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Zypher
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Updated Changes

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Cloakers - lowered bonus damage a bit

Fighters - unchanged

Reppers - lowered repair a bit

Lowered Scrap regen

Lowered Scrap capacity from 5000 to 2500

Lowered HW starting HP 25000 to 15000

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calundra
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New game - Friday 13th September 2019

Post by calundra »

Bombers - points and bonus points adjusted
Level loss when you die - this has been adjusted, you lose 2 levels (except in your own homeworld) when changing legion you cannot keep levels - total score bug fixed.
Only repair ships can carry scrap.
Bases are now 35k (up from 15k)
Hyper window is 15 minutes at the end of the tick.
Zypher
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Next Game

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New game Friday Nov 1st 900
Zypher
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Next game :

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December 6th 900 gmt
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Next Game

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Friday Jan 24 2020 900 gmt

Low and High Damage changed
Outer Ring removed

More changes to follow

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Zypher
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New Game Friday Mar 20 2020 900 GMT

Post by Zypher »

Change list :
Repair ships removed
Carrier ships removed
Self repair increased for Cruisers to 500 a move
Self repair increased for all other ships to 400
Bonus points for fighters increased
Fighters Damage slightly increased
Bonus points for cloakers increased
Cloaker Damage slightly adjusted
Cloaker decloaking damage adjusted
Scrap collection removed
HW bass regen increased to 1000 per sector dominated
Anomalies tick adjusted
High damage tick adjusted
Low damage tick adjusted
Bonus points for destroying a ship adjusted
If you die you will no longer come back with points
ecvej
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Frantic starts Friday 24 @9AM UK time

Post by ecvej »

What else are you going to do whilst you're in lockdown?
Zypher
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Beta Starting June 12, 2020 12pm GMT

Post by Zypher »

Changes for beta:

Being Destroyed
-When you die outside your HW you come back 2 levels lower than you were, i.e. level 4 goes to level 2, level 5 goes to level 3 and cruisers go to level 4

Scrap
-Increased scrap generation in UCS
-NSA staying the same
-The asteroid field will now slowly generate scrap as well.

Ship Changing Feature
-The ship swap feature will be available, but you can only change once every 16 turns.

Legion assignment
-Adjusted to lean more towards lowest or weakest legion

Bombing bonus points
-When bombing empty HWs bombing bonus points removed when no enemy ships present
iceblink
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New Beta Monday July 13th 9am BST

Post by iceblink »

Changes this game include:
  1. Increased scrap cost for generating special gates.
  2. Roid anomaly won't appear as early.
  3. Ship changes limited to once every 40 ticks and costs 2 moves.
  4. Homeworlds set to 100,000 hit points.
General game configuration can be seen at https://www.violetsector.com/config.php
Zypher
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New Beta Oct 23, 2020 6pm GMT

Post by Zypher »

See ya there.

Not sure how turn out will be I have turned off OR for now.
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