Added/Changed

• Added Shipyard concept: Now players must build a Shipyard before building any units in a planet, slowing down military development and making new colonies less useful. There's also now icons to indicate colonies you control that have shipyards, both in the colonies and systems
• Major performance boost
• Added Autopause when combat starts combat option
• Added Total War mode: Diplomacy is disabled and every faction is at war with each other from the start
• Added new events during colonization and invasion
• Added Fleets tab in Ships & Designs menu
• Improved Governors AI and AI factions colony management
• It's now possible to order colonies to enable the governor AI to take over Infrastructure development, and set the AI's priorities
• Added Auto Survey, Auto Mine and Auto Colonize options for units
• It's now possible to rename your colonies
• Added visual indicator in galaxy view to indicate where a battle is occuring, a unit is attacking, under attack or a colony is under siege
• Replaced old"move up and down" system in research queue for a Drag&Drop system
• Added tooltips to resources colonies are selling and ships are trading
• Added in some optimizations
• Added Reinforced Stations technology
• Revamped "Controlled" tab in Planets&Colonies menu, to have more info at a glance, including progress on each infrastructure type, and is quicker and not as CPU taxing to navigate as before
• It's now possible to change the order of the ships being built in the planet menu
• Rebalanced colony production and manpower, making newly colonized planets much slower to develop while newer ones develop much faster
• It's now no longer possible to colonize Gas planets unless it's your faction ideal planet type or you research the Air Recycling technology
• Rebalanced levels of each infrastructure type, so latter levels take much longer to develop
• AI has been tweaked to be slightly more aggressive
• Added "Stopped" text when building a ship and colony is under siege
• Trading now gives much bigger relations bonuses
• Tweaked AI to be slightly less inclined to like other factions if they signed a non aggression pact with factions they like
• Resources we are only buying but not producing now can't be sold
• Adjust AI to value promises more and offer more in exchange for them, specially peace and war
• A colony with a different planet type from it's owner race's ideal will now also affect growth rate, lowering by 20%
• Reduced the chance of a random event popping up
• Industry Infrastructure now increases Productivity by 0.3
• Added shadows to certain UI elements
• AI now offers more money and influence when selling artifacts and technologies
• Added Air Recycling technology
• Pirates now start with a fleet and are more aggressive militarily
• Newly created factions now won't generate a station in the newly occupied planet
• Military Infrastructure now provides a bonus of 400 to stations HP
• Added text in Proposal screen to indicate a player doesn't own colonies, artifacts or has technologies to share
• Improved performance in screens in which race models are displayed
• Rebalanced stations to have a possible maximum of 3, but being able to reinforce their HP with a newly introduced technology
• Offer gift and offer tech to minor races is now much cheaper
• Population grows slower now
• Xenophobes trait now makes AI controlled factions dislike other races
• Infrastructure development levels now show their maximum level in the alert
• Drekko Order now have the Xenophobic trait instead of Lonely Nature trait
• Tweaked AI to be more likely to try to get together with other players using promises to destroy a common enemy
• Balanced Traits points when creating or editing a custom race to have +2 points at startup instead of just +1
• Updated tutorials
• Shipyard menu renamed Ships & Designs to avoid confusion with the Shipyard colony improvement
• Changed order of game creations menu, max players in a game is now set by how the galaxy size. Games in Huge galaxies now support up to 15 players and big galaxies support 13
• Scholar trait now brings a bonus of +1 to max research instead of +2
• Added Right Mouse button and Escape key shortcuts to Custom Races and Game Creation menus
• Pirate offers are now less frequent
• AI now uses tech and artifacts to negotiate certain deals

Fixed

• Fixed Research Production being stuck when player owned resources and other bonuses that improved max research
• Fixed ships getting stuck at the end of waypoints after loading a game
• Fixed potential memory leak
• Fix ships list and build list in planet menu breaking
• Fixed victory condition lines in Emperor log still showing stats even if they have been finished
• Fixed total wars counter not working correctly leading to consequences like loss of Prosperity
• Fixed Minor Races button not being hidden when units or stars are selected
• Fixed quitting to windows taking a lot of time and sometimes even freezing or crashing
• Fixed units going off lanes when chasing enemies who are moving to another system
• Fixed invading a planet and it still showing as being owned by previous owner
• Fixed galaxy graphics flickering and cuts
• Fixed bug in which a space monster would be generated in a non-existent system, generating errors that would be cause heavy CPU and memory use
• Fixed bug in which a space monster would be generated in a non-existent system, generating errors that would be cause heavy CPU and memory use
• Fixed instance in which all UI buttons would stop working due to a script breaking
• Fixed notifications and and main UI panels being positioned over a menu when it's open when a notification expired
• Fixed submission tribute showing as negative in some cases in Finances menu
• Fixed starting homeplanet starting with negative planet traits
• Fixed Pirate homeworlds starting with very little population, making them weaker
• Fixed rebellions popping up in pirate controlled planets
• Fixed AI letting colony ships in the same place if moved to a system they want to colonize but discover someone else is colonizing
• Fixed AI trade ships buying more than one resource at a time
• Fixed AI not ordering their Expedition ships to colonize
• Fixed AI destroying their expedition ships right after loading a game, thus being defeated right at the start
• Fixed AI destroying their expedition ships right after loading a game, thus being defeated right at the start