What’s new in Nexum since 9 October
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YOUR ACCOUNT AND CHARACTERS
Share settings across your characters (5.16) — with more than one character linked to your account, one switch in the character menu makes them all use the same settings: closest systems, map and display options, sidebar layout, notifications and the rest. Jump skills stay per character, since one pilot’s skills would give another the wrong range and fuel. A change on one character shows up on the others straight away, even in tabs you already have open. Off by default.
Install Nexum as an app (5.16) — on Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers, “Install as app” in the character menu gives Nexum its own window and its own icon in your dock, Start menu or taskbar. Same Nexum, no browser tabs or address bar around it, and alt-tab lands straight on the map.
Set destination for all your characters (5.12) — send a destination or waypoint to every online character on your account at once, or pick which ones. Each plots its own route from wherever it is.
Settings follow you live (5.16) — change a setting and your other open tabs and devices pick it up immediately, instead of on the next reload.
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THE MAP
Region borders (5.5) — turn on “Show Region Borders” and any system with a stargate into another region gets a small tag naming it, so you can see where a chain lets you cross into Providence, Curse or anywhere else without adding the neighbouring system. Off by default.
Kill counts on the map (5.12) — systems with player kills in the last 24 hours show the number beside the sword: bright if there’s been fighting this hour, dimmed if it was earlier in the day. Wormhole space included.
Map history (5.12) — every change to a map is recorded with who made it: systems, connections, signatures, chains, settings, sharing and merges. Owners and admins can read the last 30 days from the map sidebar.
Full map backups (5.11) — Export as JSON now saves the whole chain: systems with their notes, labels, intel and tags; every connection with its type, size, mass, time status and flags; and signatures (still linked to their holes), anomalies and structures. Importing it gives you an exact copy of the map that you own.
Dotted grid (5.15) — Snap to Grid can show dots instead of lines. The dots sit exactly on the snap points, so you can see where a system will land.
Hide shared maps you don’t use (5.4) — a map shared with your whole corp or alliance can be hidden from your own list without taking it away from everyone else. It sticks to your account, and the same menu puts it back. Owners can see how many people have hidden a map, so an unused share stands out from one nobody received.
Sync that respects map type (5.8) — signatures and anomalies only copy between maps of the same kind: personal with personal, corp with that corp’s maps, alliance with that alliance’s maps. Corp and alliance maps have their own sync switch, and personal map sync now includes your alts’ personal maps.
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SCANNING AND SIGNATURES
Bookmark name copied after a jump (5.12) — when a jump fills in where a hole leads, its bookmark name goes on your clipboard, ready to paste in game. If you’re in the client at the time, it’s copied the moment you click back into Nexum.
Separate bookmark format for K162s (5.14) — an optional outbound format used only for K162s, both from the copy button and in the copy after a jump. Leave it empty and nothing changes.
Aliases everywhere (5.6) — the {leads_to} part of your bookmark format uses a system’s alias when it has one, and the Route Planner finds systems by alias as well as by name.
Signature filter shows only what matters (5.15) — filter the list by type and the columns that type doesn’t use are hidden: no Leads to or State on relic, data, combat, ore and gas; no Safe on wormholes.
Two ways to remove a connection (5.14) — “Remove connection and signatures” clears the linked signatures too, so you don’t have to delete them from the scan list by hand. “Remove connection only” leaves them be.
Wormhole data straight from CCP (5.13) — every wormhole’s mass per jump, total mass and lifetime now comes from CCP’s own game data, the figures the game actually enforces, so it stays right after a rebalance.
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INTEL AND AWARENESS
D-scan analyser (5.10) — paste a directional scan or a list of pilots from local and get an instant breakdown, plus a link anyone can open for 24 hours. No login needed.
• D-scan — ships grouped by class and hull, an on grid / off grid filter, structures and deployables with their distance, and total hull mass on scan.
• Local — pilots grouped by alliance and corporation.
• On your map — open it from the map with a system selected and you can attach the scan to that system, where everyone on the map can see it.
PvP activity panel (5.11, 5.12) — shows when a system usually sees fights: 24 bars from now to a day ahead, each coloured by how busy that hour usually is on that day of the week, from zKillboard’s last 90 days. It names the busiest hour coming up and counts kills in the last 24 hours. Shown in your own timezone, or EVE time if you prefer. Works in J-space.
A much better zKillboard panel (5.12, 5.13) — kills are tagged when they happened on a gate or involved a HIC, dictor or smartbomb, plus zKillboard’s own labels: solo, ganked, awox, padding, NPC. Choose the last hour, day or week, or switch to Whole map to see kills from every system on your chain at once.
Kill and end-of-life alerts (5.12) — desktop and sound notifications for kills on your chain (all, or special kills only) and for holes going end of life. Other alerts repeat less: exit alerts only fire for new wormhole exits, and watchlist matches alert once per map.
Sov ADM and vulnerability (5.12) — the Sovereignty section shows the hub’s ADM and when it’s next vulnerable.
Activity charts in step with CCP (5.13) — CCP publishes each system’s hourly jumps and kills on its own schedule. Nexum now picks each hour up within a minute or two of it appearing, and labels every point with the hour it really covers.
Closest Systems across maps (5.4) — distances already used every map you can see. Each wormhole hop now names the map it came from, and a toggle limits it to the map you have open.
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FOR CORPS AND ALLIANCES
More Discord alerts (5.12) — admins can post special kills (capitals, 1B+ ISK, dictor/HIC, smartbomb) to their own webhook, along with holes going end of life and new Thera and Turnur holes.
Your logo on Nexum (5.7) — instances run for a corp or alliance show its logo on the front page and next to the Nexum logo in the toolbar.
Dutch (5.3) — the whole interface, help guide and comparison page. That makes ten languages.
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FOR SELF-HOSTERS
• Backups for several instances (5.8) — the backup script takes each instance’s compose directory, keeps the last 7 backups per instance in their own folder, and carries on if one fails. Neither script needs a .env any more.
• CERT_RESOLVER (5.13) — choose which Traefik certificate resolver Nexum uses, for a Traefik shared with other sites.
• WWW_REDIRECT=0 (5.13) — leave out the www redirect for an instance served from a subdomain.
• Database defaults (5.7) — a fresh Docker install no longer needs PG_DB / PG_USER set.
All optional; an existing setup needs no changes.
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