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How exactly can i "kill it"? Closing the tab and trying it in another one doesnt help. Logout / Login does nothing if i remember correctly. I just hope the problem corrects itself in the next turn or at some point later when i try again. Which it may or may not.

I m no expert but what kind of index needs to be rebuild weekly?

I was thinking that perhaps the game could afford to allow a bit a micro-transactions to the game which would help not only the player who bought them, but potentially the whole player base as a whole.

Two things I can think of are,
City Spawn, a basic level 1 city that is immune to negative population change for 7 days (to establish industry before it collapses) - $15-25
Preserve City Population - 7 days, Keeps a single selected city population from declining due to natural course or neglect (not including disasters from players or random events) - $10-15

Just make sure to place a warning that these are transient and the city can collapse at any moment.

And for new players that have accounts less then 30 days old, perhaps allow them to make a one time only purchase stimulus packages to get them started.
It could include income booster or reduced construction time or any number of things, or a combination of them in one or few different packages.
Once these new players get on their feet, it should help expand the games population.

Just a quick suggestion - in the list of buy/sell that DBC's show, could we have the prices there as well? I'm aware you can get it by clicking on each product individually, or see it if the DBC has products there, but adding it to the list would make it a lot quicker and easier to eyeball a situation

I don't believe the reduction has been put in

I'd like to see Flagships in the game - powerful, customisable warships that, naturally, have some decent limitations.
I daresay this'd be a pain to implement, but hear me out:

Pros:
In addition to the standard level-up options, I think being able to select what the ship is effective against would be interesting. Some corps would build a Flagship that annihilates ground forces, whereas others might go for a fast raiding-style ship designed to take out escorts and freighters, or perhaps a monolith-killer. Each level, you'd be able to put 'points' into its effectiveness table (I daresay Seren has a cost-to-effectiveness ratio for ships, so I'd hesitate to put a number to the 'points' yet).
Boosts other ships/units in the same Fleet - this could even replace the above idea if that's too hard to implement. Each level you could power up a bonus, giving allied units slight health regen, extra damage, making enemies get the bad random effects more often, etc.

Cons:
One per player at any time, naturally.
Non-salvageable, and no refunds if it blows up.
Requires level 10 Shipyard, possibly level 10 Corp HQ

Balancing would be difficult, but worth it I think, and I know as a community we would tell Seren if we found an overpowered use for it rather than exploit (well most of us, anyway).
As an additional way for Seren to earn money, it could also have a micro-transaction - pay a couple dollars and get a new icon/image for it. Or even be able to upload one for that added awesomeness.

All thoughts welcome and wanted, naturally.

Hello!
I've ordered 4 fortifications in military base lv 1. Then I've decided to upgrade this military base. It upgraded while forth fortification was in construction. In the next turn I've got my fourth fortification and another one was in construction in military base ( I HAVEN'T ORDERED IT ). Now I have 5 fortifications but paid only for 4.

• Deploying artifact from a group or fleet was burning the artifact but giving cannot deploy message. This SHOULD be fixed, I couldn't replicate the problem but I think I put in a couple missing safeties to prevent it.
• Raiding a stack of product with no enemy units does not give defender a combat message, now it does.
• Raiding effectiveness is supposes to scale based off of the relative power of both sides, it wasn't counting defending units in guard mode. It does now.
• Storage costs for your product is not half price when stored at your Corp HQ location. Product on ships as cargo never costs anything.
• Comms messages have a 1000 character remaining display that stops your text when hitting 1000. (that only took a year to implement)
• You can now remove artifacts from units. On the More Info Tab of the unit there is a remove icon for your artifacts at the bottom. Artifacts removed in this way are destroyed with no salvage!
• Distribution centers now display prices on their buy sell grid. Editing one of those products will still highlight the same product int he "Available at Location" grid directly below (but that wasn't good enough apparently!)
• On some grids that displayed units, the artifacts they carried were not displaying in the notes, they should now.
• ACP items were renames slightly to be ACP , MCP, OCP, PCP, SCP, for Automatic, Megastructure, Orbital, Planetary, Solar respectively. Planetary and Solar Megastructures not available yet.
  Some Icons and images were updated.
• Population damage on Combat was displaying wrong, it is 10% of Attackers Power used in battle, previously it was displaying the full power as damage.

LunaMoth wrote:

"Artifacts removed in this way are destroyed with no salvage!"
I agree with this decision.

"Population damage on Combat was displaying wrong, it is 10% of Attackers Power used in battle, previously it was displaying the full power as damage. "
What if instead the difference in Attacker power and Defender power (multiplied by 10%) would be the population loss?

Great idea, this way you could prevent suicide attacks that just target the population.

Can Doctor Dread please post about how many active players we have on average. I left the game for a bit but I am thinking about coming back. Just curious to see how much the game has grown since I took my break.

I have a fleet with 3 freighters. When I created the fleet they all have been level 1 (6000 cargo space). I upgraded the freighters now. Each now has 8000 cargo and 12 speed, but the fleets cargo is still at 18k and speed is at 10. The fleet is also not picking up more than 18k products, so it is not just a visual glitch.

My fleet Knights was involved in a battle with a kaiju on Luyten VI and came out with 52% HP. Since then the notes in the main assets page as well as when I click the fleet itself it shows 52% HP. Once I drill in to each individual unit they are fully healed though. Just making sure if I send them into battle they wont act as if they are half dead going in. I'm going to try to reform the group and see if that helps but thought I'd report it anyway.

If you had an accelerated test server you probably could have spotted this problem before implementing such a fundamental change to the core game mechanics. I realize that's probably an issue of cost but I think it's kind of essential. I worry that with every new feature you introduce that hasn't been run through a test server there is more potential for problems like this that won't be spotted until it's had unintended consequences that can't be fixed on a live server without basically restarting it.

• Guild total members should correct themselves now. There was an issue where corps that were deleted recalculate the guild they were in.
• Megastructures inside cities that collapse will auto salvage.
• Population loss in battles now scales to the difference between attackers and defenders power. If the attacking force is half the power of the defenders, it will do half the pop damage it would of normally done for example.
• Artifact Research labs should not be contributing to the city spawn calculation. Sites which only have Research labs should no longer spawn cities.
• Comms Message allotment increased to 25 per hour.