Orchestration Release Live Now

Dear Licensees,

today we released the Orchestration update. Here is an overview of what's new!

Shipping Routes

Shipping routes have been on our roadmap for a long time, and now they are finally here: your ships can fly routes on their own!

A route is a list of waypoints, and every waypoint has a list of steps the ship carries out on arrival: refuel its STL or FTL tank, load or unload a material, pick up or drop off shipments, or wait for a set amount of time. Routes are planned and managed with the new RT command.

For each load and unload step you define a minimum and a maximum number of units. Set the maximum to "capacity", and the ship loads as much as fits into its hold, or unloads everything of that material it carries.

Once a ship is assigned to a route, it plans each leg, flies to the next waypoint and works through the steps by itself. If a step can't be carried out yet, for example because the fuel it should take isn't in storage, the ship waits at the waypoint until it can. Routes can be set to repeat, so the ship starts over at the first waypoint once it has finished a round trip. Changes you make to a route take effect at the start of the next round trip.

The new RTE command keeps track of all ships that are currently flying a route. It shows how far along each ship is and whether a step or a flight is blocked.

Shipment steps only move the goods, so the pickup and delivery conditions of a contract still need to be fulfilled as usual.

While planning routes is open to everyone, assigning ships to routes is a PRO feature.

You can find out more about routes on the handbook page!

News

The new NEWS command keeps you up to date on what is happening across the universe. It reports when planets and systems are named, when a planet is colonized or gets engineers or scientists for the first time, when gateway links are established and when planetary projects are completed. New devlogs and the monthly economic report show up there as well.

News can be filtered by faction, including news from outside faction space, and the command keeps track of what you have already read, so you can see at a glance what's new since your last visit.

15% off PRO

To celebrate the occasion, all PRO license purchases are 15% off until XXX. The perfect time to put your ships on a route!

Changes and Fixes

• Mission calculation in FLT is a lot faster.
• Ship names can now consist of characters from non-Latin alphabets.
• If a ship is being upgraded in the shipyard, its status and the upgrade's ETA are shown in FLT.
• A recipe's main output is now shown in PRODQ and PROD instead of a random byproduct.
• Blueprints whose required reactor power exceeds the output of the quick-charge reactor can no longer be saved.

You can find the complete release notes in the forums.

As always: we'd love to hear what you think: join us on Discord or the forums!

Happy trading!