What's new

August 30, 2026

Exploration now covers Marauder and Collective.
Exploration now recommends scouts only, and prices every find from zero.
New Exploration planner — how many scouts to find your next planet, and how many turns it costs.
The sim's "Stats as of" date now reaches back to 2011 — historical battles from before 2020 can be simulated with their era's ship stats.

Pick the site's accent colour — ember, violet, cyan, magenta or steel — from the chips in the header or the new Appearance section on your account page. Logged in, it follows you between browsers.
Building, loyalty and population figures in the eco sim now accept and show thousands separators, like land.
Land figures in the eco sim now show thousands separators.
Submit a battle report at /submit — no account needed.
Ship test, lineup, and the meta board come back faster - repeated runs now reuse earlier results, and pages stop re-downloading scripts.

Pages load much faster - styles and scripts now cache in your browser and every response ships compressed.

Rows in the ship test's changes view are selectable again, and copying a selection now uses the changes view's own column headings.
The ship test's "Copy changes" now pastes with proper column headings and sections, and clicking a row in the changes view no longer mislabels it as a grid selection.
The ship test's changes view now groups results into wins lost, wins gained and margin moves, and ignores changes under 5 points — adjustable per run.
Ship test can now diff a ship against an earlier version of itself, or against another ship, and show only the matchups that actually changed.

The changelog now goes back to launch — every tool's debut, newest first.
New "What's new" page — release notes for the site's tools, at /changelog.
Ship stats now sync from the official game API — catalog stats, build costs, and upkeep track the game exactly.
New page: Ship changes — the roster's patch history, auto-detected. Tonight's balance patch is its first entry.
Upkeep figures in build cost, ship balance, and the ship browser use the game's exact per-ship values and the new race upkeep multipliers.
Counter and meta board recomputed for the 2026-08-26 balance patch.

Battle showcase: curated, anonymized real-battle sets you can browse and open in the sim.

Power ceiling: how much fleet PR each race's land can actually sustain, with live market-price knobs.

Meta board: the whole roster ranked — robustness tier board plus a win-rate view, with race and matchup cuts.

Sim with history: an optional "stats as of" date runs the fight with that era's ship stats.

Build cost reframed: paste your fleet for its per-turn upkeep, then price a build.

Arena: the Daily Gauntlet — everyone attacks the same fleet, ranked within your race.

Economy sim: multi-colony income simulator with an optimizer that plans your colony layouts.

Custom ships: design homebrew hulls and fight them in the sim. Plus per-ship balance dashboards and the ship-vs-roster test tool.

Counter finder launched — paste an enemy fleet, get counter compositions with build-turn costs.