🌊 Today's Waters: a featured ship every day, +25% gold & RP (plus one-tap battles, tournament fixes, BTN medals)
Hey Captains! Two updates went out today — v55.115.0 this morning and v55.116.0 this afternoon — and the second one brings something new. (edit: this post first went up before v55.116.0 landed; Today's Waters has moved to the top, where it belongs.)
🌊 Today's Waters — a different featured ship every day
Every day one ship is the day's featured ship. Field it in a friendly or short ranked battle and you get +25% gold and Research Points for that battle. The home screen names the day's ship (tap the card for the countdown), and it's badged FEATURED when you pick your fleet. Coracle today, Squad tomorrow — the rotation covers every ship, so your least-used hull gets its turn. It's meant to make tomorrow's game a little different from today's; tell me if it does.
Also new: after your first battle, PLAY AGAIN is now the main button on the results screen.
⚔️ Straight into a battle
Brand-new players now go from the landing screen into their first battle with one tap (it used to be three screens and a menu). If you've been sending friends over: this is the version to send them to.
Accepting a friend's invite now pulls you out of the short-battle queue, so you can't get launched into two battles at once. Thanks @butterstutter — who found that one the hard way, and won both.
🏆 Tournaments and medals
A round that runs out of time now ends the battle properly instead of leaving it hanging, and a coin-flip forfeit no longer counts as a ranked result. @jedistore_82110 reported it with screenshots — exactly the kind of report I can act on.
BTN medals are now awarded on the rating you see on screen, not a hidden decimal behind it. If you sat on exactly 1750, 2000 or 2250 with no medal, that was this — I've backfilled the 59 of you it caught, so check your profile.
🔧 Smaller things
- Randomize places the biggest ships first, so it finds a valid layout far more often
- Steam: "Update now" restarts the game through Steam so the new version actually installs, and the email login window stops closing on you
- Discord: invite friends straight from the waiting and game-over screens
- iOS: with game sounds off, BattleTabs no longer cuts off your music, and we now ask about notifications after your first friendly battle against a real player instead of out of the blue
🧠 Fleet lab: the fourth slot
@roadster36. wrote up what actually belongs in the flexible fourth slot next to Seagulls, Mutineers and Longboat — reveals counted as half a tile, Chaos Slug's recoil weighed against Crafty Crab's obscures, Nessie priced against the rock count. Best thing I've read on fleet-building in weeks.
So here's my ask: post a fleet that beats that meta and doesn't use it in #⛵⎜battletabs, replay link if you have one. I'll play the best ones myself, and anything that holds up goes into the balance discussion. (Today's Waters gives you a reason to try — which ship would you never have fielded without the bonus?)
(One more: @nitwit_blubber_oddment_tweak asked whether Bronze should wait longer than 10 seconds before handing you a bot. That short wait is only for your first 20 ranked battles, then it stretches to 20, 30 and 40 seconds — but nothing in the game tells you that, which is the real problem. Opinions welcome in the thread.)
Thanks for playing 🫡
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