Slitherine

Crash Fixes



• Fixed occasional crash when independent space port scrapped ships.
  
• Fixed occasional crash when assigning pirate ship missions.
  
• Fixed crash when reviewing system threats.
  
• Fixed rare crash when invade colonies.
  
• Fixed rare crash when disbanding troops.
  

Ship and Fleet Behavior



• Military ships no longer jump out of a system to pursue escaping enemies
  unless manually ordered to do so.
  
• Ships no longer flee from disabled threats (e.g. threat is non-functional, OR
  cannot move and is out of weapons range, OR has no weapons or fighters).
  
• Automated military ships now better at prioritizing which mining stations to
  patrol, more importance given to fuel sources.
  
• Manually controlled fleets now automatically refuel as needed if a refuel
  location is in the same system.
  
• AI fleets more careful about invading colonies with adequate attacking troops.
  
• Changed fleet posture setting: for the AI to alter the posture of a fleet both the
  following conditions must be met: Fleet Formation is automated AND the
  fleet itself is automated.
  
• Fixed situation where gain control over an enemy fleet when you gain some of
  the fleet's ships when taking over a spaceport where they are retrofitting.
  
• Freighters no longer attempt to dock at unfinished space ports, but instead at
  the colony.
  
• Queuing construction ships to build new mining stations and other bases using
  Action buttons now works better: idle construction ships are given much
  higher priority when selecting which construction ship to use.
  

Designs and Retrofitting



• Adjusted some default AI ship designs (e.g. mining ships): added energy
  collectors, more engines.
  
• Ensured that AI base designs always have armor.
  
• Increased number of mining components on default AI mining station designs
  from one to two.
  
• Increased number of construction yards on default space port designs by 50%
  
• Fixed problem where energy requirements were sometimes not being
  calculated correctly for new ship and base designs.
  
• AI retrofits now upgrade space port sizes when appropriate (e.g. small to
  medium, medium to large).
  
• Fixed problem where retrofitting a ship or base with damaged components
  would cause components to be lost.
  

Victory Conditions and Game Balance



• Altered default victory conditions settings: territory, population, economy
  now all 33%. Default Time To Apply = 20 years (up from 10).
  
• Altered default pirate proximity for new games to Average (was Nearby).
  
• Fixed bug for the Boskara race victory condition "Control the most
  Homeworlds" (was not including defeated empires when counting
  homeworlds).
  
• Increased costs for some pirate offers: independent colonies now 20000 (up
  from 5000), special discoveries now 30000 (up from 10000).
  
• Ensure player always has nearby supply of Caslon fuel at game start.
  
• SilverMist space creature is prioritized as bigger threat by the AI.
  

User Interface



• Increased font size for project descriptions in Research screen.
  
• Improved description of Intelligence Agent traits Sober and Addict to explain
  that these apply their bonuses only when the character already has the relevant
  skills.
  
• Now refresh selected empire information in Diplomacy screen when close
  conversation window.
  

General Bug Fixes



• Fixed bug where could not build bases that are over construction size limit at
  colonies.
  
• Fixed issue where some ruins could not be investigated.
  
• Fixed bug where destroyed planets were sometimes not properly removed
  from galaxy.
  
• Fixed bug where characters on ships that you take over remain in their
  original empire.
  
• Fixed bug where foreign characters (e.g. invading general of another empire)
  were being assigned to the winning invading empire when the colony is taken
  over.
  
• Fixed rare bug where a unique asteroid field comprised of barren rock planets
  would appear.
  

Other



• Increased damage to troops from bombardment.
  
• Allow placement of resort bases in the game editor at non-planet locations.
  
• Reduced memory consumption when have many characters, especially in
  custom themes with unique character images.
  

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Increased damage to troops from bombardment.
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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Yes, this will work fine with older saved games, though some of the improvements will take time to show up and some may require a new game for full effect.

Regards,

- Erik

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ORIGINAL: adamsolo
Civilian ships disappear from map at higher zoom levels in v1.7.0.7
Anyone else has seen this?

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ORIGINAL: elliotg

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ORIGINAL: adamsolo
Civilian ships disappear from map at higher zoom levels in v1.7.0.7
Anyone else has seen this?

This is controlled by a setting in the Options screen > Advanced Settings. The "Galaxy View - Ship Display" panel allows you to toggle different ship types on/off when zoomed out to reduce clutter. So you can turn on civilian ships if you like.

This feature has been in the game since original DW

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ORIGINAL: Gandalf
How about a fix for the Multi - Resource + Caslon gas giant planet(s) which occurs when a fleet refuels at such a place and of course drains the Caslon for refuel but the resulting storage deficit is then refilled by the gas mining station with a mixture of ALL the different gas resources instead of just the removed Caslon. Over time this renders this particular station useless for refueling.

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ORIGINAL: elliotg

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ORIGINAL: Gandalf
How about a fix for the Multi - Resource + Caslon gas giant planet(s) which occurs when a fleet refuels at such a place and of course drains the Caslon for refuel but the resulting storage deficit is then refilled by the gas mining station with a mixture of ALL the different gas resources instead of just the removed Caslon. Over time this renders this particular station useless for refueling.

Mining stations already handle this: when they fill up they will check whether they need to dump resources to allow a better fill of fuel.

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ORIGINAL: Evil Steve

my antivirus just detected SmallTroj.ZPLV in DistantWorlds.exe for 1.7.0.7???? false positive?