Changelog

What changed in each version of Orbitarion. Full technical detail lives in the in-app changelog (Settings → Changelog).

4.6.0 — 2026-10-13

Trade Hall

Buy orders: say what you want, how much, and the most you will pay per unit. Your payment is locked and the order fills by itself, in parts too, against offers at your price or better — you always pay the offer's price and the rest is refunded
Partial buys: when you post an offer you can let buyers take part of it and choose the smallest part
Counter-offers: propose your own amounts on an offer. Your payment is locked until the seller answers and is refunded after 12 ticks without an answer. Both sides stay anonymous
Market rates: the average rate per resource pair over the last 48 ticks (from 3 trades) and the best open price each way
Filters on both sides (what you get and what you give), sorting by newest, closest or best rate, and the rate on every one-for-one offer
The market is anonymous: offers show distance and transport loss instead of the seller, and completed market trades don't name the other side (gifts and direct trades still do)

New

Renown on your profile: current perks, what the next rank gives, and today's Renown per source against the daily caps
Renown statistics: all ranks, this round by source, the last 14 days, when you reached each rank, and your career across rounds
Player profiles, the alliance roster and battle reports show Renown rank
Reaching a new rank sends a notification; your alliance sees it in intel
Battle reports show what Salvage Operations recovered (Ti/Si) and which ships Field Repair Yards restored
Dominion fog of war: other alliances' garrisons and attack fleets are hidden; you still see who is attacking a sector and when the battle resolves
Whether another alliance's sector is below its garrison minimum is no longer shown
Renown fades after 2 days without earning: −5% per day, never below your rank's threshold — you keep your rank and perks
A Dominion sector your alliance releases cannot be unlocked again by your alliance for 72 ticks (losing one in battle does not lock you out)
A sector under attack cannot be released; garrisons can still be withdrawn
The Void never attacks without capture ships; Stronghold mobilisations now bring Siphons and Engulfers
Hijacking costs capture hulls by class: Fighter 1, Corvette 1, Frigate 2, Destroyer 2, Cruiser 3, Battleship 4
Overload Cascade: +15% EMP efficiency, on top of Resonant Emitters
Fence Network: hijacked hulls scrap for 80% of build cost (was 40%)
Pirate Code: hijacking costs one less hull per ship (minimum 1)
Pegasus: 24 guns × 7 damage (was 14 × 11), matching the ship art — slightly stronger in total (168 vs 154)
Repeated diplomacy changes no longer flood intel — only the latest per alliance is kept
Void Exchange: a trading post you already used shows when it reopens

Fixed

Race bonuses had no effect. They now apply: UEC +20% defence build speed and +10% armour, Odonari +15% research speed, Cartel +15% ship production and +10% scan success, Aetherians +20% research speed and +10% EMP efficiency
Market offers priced in antimatter did not charge the buyer
Returning players could have their planet run by a caretaker
Suspended accounts appeared in rankings and could sign up for a round
Sign out did nothing on the round sign-up screen
Scheduling a launch did not work for a fleet still away — it now launches once the fleet is home, and the sheet shows the earliest arrival tick
Queued attacks could get stuck when their Dominion sector was lost to upkeep or the Void
An active Orbital Shield made attacking ships waste their shots when the defender had no Battleship-class ships — the shield no longer affects who your ships fire at
Dominion sectors kept earning VP while the alliance was behind on upkeep; like Nebula slots, they now stop until the upkeep is paid
The Spymaster decoy recharged after 32 ticks instead of the 48 shown
Free scans from alliance tier and Renown are shown per 24 ticks, which is how often they reset
Last Stand (Defender T3) described the wrong trigger: it activates when your side drops below 30% of its starting fleet value
Locked research now says what it requires, including requirements in another branch
Research time in hours assumed 30-minute ticks, so speed rounds showed six times too long; it now uses the round's tick length

4.5.0 — 2026-10-08

New

New research screen: branches in a grid
New branches: Orbital Survey, Intel, Counter-intel, Industry and one race branch per faction
Resource research scales with your income
Refineries: convert surplus titanium, silicon or uranium
New artwork for every branch and every tier
Alliance tiers must be held; tier points fade without territory
Dominion sector traits, and Void attacks on held sectors with a 12-tick warning
Renown: a personal rank for every player, sortable in Rankings
Void Exchange: the Void posts its own trade offers
Planetary defences: no 999 cap, more armour
Commanders level by playing their role; reworked ultimates
The Void attacks outside the Awakening; Void fleets always carry capture ships
Members away for three days are marked in the alliance roster
The alliance card lists what your tier gives and what the next tier adds
Expeditions on the Overview
Settings rebuilt, notification presets, haptics toggle
Account deletion moved to Profile

Fixed

Confirmations froze the screen on iOS, including releasing a Dominion sector
Cloaked fleets were visible in the alliance defence panel
Antimatter was lost when a market offer was cancelled or expired
Rate the app opened the wrong App Store page
Shipyard prices did not include your alliance tier discount
The daily mission countdown showed more than a day

4.4.0 — 2026-09-16

New

The streak countdown leads with the tick count — it used to show "today's mission done" in large type with the deadline as small grey text underneath, so the figure you need before closing the app was the least visible thing on the panel
Every mission category has its own mark — military, economy, intel, research and territorial
Full-day expeditions pay for their own risk — one full-day run was worth almost the same as two half-day runs while carrying a 10% chance of losing everything against 0.25%, and for antimatter it was worse on average. Orbital 5–16 per run (was 4–14), antimatter 5–14 (was 3–9); loss chances and half-day runs unchanged
The shield percentage is coloured by charge, not status — a shield hit in the last few ticks showed 99% in red, which reads as failing when it means the opposite. Red now means below 60%, where a shield stops blocking orbital theft
Accepting and delivering a trade are one message — you were told someone took your offer, then told a tick later that it completed, without being told who. One line now carries both the name and the transport loss

Fixed

A stack wiped out and then replaced by hijacked hulls showed its final count as zero. One battle reported 1 ship sent, 1 destroyed, 756 captured — and then "0" as the total, when the fleet flew home with 756
One daily mission was impossible in practice: "complete a defence research" went to players who had never opened that branch, and its entry node is a fourteen-hour research. Assigned 32 times this season, completed zero times
Quantity buttons dim when the amount cannot be picked. Building, scrapping and transferring either ignored the limit or silently gave you less than the button said — one marked 500 would set 200 if that was all you had. PDS amounts are 100, 250 and 500, not 1, 5 and 10
Build and defence sheets could not be scrolled, so on a phone the Cancel button sat under the navigation bar with no way to reach it
Alliance member scores broke across two lines mid-number, turning 537 906 024 into something that read as a different figure. Long scores are shortened in the roster only

4.3.1 — 2026-09-11

New

Warships are drawn to scale — all 44 hulls used to fill their frame identically, so a fighter and a battleship reached you the same size. A fighter now takes 45% of its slot and a battleship 100%
One camera for the whole game — the Aetherian fleet had been drawn almost side-on while the other four races were at three-quarters
Ship detail sheet — 96 to 140 points, every hull shown at full size. The list carries the scale, the sheet carries the detail
Founders can claim a galaxy at sign-up — seven seats held for the alliance while everyone registers, released when the season starts so late arrivals can still fill what is left. Nobody can see which galaxy is claimed, or by whom
Queue the next tier of the branch you are researching — the queue was built to allow it, but the screen locked the node until the one before it had finished, so it only ever worked across different branches
Scans say whether a shield is actually running — nearly half the shields in the game are switched off and flat, and the tier alone told you nothing about it. Military scans also show the strength it is set to
Trade offers that expire say so — expiry and cancellation had shared a status. Resources were always refunded in full either way
Accepting and delivering are one message — you used to be told someone took your offer, then told a tick later that it completed, without being told who
A new introduction — five illustrated cards including one for the Void, and it can be replayed from Settings

Fixed

Battle report strength was ship count times 500, so a Stinger costing 60 counted the same as a Titan costing 3,100. It is fleet value now, the measure the game uses to decide who won, and every past report is recalculated
Counter-Intelligence counted only the ships parked on the scanner's planet, so nearly a quarter of alerts read zero. Fleets are counted now
Capability tags in battle reports were all printed in EMP green, so steal, raid and capture were indistinguishable
Ship counts went stale after a battle, after filling a nebula slot, and when a build order completed on the tick, until the page was reloaded
Void planets spent their income the moment it arrived and could not be a trade counterparty above roughly two million. They now keep a reserve, which takes a few days to build up
The Sytherian Plasma Turret image was cropped on both sides
The battle calculator modelled every imported shield at full strength, and its RAID tag shared a colour with STEAL

4.3.0 — 2026-09-08

New

Every piece of art in the game has been redrawn — new research illustrations, planetary defence systems, ships and commander portraits for all four races, so a faction's buildings, weapons and fleet finally look like they were made by the same civilization
Race-specific art for Orbital Shields and the trade branch — those eight research nodes had shared one neutral icon between all four factions
New faction logos and emblems, plus new artwork for every report. Battle reports use the attacking race's own set
The overview shows where your ships are — at home, deployed, in a nebula, in a Dominion sector, or in the alliance pool. Each number opens the screen that holds them. Ships limping home from a lost battle are marked separately, because they cannot be recalled
Ship capabilities are shown on the ship itself — capture, steal, raid, EMP and cloak. The information was in the game from the start but only appeared in the build menu, so a hijacked or donated hull arrived with nothing to say it carries no guns
Stronghold galaxies are marked as such — galaxy 10 in every cluster is a Void stronghold, which the game had never said anywhere

Fixed

The stronghold panel had never rendered at all
Sixteen strings across the stronghold screens had no translation in any of the nine languages and showed as raw labels
The English headline was painted into the scan report artwork, so nine languages sat under one hardcoded English word
The Void's Siphon and Engulfer had no art and rendered blank
The nebula screen loaded forever when opened without a galaxy
Void-held slots in Nebula and Dominion showed an empty box where the faction mark belongs
An unexpected error now offers to reload instead of leaving a blank screen

4.2.0 — 2026-08-25

New

Antimatter is a choice — every launch lets you decide whether to spend antimatter on the Warp tick (2 within your cluster, 3 across clusters). Decline and you travel one tick slower, spend nothing
Research queue (Premium) — queue one research behind the one running; cost taken on queue, refunded in full on cancel
Stronghold damage tracking — every Void stronghold shows how close it is to breaking, who did the damage, and what remains. Visible to everyone
Garrison floor warnings — your alliance is told the moment a holding drops below the minimum, with the shortfall and the deadline

Fixed

Stronghold defenders were effectively immortal — only the attacked planet ever took losses; breach rewards recalculated to scale with what the stronghold actually holds (10–25% by tier), plus the promised commander XP
The Void could not target Destroyers, Cruisers or Battleships while any light ship screened (its frigate now runs a standard Fr → De → Co chain)
Battle reports hid both losses and captures when you hijacked a ship type you already fly; battle news no longer calls a lost attack "Defence held!"
A newly installed Orbital Shield now starts at 0% and switched off — upkeep scales with strength and orbitals, so it no longer bills you while protecting nothing. Shield confirmations on iOS actually work now
Alliance defence fleets hold position 1–5 ticks like every other defending fleet; Diamond −1 tick applies to them; reinforcing a Dominion sector during its cooldown works

4.1.0 — 2026-08-24

Alliances are now permanent. Your alliance carries over to every new round, and you stay a member until you leave or an officer removes you — missing a round never costs you your seat.

New

Give up a Nebula slot or Dominion sector deliberately — garrison comes home, territory reverts to the Void
Recall a deployed alliance defence fleet to the pool; arrival previews show whether a deployment beats the incoming attack; multi-ship donations in one go
Battle reports are open to everyone — knowing what happened in your own fight is neither cosmetic nor convenience
Donors of alliance defence ships get their own battle report

Territory

The garrison floor is 50% of a holding's full capacity (all ten garrison positions combined), with 48 ticks to meet it before the Void takes the holding back. Slots and sectors show committed value, required value, and the countdown
Fixed capacity reading ten times too high, countdowns carrying over to a new owner, understaffed holdings never reverting, and one-sided nebula adjacency

Fixed

Captured ships no longer fight in the battle they were taken in
A winning attacker no longer scatters; winning attacks take orbitals again
Alliance defence fleets travel with real ETAs, are visible to military scans, and no longer freeze when two return on the same tick
Alliance tier now updates when VP comes from treasury donations
The ad orbital reward gives 5 initiated orbitals (2 Ti / 2 Si / 1 Ur) instead of 1 uninitiated
The Void no longer appears in player or galaxy rankings
Battle report rows show all four outcomes at once: sent, destroyed, hijacked, frozen

4.0.0

The biggest update the game has had. Full notes in the app under Settings → Changelog.

New systems

Void Strongholds — a tenth, Void-only galaxy per cluster at four difficulty tiers. Attack one planet and fight the whole galaxy; wear its strength down and share the breach reward by damage done. While the Void is awake, a full-strength stronghold can mobilise against the top of the rankings. Guide: Void Strongholds
Territory upkeep — holding Nebula slots and Dominion sectors now costs the alliance treasury every tick, superlinearly with total holdings. Under-garrisoned or unpaid territory reverts to the Void; you can also release a holding deliberately for a partial refund
R&D research branch — expedition vessels that hunt orbitals or antimatter, the new resource that fuels Warp Drive and can be donated to the alliance treasury. Guide: Research
Ion Thrusters — a fourth Engines tier; the fuel discount moved here, and Warp Drive now burns antimatter on launches outside your own galaxy
Alliance ship pool — donate ships, and the Defence Minister (renamed from Communications Officer) deploys pooled fleets to members under attack. Score-neutral for donors
Alliance treasury now takes antimatter; manual donations award VP. Auto-donate (Premium) streams 5–50% of your income to the treasury — automatic donations award no VP
Galaxy invite codes — bring a friend straight into your galaxy

Combat

Orbital Shield rebuilt — drains by a fixed percentage per attack based on the attacker's fleet value against your orbital network; breaks at 60% charge (was 25%); never participates in combat. Guide: Orbital Shield
Targeting ladder — T1 100% / T2 85% / T3 70%, and a ship with no valid target class now fires at 40% instead of sitting out the battle
Ship-steal everywhere — Cartel steal-ships now fight (and hijack) in the Nebula and Dominion; each hijack consumes one steal-ship, and hijacked ships count toward the 50% panic-retreat floor
Military scans reveal fleets inbound to your target (Quantum Scanners)
Spymaster cloak is a 96-tick cooldown instead of once per season
Commander rank nodes — points past a fully unlocked tree buy repeatable tier-5 bonuses at escalating cost. Engineer commanders now earn XP from orbitals initiated, build batches and research — not just combat

Quality of life

Net income in the top bar (shield upkeep already deducted)
Inactive planets are taken over by a caretaker bot after 7 days — you get the planet back the moment you log in
Rebuilt spy reports, grouped Intel events, fleet value in every fleet tab, alliance fleet overview with collision warnings, online status for alliance members

3.1.0

Orbital Shield — a new four-tier PDS research chain (Shield I–IV). Charge it with your orbital network: while the shield holds 25%+ charge, no orbitals can be stolen from you. Control strength, upkeep and charge from the Overview screen. Full guide: Orbital Shield
Saved Loadouts — build fleet templates once, fill a fleet with one tap from the Galaxy sheet or Shipyard. 1 slot for everyone, 5 with Premium
Orbital theft rebalanced — losing attackers now steal nothing, draws steal less (0.40×)
Planetary Shield Generator is now pure armor (max 1) — theft protection moved to the Orbital Shield
Battle reports show shield results: damage absorbed, SHIELD HELD or SHIELD BREACHED
Planet Scans show the target's shield tier; Military Scans also show the combat-effective charge %
Battle Calculator on tools.orbitarion.com simulates shields and prefills from Military Scans

3.0.3

Daily Missions overhaul — catalog expanded to 60 mission types, smarter assignment (impossible missions are never handed out), better daily variety, and skipping never leaves you without a mission
Daily mission tracker on the Overview screen with streak & progress
Mission titles and Commander briefings now in all 9 languages
Mission sheet: close button, clearer claim state, streak meter fix
Push notifications fully localized (trade, streak rewards, and more)
Nebula error messages now shown in your language
Fixed the planned-attack screen showing the wrong language
Ghost fleet: max size now correctly scales with your fleet
Research XP now matches round settings
Market offers you can't afford are clearly marked
Ranking points visible on all platforms
In-app review prompts at key moments
Lots of UI fixes — sheets and layouts work on all platforms

3.0.2

Planned attacks: fleets that are away can now be scheduled — they launch automatically on return
Scheduled-launch failure reasons localized in all 9 languages
Daily mission catalog expanded, with localized Commander flavor
Commander balance pass: Tactician and Defender trait values re-tuned
Speed-round banner on the Overview screen
The Void's name corrected across all languages

3.0.0 — Trade & Raid

Trading: player-to-player market with offers, escrow, and delivery — gated by a new four-tier Trading research branch (galaxy → cluster → The Void → all clusters)
Raid corvettes: one per race (Harrier, Broodleach, Specter, Raider) that steal resource stockpiles; the old STC steal-corvette Raider was renamed Marauder
Daily Missions: Commander-driven objectives with rewards and a 7-day streak
Ship scrapping: break ships down for 40% of their build cost
EMP rebalance: Aetherian Pulse, Arc, and Volt now fire earlier — the freeze lands before the enemy shoots

2.x highlights

2.0: Commander system (four archetypes, trait trees), Orbital Dominion (the alliance hex star map), the Sytherian Cartel ship-steal redesign, and the public Battle Calculator
2.1–2.4: Nebula War expansion, Void Awakens, player trading (the system the v3 market is built on), alliance war plans and diplomacy, scheduled fleet launches, and the panic-retreat / scatter combat safety net

Documentation reflects Orbitarion v4.6.0. Last updated: 2026-10-13.