Ground you take, ground you build on
Buying a cell with metal is gone: fleets take ground now, empty ground included. Structures gained levels, a cell holds three of them, and everything they pay goes into your worlds.
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What changed, and why
Patch notes and word from the bridge. Same rule as everywhere else here: what changed and what it means for you, not a table of numbers that will be wrong next month.
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Your first days are peaceful, for everyone
New players cannot be attacked while they find their feet — and cannot attack either. Plus vacation mode, for the weeks you are not there.
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You can see them coming
Fleets are drawn on the galaxy map while they fly, enemy fleets show up inside your detection range, and a world under threat carries its own countdown.
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The ground stops being scenery
Cells are no longer interchangeable. Terrain, outposts and a border that has to be pushed one cell at a time — plus five things worth raising, and the guns to keep them.
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Worlds get names
Every world in the galaxy used to be called after its type. Now it has a name of its own — and if you own it, you can change it.
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A boss you do not kill
Raids are live. The target does not die, so the sortie is scored on the damage you did to it — and if your alliance found it, the whole alliance can come.
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Artefact sets, and a use for the twenty-first duplicate
Matching gear now pays, and the pile of duplicates you were never going to equip can finally be fused into something you would.
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Season one is open
The galaxy is live: hex systems to survey, a homeworld to raise, five ages of hulls to research, and fleets that fly on a real clock.
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