Rings of Saturn

• After fixing your ship, dealer trade-in price will update immediately.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your ship to change name if you saw it destroyed in upgrade or tuning simulation.
  
• Ringstorms will not jump between your ship and cargo you are carrying anymore.
  
• Added a dialogue option that was missing from Obonto dialogue tree if you didn’t respond to the initial hail.
  
• Tug drones will not try to stop heavy rocks that are hardly moving.
  
• Newly bought massdrivers and nanodrone systems now come with a starter ammunition pack, so you can see them working even if you don’t have a respective storage compartment.
  
• When launching a new dive, the target selection screen will not suggest purchasing full 100kg resupply of ammunition, drones or propellant if you used just a bit.
  
• Upgrade simulation for drone systems is now zoomed out so you can see what the drones are doing at a longer distance.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused settings menu tabs to be not translated.
  
• Updated the translations.
  

New ore density charts released

Dealerships required to permit access to ships

Mass driver ammunition quality control

Salvage interface upgrades available

Maintenance Records

• Fine-tuned AI of frigates so they didn’t try the same tricks that work on smaller ships.
  
• AR-1500 Manipulator can will now return to rest position when powered off.
  
• AR-1500 Manipulator will now catch lifepods and drones.
  
• Ore density rebalance. You will now find more variance between ore types and all the ores will have some profitability.
  
• If your ship is stranded and the recovery crew picks you up, you will now receive a message explaining what is happening.
  
• Fixed a number of glitches on older graphics cards related to VRAM compression algorithms.
  
• Lowered video ram requirements.
  
• Enhanced the dealer screen. You can now view the promotional video separate from the ship description and you have an ability to examine the actual ship you are buying.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the stone jet particle effect to be not visible.
  
• Some of the asteroids ignored first impact, making them much tougher than they should be.
  

• VRAM optimizations lower the video ram requirements from 1.8GB down to 900MB. This solves performance and stability problems on cards that have 2GB of video ram or less, such as bad framerate and game freezes on NVidia GTX 7xx cards.
  
• Changed the visuals of background ring rocks, making them darker and easier distinguishable from the background.
  
• Improved physics accuracy to eliminate ore rocks phasing through ship hulls sometimes.
  
• You now have a wider range of tuning for EIAA1337 autopilot settings.
  
• Obonto stations can now dock - with some trouble - Cothon-212.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a totally damaged part to be listed with the price of brand new one in upgrades.
  
• Option to replace a part in the repairs menu will now give you a discount for sale of your old, damaged part.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused repairs not to be immediately reflected in the upgrade menu.
  
• You can now click on the ship name in the dealer menu to bring up a preview.
  
• Removed broken Eagle Prospector configurations that listed it with high-stress hardpoint. If you own such a ship the harpoint will be still listed, but you can safely ignore it, as it doesn’t do a thing.
  
• Buying and selling a ship won’t cause it to appear in the dealer twice anymore.
  
• Fixed spawning bug that could cause ore to intersect hull when you bumped into medium-sized asteroid.
  

• Hitting a enemy excavator with mass-driver bullet is now a hostile act.
  
• Railgun projectiles will not ricochet so often now.
  
• Cargo containers and claim beacons won't hit against your hull during a cutscene anymore.
  
• Fixed a bug in ship names that caused your initial ship name to change sometimes. As a side effect, you might experience it changing name after this upgrade. Your other ships should not be affected.
  
• Ship names are now persistent across the games.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused mass-driver hit animation to play at edge of screen even if bullet was long gone.
  
• Point Defense Microwave Generator won't hit your own excavators anymore.
  

Conlido Fleet Rotation

Docking Maintenance Complete

Unauthorized HUD refits

Maintenance Records

• New fully playable ship: Conlido RVM Cothon-212.
  
• New HUD: The HAL lifepod dashboard.
  
• Fixes to tutorial: I made conditions for the tutorial to proceed to be more consistent if you don’t play along with Enceladus’ requests.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused encounters with multiple ships to have a chance for objects to spawn on top of each-other, locking them up and dealing heavy damage.
  
• You can now politely refuse being hired as a wingman.
  
• Docking arm at Enceladus will exert less torque now and not shake your ship violently.
  
• When installing smaller storage compartments or propellant tanks, ammunition, propellant or drones that exceed the capacity are now lost once you launch for the rings.
  
• Fixed a number of typos.
  
• Improved performance of ship dealer screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that made an extra save slot gained from installing free “Tales from the Rings” DLC unreachable.
  
• Changed “optimize transit costs” to “allow target drift” on the dive target select screen, which has a similar effect but is much easier to understand.
  
• Added gimbal information to Z-Axial Pinch drives.
  

• Massdriver bullets fired at point-blank range tended to survive the impacts much more often than they should be.
  
• Fixed a number of typos in transactions.
  
• Enabled mip-mapping for background ring debris, so they don’t twinkle so much when you are zoomed out and they are just specks of dust.
  

New Resupply Policy

Mining Guild Announcement

Maintenance Records

• You now have to pay for re-supplying your ship - with propellant, mass-driver ammunition and drones. You can choose how much you take with each flight, and ones you don’t use up carry over to the next mission.
  
• Drifting mass driver bullets can now be targeted by autopilot and picked up.
  
• Enhanced the demo. It now contains Enceladus prime, all the upgrades, all the ships and all the stories. It can even save the game. One thing you can’t do in a demo is loading the game - you need to upgrade to full version to load your saves.
  
• Fixed a number of typos.
  
• Improved mining companion mining AI behaviour, which was overzealous with thrust.
  
• Cargo baffles are more gentle now, allowing in ores with lower density with ease.
  
• New builds of Eagle Prospectors are available as used ships at Dealer and can be encountered in the rings.
  

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Docking ring accidents

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Maintenance Records

• Dialogue can now expose coordinates that you can astrogate to.
  
• Expanded dialogue system to be more flexible.
  
• Multiple new interactions with Search & Rescue teams, including new quest options, insurance and getting directions.
  
• Enceladus docking arm will now prevent ships from drifting away when capitan is busy doing business.
  
• Changed alignment shifts in Obonto station dialogue trees, so they won’t be as hostile to you if you opt to pay for the damages caused.
  
• Increased rings' event density in the storyteller module, making the rings a more interesting place to visit, with events happening more often.
  
• Added disclaimer that fictitious characters presented in the game are in fact fiction and not real people abducted from the distant future.
  
• Improved crew animation when launching into rings.
  
• Separate precision and zoom sliders on the dive selection screen.
  
• Obonto stations will now transfer minerals 400% faster, making big trades much quicker.
  
• Dealer will present a bigger image of your ship if you are playing in higher resolution.