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There have been a couple of changes to the swarm bonus, so we can keep up with small swarm fleets
This does not affect base attrbutes or big solo ships, just the fleets that work in huge swarms

- Base calcs for max swarm bonus start at space+15, previously was only space
- Attack Swarm bonus lowered to a more decent value to avoid fleets getting 40x - 100x base attack from just the swarms
- Defence swarm bonus lowered a bit to keep up with lowered attack
- Hitpoints swarm bonus unchanged

Yes Ars, it's your suggested idea enhanced and extended to include not only supernovas, but a lot of events that will enable commanders to get more stuff and progress faster.
Encounters rewards will include credits, segments, experience reward, CP reward, turns reward.
Also encounters max experience / battle is a lot higher than missions, maxing aroung 70,000 per battle + your commander bonus.

Test coming along fine, lots of cool graphics too

I'm testing with the encounters system and will deploy this add-on in the coming weekend, 18-19 of March.

Description of encounters:
A ranking encounter, a special event marked on the ranking, much more profitable, more experiece and bonus experience, you can't not notice it  ;D
If the encounter is in your attack range, a pulsing red light will indicate you can try to attack it. Range is 80%-200% of your total power.
Encounter details are available if you click the pic where the alliance pics are usually at. When trying to attack, details will appear on the war room, before selecting fleets.
Encounter power is the power of the maximum fleets you would face in the battle, but they won't exceed the cost of your fleets, to ensure a fair fight. Completing encounter special missions will guarantee a news event.

God Speed Commanders!  ;)

The server was changed, software was upgraded and optimized, it should be several times faster now  ;D
Server location is in USA, and server time is USA Eastern.

God Speed Commanders!  ;D

-- Edited -- Server upgrade complete

The good news is it's going to fly like crazy after this upgrade, loading speed should increase by several times.
When DDAY comes, we'll be ready with a speedy server, and new and cool upgrades after DDAY.    ;D

God Speed!

ok, I can do that A link on the forum showing the latest 100 news, no problem