We had a bug in the development version and needed two weeks to fix it. Now everything is working as it should again.

Today we want to introduce you some new map objects.
As in every Star Trek episode planets are an important element and therefore we decided to give the planets known from Beta 2 a complete redo for graphical updates. There will also be a wider spread of planets in Fleet Operations 3.0 then in Beta 2, but we will try to give every planet a unique look.
Here are some ingame screenshots of our new planets:


A blue Class-M planet on the outer border of the Federation


This green jewel can be found in the Neutral Zone between the Klingon and the Romulan Empire


A new environmental element in Fleet Operations 3.0 are suns. These giant, glowing space bodies light up the whole screen. You can see clouds of gas venting from their surface. Till now they are background objects like planets are. Triggered events like solar erruptions or super novas are already planned for future versions of Fleet Operations.


A large orange sun like Sol somewhere in the galaxy

Yeah, planets and suns look great, can't wait to put them on my new maps.  

I also asked Optec that on IRC, and he said YES it will, but that's something for V4.  

planets won't be used for mining as known in armada2. but we are thinking of a way to make planets "usable" within the neutral-station feature. but that's something for v4, too

will we be able tpo name the planets in V3?

nope the new planets are even a bit faster then the beta2 ones

The planets look great
And I also cant wait to play the new version, especially that Dominion  

We just wanna try em, Rommies wont be as new as Dominion since we havent played with them before at all on FO...see differance?