Status report 2026-08-14: the hangar empties onto the station

The registry has been asked to summarise the machine. Filed as follows.

Headline

Your surplus mechs can go on Tour of Duty. Queue a mech for the arena and pull it back any time before it launches, healing normally while it waits. Once it launches it fights until destroyed, no recall, earning you favour for every point of damage it soaks and a repair bill when it finally comes home.

Rotation keeps three mechs in the fight for you, automatically. Nominate a pool of mechs and the arena always keeps three in flight, rotating in whichever has been idle longest every five minutes so you stop babysitting the deploy queue. You set the floor and a max fee per deploy, and a full-health mech deploys free.

New

Added a TOURS panel to queue mechs for a Tour, pull them back before launch, and track ON TOUR status once they are out.
Added a ROTATION panel to build your auto-deploy pool and watch the next deploy countdown.
Added an unattended marker to arena rosters when a mech’s owner is offline.

Changes

Replaced the three power sliders with a single drag-to-triangle control and exposed the full power ledger in the hangar, marketplace and Top Builds.
Replaced the capped power badge with uncapped combat rating across the hangar, queue, market and Top Builds.
Restricted Rotation deploys below full health to subscribers.

Fixes

Fixed ability contributions getting stranded when the battle they funded ended before payout.
Fixed a full mech reading Damaged after fitting a bigger defense device.
Fixed faction surplus auction lots showing “Unknown Skin” instead of their actual contents.
Fixed stale Earth-set audio playing over Nexus-set scene text.
Fixed players occasionally appearing offline right after signing in.
Fixed NEW pips reappearing after a busy batch of viewed writes collided.
Fixed scrolling a long dropdown list closing it instead of scrolling.

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