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• City Rulership event in place and seems to running as intended now. Tangoor Dynasty and Core Engineering are the first city rulers of all of Barons of the Galaxy. Hopefully we'll have a planetary rulership event by next week.
• There is a new "Dangerous Fad" event in place. It has a vote component and also uses a system of random flavor text depending on the product category the event fires under. This is going to be used in future events. Every event we add introduces a new feature in the code that we're testing in Alpha and will be used in future events. Hopefully speeding up how fast we can implement new event types the more we make.
• The event description under the politics page has a link to the location of the event.
• Terran federation ships now spawn and patrol the Sol System planets. They respond to battles that are not within cities. They randomly move towards battles and guard the location for random amounts of time. They are designed to stop you from attacking other players into complete destruction but they don't respond fast enough to stop you from raiding another player for a few rounds.
• Battle messages will not send you a new message if you currently have an unread message for a battle in the same location.
• The Top 10 grid on the Military subtab has been re-worked to show an accurate count/power of military units. The checkboxes for the different types of units also responds correctly now.
• The Assets page location columns has been trimmed to show only the Sector,System,Planet,City to save space on the grid.
• When you edit a contract, it loses the "exact price" that you had previously set. This was corrected.
• New cities start at a population of 900,000 instead of 90,000. The rate at which they grow was increased also. Which, at 100 AVG Demand should be 50% every 100 turns (1 week)
• You should be able to make a group of ground units even if they are upgrading now. The only time you can't upgrade units is when they are carried on another unit.
• All ship upgrade types, Hit points, Attack, Cargo, Hangar, Move Speed now give a 50% boost per level to their appropriate stat instead of the varied percentages we were using before. A fully upgraded Scout should go 120 spaces a turn. That's probably "Point 5 past light speed" and could probably do the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs. Alternately you can make a Battleship with 30,000 Hit points

Can I get in on the alpha test too? I pledged to the unsuccessful kickstarter as a "Quasar Dragon" and will pledge to support again next time around.

I think this has already been discussed, but I cannot remember where. Has any thought been given to provide guard/attack contracts? My thought is some corporations may only be interested in providing private security and contraband items, it would increase the immersion in the game to provide them with ways to make income based off of their military might (not that I am looking out for my own means, dreadnought upkeep is expensive lol)

is the 'sell all different types' option going to be something that will likely be worked on sooner, or further down the track? Just wondering if I should set up a fleet of 10 corvettes to sell my meats or hold out until it's implemented.

• Comms messages relating to Battles and Events should now have a link t that battle or event in the message itself. Eventually all comms from the system will have links like this.
• There is a new list option on the Battle page called "Size" (in addition to Grid and Icons) which will display the units as rectangles which scale to the units Size stat. This gives an idea of how much force the different units are in relation to each other,. We're still playing with the look, because blue rectangles look ugly, but the basic concept seems to be working..
• The "Size" stat of the ships in the game was increased significantly to be more in line with the other units. Size in combat determines how much total fire is drawn to that unit. Ships should be drawing more fire in a battle now.

• The Ship size update was toned down greatly. Ship size determines its logistics. The sizes were slightly reworked.
• Structure logistics was raised from 5 per level to 10 per level. At higher level corp levels, 5 per level was pretty restrictive. Its a limitation to prevent hundreds of level 1 structures in every city in the galaxy
• Military Bases now produce higher level stacks of units in the same time it takes to build a single unit. A level 5 base can make a level 5 unit in that units standard build time. If you select a lower level unit then the time is reduces accordingly to a minimum of 1. The multiplier on the base (x10, x25 etc.) essentially represents how many times faster it can produce units. The cost is still multiplied and there is no cost bonus for being built at a base
• Shipyards Start to get a construction time bonus after level 5 of 20% per level. At level 10 a shipyard constructs ships in half the time. We're looking into having high level shipyards being able to produce higher level ships. That might show up soon.
• Hangar space on shipped was adjusted upwards. The frigate now has a hangar of 2 also.
• Upgrades on ships have gone from +50 per level to only +20% per level for all upgrades. a level 10 ship with all HP upgrades will have 3x (+200%) the HPs of the base ship. A level 10 firepower battleship might be able to compete with a dreadnought instead of a level 2 one. The cost of upgrades and upkeep cost has been reduced. a level 10 ship costs 2x as much as the base ship.

I've considered raiding your 80k worth of sugar and coffee for my city but dont feel like starting a war :-)

• There is now a "Popular Fad" event which is sort of the reverse of the "Dangerous Fad" Event.
• We added the first combat oriented event "Hostile Raiders". It creates a Military base in a random location with a few units that go out and raid nearby products from other corps then goes away after 100 turns. Its pretty simple event right now but we will make it more interesting once we shake the bugs out.
• There is a new NPC Corporation called "Raiders" which are the generic neutral hostiles for events like the one above.
• The transfer Cargo order now has an option to Pick up or Drop off "Everything" when selecting a product type. This will NOT drop off every product type you are carrying in one turn but it will drop off or pick up a single product type every turn until it can't anymore and then move on to the next order. If this works well we'll try to add this option to Items and the "Sell" order as well.