Commanders,
this update adds almost nothing new to click on. It makes what is already there faster.
Faster pages
- Half the database work. Every page of the game used to ask the database around 29 times before it showed up. Now it is around 15. The frame around every page, with your resources, planets and the menu, went from 26 to 12.
- A quieter background. Every open tab checks for new reports and messages every few seconds. That check needs 7 questions to the database instead of 15.
- The Biolab used to finish everybody's research whenever somebody opened it. Now it finishes only yours, and opens much faster in a full universe.
Faster queues
- When many fleets, buildings and research projects finish at the same moment, the server works them off about four times faster. A pile that took 44 seconds in the test is done in about 10.
- Bots take their turns faster as well, which leaves more room for everything else.
The HyperCom speaks up
- A count on the button. The HyperCom button shows how many chat messages you have not read yet, from players and from your alliance chat.
- A notice for new messages. When a player writes to you or somebody posts in the alliance chat, a short notice appears wherever you are in the game. While you have the chat open, it stays quiet.
- The conversations now load when you open the HyperCom instead of with every page, which is part of why pages got lighter.
Also in this update
- LYRA learned 26 new memes and silly idle remarks, in every language. Eight languages also got the 32 idle remarks they never had.
- Inactivity now counts being online and, for bots, their actions, not only logins. Commanders who stay logged in and bots no longer show as inactive.
- A Biolab bug is fixed: its queue could finish a research with outdated values and undo a change made a moment before.
All numbers were measured on a copy of the live universe on a test machine, so yours will differ, but the direction is the same.
All details are in the patch notes 0.2.26.15.
See you in the Void!