Version 1.3.5

A class-and-coordination release: your Core monument now defines a full player class with empire-wide tradeoffs, weekly events gain a Daily Race, allies can trade in private and join each other's FCS rallies, and the scoreboard finally splits into Research / Fleet / Defense — plus a Ship Graveyard for PvP losses, early-warning attack alerts, deeper expedition rewards, stronger harvest yields, and a stricter vacation mode.

New to classes? See the full Player Classes guide, or open Settings → Quick Guides in-game. Alliance play is covered in Alliances. Resource protection and Titan loot are covered in Resource Protection.

New Features

Player Classes

• Deploying a Core monument on your capital now sets your primary class: Warlord, Guardian, Explorer, or Industrialist.
• Each class applies empire-wide bonuses and penalties — fleet speed and attack, defenses, expedition success and loot, harvest and convoy speed, trade fees, and more. Your live numbers show on your profile under Class Effects.
• Support monuments still add Sub Class tags and their own boosts; they do not change the Core class effect table.
• Alliance system missions scale with class: Industrialist ~4× System Harvest, Explorer ~4× System Survey.
• Industrialist Planetary Harvesters use a hybrid log+√ curve soft-capped near +250% (~20M harvesters), so late-game collector investment stays worthwhile.
• Full effect tables, FCS rules, and monument pairings are in Player Classes.

Class effects on FCS

• Coordinated attacks (including pirate bosses and system conquest) now respect class combat bonuses per participant's own ships.
• Class hostile fleet speed is solo-attack only — joining as Industrialist or Guardian will not slow an FCS rally.
• Mixed-class groups earn a loot synergy bonus: +5% / +7.5% / +10% for 2 / 3 / 4 distinct classes in the group.
• After loot is split by contribution, personal FCS shares are Warlord ×1.2, Guardian / Explorer ×1.1, Industrialist ×1.0.
• An Explorer in a pirate FCS fight raises the chance of special drops (tech/nano boosts, relic and monument pieces). Battle reports show class loot, coordination, and synergy lines.

Ship Graveyard (beta will be tested internally, will be released later in the week)

• Hull destroyed in player combat now goes to a per-colony Ship Graveyard (open from the Shipyard).
• Buy back what your tonnage headroom allows at 90% of ship build cost; purchased ships recover gradually up to 7 days depending on the size of te recovery. Min recovery time is 2 days.
• Unpurchased hull expires after 14 days (expiry refreshes when new losses deposit). Remaining inventory stays until you buy it or it expires.

Early Warning Alerts

• Incoming attack push alerts no longer fire at launch. Defenders are warned when the fleet is 10–30 minutes from arrival.
• Base window is 20 minutes. Each Radar Station level on moons orbiting the target adds +1 minute (highest moon radar is used).
• Attackers can shorten the window with Frigates: every 5% of other ships matched by Frigates cuts 1 minute, up to −20 minutes. Short flights already inside the window notify immediately.
• Scout pushes still fire at launch only when the probe flies at 30%+ speed — slower scouts stay quiet.

Daily Race

• Weekly events now include a Daily Race: today's score has its own rank, reset timer, and reward floor.
• Top finishers of the day earn smaller bonus rewards (Champion / Runner-up / Contender tiers), separate from the weekly payout.
• Event leaderboards can toggle between Weekly and Daily views; results also arrive by mail.

Ally Offers

• Trade offers can be marked Ally Offer: visible only to your alliance and allied alliances (not the public market).
• Ally offers allow up to 5× the normal Trading Center resource batch limit — useful for large allied transfers.

Inter-alliance FCS

• When opening a coordinated attack, you can Allow inter-alliance participation so allied alliances can see and join the rally.
• Multi-alliance groups no longer receive extra loot or debris bonuses for spanning alliances — participation stays; the old inter-alliance reward bump is gone.

Titan-Class Mech — PvP loot

• The Titan-Class Mech (Warlord Core) now grants pvpLootPct: +3% PvP loot rate at level 1, scaling like other percent monument boosts, hard-capped at +30%.
• In FCS attacks, the highest Titan loot bonus among attackers is used.

Explorer finding auto-share

• When an Explorer expedition finds pirate bosses, scout reports are saved to mail. By default they are also shared to alliance chat.
• Toggle under Settings → Expedition → Auto-share boss scout reports.

Granular leaderboard

• The player scoreboard can now be sorted by Total, Research, Fleet, or Defense — so specialists can climb their own ladder, not only overall score.

Improvements

• Fleet Templates can be edited from Settings (same composition controls as the send screen, without launching a fleet).
• Sensor scans can scroll to load farther systems instead of stopping at the first page of results.
• Vacation Mode now pauses resource, ship, and defense production while active. Activation also requires ship/defense builds to finish, and is blocked while a hostile fleet is inbound.
• Monument upgrade spare counting now matches the real upgrade target — including when that best copy is already deployed — so the inventory no longer claims an upgrade you can't afford.
• Expedition depths 6–10 now have proper earning multipliers (continuing the climb past depth 5 instead of falling back), matching Legendary Expeditions + Orrery unlocks.
• Event and trade UIs were refreshed for Daily Race sorting, ally-offer badges, and clearer accept-offer flows.
• Ship and defense build-time floors are now tiered by ship realm and player realm (with class specialty floors for Planetary Harvester / Explorer / Advanced Recycler), so early-realm queues stay paced while Realm IV+ can still sprint.
• Early-realm research timing uses each tech's buildTimeMultiplier instead of a flat ×2 per level.

Balance

• System Harvest yields were raised substantially: active cycle output is about 6× higher per production unit, and passive per-system common/rare income about 3.5×. Hauls now use per-resource abundance rates, and the mission runner's cut gets a 2.5× cargo bonus (without taking from the pool).
• Nebula gas harvest now converts zone gas to cargo at 3× (same pattern as asteroid ore refining), so gas runs keep pace with other harvest missions.
• Realm 4 catch-up: trailing Realm 4 commanders (by total score) receive stronger expedition nano-boost grants with a ship-biased category roll, so late-realm fleets can close the gap faster.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed monument inventory spare / upgrade-eligibility mismatches when the best owned copy was deployed.
• FCS fights now count as a single raid toward immunity (not one per participant), so coordinated attacks no longer trip protection unfairly.
• Hull / armor research now correctly reduces ships destroyed in combat, not only the numbers shown on reports.
• Alliance chat messages keep stable timestamps when they arrive live.
• Battle simulation performance improved for large fleets.
• Various class-effect, FCS loot, and vacation production edge cases cleaned up alongside the features above.