Changelog

Excelsior

The Excelsior ability “Decloaking Deflector” can now be activated by the Voyager / Excelsior automation (previously “Voyager Bioship”).

The cooldown for this ability can be configured in Settings > Ship Behaviour.

The automation will automatically detect which ability is available on the current ship and use the corresponding cooldown.

Gift Collection

This releases fixes some issues with the in-game Gift Collection introduced in 1.16.14:

• Incorrect count down to the next collection in the ‘Scheduled…’ view.
• Only collecting a single gift per collection, which caused it to appear as if if it was not collecting at all.

New Daily Kill Counter

There is a new daily kill counter on each ship tab and a combined total in the lower left hand corner of the FastTrek UI.

It tracks all successful battles that FastTrek witnesses (while it is running), including ships which are not automated.

Please note that this includes PvP battles, but does not include hostiles killed while in menus, or those where the ship does not actually show up as ‘in battle’ (such as GS-31 or Borg Cutting Beam). Losses, i.e. if a ship is destroyed during the encounter, also aren’t counted.

The counter resets at 5:00 UTC every day, as per Scopely’s daily PvE limit.

Reconnect Intervals

If the player took control from another device, triggering Reconnect Intervals, but the game got stuck in a state where it would normally trigger a restart of the game, FastTrek would restart the game and cause it to disconnect the player on the other device.

This has been fixed so that restarts or reconnects can only happen once the reconnect timeout has expired as expected.

Elite Hostile detection

Despite fixes in the previous version, elite hostiles (skull icon) could still be attacked due to poor image cropping. This has been adjusted so that attack dialogues should be correctly dismissed as expected when “Avoid Elites” is selected.

Other fixes and improvements

• Fixed Faction store collection of Bajoran Superconductor Exchange
• When refreshing a mining node a ship may now also randomly move left
• Added the ability to directly rename saved profiles
• The system selector now shows hostiles’ faction tags

IMPORTANT: Gift Collection

Due to ongoing issues with web store logins, this version switches to in-game gift collection to avoid missing out on core gifts.

This also means:

• Loyalty Chests cannot currently be collected.
• ‘Missions as gifts’ are always collected (the associated setting is ignored)
• You will continue to see the notification to log in to the webstore, but doing so has no effect in this version.
• There will be no automatic ‘mission key’ collection (obviously).

I may bring back webstore collections in the future if I can find a reliable technique. Until then at least core gifts will be collected.

Game Update 89

• Systems update for Conqueror Borg (Game Update 89).
• Added Borg Sphere BPs to Maverick Faction Store.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Dismiss Special Offer popups.
• Station shield: Removed ‘scheduled’ option from schedules (use ‘renew’ instead).
• All manually started collections (from the Start tab) now ignore cooldowns.
• Fixed quantity and click-in for S31 Quantum Communicators, Emblem of Assessment and Armada Tactical Cores.
• Borg automation: Prevent the Borg Cube from accidentally firing its beam at player ships.
• Fixed periodic restarts not triggering on schedule.
• Fixed an issue with elite/skull hostile detection/avoidance.

Fixed

• Using a recall timer with mining stopped the automation.
• ‘Scheduled’ Shield mode didn’t apply the configured shield when it dropped.
• ‘Avoid Elites’ option.
• Automatically turn off loot preview if necessary to attack a hostile.
• For community mod users, players can remove version.dll from the game folder and have FastTrek reinstall the mod to fix the annoying zoom issue where every system starts fully zoomed in.

Faction Stores

• Fixed: FKR Recruit and Loyalty bundles (notable exception: In French, most Loyalty Bundles do not work due to their cut-off labels)
• Fixed: Bajoran Travel Tokens, Loot exchanges and Material Credit Claim.
• Fixed: Federation G5 Gas
• Fixed: Romulan G5 Ore
• Augment: Added Prime Ordnance
• Section 31: Added 47 items including FKR Rep, Syndicate XP, Credit Exchanges, Welding Hardware, Field Repairs and Defiant Refit, Agony Booth, 19 Officers, Rare Xindi Directives, and Sigma Items
• Ex-Borg: Added Efficiencies and Prime Ordnance

Station Shields

• NEW: Reactive mode - only shield when attacked
• Scheduling allows any flexible number of time slots
• Schedule different modes, such as (for example) reactive from 8am, a scheduled shield at 10am, regular renewal until 20:00, nothing until 22:00, then a scheduled shield over night
• Fixed various issues with missed shield activations

Faction Stores

• General improvements to match and collection accuracy
• DTI: Fixed issue of Directives not collected in recent game update
• DTI: The Anti-Static/Charged Exocomps now only collect every other day to ensure even collection
• DTI + Charged/Static credit conversion
• DTI + Encrypted exchange
• DTI + Ex-Borg credits U/C and R/E
• DTI + various Formation Chests
• DTI + Officers: Hugh/Leslie, Khan/Leslie, Byr, Toli, Vael, Tolra
• DTI + Faction credits
• DTI + Sigma speedups
• DTI + Syndicate XP
• DTI + Chrono Deflector and Chronophage
• DTI + Krenim Time Weapon and Janeway’s Pocket Watch

Other Changes

• FastTrek’s “lazy zoom”, in conjunction with the game/mod bug of entering a system at the wrong zoom level, could lead to an inability to target hostiles. “Lazy zoom” is now off by default but can be enabled in Settings > Ship Behaviour.
• Added G6 Armada Chests in Claims Section
• The maximum wait time for the Picard Maneuver is now configurable in Settings > Ship Behaviour
• Made dialogues such as Settings fully scrollable to improve display and usability on very small or highly scaled screens

• NEW: Conqueror Borg Solo Armadas
• NEW: Systems added for Game update 88
• NEW: Maverick Faction Store
• Improved: Added Battleship hostiles to V’Ger systems
• Improved: Added a ‘spinner’ editor for numerical settings within a fixed range
• Fixed: Profiles in ‘then switch to’ should be sorted
• Fixed: Profile without any hostile restrictions loaded with restrictions
• Fixed: Away Teams Legacy Store wasn’t collected
• Fixed: Station Shield may have selected incorrect duration
• Added shield options for 3 and 7 days
• Reduce time detecting targets after clicking empty space
• Reduce time spent checking if Picard Maneuver hostile has stopped

• Improve/fix targeting click position

• Replace V’Ger Bioship targeting with automatic universal targeting
• V’Ger Bioship targeting should now work without checking the targeting option
• The “adjust targeting” option is now configurable in Settings > Ship Behaviour if automatic doesn’t work for you, and for anything new that Scopely may throw at us in the future

• Re-introduced special targeting for V’Ger Bioships (formerly Fatu-Krey). Selecting this option will adjust targeting to match these hostiles. Use with regular hostiles will lead to problems.
• Improved targeting/queuing behaviour
• Fixed some system name comparison issues

• Avoid a timing issue that could lead to Cerritos or Autodefenses not being renewed
• Changes to hostile level detection with the aim to improve accuracy (levels 1-73)
• Improved detection of ship destruction or MU-dropout when using Kir’Shara loop
• Fixed an issue with getting stuck on a ‘Collect’ screen when it took longer to load
• Recognise Mission Dialog and avoid restarting while dialog is on screen
• MacOS: Fixed detection issues with certain monitor-specific colour profiles
• MacOS: Fixed an issue with not loading the community mod during a restart
• MacOS: Prevent a crash during automatic restart

• Fixed: Stuck on ‘Awaiting Control’
• Fixed: System name with different capitalisation could stop an automation
• Fixed: If the user stops an automation, don’t collect dailies or switch profile
• Fixed: Suspend automatic restarts while the game is disconnected

• Fixed: Possible deadlock when encountering certain in-game dialogues (including initial V’Ger ad)
• Fixed: Borg Cube stops when it can’t find targets
• Fixed: Issue with attacking hostiles when using mod’s loot/cargo preview feature
• New: Ability to collect 7 and 30 day loyalty chests as soon as they are available (enable in Settings > Collection > Gifts)
• Gift Collection: Improve error handling, increase reliability
• Gift Collection: Add a link from the manual login notification directly into the corresponding settings
• Gift Collection: Add a link from the Schedules tab for clarity

• Gift Collection: Prevent the unclickable spinning login button when manual login is required
• Fixed an issue in Faction stores where items on the bottom row could not be found
• Fixed an issue in the Refinery where the bottom-most selected menu entry could sometimes not be found
• Fixed: Unsigned DLL may have caused a Smart-Screen warning

• Fixed the issue of zooming out when sending a ship in galaxy view
• ‘Yet another fix for’ gift collection. If the login button is infinitely spinning in Chromium, please try clearing its browsing data.

• MacOS Hotfix: Screen capture broken in 1.16.2

• New: Added ‘Direct Print’ capture mode, which has no flashing yellow border on Windows 10, but still allows capture when the game is covered. This is the new default mode. If you switched back to GDI+, you might like to give this mode a try.
• Fixed an issue with slow targeting and not queueing hostiles in 1.16.1
• Hostile Hunt will now ‘try again later’ if no hostile can be found, instead of constantly switching ships and screens, which could cause other problems
• The UI now consistently uses ship letters A-H instead of numbers 1-8

• Windows Direct Capture stability improvements and optimisations — should no longer flicker, randomly crash, or appear so sluggish
• Revert avoidance of “Out of bounds” due to causing ‘do you want to quit the game’ prompts
• Recognise a destroyed ship more quickly when queuing hostiles
• More Gift Collection refinements

• New: Windows now defaults to DirectX capture, which allows the game window to be partially obscured. This has the advantage, for example, that FastTrek won’t want to restart if you just happen to be looking in its settings. As this is GPU-accelerated, it should improve performance on most systems, however, may feel sluggish on GPU-limited systems, such as some Virtual Machines. You can switch back to GDI capture in Settings > Advanced if you experience issues.
• Added new V’Ger systems from game update 86
• Added the Challenge Refinery
• Fixed Gift Collection issues, such as repeated manual login prompts
• Reduced instances of “Out of bounds” when using the community mod
• Windows: Allow more time for automatic mod updates
• MacOS: Fix screen capture on Intel
• MacOS: Fix community mod version detection and offer of new update when none exists

• Important! Disabled automatic login for gift collection, which could lead to being locked out
• From now on, occasional manual login using the OTP code received via email is required
• Show a notification when webstore requires new login

• New: Ability to add a selection of Ship Abilities for Solo Armadas
• Improve Gift Collection login reliability
• Added Settings > Advanced > Zoom Delay Adjustment
• Fixed navigation through Premium Rifts (Ganalda)
• Reduced rift navigation delays
• Added a separate zoom level setting for finding mining nodes
• Fixed an issue with miners looking for a node in the home system when navigation failed for any reason
• Added support for the single quote/apostrophe character (’) in mod key mappings
• Offer update to Community Mod version 0.6.1.alpha.10 in the setup wizard
• MacOS: The wizard now sets windowed mode correctly
• MacOS: When using the community mod, it now remembers to restart through the mod

• Fixed Gift Collection (for now) by clicking the ‘Use Password’ link
• Keyword Hunter/Solomada now support raw regular expressions and an ‘or’ connective ’|’: E.g. to target either ‘Bounty Hunter’ or ‘Survey’ use: Bounty Hunter|Survey. Raw regexs must be enclosed in ’/’, and the same would become: /(?is)(.*(?=.*Bounty)(?=.*Hunter).*|.*(?=.*Survey).*)/

• Fixed: Setup wizard fails due to incorrect defaults for extended zoom and mission reminders

• Fixed: Unable to target ROM by Faction Tag
• Improved matching of partial faction tags (overlapping/occluded)

• New: Resource mining (Par/Tri/Dil plus Sigma)
• New: G7 - Filter hostiles by main faction tags (fed/kln/rom)
• New: Attempt to detect a crashed game (‘not responding’) and restart
• Fixed: Setup wizard failed on ‘Game/Graphics Settings - Apply Solution’
• Fixed: Premature recall with Kir’Shara and count limit
• Fixed: HHP reading in Hazard systems on MacOS

• Fixed: Targeting other ships despite faction filter
• Removed Fatu-Krey option due to removal of Sarris Invasions from the game