Update: Announcements

Future announcements will be posted to the forum instead.
- Click here for the link.

Update: Ships

- 1 New Level 70 ship added (Aeros).
- 2 New Level 160 ships added (Expeditionary Outpost)
- Level 130 ships: Battleship/Dreadnought/Interdictor/Assault Carrier changes. (generally buffed and price increase)
- The new ships will require war medals. (the medals are not removed during purchase)
- War medals are earned through participation in clan wars.
- Discuss here.

Update: Salvage/Repair

- Salvage AP cost reduced to 8AP for all classes.
- AP repair cost reduced as well.
- Discuss here.

Update: Skills

- Blinding Flare for Mechanic has been changed to Fortify.
- Fortify: Chance to get +15 armor in combat.
- Try to clear your browser cache if the new skill animation is not showing.
- Discuss here.

Update: BS 2.0

Here are the changes from the system update for Battle Stations 2.0 done on 01 Dec 09
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Job Classes:
- New beginner class - Sailor.
- New Job progression
- 1st Tier Promotion to Soldiers/Pirates/Mechanics/Scouts
- 2nd Tier Promotion will be added later
- Soldiers are the equivalent of old Commanders
- Mechanics are the equivalent of old Engineers
- Scouts are the equivalent of old Explorers
- Trader class removed. (Existing traders will become scouts)
- Level 10 and below captains moved to Azure Atoll and converted to Sailors.
- Passive class bonuses removed. (e.g. pirates gold bonus, explorer explore bonus, engineer repair/mine bonus)
- Free class resets for all captains.

Auto-ship Salvage:
- All classes gain the old engineer auto-ship salvage ability.

Skills:
- Each class will have a set of unique combat skills.
- Skills will be automatically learned at level 5, 25, 50. (100, 125 for Tier 2 job classes).
- Skills activate randomly in combat.
- Skills must be enabled in the profile page
- Read more about the skills here.
(skills are subject to rebalancing)

Dual Class/Hangar:
- If you reach level 150, you can choose to get the second class.
- Your new class will start from level 1 as a sailor.
- You will get an additional ship hangar space (2 ships) after getting second class.
- You can switch between the 2 classes/ships anytime.

Updated start page for new players:
- Added some comics and an animated tutorial walkthrough.

New Port:
- Laguna Blue
- Beginners port for new captains
- No PvP/Exploration

New Quest System:
- Only for quests in Laguna Blue
- Other ports will be updated later

Class Reset:
- Class reset will delevel a captain by 2 levels instead of 1 (if no free reset available)

New Ship/Items:
- New beginner ship, the Interceptor
- Some new beginner items
- Quest items/Trade goods
- Beginner weapons/parts moved to Laguna Blue shop from Imperial City

Outpost:
- When outpost HP falls below 50%, the outpost HP will be hidden from attackers.

Design
- New hangar page
- New captain page
- New crew page (deckhand and main crew)

- Discuss here.

Update: Multiple Stats/Class Resets

- You can now have more than 1 unused stats/class resets stored in your account.
- Read more here.

Update: Clan Management

- Clan masters and admirals can now access the Clan "Inner Sanctum".
- They can edit the clan information from there.
- Read more here.

Update: +1 AP Regen

- All captains who ever bought ocho coins gets a free +1AP regen.
- Click here to find out how to get ocho coins!
- Read more here.

Update: Clan Fort Armor

- Fort armor doubled.
- Read more here.

Update: Damage Reduction

- Damage Reduction nerfed slightly.
- A free stats reset item will be added to each ocho account.
- Read more here.

Update: No Advertisements

- If you have a linked Ocho-Online account. You will no longer see the advertisements at the bottom of the pages.
- Read more here.

Update: Clan Creation

- You can now create a clan with no delays.
To create a clan,
- You must not be in a clan.
- You must be level 50 and above.
- You need to pay 2 million gold fee.
- You will become the founding clan master.
- Read more here.

Update: Medals and War Participation

- War medals awarded for daily participation in clan war.
- Will be required to purchase some upcoming items.
- You can only earn a maximum of 1 medal a day.
- Defenders who meets an attacker will get the medal.
- Attackers must reach the fort to get the medal.
- Read more here.

Update: Clans

- Tier D removed at today's power calculation

- During next Friday (11 Sep 09), the following will be applied:
-- Clans with less than 50 members will become a Pacifist Clan and cannot take part in clan wars.
-- Pacifist clans can only return to war by getting 50 or more members and await the next power calculation.
-- Clans with less than 30 members will be auto-deleted.

- Read more here.

Update: Clan Membership and Pacification

- Clan membership size is capped at 500 members.
- Only 50% of clan members can be pacified.
- Read more here.

Update: Clan Membership and Pacification

- Clan members can only choose to un-pacify(return to war) on Thursdays.
- Read more here.

- If you leave a clan, you can only join a new clan on Thursdays (Or after 30 days).
- Read more here.

Update: Clan Warpoints

- Max Warpoints earned from sinking a fort is now capped at 1,000 per sink.
- Min warpoints of 10 remains.
- Discuss here.

Update: Combat

- Slowdown attribute for weapons added.
- Discuss here.

Update: War Logs

- Added Offense Logs.
- Viewable in War Logs page.
- Discuss here.

Update: Exploration

- Treasure chests now explorable.
- Buffed chance to find ore and plasma rocks.
- Open your treasure chests from the AP bank.
- Discuss here.