A big one — Skye Station brings a whole new alliance-wide system online, its bonuses are wired into real combat (not just a stat preview), the Fleet tab got smarter, and there's a stack of chat, header, and admin quality-of-life fixes across the board.
Alliance Space Station (new)
- New "Skye Station" — each alliance's shared hub, a visual clickable scene. Locked until the alliance researches Station Engineering (Research Lab tab) and a leader/officer builds it from the Vault.
- Six modules, each separately upgradable: Command Bridge (extra colony slots + a real attack bonus in combat), Comms Array (extra alliance-research donation charges + a real shield bonus in combat), Research Lab (faster donation-charge regen + better fleet survival rate — and it now caps how far the rest of the alliance's research can advance), Docking Bay (more fleet cargo capacity), Command Archive (faster alliance research once it's underway), and the Vault itself (more bank capacity).
- Upgrading a module now takes real time to complete (like a real construction job) instead of finishing instantly — the Station has one construction bay, so only one module builds at a time.
- The Vault (renamed from "Bank"): each resource now has a real capacity cap (raised by upgrading the Vault module) and a 500,000/day donation limit per captain. Every donation earns Commendations, the alliance's own currency spendable in its Store tab.
- Renamed a few Alliance tabs to match: Overview → Bridge, Research → Research Lab, Bank → Vault.
- The above Command Bridge/Comms Array/Research Lab bonuses are wired into real battle resolution — PvP, pirate attacks, Galactic/Solo Boss — not just a stat preview.
- The Fleet tab now shows ships currently away on missions, not just docked ones.
- Flight speedups simplified to 3 clean tiers (25%/50%/75% off the remaining time) that work on any flight in transit, replacing an older transport-only speedup family.
- Fixed the speedup picker popup clipping off-screen; it now shows Buy and Use together for every tier.
- Messages now show a timestamp.
- Channels and DMs show the 10 most recent messages instead of the full history at once.
- Click any resource in the top bar for production/hour, storage, and time-until-full; click Energy for a power-usage breakdown.
- Hover any resource pill for a quick "full in X" (or power usage) tooltip without clicking.
- New Moderator page for accounts flagged as moderators (not admins) — clearing a stuck queue, resetting a rename, and a vacation-mode override.
- Admin's own player lookup also gained the same activity log.
- The Station's "Fund Upgrade" button no longer opens a duplicate confirmation popup.
- Comms Array now correctly opens Alliance chat, not Global.
— The Skye Space Team