for a bit to fix a problem I found. Related to the fix, I had to change up the max number of items you can buy at once. That number is now 99. So if you need 500 hulls, sorry, but you'll have to purchase them 99 at a time.

The big reason for this is the reduction in server lag that causes other problems. 99 records have to be tracked and some people were buying 5000 at once. I hate to have to cap it at 99 a transaction, but it's not the end of the world and will help reduce the lag on the server as well.

I also fixed (hopefully) the Times Purchased numbers as they were all very very wrong. They don't affect anything, but down the road prices could vary depending on how many times you purchase something, so needed to have this working.

Updates December 1st
- Shop is open again
- Desktop LBs menu rearranged to fit smaller screens
- Game Progress Leaderboard added
- Change faction related to Bots bug fixed
- Reset Account related to Bots bug fixed
- New Christmas Update to Theme
- Trade Center posts stay for 7 days now
- Two Training Achievements added
- Training battles added to Weekly LBs

Updates December 2nd
- Grid Level 6 is available for Level 50 players or higher
- Ship Sensor prices raised a lot as they were way too cheap

- You can now use tokens to find out certain locations of ships or places of interest
- Training mode is open to all players now
- Some Profile Page cleanup
- New Bot-only system called the Auto Claimer
- New items related to Umir and the Umir Queen
- LDL does not update in Training

Update 11/29:
- Training Battles Leaderboard added
- Training Battles and Kills added to Profiles
- Some weaker Training Ships have been added

New Item: Item Magnet
For 25 battles, very high chance of getting an item from the enemy ship. Does not work against Bot Ships. Created from 10x Nickel + 1x Ionic Charge. The use of this item is blocked by the Deflector Shield.

- 1 day only Black Friday token sale! 50% boost!
- If your bot ships have credits they will roll into your account when you go to My Bot Ships

- Subscribers now get faster HP and Fuel refills.
-- In regular space it is Fuel/HP + 10 per minute.
-- At a Faction station it is Fuel/HP + 50 per minute.

- Subscribers can now enable 3 Advanced Systems at once by going to My Ship. In most cases, I can bet you will enable the Advanced Scanner along with 2 other systems.

- Fixed a bug with planet claim minimums set by the Governor. You can now correctly set the minimum to 0.
- Achievements added for being voted Governor or Deputy of a Faction
- 9 Achievements have new Graphics

This list will evolve over the next 24 hours:

- Tokens from achievements have been reduced by 50%. This is due to my tracking and reporting of tokens over time and the values have been too high for a while. I hate taking things back, but need the flow to reduce to keep the balance fair.

- A fairly detailed Faction stats section has been added for Faction Leaders to use. It helps to give you an idea of the activity of your faction.

- Credits earned by your bot ships will now go directly to you, as their owner. This will happen when they attack other ships.

I submitted a new version of the GW Android App:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.firestream.galaxywarfare

It has 1 bug fix and a new app icon. Not much else new there, but the store listing has the new logo and art now too. Also on the full desktop site there is a direct link to the Android App.

Remember, you can get a player page award for leaving a review on the Android app! Just PM me (firestream) after you have left a review and I'll give you the profile award!

UMIR COLONY
The Umir Colony have entered our galaxy! They appear to be moving around as a swarm of drone ships. They don't attack but they are stealing planet claims at an alarming rate! I don't know their intentions yet...

ENERGY STORMS
Also, Energy disruptions have become frequent enough to begin forming as storms around the galaxy. These energy storm fields are VERY deadly, and can popup at anytime anywhere!

- Also, warp drop downs now have Random Location as an option.
- Also, if you have bot ships you can tell them to Attack/Not Attack now independently of their Follow/Idle modes.
- Fixed bug with Toggle Missions button

So the cap on fleet credit distribution (the amount of credits a fleet leader can give to an individual member in a day) has been raised to 999,999,999 since faction government has no cap on the amount of credits they can distribute at any given time.

Also, voting for new faction government begins today and ends at the end of the month. Good luck to everyone running! You can now watch the voting during the month and see who is leading on the Factions page!

Subscriber raffle info also posted in subscriber forums! Also a general server raffle is being held in the contest forum!

I've increased the amount of credits you can get for tokens considerably. I've also, for the time being, reduced the options to 2 to track use.

So:
- 50 tokens will get you 100,000 credits now
- 400 tokens will get you 1,000,000 credits now

The game gives you a lot of free tokens just for playing. I think this change will help a lot and increase the incentive to use tokens for credits.