Powerplay Beta 8 changelog - beta servers down for approximately two hours

Hi everyone,

EDIT - servers are due to be down for a little while longer until approximately 2PM.

The servers will be down for approximately two hours from 12:00PM (midday) BST, to allow us to update to Powerplay Beta 8.

Here's a list of the changes:

• Fixed a crash with trade vouchers, this change should fix a similar crash with bounty vouchers
• Avoid crashing if we try to open the system map before the system request has completed
• Don't crash if the missions file we've loaded hasn't got an archetype specified
• Fix maths error when entering station services
• Players without at least a rank 2 in any of the elite ranks are not allowed to pledge
• Added correct Military Rank Mission target to player events and Supercruise
• Fix missing Diamondback Explorer loading screen model
• Enable new newsfeed
• Added images for news items
• Lowered the percentage chance of power ships choosing to interdict
• Upped the value of total global bounty needed to make Bounty Hunters attack after a KW scan
• Drastically upped the total global bounty needed to cause a hitman to stalk the player
• AFM can now repair the tiny hardpoint shield booster
• Reduce chance of pirates/bounty hunters interdicting the player in anarchy systems when the player is low ranked
• Various fixes to get founder decal working
• When searching for a partial name match in the galaxy, sort the results before retuning
• Blacklisted systems are now hidden in the galaxy map power view
• Items shown for livery slots should always be sorted alphabetically in outfitting

And the serverside changes:

• Completing trade missions will advance trade rank
• Modules sell for the full price paid for them
• Fix for rearming repair modules

Thanks everyone,

Ed