Additional Contracts - Development Log #526 | Prosperous Universe In this week's devlog Michi gives an update on the new post-tutorial contract series and is happy to report that the servers are stable again.

In this week's #devlog Michi gives an update on the new post-tutorial contract series and is happy to report that the servers are stable again.

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Influence Generation Issues - Development Log #525 | Prosperous Universe In this week's devlog Michi talks about issues with the influence generation.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about issues with the influence generation.

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New Player Experience - Development Log #524 | Prosperous Universe In this week's devlog Michi talks about the planned changes to the new player experience.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about the planned changes to the new player experience.

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Performance Improvements - Development Log #523 | Prosperous Universe In this week's devlog Michi talks about how many small changes increased the performance significantly.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about how many small changes increased the performance significantly.

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Looking for Performance Gaps - Development Log #522 | Prosperous Universe In this week's devlog Michi talks about influence reports and finding the cause of the performance issues.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about influence reports and finding the cause of the performance issues.

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Generating Influence - Development Log #521 | Prosperous Universe In this week's devlog Michi talks about the three sources of faction influence.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about the three sources of faction influence.

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Collecting Garbage - Development Log #520 | Prosperous Universe Michi talks about two performance problems and their solutions.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about two performance problems and their solutions.

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More Support Work - Development Log #519 | Prosperous Universe Michi talks about the ongoing increase in support work and about the faction influence feature.

Michi talks about the ongoing increase in support work and about the faction influence feature.

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Rules Are Rules - Development Log #518 | Prosperous Universe Michi talks about a recent wave of multi/spam accounts used to interfere with planetary elections.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about a recent wave of multi/spam accounts used to interfere with planetary elections.

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Faction Influence - Development Log #517 | Prosperous Universe The maintenance release is out, and Michi started working on a new feature: Faction Influence

The maintenance release is out, and Michi started working on a new feature: Faction Influence

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Release Notes - Maintenance 2026.01 Release date The maintenance release 2026.01 will be released on Feb. 3rd 2026. General Notes If your APEX console is stuck in a loading state after the update, please make sure to refresh it once af...

The maintenance release 2026.01 is out! It contains a lot of bug fixes and minor improvements, but also new storage buildings, multi-item inventory transfer and more. Full release notes: com.prosperousuniverse.com/t/release-no...

Release Imminent - Development Log #516 | Prosperous Universe Michi continues release preparations for tomorrow's maintenance update, fixes longstanding bugs and removes old code.

Michi continues release preparations for tomorrow's maintenance update, fixes longstanding bugs and removes old code.

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Timing is Everything - Development Log #515 | Prosperous Universe As the release date of the maintenance release draws closer, Michi talks about fixing bugs, improving FX trading and more.

As the release date of the maintenance release draws closer, Michi talks about fixing bugs, improving FX trading and more.

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Speedy Start - Development Log #514 | Prosperous Universe Michi talks about the new player experience and how the team wants to improve it gradually.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about the new player experience and how the team wants to improve it.

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Scheduled Maintenance - Development Log #513 | Prosperous Universe Michi is working on bugfixes and announces a maintenance release.

In this year's first devlog Michi is talking about recent bugfixes and announces a maintenance release.

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Happy Holidays - Development Log #512 | Prosperous Universe Michi talks about the multi-item inventory transfer, new email notifications and the first gateways being constructed.

Michi talks about the multi-item inventory transfer, new email notifications and the first gateways being constructed.

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Additional Storage - Development Log #511 | Prosperous Universe Michi continues working on a maintenance release, adding new storage buildings, fixing some bugs and showing a prototype.

Michi continues working on a maintenance release, adding new storage buildings, fixing some bugs and showing a prototype.

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Freeing Up Space - Development Log #510 | Prosperous Universe Michi is working on database maintenance, and the team released a new Steam version of PrUn.

Michi is working on database maintenance, and the team released a new Steam version of PrUn.

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Maintenance Mode - Development Log #509 | Prosperous Universe Michi reflects on the recent gateway release and switches to maintenance mode.

With the gateway release out, Michi switches to maintenance mode for a while.

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Connectivity Release Live Now | Prosperous Universe Today we released the Connectivity update. Here is an overview of what's new!

The gateways update is finally here. It brings faster-than-light gateways that reshape travel, trade, and system-to-system links.

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Getting Ready - Development Log #508 | Prosperous Universe The team is in the final preparations for the gateway release and looking forward to the State of the Universe Live Stream.

The team is getting ready for tomorrow's gateway release!

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10 years of Prosperous Universe - 500 devlogs and counting - Development Log #507 | Prosperous Universe TL;DR: This fall, Prosperous Universe has been in development for 10 years. A process we continuously documented in 500 devlogs. Now we are celebrating with the upcoming release of the long-awaited ga...

Prosperous Universe has been in development for 10 years! A process we continuously documented in 500 devlogs. Now we are celebrating with the upcoming release of the long-awaited gateways, a livestream and a 15% discount on PRO licenses.

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Testing Continues - Development Log #506 | Prosperous Universe Preparations for the gateway release continued this week.

In this week's #devlog: Testing and preparation of the upcoming gateway release continues

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Development Log Summary October 2025 | Prosperous Universe October was a busy and exciting month for Prosperous Universe! Between a new release, a few tricky bugs, and some long-overdue maintenance tasks, the team made good progress on both the technical and ...

Missed a devlog? No problem, here is our devlog summary for October 2025!

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Commence Testing - Development Log #505 | Prosperous Universe This week, the testing phase of the gateways has begun on the test server.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about testing the upcoming gateway release on our test server:

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Commence Testing - Development Log #505 | Prosperous Universe This week, the testing phase of the gateways has begun on the test server.

In this week's #devlog Michi talks about testing the upcoming gateway release on our test server:

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In this week's #devlog Michi talks about precision problems and bug fixing:

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The Colonization release is live, and Michi shares the typical ups and downs of a release day in his devlog.

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We are phasing out physical perks | Prosperous Universe TL;DR: Physical perks will be removed from supporter packs after December 31st. Order before this date if you want to receive physical perks. And while we have you: Since the Colonization release we h...

After almost 10 years, we are phasing out physical perks as part of our Early Access Supporter Packs. Read all about this change on the blog: prosperousuniverse.com/blog/2025/10...

Release Notes - Colonization Release date The Colonization release will be released on October 15th, 2025 General Notes If your APEX console is stuck in a loading state after the update, please make sure to refresh it once after...

Find out more about the update in the release notes topic on the forums

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