Patch Notes For Mosaic

FEATURES & CHANGES :

Graphics:

• Cider Upgrade for Mac Clients
• New anchor and unanchor effects for deployable structures
• V3 Asset Updates for all Player Owned Starbase (POS) structures
• New POS Force Field Effect
• Damage Control Icon redesign

Localization:

• FR: “Vagabonds” has been changed back to “Drifters”
• FR: Talwar and Onyx bonuses have been updated in ISIS
• FR, DE & RU: defect fixes and terminology issues resolved

Modules:

• The penalty for fitting warp rigs has been changed from CPU capacity to signature radius
• The Entosis Link can now be manufactured

Miscellaneous:

• Corporation adverts can now specify minimum skill points.
• The basic tutorial (up to Career agents) has been completely removed and replaced with the Opportunities system. For more information please read this Dev Blog.
  • This includes tutorial pop up windows that occurred during the career agents missions
  • Opportunities content will be enabled for all players including veteran players
  • The Opportunity system includes a number of tasks that can be undertaken in any order at any time
  • Opportunities can be viewed and navigated via the Opportunities map, accessible via a button on the Neocom
  • The Opportunities panel is available by default as part of the Info Panels to the left of the screen

Missions & NPCs:

• Two new Level 4 Burner Missions have been added. These missions allow certain medium sized ships entry and are completely optional, with no penalty for declining

Science & Industry:

• The Zydrine and Megacyte consumption of almost all blueprints have been doubled.

The compositions of several ore variations have been adjusted. Their new values are:

Arkonor:
Tritanium: 22000
Mexallon: 2500
Megacyte: 320

Bistot:
Pyerite: 12000
Zydrine: 450
Megacyte: 100

Crokite:
Tritanium: 21000
Nocxium: 760
Zydrine: 135

Dark Ochre:
Tritanium: 10000
Isogen: 1600
Nocxium: 120

Gneiss:
Pyerite: 2200
Mexallon: 2400
Isogen: 300

Spodumain:
Tritanium: 56000
Pyerite: 12050
Mexallon: 2100
Isogen: 450

Mercoxit:
Morphite: 300

Hedbergite:
Pyerite: 1000
Isogen: 200
Nocxium: 100
Zydrine: 19

Hemorphite:
Tritanium: 2200
Isogen: 100
Nocxium: 120
Zydrine: 15

Jaspet:
Mexallon: 350
Nocxium: 75
Zydrine: 8

• The ore compositions of the Mining Anomalies generated by the Ore Prospecting Array upgrade have been adjusted to better reflect average mineral usage in industry.

Ships:

• The Confessor and Svipul Tactical Destroyers have been rebalanced and their build components have been adjusted.

Confessor:

• New Role Bonus: +50% Small Energy Turret Damage
• Highslots: 6 (-1)
• Turrets: 4 (-2)
• Powergrid: 62 (-18)
• CPU: 180 (-10)
• Max Velocity: 235 (-45)
• Mass: 2,000,000kg (-400,000)
• Inertia: 2.7 (+0.55)
• Shield Recharge Time: 800s (+175s)
• Capacitor Recharge Time: 320s (+20s)

Svipul:

• New Role Bonus: +50% Small Projectile Turret Damage
• Highslots: 6 (-1)
• Turrets: 4 (-2)
• Powergrid: 59 (-19)
• CPU: 205 (-10)
• Max Velocity: 230 (-60)
• Mass: 1,500,000 (-400,000)
• Inertia: 3.5 (+0.85)
• Shield Recharge Time: 800s (+175s)
• Capacitor Recharge Time: 240s (+15s)
• Material Requirements have been changed: +1 to each of Electromechanical Interface Nexus, Fullerene Intercalated Sheets, Optimized Nano-engines, Reconfigured Subspace Calibrator, Self-Assembling Nanolattice, Warfare Computation Core

• Battlecruiser and Command Ship warp speed and acceleration have been increased by approximately 8%

Structures & Deployables:

The volume of Infrastructure Hubs and Infrastructure Upgrades have been reduced:

• Infrastructure Hubs: 60,000 m3
• Military/Industrial upgrades: From 5,000 m3 to 60,000 m3 (depending on the level)
• Strategic Upgrades: 200,000 m3
• Infrastructure Upgrades may now be manufactured from blueprints.
• Structures may now be deployed to space from ship Fleet Hangars
• The rate at which mining accumulates Sovereignty Industrial Index points has been greatly increased
• The rate at which killing NPCs accumulates Sovereignty Military Index points has been greatly increased

User Interface:

• Added Opportunities button to Neocom menu.
• Fittings dropped into market quickbar will now include numbers for quantity of each module.
• New Map: added factional warfare and sovereignty color filters.
• New Map: double-clicking map header will now toggle full screen mode.
• New Map: added functionality for location names to be drag dropped from dropdown lists inside the map.
• New Map: added ‘Recent’ filters to top of filter menu.
• New Map: Probing – added double click on probe result to focus map.
• Skill queues can now be imported from clipboard.
• Added tooltip to custom probe formation button in probing window.
• Fitting window will remain open during docking and undocking
• Top level icons for Control Tower, Storage Group, and Starbases have been updated in the inventory window
• The notification coming up when unanchoring Personal Hangar Arrays should now properly mention this action will also delete items belonging to other corporation members housed inside the structure.
• Sensor Overlay graphics updated.
• Sensor Overlay only does a 360° sweep when first entering a solar system and no longer repeats.
• When the Sensor Overlay is turned off nothing will appear in the space scene and the compass becomes more transparent.
• Role management UI has been restructured. More information can be found in this forum thread

SKINs (Super Kerr-Induced Nano-coating) System:

• The Ship Paint Pilot Program is being superseded by the new SKIN system, which adds licenses for a ship that can be applied to the character.
• A new tab has been added to the Character Sheet that lists all available SKINs and which are active for the character.
• Ship preview window has a left-side panel with all available SKINs for the given ship and allows the player to preview the SKIN.
• Applied SKINs are saved per ship, so each ship of the same type that a player boards will activate his active SKIN license.
• A new option has been added under the Display & Graphics > Effects section that allows you to disable SKIN effects from other ships in Space.
• A new Skin tab has been added to the ship’s Show Info window showing all available Skins for that ship.
• Fitting Window has a new left-hand panel with a list of all SKINs that are available for the active ship. Player can apply and preview Skins in his active ship.
• Current Ship Paint Pilot Program ships will be converted to a SKIN license and a base ship of the same type.
• The fitting window and preview window have an easy access to the NES store to purchase SKINs.
• More information about the feature and the conversion can be found in this dev blog.

FIXES :

Gameplay:

• Standard containers in space are now also cleaned up during some downtimes, same as other space junk.
• Fixed corporation ad searching not showing ads from the largest corps in the game.
• Fixed an issue where right clicking + show info on any recruiter in recruitment ads with multiple recruiters always showed the info for the last recruiter
• Fixed an issue where non-double clicks could be incorrectly interpreted as move commands.
• Fixed an issue causing inconsistencies in combat logs.
• Changed meta level of ‘Plough’ Heavy Capacitor Booster from 7 to 6.
• Changed Mjolnir Rage blueprint rocket fuel requirement from 8 to 6 as per other rockets.
• Cynosural fields may no longer be lit within the potential forcefield range of an Anchored, Online or Reinforced starbase, whether the forcefield is active or not.

Graphics:

• Realigned default camera FOV after pod death
• Adjusted cloaking effect to work correctly with the new map.
• Corrected Loyalty Point Store blueprint icons.
• Resolved an issue whereby resizing 3D Preview windows would break the render and crash Mac clients.
• Removed scleral discoloration for Low Quality Characters on Mac clients.
• Fixed CR line breaks incorrectly being interpreted by Mac clients.
• Prevented Mac client graphical corruption by clamping AntiAliasing to Disabled

Localization:

• Fixed station panel button labels appearing incorrectly on localized clients.

Missions & NPCs:

• A typo in the mission ‘Right to Rule’ has been fixed.
• A naming error with the Mineral Container item has been fixed
• A typo in the Shadow Serpentis Fleet Staging Point combat site has been fixed.
• A grammatical error in the description of Obsidian Ochre has been fixed.
• A grammatical error in the mission ‘Athran Exigency (1 of 5)’ has been fixed.
• Long waits in between waves in the combat mission ‘Technological Secrets 1 of 3 ‘ have been lowered.
• A visual issue during the ‘A Better World’ mining mission has been fixed.
• A despawning issue with the ‘Minmatar Contracted Bio-Farm’ combat site has been fixed.
• Some objects that caused collision issues within the combat site ‘Serpentis Watch’ have been repositioned.
• A despawning issue with the ‘Serpentis Drug Outlet’ combat site has been fixed.
• A completion issue with the Minmatar epic arc mission ‘Heresiology’ has been fixed.
• Missing icons on the warp in messages for ‘Rich’ and ‘Potent’ mining sites have been reintroduced.
• Prospect frigates can now enter the Rogue Drone Asteroid Infestation and Chemical Yard sites.
• Lime Cytoserocin damage clouds are now correctly named.

PvE:

• Fixed text errors in the following missions: A Greener World, Honor, A Better World.
• Fixed local chat channel member list sometimes not properly updating colortags that have expired.
• Drifter and Circadian Seeker loot table re-balance
• Further iteration on NPC AI behaviours

Science & Industry:

• Prospect blueprint copies are correctly show now a Tech 2 meta level.

Corporations and Alliances:

• Adding a clearer error message when attempting to withdraw a character’s application to a corporation that has been closed.
• Fixed an issue where a new corporation member could be added to the member list three times.

User Interface:

• New map: the “Pirate and Police…” filter now properly shows numerical data upon hover over.
• New map: fixed the avoidance systems filter not updating without closing and reopening map.
• New map: fixed an issue which could cause the map (in windowed mode) to stick to the cursor.
• New Map: the map will now properly remember its position and angle after being closed and reopened.
• New Map: changed it so that the Neocom is not displaced when map is docked to the same side as the Neocom.
• New Map: Fixed incorrect appearance of some jump bridge lines
• New map: the map now remembers if you are in a wormhole when reopened.
• Fixed the autocomplete dropdown menu breaking in the ‘Save Location’ window.
• Fixed corporation advertisement windows breaking when resized.
• Fixed an issue which could cause the station panel to disappear.
• Changed planet density units in show info window from g/cm3 to kg/m3.
• Added missing traits description for Revenant: “this ship class is only capable of carrying fighters and fighter bombers in its drone bay”.
• Added ‘Open’ to radial menu for freight containers in space.
• Loading bar fills correctly with UI scaling
• Team notifications have been removed from the Notifications Settings
• Module icons will no longer periodically appear over the 3D preview in the Industry window
• Item Filter window no longer has the Filter name field populated with the text, window, by default
• Bottom segment of Factional Warfare window is now properly aligned with the rest of the window
• Tech II transverse bulkhead blueprints are now properly filtered by tech II inventory filters
• Used with tab no longer shows incompatible charges
• Elite Drone AI is now available on the Market under Materials > Faction Materials > Rogue Drones category
• Time Dilation no longer causes info panels to be delayed when opening
• Attempting to minimize the chat window while loading into the game will no longer break the minimize button
• Jump Fatigue and aggression timers no longer have artifacts in the icons
• Ascendancy implants and polarized weapons are now properly sorted by tech levels when using custom made filters.
• Fix for Elite Drone AI not sorted into the proper group in the Industry UI
• Mastery skill counter no longer disappears after expanding and collapsing the window
• The HUD is no longer hidden or moved when controlling POS weapons. The ship modules are still replaced.
• Bookmark sensor overlay visibility icon in People & Places now correctly reflects the selected status
• Fixed tooltip formatting for CPU and powergrid in fitting window.
• Fixed tax information being displayed in the wrong position for customs offices