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			= Patch Notes — 1.4.1 =

	A wording-and-polish patch on top of 1.4.0: the '''over-cap abandon flow''' is clearer and far more forgiving, PvP attack fleets now dock with a '''retaliation window''', and yards carry more tonnage.<blockquote>Planet slots follow Astrophysics in the Research tree. Hangar rules are in Resource Protection and capacity rules in Tonnage. Or open '''Settings → Quick Guides''' in-game.</blockquote>		A wording-and-polish patch on top of 1.4.0: the '''over-cap abandon flow''' is clearer and far more forgiving, PvP attack fleets now dock with a '''retaliation window''', and yards carry more tonnage.

			<blockquote>Planet slots follow Astrophysics in the Research tree. Hangar rules are in [[Resource Protection]] and capacity rules in [[Tonnage]]. Or open '''Settings → Quick Guides''' in-game.</blockquote>

	== New Features ==		== New Features ==

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A wording-and-polish patch on top of 1.4.0: the '''over-cap abandon flow''' is clearer and far more forgiving, PvP attack fleets now dock with a '''retaliation window''', and yards carry more tonnage.<blockquote>Planet slots follow Astrophysics in the Research tree. Hangar rules are in Resource Protection and capacity rules in Tonnage. Or open '''Settings → Quick Guides''' in-game.</blockquote>

== New Features ==

=== PvP Retaliation Window ===

* Fleets returning from an attack on '''another player''' dock '''outside hangar protection''' for a short window, so a raid can be answered before the hull disappears into the hangar.
* Window length scales with the surviving hull tonnage that comes home: '''2 hours''' minimum, up to '''24 hours''' at realm-max fleet tonnage.
* Flagged ships are visible to scouts and can be attacked, and they do '''not''' consume hangar capacity. Sending a new fleet spends flagged ships first, so relaunching clears the window early.
* The window is shown in the '''Fleet Hangar''' panel (with per-ship counts and clearance timers), on the fleet '''return mail''', and in '''scout reports''' of your colony.
* Attacks on '''pirate strongholds''' and '''Riftwake''' targets do not open a window. Attacks on alliance '''system centers''' do.

=== Hyper Dense asteroids ===

* A rare jackpot density above '''Ultra Dense''' joins the asteroid spawn table, with a far larger ore pool and its own map marker.

== Improvements ==

=== Over-cap abandon flow ===

* While you are '''over your Astrophysics planet cap''', any '''non-homeworld''' planet can be abandoned with full compensation. You no longer have to wait for a colony to become access-restricted on Day 7, and you are not limited to the specific colonies the system flagged as excess — pick whichever planet you want to give up. Compensation stops once you are back within the cap.
* '''Defense investment is now refunded 100%''' as resources, alongside the existing building refund, warehouse resources, hangar ships, and Building Nano Boost items.
* Abandoning a '''planet''' also grants '''1 Colony Relocate boost''' (moons do not).
* Colony Settings explains the state you are actually in: an over-cap banner for eligible colonies, the restricted banner only for locked ones, and a preview that lists the defense refund and relocate boost before you confirm. The refund mail lists the same lines.
* Moons of flagged excess planets remain independently abandonable to the homeworld — order still does not matter.

=== Asteroid harvesting ===

* The harvest limit is now '''one fleet per asteroid'''
* Harvest cycles floor at '''3 minutes''' for most classes ('''1 minute''' for Industrialist and Guardian), and research tick reduction caps at '''30%'''.
* Only the first '''2 million Orbital Refineries''' contribute mining speed (extras still add cargo). One-click harvest sizes fleets against that cap.

=== Quality of life ===

* '''Auto warp hop''' — one-click Harvest and Survey can take the nearest warp gate hop automatically, using the same rules as the fleet send screen. Toggle it under '''Settings → System missions''' (QoL required).
* Astrophysics '''next planet slot''' progress now shows for every commander from level 1, without waiting on the cap rollout flag.
* Riftwake '''Mandate fatigue''' wording is explicit: the penalty applies to '''Riftwake''' battle stats only (Siphon Spines / Wakeheart), not to regular combat.
* The Rapid Fire combat announcement now names the exact rollout window: '''Sunday 6 September, 05:00–06:00 UTC'''.

== Balance ==

* '''Astrophysics planet slots round up''' — the limit is now '''1 + ceil(level ÷ 3)''' instead of rounding down, matching the legacy rounding. Astrophysics 1–3 grants a second planet, 4–6 a third, and so on.
* '''Yard tonnage capacity raised''' — Shipyard base capacity '''45M → 65M''' and Defense Yard '''30M → 45M''' per level scale, lifting empire tonnage capacity for the same yard levels to keep it overall tonnage at same level after planets cap applied.
* '''Excess planets no longer add tonnage capacity''' — yards on over-cap colonies are skipped when your capacity is computed, while ships and defenses stationed there still count as used tonnage.
* Ahead of the Sunday combat update, late-game defenses are tuned down: '''Prism Tower''' attack '''40k → 12k''', shield '''20k → 10k''', hull '''25k → 20k''', and rapid fire vs Battlecruiser / Titan / Carrier cut to '''×3 / ×2 / ×3'''. '''Planetary Dome''' shield '''40k → 25k''', hull '''150k → 100k'''. After hull change, it was unnecessarily OP and with this we now have 1:5 tonnage defense:attack power rate back.
* The '''rapid-fire ceiling''' used in combat resolution rises from '''10''' to '''20''', so mid-tier anti-swarm rapid fire is no longer clipped.

== Bug Fixes ==

* Warp gate fleet hops refresh both the source and destination colony, so switching to the destination no longer shows a default planet with no building slots.
* Fixed a service initialization issue in the building / yard pipeline that could break build queues.
* Pirate and Riftwake system players are excluded from planet cap checks, excess snapshots, and colony abandon.
* Planet cap rollout clears cached tonnage totals for affected players, so capacity updates immediately when excess colonies drop out.

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