Slitherine

CRASH FIXES

- fixed occasional crashes when click on some options in diplomacy screen
- fixed crash when load game with independent colony added via game editor
- fixed bug where loading a savegame with different galaxy dimensions while in another game would sometimes crash
- fixed rare crash when fleet loads troops
- fixed various other rare crashes


GAME BALANCE AND RESOURCES

- fixed problem where restricted resources were sometimes not being distributed properly
- improved resource transport and distribution by freighters
- rebalanced weapons damage to armor, especially when very high-tech armor
- reduced number and tech level of ships in debris fields
- increased minimum time between disaster events from 2 years to 4 years
- empire policy setting ImplementEnslavementWithPenalColonies always off by default for player empire


DIPLOMACY AND TERRITORY

- fixed Mining Rights so that no longer cause offense when building mining stations in same system as other empire's colonies
- fixed pirate alliances so that allied pirates do not attack your ships
- when attack pirates with an alliance, the alliance is automatically cancelled, allowing the pirates to attack you
- fixed slavery offense not being reset when no longer enslaving foreign race


MILITARY SHIPS AND FLEETS

- fixed occasional situations where unbuilt fleet ships were leaving construction yard before construction complete
- fixed issue where automated military ships were not checking whether within fuel range when moving to a system in response to threats
- fixed bug where fleets would occasionally head to top-left corner of galaxy when assign refuel mission using Action button
- fleets now exclude tiny star bases (e.g. former pirate bases) when considering where to retrofit or repair


RESEARCH AND SHIP DESIGN

- improved AI ship design to attempt to design cruisers and capital ships within current construction size limits
- fixed bug where critical research successes or failures would sometimes happen to queued research projects (i.e. not current project)
- fixed bug where AI would sometimes design monitoring stations without long range scanners


CHARACTERS

- cancel transfer of characters to a colony when it changes ownership - prevents your characters from becoming stranded at enemy colonies when they are taken over


USER INTERFACE

- add extra cycle option for D key: turn off shield bars
- fixed mouse cursor to make consistent and not revert to other cursors
- fixed inconsistent maintenance costs displayed in Designs screen, Design Detail screen and Ships and Bases screen
- fixed inconsistent values shown in diplomacy screen for attitude (factors did not always add up)
- fixed tooltips sometimes not appearing in Characters screen (Character skills and traits)
- updated system influence image to be properly centered
- updated some ship images to eliminate unwanted extra engine thrusters


MODDING

- fixed crash when have more than 22 ship sets in theme
- removed limits to design name families in designs.txt file (no longer 14)


OTHER

- tweaked undocking after refueling so that military ships will attack nearby threats sooner
- added logging to game startup to help diagnose startup crashes/problems, missing components, etc
- AI will now never disband troops on ships that are manually controlled
- fixed bug with calculations for race victory conditions of Oldest Mutual Defense Pact and Oldest Free Trade Agreement

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ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel

No mention of the horrible lag. Is there a confirmation that things are not right in this department?

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

I see nothing about the A.I freighter designs on a 15x15 map not having the fuel cells to transpot goods around the huge map and end up crawling half across the map on 0 fuel slowing the whole economy...I also think migration to new colonies needed a massive boost for passenger ship space as it takes to long to make new colonies relavent..Hopefully next.

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ORIGINAL: Whydmer

I have tried reloading, and I am logged into my Matrix store account.  I can try again later I guess

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

Awesome thanks for the fixes! Are these betas save game compatible?

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ORIGINAL: Bingeling

About save games gone.

DW creates a save folder with version number in the path. In the load dialog just go "up" and then enter the save folder for the previous version, your saves should be there.

It worked just fine at the first beta update, and appears to be the same here (my 1.701 saves are in the 1.7 folder since I did this the first time, it remembers your save location).

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- reduced number and tech level of ships in debris fields

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ORIGINAL: Locarnus
eg 15x15 single fuel cells have higher capacity then in 10x10 or smaller.
Just a factor for the fuel techs.

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76
I see nothing about the A.I freighter designs on a 15x15 map not having the fuel cells to transport goods around the huge map and end up crawling half across the map on 0 fuel slowing the whole economy...I also think migration to new colonies needed a massive boost for passenger ship space as it takes to long to make new colonies relevant..Hopefully next.

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka
Awesome thanks for the fixes! Are these betas save game compatible?

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ORIGINAL: Bingeling
I build some monitoring stations outside the Gizurean sphere, and the first thing when loading with new patch they offer to trade this for a disputed mining base. Their "border" has grown over time so my beacon is inside. They gave a decent deal too, but I love my beacon.