Patchnotes – June 2014

Greetings, Pilots!

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

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


Events

* World Football Festival This event started on Thursday, June 12th and will last until July 13th. Football-themed event games and NPCs (e.g. Football Lordakia) appeared in the game alongside brand-new football bonus boxes! Furthermore, we offered football ship designs for the Goliath in the shop. Players were also given the chance to purchase special football ammunition to fight the popular Referee Bot which was roaming space.

* Football Betting Pool for DarkOrbit Football Fans A free betting pool started and offers DarkOrbit football fans the chance to bet on the World Cup matches held against their Community Managers. A special in-game title and a strictly limited edition of a jersey, which looks like the jersey of the Referee Bot, along with some of our football ship designs will be given away to the top-ranked players.​

Improvements

* Website ​

* Event Calender: Consecutive hours of Capture the Beacon events will no longer be displayed separately.

* Auction: If a player tries to bid on a ship type which is currently in his/her ship dump, he/she will not be able to bid on it again.​

* Game Client

* Hades Gate: The last two UberKristallons were removed from the gate to prevent players from exploiting the Hades gate mechanics.​

Bug-fixes

* Website ​

* Achievements: Scrollbars will now always be skinned to fit the entire design of the internal website.​

* Auction: ​

* Item descriptions will now always use correct punctuation.

* Item description texts will no longer run outside text boxes if they are too long to fit inside the text box.

* There won’t be any multiple log entries anymore in the auction history.

* Balance: If a player sells a CBS module, the balance entry will no longer state “extra bought” but “extra sold”.​

* EPPP: ​

* Usernames will no longer be cut off at the bottom.

* The profile view counter will work correctly again.

* Pilot name was not translated in the settings. This was fixed.

* Some display issues were fixed.

* Friend Invite: If players registered via a partner who does not allow friend invites, the friend invite page will be hidden.​

* Tech Factory: ​

* Techs cannot be used multiple times in a row while ignoring the cooldown.

* Scrollbars in the Tech Factory will use the correct skin again.

* Shop: The Citadel’s Fortify ability was incorrectly displayed in the shop description. It is now displayed correctly.​

* Rankings:

* P.E.T. Week ranking will be displayed again as intended.

* Some players did not show up in the “Top Experience”. This error was fixed.​

* Game Client ​

* Mission Control: The mission counter updates correctly again.

* Chat: The group chat window will disappear again if the group has already been dissolved.

* Settings: Hotkeys could not be assigned/changed in the settings. This error was fixed.

* Galaxy Gate: Last NPC waves will no longer disappear if shot down by kamikaze detonators.​

We also carried out a number of additional bug-fixes, text corrections and other improvements.

Regards,

Your DarkOrbit team