The second of the major announced changes is ready.

The warmup formula is changed in the direction of its acceleration. Instead of 200 / the root of the speed became 100 / the root of the speed.

The fleet can be sent from any battle. In this case, the unit will be send directly from the battle only at the end of the warm up. All the time of warm up the fleet leaving the battle stands still and can attack and be attacked. The units have different times of warm up and will leave the battle in order: who has the shorter time, will leave the battle faster.

!!! Attention! Even if you attacked the enemy with a simple mission attack during the battle, you can send your attack fleet to any mission. The attack is no longer the reason for the return of the fleet to the start point.

For example, Petya attacked the planet of Vasya and there is a battle. Vasya's fleets are not blocked by the battle and can be sent from the planet while all the time the overtaking fleet will be in immobility mode in the battle, but with the ability to attack.

The innovation has not been completed yet. In particular, if the fleet is on the coordinates with the mission of "occupation" or "recycling", then it is impossible to send the fleet from the mission itself, and if the fight starts, then it is possible. This will be done in the future. Also, the ability of 10% recovery of the Usurpers will be temporarily disabled.

More changes:
- The classic retreat of the fleet no longer awaits the end of the battle to turn the fleet, but does it right away. A classic retreat is possible in 300 seconds from the beginning of the battle.
- A nuclear missile that has reached its target forcibly stops the battle.
- The fleet is not deducted from the planet during the battle.
- Gigalord, who has arrived to take the goods, is waiting for the end of the battle (the flight is delayed for 5 minutes due to battle).
- After destroying a defense unit, it will be immediately added to the recovery queue. If there is already such an element (but not the first one in the queue), it will be added to the existing group.
- Locking of coordinate scanning of pirates with the sensor phalanx is disabled.
- Changes in the principle of the restoration of usurpers.
- IPM can join the ongoing battle (but the choice of the goal does not work yet);
- Restoration of defense is in real-time mode (ie immediately after it is destroyed, it will fall into the recovery queue);
- Units destroyed in battle are immediately deducted from the fleet (or from the planet);
- We increase the stability of the battles (in case of an internal error, the battle will try to finish correctly);
- During the battle, all the buyers of the fleet, the seizure of the goods by the gigalord, the construction of the defense mutating from the creeps are disabled.
 

One of the major announced announcements will be partially installed today. The fleet can be sent from any battle. In this case, the unit will be send directly from the battle only at the end of the warm up. All the time of warm up the fleet leaving the battle stands still and can attack and be attacked. The units have different times of warm up and will leave the battle in order: who has the shorter time, will leave the battle faster.

!!! Attention! Even if you attacked the enemy with a simple mission attack during the battle, you can send your attack fleet to any mission. The attack is no longer the reason for the return of the fleet to the start point.

For example, Petya attacked the planet of Vasya and there is a battle. Vasya's fleets are not blocked by the battle and can be sent from the planet while all the time the overtaking fleet will be in immobility mode in the battle, but with the ability to attack.

The innovation has not been completed yet. In particular, if the fleet is on the coordinates with the mission of "occupation" or "recycling", then it is impossible to send the fleet from the mission itself, and if the fight starts, then it is possible. This will be done in the future. Also, the ability of 10% recovery of the Usurpers will be temporarily disabled.

More changes:
- The classic retreat of the fleet no longer awaits the end of the battle to turn the fleet, but does it right away.
- A nuclear missile that has reached its target forcibly stops the battle.
- The fleet is not deducted from the planet during the battle.
- Gigalord, who has arrived to take the goods, is waiting for the end of the battle (the flight is delayed for 5 minutes due to battle).
- After destroying a defense unit, it will be immediately added to the recovery queue. If there is already such an element (but not the first one in the queue), it will be added to the existing group.
- Locking of coordinate scanning of pirates with the sensor phalanx is disabled.

Today, approximately at 09:20 server time, in the data center OVH, where the servers of the xcraft are located, there was a major malfunction, which led to the complete disconnection of the game for a long time.
Only at 15:50 server time all our infrastructure began to work in the normal mode, and we were able to restore the performance of the game.

Because for a long time the players could not manage their fleets, we decided not to launch a mission processing server so that you could cancel the flight of some fleets (for example, save, attack etc.).
All missions, except for transport, deploy, espionage and expedition were blocked.

The launch of all the functions of the game will be today at 19:00 server time.

More information about the accident can be read at this link.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope for your understanding.
 

Update:

You can notice a new functional "wish to improve" in the buildings. Click the button and drone will count how much resources it takes to improve or create the desired structure.

Sorting the list of fleets

The functionality which let sorting the list of fleets was added at the suggestion of the player Kastor from the section "New ideas".
In a realistic and adaptive interface you can see buttons with the settings of the list of fleets:

Click and choose the sorting of fleets that will be convenient for you.

At the moment there are 6 sorting options:
- By time (ascending, sorting by default)
- By time (descending)
- By player's nickname (ascending)
- By player's nickname (descending)
- By final coordinates (in ascending order)
- By final coordinates (descending)

As advertising: Classic interface does not support this functionality, so do not hesitate to switch to more modern interfaces: realistic or pocoloptive.


Exploding space pumpkin

As it was last year, we are organizing an action " Exploding space pumpkin" in honor of the Halloween!


Terms of action:
- Start: October 28, 2017 at 00:00:00 (server time)
- The end: on October 31, 2017 at 23:59:59 (server time)
- For every purchased 1 000 HC you will get 1 Medal "Exploding space pumpkin"
- Each owner of the medal (s) "Exploding space pumpkin" is added to the rating table (participates in the competition if there is a medal)
- The medal " Exploding space pumpkin " can be hidden in the section Medals
- The medal " Exploding space pumpkin " can be activated on any of the objects, it will increase the number of fields from 1 to 3 with a 50% of chance
- You can save the medal " Exploding space pumpkin ", it does not have time limits
- November 1, 2017 will sum up the competition and the player who took first place in the rating table will receive the flagship "Arbiter"
- Players who have hidden " Exploding space pumpkin " medals are not shown in the rating table, but as well as other medal owners participate in the competition


Filter of spam-fleets

The spam-fleet filter is loaded on the server as an experimental functional. By default, it is disabled, you can enable it via the settings button of the fleet list (fleet page). If you enable it, it will analyze the number of fleets, and if it finds that there are spam fleets - will exclude them from the list. In the header you can see how many fleets were excluded from the list:



Update:

You can notice a new functional "wish to improve" in the buildings. Click the button and drone will count how much resources it takes to improve or create the desired structure.

XBOCTUK, Флоты не находятся при отправке ресурсов на координаты, а нужно отправлять на планету.

Today we have downloaded a new functionality that should provide protection against spam fleets, which some players like to use to turn a computer or an opponent's phone into a brick.

In our opinion, when a lot of players of one alliance send hundreds of fleets for "distraction", organizing DDoS attack on the browser of the opponent - this is not considered as fair game and respect of the opponent.

Now, with many simultaneous enemy fleets, an algorithm will be included that will determine whether there are spam fleets among enemy fleets. If such fleets will be found, they will be filtered out and not included in the general list of flying fleets:




If the algorithm is wrong and you see that the total number of spam-fleet points is too large, you can turn off the filter by clicking on the link in the header of the fleet list.

As advertising: Classic interface / classic review does not support this functionality, so do not hesitate to switch to more modern interfaces: realistic or pokoloptive.

As part of the announcement of the major changes, we are beginning to increase the warm-up time . it  is accelerated by 33%, the formula 200 instead of 300.

We are going to start tests for the new PD and MD, programmers promised to roll out the destruction for testing on the test servers of the project.

Please be advised that Tomorrow (October 19, 2017) at 05:00 server time will be performing scheduled maintenance. 

All missions will be stopped during that time. 

The game and the forum will not be available too. 

Estimated duration of scheduled maintenance is about 1 hour. 

Your fleet, which will arrive on a mission at this time, will be processed with a delay, so please do not plan serious actions at that time, the more, battles that will require personal involvement. 

With fleets in saves, as well as with fleets which will arrive on a mission at that time, nothing will happen. 

Please plan accordingly. We apologize for any inconvenience to you.


Scheduled Maintenance completed

The possibility of capturing of special planets was canceled.
This is justified by the fact that they lost their strategic importance after the change of the galaxy (arms instead of galaxies, and the distance was reduced).
Their uncomfortable location (at the beginning of the arm) also affected this decision because of the inaccessibility for players at the end of the arm.

Some features of the special planets have been preserved:
 - Visibility in profile
 - Unable to rename
 + Increased output
 + Large sizes on some sites
Other personal characteristics listed on the page of special planets.

Also, special planets now can be made the capitals of your empire, as well as ordinary planets.

You have noticed the changes in the mapping of alliance networks.

At a minimal zoom on the FullHD monitor, you can see the entire network in width.

Now the network is drawn faster.

The mission Occupation is changed. Now it is considered as a sub-set of the attack and the profit obtained through it is displayed on the Trade page among the resources looted in raids. In practical terms, this means that from now on, occupation within the limit, will be free of penalties.

For example, before a player with 100,000 points, occupying a player with 200,000 points received only half of the accumulated resources in the holds of the fleet. Now if the limit of resources received from the occupier is not full, he will receive the full amount.

Нужно нажать на плюсики и будет награда за каждый бой.

The number of pirates on the coordinates is increased by one third.

Attack of the broodling is increased, but its radius is slightly reduced. The speed of the broodling is increased from 1000 to 1500.
Attack of hydralisk is increased.

Proto1, У вас выполнено второе здание полностью.

Synthetic can save 1% of fuel per level, not 0.75%, but its cost is increased to 400 HC.

Amortization is reduced from 0.125% to 0.1%.

The occupation mission became twice as profitable for the occupier.
From now on, he receives 10% of the output of the occupied player for every hour of occupation with a maximum of half of his production.
Before, it was 5% per hour with a maximum of 25%.

Pirates are cut slightly. Now the maximum average number of pirate fleet points at coordinates 412.
The number of pirate bases on the coordinates appearing every hour is reduced from 100 to 75.

Выдана медаль "Космический странник", которую можно активировать здесь и получить этот корабль.

On the page with the officers (mutants, elders) was added the possibility to see average levels of officers. You also can see average levels of research (evolutions, disciplines).

Summer is over and from now warmup is 400.

Due to some unannounced balance changes, this is the norm now, so it is not a bug.