Attention Captains,

We have released a Minor Patch 1.4.3.0. This is a quality of life patch, adding in a few minor features to allow captains to adjust their experience.

• Seeding the random number 
• Second screen functionality. Allowing certain instrumentation to be displayed on a second screen / monitor. For more information, check out the SECONDARY SCREEN section of the User Manual.
• Users can configure which screen the game / secondary screen launches on.
• Users can configure the graphical fidelity.
• Users can configure the screen refresh rate (independent of the game update rate).

Seeding the random number can be achieved by putting the value "seed=X" (where X is a non-zero, positive number, e.g. seed=5) into the command line arguments - however this only occurs on game boot. If you die and restart in the same session, you will not start in the same sector. This means that you can ensure that you always start in the same sector, location, and initial spawn without needing to mess around with save files etc., however this is for boot and booting only.

The option to configure graphical fidelity and screen refresh rate are consequences of the rendering used by the engine. To ensure the small file size of Astra Protocol 2 (we're only just over one megabyte in size), we are using the old and slow GDK+ libraries which can cause slowdown when running multiple monitors. Playing with these settings should allow some balance between graphics and gameplay.

We hope that you enjoy these improvements and please feel free to provide any feedback via the usual channels.