Dev Blog #024 February 02, 2026

Item Stacking

I have an experimental feature in the latest version, item stacking. You can now split item stacks and merge item stacks, this allows you to better manage cargo.

Shipping

I will soon be removing the beta-helper where you could send and receive resources between your ship and your homebase from anywhere in the galaxy. Once this is disabled you will only be able to do drop and pickup by docking at your homebase.
There will however be a new option, you can pay a small fee to AQSec to get your cargo shipped safely for you.

Corporation Flagships

I’m in the process of adding Corporation Flagships to the game, a Corporation Flagship is a large capital ship that represents your corporation's presence in space. The flagship belongs to the entire corporation and can move between sectors, serving as a symbol of your organization's power and influence.
Each corporation can own one flagship at a time, and it persists even when members are offline making it a high-value strategic asset and a target for rival corporations as they can not dock.
You will also be able to give them orders, allowing them to move between sectors, defend, attack and bombard outposts.

Ai updates

I’ve made some large changes to the AI, they now have the ability to target more than 1 enemy at a time, they also do this more intelligently by picking what weapons would be best against each target around them. So no more Battleships firing their T4 weapons at drones, well unless they don’t have any other weapons.

They will also now swap targets if there is a better option, or something is a higher priority.

Defensive ai has also been updated, with ships targeting better options for support, as well as swapping between targets.

Chat Commands

I've updated all the chat commands, you can find info on these by typing /help in chat.
So I was messing around over xmas on a text based game to learn some new stuff. I thought it would be fun to add it into AQ2 as a little minigame you can play right from chat. Just something to pass the time while you're waiting for your ship or hanging out at a station.
It's just called fleets, you start with 10 ships and 1,000 resources. There are a bunch of chat commands for it.
Type /fleet to check your stuff.
/fleet build gives you a new ship every minute.
/fleet mine sends your fleet off to gather resources for 30 minutes, each ship brings back resources. The catch is your base is undefended while they're gone.
/fleet attack allows you to raid other players and steal their stuff. Battles are based on fleet size with some randomness thrown in. Win and you take 40% of their resources. If they're out mining when you attack, you get a free raid but only grab 10%.
There's also /fleet leaderboard if you want to see who's hoarding the most.
Just to be clear this is completely separate from the main game. It doesn't touch your actual ships, credits, or anything else. It's just a chat game I threw together for fun