Registry dispatches · September 2, 2026
Status report 2026-09-02: overdrive, the track and the rebate
OVERDRIVE is reachable again.
The registry has been asked to summarise the machine. Filed as follows.
Headline
OVERDRIVE is reachable again. It had been counting the arena’s automated deploys as a crowd, so the bar sat where a full house would be, and it fired once in a week where it used to fire dozens of times. Automation now warms HEAT without pretending to be a person, the bar floors at two, and two players taking turns can set it off.
Your faction has a war effort you can actually feed. Three axes, twenty levels each, paid for in salvaged material. Every faction’s track has been sitting at level 0 since it shipped because nothing could move it. Now you move it.
Losing pays something back. A losing deploy on a faction that is behind on the recent win share now gets part of its deploy fee returned by the House, and the deploy screen quotes you the rate before you commit. Consolation and the dominance tax are both gone. This replaces them.
New
- Added the SALVAGE REPORT under MARKET, naming which battles and which wrecks paid you.
- Added a Loss Reimbursement quote to the deploy screen.
- Added Report bug to Mira in Discord, usable by anyone in the server.
- Plus 3 smaller additions across the hangar and the battle report.
Changes
- Changed the trading floor to charge the price your own trade creates, so buying and selling straight back no longer pays.
- Removed Consolation and the dominance tax, both replaced by Loss Reimbursement.
- Changed the corporate desks to size each floor bid down to fit under their price ceiling.
- Restricted desk bidding so no desk bids for uranium.
- Changed the repair bay weld beam to follow the wage the server actually pays.
- Raised the repair pay ceiling back onto the economy dial, so a retune moves the wage and the beam together.
- Changed mercenary resale listings to accept odd cent prices.
- Plus 9 smaller changes across the wallet, market and arena.
Fixes
- Fixed the arena wedging on ESTABLISHING UPLINK when a stream never sent its layout.
- Fixed a mercenary contract running out mid session leaving your mechs on the line.
- Fixed the deploy price hold carrying over to a faction you did not pick.
- Fixed a purchase that failed mid flight leaving you charged for it.
- Fixed a paused economy telling you that you were broke.
- Fixed a refused Veteran Pack claim vanishing behind SIGNAL LOST.
- Fixed the victory outro ending before the outro had finished.
- Plus 61 smaller fixes across the hangar, market and arena.
Spotted something off? Drop it in Discord, playtest feedback is shaping every one of these.