Music to conquer by
Ferion now has background music: four tracks that play in random order and fade into each other. The music starts once the intro is over and pauses while you're away from the game.
In Settings there are two new cards, Music and Sound effects, each with its own volume and on/off switch. The speaker button in the top menu mutes everything at once.
Buttons, tabs, switches, windows, news and chat messages have their own sounds now too.
On iPhone, the game follows the silent switch and leaves your own music playing.
Biggest fleets first
The list of large fleets on the map now puts the biggest fleets on top, whoever owns them. That 250-ship stack heading your way is the first thing you see.
The list is also smaller: it never covers more than a quarter of the map and scrolls if there are more fleets. Tap a fleet to jump to it.
A scan range you can actually see
The dashed line around your scan range was easy to miss. In Map Settings there is a new Line visibility slider: turn it up and the line gets brighter, turn it down and it fades into the background.
Swap a design everywhere at once
Queued the wrong ship on every planet? Go to Command, Ship Designs and click Replace in all production. Pick the design you want instead, and every planet switches at once.
Your queues stay exactly as they were. Only the design changes.
A fair start for everyone
Where you started used to be luck: some players got a busy cluster of stars, others an empty corner.
From this arena on, every empire starts with about the same number of free stars nearby. If you join late, you get the spot with the most room left. Ferion God supporters who pick a quadrant get the same fair start inside it.
Refitting is worth it now
You told us the Orbital Refit Dock wasn't worth it: building a new ship was just as fast. We agree.
Refits are now three times as fast and cost less than half the ore. When you move to a bigger frame, your old hull pays for a good part of the new one. The dock itself is cheaper to build and has no weekly cost any more.
A refitted ship keeps its experience and veterancy, so this is how your Elite and Legendary crews get a bigger hull.
And a few more things
Battle simulator: Copy fleet now copies the whole stack, including damaged ships and veterans.
Phones: tapping a ship or planet is much easier, even zoomed far out.
Lost your connection? The game reconnects by itself.
Fixed: retaking a planet at 100 loyalty now makes it loyal again.