Once an alliance controls a Dyson Sphere, that alliance can create a coalition with an appropriate name of their choosing. Coalition Target: AcquiredД¬oalitions are now created manually. While not as effective at bombing as an equivalently sized gunship fleet, proper coordination will enable alliances to destroy many stations without gunships. These cards will occupy a fleet card slot, so players will have the option to add bombing damage at the cost of other offensive capabilities.

Capital and Heavy ships can deal bombing damage with the use of a new card set. The new direct damage will aid in securing forward bases that are encroaching upon hostile territory. Missile batteries should be a reliable tool to defend against smaller attacks. With ships being built much more quickly in Alpha 9, suppression fire is simply not as impactful as direct damage. Missile Battery outposts will now deal damage instead of suppression fire. Resource generation will be important for all players to make sure they can keep their HSAs churning! Smarter Dumbfire Missiles The commodity card costs to build HSAs are being reduced to accommodate this change. HSAs will be taking the place of the existing Navy Base in the building tech tree вЂ“ meaning any station that has all 9 military buildings can construct a Heavy Ship Assembly Outpost. Heavy Ship Assembly (HSA) outposts are no longer unique and do not require a unique card to build. Gunship build times will also be reduced significantly to allow for more gunships to be built over the course of a round. He created a new and innovative technique called вЂњAssembly LinesвЂќ, which have reduced base build times of non-gunships by a large margin. Ever wonder how those pesky XAOC replenish their fleets so quickly? Well, Willy Gamish did, and he set to work on reverse engineering their shipyard technology. Streamlined Ship BuildingДЄll ship build times are being significantly reduced. All cards will be removed from a fleet when their ship type is changed.

Tired of scouting for missions? Change that level 4 scout fleet to a level 3 corvette fleet and assault a XAOC base as a way to thank them for their technology contribution. Changing a fleet ship type will have a cost- players can either sacrifice some ship experience or spend one Command Overhaul card with no XP penalty. To accommodate for a lower initial fleet cap, this feature is being added so players can quickly change their empty fleet types to fit their immediate needs. Fleet levels will represent the experience of the fleet gained from actions in space. Cards and policies that provide extra levels to newly created fleets are being removed from the game. Each fleet level will provide a flat bonus to the fleetвЂ™s combat capability, scaling upwards until you reach fleet level 4. Thank you, XAOC! Now, where are those bombersвЂ¦ Fleet experience levels now provide a passive bonus to the fleet. The XAOC corporation is tired of having their stations repeatedly sabotaged, so they have gifted players with technology to make fleet experience levels independent from fleet ship capacity. Fleets always have maximum available ship capacity, even at level 1. Also, fleet capacity changes are permanent, meaning players donвЂ™t lose fleet capacity if they drop under the last hex threshold. Fleet capacity will grow rapidly to start and tapers off towards the end game. The maximum fleet capacity available, ignoring policies, is 51. Players start with a five (5) fleet capacity, and that capacity grows as empires claim additional hexes. Players no longer start with a 40 fleet cap. Some ship types will be more effective at certain activities (such as Scouts for finding missions), but FP and HP levels will not be penalized if those ships are used outside of their specialty. The bonuses will be in the +20% range instead of the -50% seen in Alpha 8. Attack with patrol ships and defend with corvettes to your heartвЂ™s content! These penalties are being removed and replaced with policy-based bonuses instead. Penalties OverturnedДЄttack and Defense penalties based on ship types are being removed from the game.

Lock and load!ДЄs with the previous Dev Logs, specific numbers listed in this log are subject to change as we continue to balance Alpha 9. Space warfare and combat are the lifeblood of Starborne most interactions in Starborne require ships, and as such, the focus of this log will be on the radical changes coming to a shipyard near you. Greetings, Commanders! Welcome to the fourth entry of the Alpha 9 Dev Log series. Fri (Updated: Mon Dec 14 2020) - 5 min read

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