Round I, the first official round of Pulsar Online, will end August 27th at 22:00 GMT+2. Round II will begin September 1st. If time allows, there will be a special event in between lasting a few days. 

Detailed information about Round II start time and gameplay changes will be given later this week.

Few minutes ago game engine has been updated to support new NPC features:

• Ring Pirates - system 14,15,18,23,30,31,32 are now populated with pirate ships. They can attack players on their own,
• Omricon Trader - they can have escort that will assist when trader is under attack,
• Trade Guild - new trading ships populating more systems,
• Galactic Police Force - their ability to engage any ship attacking other ships in sectors 1-4 has been returned,
• Other Ring Rangers - new force protecting systems 13,14,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,
• Laceti, Central Systems Navy and Ray-Thu ships will assist their attacked comerades,
• some NPC ships has been redesigned to improve their performance,

Besides NPC changes, there were some other changes to game engine:

• new system and minimap with sector images,
• mounting equipment and weapons from cargo resfreshes ship stats panel,
• alliance finance registry shows current balance,
• other minor changes 

Unfortunately, we had another server failure. OS was unable to recover after restart. Game is up and running, a as a recompensation all players have been awarded with 1000AM units and 10 Traxium.

Yesterdays update wasn't free from new bugs. Selling equipment and weapons from cargo bay directly to station cased used cargo space do not update. Fax has been uploaded to the server. All users that suffer from this bug can recompute used cargo space by:

1. enter ship equipmnet list and hitting F5 in a browser,
2. selling, buying, gathering, jettisonning anything

To recompensate for inconvenience, all players have been awarded with extra 20 Traxium units.

Few minutes ago game engine has been updated to newest version. Comparing to previous version, changes are as follows:

• players from the same alliance are always visible to each other,
• number of used equipment and weapon slots is recomputed more often. Problem of players being unable to equip even if they have free slots should be solved,
• caching politics have been rewritten,
• port info i system map shows buyable ships too,
• required Traxium for basic equipments and weapons have been lowered to 0,
• online players registry shows player's alliance names,
• bug allowing NPCs to multitrigger (the one when NPC fires 16 weapons even if it has only 8) is fixed,
• game panels rendering politics rewritten,  
• Mining Lasers stats have been lowered,
• combat disengage probablity is lowered by 10 percent points,
• players can sell weapons and equipments directly from ships cargo bay. No mounting needed,
• bug allowing to doublekill (of even triple) a player is fixed,
• serveral other minor changes.