Patchnotes – January 2015

Greetings, Pilots!

We post a lot of announcements about features and events, but we know that you can’t always see what we are doing to improve the game. These monthly patchnotes are a way to keep you better informed.

We implemented the following features, events, improvements and bug-fixes in January:

Features

· New Payment Layout
We launched a new payment layout which looks nicer than before and is much more user-friendly. Payment packages have been adjusted to better meet the player’s needs.​

Events

· Battle for Influence
The Battle for Influence event ran again in January. Players were asked to compete against each other for the glory of their Company. The top 100 players on each server have been rewarded and, additionally, all members of the server’s winning company received some benefits.
· Mexican Constitution Day (MX server only)
Like last year, we celebrated the anniversary of the Mexican constitution by running event games and adding special bonus boxes to the MX server.
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Bug-fixes

· Website

· Achievements: Destroyed Demaner NPCs were not counting toward the achievement’s progress. This was fixed.
· Auction: Fixed an exploit of the quick buy function, and sanctioned players who had abused it.
· Titles: The “Fireworks, fireworks!” and “Champion Hunt Pirate II” achievement titles are now selectable, and will be displayed on the map.
· Clan page: When a player is on the Kronos map, it was not displayed on the Clanpage. This has been fixed.

· Hall of Fame:

· In some cases, the finishing times for some gates were being displayed with negative values for some of the leading players. We fixed the issue and have set the finishing times for the affected players to 1h.
· Kappa Gate: The number of waves was not shown correctly on the website. This has been corrected.​

· Logbook: The Kristallon’s end rewards were not always shown in the players’ logs. EP, honor and Uridium amount should now be correctly displayed.
· Skylab/Tech Center: Fixed an exploit that made it possible to gain extra Seprom.
· Skilltree: Some players reported that it was not possible to close the message window informing you that you didn’t have enough Uridium to reset your skills. That window should now be closable.
· Shop: The Goliath corporation design package (“D-CORP”) was, under certain circumstances, displayed in the shop even if it was not currently for sale. It will no longer appear when not for sale.​

· Game Client

· Quickslot-bar: In certain cases, the client would display the number of UBR-100 missiles as “0” although in the inventory a higher number was displayed. This was due to a double entry in the database and has been fixed.
· Minimap: Clan tag on P.E.T.s was not always shown in green when in a Galaxy Gate Map. This should have been resolved.
· Anti Pushing System:
· P.E.T.s of players from your own company no longer grant positive amounts of honor and experience if shot down. You are now going to loseCredits and honor for shooting friendly P.E.T.s.
· Added log-text for shooting down friendly P.E.T.s.
· Demaner cargo boxes were not collectible if a player died while collecting them. This has been fixed.
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Improvements

· Game Client:

o The area which you can click to select a Devolarium NPC has been reduced, as it was too big compared to the actual NPC’s size. This should make it easier to select NPCs close to the Devolarium NPC.
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We also carried out a number of additional bug-fixes, text corrections, and other improvements.

Regards,
Your DarkOrbit team