• Be respectful to other participants and the organisers of the event.

• Do not switch or edit your ship after the tournament has started. The ships you started with are the ships you'll use till the end.

• Do not enter the tournament with builds that have a significant negative impact on game performance, even though they may comply with the limits imposed.

• Do not exploit the game in any way, including its physics (i.e. clang drives). This also includes setups with the express purpose of breaking WC targeting in ways not intended.

• Teams need a full 4 players to enter the tournament going forward - with the exception of teams that have a guaranteed spot by placing among the top two in the last tournament.

• Team total mass allowance has been increased from 35 million kg to 45 million kg.

• DarkStar has reworked the way shields work quite heavily. You can read up on it in his changelog.

  • The Defense Shields config has been updated. Please update it from the Mod Config tab in the above spreadsheet. You can find it in: %APPDATA%/Roaming/SpaceEngineers/Storage/DefenseShields.cfg

• Thrust Booster mod from 10x boost and 5x power requirement to 2.5x boost and 2.5x power requirement for all ions.

  • Note: High acceleration made possible by very strong thrusters has a strong influence on WC targeting. As most of our weapon mods are primarily tuned against each other in a more vanilla context, reducing the thrust power back down means that the variation between a weapon's performance in a regular setting and the tournament becomes much smaller. And therefore, overall balance is improved.

• Relative Speed mod config has been adjusted. Please update it from the Mod Config tab in the above spreadsheet. You can find it in: %APPDATA%/Roaming/SpaceEngineers/Saves/<yourSteamIDNumber>/<SaveName>/Storage/1359618037.sbm_RTS/RelativeTopSpeed.cfg

• The overall Battle Points available per team have been reduced from 80,000 to 40,000. (10,000 per player)

  • Note: Less points means more hard choices about what to invest in, rather than being able to afford everything. It also means better performance due to less weapons being used overall.

• The cost of small and large ion thrusters, as well as AWG's Heavy Ion Thruster, have been reduced to a quarter of previous values.

  • Large Ion: 450 --> 110

  • Small Ion: 50 --> 15

  • Heavy Ion Thruster: 1800 --> 450

NW

• 75mm Railgun Turret: 80 --> 150

• 150mm Railgun Turret: 160 --> 250

• 250mm Railgun Turret: 300 --> 350

• 100mm Gun Turret: 30 --> 60

• 203mm Gun Turret: 110 --> 120

• 30mm CIWS Turret: 130 --> 200

• Discoball Laser AMS: 80 --> 125

MA

• T1 PDX Laser: 120 --> 225

• T2 PDX Laser (new): 110

• T2 Gimbal Laser: 200 --> 100

• Point Defense Turret: 90 --> 100

• The Spicy Meatball Turret: 90 --> 150

MWI

• M-1 Torpedo: 500 --> 400

UNSC Weapons

• Series 8 MAC: 2500 --> 3500

Serpent Arms

• Grimlock Launcher: 850 --> 650

Ntech

• PDC Turret: 100 --> 225

• The skybox has been switched to [DX11] SE Gaseous planets Satellite 1 by Vagre.

• Spawn 1 and Spawn 2 have been upgraded and made into Blue Spawn and Red Spawn. (built by John Wack)

• Center has been updated. (built by John Wack)

Series 8 MAC
MajorXAcE, the mod author, has implemented the following changes:

• Recharge time from 20s to 30s

• Shield damage modifier from x10 to x5

NorthWind

• pilfit has updated his weapons. You can find his changelog here.

MWI

• Mexpex has updated his weapons. You can find his changelog here and here.

MA

• AutoMcDonough has updated his weapons. You can find his changelog here.

• Added T2 PDX Laser

• T2 Gimbal Laser & T2 PDX Laser Point Defense functionality removed.

Serpent Arms

• Kreeg has updated his weapons. You can find his changelog here.