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Tapping bare ground on the world map used to plot a scout stop the instant you touched it — no
menu, no way to ask what else you could do there. It now opens the same action ring every other
target on the map got last week, and nothing is committed until you pick from it.

What the ring offers depends on what you are doing. On a quiet map it is Scout here, plus
Deploy MCV when you have one ready to plant a new base. Once you are plotting a route it
becomes Add stop, Launch and Undo, so a multi-stop run can be built and sent without
ever leaving the map. It knows when to stop, too: at your stop limit the Add stop segment steps
aside rather than quietly ignoring you.

Deploying an MCV no longer means arming a mode first — pick the ground, then pick Deploy.

On the Bases overview, every base's Titanite now counts up in front of you. The figure and its
storage bar climb second by second, the same way the number in the top bar always has for the
base you are standing in, and the bar turns amber as a silo approaches full.

Until now that figure sat frozen at whatever it was when the page loaded, while the construction
and unit timers beside it ticked away quite happily — so a base could look poorer, or richer,
than it really was until you refreshed. The overview and the top bar now agree.

Turning the globe with the action ring open used to drag the ring along with it, leaving it
hovering over whatever had drifted underneath. It now closes the moment you start turning, the
way it should — the world moved, so the menu no longer means anything.

The ring is also smaller on a phone now, without shrinking any of the buttons below the size a
thumb needs.

Titan now fills the width of the screen. The narrow column that used to sit beside it is gone,
and so is the panel that opened in it.

Tap anything on the map — a base, a scout, a force on the move — and a ring of actions opens
right under your finger, with the name of what you tapped in the middle. Attack, Spy, 3mail,
Garrison, Recall, Re-task: only the ones that apply to that target, and Cancel always in the
same place at the bottom, so you never have to hunt for the way out. Anything the ring cannot
say in a word is written just beneath it — including the lines you have earned by scouting, and
the ones you have not, which still say so rather than quietly vanishing.

Everything you have in the air now runs full width below the map: inbound attacks first, then
your own scouts, spies and convoys. Past intel sits below that, laid out as cards instead of a
single narrow strip.

Both views get all of it. The globe and the flat grid are one map in two projections, and the
ring works the same on either.

The queue panel at the top of the screen now shows a picture for everything you have running —
research included. Research had been the odd one out, sitting there as a bare line of text while
its artwork existed all along on the research page; it now carries the same blueprint you already
know from there.

Pictures are also shown whole rather than trimmed to fit. A building in the construction line was
having its top and bottom shaved off, so a silo looked nothing like the silo on the build page.
Both now match.

Each line says where the work is happening, too. The unit rows already named the factory; the
construction and research rows now name their own source the same way, so the three lanes read
alike.

On a phone, a full queue no longer runs off the bottom of the screen — the panel keeps to a
comfortable height and you swipe within it to see the rest.

The panels that drop from the top bar, and the base panel at the bottom, now close exactly
the way they opened — folding back up instead of blinking out partway. The flicker at the end
of the close is gone: it was a single frame where the panel snapped back to full size just
before it disappeared.

Closing now carries the same small bounce as opening, in reverse, and takes the same time, so
the two halves finally read as one movement. If your device is set to reduce motion, none of
it animates.

Every building, defence, unit, research level, upgrade, achievement and commander skill in the
game now has an entry in the Field Manual — costs, build times, power draw, combat stats, limits
and prerequisites, all in one place.

The catalog is read straight from the game's own data rather than written by hand, so it is
correct today and stays correct through every balance change. Build and research times are quoted
at the speed this round actually runs at rather than the factory figure, and hidden achievements
keep their secret: you get the name and what it is worth, never the answer.

The pictures in the queue panel now stand exactly as tall as the text beside them — no taller,
no shorter — and every row shares one artwork column.

Units with newly drawn artwork were the ones getting it wrong. Those pictures were taking their
size from the artwork's own dimensions rather than from the row, so a freshly drawn unit could
tower over its own name and squeeze the timers into a sliver, while an older one looked fine.
The panel decides the size itself now, so a unit reads the same whether its portrait arrived
yesterday or on day one.

All six chapters of the Field Manual are written, so its front page no longer lists them as still
to come — it lists what is there, and the opening chapter now points you at the reading order
rather than at a promise.

The more useful half of this is invisible. The manual now checks itself: once a week the game
looks at what has actually shipped since the last review and, if anything has, puts the chapters
those changes could have affected in front of the engineers to be read against the game and
corrected. A quiet week raises nothing. It is the difference between a manual that was true when
it was written and one that is still true now.

The last of the six mechanics chapters is in the Field Manual.

It covers what an alliance actually buys you — a shared map, joint attacks, garrisons and two kinds
of protection from interception — alongside the things that catch people out, including the fact
that nothing stops you attacking your own alliance mates, and that the Neutral/Allied/Hostile
labels do nothing at all. Then where your score really comes from and what it pointedly ignores,
how your Commander earns experience and what his skill points actually do depending on where he is
standing, and what the achievement list is measuring.

Two corrections ride along. Your Commander's service record was advertising a defence bonus for
every fifth level that battles stopped applying when the skill tree arrived; it now shows what a
milestone really grants, which is a skill point. And the rank band that limits who you may attack
is currently switched off in this round — the manual says so, rather than describing a rule nobody
is playing under.

The fifth chapter of the Field Manual is up: the map, fog and recon.

It covers the world itself — how the four quadrants and the ground beneath them fit together, what
each kind of terrain costs you to cross, and why the size of the rock patch you settled on decides
how much you can ever build there. Then the rules about what you are allowed to know: revealed
ground stays revealed for the whole round, but a base founded on ground you already explored is not
discovered until someone goes back and looks. Those are two different facts, and confusing them is
how people lose scouts.

The second half is scouting and spying end to end — what a scout run reveals along its route as
against at each stop, what it risks every time it crosses someone's perimeter, exactly which fields
a spy report does and does not contain, how Espionage sharpens the numbers, and what
Counter-Intelligence lets you learn about whoever has been looking at you.

One correction rode along with it: the recon panel on the world map had been quoting the old 200 ISC
spy fee. Spying costs 500, as it has for a while, and the page says so now.

The fourth chapter of the Field Manual is up: missions, movement and interception — the companion
to the combat chapter.

It covers the eight orders you can give a force and what each does when it lands, then the thing
every one of them shares: how long it takes to get there. The travel formula is set out in full,
including the two terms that decide most of it — the order you chose, and the speed of the slowest
unit you sent. There is a complete speed table for every mobile unit in the game, so you can see
exactly what one Harvester costs a wing of Eagles.

Then the parts that catch people out: the way home always takes as long as the way out, a recall
costs you however long you have already been flying, and Titanite delivered above a base's storage
limit is simply gone.

The chapter closes on riding out — what you can chase down, why the catch is worked out before you
commit rather than rolled on arrival, why stopping a raider weakens an attack without turning it
back, and why loot you recover goes home to the Commander it was taken from rather than to you.

The third chapter of the Field Manual is open: combat and armour.

It explains what actually happens when a force arrives at your base — why your turrets stay silent
until the last soldier falls, how the six rounds are fought, and why a draw pays an attacker
nothing at all. At the heart of it is the armour table: every weapon type against every kind of
hull, with the real numbers. That includes the one rule that decides more battles than any other —
only missiles can touch aircraft, and everything else deals literally zero.

It then covers what a breach costs you: how much can be plundered, why the safe never can be, what
enemy engineers do to your buildings, and when a secondary base can be lost outright. Plus who is
allowed to attack whom, and exactly what a defender is told before the shooting starts.

Wide tables in the manual now show a soft shadow at the edge when there is more to see off to the
side.

You no longer have to wait behind your walls. Tap a rival force crossing your ground — an
attack on its way in, or a raider heading home — and ride out to meet it.

Win the clash and the raid is bled, not stopped: whatever survives presses on and still has
your garrison to get through. Turning a raid back takes enough force to destroy it outright,
not merely enough to bloody it. You may ride out against any force you can see, including an
attack aimed at someone else — rescuing a stranger is allowed, and so is standing aside while
two rivals wear each other down.

Catch a raider carrying stolen Titanite and destroy it, and that Titanite goes home to the
Commander it was taken from, even when you were not the one robbed. The rescuer's reward is
the kill and the experience, never the haul.

And the attacker is never warned you are coming. Your interceptors ride the map like any
other force, so a watchful opponent may spot them — but the game will not tell him.

Until now almost everything crossing the map drew as the same amber dot. A raiding
party, a spy run, a supply convoy and a garrison standing watch at a friend's base were
indistinguishable at a glance — you had to tap each one to find out what it was.

Each kind of force now carries its own silhouette. Raids ride under a wedge, spies under
a narrow lens, supply convoys under a cargo box, scouts keep the familiar dot, and a
garrison shows as a hollow ring rather than pretending to be on the move. Your commander
keeps his gold chevron.

The same shape means the same thing whoever owns it: a rival's raid and your own now
share a silhouette and differ only in colour, so you can read a crowded map without
counting colours first. Your own raids and convoys were plain dots on the globe too —
they wear their proper markings there as well, so both views tell the same story.

This is the groundwork for riding out to meet an incoming attack: you cannot intercept
what you cannot pick out of the traffic.

The flat map can now be used to pick out forces, not just to watch them. Tap a rival
or allied force crossing your territory to open its details, and tap an enemy convoy
to line up an interception — the same moves the globe already allowed, now available
in whichever view you prefer.

The bigger fix is for anything actually on the move. A force in flight is drawn by the
map's live animation layer, and that layer carried no tap targets at all, so your own
scouts and attacking forces could only be selected while standing still. They stay
tappable the whole way now, with a target area sized for a fingertip rather than for a
mouse pointer.

One sharp edge went with it: tapping an enemy commander riding between their own bases
could open an interception panel aimed at an unrelated force elsewhere on the map.
Commanders are not interception targets, and the map no longer pretends otherwise.

Forces on their way home were drawn setting out for their target all over again — the blip crept
from your base toward the target instead of tracking back to you. It showed up most clearly after
an interception, but it affected every force with a journey home: attacks, raids, convoys, spies
and scouts alike, on the globe and on the flat map both.

A returning force now walks back down the route it came by, and its trike points the way it is
actually driving. Where your units appear on the map is once again where they are.

The Field Manual's second chapter is live: building, research and upgrades.

It covers what a build order really costs and the moment you are charged, how the game works out
the timer you are given — including why a damaged Construction Yard slows down everything that base
builds — and the order your orders are checked in, so a refusal tells you something useful. It then
walks the research ladders and what each one actually does, explains how upgrades differ from
research, and sets out exactly what you get back when you cancel.

Manual tables also read properly on a phone now, in this chapter and in the older reference pages.

A request in the Dev Channel now carries a small tag showing which engineer has it right now, and
the tag clears the moment they park, finish or hand it over. "In progress" used to be the whole
story; with two engineers working the channel at once it was not.

Behind it, a claim on a request now expires when the engineer holding it goes offline, so a
request can no longer end up quietly reserved by someone who is not coming back — and a request
you reopen stays with whoever was already finishing it, rather than being picked up twice.

The panels that drop from the top bar no longer appear and vanish in one piece. They unfold:
the top edge stays welded to the bar and the bottom edge travels down, so the panel stretches
slightly past its resting height before settling instead of detaching from the bar on the bounce.
Closing folds it back the same way. That is the end of the flicker on opening, and the bounce you
liked is still there.

The queue panel itself now tells the whole truth about your production. Your factories have always
built in parallel — a Barracks batch and a War Factory order advance at the same time — but the
panel only ever showed whichever one finished first. It now lists a row for every factory that is
working, naming the factory above what it is making, soonest to arrive at the top. A factory
standing idle simply is not listed, and tapping a row takes you straight to that kind of unit.

The picture on each row squares up against all of the copy beside it, the "batch done" line
included — so a row with several lines no longer leaves the artwork stopping short halfway down.

If your device is set to reduce motion, none of it animates.

The panels that drop from the top bar no longer appear and vanish in one piece. They unfold:
the top edge stays welded to the bar and the bottom edge travels down, so the panel stretches
slightly past its resting height before settling instead of detaching from the bar on the bounce.
Closing folds it back the same way. That is the end of the flicker on opening, and the bounce you
liked is still there.

In the queue panel, the picture of whatever is being made now squares up against all of the
copy beside it, the "batch done" line included — so a lane with three lines no longer leaves the
artwork stopping short halfway down.

If your device is set to reduce motion, none of it animates.

The Field Manual has its first mechanics chapter: the economy and the tick. It sets out where
Titanite actually comes from, why a Harvester without a free Refinery slot earns you nothing, what
each bonus and penalty multiplies, and what your storage cap does once it fills up.

It also answers the question the game has never written down anywhere: what happens while you are
logged out. Offline time earns exactly what online time earns — your resources are worked out to
the second the moment you open a page — and your storage cap is the only thing that ever costs you
for being away.

The rest of the chapter follows the money: the bank's floating rate and its cut, the safe and its
interest, what a raid can take, and what you get back when you cancel a queue. Longer manual pages
now open with a contents list you can jump from.

One correction came out of writing it — the Imperial Bank's help text still described a House
Ophion perk that was retired a while ago. Ophion's real edge is that they pay half the bank's cut,
and the page says so now.

The picture of whatever is being built or trained now stands as tall as its name
and timer together, instead of the small chip it started as. You can tell a Trike
from a Quad at a glance, on a phone as easily as on a desktop.

The menus have also stopped appearing out of nowhere. The panels along the top
slide down into place and settle with a small bounce, as if they came to rest
against something, and the base panel at the bottom does the same in reverse.
Closing stays a quick clean reverse — no bounce on the way out. If you have asked
your device to reduce motion, none of this animates at all.

The calmer news now reaches you by email without filling your inbox one message at a time. A
new 3mail, a battle resolving at your base or your army coming home, and newbie protection
running out all collect quietly and arrive together as a single daily round-up.

Each one is its own switch in the Email alerts panel under Account settings, off until you
turn it on, and every round-up carries the same one-click way to stop them all — no sign-in
needed. Urgent alerts are unchanged: an incoming attack still reaches you the moment it
launches.

Losing a base is now something Dun3 can tell you about by email. If an attack destroys the
Construction Yard at one of your bases and the base is razed, the alert goes out at once —
naming the base, where it stood, and who took it.

Like every other email alert it stays off until you switch it on, in the Email alerts
panel under Account settings, and every message carries the same one-click way to stop them
all. Taking down one of your own bases is a deliberate act, so that never sends anything.

Still to come: a new 3mail, a battle resolving, and protection running out — the calmer
events, which will arrive together in a periodic round-up rather than one message at a time.