Star Traders: Frontiers Update #94: Duranthium Sheen

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The glue-grey alloy of duranthium is known to shine best when polished mightily. Update #94 represents a continued push for polish and improvements across the board. We're implementing player suggestions, fixing newly discovered bugs with the story and tweaking balance.

If you enjoy the updates, leave a review and tell a friend! Without further delay, here we go!

Valencia Jam - Minor Spoilers

When weaving narrative and sandbox together, sometimes the unexpected happen. The extension of the story timers in Update #91 created an surprising consequence with a unrelated story -- the Stowaway Smuggler. A jam formed in the story event pipe which prevented Valencia's storyline from starting

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after she joins your crew

. For anyone who had this happen -- she is just hanging on the crew, never talked and there were no compelling events -- the story is going to start up again after Update #94. It may be late ... in some games, very late ... but it will now move through to completion.

Expanded Ship Combat Results

All three of the possible result screens after ship combat -- victory, defeat and draw -- have synchronized their data display with the lead-in encounter screen. All screens how display the quadrant owner, their Rep and flag for tooltip, as well as the faction of the opposing ship, that ship's flag for tooltip and the captain type. The Ship report tab also includes details about the ship's hull, captain's health, crew count and cargo count.

A big thanks to the players requesting these details. They help keep the thread going throughout the entire encounter and give much needed access to certain data points, such as current Reputation.

New Contact Faces

We're hard at work to expand the artistic catalogs within the game and have added two new contact character faces with this update. Expect more uniforms, hats, accessories, faces, weapons -- the art team has dived back in to increase the game's art variety and options for players.

Officer Suites

Update #93's Officer Suite addition was a bit of a bust due to a rule that prevented you from upgrading your ship over max officer count. That rule has been downgraded to a warning, and now upgrading to medium Officer Suites is quick and painless. We did too much testing on dry dock ships!

v2.3.41 - 8/16/2018

- Added 2 new contact character faces
- Added quadrant faction, enemy ship and faction to ship combat victory / escape / defeat to match encounters
- Ship combat victory screen now includes hull and captain HP under the Ship tab
- Fixed bug with Ship Encounter / Victory / Defeat screen getting locked up after a story event
- Allowed installation of Officer Suite even when exceeding max officer count
- Improved self buff on Military Officer's Boarding Rush Talent
- Fixed bug where Valencia's story could get stuck even after Duel has ended; be careful, if she is onboard, the story will start again after update!
- If a ship is in drydock, you can now always access it regardless of starport rating fluctuation
- Fixed issue with starports over-reporting their value by +3
- Clarified rules for looting Smugglers and their goods that require permits in ship victory
- Fixed Medical Drop missions not adding to the plague score in Plague Era
- Improved tooltip description of medical rating