Update 0.24.1 - Boarding

We added boarding! In order to board an enemy ship, you must first damage it and then launch fighter squadrons that transport your boarders to the soon-to-be-yours ship. Boarders will then fight on the other ship until the enemy defense system and crew is beaten. Once there is no enemy crew left, the ship is yours!

When boarding a station, its production facilities are destroyed upon takeover, and have to be rebuilt in order to work again. When boarding a cargo ship, its cargo is not marked as stolen.


Hiring tons and tons of crew can be very tiresome. In order to improve this front, we're now adding the possibility to clone crew on your ships and stations. We added cloning pods as a new block, which you can then use to clone crew on your ship. Cloning a crewman takes a fixed time, increased cloning capacity will allow you to clone more crewmen in parallel.


Since cloned crew is untrained, you will need facilities to turn your untrained crewmen into specialists. Similar to cloning pods there are now Academy Blocks, that help turn your crewmen into specialists. Similar to cloning, training a crewman takes a fixed time, and more academy blocks allow you to train more people in parallel.


There are several more improvements coming with this patch: The Cargo Tab got some improvements like coloring and sorting, overheating bars are now rendered next to turrets, Xsotan are stronger but jump away when unprovoked, reworked energy cooling, and much more!

To get all changes, check out the patchnotes of the beta branch updates:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/1601510700259911187
https://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/1600382809846349778