• Showdown UI has been redesigned. In addition to the UI changes, you can now add stations and change the travel and combat timers.
• Build permissions page has been redesigned.
• Fixed a bug with garrison views.
• Fixed bugs with the LISP filter, map, and foreach.
• Fixed a bug with the forge toggle checkbox.
• Status bars internal API refactor.
• Show stats page now has a shield arcs expander.
• XP Bar in members menu now abbreviates large numbers.
• Changing party combat tactics no longer spams flash messages.
• Fixed a regression with displaying mining yield

- Boarding an entity as pilot while traveling now generates a more consistent error message.
- Fix issue where unknown/dead garrison squad was not generating an error allowing unintended actions on main character.
- Fix issue where some entities after having stats changed get stuck at old shield stats values. They will now regen to their full values.
- Tractor screen now shows entities unable to be tractored with reasons.
- Entering Hyperspace Stasis now generates a discord travel notification.
- Menu Quick Faction switcher can now be clicked to hold open.
- Fix issue with alliances and faction dissolution.
- Fix memory leak when map animations are idle.
- Fix issue with inventory display of mining action.
- Fix production max job quantity calculation.
- Fixed entity type assignment labels on show stats screen.
- Fixed login error when no form submitted.
- Garrison page now shows yellow icons when target is working.
- Fixed menu inventory CSS in Firefox.
- Fix WS crash when production action is missing timer.
- Added production time factor to WS.

Ship ground travel has been re-enabled in the Derra, Kowak, and Serroco systems. Enjoy being able to fly around your favorite PvP planets!

- Hyperspace Stasis: A new ship option when traveling in hyperspace. Instead of dropping out of hyperspace on arrival, the ships may hold in hyperspace until the pilot chooses to exit, for up to 24 hours.
- This setting replaces Hyperspace Entry Protection, which will be removed in 1 week.
- Fix missing room custom image approval event
- Fix mangled hyperspace travel ship events
- Improved travel planner default destination when spooling.

EDIT: ok HEP is off now. Ships already in HEP will remain in HEP until it expires, but no new ships will enter HEP.

Changed the Terrain Restrictions for the following droids

Basilisk War Droid

BN-DO Assassin Droid

FN-DO Assassin Droid

Falcon edit: and the prototype droid too but I'm too lazy to link from my phone to the rules page

Ocean, River, Lava, Gas Giant -> Ocean, River, Lava

Now you can use them to kill all those pesky purrgil's, enjoy!

Greetings fellow cat enjoyers I, thrall-jon bring to you the latest in hot balance action.

10.0 Tech Parity balance pass is aimed at filling holes in widely available performance line ups for PVP entities, narrowing the gap significantly for raw combat performance in specific areas ( Interceptors, short range fighters, bombers, Corvettes and eventually Capitals.

Restricted tech will still maintain its overall advantage but the combat playing field should be a lot more level as we move into a global combat environment, Skill expression, tactics and player interaction should be the primary metric for how well people do in combat not luck of the draw on tech. 

As with every balance update this will be an ongoing process as we get feedback, data and more things blowing up or expanded combat features.

As with all updates feel free to send thrall your favorite cat pictures and myself all your complaints.

Rules have been changed for these entities and the ships will have their stats updated over the next 24 hours.

Ignore this, this was totally here originally and i totally didnt forget. There will also be a new heavy Capital and high damage Bomber at some point in the near future to round this out. NOW FOR THE CHANGELOG: 

 

Capital Ships

Interdictor-class Heavy Cruiser

Sublight: 5 -> 25 (+20)

Ithorian Herdship

Weight Capacity: 2000 -> 20,000 (+18,000)

Frigates

Carrack/S-class Light Cruiser

Heavy Lasers: 20 -> 0 (-20)

Quad Lasers: 0 -> 10 (+10)

Ton-Falk-class Escort Carrier

Weight Capacity: 2,000 -> 20,000 (+18,000)

Volume Capacity: 35,000 -> 600,000 (+565,000)

EF76 Nebulon-C Assault Frigate

Proton Torpedo Launchers 2 -> 4 (+2)

Namana-class Light Cruiser 

Heavy Lasers: 20 -> 0 (-20)

Quad Lasers: 0 -> 10 (+10)

Corvettes

Consular-class Cruiser 

Concussion Missile Launcher 2 -> 4 (+2)

Turbolasers 4 -> 8 (+4)

Hull 400 -> 600 (+200)

Deflectors 600 -> 1,200 (+600)

Party Slot Size 6 -> 8 (+2)

Sensors 1 -> 6 (+5)

Weight 4,000 -> 8,000 (+4,000)

Volume 25,500 -> 84,000 (+58,500)

CR-90 Assassin-class Corvette

Manoeuvrability 3 -> 3.5 (+0.5)

Marauder-class Corvette

Weight 20,000 -> 15,000 (-5,000) 

Volume 375,000 -> 275,000 (-100,000)

Gunboats

Auzituck Anti-Slaver Gunship

Max Passengers 10 -> 13 (+3)

D5-Mantis Patrol Craft

Max Passengers 5 - > 13 (+8)

Delta-class JV-7 Escort Shuttle

Turbolasers 1 -> 2 (+1)

Hull 120 -> 150 (+30)

Deflectors 142 -> 145 (+3)

Manoeuvrability 4.5 -> 4 (-0.5)

Gamma Assault Shuttle

Weight 1,200 -> 1,000 (-200) 

Volume 15,850 -> 14,850 (-1,000)

Removed Docking Bay (-1)

Lambda-class T-4a Shuttle

Length 20 -> 23 (+3)

Pelagia Duplex Command Assault Gunship

Max Passengers 11 -> 13 (+2)

S40K Phoenix Hawk-class Light Pinnace

Deflectors 159 -> 190 (+31)

UT-60D U-Wing Support Craft

Max Passengers: 9 -> 13 (+4)

Fighters

Aurek-class Tactical Strikefighter

Manoeuvrability 7 -> 8 (+1)

Concussion Missile Launcher 1 -> 2 (+1)

Hull 40 -> 52 (+12)

Ionic 10 -> 15 (+5)

I-BEAM Starfighter

Sublight: 65 -> 100 (+35)

Manoeuvrability 7 -> 8 (+1)

Armour 21 -> 25 (+4)

Miy`Til-class Starfighter 

Armour 21 -> 25 (+4)

R-41 Starchaser 

Hull 60 -> 70 (+10)

Deflectors 30 -> 40 (+10)

Armour 25 -> 35 (+10)

Razor-class Starfighter 

Manoeuvrability 5.25 -> 5.1 (-0.15)

Hull 95 -> 80 (-15)

Deflectors 49 -> 84 (+35)

Armour 25 -> 35 (+10)

Rihkxyrk Assault Fighter 

Manoeuvrability 5 -> 5.1 (+0.1)

Armour 30 -> 35 (+5)

Scarab-class Droid Starfighter 

Sublight 70 -> 105 (+35)

Manoeuvrability 5 -> 7 (+2)

TIE/in Interceptor

Ionic 15 -> 25 (+10)

TIE/ln Starfighter 

Ionic 10 -> 20 (+10)

TIE/sr Starfighter 

Ionic 25 -> 50 (+25)

Toscan 8-Q Starfighter 

Deflectors 28 -> 48 (+20)

Armour 25 -> 35 (+10)

Vulture-class Droid Starfighter 

Ionic 15 -> 30 (+15)

Cargo Containers

Escape Pod

Sublight: 50 -> 10 (-40)
 

Vehicles

JX40 Jailspeeder

Volume: 179 -> 679 (+500)

Damage Modifiers

Fighter v Fighter

Ionic : 0.4 -> 0.6 (+0.2)

Corvette v Frigate 

Energy(this is not turbolasers): 1.5 -> 0.1 (-1.4)

- Hyperspace Spooling: Ships now require a hyperspace spooling step before jumping to hyperspace. You can see the rules here. Overall travel times are unaffected by this change - you still reach your destination in the same duration as prior.
- Stations now rotate. By themselves. Weird.
- Stations now have a class (Space Station).
- Login with Discord password reset & general OAuth Login improvements. Auto linking accounts on login. You can use this feature to reset your password and get access to your account without messaging Noctis. You can configure discord and google integration here.
- Added page for Player Account events. (Note: you only need this page if you have no character, since account events are also sent to your character events).
- Fixed inventory crash when filtering by invalid tag.

Thrall Edit: The Following Ship Garrisons have been updated

Carrier Garrison Slots 24 -> 72
Non-Carrier Garrison Slots 12 -> 36

- The Bandit Door spawning algorithm has changed. This will affect newly spawned bandit ships.
- You can now flip room decals. Yay!
- Updated text and receivers for both asteroid and ground prospecting events.
- Fixed issue where installed doors were not removed from destroyed entities.
- Fixed another issue where infantry garrison in hyperspace doesn't return to base properly.
- Fixed issue where city foundations were updated to the wrong image.
- Added travel planner link to planet inventory.
- Fixed issue where Party screen crashes when an NPC has too many conflicting fitouts applied.
- Fix issue where room tooltip got stuck open when accessing a locked door in auto room movement.
- Fixed Login with Google OAuth setup crash. Fixed Login with Google icon on login screen.
- WS changes: The InventoryEntity route has changed slightly, specifically how actions are output and how entities with multiple actions are output.

Oh whoa no arcs now it survives gooder.

(Stats corrected to remove arcs, happy mining thanks to Sevalash)

Capture Changes

Capturing Ships and Door Breaking has had an update. Now you must break through a series of firewalls before capturing the ship. Thanks to Noctis Tip for the initial suggestion.

Other Changes
- We have done the previously mentioned classID changes with this sync.
- Repair UI has had some tweaks.
- Adding and removing from garrisons commands now skips ships with errors.
- Fixed an issue where destruction escape pods were not picking up enough party members.
- Fixed an issue where you could not party a ship with an active infantry garrison.
- Fixed an issue where garrison rearm action could overwrite other actions. (This fix may cause further issues, please raise them if encountered).

Edit:

This change also sets the ELB and Computer spike modifiers to 1.0 and removes the door level restrictions for bandits. As a result, bandits can once again have blast doors.

Next sync we will be renumbering a number of internal IDs used for identifying ship and vehicle classes. You may have used or stored these IDs internally on your own WS services or websites. Please be aware it is changing like this:

With the sync all class identifiers in the WS output will be updated with the new identifiers.

Nebulon-C Assault Frigate has been added as a Gov DC Heavy Frigate.
Endurance-Class Fleet Carrier has been added as a Gov Dc battle carrier.

As with everything added we know they'll be used responsibly with absolutely 0 issues. I look forward to the first battlereports featuring these entities.


As with everything all balance complaints are solely the responsbility of Thrall lothbrok and his creature breeding.

Year 27 Day 244, 9:55 Noctis banned player Dante Erinith providing the following reason: Harassment

You don't have to like everyone, but keep all correspondence respectful. Threats and threatening comments violate community guidelines and terms of service across virtually all online spaces. These rules exist to maintain safe environments, prevent real-world harm, and stop harassment.

Player may reach out in 7 days by support ticket for unban request.

Year 27 Day 236, 13:03 Strike 1 Issued to Gavin Lineker for attempting to purchase assets with RL money.

General reminder, do not purchase game assets with real life moneys.  That's all.

Xzin Jix has been banned.

Given the significance of encouraging players to engage in rule breaking activities and previous ban history, the ban is permanent.

Year 27 Day 152, 20:05 Noctis banned player Marcus Switch providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 152, 20:05 Noctis banned player Jax Wolfe providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 152, 20:05 Noctis banned player Dev au Augustus providing the following reason: Multi Ban

30 day bans for accounts coming under control of a single player.  You may not allow someone to access your account.

Times up.  But while youre here.

Year 27 Day 150, 11:26 Noctis banned player Keylara Ennada providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 150, 11:26 Noctis banned player Hudson Zandaly providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 150, 11:26 Noctis banned player Ezre Tesel providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Every player is only allowed to have one account.  Hudson and Ezre may request an unban in 7 days.

Year 27 Day 130, 18:22 Noctis banned player Waric Bele providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 130, 18:22 Noctis banned player Shiv Joben providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 130, 18:22 Noctis banned player Darex Metro providing the following reason: Multi Ban

1) You cant acquire an account from someone else.

2) You only get one account.

EDIT: Year 27 Day 132, 16:42 Noctis banned player Demas Kase providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Oldest account can request an unban in 30 days never.

Year 27 Day 135, 9:04 Noctis banned player Cal Duval providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 137, 9:08 Noctis banned player Urik Kantale providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 138, 10:42 Noctis banned player Aaran Lipost providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 140, 5:03 Noctis banned player Daran Odan providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 140, 13:05 Noctis banned player Keye Bynar providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 115, 6:29 Noctis banned player Soma Wren

Character can submit a support ticket in 30 days requesting an unban.

Discord ban will remain in place indefinitely.

Pejorative language will not be tolerated.

Edit: Year 27 Day 135, 9:09 Noctis banned player Elgar Thelcar providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Making a new account while banned is not the solution.

Ban now permanent due to history of bans.

Year 27 Day 131, 8:12 Noctis banned player Aacehrin Thenn providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 131, 8:08 Noctis banned player Zon Bey providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Zon Bey can request an unban in 21 days

Year 27 Day 73 Noctis banned player Zuk`Ha Ntaka providing the following reason: Failure to follow IC/OOC separation.

Strike 2 - Player can submit a help ticket after 30 days requesting an unban.  

Year 27 Day 33, 11:10 Noctis banned player Inquiz Warder providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 27 Day 33, 11:10 Noctis banned player Jasper Jervada providing the following reason: Multi Ban

 Oldest account may request an unban after 7 days.  

Y27D25, 20:29
Kodkod banned player Malcolm Marrz Blaine providing the following reason: Harassment

This player has received a strike 1 ban before, making this a strike 2 ban (1 month).  Player can submit a ticket in one month to request unban. 
 

Additionally, as a public service announcement, Discord has a block feature which you can use if you want someone to be prevented from sending you DM's.

Y27 D229 Falcon Edit: Super Capitals now require governments to be assigned to the shipyards producing them. 

Y27 D230 Redjon Edit: After a bit of discussion, we wanted to reveal some design intent for Super capitals since it will be very tempting to dump resources in mass into these entities. While balance is always subject to change and these will take quite a while and probably a few features to balance we will share the intended end design goals as these entities are incredibly expensive and time consuming to build
1. Supers will more then likely be incredibly powerful siege and logistics tools for engaging stations and fairly strong vs capitals as well as other (maybe) supers.
2. These ships will be incredibly weak too bombers. Having large quantities of supers will very likely be a liability, they are expensive weapons you will need to be capable of defending them.
3. These ships will remain slow and cumbersome to move and committing them into a combat situation without proper support will result most likely, in a dead super.
At no point will Supers be game breakingly impossible to stop rofl pawnmobiles. they will have clear uses cases, weaknesses and strengths as with eveyrthing we have balanced so far 
All stats are subject to change and we will not be releasing them to combat until we are fully satisified with how they fit into the overall combat ecosystem.

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As part of our ongoing work towards global PvP and balancing space combat we have made the decision to release a Super Capital to the public early. This should help factions acquire these strategic assets before Super Capital combat due to the exceptionally long build times these ships have

This new Super Capital will be the Behemoth-Class Star Dreadnaught, a ship unique to SWCombine to better reflect the myriad of different factions that exist outside of the Galactic Civil War. It will be available to all factions that possess the government module.

As part of this release preliminary stat reworks for both the MC-80 Home One-class Star Cruiser and Executor-class Star Destroyer have also been released. This better reflects future design decisions and eventual power scales between the three super capitals. Along with better reflecting these design choices in their production costs and production times.

However, I must preface this release by stating Super Capital Combat is not coming anytime soon. A lot of internal testing and design is still required to get Super Capitals to a point we’re comfortable with their release.


(This Sim News has been posted by Falcon on behalf of Thrall Lothbrok because Thrall is too scared to post it himself. Please send him a DM if you have questions. That is all.)

NINJEDIT: All currently produced ships will be updated to reflect these changes over the next 24 hour

Good evening!

Dex Sehrin is no longer the Rules Team Director. Please congratulate Redjon Mirrabel and Thrall Lothbrok on their promotions to Rules Team co-leads. For rules-related questions, project coordination, or requests for guidance, please refer to Redjon, Thrall, or your friendly neighborhood Asim (who may refer you to them). 

Dex has served the Rules Team for many years across multiple characters, and we would like to sincerely thank him for his numerous contributions to the Combine. His work has had a significant impact on the development of the game, and many aspects of the experience players enjoy today bear the mark of his efforts and dedication.

You can see an up-to-date list of the Teams and their members HERE. 

EDIT: It has come to my attention that the Rules Team does not appear on that page... Oops.

Congrats to the latest tournament winner, Manta Birostris!

Deathmatch and Grudges

Because apparently it needs to be said, OOC memes in the IC space will not be permitted.

Forums threads ended, GNS posts removed.  Don't do it.  Take it elsewhere.

Been a while, next round!

Deathmatch and Grudges!

Hi guys, mom said it's my turn to post on the Sim News! And this time it isn't even a ban! (It's much worse) This is gonna be an entirely OOC post with no real bearing on the game or its features, so if you don't care, you can stop reading now and continue about your day.

We are now into our fourth month of 2026, and this year has been packed for me. So far this year, I've gotten a temporary extra family member, an unexpected work trip, extra responsibility with no extra pay, and all of this has taken my time and focus away from making this community better.

In short, my priorities have shifted to focus more on my family and what is important to me. I still care deeply about this game and community, and want to contribute. However, in typical SWC Admin fashion, I am simply running out of time and energy to actually contribute in a meaningful way. Exhibit A:

So, all this to write that I will once again be taking an extended leave of absence. I'm not stepping down as Game Admin (yet), but I truly don't know if/when I will return to this position. At the very least I'll try to stay a part of the community on Discord, so you all know I'm alive lol. In my absence, Noctis, Erek, Kodkod, Chupa and Koi will fill in the gaps as they already have. 
 

Thank you all for your kind words so far. I've been a part of this community for nearly 20 years (hello from Y8), and it's been an amazing journey going from playing, to helping the community, to creating new features for this game. 
 

So... yeah. So long and thanks for all the fish! 
(this isn't goodbye, it's see you later)

Hi, it's me, not Falcon. 

Clarification on the recent name changes for BSD.  Yes, it was reversed.

Both factions were charged for changing the names back.  Additionally, og BSD was fined for breaching the naming rules (analgous to old faction checks), making the name available to be stolen.

A faction is more than a name, generally.  Changing your faction name as a joke is misuse of the system.  Stealing a name is also misuse of the system.

Falcon EDIT Y27D91: Turns out there was another back end tool I had to add the new ships to so that factions with the mining module could, you know, actually produce these. I think I've fixed the issue, but if you have the mining module and still cannot produce these, then please let me know via DM or discord (#swc-help). Thanks for your patience and the heads up!

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I bet you guys thought I was gone again. WELL I'M NOT! And today, I bring you more gifts!

BEHOLD, THE AEA-500 ASTEROID PROSPECTOR:

BEHOLD, THE MINING BARQUE:

AND BEHOLD, THE CONTINENT-CLASS CRAWLER:

These bad boys can mine so many asteroids. If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with mesothelioma are a member of a Mining Faction, then you, too, can own one of these puppies(note: these are not actual puppies, but THIS IS).

Thanks to everyone involved in making sure these were squared away and ready to go. It's been a long time coming, but here we are!

Gooooooooooooooooooooood day/night/evening/afternoon/morning/midnight/whatever!

I am happy to announce that the Unfinished Blueprints Quest has been completed! The Mad Scientist aboard the research station has completed his research and patented his product, which took the Prototype Droid and turned it into the Basilisk War Droid.

Thank you to everyone who participated, we hope this quest was fun for you all! Thanks also to Jevon Lambright for the artwork for both the Prototype Droid and Basilisk Droid(Large image coming shortly), as well as everyone on the Quest Team who helped put this quest together and release it. Finally thanks to Platypus(RIP) for helping me stat this. The work on this quest and these droids started about 2 years ago, and it's nice to see it all come together. 

The Basilisk is now a Generic Datacard that your faction can buy for 2.5 DC Slots. Additionally, you have approximately 3 months to claim your Prototype Droid Datacard from the Mad Scientist, after which it will be unobtainable. EDIT: This also applies to obtaining Blueprints and bringing them to the Mad Scientist.

That's all for now!

• Life Support Console: Chance to spawn a hostile droid upon failure has been reduced from 33% to 20%
• Research Console: Chance to spawn a hostile droid upon failure has been reduced from 50% to 33%

This is to reflect the fact that the quest was implemented pre-droid armour, and that droids are now a tougher enemy than they were at the original release.

Hopefully many of your will be aware that a whacky scientist is developing a new droid in the Black Hole of Quintas system, and with your help, has even managed to develop a working Prototype!

At this stage I would like to clarify this community quest and how it works. 

After completing the Abandoned Research Installation quest in The Maw, the player is given a set of Unfinished Blueprints. These blueprints are a small part of a larger design, and can be donated to the Scientist aboard the station in the Black Hole of Quitnas system, to generate Research Points. The amount of points gained toward the community goal is proportional to your average R&D skills, so higher R&D skills equal more points! At this stage enough points have been generated to release the Prototype Droid. Any character which donates blueprints is able to redeem a single-use DC for the Prototype Droid by speaking to the scientist in the Black Hole of Quintas system.. This DC will be redeemable for up to three months after the total arc has finished, and can be redeemd by any character which has participated at any point during the event.  Once enough points have been generated, this arc will conclude with a brand new generic datacard added to the pool. 

Once you have donated your blueprints, you will also have the option to donate credits toward the research effort. This option is available once per week, and the cost will increase each time. The amount of research points generated remains tied to your R&D skills. 

You can find some more information about the location of the quests here

EDIT: The race is now closed, winners are being verified, and results will be posted shortly, along with prize winnings! 

After having carefully reviewed the contestants' events, and verifying the integrity of the results, I am pleased to announce the winners!

1. 1st place: Lorenzas Atticus - 7,214 Minutes
2. 2nd Place: Rall Dack - 7,266 Minutes
3. 3rd Place: Regulus Jagarnat - 7,299 Minutes
4. 4th Place: Akeeg Viawei - 7,314 Minutes
5. 5th Place: Jarneskeg Yrfeloran - 7,331 Minutes

The prize pool came to a total of: 1,620,000,000 credits, and as such, our top 5 winners will win the following amounts:

1. 1st place (50%) = 810,000,000 credits
2. 2nd place (25%) = 405,000,000 credits
3. 3rd place (15%) = 243,000,000 credits
4. 4th place (7%) = 113,400,000 credits
5. 5th place (3%) = 48,600,000 credits

Thank you to everyone who participated! I hope you all had as much fun participating in this as we had watching you!

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Edit: I've been made aware of a bug which can result in the checkpoint event being sent prematurely within the same star system. We are looking into a fix, but in the mean time: If this happens to you, please continue on to the correct checkpoint sublight location before setting course for the next checkpoint. Cheaters will not be rewarded. Thank you to those who have come forward. 

Edit2: The leaderboard and prize pot and now viewable on the Datapad.

It's a Christmas disaster! Chiss Chingle has gone missing, and the winter helpers need your help to save Christmas!

The key to saving Christmas is going to be speed this year. So grab your fastest non-modified* ship (No A-Wings allowed either!) and head over to the Winter Colony Station in Tynnani if you're feeling lucky**. There are no other specific gear requirements.

The event will take approximately seven days from the point it is "accepted", depending on the speed of your ship. It must be completed before Christmas Day. Plan accordingly, and pay attention to what the helpers tell you!

*Modified ship refers to any ship with the modified flag, regardless of the actual modified stat.

**You will need 5 million credits, and the knowledge that you may not get it back.