•  12/18/2006

(Major Update)

1. New Skills

• A-Gear (Tank)
  
  * Air Siege: Mode that increases damage output, weapon accuracy, and attack speed.
  * Barrier: Temporary shield that blocks only missile attacks, while allowing standard fire to pass in and out of the barrier.
  * Camouflage: Disguise your gear making it invisible to enemy pilots.
  * Hyper Shot: A charged attack which when unleashed, not only damages your target, but any opponents within a radius of that target.
  * Remedy: Recharges your shields over a period of time.
  * Shield Paralyze: Targettable debuff that prevents enemy gears from naturally recovering their shields.
  
  
• B-Gear (Bomber)
  
  * Air Bombing: Mode of missile fire that allows for air-to-air bombing attacks.
  * Big Boom: Self-destruct ability, damaging all opponents within a certain radius.
  * Chaffs: Defensive ability that increases your survivability.
  * Invisibility: Cloaking ability that renders your gear invisible.



• I-Gear (Sniper)
  
  * Berserker: Increases damage output greatly for a short period of time.
  * Chain Rolling: Disables the cooldown between barrel rolls.
  * Silence: Disables your opponents missile-lock warning, allowing for surprise long range attacks.



• M-Gear (Support)
  
  * Elevation: Self-buff only. Increases damage output and accuracy of your weapon systems.
  * Full Recovery: Fully recovers the HP and Shields of the designated Gear.
  * Invincibility: Protects your gear with a shield for a short duration, preventing any attack from entering or exiting the shield.
  * Purify: Purges all buffs from your target.
  * Scanning: Pulse the area around your gear, revealing any hidden enemies within a large radius.

Video and screenshots of skills available at:
http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17662

Interview with FAQs regarding the new skills:
http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17962

(note: some of costs and cooldowns of these abilites have been tweaked since the creation of that post)

Nation War Changes

2. Strategic Point System

New strategic points are buildings that control the respawn of enemy zones. Through the destruction of these points, your faction can be granted the ability to respawn within enemy zones. Bonuses and rewards are also given for destroying and/or defending these points.

More information available at:
http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17902

3. Redesigned Respawn System Respawn has been normalized, meaning respawn is never random within a zone. You will always respawn to the warpgate which is closer to your factions home city.

More information available at:
http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17902

Leader System Changes

4. New Sub-Leader System

In order to take pressure off of nation leaders, we've brought a new system into play where the nation leader selects several "sub-leaders". These sub-leaders have access to basic leader commands, but are not given leader equipment nor nation buffs.

More information available at:
http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19692

5. Restats for All

We do realize that this patch is so grand in scale, that a lot of gears may want to redistribute their stat points. In response to this need, the new level 53 sidestory mission will reward players with a non-tradeable allstat initialization card.

6. Christmas Event

More information available at:
http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19692

7. Rock's Nest Middle and Top Layers have been added.

8. New quests for mid-level players have been added.

9. New weapon types.

10. Existing weapon types now have higher level weapons. (example: Jackhammer 11 is no longer the highest level Jackhammer.)

11. Many weapon tweaks and balance changes.

12. Drop rates changed.

13. New recipes for enchant cards.

14. New components and ore types added.

15. More safe channels added.

16. You can now barrel roll in order to evade bombs.

17. Increased range for all primary weapons, including A-gears.

18. Bug involving being hit by advanced missles after outrunning them has been fixed.

•  11/20/2006

(Weekly Update)

1. New High level maps (Fantasy Flow, Rumein Volcano) and Mid-level map (Rock's Nest Bottom) has been added.
2. New High level missions and mid-level sidestory missions.
3. Players can see if a mob has already been targeted by another player.
4. Blessing of Angels, Angel's Wing, and Call of Hero cannot be used in Event maps.
5. Some missions now have easier requirements (Hive, Turning Point, Enter the Moon).
6. Ground mob spawn rates have been increased.
7. Bug with Reject list where PvP dueling was not blocked has been fixed.
8. Various other bugs fixed.

•  11/06/2006

(Weekly Update)

1. Fixed bug where Undecideds were able to trade with other undecideds.
2. Channel 1 is now always open for BCU maps to Blackburn Site and ANI maps to Desert of Ardor.
3. ANI players that die in Stones Ruin are now sent back to Arlington City.
4. Den of site A and B are now back to respawn on the same map for both nations (like Bark City).
5. Level 7 missle shot and fire shot skills SP cost has been reduced.
6. Hyperbooster duration time has been reduced to 15 seconds.
7. Fixed a bug in the character's run speed.
8. Various other bugs fixed.

•  10/23/2006

(Weekly Update)

1. Premium Membership Item added to the Item Shop.
2. A new map, Sunken City, has been added to the BCU territory (branches off from Redline)
3. Higher level weapon's progressively increase in damage.
4. A-Gears primary weapon's probability has increased and the damage has been decreased.
5. NPCs added in the Cities.
6. The default SP regen rate has increased (from 2 SKILL/3 seconds to 3 SKILL/3 seconds).
7. SP regen is now increased as the Spirit Points are increased. Every 500 SKILL points, the regen rate will increase by 1/3seconds. (For example: if SKILL point is 1600, SP Recover rate will be (3+3)= 6 SKILL/3 seconds.
8. Smart SP Skill has a higher percentage decrease of SP consumption.
9. Concentration Skill (Probability increase) is available for each gear.
10. HP of high level mobs has been decreased.
11. Drop rate for weapons has been increased.
12. Warp Shop price has been reduced.
13. New BCU map, Sunken City and ANI territory map, Violence Blizzard can be warped to in the Warp Shop.
14. Warping through Warp gates doesn't decrease the booster gauge anymore.
15. After hitting the ends of the map boundary, the booster is still usable.
16. Only accessable maps are listed in the Warp Shop.
17. Turning Point mission (Level 57) is now a requirement for entering Island's Dream map.
18. Some gameplay sound effects have been changed. (booster sound, weapon sounds, ...)
19. FAQ has been fully updated.
20. Dueling in Cities has been disabled.
21. Using the same chat type is possible ($.., !.., #.., @..).
22. Many solo missions have been changed to Formation missions.
23. Additional Loading Screens have been added.
24. The distance of M-Gear formation buff skills have been increased.
25. Text has been changed at various dialogs within the game.
26. Various other bugs fixed.

Premium Membership Item
With purchase of the Membership item, the following features will be enabled:

1. Inventory Capacity is increased by 20 slots (80 slots).
2. Warehouse Capacity is increased by 20 slots (120 slots).
3. Warehouse is shared between all characters on the account (maximum of 3 characters).
4. Brigade Warehouse is accessable.
5. Brigade Leaders that have purchased the Membership can now have 20 additional member in their brigade (60 members).
6. Upon dying to an NPC or by crashing, the cost to repair is reduced by half.
7. During the membership period, each day of logging on, 5 Power Mystery Capsules will be given, which can be opened for one of the following temporary 1-Time use items (Item must be used in a 24 hour period):
   • Power energy capsule: Recovers enery for 30 seconds while flying.
   • Power shield capsule: Shield Recover rate increased 3x on a supply pad for 30 seconds.
   • Power SP capsule: SP Recovery rate increased 3x on a supply pad for 30 seconds.
   • Adrenalin capsule: Attack rate increased for 30 seconds.
   • Brave capsule: Defense and Evasion increased for 10 seconds.
   • Hyper booster: Booster gauge does not decrease for 30 seconds.

In addition to the standard Membership features, a Power Level Package, Regen Package, and a Combo Package are available.
The Power Level Package contains 1, 3, or 5 Power Leveling Sets (5 hour item), which increase EXP, SPI, and Item drop rate by 30%.
The Regen Package contains 1, 3, or 5 Regen Sets (5 hour item), which enable HP recovery while flying, increases Shield recovery by 50%, and increases SP regen by 15%.
The Combo Package contains 1, 3, or 5 Power Leveling Sets (5 hour item), and 1, 3, or 5 Regen Sets.

The pricing for membership are as follows:
1 month membership = 1,200 GPotato
2 month membership = 2,200 GPotato (1,100 x 2)
3 month membership = 3,000 GPotato (1,000 x 3)

1 month membership + 1 Power Leveling Set= 2,200 GPotato
2 month membership + 3 Power Leveling Set= 5,200 GPotato
3 month membership + 5 Power Leveling Set= 6,000 GPotato

1 month membership + 1 Regen Set= 1,700 GPotato
2 month membership + 3 Regen Set= 3,200 GPotato
3 month membership + 5 Regen Set= 4,500 GPotato

1 month membership + 1 Power Leveling Set + 1 Regen Set= 2,600 GPotato
2 month membership + 3 Power Leveling Set + 3 Regen Set= 5,000 GPotato
3 month membership + 5 Power Leveling Set + 5 Regen Set= 7,200 GPotato

GPotato can be purchased at http://billing.gpotato.com and are usable in any of the Potato games.

•  10/16/2006

Information about the Upcoming Formation Tournament is up at http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10501.

Signup with your team on your current server:

   » Joymus
   » Hovernmus
   » Trimus

The deadline for signing up is on Monday, October 23, at 12:00PM PDT(7:00PM GMT).

•  09/25/2006

MMORPG.COM has published an exclusive interview with the Producer of Space Cowboy Online himself! In the interview, Jason talks about the Gala-Net/GPotato Space Cowboy Online team and spends more time discussing the different aspects of the game.
The direct link to the interview can be found at http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/gameId/224/setView/features/loadFeature/904/JasonPark.html

•  08/09/2006

Space Cowboy will be opening up a brand new server, Trimus, on Tuesday morning after the regular weekly maintenance. All players will start on the new server at level 1, and there will not be any nation leaders on the new server until a brigade leader hits level 60, as defined in the Leader System at http://sco.gpotato.com/sub/game_info/nation_war.php

Characters from other servers will not be transferred over to the new server.
The Brigade Tournament this week will not commence on this new server.

Also, the Brigade Tournament signups are currently in process until 4:00PM PDT (11:00 GMT) on Friday, August 11, 2006. More information is available at http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6629

•  07/03/2006

The Race to 60 Event has concluded. The raffle of prizes was presented LIVE on each server on Saturday, July 1, at 11:00AM PDT (6:00 GMT). Here are the winners of the Raffle for the Race to 60 event! All users that were involved in the raffle were level 60 characters within a little over 1 month of gameplay! Everyone that made it to 60 is definately a winner! Unfortunately, we were only able to give a prize to only a select few although we would have loved to reward all of you. (well over 100 players)

Gala-Net, Inc. will continue to provide more events for our dedicated fans, We will continue to bring you more and more events, such as the upcoming 4th of July event (National Pride), which will start on the 4th of July and will last for only 1 week! More info soon to come, so stay updated!

Joymus:

ANI:
Space Cowboy Poster 1: Panzerfritz
Space Cowboy Poster 2: SuperCruise
BCU:
Space Cowboy Poster 1: Tridonite
Space Cowboy Poster 2: EvilGear

ANI:
Plantronics VoIP Headset: systemghost
BCU:
Plantronics VoIP Headset: DantesInferno

ANI:
1GB USB Flash Drive: LVII
BCU:
1GB USB Flash Drive: SkyWalker

ANI:
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse: MadMax
BCU:
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse: SnowyWolf

ANI:
iPod Shuffle (1GB): Thunderfart
BCU:
iPod Shuffle (1GB): Magin

ALL:
256MB nVIDIA GeForce 6600: Varg !!!


Hovernmus:

ANI:
Space Cowboy Poster 1: jaws
Space Cowboy Poster 2: jeremywight
BCU:
Space Cowboy Poster 1: blackalina
Space Cowboy Poster 2: Genesis

ANI:
Plantronics VoIP Headset: yank3
BCU:
Plantronics VoIP Headset: Snafu

ANI:
1GB USB Flash Drive: Jezzabelle
BCU:
1GB USB Flash Drive: Skiiz

ANI:
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse: Mig31
BCU:
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse: AcroN

ANI:
iPod Shuffle (1GB): xZeroKohz
BCU:
iPod Shuffle (1GB): Nightstalker

ALL:
256MB nVIDIA GeForce 6600: bWu !!!

•  06/22/2006

The item shop service for Space Cowboy Online Episode 2 will be up on Friday, June 23, 2006! Users will be able to purchase items for Space Cowboy Online at the Item Shop found within the game. Purchases can be made with GPotatoes which can be bought at https://billing.gpotato.com/Report/RepINList.asp. GPotatoes can be used on any of the games that Gala-Net, Inc. publishes, so stock up today! There will be a variety of temporary performance boosters to cosmetic alterations for sale in the Item Shop, and new items are expected weekly during the server maintenance downtime as well. The list of items available at the Item Shop can be found on the website although temporarily, purchases can only be made in-game.

In-game rules can be found at http://sco.gpotato.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39. For all billing related issues, please contact billing@gala-net.com. All remaining Space Cowboy Online issue can be sent to sco@gala-net.com or use the /CallGM command in-game.

•  05/26/2006

Space Cowboy Online is now live with 2 servers (Joymus, Hovernmus). Please choose which server you would like to connect to below. Any GPotato registered user can create up to 3 characters on each server.

Simultaneous with the game launch, are you willing to take up a challenge? How about a level challenge? By July 1, 2006, players that surpass level 60 on each server will be entered into a raffle where prizes, including a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Card will be give away! Level hard, and prove that you can qualify to participate in "The Race to 60".

Here is a list of the updates to the game ever since Beta, which ended earlier in March:

- Arlington and Bygeniou have been graphically remade
- New Nation Wars system has been added. Check the "Nation Wars" page for more info
- Nation Leader system added.
- English Text localization has been completed
- Missions added beyond the Hornian King quest
- Sidestory Missions added, including cooperation/group missions
- Many new items added
- Many bugs fixed

For additional questions or concerns, please contact sco@gala-net.com or use the /CallGM command in-game.

•  05/22/2006

The Game Client for Space Cowboy Online: Episode 2 is now available! You can access the download mirrors by following the link at http://sco.gpotato.com/sub/media/client.php

Let me remind you all that users will not be able to connect to the game servers until May 25, 2006. Throughout the next few days more download mirrors are expected.

The installation file is fairly large, so there is also an option to download the files in 200MB increments and extracting using WinRAR.

Please contact sco@gala-net.com if you have some trouble installing the file.

•  05/09/2006

Space Cowboy Online will officially have its servers live on May 25, 2006 at 19:00 GMT (12:00PM PDT).

The game client will be available for pre-installation downloads on May 22, 2006 from either the official homepage here or our various download partners such as FilePlanet, CNET Download.com, and GamersHell.

•  04/19/2006

Hey everyone,

Thanks for supporting us in our community forums and I hope that you guys may continue to stop by regularly.

Space Cowboy Online is still expected to be released in May 2006, but the original planned date for the game launch will be slightly delayed to provide the best service for our players when the game is available.

We apologize for the unexpected change in schedule and stay posted for a final release date.

Thanks again for all the support.

•  04/12/2006

Welcome to the Official Website for Space Cowboy Online. Please bookmark this site, as it will provide accurate and up to date information about the game status, and announcements about upcoming events and further notices.

The game server is scheduled to be up in May 2006. During the meantime, feel free to navigate around the website and the Community Forums. Stay posted for more upcoming announcements soon!