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Created page with "A logistics-and-fairness release: pull cargo home with '''Collect Resources''', relocate your alliance '''Headquarters''', save '''resource templates''', and keep late-game '''building / research scores''' in line with fleet tonnage — plus harvest payouts that scale with roster size, clearer inbound fleet intel, and a batch of QoL.<blockquote>Headquarters moves are covered in Alliance Territory → Moving the Headquarters. Harvest pool shares are in Alliances. Or open..."

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A logistics-and-fairness release: pull cargo home with '''Collect Resources''', relocate your alliance '''Headquarters''', save '''resource templates''', and keep late-game '''building / research scores''' in line with fleet tonnage — plus harvest payouts that scale with roster size, clearer inbound fleet intel, and a batch of QoL.<blockquote>Headquarters moves are covered in Alliance Territory → Moving the Headquarters. Harvest pool shares are in Alliances. Or open '''Settings → Quick Guides''' in-game.</blockquote>

== New Features ==

=== Collect Resources ===

* New mission type: send a fleet to '''your own''' planet or moon, pick up cargo, and fly it home. Alliance systems, allied colonies, and enemy targets are rejected.
* Amounts are decided '''on arrival''' from live stock: take a '''% of full stock''', then clamp so a '''leave-behind''' amount remains. If cargo is short, the take scales down proportionally. '''No tax'''. First fleet to arrive wins the pickup.
* Configure a shared rate + leave-behind, or go '''per resource'''. Save collect setups locally (QoL). Reports show requested rates, leave-behind, stock on arrival, and what was actually taken.
* Open '''Collect''' from your own colony overlay, or pick it in the mission list when the target is yours.

=== Headquarters relocation ===

* A Deputy or Leader can '''Set as HQ''' on a '''connected Division''' or an '''Expansion Bastion''' from '''Alliance → Territories'''.
* The two systems '''trade roles and swap everything built on them''', so HQ-only buildings (Vault, Research Lab, Diplomacy, Archive, Bazaar) travel with the seat.
* When the target is a standalone Expansion Bastion, the old HQ blob must fit Expansion's child cap ('''5''' Divisions) — abandon extras first. An Expansion that already touches the blob is absorbed (old HQ becomes a Division); a distant one swaps so the old HQ becomes the new Expansion root.
* Blocked while either system is under siege. Alliance-wide cooldown '''48 hours'''. A doctrine that is illegal in the new role is cleared and can be picked again for free.

=== Resource templates ===

* Save cargo loadouts — '''fixed amounts''' or '''% of available''', one mode per template — under '''Settings → Fleet''', same pattern as fleet templates.
* Load them from the fleet cargo card when filling Transport (and similar) missions.

=== Fleet template leave-behind ===

* Templates can now be marked '''Leave behind''': the amounts you set stay at the colony, and every remaining ship of those types goes with the fleet — useful for garrison vs sortie compositions.

== Improvements ==

* '''Upgrade ×5''' — QoL commanders can queue five consecutive upgrades when the next build is under '''30 seconds''', resources cover the batch, and the building is not at max / blocked. Hidden whenever a single upgrade would be disabled.
* '''Hostile fleet intel''' — inbound composition unlocks from your '''sensor rate advantage''' vs the attacker (types / counts / full). Equal sensors show full composition; being '''20%''' behind still reveals types. The last '''5 minutes''' before arrival bump intel one tier.
* '''Boss loot reports''' show '''entitled share''' vs '''carried share'''. Uncarried entitled loot stays on the boss — it is no longer water-filled onto high-cargo haulers.
* Bastion and doctrine buildings (Embassy / War / Expansion, Shipyard Outpost, Intelligence Center, Warp Gate) have proper art, including cosmetic variants.
* Fleet ship-quantity +/− no longer caps an entered amount at '''99,999''' per tap.

== Balance ==

* '''Score soft-cap:''' building and research scores count 1:1 up to '''500B''', then diminish toward a ~'''1T''' ceiling so they stay in the same ballpark as tonnage-limited fleet + defense (~500B). Ships, defenses, and alliance donations are not soft-capped. Profile tooltips explain the curve.
* '''Harvest pool floor:''' the daily alliance harvest/survey pool pays out in full only once '''15''' eligible (Realm 4+, active) members are on the roster. A 1-member alliance receives '''1/15'''; the rest is discarded. Matches default alliance size.

== Bug Fixes ==

* FCS battles apply '''class loot multipliers''' and hangar '''stun''' correctly for coordinated strikes; uncarried boss share is no longer redistributed to other participants.
* Tonnage-based bully / war-fatigue checks read fleet + hangar tonnage more consistently.
* Building upgrades no longer fail with an unresolvable build-time in edge cases.
* Latest scout reports look up the stored planet id instead of a brittle JSON extract.

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