0.256.11 - Experience the Space Weather

Storms are coming

With excessive unsanctioned use of microwave mining and following increasing local density of rings atmosphere, the ringstorm phenomenon has become more common. Ships captains are advised to stay clear of the affected areas.

Crew experience

Your crew will now gain experience during flights, honing their skills. Some of them might even use the downtime at the station as an opportunity to improve their education.

New tuning options

• Ability to turn off the fly-by-wire system in advanced autopilots.
• Minimum and maximum range for tug and haul drone systems allows configuration where multiple systems will aid each-other for improved mining experience.

Miscellaneous improvements and bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that caused projectiles and beam to be blocked by dense exhaust gas.
• Mass drivers will now correctly apply thrust to projectile if your ship spins.
• Using fly-by-wire system while holding the autopilot engaged with mouse will no-longer cause the autopilot velocity to increase to maximum.
• Adjusted mineral colors in mineral market and microseismic scanners to be easier to distinguish.
• Re-balanced on-board computer damage. It will be easier damaged by small impacts, but is able to withstand much more damage before failure.
• New visual effect for microwave beams.
• Switching ships with different number of drives will now update the upgrade menu accordingly.
• Added carbon and calcium microseismic readout for objects that contain the minerals.
• Cargo manifest is now sorted by quantity of cargo aboard.
• Gravimetric drone readouts displayed data shifted by 3 to 4 km.
• Changed the cargo value estimator system to be computer-based and independent of hired geologists, making the estimation much more accurate.
• Ring density map was changed to include more variance.
• New post-processing graphics filter to improve contrast and color of the display.
• RCS thrusters are not so noisy anymore.
• Improved default autopilot tuning options for default ship to make it easier to fly for new players.