Alpha build 107 - Move your base, defend your allies

Alpha build 107 is live, with a new server. It is a required update.

New

• Move your base. Open the planet you want and press MOVE BASE HERE: your whole base moves there at once, for example next to your alliance mates. A move costs 10,000 coins and then waits 7 days before the next, like switching factions, and your first move below commander level 10 is free. It is refused while any of your fleets is out, while a raid on your base is coming or under way, and on a full planet; the panel says why before you spend anything.
• Defend your alliance mates. A fleet's DEFEND chip now has three settings: OFF, HOME and ALLIES. On ALLIES the fleet also defends alliance mates' bases on the planet where it is, docked at a base there or waiting in that planet's view, while you are online. When a mate's base is raided you get an amber ALLY UNDER ATTACK prompt. A raid has up to three defending fleets in all, the base owner's first.
• Older PCs just work. On graphics chips that cannot run the game's DirectX 12 well, such as older built-in Intel graphics, the game now starts on DirectX 11 by itself. No launch options needed.
• The system requirements are on the game's Steam page now.

Changed

• The first start sets the right graphics quality for your PC, and older PCs start on LOW. If the game picked too high a setting for your PC before, it is set right once, by itself, unless you chose your own settings.
• Every richer asteroid field now has its Tide guards. Some fields had none.

Fixed

• Some players could not sign in when another program on their PC was using a network port the game wanted. The game no longer needs it.
• An away team's notice named its whole reward even when your storage was full and could not take it. It now says how much was kept.
• The base repair bar was drawn over menu screens such as the Academy (#192).

Good to know

• Required update: build 106 can no longer join. Steam brings in build 107 on its own; if it does not appear, exit Steam completely and start it again.
• The Player's Guide has the new rules: Moving your base and Defending your base.
• The changelog lists every change.

Questions or bugs: #tester-chat and #bug-reports on Discord. Ideas: #feedback.