Changelog

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• 221

  • Updating numerous packages to the latest version.

  • Some code cleanup

  • Added restore purchases for android in settings

• 220

  • Can watch ads up till your max offline time

  • Clicking on the dark black blocker panel of all popups will close that popup

  • The watch ad reward increases by 15 seconds per research completed

  • Double tap a resource in the fabricator resource selector to automatically select it

  • A lot of code refactoring, please report bugs.

• 219:

  • Updated unity.

  • Adding the ability to receive giveaways from discord.

• 217:

  • Adding options to delete account data

  • Updating some third party assets

  • Updating Unity to LTS 2022

  • Adding a new module to trigger updates from the app (Android Only)

• 214: 

  • Research Changes

    • Increase max ships research also increases ship capacity by 10%

    • Increase max routes also increases ship capacity by 10%

  • Increase max ship capacity for the tithe credit market to a max of 1000%

• 213:

  • Bulk assign now has a button to assign to all available advanced fabs

  • Tithe

    • Instant Production

      • Use credits to instantly produce bulk amount of resources

    • Planet Resource Ratio

      • Use credits to increase the resource ratio of all planets

    • Increased mothership slots by 3

    • Increased max ship capacity by 10 levels (50%)

  • New Research

    • Improve space station efficiency

  • UI Improvements

  • Code cleanup

  • Base trade ship capacity increased by approx. 66%

• 207:

  • Updating Unity to 2022

  • Rewrite of offline mechanics. Should simulate time a lot faster now.

    • Thank you IvanK for your technical assistance. You are a rockstar. 

  • Added 6 hours of offline time for both starter & pro pack

  • Thorium is now Tungsten

• 194:

  • Trade ships now appear behind the mothership and planets

  • Turning on battery saver will now also make the trade ships opaque.

  • Increased mothership planet range by 30%

  • Changed the mothership range indicator.

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • The tithe tutorial screen can softlock the game if it appears while you have other menus open.

• 193:

  • Fixing rare issue with font error

• 192:

  • Adjustments to the tutorial to prevent people from going off the path

• 191:

  • Adding link to reddit

  • Tweaking tithe data fetch to prevent update failures

• 190:

  • Manager abilities ship speed and ship capacity have been combined into ability.

• 186:

  • Offline ship time is slightly exaggerated to prevent underestimations in the simulation

    • Basically, if the ship would have completed at least 50% of the trip, that's rounded up to 1 trip.

    • Any remainder is rounded up, so the ship completing 1.2 trips is now rounded up to 2 trips.

    • Previously, it was rounded down.

  • The time bonus for 1.5 times more mine production has increased from 30 minutes to 60 minutes.

  • Gem powerups increased from 15 minutes to 20 minutes

  • Bugs fixed:

    • Changes to hopefully prevent issues that occur when the call to the server to refresh tithe data fails

    • Mine bonus ad was running out way too fast

  • Cleaning up some unused assets to reduce file size.

• 183:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • The game wouldn't load the first time you start it. (My bad)

  • Updating a bunch of third party libraries.

  • Updating unity packages

• 178:

  • Added way for players to set their own names

  • All planets list now shows the space station level

• 177:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Building new fabs would sometimes break them, by not producing anything

• 174:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Destroying an ingot fab or advanced fab didn't clean up the data properly.

  • Reduced cost of manager cards.

  • If all your research is maxed out, it won't be possible to get manager abilities that increase research speed

• 173:

  • Settings menu grays out buttons that won't work if you aren't connected to playfab.

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Game would freeze on open if the game wasn't connected to the internet.

    • Fixed manager abilities calculation.

    • Fixed multiple planet windows opening at once.

• 172:

  • Space stations added

    • Upgrade to gain massive bonuses on a planet

  • Max ship capacity credit upgrade increased

  • Sometimes, the tithe fails to load, I've added some additional logging around that

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Some UI issues fixed

    • Fixed issue where planets wouldn't process fabricators offline

• 164:

  • Ingot fabricator speed boosted

  • Added new information about manager bonuses in the manager bonus panel

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Fixed a bug where the shipyard would lock up and not finish ships in the queue

• 156:

  • Update Unity to latest version

  • Fix for rare issue that could corrupt managers

  • Fix for exit prompt lagging

• 155:

  • Managers:

    • Fabrication speed for planet manager bonus increased

  • Preperformance tweaks.

  • Install size optimization

• 153:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Fixed a bug where research could be slow if the tithe research bonus was 0.

• 152:

  • Total offline time is shown during offline simulation

  • offline simulation now shows actual time offline

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Clicking on the green arrow on a ship in a trade route wasn't showing any resources, if it was linked by the mothership.

  • Code cleanup

• 151:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Fixed issue where offline earnings weren't being calculated for fabs/ingot fabs on the mothership

    • Fixed issue where credit upgrade for ship capacity showed ".05%" instead of the actual value, 5%.

• 150:

  • Experimenting with new offline simulations

    • Max offline time increased to 12 hours

  • Optimizations 

  • Keep screen awake checkbox added in settings

    • An AFK screen will show up after 5 minutes of no activity.

  • Bug Fixes (Mostly cosmetic)

• 146:

  • 1-2 Star Manager purchase increased from 30 gems to 40

  • You can now sell managers for 10 gems per star rating

  • Shipyard docked ships are now grouped by type

  • Trade route adding a ship now shows ships grouped by type

  • You can add more than 1 ship at a time to the queue.

  • Manager strengths boosted

• 143:

  • Mothership Fab Sync

    • Deactivate a fabricator, and add it's production speed to the remaining active fabricators.

  • Bulk assign

    • Quickly assign a resource to a mothership fab from the resource details window.

  • Map sized increased so you can see planets on the edge easier.

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Fixed an issue where  a manager merge that resulted in a higher rarity wouldn't give that manager an additional ability.

    • Rounding issues on tithe contributions fixed.

    • Fixed issue where sales weren't showing up.

  • Tithe Adjustments

    • Rewards:

      • Ship Speed removed.

      • Ship Capacity removed.

      • Ship Speed + Capacity added.

      • Ingot Ore Efficiency added.

    • Reducing the rate of tithe requirements growth (Growth of tithe requirements is based on how many were completed last tithe)

    • Some resources won't appear in the same tithe (Ex. Aluminum Ingot + Thrusters)

    • Private tithe contribution reduced to 50% of the value of the normal tithe

  • Improved tutorial details

  • Daily reward is now checked once an hour vs once at start

• 134:

  • Added new research to decrease ore required for ingots

  • Added sales

  • When the game starts, it will be focused on the mothership

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Fixed an issue with advanced fabricator crafting

• 132:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Logging was broken from the last release

  • Managers:

    • Cards will now show rarity.

    • When merging managers, there's now a chance to get a higher rarity manager.

    • When merging managers, the first selected manager will keep their abilities, but have a higher star rating.

    • Manager bonuses increased by 50%

    • Manager details will now show unassigned planets

• 131:

  • You can now rename routes.

  • You can now reorder buildings on the mothership or planets

  • New players will be prompted to set their sound settings before the tutorial begins

  • Additional logging around errors found

• 129:

  • Tutorial:

    • When you have the goal to research dhow, iron plate, and new planet, those research items will pulsate. 

    • Some windows will automatically close when you are progressing in the tutorial, to prevent confusion.

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Some players cloud save didn't sync correctly.

    • Fixed rare issue where users could have trade ships adding negative resources.

    • Fixed issue where buying a planet slot before the tutorial prompt you to can stop the tutorial from progressing

    • The order of resource pickup and dropoff in routes no longer matters

• 128:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Tutorial:

      • If you didn't move the ship close enough, the tutorial didn't correctly roll back to the previous slides.

      • The slide to add a stop to the route blocked the mothership.

  • Improved logging for issues I'm trying to isolate.

  • Code tweaks

• 127: 

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Fixed an issue during the tutorial where you couldn't click on the planet after closing the UI

• 126:

  • Adding logging around a rare scenario where resources can go negative (still trying to figure that out)

• 124:

  • Bugs fixed:

    • Any errors to the tithe contribution will return the spent resources

  • Added a notification when tithe contributions fail

  • Updated game icon

  • Reversed spin of mothership icon in maps to make it stick out more

  • Added 2 missing planet composition resources

  • EXPERIMENTAL: attempting to make the offline ship calculations better. Please let me know if you see anything crazy going on. I can't really test this in unity directly.

  • Minor code optimizations

  • Updated Unity

  • Updated Android to android 13

  • Most resource lists should be in order now. Let me know if I missed one

• 123:

  • A general tithe option has been added

    • Allows you to contribute any resource for 10% of it's normal value

  • Pressing the back button will bring up an option to exit the game

• 122:

  • A map has been added to show when you add a stop to a trade route

  • A new upgrade has been added to the mothership

    • Similar to the planet upgrade

  • 2 new research added to the research tree

    • Increase all fab rate

    • Increate planet composition

  • Starter pack

    • Fab rate increased from +1.25 to 1.50

  • Pro pack

    • Fab rate increased from 1.60 to 2.00

  • Balancing:

    • Taphora copper ore increased from 50% to 55%

    • Struxilea copper ore increased from 50% to 60%

    • Helreoria copper ore increased from 50% to 55%

  • Future tithes will have a variable end time of up to 12 hours to provide a chance for people in different time zones to be active at the start. 

  • You can now zoom in and out in the research screen.

• 120:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Notifications fixed

• 119:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • All Planets list didn't show correct upgrade amount for gem planet upgrade.

  • If you bought no-ads, the close button won't appear on the random ad reward.

  • Costs for Mothership 1st Fabrication credit purchase slot reduced from 5k to 350

  • Cost for 1st Planet unlocked reduced from 50k to 250

  • When adding a resource on the trade route for pickup, only resources that exist on the planet will appear as options

  • Code Cleanup

• 118:

  • Setting an advanced fab goal before setting the item will keep the goal

  • Tithe is now unlocked once you complete the first phase of the tutorial (When you get gems and a manager)

  • Attempting to fix the notifications

• 116:

  • Added option to reset private tithe for 5 gems

  • Balancing

    • Heavy Thruster

      • Added 5 Silver Ingot

    • Titanium Frame

      • Added 2 Silver Ingot

    • Research Planet Unlock 12 completely redone

• 115:

  • Added manager details screen in the bottom right details

  • Resource credit values updated

  • Planet Aphagua

    • Iron Ore Removed

    • Added Thorium at 25%

  • Research Changed

    • Planet 17 and Planet 18 swapped

• 113:

  • Balancing

    • Freighter Frame

      • Added 10 Silver Ingot

      • Reduced Gold Ingot from 15 to 10

      • Reduced Silicon Ingot from 15 to 10

      • Reduced Thorium Ingot from 15 to 10

      • Reduced Cobalt Ingot from 15 to 10

  • Bugs Fixed

    • Wrong icon for planet 13 research

• 111:

  • Balancing

    • Research Planet Unlock 15

      • FTL drives required reduced from 100 to 75

    • FTL Drive

      • Thorium reduced from 20 to 15

    • Planet Aphagua

      • Aluminum Ore Removed

      • Added Thorium Ore at 25%

      • Titanium Ore increased to 30%

  • Added some more ship names

• 110:

  • Max camera zoom increased by about 12.5%

  • Balancing:

    • Megaton Crusher

      • Cobalt Ingot cost decreased from 30 to 20

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Ships still weren't carrying correct capacity.

  • Code Cleanup

  • Added a checkbox in settings to turn off the ship particle effects.

    • Use this if you experience performance issues.

• 108:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Logging in to an existing account wasn't properly migrating purchases and credits

    • Fixed black text in the login screen

• 106:

  • Balancing

    • Heavy Thruster

      • Added 1 Girder

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Planets had double the intended production

    • Fixed an issue where ships wouldn't carry the correct amount of cargo

    • Fixed an issue where ads would no longer appear.

    • Private tithe wasn't limited to it's maximum contribution

    • Fixed an issue where the playfab id couldn't be copied by clicking on it in the settings menu.

• 104:

  • Balancing

    • Arc Torch

      • Copper wire cost decreased from 15 to 10

      • Added 15 Cobalt Ingot

    • Freighter Frame

      • Added 15 Cobalt Ingot

    • FTL Drive

      • Gold Ingot increased from 15 to 20

    • Heavy Thrusters

      • Copper Ingot removed

      • Added 10 Cobalt Ingot

    • High Speed Conveyor

      • Copper Wire removed

      • Added 50 Cobalt Ingot

    • Megaton Crusher

      • Copper Ingot Removed

      • Added 30 Cobalt Ingot

    • Power Core

      • Computer reduced from 5 to 3

      • Added 100 Cobalt Ingot (What's balance?)

    • Solar Cell

      • Added 10 Cobalt Ingot

    • Superluminal Cutter

      • Added 5 Thorium Ingot

    • Survey Drone

      • Thorium Ingot increased from 15 to 20

    • Thermal Drill Bit

      • Added 25 Cobalt Ingot

      • Copper Ingot reduced from 25 to 5

  • Automated Assembler name changed to Auto Assembler

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • Ads were barely showing up.

• 103:

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • If you log into an existing account, your current credits and high score SHOULD migrate with you. If you lose your points after logging into your account, please email me.

    • Fixed duplicate icons in research tree

    • Attempting a fix for some planets appearing as boxes

    • If the player hasn't unlocked the tithe, the credit goal shouldn't appear

  • When the ingot fabricator is built, it detects the resources on that planet and sets the default to those

  • Total players added to top of leaderboard

  • Generated some spreadsheets with data. Those are available on the discord.

• 102:  

  • New private tithe

    • You get 75% of the point value, but the resource is based on what you already have unlocked

    • Private, so no one else can see it.

• 101:

  • If you remove a resource from a trade route, and a ship is holding that resource, it will be dropped off at the next stop.

    • The resource must not be present at any stop

  • In planet search, an indicator has been added to show the planet level

  • Notifications reworked to hopefully be less annoying and frequent.

  • Bugs Fixed:

    • If you clicked on any other research  during the tutorial section where you were unlocking iron ingot, you would be stuck and unable to proceed. 

• 100:

  • New credit shop added to convert credits into gems

• 99:

  • New ship models added

  • New Upgrade:

    • Spend gems to offer a permanent boost to a planet!

  • If there's no active research, the ad to boost active research won't show up.

• 97:

  • Icons updated with new images

  • Clicking on a resource requirement now opens up the resource details panel

  • Ingot Prefab now has a list of ingots, and you can enable or disable ingots.

• 95:

  • Routes are now % based instead of based on the capacity of the largest ship

  • A lot of resource recipes were adjusted to reduce dependency on copper and iron

  • Some bug fixes

  • I'm trying to adjust the offline simulation

    • It might appear slower, but it will be more accurate.

    • I'll continue to adjust this in future releases to find a nice balance.

  • Lowered the price of new manager cards

• 88: 

  • Basic autocomplete for adding routes

    • Looking for some feedback on that.

  • Most resource lists are sorted now

  • Various bug fixes

  • New ad added to skip 60 minutes of research.

• 78-87:

  • Work on the new  shared tithe features

• 77:

  • Balancing

    • Capacitor 

      •  Aluminum Ingot required decreased from 20 to 5

      • Now requires 6 Iron Ingot

      • Copper Wire increased from 5 to 6

• 76:

  • Balancing

    • Struxilea

      • Aluminum ore composition increased from 60 to 85

      • Iron ore composition decreased from 50 to 25

    • Helreoria 

      • Aluminum ore composition increased from 40 to 50

      • Gold ore composition decreased from 25 to 20

      • Silver ore composition decreased from 25 to 20

    • Cetrurn

      • Aluminum ore composition increased from 25to 30

      • Copper ore composition decreased from 37.5 to 30

    • Capacitor 

      •  Aluminum Ingot required decreased from 30 to 20

    • Computer

      • Now requires 3 iron ingot

  • Some backend work done for future content