Welcome back to another year of GW's Easter Egg Hunt! I hope you've got your Baskets equipped, and an adventurous spirit ready!

We have hidden 6 Easter Eggs on the Grid in various locations. Each Egg contains an Egg Shell Fragment, and a clue to find the next Egg. Find all the Clues and combine them for the location of the Golden Egg! When you find the Golden Egg, it will contain a Prize Item and a completed Novelty Egg.

Novelty Eggs are deconsctructable Easter-only Items that contain many useful goodies... you can also forge them with 10 Egg Shell Fragments. All Novelty Eggs will be deleted when the Easter Event is over, so use them when you get them!

When you have found the Golden Egg, send HB a message. We will verify that you have the Golden Egg Location item in your inventory before awarding you the prize... What is the prize? 150,000 EXP credited to your account and a special Profile-Page Easter Egg Hunt Champion Award.

+ The First Egg/clue is located near Origin; [0,0]
+ The event ends on April 3rd at approximately Midnight EST.
+ You must have the Golden Egg Location item in your inventory for an Admin to verify your prize eligibility.
+ Sharing the Golden Egg location with anyone will disqualify you from receiving the prize. Assisting Fleetmates with finding the other eggs is permissible.

Happy Easter, and Happy Hunting!

~ GalaxyWarfare Staff

It's been a while since my last update, so I wanted to address a few things- and a plan for the near future.

Governments
Voting for April is open! Go select your favorite Faction candidate :)

State of the Game
I was largely absent during the month of February, due to IRL issues. I have returned and have resumed development! Keep an eye out for updates...

Management
Site leadership has changed, per the owner of the game. We would like to give a big thank-you to Pure fire x2 for his time as Admin on GW. It wouldn't be the place it is today without him! Additionally, I would like to welcome Quenster to the Staff team as an Honor Guard. He'll be helping out with Site Promotion, moderation, and the dishes from time to time (they pile up quickly in the Staff lounge, trust me).

The Future
I've started work off-site on a new prototype Profile page! This is expected to take a while, so we're planning other updates for the more immediate future. I'm also working on an automated Event system, but unfortunately have hit a roadblock. I'm not sure how long it will take to resolve. Lastly, we may or may not be cooking up something for Easter... so fire up your galactic egg hunting baskets!

Bugfixes
The Government Voting quick-view on the Home page will no longer show the incorrect month.
We are currently working on fixing some of the madness caused by the Daylight Savings Time switch.
Submitting a legitimate Bug Report to a Staff Member could earn you the Bug Master Award!

HB

HB here! In the last 3 weeks, I've been working on a new remodeled UI for desktop. I had a few main goals for this UI update, but before listing them, I'd like to remind everyone that CHANGES ARE NOT PERMANENT. I expect some backlash here, and may re-implement things if they're not well-received. However, I'd ask that the community approach with an open mind, and be willing to try things out for a bit. Here were my goals for this update:

+ (1) Expand Playing Area
+ (2) Simplify Navigation Menus
+ (3) Improve Tablet Operation
+ (4) Decrease Page Lag
+ (5) Eliminate Redundancy

(1) The first thing you'll notice is the removal of the right column. I did this to allow for more playing space and streamlined navigation. Additionally, having three different-length columns for the page body does not work well for site coherency. Because of this, the Subscriber Warp Box and Quests Quickbox were removed from the game. The Console was moved up next to chat. (Which resulted in the removal of the Toggle Chat function) I would like to see what people think of this change. Chances are, the Console will be relocated again soon.

(2) The goal of Navigation Simplification was to refine the Nav Menu into a more logical, easy-to-understand system. The prior menu was disorganized and had no logical placement of its options. The new menu exists in categorized option blocks. Additionally, the Other Sections menu was re-sorted and your Account Logs have been relocated to a new Menu Block below Other Sections. Certain Nav links have been removed from the menu entirely, and relocated to the new Home page, discussed below. This is also the case for the Online List and Game Stats. The top navigation bar has also been changed: Galaxy, Profile, and Quests have been removed, "Home" has been added, and the "Links" dropdown has been replaced with an "Info" button that takes you to a redesigned Links page. Why did I remove the Links from that dropdown? Well...

The Home Page
Perhaps the most significant addition in this update is the Home page. It's a work in progress. Currently, it is intended to be a "community center" similar to The Tower in DRPG. It has Social Icon-Links, the Online List is now located here, it has "quicklinks" for some of the more important navigation aspects, and Game Stats / POTD / Lottery information now reside here. I also brought back the Daily Best LBs on the Home page. This will be the page that you see upon loading the game. The latest News Post and Poll are shown here, as well as a "Support the Game" box and Version Information. It's also where the new Copyright notice is. During Government voting, there will be a small section showing the top people running. Lastly, Weekly Top 10s were changed to Weekly Top 5s and moved from the News page to the Home page, toggleable by a button in the upper right of the page. This addition took approximately a day total to perfect, and it will improve over time :)

(3) The simplification of Nav menus and expansion of the playing area have made the Tablet version of the game much easier to navigate.

(4) I recoded the site's Worker (handles navigation) to get page locations from the Database, instead of searching a hard-coded list. I also isolated said list in its own DB table, which helps speed when generating the menus- this also assists in menu management.

(5) My drive to do this was not only the disorganization seen in the original menus, but also to cut back on link repitition seen throughout the game. The new update's overarching goal was to streamline site usage- something desperately needed both for the everyday player and newbies who can feel overwhelmed. I understand it may be difficult to adapt to at first, but it should provide more pleasant usage in time.

For the full ChangeLog, see the Update Post!

Also check out Home

This week in the Galaxy...

Dr. Crazy's History Lesson
One of our awesome Staff Members, CrazyT, wrote up a recount of the site's early days, and his Fleet's history in the game. It's an awesome read if you've got 5 minutes to spare!
Read it here!

Micro-Event
Some sneaky Admin hid 3 Loot Caches in the Asteroid Belt, but they self-destruct in 3 Days! Find them quickly!
More info here!

Canards
Word is that HB's planning some sort of Navigation / Layout update for Monday the 22nd, which is coincidentally his 3 Year Anniversary on the site. It's guaranteed to annoy some, and bring joy to others! I heard the words "coherency", "less lag" and "decreased redundancy" floating around... Only time will tell what he's stirring up!

Notices
☆ Are you interested in being interviewed, or would like to see someone else interrogated? Go annoy Pure fire x2 in the Interview Requests Forum thread!
☆ Government Voting ends in 10 days! Vote for your candidate now!
☆ Nihilant is on a rampage. You better hide. He's probably attacking your base while you read this post.

I'm thrilled to announce an exciting New feature to start off the New Year: Warp Points! As requested in the past, this system gives you the ability to save Locations that you can access via your Warp Drive... with no limits on distance. However, you are limited by Slots (the number of Locations you can add) and what Advanced Systems you have enabled. To use the Warp Points system, you must have the Advanced Scanner and Advanced Warp Drive installed and activated. You're then given the ability to manage your Warp Points from the bottom of the My Ship Page. After you've added some Warp Points, you can see them in your Warp Drive's drop-down list. The maximum Slots you can have is 8. ALL players are given 2 free slots, and Subscribers may use all 8 free of charge. Non-subscribers may purchase additional slots (8 max) using Tokens. (The price is exponential)

In using this feature, please keep in mind that there may be bugs, and balances / tweaks to the system may soon follow. Feel free to PM me if you have any feedback or suggestions!

Now, we would like to address something we feel is going to be important in the days ahead:

Over the years there have been a number of instances of either game manipulation or exploitation. The users responsible have been dealt with in various ways, but have often been shown a degree of lenience. This has set a bit of a precedent that "because Player X didn't get banned, Player Y should also be allowed to remain” as a matter of fairness.

Moving forward, however, we will no longer be taking into account the way we dealt with previous cases. We value every individual who chooses to play this game. But we also value the integrity of the game, and will no longer use past precedence to determine how we deal with those who choose to manipulate, exploit, or circumvent the game mechanics as they are intended to be used.

While no further action will be taken retroactively against wayfaring players who have already been met with varying degrees of punishment, we will be taking a hard line against cheating from this moment onward. Any player who is found to be cheating will be banned in accordance with the rules of the game. This is a matter of fairness to all who play and appreciate the game as it is meant to be played.

Thank you to all who continue to enjoy Galaxy Warfare for the fun game it is!

P.S. Go vote in the Poll!

The New Year's event was a huge success, with many players out hunting for Fireworks. Now, here are your winners!

In first place is... JONNYMAXED! Who collected a total of 51 Fireworks.

In second place is... SKITZOTHEHOBO! Who collected a total of 44 Fireworks.

In third place is... XECENDE! Who collected a total of 29 Fireworks.

And, our runner-up is XERIC, with a total of 21 Fireworks.

The top three participants win a Planet at their location of choice, on or off-grid.
Please PM me with the coordinates, Name, and Variant of your choice. (Variant list here)

Our runner-up, xEric, receives a free limited-time New Year Popper. These Poppers can be crafted with 3 Fireworks, and deconstructed for a ton of useful items. Remember, all Poppers and Fireworks will be deleted on January 10th!

Here are the full event Leaderboards:

Are you ready for 2018? Kick off the year by winning a planet to call your own! Starting tonight and running through Wednesday, January 3rd, you’ll have the opportunity to collect Firework items in-game. They’re obtainable in various ways, but you’ll find them mainly on-grid inside limited-time “New Year Ball” objects, of which there’s three. They have a respawn time of 1.5 minutes each, so it should be relatively easy for you to collect them. At the end of the event, the TOP THREE PEOPLE with the most Fireworks will receive a planet of their choosing wherever they would like on or off the grid. Additionally, for one week after the event ends, Firework items will be craftable into New Year Poppers, which can be deconstructed for EXP, credit, and token items. On January 10th, all Firework & popper items will be deleted- so be sure to craft them and use them! You will not need to submit your Firework items at the end of the event, they will be counted up automatically and the winners posted in the News.

Have fun, and Happy New Year!

~HB and GW Staff

I'm excited to announce GW's 2017 Christmas Event!

First off, sorry for the late notice. Things have just picked up here in the last week or so. I'm very enthusiastic about working with the Staff on getting GW back into shape in 2018, and thankful for the opportunity to be a Developer. More on our plans soon. Now for what we've cooked up this year!

+ HAL 9000 is now Santa Claus. You best believe it. He's watching you.
+ Santa gives out only Christmas codes, and very frequently.
+ He also announces deaths with Christmas-infused vigor.
+ The site has a wonderful new Christmas Lights background (full refresh if you can't see it)
+ The News page also has a slight thematic change...
+ The Staff is having an exclusive Christmas party, and so we're going to be prominently displaying our shiny new colors while we can... This shade of Red really suits me, don't you think?
+ EXP gains are boosted game-wide to 250% normal rates, with the exception of Mining
+ Candy Canes and Coal will be given out in Item Code Form by Staff
+ Special Present Ships will be arriving on Christmas Day

And now, for the moment you've all been waiting for... the main event!

There are a total of 10 special Objects scattered throughout the Galaxy:

8 Reindeer (Don't worry, they're named accordingly)

1 Rudolph

1 "Santa"


These work just like other Special Objects. They show up on your scanner as Yellow, and when collected they move to a random spot on the grid and have a small renewal time before they're available for collection again.

These objects each carry items that, when combined, form a Christmas Present. You can use the Christmas Present to get a bunch of neat stuff... or, if you're a man of simple taste, start farming Reindeer Poo and see where you get. You never know...

We may add additional things as the event progresses.
Once again, sorry for the late notice!
We'll try to roll out something sweet for New Years to make up for it, if we can.
If not, just expect a massive year of updates in 2018... they're coming, baby!

So. After a few months of no big updates on the site due to a multitude of reasons. I am happy to announce that our very own, HB has been promoted to admin and will be helping out to get updates going on.

He will be helping fix bugs, running events, painting the baseboards.

- Fixed Player Bounties with Tokens
- Fixed another case where Mining Grids could get stuck on smaller sized grids.
- Fixed an issue with Planet Renewal for Tokens
- Add Fleet Member online check to Fleet Member list

Hey all! It's been a while since I posted anything. Here's what is happening. Pure Fire x2 is cleaning up staff so as to get a group of active players. He's also going to work on some events and a Season! Details soon!

MINING GRID ISSUES
If you have the smaller Mining Grid issue, do this:
Go to Mining > Change Grid > Cancel
You should have the correct Grid again. I think that P2 already fixed Graveyard ships from dropping grids, but we'll see. If it happens to you again you can do the Change Grid fix, but let me know!

GRAVEYARD RESET
I reset the graveyard ships as it has been some time since thats been done. It will slowly fill up with dead players.

FACTION GOVERNMENTS SET
For October they have been set and voting can start again for November!

UMIR QUEEN GATE FIXED
It was not getting it's password correctly. This has been fixed. Happy Hunting!

More news soon...

Figured I'd post something here for everyone to see - yeah, that Weekly Mission to claim 1000 planets? It's just not going to work; I can't fix it without a huge amount of work.

Basically, the system cannot process back-to-back missions that track the same thing; i.e. you can't have two Daily missions back to back that both track how many credits you earn. The automated system handles this just fine; it just can't randomly pick missions that wouldn't work. But with the influx of many available missions, that system is being overwritten, and broken missions are the result. Sorry.

I've spent a bunch of time seeing if I could get around the issue; but unfortunately, the system can't distinguish between this weeks' mission and last weeks. According to all of the data I have available from a system stand point, it's just the same exact weekly. If you didn't complete it last week, you have a second shot. If you did complete it last week, well, you completed it last week, and there wasn't a weekly to replace it. I have no ability to split the two weeks apart, unfortunately.

The fix for this is, basically, to completely redo the entire mission system. Right now, there is no record of which mission is run when.

The easiest thing for me to do at this point is actually write a little script that will give everyone who claimed the 1000 planets in the past week their reward; but I'll need to wait for the week to be completely over to run it (to ensure I see all valid mission completions).

Sorry for the bug; hopefully I can devote energy into a revamped mission system before the end of the year. /crossesfingers.

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

+ Warp Panel re-implemented for Subscribers
++ Remodeled to fit theme, relocated above Nav Bar
+ New Daily Best Leaderboard: Planets Claimed

+ Fixed registration (durrrrr)
+ Fixed Auction Log

+ Staff can now Pin / Unpin messages in Global
+ Honor Guards and Admins now have easy-ER access to User Moderation... so BEHAVE!!!

+ Lots of other Backend or Staff updates that aren't worth mentioning

+ Working on "Mentions" for Users in the Chat Box

Right Column
+ Removed
++ Console relocated next to Chat
++ Halosphere button removed
++ Toggle Chat button removed

Left Column
+ Re-grouped Navigation
++ Changed Style of Other Sections Nav
++ Moved Logs to separate Nav
+ Removed Box toggle ability
+ Relocated Online List to Home
+ Relocated Game Stats to Home

Top Nav Bar
+ Removed: Galaxy, Quests, Profile
+ Added Home
+ Moved Leaderboards to the right
+ Changed Links to Info
++ Removed drop-down functions; now on Home
++ Also remodeled Info to be categorized

HOME - ADDITION
+ New location for:
++POTD & Lotto
++ Online List
++ Game Stats
++ Daily Bests [re-added to game]
++ Promotional Content
++ Weekly Top 5s [previously top 10s]
+ Also contains:
++ Current Global Alert
++ Latest: News & Poll
++ Top 3 contestants for Gov't in each faction
++ Current day's Stats
++ Social Box
++ Support the Game
++ Version Info [new] / Copyright
++ Account Birthdays [new]
+++ Accounts above level 1 that have logged in in the past 120 days
+++ Shows how many years they have been on the site
++ Message a Dev [new]
++ Quick Links
+++ New location for 5 main links removed from the Nav Menu

Other
+ POTD formula altered slightly
+ Home is page load location
+ Chat-banned players are forced to agree to the Chat Rules again
+ Chat Posts per day are now tracked
+ HAL now posts item codes to the site's Discord server on occasion
+ Latest Poll removed from Forums
+ Weekly Top 10s removed from News
+ Sent Messages now show when the recipient read them
+ New Maintenance Page
+ Devs can use rich text in Chat
++ Potentially expanded to Admins and Honor Guards

> Fixed Graveyard Warp
> Extended Advanced Warp Distance to +/- 100,000
> Added Gargantua + TARS Special object and Profile Collectible (from Interstellar)

> Fixed Sharp-edged buttons (no rounded corners)
> Added Discord Widget to lower right
> Patched Lottery Ticket Exploit
> Moved and Shrank Neutral Zone
> Going to "My Items" while dead will show you a view-only version of the page
> Mobile players have a Phone instead of a "Check" on their profile when online
> Deleted more than 6000 unused item codes

More soon! This list will grow until next week, when I start a new one.

Aug 2nd:
* Realized I broke the chat filter. Fixed it, then threw it away and added a new one.

July 27th:
* Not posted Jan 11th

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