Stars in Shadow + DLC Legacies 38647

The "Disable Arrow Panning" option should now work properly during AI turns.

Update v38646:
Gameplay Additions and Changes
It is now possible to pan the map during AI turns. If you find that this negatively impacts performance on slower graphics cards, this feature can be disabled by turning on the Simplified Graphics option.
Added option "AI Turn Zooming" that additionally allows map zooming during AI turns. This optional feature may impact performance on some machines, so it is disabled by default.
It is now possible to reverse engineer captured starships at any time, rather than only when you first capture them.
Human missile cruisers now have 1 size 3 Torpedo mount (up from 2 size 1 mounts).
Added a new UI option to the Options pane: 'Capitalize Outpost Names'. The names of star systems with only an Outpost (and not a colony) are normally displayed on the map in lowercase to differentiate them from other systems; this option disables this.
In the Galactic Council, AIs will no longer vote for allied empires if those empires have fleets that they judge to be weaker than their own.
Starting a war should now implicitly cancel all outstanding diplomatic requests between the two warring empires.
Captured stations around planets destroyed by bombardment will now be destroyed when the planet's population is destroyed.

Fixes
In tactical combat, it should no longer be possible to issue a move order to a ship that is still in the process of exploding.
Fix for a bug that could prevent mercenary ships from being properly captured.
Refitting a military transport to a design that lacks transport space should no longer cause an error.
Fix for an error that could be triggered by rushing a ship's production, then changing the underlying design.
Some 'End turn' and 'Load Game' UI transitions should be smoother.
Refitting a station that contains habitat modules will no longer cause any population living in those modules to disappear.
Workaround for a bug caused by destroyed Marauder companies that controlled captured outposts.
Ships should no longer choose hyperspace anomalies as possible retreat destinations.
Fix for a bug triggered by scuttling captured stations.
Fix for a rare bug that could case crashes inside the AI research logic.
Fix for a bug that could cause ship hulls from different races to share construction progress.
The "demand you stop trading with our enemies" event now has a cooldown to prevent excessive repeated demands.

Fixes
Fix for a rare bug that could cause multiple splinter colonies to spawn on the same planet.
Fix for a bug that could occur when colonizing a planet with an existing outpost.
Fix for a bug that could cause an uncompleted battle to be treated as a stalemate.
Fix for a bug in the AI end turn logic.
Fix for a naming error in planetary bombardment reports.
Fix for a formatting error in the empire annexation report.
Fix for a bug in the logic for tracking tinkers' Dzibix connection state.
Attempted fix for a rare 'invalid bombardment request' bug.
Fixes for bugs that could cause an 'error in the food shortage report' warning.
Fixes for assorted typos in the in-game text.
Fix for a rare bug in the AI fleet routing code.
Fix for a UI glitch that could cause star names and territory outlines to not update immediately after territory changed hands.
Gameplay Changes
There is now a chance for Gremak to gain the option of annexing Marauder companies they're already in contact with.
'Marauder Weaponry' and 'Stupendous Energy Physics' can now always be reverse-engineered from captured ships.
Decreased the number of heavy weapons that can be mounted in most siege mounts from 3 to 2.
Increased the damage of Ion Artillery.
Increased the number of siege weapons that can be mounted on Dread Stars from 2 to 3.

Gameplay Changes and Additions
Gremak empires now receive additional resources when sacrificing slaves with Forced Labor and science Experiments.
Added the Gremak-exclusive 'Chattel Pharmaceuticals' technology, which improves Forced Labor yields and Slave experiments yields.
Increased the starting population of Gremal by +1 Enfi.
Assault marines and Marauder raiders now have a base combat power of 1.5 (up from 1.0).
Algorians and Lummox native population can now be enslaved and Harmonized.
Capped marauder bribe costs so that larger player empires are not asked for absurd tribute levels.
Marauders will now be less easily threatened into forming trade relations with you.
Trade ship and mercenary recall times will now scale with your empire's drive technology.
Annexing an ally will now give you access to all their technologies and ship designs.
It should no longer be possible to salvage or reverse engineer ship technologies if those technologies do not appear in your tech tree.
Annexed empires will now also contribute trade ships and transports to their new empire.
Androids now have higher population caps on Barren worlds.
Taking control of a planet with Androids will now unlock the 'Androids' technology.
Ships may now repair or use instant refit if appropriate allied infrastructure exists in the system.
Retreating ships may no longer "retreat" towards the system they're leaving.
Increased the tactical speed of Ashdar Battlecruisers and Fleet Carriers.
Removed one system slot from the Ashdar Fleet Carrier, and decreased its upkeep costs.
Removed one system slot from the Gremak Assault Carrier.
Understaffing penalties now apply to bonus production from special resources (affects Artifacts, Opil, Gems, Super Grain, and Precious Metals).

Economy Changes and Additions
Factions now receive a base income of 10 coins/turn.
Increased ship upkeep costs.
Reduced ship refit costs.
Reduced foreign trade route income from 3 coins to 2 coins.
Foreign trade routes now provide less income per route for additional trade treaties after the first.
Each empire can now have no more than 1 foreign trade route for every 2 domestic trade routes.
Humans now receive a 50% discount on ship upkeep costs.
Increased Torpedo Destroyer upkeep costs.
Reduced the amount of trade capacity provided by markets from 2/4/6 to 1/2/3.
City planning no longer benefits races that do not consume food.
Overcrowded population no longer contribute to resource production or improvement staffing.
Discontent population and Viscids no longer contribute to improvement staffing.
Tinker mobile stations no longer have 0 upkeep when not deployed in orbit.
Outposts no longer increase your empire's trade capacity.
Increased Market understaffing penalties.
Doubled the capacity of the Ashdar Missile Cruiser's Torpedo hardpoints.
Yoral Torpedo Destroyers now have 3 Torpedo hardpoints (reduced from 4).
Increased the upkeep costs of Ashdar and Gremak Light Cruisers.
Stations orbiting a settled colony now never cost upkeep.
Outposts in orbit of unsettled planets now do cost upkeep.
Reduced the influence costs to hire mercenaries.
Increased the build costs of Stargates.

UI Changes and Additions
The "Raider Activity" selection in the Map Settings screen the now also affects the number of Pirates/Marauders/Harpies present at the start of the game. "High" represents the pre-patch raider density; "Low" reduces that by about half, and "None" removes raiders entirely from map generation. Note that Arda Seed units will still spawn in Hyperspace Anomalies even on the "None" setting.
A warning icon will now appear over understaffed improvements.
Crew bonuses from a designs pre-loaded ground units should now be better reflected in the UIs.
It is now possible to pre-load assault shuttles using any ground unit type.
Fixed the coloring of Tinkers ground units.
Added a warning to save games that were started with a significantly older game version than the current one.

AI and Difficulty Changes and Additions
Reduced player starting improvements on 'Brutal'.
Reduced AI research advantages on 'Brutal' and 'Hard'.
Removed AI coin production bonuses from 'Normal' and 'Easy'.
Adjusted the AI's aggressiveness in certain situations.
Adjustments to AI behaviors and advantages on Hard/Brutal difficulties.
Updates to AI ship refitting behaviors.
Updates to AI report handling internals.
AI controlled fleets are now significantly less likely to retreat.
Ships controlled by the player and set to "autocombat" should now be less likely to retreat.
Increased the chances of allied empires choosing to merge over time.
Various changes to AI behaviors and advantages.
Expanding into an AI's territory using mobile stations will now trigger appropriate diplomatic consequences.
AIs should be less likely to start new wars immediately after making peace.
Allies should no longer request that you abstain from colonizing planets.
Improved AI fleet management.
AI factions should now be less likely to join wars between other factions.
AI empires should now sometimes hire mercenaries.
Increased AI priorities for researching and building markets.
AI factions should once again favor placing assault shuttles in ships with the "Berth" hardpoint.
If you refuse an ally's offer to help in a war, they should wait at least 10 turns before offering to help again.

Fixes
Fix for a bug that could cause transports from destroyed empires to wander the map endlessly.
Fix for a memory leak that could cause slowdowns over longer games.
The allied settlers event should no longer cause a bug if the allied empire is annexed or destroyed during the turn.
Fix for a formatting error when designing planetary defenses.
Fix for a bug that was causing unruly races to fight on both sides of a planetary uprising.
Fix for a bug that could cause the AI to simultaneously declare war and issue an ultimatum.
Fix for a bug that was preventing AIs from attacking minor factions and rebels.
Fix for a bug in the calculation of free population transport ships.
Corrected a UI glitch that caused planetary defenses to show incorrect upkeep values.
Wiping out a planet via planetary bombardment should no longer cause fleet control UI glitches.
Fix for a bug in the logic for setting up colonize intervention battles.
Another fix for a bug that could lead to "error in the food shortage report formatter" warnings.
Workaround for a driver bug that could cause a hang while starting the game on a secondary monitor.
Fixes for bugs that could lead to "error in the food shortage report formatter" warnings.
Attempted fix for a rare bug triggered by annexing empires.
Fix for a bug that could cause rushed ship production projects to be cancelled.
Refusing to cede a planet to a faction you're at war with should no longer cause an error.
The "Build Outpost" banner should no longer appear over planets that are under attack.

Changes and Additions
The Herald of the Arda Seed now tracks reputation with the player's faction, and available purchases are now dependent on reputation level.
Players may now purchase and discover Codexes, which unlock previously unavailable technologies for research.
The Tinkers' Bomber has been replaced by the Vindicator, which is an expendable multiple-warhead manned missile which can be launched from torpedo hardpoints as well as hangars.
Arda Seed Proteans will now use an offensive suicide attack after closing on enemy ships.
Added five new achievments related to the Legacies DLC.
The mining activity now provides +50% output per mine (up from +33%).
Earthquake random events are now limited to destroying at most 2 improvements.
Added the 'minerals discovery' random event.
Added the 'artifacts discovery' random event.
Increased Market Coin production from 4/7/12 to 5/10/15.
Increased second and third tier Factory Labor production.
Adjusted Dread Star production costs.
Added a 'hostile environment' upkeep cost for colonies in harsh environments. This new mechanic is suppressed in any game started prior to r21718 so that it will not affect existing saves.
AI empires should be less likely to choose to colonize hostile environment worlds.
Marauder factions should be less hostile to AI empires.
AI empires will now make use of outposts to extend range.
Increased the planetary bombardment power of carriers.
Fixes
Fix for a rare bug that could be triggered when Harpy fleets returned to their source HSA.
Losing a planet should now reliably resolve all pending construction complete warnings pertaining to that planet.
Fix for a bug caused by unresolved attacks against fleets belonging to a defeated empire.
Fixes for bugs that could be triggered by refitting ships while in the process of issuing a move order.
Fix for a production display bug affecting planets with space habitats.

Changes and Additions
* Added new tactical background art for battles at Hyperspace Anomalies.
* Added the Herald battlecruiser-class unit for the Arda Seed. The Herald will now use this instead of a Mediator.
* Changed the behavior of Star Harpy swarm events: swarms are reduced on Easy difficulty, and Harpies will not attack planets.
* Added several new Arda Seed-specific ship components.
* Updated background art for the Tinkers leaders.
* Bombers and Strike Fighters now carry regular missiles instead of torpedoes.
* When scrapping a factory on a colony that has both factories and machine altars, factories are always scrapped before machine altars.
* Mobile Bases and Asteroid Outposts now have specific description text.

Fixes
* Fix for an error affecting certain Intel Iris graphics drivers.
* Fix for a rare bug that could be triggered by rendering certain text strings (Juggernaut bug).
* Fix for a display bug in the planet production info panes.
* Fix for a layout problem in the planet production info panes; long colonist names should no longer overlap resource yields.
* Fix for a bug that was preventing declaration of war notifications from appearing.
* Fixes for some in game text errors (missing tooltips, etc.).
* Fix for a bug that could be caused by allying with a player with access to hyperspace anomalies.
* Fix for a bug that could be caused by opening the fleet list pane while at a hyperspace anomaly.
* Fixed the on-click behaviors of the small icons in the agreement dialog panes.

* The technology tree view now has two additional zoom levels. Use the new zoom icon at upper right or the mousewheel to change zoom levels.
* Phidi, Algorians and Pell now have the 'Friendly' racial trait, which eliminates the "Alien Rulers" morale penalty.
* The shipbuilding cost discout provided by Shipyards no longer stacks (more than one Shipyard at a particular colony will provide no additional discout).
* Surplus food is now converted to coins at a rate of 1/4 (rounded down).
* Upkeep costs for all ground units have been halved.
* Upkeep costs for most ships have been increased.
* Upkeep costs for planet defenses greater than level 1 have been increased.
* Mercenary upkeep costs are now be visible in the mercenary hire overlay.
* Ground unit upkeeps now appear as a seperate item in the economic on-hover text.
* 'Subspace Networking' now reduces shipbuilding Labor costs by 25%, down from 50%.

Fixes

* Made tweaks to the DLL loading process to attempt to fix the "debug.dll too old" issue.
* Fix for a bug that was causing Tinkers and Androids to suffer the 'Alien Rulers' morale penalty.
* Opening and closing the tech pane should no longer reset the currently selected tech.
* Made tweaks to the GLSL compiler to improve compatibility with Linux/Wine. (Wine compatibility remains officially unsupported/experimental.)

Revamped the Loading and AI Turns wait animations, and made changes to the graphics library so that star/planet/map animations will continue in the background (instead of freezing) during wait times.
Revamped the Load/Save dialog.
Increased the base resource yields of most alien native populations.
Reduced the cost of Bombers by one-third.
Increased the cost of Strike Fighters and added Antimatter as a prerequisite for the Multirole Fighters tech.
Increased the cost of Heavy Railguns and halved damage.
Deflector screens now absorb 50% of kinetic weapons damage, while Battle shields now absorb 70%.
Decreased the damage of Neutron Beams.
Ashdar Colonials fighter squadrons now have one additional fighter per Hangar module.
Increased the damage of Pulson Launchers from 35 to 50.
The technology 'Energy Torpedoes' is now called 'Plasma Projectiles' and requires Plasma Focusing.
Increased the research costs of all late game technologies.
Adjusted the wording in various resource descriptions to help clarify the distinction between the resource names (Labor, Science, Coin, Metal, Food) and the associated activities (Production, Research, Trading, Mining, Farming).
Fixes

Fixed a bug in the tactical weapon selection UI that prevented the first item in a ship's weapon list from being consistently selected when selecting a ship.
Fixed a glitch in the planet farming/food description text.
Fixed a few description text errors.
Added new UI scaling rules for very high resolution monitors, and changes to avoid blurriness on high DPI monitors.
Made improvements to GoG Galaxy achievement/stat error handling.
Updated the Visual Studio runtime libraries to the 2017 versions.
The 'simplified graphics' rendering mode is now enabled by default for all Intel HD 3000 and Radeon HD 7800 Series cards.