4.96.0 Patch 1 pReDiCtIoNs AnD LeAkS

[Lemon]

Discovery 4.96.0 Patch 1
- Changed: Outcasts and Corsairs merged into the new faction Outsairs.
- Changed: All suns deleted, light in systems was a strain on server resources.
- Added: Flashlight
- List of systems removed: Yes

Add your predictions and "confirmed" leaks!

[Aingar]

- Battleship Hood bridge is now covered by fabric, to fit its name.
- Omicron Delta reworked (again)
- Commodity bloat reduced, the only 2 remaining commodities are Iridium and Pristine Ice
- Omicron Delta removed
- Gallia's Government has shifted to Totalitarian Meritocracy

[Arnold]

- Gallic Junkers return and coup the Gallic government
- A new Zoner house will be established.
- Texas finally succumbs to Rheinland and is renamed to Texasburg.
- Cardamine will become legal so houses can profit from it as well.
- Bastille will become an inrp system.

[Chronicron]

- All the governments collapse, leaving the colonies in temporary chaos, until the one true leader makes her return - The Kitty Admin.
- Bioengineering research scyrockets, allowing humans to create their own Nomads
- Quantum research skyrockets, allowing humans to travel through time
- wait what?
- It is revealed that Dom K'Vosh were actually humans from a different timeline

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[Sombs]

- Added: New Tokyo now has a moon
- Added: Cambridge - Charleston Shipyard, BAF
- Added: Dublin - Guinness Shipyard, BAF
- Added: Manchester - Falkirk Shipyard, BAF
- Added: Leeds - Yorkshire Gold Shipyard, BAF
- Added: Edinburgh - Binski Memorial Shipyard, BAF
- Changed: Omicron Kappa - layout change #25 - this one will totally change the game
- Changed: Coronado - increased the number of Zephyr hulls at Sabah to 20
- Changed: New London - downsized Planet New London to provide space for more player owned bases
- Changed: New Berlin - The Ring now surrounds the entire system
- Changed: Reputation - Xenos and Bretonia Armed Forces are now allies
- Changed: Vespucci - Added a single Insurgency fighter wreck near Planet Veracruz to show the progress of the final weeks of the Liberty Insurgency, it's getting serious very soon
- Changed: Shikoku - System sized down to 10k, we don't want Powertrader Ivan to get pirated in the one system that was ideal for that
- Changed: Player Owned Bases: Increased module slots for Player Owned Bases from 3x per tier to 5x per tier
- Changed: Player Owned Bases: All weapon platform types now have twice the range and twice the projectile speed
- Changed: Rules and moderation: Two wrongs are now officially balancing each other out
- Changed: Renamed - Attica Ultramax fed enough XP to become Attica Hyper Spirit Max
- Changed: Renamed - Scientific Data renamed to Development Leaks (we figured it made sense that shooting at an anomaly would eventually result in something stupid)
- Changed: Renamed - Omicron Nu is now Omicron No
- Removed: Omicron No
- Removed: Omicron Xi nomad weapon platforms - We are making sure the poor miners in Xi/Knossos can mine Xeno Artifacts without any kind of resistance
- Removed: Player Owned Bases wear&tear damage permanently removed - players complained about having a hard time keeping all 211 PoBs up and fed
- Removed: Discovery - straying away from trade lane rings too far will now destroy you; this will encourage interaction
- Removed: Omega-55 - We removed this entire system because Kaarst Drydock sounds like a really weird homosexual sexual activity
- Removed: LH~ - initiating hacks without the consent of the recipient is powergaming
- Removed: Jormungand Battleship - turns out Blood Diamonds are not ideal for building capital ships
- Removed: Rules: Rule 1.4 has been removed since nobody cared about enforcing it. OSI can now legally be lead by Bob Kelso from Scrubs
- Removed: Rules: Rule 2.5 has been removed. Welcome back, Toris!

[Swifty]

No.

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[jide]

- only one system isn't deleted.
- All players are moved to bastille
- server shut down 24h later

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Proud member of the most hated faction

[LuckyOne]

Discovery 4.96.0 Patch 1
- Added: "Shivasharma" GMG Battleship
- Changed: Xeno Alliance now controls Colorado, Coronado and California. New York system is now contested.
- Changed: Barge cost increased to 250 billion credits, cargo reduced to 15000. Cruise speed increased to 85.
- Changed: Outcasts and Core merged into the new faction Corescasts.
- Changed: Systems: reverted to vanilla layout
- Changed: Economy: reverted to vanilla prices
- Removed: All POB functions removed because drama. POBs are still buildable, they just no longer do anything
- Removed: GMG Battleship turrets

[Saronsen]

should i ruin the fun and post leaks?

[Nika]

Yes.

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