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Palestar DarkSpace 1.483

DarkSpace is a massively multiplayer online game set in the time of space travel and interstellar warfare. The universe has become a tumultuous place in the future of political infighting, economic sanctions and diplomatic posturing. All of the factions have high hostility towards one another with a few outposts staying neutral, at least initially, to determine their best interest.

Players start out as an ensign in the midst of a human civil war intensified by reports of an alien species aggressively spreading its domain throughout the known universe. Beginning with small crafts, you work your way up the ranks toward the ultimate goal of Grand Admiral, capable of commanding capital ships and planning the core strategics of your faction.

Latest Changes:

Ship spawning bug should be fixed
Weapons can now fire in any combination of the 4 possible facings (FORE, LEFT, RIGHT, and AFT). For example, a weapon can fire LEFT/FORE now
All noun objects now have a technology specification
Cloaking device has been refactored
Fixed a crash with the editor when importing a scenerio map into a running server
Changed string formatting code so that is uses thread-local storage instead of a semaphore internally
Velocity and cloak energy usage modifiers are on all ship hulls now
Added code to support homing mines and missiles that will automatically aquire a new target if their current target is lost
New hull/devices values have been implemented for balance
All hull types now have shield and armor modifiers
Implemented levels for all gadgets
Scenario map times now doubled to allow for more time in beta testing
All rendering is grouped by material now, which should result in less of a frame rate drop when rendering high numbers of objects (i.e. bombs, mines, fighters)
When gadgets are uninstalled, they will retain their level now, so if re-installed they will have their previous level
Disabled decay of items in a star port
ICC Fleet - All ships updated to new system
UGTO Fleet - All ships stats updated to new system
K`Luth Fleet - All ships updated to new system
Fixed a bug which prevented a drive from increasing the maximum velocity of a ship
Second and third level stations now properly set to GA Rank
New visual and audio effects added
New visual effects for Earth
New Engine code implemented
New slot system implemented allowing wider array of ship modification while attempting to limit specialty devices
Three new classes of fighters per faction. Assault, Interceptor, Bomber. Factories updated to produce these new fighter bay types
Decreased the number of shield/armor rings around the ships to compensate for the higher shield/armor ratings
Pulse shields now only work against fighters, missiles, and mines.. they do not work against particle cannons, ion cannons, and torpedos
New models and Icons added - UGTO Agincourt Carrier Dread, ICC Carrier Cruiser, PCM and Siege Missiles, UGTO and ICC Bomber and Interceptor Fighters
Split the UGTO STS-101 Carrier Dread into two varients, older model carries less fighters but more weapons at 2nd Rear Admiral Rank
New Defense base configurations for all three factions now implemented
Mines and Fighters now seperated into their own slots
Prestige gain turned off if over the servers max rank
HMA (Jump drive option for Stations) has been updated to charge faster than Wormhole 2 device and provide sufficent range for in-system travelling
ECCM pinging no longer reveils cloaked ships
Reflective Armor now reducing beam weapon damage
You can no longer spawn from shipyards on blockaded planets
There is a delay timer varied by hull that marks the time from when you uncloak until you can fire weapons
Rewrote the profiler system for Medusa/DarkSpace
Fixed gadget descriptions so the most important information is shown at the top
Fixed web metaverse map to show the factions correctly
Fixed/Implemented the nojoin flag for fleets
Implemented no prestige gain when the player is over the maximum rank for the server
Fixed bug which allowed jumps in 3D when targetting an object (such as an asteroid) that isn`t on the normal playing field
Fixed credit calculation errors when installing/removing devices
Implemented new spawn node which can spawn any type of noun into the world
Re-Factored the MirrorUpload executable which is used to upload code/data updates into the MirrorServer
Servers will now automatically self-update without having to be restarted by an admin
Mir fleet slotted for AI control now includes: Supply, Engineer, Cruiser, and Dread
5th Faction not named also AI controled now has the following ships: Transport
New Armor type - Ablative sheds portions of itself to reduce damage caused by projectile weapons
Optimized the ground units
New visual effects - Torpedo protectile and impact effects updated
A shield device`s level now affects its repair/charge rate
Reduced turn arc for missiles
Increased range modifier based on level for beam weapons
Minor updates to Sabots
New ship class added - Dread2
Fixed resourcer error that caused KLuth fighters to not appear visually in game
Hotkey fixes: ECM moved to P, ECCM moved to
Core weapon hotkeys removed
Disabled reloading, building, and mining while cloaked
New Kluth ship - Instars ~ Minelayer Frigate, Brood ~ Command Dread