Server Crash
The servers crashed three times in the past few days. Two crashes happened over the weekend.
All three crashes were caused by the same bug, triggered by a spacecraft lighting up its FTL drive while someone aboard was in a design studio instance. The bug was fixed.
Stellar Black Holes
I had a to-do item to make more black holes that are not supermassive black holes.
Stellar black holes may now be encountered as you explore the universe.
Someone asked once.
Neutron stars may now be encountered as you explore the universe.
Neutron stars have twice the mass of stars. That is the same as black holes.
Black holes now have 4x the mass of stars. This increases the strength of their gravity.
Companions on Sensors
Companion stars are not drawn correctly on sensor stations.
Fixed a client-side star positioning bug discovered while working on black holes and neutron stars.
Sun Halo Missing
Suns are supposed to render a halo to help enhance the appearance of brightness. It is missing.
Fixed a rendering error discovered while working on black holes and neutron stars.
System Catalog Name in Scan Report
Scan report has the catalog name of systems that are named, in addition to the system name. The formatting is bad.
Fixed system names in scan reports and the XML export file. This bug was introduced when catalog names were added to system names in the star map tree control.
Life Support Q
It was suggested once (7 years ago) that the quality of a spacecraft's life support system should affect the rate collected for passengers.
Life support Q now modifies the fare collected when passengers debark.
The servers crashed three times in the past few days. Two crashes happened over the weekend.
All three crashes were caused by the same bug, triggered by a spacecraft lighting up its FTL drive while someone aboard was in a design studio instance. The bug was fixed.
Stellar Black Holes
I had a to-do item to make more black holes that are not supermassive black holes.
Stellar black holes may now be encountered as you explore the universe.
- These are the smallest of the black holes and they do not have intergalactic wormholes.
- Stellar black holes are always accompanied by one or two companion stars that may have planets.
- Wormholes in a black hole system terminate at the first companion star, like at the core. Errors were fixed here. They may have been positioned incorrectly at the core, before this update.
Someone asked once.
Neutron stars may now be encountered as you explore the universe.
- Neutron stars are the dead husks of large stars that went supernova, not quite massive enough to collapse further and form a black hole.
- Neutron stars have twice the mass of regular stars. This is adequate for game purposes.
- Neutron stars spin. The surface speed of some real ones approaches the speed of light.
- Neutron stars pulse in a repeating pattern that is unique to every neutron star.
- Neutron stars pulse in the visible light spectrum, though most real ones emit only invisible radiation.
- Neutron stars may be primary or companion stars.
Neutron stars have twice the mass of stars. That is the same as black holes.
Black holes now have 4x the mass of stars. This increases the strength of their gravity.
Companions on Sensors
Companion stars are not drawn correctly on sensor stations.
Fixed a client-side star positioning bug discovered while working on black holes and neutron stars.
Sun Halo Missing
Suns are supposed to render a halo to help enhance the appearance of brightness. It is missing.
Fixed a rendering error discovered while working on black holes and neutron stars.
System Catalog Name in Scan Report
Scan report has the catalog name of systems that are named, in addition to the system name. The formatting is bad.
Fixed system names in scan reports and the XML export file. This bug was introduced when catalog names were added to system names in the star map tree control.
Life Support Q
It was suggested once (7 years ago) that the quality of a spacecraft's life support system should affect the rate collected for passengers.
Life support Q now modifies the fare collected when passengers debark.