11h 3min, mar 15, 2021 y - Destroyer and Faction Warfare Update

Description:

- Attempted fixes for ghost market orders and various other market issues
- Fixed an issue where servo surge broke turrets with high turn rates
- Fixed some issues with tracker icon flickering
- Fixed beam turret range and speed stats to show accurate numbers
- Fixed numerous other issues (not enough space to list all of them)
- Changed loot containers to be color-coded based on contents
- Changed map search bar to highlight matching part of system name
- Changed warp disruptor ability/warmod to have a max duration
- Changed the solar system map to be three-dimensional
- Improved rendering efficiency of beam lasers
- Improved rendering efficiency of nebulae
- Improved performance of station door animations
- Improved performance of ship cockpit, gear, and turret animations
- Improved performance of station map and terminal hologram animations
- Improved network performance of dealing and receiving ship damage
- Decreased difficulty of the combat tutorial
- Decreased max player count to 100 in systems to prevent crashes
- Decreased damage dealt by beam turrets by ~10%
- Increased speed of cannon turret lasers by 25%
- Increased speed of repeater turret lasers by 17%
- Increased maximum number of planets in a system from seven to twelve
- Increased maximum length of time ships persist after combat logging
- Added the ability to edit ships from spawning terminals
- Added a cooldown time between PVP hull damage and entering stations
- Added a new repair bay model to account for larger ships
- Added physical simulation to solar systems (planets orbit stars)
- Added binary and trinary star systems
- Added cloning bays to each faction homeworld
- Added six new staging area core systems (two for each faction)
- Added several new star systems to faction border regions
- Added new Contested security level
- Added the ability to align yourself with NPC faction militaries
- Added faction warfare system
- Added dynamic borders to the galaxy map
- Added NPC faction battleships
- Added destroyers
- Added medium turrets
- Added docking tubes to every docking bay
- Added spawn and despawn visual effects to ships
- Added comet anomalies and ice mining
- Added Vexnium
- Added a brand new game menu screen
- Added five new ambient music tracks and one new combat track
- Remodeled the Knifejaw, Barracuda, and all faction cruisers
- Reorganized warp lanes near the center of the map
- Regenerated all solar system layouts
- Refunded and reset player rentals

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