Draconis Test Version Live!

[Highway]

The Public Test Realm (PTR) is ready for extreme testing at http://ptr.pirategalaxy.com.
This is the draconis version with all its new features. But draconis stays locked and is not reachable.
We put the Askone data on it but all players can join to help.

Please focus your testing in the following areas:

---Ladder/League System---
Every player/clan starts at the lowest entry division. You have to gain points to reach the promotion slots that promote you to a higher division.
If you reach the highest division you can earn medals. Players/clans with the high medal count will be featured in the hall of fame.
Points are generated by doing missions, fighting against mantis, and the new bounty system (pirate mode).

----Achievement System----
Every pilot has a new tab in his pilot profile which has a lot of achievements to unlock. Achievements are unlocked by reaching certain milestones. When you have unlocked an achievement you are able to see what needs to be done do achieve it. The points are shown in the hall of fame table in the ladder window. They also become very important when you want to be the best pilot in the hall of fame but have the same medals as your opposing player. (evaluation period is daily for testing reasons)

----Bounty Pirate mode----
If you enable the pirate mode you will automatically participate in the bounty system. You will get Bounty on your head depending on your rank ( rank * 100). You will see players in your system in the sidepanel tab (bounty). Destorying a player will transfer his bounty to you. Your piratemode stays enabled until you get destroyed by a player. The bounty will be converted to ladder warscore when the evaluation period ends and divided by your rank. Pirate mode will also be deactivated when evaluation has finished.

----Conquest blueprints----
You will now find blueprints for conquest ships around the starsystems. They will give your clan more tactical playground to equip your clanships. If you find a blueprint it will be added to your current clan.

We are gratefull for all helping hands to speed up the testing process.
When all the bugs are sorted out we will deploy this version including the public release of Draconis!

 

[Sayyadin]

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  Changes and Improvements
  
• A notification about buddylist booster pops up if you reach your maximum size of buddies
• A notification about clansize booster pops up for the clanleader if the maximum size of the clan is reached
• It is no longer needed to land in Pirate Mode on Conquest planets, your pirate mode automatically is enabled when
  you land and disabled when you leave the planet.
• The cryonite drop rate for harvesters was increased as it was too low
• You can now renew every booster enabling you to keep boosters for as long as you have gold and not have to
  rebuy them manually
• The mission helper is now activated by default and has to be deactivated if you don't want to see it
• The instancing of draconis system planets is set to 30, meaning if there are already 30 players on a planet
  another instance of the planet is created
• The AI of turrets got improved, they have long ranged weapons and react earlier making it impossible (or at
  least a lot harder) to fly through them and to also harder to kill them
• The AI was changed so enemies have a higher aggro range, meaning they react on you a lot earlier and therefore
  faster. Additionally if they have you locked down as target they will also ignore terrain like they do if they
  fly back to their spawning area
• The thrust now changes for clan leaders if they create a squad and become squad leader colors
• The attack drone's thrust now is the same color as the owner's
• Player ships were slightly rebalanced
• The speed of some enemy units were changed
• The range of some enemy weapons were increased
• The parsec ship class was rebalanced it is a lvl 70 ship
  
  Fixed Bugs
  
• Some small server fixes
• Some small client fixes
• Aggrobeacon and sniper attack droid starts the cooldown again if the created one gets destroyed
  
  
  New Features
  
• New Achievement System
  New blueprint achievements
  New ship achievements
  New PVE achievements
  New PVP achievements
  New achievement ranking
  Every pilot has a new tab in his pilot profile which has a lot of achievements to unlock.
  Achievements are unlocked by reaching certain milestones. When you have unlocked an achievement you
  are able to see what needs to be done do achieve it. The points are shown in the hall of fame table
  in the ladder window. They also become very important when you want to be the best pilot in the hall
  of fame but have the same medals as your opposing player. (evaluation period is daily for testing
  reasons)
• New Bounty System with a new pirate mode mechanism
  If you activate your pirate mode it stays active until you are destroyed. If you participate in
  the conquest and get killed your Piratemode stays active. Also if participate in a conquest with an
  active pirate mode it does not get deactivated if you leave the conquest.
  If you kill another pirate you get their warscore which they got for PVP. If you die you loose your
  warscore for PVP.
  After every week your Pirate mode is disabled and you get the warscore points that are as a bounty on
  your head
• Replay old missions
  You can now replay any mission you already completed, you still have to use the gear to do
  the mission and you will not get a reward for finishing it.
• New conquest ship items
  With these items it is possible to change your strategy for conquest. You will now find
  blueprints for conquest ships around the starsystems. They will give your clan more tactical
  playground to equip your clanships. If you find a blueprint it will be added to your current clan
• New ladder system
  Every player/clan starts at the lowest entry division. You have to gain points to reach the
  promotion slots that promote you to a higher division.
  If you reach the highest division you can earn medals. Players/clans with the high medal count
  will be featured in the hall of fame.
  Points are generated by doing missions, fighting against mantis, and the new bounty system
  (pirate mode).
  A icon of the division a player is is shown next to the players name (except for the lowest
  division)