Unending Galaxy. Deluxe Edition v1.3.1.2

New
Opening the build station menu also opens the sector info panel
Sector info panel: Clicking the faction's flag open the diplomacy menu

Improvements
Slightly increased 'request tribute' diplomatic option cooldown
Destroying stations, factories, gates in a territory you have an alliance/cease fire with has a bigger diplomatic impact
Tribute formula tweaked removed randomness, takes player's treachery level, relative strength, distance, treaties into account

Bug Fixes
Added warning message when player is using a faction mod on top of a savegame not running the mod
Fixed: Possible menu opening/closing related crash
Fixed: Possible quicksave/autosave related crash
Fixed: Smaller misc problems


Changelog

New
Added "Unruly Galaxy" map
Added" Diplomatic Incident" event

Improvements
Civilian miners numbers adjust based on the amount of asteroids
Doubled pathfinder's performances
Reduced max "we are at peace" diplomatic bonus from 50% to 30%

Bug Fixes
Miners squatting on top of stations when there's no asteroid on the map
Transparency issues with a blue planet and a backdrop

Hotpatch 1

+ Fixed: Menu crash with animated ships (apologies)



Graphics

+ Fluid object rotations on both the map and standard view

+ Shields are shaped and rotate like their owners

+ Added animation to Helios, Charon, Hades, Fenrir and Cerberus ships

+ Added animation to Swarm Queens and Gargants

+ Asteroids are spawned randomly rotated

+ Changed sprite for Swarm Queens and Gargants bullets



Modding

+ Ships can be animated



Performances / Code Stuff

+ Much shorter initial loading time

+ Smaller memory footprint (both RAM and VRAM)

+ Rotating objects can be animated now



User Interface

+ Removed rotation quality setting (obsolete)



Bug Fixes

+ Fixed: Ships 'twitching' from a rotation angle to another when facing a direction

+ Fixed: Weird looking gate rotations

+ Fixed: Rifts aren't rotating like gates

+ Fixed: Can't take over system sectors if those aren't a planet or a sun

+ Fixed: Sirak faction had the raider tag causing relationship issues

Faction AI

+ Better allocation of money

+ Better at detecting and responding to building of military bases in territory

+ Allied factions can defend each other against invasions.



Balance

+ Shipyard Build time proportional to ship value

+ Bounties proportional to military strength

+ AI Core gains the "fast shipyards" trait

+ Added "armored" ship tag: hull absorbs 50% of damage

+ Increased colony building time x10 (takes a few minutes instead of seconds)

+ Large shield systems need a longer period of time before being able to charge after a hit

+ Killing a carrier will deactivate all its drones

+ Missiles stop tracking target after 50% of their total lifespan

+ Ceridan (AI) get more money on spawn so production isn't crippled



Gameplay

+ You can now play as any in-game faction

+ Ships are using a tag system to determine how the simulation is going to use them

+ Military bases and carriers use drones instead of fighters.

+ Drones can't be piloted directly and come with preset weaponry

+ New faction trait "fast shipyards" : 20% faster ship production

+ SPQR has gates closed to non allies until the SPQR related event fires

+ Pirates use more ships

+ Warpgates can be destroyed

+ Small chance of spawning capital class raiders and bounty hunter after an hour of gameplay

+ You set various policies for your faction to follow

+ Claiming all sun/planets in a system will convert *empty* sectors even if already owned by other faction



Game Data

+ Weapons fire rate reduced, damage increased (keeping roughly same DPS)

+ Rebalanced weapon prices, damages and energy consumption

+ Rebalanced stats of most ships, too many changes to list

+ Reduced most missiles flight time and turn rate

+ Added many drone variants for each tech group

+ Added corvette class ships for all factions

+ Drath : new dreadnought and armored cargo

+ Federation : new dreadnought and changes to existing ships

+ Siraks : new dreadnought, new corvette, and replaced frigate

+ AI Core: new assault cruiser, old cruiser become a frigate

+ Slightly reduced AI Core shield stats to make up for increased production



Graphics

+ Higher quality sprites for the Siraks

+ Resized many ships

+ Replaced a few sprites by better looking ones

+ Improved ceridan battleship sprite (added border, reworked glow)

+ Newly built docks fade in instead of popping

+ Replaced AI Core cargo ship sprite by better looking one

+ Replaced SPQR frigate ship by larger one, old one reused as corvette

+ Added colored flags



Modding Tools

+ Improved ship and weapon editors (filters, list, stats)

+ Improved faction editor (additional flags)

+ Included file format conversion tool for modders

+ Added option to auto set weapon prices (approximate)



Performances / Code Stuff

+ Improved performances all around in a major way

+ Much faster savegame loading (3-4x faster)

+ Ship order management should use less CPU cycles

+ Ship order managers no longer continuously get and free memory

+ Addition and deletion of objects optimized

+ Large fleet battle should run better thanks to less bullets

+ Killing a carrier ship no longer use way too many CPU cycles

+ Misc stability related improvements

+ Game can recognize outdated, unusable savegames (and warn you about it)

+ Save system error correction mechanism improved

+ Reduced CPU cost of scavengers

+ Some new functions added to debug/cheat menu

+ Removed useless cargo component from asteroids saving ram, disk space



User Interface

+ Manual money transactions, colony and dock building no longer need funds to be in specific accounts to work

+ Click home-base in ship scan to center camera on it

+ Small improvements to shipyard build queue

+ Added command to sell all cargo in Ship Setup menu, with optional notification

+ Move Cargo menu is larger

+ Improved New Game menu layout

+ Added option to filter out drones from asset list (default)

+ Double click on player owned ships/docks will open relevant setup menu

+ Check-boxes are easier to read

+ Changed confirmation sound for trade and guild operations to something more "money-ish"



Bug Fixes

+ Fixed: Game freezing due to memory management (usually in large / long games)

+ Fixed: Game crash due to sound library

+ Fixed: Free traders trying to sell to hostile factions

+ Fixed: Potential issue in cache system which could cause the game to slow down and crash

+ Fixed: Money management wasn't thread safe

+ Fixed: Carriers able to auto build their own drones would ignore manual ship type selection

+ Fixed: Minor display bug in colony build menu

+ Fixed: Minor display bug in station setup menu if player is using a transparent logo

+ Fixed: "My Assets" map filter is counting bullets in currently focused sector

+ Fixed: It was possible to click game editor button while database is still loading [modding tools]

+ Fixed: Saving weapon in editor doesn't auto update ware [modding tools]

+ Fixed: Updating ware data in weapon editor delete ware's picture [modding tools]

+ Fixed: FPS counter obstructed by money widget

+ Fixed: Small issue with ships calling for help

+ Fixed: Station destroyed with a carrier docked to it would cause problems

+ Fixed: Rare bug where the pirate guild would ask for way more money than necessary

+ Fixed: Galactic map would show gates that are closed to you

+ Fixed: ships escorting raiders could still call police for help causing relationship issues

+ Fixed: Rare case of ship/object duplication

+ Fixed: When spawning, ceridan could (temporarily) declare war to self, locking military fleet in place

+ Fixed: Ships visible in unexplored sectors when fog of war is disabled

+ Fixed: Crash when reloading database [modding tools]

+ Fixed: Used TreeViewItem instead of Listboxitem in dockmenu (may or may not cause a display glitch)

+ Fixed: AI Core couldn't build colonies on non capital icy and oceanic planets

+ Fixed: Some issues with tech group selection

+ Fixed: Fixed color of some clouds on Imperium map

+ Fixed: Map descriptions aren't accurate regarding size

+ Fixed: Shield and weapon info popup not closing up on mouse leaving area

+ Fixed: Closing dock menu while popup is open wouldn't close the popup

+ Fixed: Saves messing up hangar assignments on rare occasions

+ Fixed: Derelict and refitted derelict carriers had the exact same name

+ Fixed: Trade operations not changing left panel info in dock menu

+ Fixed: Trade menu not refreshing properly on some OS / config (windows 10)

+ Fixed: Misc pirate guild menu issues