VO 1.8.359 includes:

- Modifications to Livery system to allow more dynamic addition of new ship skins.
- Mitigated issue related to Hive Queens disappearing from the game universe.
- Key IDs are now shown in key lists.
- Key lists are now sorted by Key ID.
- User keys now default to IFF and can-dock access.
- F2P specific: Crystal limit on bot-kills is doubled to 20 crystal per day.
- F2P specific: Some Hive bots now give increased crystal rewards, from 2 crystal for Assault-class bots, up to 5 crystal for Hive Queens.
- F2P specific: All ship addons/weapons at or above level 3, in any license, now cost 1 crystal each.

Several changes for Free To Play users, allowing them to gain more Crystal through daily bot kills, while also adding long-planned Crystal costs for addons and weapons. The Free To Play game balance will be changing over the coming months, including potential improvements to level limits and the like.

The "Key" changes, for keys related to capship and station ownership, were suggested by the player base easier this week, and integrated to help lower the hassle-factor in key management. As always, we'd appreciate continued feedback on how this is working.

Beyond that, we intended this release to also debut the next-generation beta of our Oculus Rift support, but after some testing we chose to defer a little longer and make sure things are solid (probably until next week). We initially only expected the Rift to be disabled for a week or so, but Oculus also released their 0.8 SDK in the same timeframe, so we chose to update and optimize for that, in addition. The upcoming release will still be very "beta" for Rift support, the game needs quite a few improvements to help polish the VR experience, but we think early Rift adopters will still enjoy it in its interim state.

As always, thanks for your patience and support!