Main updates:

• Instancing
• New tech 21 zone: Olympus
• Sleepy Server code optimization which gives us about an 8x server speed increase
• Full database load and save (moving away from XML files for mid-universe saves and loads)
• New patcher and installer

Game Changes:

• Added item mods to extracted artifacts at a fairly high level.
• NB weapons now unequip if you are killed and don't have a GG to cover them
• You now have to hit 'R' to get back into your stasised ship
• Added explosion graphics for warhead splash explosions
• Added concussive blast waves from destroyed objects that knock nearby objects
• Improvements to the momentum impact code
• Guns that don't shoot straight forward will now start their bullet in the direction that they face, rather than always at the front of the ship
• Peons can now transfer their own bases
• Changes to Jux type weapons
• Limited base names to 50 characters
• Fixed a crash bug associated with demolition kits
• Added "/enemies" command which will list your personal and team enemies
• Fixed a tractor bug
• Some new actions in the enemy boss scripting
• Added ship class limit to launchers
• Blueprints can now have an arbitrary number of products
• Some ingredients in blueprints now have a special tag that means you
• don't Get any discount on those ingredient when building multiples
• Installing multiple blueprints with a max use limitation will now combine the total max uses, so you can install multiple of them in order to do a batch build to get discounts
• You can no longer cancel constructions worth 1 bil or more. You can only pause them
• Made it so you can kick people from your squad if they are offline and their ship is evaporated
• Added an anti-farm mechanism to some spawners. You'll get less XP and money from killing them the more you kill them.
• Fixed a bug where damage auras didn't apply to antimatter devices
• Buying ships from user bases now gives them to you in item-form.
• Added confirmation dialog when using an item-form ship
• Changed sizes of hulls to generally be 100 so players can hold them in item-form
• Made it so that item-form ships take 10x normal weight to simulate the unwieldiness of towing them behind you
• Added a moderator login message so we can Spam the mods
• Added a credit cost option to missions
• Fixed a cooldown display issue
• Rebalanced engines
• Reduced the power of Gyroscopic Mod
• Gave all AI -turning and -thrust to compensate for beefed engines
• Client compiled with a better compiler and a lot more optimizations
• Custom areas can now have circular links
• Fixed a bug where you could own a galaxy that was already owned by another team.
• Added parasite injection to lasers.
• Fixed a bug with parasites from the same source but with different damage multipliers.
• Fixed a bug where slaves required the skill to use a sticky item when their master did not.
• Made AI's consider debuffs and parasites when choosing which weapon to use
• AI's can now have as many skills as we feel like giving them
• Fixed an bug with upgraded bases not checking the new tech level when transferring

Content Updates:

• Olympus T21 instanced zone - Here
• T21 Skills via missions in the Lyceum
• T21 Module BPs - located around the universe
• Drones: new & changes to existing ones - Here
• Assault Behe - Here
• Engine rebalance - Here
• Minor AI gear / level changes - here
• Four new roaming AI mini-ubers - forgot to make a thread about these, some people might have spotted them on test; the crystal entity has been nerfed a bit, although still highly inadvisable to shoot it
• Wattage & two other T21 Ship BPs outside of Olympus - Here
• Mausoleum front end cosmetic change - Here
• T14-19 Freighters - Here
• Aura fixes & minor changes - Here
• Changes to ruin tech items - no thread, but fairly extensive boosts to a lot of them
• Mods on extracted ruin items - Here
• GG21 available throughout the uni (EDIT - not true, tech 21 gear can't currently be made common. GG21 will be added specifically to a few bases)
• Changes to radars - Herbal Sensor BP, FT radars have more bonuses
• Sniper changes: New sniper only ship and engine.
• T20 Launchers in drop tables of particular AI
• Small change to Art of Engineering aug
• T21 God / Demented Aug Hybrids added, BPs in high end DGs
• Zebu Titan Ship available
• Bi-Polar spawn fixes for seer mission
• Slight changes to Emphatic Mother
• Red Photon tweaks - on buildable ships, AI scripting, drops and environment
• Zaphrangi UZ aftermath missions for everyone - new T20 drones, weapons, gear etc
• Crate drops moved to different drop list to reduce % chance of replacing other drops
• Seer Mines
• UrQa "3-shot" gives large fires
• Item form ships reduced to size 100, weight increased

Content scheduled for next two weeks (for Uni reset)

• SM21 "termite defense" instance
• The Mausoleum upgrade
• Bounty Hunters - repeatable kill AI missions
• More Ruin tech balancing
• Gunners & Missiles (highly dependent on time factors)
• Mid tech Light Fighters

Q&A about the programming changes here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=40780
Q&A about the content changes here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=40762