Topic: Indy Changes, all in one place
So, from the patch notes here are the things indy players are probably most intersted in;
Fix: Newly spawned NPCs did not notice stationary players. They've been sent to a spatial perception crash course.
This is more a solo player thing, but many are indy players so... The reason this is important is artifact hunting. Be very aware now that your going to have to skee-daddle quickly now if you don't plan on fighting the NPC guards.
Change: Reduced the accumulator usage of miners and harvesters.
Change: Increased the number of maximum locked targets of all Mk2 robots by 2.
Less AP is going to make it easier for newer miners to get accumulator stable, which is good news. This will also allow miners to put a little more EP into improving yeild and cycle time changes shouldn't kill your build anymore. Along with this, using that MK-II just got a little more exciting as you can now put a laser on it's own tile, and either pre-lock the next tile or some pesky player.
Industry
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Change: Increased mining yield of 1 cycle for every raw material by 50% (plants are also affected).
Change: Lowered raw material regeneration rates (plants are not affected).
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Change: Removed titan ore from all beta islands and increased titan field values on alpha islands to compensate. Note: only the regeneration of titan ore was stopped, current minerals will stay in the ground until they are all fully mined out.
Change: Considerably reduced mineral components of fragments.
Change: Changed the raw material requirements of Hydrobenol.
Fix: The factory accepted unpacked robots as components for manufacturing, which could create various issues.
Fix: Kernel research increase values are now more precise.
A lot has been said about this already. The confirmation is here that we will be seeing Red fields of titan now on Alpha; Yea!
Flip side, farming for fragments just got less exciting, sorry combat people.
Did raw mats go up or down for Hydrobenol, it doesn't specify?
Edit: Patch notes updated to reflect plant regeneration rate was not effected this time, just the minerals