Big Update: support fleets, galaxy bookmarks and the Fleet Launch event

v0.462.0 (Sep 29) -> v0.495.1 (Oct 3)

Thank you for the first week of Early Access! Here is everything that changed since launch.

New

• Defend your own colonies and your allies: stationed support fleets now fight when the planet is attacked, get their own battle report and can be recalled from War Center > Attacks.
• Galaxy map bookmarks: save up to 50 planets and players, shown as gold pins on the map and minimap.
• Spy intel on the galaxy map: planets you spied in the last 72 hours show an eye marker with your latest report.
• The galaxy map now highlights the planet you selected with a white ring.
• On desktop, the planet popup on the galaxy map can be dragged so its buttons are never cut off.
• Attack dialog: "Quick pick" ship shortcuts, and VIP players can load their Farm Assistant presets A/B/C directly.
• Fleet Launch live event (running until Oct 5): event tasks, a reel spinner and exclusive skins (Admiralty Prime, Launch Falcon, Ace Pilot) at 5 / 25 / 60 spins.
• Identical inventory items now stack, with an "Activate all" button.
• The Combat Calculator is now easy to find.
• You can hide the tutorial guide from settings or from the Governor bubble. Your progress and rewards are kept.
• Tutorial steps you completed out of order can now be claimed from Briefing.
• Forging a rift artifact now tells you what you made and where it went, and equips it automatically so its stats apply right away.
• Rift choices that can drop a schematic are now labelled.
• Deuterium Core T3 can now be crafted: its schematic drops from the high rift "enter the eye" choice (5% chance; damage on that choice 60 -> 55).

Balance

• Bazar NPC exchange now trades at resource value (Metal : Crystal : Deuterium = 1 : 1.5 : 3) minus a 30% fee. Every direction costs the same; before, it paid 1/3 of what you gave in every direction.
• Bazar NPC exchange now also costs 2 SC per started 1,000 resources given, with limits of Marketplace level x 1,000 per trade and Marketplace level x 5,000 per day.
• The 1:1 SC exchange in the Bazar has been removed. The NPC exchange replaces it.
• Speed-up prices now follow one smooth curve: 5 min 40 SC, 30 min 100 SC, 4 h 240 SC, 24 h 720 SC, minimum 25 SC (before: a flat 50 SC for anything up to 30 minutes).
• Shield domes no longer make a planet impossible to win against. They still absorb shots, but they no longer decide the outcome of a battle.
• Wild planets in your home system now match the strength of the players living there instead of the strongest one, and can scale down as well as up.
• Early wild planets (levels 1-3) now only appear on orbits 4-12, so they can be colonized without high Astrophysics. Existing wild planets were not moved.
• Strike Coordinator and Aegis Coordinator are now limited to one of each per player across all planets.
• Hard rift ship packs now drop on the first 2 hard runs per day only. Later runs keep their normal loot.
• Fleet Launch event: capacity crates 3% / 5% / 10% -> 1% / 3% / 5%, crate size is based on storage up to level 8, and SC spins are limited to 20 per day (free and token spins are not limited).

Shop

• Shop prices are now shown in the currency you actually pay with, and only real sales show a crossed-out price.
• A new reward screen after every purchase shows exactly what you received.
• Shop and purchase texts are now available in all 16 game languages.

Fixes

• Rewards that do not fit in your storage are no longer lost: the extra goes into a resource pack in your inventory.
• Wheel spins and resource packs no longer destroy resources you already had stored.
• Auto-Claim now grants the day-7 items and Commander XP.
• Removed social task rewards and a master bonus that were shown but never paid out.
• Other players now see your in-game nickname instead of your Telegram or Steam name.
• Other players now see the character skin you have equipped.
• Fleet dispatch ETA, max loot and fuel now match the server, and the dispatch panel shows round-trip fuel.
• Bazar trade flights now use the universe fleet speed.
• The NPC fleet speed boost now applies to harvest missions on wild planets.
• Spy reports no longer go missing in the Reports tabs.
• Battle reports said 20% of defenses rebuild; the correct value is 70%.
• Combat and fleet reports show whole resource units.
• The Bazar Marketplace limit is now checked per side, not on the sum of both sides.
• Every rift run now counts toward daily and weekly rift missions and live event tasks.
• The unreachable expedition tutorial step is now optional, so chapter 11 and the completion bonuses unlock.
• Claimed wild planets and new homeworlds now have the correct storage limits.
• Cancelling a build now works correctly.
• You can now station defenses on your own colonies from the mobile planet panel.
• The fleet Send button no longer hides behind the mobile bottom bar.
• The farm preset editor lists every raid ship.
• Clicking planets on the galaxy map works reliably again, including when planets overlap.
• The mouse wheel scrolls panels over the galaxy map instead of zooming the map.
• Switching planets is faster and no longer reloads the whole screen or the galaxy map.
• Fortune wheel labels stay inside their segments on mobile.
• The game explains why colonizing is blocked, including the Astrophysics orbit rule.
• Alliance join errors are translated, and the 24h alliance cooldown is explained instead of a bare "Failed".
• Rift scenario texts are now translated.
• The commander name screen comes prefilled with a valid name, so you can continue right away.
• Desktop: the fullscreen / windowed toggle is back in the top bar.
• Patch notes links open correctly and show the right date on iPhone.
• Better stability: the game shows a retry screen instead of failing during server hiccups, reconnects faster after losing connection, and loads noticeably faster overall.