Starsector 0.8a

Starsector 0.8a

Hotfix (RC19), April 21, 2017

Campaign

• Trading/refitting at market will stop your fleet
• Reduced speed of REDACTED frigates by 30
• Salvage and surveying will not be prevented by nearby fleets that are fleeing, maintaining contact, or standing down

Miscellaneous:

• Added "enableSoundFilters" setting to settings.json

Bugfixing

• Fixed another similar load-game issue
• Fixed issue with being unable to learn multiple modspecs without reopening the cargo screen
• Fixed issue w/ autofit stripping out built-in weapons
• Fixed issue w/ post-combat recovery sometimes producing d-hulls with no d-mods
• Fixed neutral, abandoned stations showing transponder-related text on interaction
• Fixed issue with REDACTED sometimes not deploying all their reserves and making battle unwinnable
• Fixed issue with procurement mission occasionally making target market permanently non-interactive
• Fixed "show system info" from map not working when docked at market
• Right-click to drop picked up cargo stack works again

Hotfix (RC18), April 21, 2017

Bugfixing

• Fixed issue w/ "salvage ships" tutorial step not advancing properly sometimes
• Made "quick save" and other instructions in tutorial more prominent (flashing, larger font)
• Fixed issue with certain skill effects applying after points in the skill were spent and then refunded
• Fixed "strip" command removing d-mods from certain d-hulls
• Fixed issue with jar files from mods not loading
• Fixed "market info/trade" button being enabled on uninhabited planets
• Fixed occasional issue where a save could get into a state where it would not load
• Fixed a "Fatal: null" crash
• Equipped fighter wings now properly contribute to ship buy/sell cost
• Fixed course being laid in repeatedly for despawned derelict ship
• Fixed issue with patrol continuously interacting with player w/o asking to perform a scan
• Laying in course to a nebula from the system detail screen now works
• Sustained Burn will now work in-system when your fleet is out of fuel
• Skipping the tutorial after you've started one campaign no longer requires restarting the game
• Added missing % sign to "Command & Control" rank 2 description
• Fixed several other typos

Changes as of April 20, 2017

Campaign

• "Unidentified fleet" sensor contacts now use dashed gray/transparent circle indicator
• Hull Modspec items show a dimmed "display" area when hullmod is already known
• Changed markets to always have some hullmods for sale instead of a very small chance for each hullmod to be available
• Fleet screen: added "number of d-mods" indicator to each ship
• Made modspecs cheaper
• Bumped up XP for discovery and salvage
• Markets with fuel, supplies, and crew will have some on the open market even if there is unmet demand (i.e not required to use black market in this case)
• Reduced chance for phase ships to be found in smaller enemy fleets
• Small chance of a heavily-degraded Afflictor in pirate fleets (can easily be pressured/chased down by starter Wolf; runs out of peak time very quickly)
• Laid-in course now shown on map

Skills

• Added "reduces effect of d-mods" fleetwide effect to one of the industry skills
• Added "deployment cost reduction also applies to maintenance" industry skill effect
• Increased magnitude of "fewer d-mods on recovered ships" skill effect; now also affects own ships
• "Post-battle salvage" bonuses are now just overall salvage bonuses

Ships

• Paragon's Advanced Targeting Core modified to only add 50% range for PD weapons (still 100% for other weapons)
• Falcon: increased burn level to 9
• Tempest: increased Terminator drone speed, now armed with Ion Pulser

Miscellaneous

• Advanced combat tutorial: added mention of "hold fire" and "pull back fighters" controls
• Fleet command tutorial: revamped to match state of game; added "avoid" and "eliminate" order sections
• Stopped using roman numerals in ship names
• Logging on OS X: will now produce Contents/starsector.log, which gets overwritten with every game run

Bugfixing

• (Hopefully) fixed issue with possible repeated reputation drops from black-market trade on pirate markets
• Fixed Salamander missile AI not tracking phase ships the same way as normal missile AI
• Fixed bug where d-hull-modified deployment cost was only rounded for display and not consumption

Changes as of April 13, 2017

Campaign

• Planets with ruins will now have orbital junk, like regular markets (but no radio chatter)
• Person-bounty fleets now marked as "mission important" (i.e. will show indicator on map/campaign when visible)
• Can no longer scuttle, sell, or store the last ship in your fleet
• Control-clicking on a stack cargo to take or buy it will transfer just enough to fill up free capacity
  • Another ctrl-click will take the rest, if desired
  • Mostly meant to make topping off on fuel quick and easy
• Control-clicking cargo to sell/store/eject it will initially only transfer enough to put you at maximum capacity, if you're above it
  • Another click will transfer the rest
• Added slight base demand for fuel and supply to all markets (makes supplies/fuel more generally available)
• Fuel:
  • Reduced price to 25 credits (from 50)
  • Roughly doubled amount available
  • Increased proportion of fuel from salvage, battle salvage, and scuttling
  • Reduced ship fuel capacity, generally by around half
    • Cargo ships tend to have a bit more
    • Carriers a bit less
  • Overall goal is to encourage more casual exploration (cheaper, more abundant fuel) and open up a few more choices in fleet composition (how many/what types of tankers to use)
• Reduced cargo capacity somewhat, especially of combat ships above frigate level
  • A fleet with many larger ships is more likely to want to bring freighters along
  • A fleet with mostly frigates is largely unaffected compared to before
• Attempting to activate the transponder when doing so will make a faction hostile will bring up a confirmation dialog
• Scavenge ability:
  • Chance of an accident starts low and increases with subsequent operations in same debris field
  • As do the losses from an accident
• Updated sensor range calculation
  • One fleet's sensor profile is added to another fleet's sensor range to get the detection range
  • Skills/abilities/terrain etc still modify this combined range, as before
  • Ships contribute 30/60/90/150 to sensor strength and profile, based on ship size
    • Added to a base fleet strength/profile of 300
  • Only the 5 ships with the highest profile and strength are used, can be different set for each
  • Adjusted various related hullmods; of particular note:
    • High Resolution Sensors give a flat +60 to sensor strength
    • Phase Field sets the ship's profile to 0
  • Maximum sensor range indicator (to detect your fleet) now also shown when mousing over another fleet
  • Overall:
    • Slightly increased detection ranges, most impactful for smaller fleets
    • Easier-to-gauge impact of specific ships, since it's linear
• New inventory icons for fuel and supplies
• Added campaign tutorial:
  • Introduces major gameplay elements and goes through active abilities
  • High-level, involves doing a multi-stage mission to get out of new starting star system
  • Can be skipped; if skipped starts player with similar resources/standing as if they did it
• New game creation:
  • Added button to randomly generate a name
  • Added button to randomly a pick portrait
  • Re-did starting options
    • Starting ship: Wolf or Wayfarer
    • Second ship: Kite with officer, or Shepherd with heavy machinery
    • Difficulty: normal or easy
    • Tutorial: do or skip
  • Easy difficulty now:
    • Reduces damage taken by all ships on your side by 25%
    • Increases sensor range by 500
    • Increases all salvage (combat and non-combat) by 50%
• Added visual indicator for mission-important entities in campaign screen
• Added "survey planet" mission
• Turned off trade disruption condition for now (incentivizing the wrong things, current iteration not working design-wise)
• In-flight refit: adding weapons/hullmods will again reduce CR, but not below the malfunction threshold
  • Still makes outfitting recovered ships mostly free as they can't start with more CR than that
  • Prevents some potential exploits
• Improved fleet AI: computes better intercept point when pursuing another fleet
• Reduced use of Emergency Burn by AI fleets, especially during pursuit
• Running a salvage operation or scavenging will now bring your fleet to a stop
• Added UI indicators to debris fields to make them easier to spot
• Solar Shielding: modified description to mention that it also protects against hyperstorms
• Campaign music will now stop while surveying a planet or otherwise interacting with it
• Radar now shows hyperspace terrain (does not show any other kind of terrain)

Ships

• Shepherd:
  • Added Salvage Gantry as built-in hullmod; +10% potential salvage
  • Increased fuel capacity
• Paragon: reduced OP by 30, added built in "Advanced Targeting Core" - +100% weapon range

Miscellaneous

• Disabled buttons will now flash when they fail-to-be-activated using the shortcut key

Modding

• Added secondary faction color for fleet circle indicators
  • "secondaryUIColor":[<color>],
  • "secondarySegments":<integer>,
  • Only used by the fleet/station/entity/etc circles, nothing else
• Ship tooltip: non-phase cloak right-click systems will show "Special" instead of "Defense" and the proper system name
• reportBattleFinished() now properly called when battle ends, both for autoresolve and player battles

Bugfixing:

• Fixed Wolf collision radius (was smaller than shields, could cause limited collision detection problems)
• Fixed another campaign-game level memory leak

Changes as of March 23, 2017

Campaign

• Added several salvage-related themes for procedurally-generated star systems (e.g. "ruins", etc)
• Added new mission to encourage/reward exploration
• Added "Distress Call" player ability; may result in friendly fleet arriving with some fuel or supplies
• May now receive distress calls while traveling through the Sector
• Ejecting cargo:
  • Creates "cargo pods" that will drift away and be lost within a few days
  • Can stabilize orbit of cargo pods for several months; costs supplies based on amount of cargo
    • Only in-system, not in hyperspace
  • Can put crew in cargo pods ("cryosleep" etc)
• Person bounties:
  • Increased maximum concurrent to 5 (was: 3)
  • Increased base reward to 30k (was: 20k)
  • Added random component to reward
  • Target fleets now hide out outside the core worlds area and tend to favor star systems that are also otherwise interesting
• Can click minimap in intel message detail to switch to map tab showing location that was on miniamp
• Surveying planets now generates a "Survey Data" commodity
  • Ranges in quality from Class 1 through Class 5 depending on planetary conditions found
  • High-class data is extremely valuable
• Added a "lay in course" feature
  • To activate, "lay in course" from map
  • Works across star systems, i.e. can lay in course for specific planet while in another system
    • Will pick optimal jump-points and update next waypoint automatically
  • Shows info re: where you're going (direction, fuel, distance, time)
  • Can divert from it and then resume autopilot easily
• Planets that don't already have related jump points (i.e. gas giant gravity wells) get "nascent" gravity wells in hyperspace
• Transverse Jump ability:
  • Jump into systems using nascent gravity wells
  • Jump to hyperspace from anywhere in-system without using a jump-point (costs fuel and a bit of CR)
  • Unlocked by level 3 Navigation skill
• Neutrino Detector ability (requires Sensors skill)
  • Detect entities anywhere in-system
• Remote Survey ability
  • Gain preliminary survey information for all nearby planets
  • Unlocked by level 1 Surveying skill
• Rare Ore renamed to "Transplutonics"
• Increased maximum player fleet size to 30
• Improved scuttle dialog; scuttling now also yields heavy machinery
• Added stand-alone stations to the intel "planets" tab
  • E.G: station around Jangala isn't included there since it's part of the Jangala market
  • Kanta's Den *is* included since it's the main entity comprising its market
• Maxios and Killa - decivilized markets - now do not participate in the economy; can't be traded with
• Enemy fleet commanders now have access to fleet-level skills such as "Coordinated Maneuvers" and "Electronic Warfare"
  • Number of enemy officers capped by the commander's Officer Management
  • Likelihood and level/presence of these skills varies by faction; i.e. pirates are less likely to have them, and if they do they'll be lower level
  • Officer skills for AI fleets are picked appropriately for carriers (while still using the same "select 1 skill" process the player uses)
• Added multiple special events that occur during salvage operations
• Debris fields generated by battles now sometimes yield recoverable (but badly damaged) ships
• Battles now generate derelict ships that slowly drift away, can be salvaged, and are eventually lost
• Adjusted fleet compositions so that beam-focused Wolf variants don't show up in smaller fleets as often

Ship recovery

• Destroyed and disabled ships have a high chance of being recoverable after combat
• Recoverable ships get permanent d-mods (Compromised Armor, Degraded Engines, etc)
• Deployment supply cost of ships reduced by 20% (multiplicative) per d-mod
• Enemy ships get more d-mods, own ships get 1 extra d-mod each time they're recovered
• Several ways to ensure ships are always recoverable:
  • Reinforced Bulkheads (ship it's installed on)
  • Damage Control skill (ship piloted by person w/ skill)
  • Fleet Logistics skill (all ships piloted by officers in fleet)
• Ships with (D) mods can be restored at a market, for a high price based on the amount of damage (up to around 4x base with 4 d-mods)
  • This includes both damaged ships and ships that normally have dmods, such as Luddic Path frigates with Ill-Advised Modifications

Ship autofit

• Pick a "target" variant from a configurable set and it will automatically create a fit using what's available
• Will use similar weapons if exact ones in target variant aren't available
• Multiple options (buy from market, allow black market purchases, etc)
• Replaces "manage variants" in refit screen
• "Select next ship with unspent ordnance points" button in refit screen
• Unspent ordnance points now also shown on ship list in refit screen
• Option to quickly spend any unspent points for a ship without fully refitting it

Will spend points on vents, capacitors, and some general-purpose hullmods

Refit screen

• "Add hullmod" dialog:
  • Added tabs to filter hullmods by category (All, Offensive, Defensive, Engines, Special)
  • Added "hide already installed hullmods" checkbox
  • Added indicator to show which hullmods are already installed
  • Improved overall readability and adjusted color scheme to be more in line with rest of game
• Made some miscellaneous visual improvements
• Added filters (by type and source) to weapon and fighter picker dialogs
  • Improved readability of items in dialog
  • Added "PD" indicator and weapon range to each item
• Weapon tooltip now shows EMP damage for MIRV-style weapons

Miscellaneous

• Added progress bar to game saving
• Windows will no longer think the application is not responding while loading or saving a game
• Ship ordnance points increased across the board by 0-20%, around 10% in most cases
  • Some ships increased more or less of an increase for balance reasons; examples:
  • Harbinger: 80 -> 95
  • Apogee: 135 -> 140
• Ship refit now only degrades CR when something is removed. I.E. adding weapons or hullmods will not reduce CR unless something is removed to make room
  • Mostly applicable for recovered ships - spending their free OP will not tank their CR
• Reduced deployment and maintenance cost of Buffalo Mk.2 to 4 supplies (was: 6)
• Fixed frame rate drop when opening interaction dialog that could occur at larger fleet sizes
• Removed CR reduction for hull damage taken in combat
• Added "enableUIStaticNoise" setting to data/config/settings.json to disable UI static noise overlay
• Weapons with recoil now retract their barrels while ship is venting
• Reduced game startup time
• Ships given the "Retreat" command will now turn to face pursuing enemy ships and perform more of a fighting retreat
• Added "Direct Retreat" command for a best-speed retreat
• Added workaround for issue with some recent versions of NVIDIA drivers causing game to not start
• "Harass" assignment: ships will now make sure to stay outside enemy weapon range

Officers:

• Now start with 2 skill selections at level 1
• Max out with 7 level 3 skills at levl 20
• Limited to 10 skills total

Skill overhaul

• Aptitudes and skills limited to 3 levels
• Both increased using "character points", player gains 1 per level
• Each skill level has a perk, skills generally do not have bonuses that increase with level
• Aptitudes no longer have a direct effect but only unlock higher levels for governed skills
• Combat skills more focused on defense and overall weaker than before
• All percentile reductions from skills are now multiplicative
• Combat skills:
  • Combat Endurance
  • Missile Specialization
  • Ordnance Expertise
  • Target Analysis
  • Damage Control
  • Impact Mitigation
  • Defensive Systems
  • Evasive Action
  • Advanced Countermeasures
  • Helmsmanship
• Leadership skills:
  • Command & Control
  • Officer Management
  • Coordinated Maneuvers
  • Fleet Logistics
  • Fighter Doctrine
  • Carrier Command
  • Wing Commander
  • Strike Commander
• Technology Skills:
  • Gunnery Implants
  • Power Grid Modulation
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Loadout Design
  • Sensors
  • Navigation
• Industry
  • Safety Procedures
  • Recovery Operations
  • Field Repairs
  • Surveying
  • Salvaging
• Removed navigation requirement for using star jump-points
• Combat objectives:
  • No longer give command points for capturing
  • Starting command points set to 5
  • Nav Buoy
    • Gives +5% top speed
  • Related skill: Coordinated Maneuvers
    • +1-4% top speed per ship deployed, based on size
    • 10-20% maximum based on skill level
      • Does not affect fighters
    • Coordinated Maneuvers and Nav Buoy combined total limited by maximum (base 10% w/o skill)
  • Sensor Array renamed to Sensor Jammer
    • Gives +5% ECM rating
    • Total value compared for each side, losing side's weapon range reduced by the difference
    • Related skill: Electronic Warfare
    • +1-4% ECM rating per ship deployed, based on size
    • 10-20% maximum range effect based on skill level
      • Does not affect fighters
  • Command points now regenerate at a rate of 1 every 120 seconds
    • Comm Relay increases regeneration rate by 25%

New/adjusted hullmods:

• All percentile reductions applied by hullmods are now multiplicative
  • Most already were; this is just cleanup to ensure consistency
  • Goal is to avoid unreasonable stacking, i.e. -50% and -50% reducing a value to 0
• Flux Coil Adjunct, Flux Distributor:
  • Cost 4/8/12/20 ordnance points
  • Provide dissipation/capacity at 75% efficiency compared to vents and capacitors
  • Available from the start
• Generally reduced penalties from d-mods
• ECCM Package: now also reduces weapon range penalty from losing Electronic Warfare
• Expanded Missile Racks:
  • Now increases missile ammo by 100% (was: 75%)
  • Ordnance point cost increased substantially
  • One-shot Reaper torpedo launcher now has a 5 second cooldown
• Degraded Engines: reduced sensor signature penalty, reduced movement penalty
• Accelerated Shields: no longer available from start
• Expanded Magazines: no longer available from start
• Reinforced Bulkheads: available at campaign start
• Salvage Gantry: removed bonus to salvage from being deployed in combat, wasn't working right design-wise
• New hullmods:
  • Expanded Deck Crew
  • Recovery Shuttles
  • Nav Relay
  • ECM Package
  • Operations Center

Ships

• Omen: added built-in ECM and ECCM Package
• Tempest: increased shield arc to 120 degrees (was 90)
• Apogee: replaced ship system with Active Flare Launcher (2x)
• Conquest:
  • Added "Heavy Ballistics Integration" built-in hullmod: reduces large ballistic OP cost by 10
  • Reduced OP by 30 (relative to higher, rebalanced value)
• Aurora: changed non-front-facing medium turret from energy to synergy
• Added Drover-class midline carrier, destroyer-sized with 2 fighter bays
• Added Legion-class low-tech battlecarrier

Weapons

• Sabot SRM:
  • Now fires a spread of 5 warheads
  • Each deals 200 kinetic and 400 EMP damage
    • When hitting hull/armor, EMP damage may arc for another 400 EMP damage
• Hellbore Cannon:
  • Halved rate of fire
  • Reduced flux cost to 750/shot (was: 825)
  • Adjusted visuals for muzzle flash, shot, and impact (more prominent)
  • Overall: low dps, very high per-shot damage, very low flux cost
• Mjolnir: increased flux/shot to 500 (was: 400)
• Storm Needler:
  • Reduced flux cost/shot to 65 (was: 75)
  • Increased shot speed, added a bit of inaccuracy
  • Removed windup time
  • Reduced range to 700 (was: 800)
• Guardian PD: reduced OP cost to 18 (was: 22)

Combat

• Proximity Charge Launcher: projectile speed increased to 100 (from 50)
  • Mainly for REDACTED reasons, not to improve it as a generic ship weapon
• Ship AI:
  • Fixed some issues with AI being overly careful around enemy fighters
  • Improved logic for spacing out larger ships
  • Fixed issue with "eliminate" and "engage" ordered against stations

Modding

• Game will throw an error message when running with any version of Java other than 7
  • allowAnyJavaVersion to override this
• Game will now fail to load on Windows if jarfile filename case doesn't match that of the actual jarfile
  • On Linux, will crash while trying to load misnamed jarfile instead of
• Game now checks for duplicate ids in various csv files being loaded, e.g. rules, person_names, etc
  • Will throw an error when found; helps prevent hard-to-track-down "duplicate rule id, so it's quietly not doing anything" bugs
• ALL_SHIPS_IN_FLEET skill effects do not apply to fighters
  • Use ALL_FIGHTERS_IN_FLEET and/or SHIP_FIGHTERS instead
• MissionDefinitionAPI.getDefaultCommander(FleetSide side)
  • Can be used to give fleet-affecting skills to mission sides
• Station weapons now render above all station modules
• Fixed issue where mods were unable to override colors in settings.json
• WeaponGroupAPI:
• WeaponAPI removeWeapon(int index);
  • void addWeaponAPI(WeaponAPI weapon);
• Skills can unlock campaign abilities ("ABILITY_UNLOCK" effect type)
• Added several values to faction doctrine that configures how commander skills are generated
  • Commander skills are skills such as officer management, electronic warfare, etc
• Added player level cap to settings.json; "playerMaxLevel"
• Mirv behavior spec: added "spreadInaccuracy" that applies even when evenSpread = true
• Edit Variants: added checkboxes to force maximum combat skill levels on each side of simulation
• Name of "defense" for hull in ship tooltip now properly uses name of right-click system if it's not phase cloak
• Built-in hullmods can now influence the OP cost of weapons

Bugfixing

• Fixed issue where post-combat salvage would only contain half the cargo that should have been looted from the enemy fleet (affected just cargo from trade fleets and such, not basic supplies/equipment/fuel drops)
• Fixed issue that caused black market weapons to not use the proper range of factions to pick from
• Fixed memory leak that was caused by opening the refit screen, exiting it, and then reloading a save without unpausing the game
• Added workaround for occasional issue with wrong aspect ratio on multiple-monitor systems

Changes as of December 03, 2016

Campaign

• Added options to new game creation
  • Sector size (small or medium)
  • Sector age (old, average, young, mixed)
  • Random seed used to generate sector
    • Can be copied from character tab in existing game
    • Can be used to replay the same sector or shared
  • Added procedurally generated constellations and expanded map (about 16x previous area, ~200 star systems maximum right now)
• Deep hyperspace now functions similarly to nebula (slows down smaller fleets, fleets inside are less visible)
  • The slow-down effect is up to 30% (vs 50% for nebula)
• Campaign map overhaul
  • Two tabs, "sector" and "system"
  • Sector tab can be viewed while inside a star system
  • Max zoom in sector tab is set to always be enough to fit full map on screen
  • Zooming now centers on cursor
  • Holding shift while zooming zooms faster
  • Double-clicking tab (or shortcut) instantly centers and zooms out to maximum
  • Star and planet names are now laid out to reduce overlap
  • Added set of filters/configuration options for maps
    • "Starscape" mode - a "real space" view of the sector
    • Toggle star/constellation names on/off
    • Show fuel range visually
    • Show what you've explored
    • Show inhabited star systems
  • Clicking on map icon presents a context menu; can lay in a course, view planet info, or switch to system map depending on what's clicked
  • Added controls to quickly switch back and forth between planet info (in intel tab) and map
  • Added new map to planet intel tab; allows for quicker selection of data for known star systems
  • Replaced intel tab map where events are displayed with new map
  • Reworked minimap that shows a star's relative location to the player (shown in mission list, planet list, etc)
    • Now shows star and arrow from player's direction, arrow length depends on distance
    • Detailed info (fuel cost to reach, distance, days to reach) on mouseover
• Added new ability: "Sustained Burn"
  • Increases maximum burn by 10
  • Reduces acceleration and sensor range, increases range at which fleet is detected
  • Activation results in fleet slowing down and stopping before sustained drive mode is engaged
  • Intended for long-range travel while creating a vulnerability if hostile fleets are around
• Added new ability: "Scavenge"
  • Recover supplies, weapons, and other valuables from debris fields
  • Risk of accidents resulting in small losses of crew; mitigated by having heavy machinery
• Battles leave behind short-duration debris fields that can be scavenged
• Exploration
  • Can find and salvage derelicts from the various stages of the Sector's history
  • Salvage:
    • Entities have a "salvage rating" that determines whether you can salvage them w/ current skill
    • If not, can be demolished for a smaller reward
  • REDACTED
• Planet surveying
  • Enter star system to find out what planets are in it
  • Perform a preliminary (free) survey to assess planet's hazard rating and full survey cost
  • Perform full survey (using heavy machinery, crew, and supplies) to uncover planetary conditions such as ore deposits and ruins
• New intel sub-tab to keep track of planets
• Revamped economy simulation - better results, faster updates, better performance
• Revamped market info screen for better readability
• Can now avoid solar flares/corona by hiding behind planets
• Venture, Shepherd, Apogee: added built-in "Surveying Equipment" hullmod
• Construction Rig:
  • Renamed "Salvage Rig"; hullmod is "Salvage Gantry"
  • Increases base salvage from derelicts by 25% up to a fleetwide maximum equal to the salvage rating
  • Increases post-battle salvage by up to 10% based on the portion of the battle the Salvage Rig spent deployed
• Odyssey, Conquest: increased burn level by 1
• Added "X ordnance points left" indicator to ships in fleet view for unspent OP
• Added campaign radar
• Added visual ping for new sensor contacts in main view
• Luddic Path Brawler: replaced damper field with ammo feeder
• Hullmods can now be acquired from a "Modspec" item
  • Dropped by enemies
  • Found as salvage
  • Bought on markets
• Added music for the Sindrian Diktat
• Added market music for Tri-Tachyon
• Changed "suspend repairs" key to "D"
• Changed when ships have a chance to suffer an accident
  • Was: 0% CR and not mothballed
  • Now: less than 10% CR, not mothballed, and repairs suspended or fleet out of supplies
• Heavy Mauler, Hypervelocity Driver: now tier 3 (were tier 2)

Combat

• Orbital station combat mechanics; content using these TBD/REDACTED
• Venting now stops weapons from reloading/recharging for two seconds; will resume if still venting after the time elapses
• Renamed "Search & Destroy" to "Full Assault!"
• Ordering a full assault will make ships much more aggressive
  • Useful for pursuit and cleanup
  • Pressing the button again toggles this off (and uses a command point)
• Changed Intercept assignment
  • Now named "Eliminate"
  • Ships assigned to it will behave more aggressively
• Added new officer personality: "Reckless"
  • A more aggressive version of aggressive; always behaves as if "search & destroy" was on
• Weapons will not reload for the first two seconds of venting or being overloaded
• Added cruiser-sized carrier - Mora-class, low tech
• Weapons
  • Added "Hammer Barrage" large missile weapon
  • Added "Devastator Cannon" large ballistic weapon
  • Added "Heavy Mortar" medium ballistic weapon
  • Thumper: now fires 1-second burst of 20 shots (100 frag damage each), 3 second delay between bursts
  • LRPD Laser: increased turn speed to match PD Laser
  • Atropos torpedo: damage reduced to 1250 (from 2000), speed reduced to 400 (from 500)
    • OP cost reduced to 4 (dual) and 2 (single)
  • Squall MRLS:
    • Changed AI to two-stage approach (first stage aims, second stage burns forward)
    • Changed engine and explosion color to be more white for consistency w/ kinetic damage
    • Increased turn rate
    • Reduced hitpoints
  • Flamed-out missiles now have a 50% chance to bounce off harmlessly on impact
• Hullmods
  • Auxiliary Thrusters now available at game start; reduced OP cost for capitals to 25(from 30)
  • Unstable Injector
    • Removed acceleration bonus and engine damage penalty
    • Now reduces weapon range by 25%
    • Reduced OP cost
  • Augmented Engines
    • Removed in-combat speed bonus
    • Reduced cost
    • Renamed to "Augmented Drive Field"
  • Dedicated Targeting Core: reduced cost
  • Integrated Targeting Unit:
    • Reduced cost to match DTC
    • Slightly increased range bonus for cruisers (+5%) and capital ships (+10%)
• Added status indicator for when peak performance time is not going down due to nearby enemy presence being too weak
• Significant performance improvements
• The missiles fired by certain anti-fighter missile weapons (Swarmer, Locust, etc) will change targets to closer fighters so that they can be used effectively vs a fighter swarm, hitting multiple targets
• Ships can now break apart (and become "destroyed") when disabled
  • Destroyed ships can't be boarded post-battle
  • Raised base boarding chance to compensate
  • Salvage from destroyed ships is now the same as for disabled ships
  • Pieces of debris can be shot at and broken apart further
• Armor value for damage reduction no longer goes below 5% of base armor value
• Fighters:
  • Now mounted on carriers as "weapons", costing OP
  • New combat control to order fighters to "regroup" or "engage"
    • Bound to Z by default, "view target" moved to T
  • Complete rebalance of fighter stats, carriers
  • Reduced peak time for carriers a bit
  • Fighter balance overhaul; 2 new fighter types
• EMP ship system energy damage increased to 100 (from 25)
• Omen:
  • Increased armor to 125 (from 50)
  • Increased maximum flux to 2500 (from 2200)
  • Increased shield arc to 360 degrees
• Damper Field: now reduces damage by 67% (was: 75%)
• Accelerated Ammo Feeder: now reduces ballistic flux cost by 50% (was: 30%)
• Hammerhead:
  • Ordnance points increased by 5
• Astral: increased armor to 900 (was: 500)
• Shepherd:
  • "Borer" drones now handled as built-in fighter wing; stats the same but now 6 instead of 5 and replacements aren't limited
  • Ship system is now "Maneuvering Jets"
• Tempest:
  • "Terminator" drone now a built-in fighter wing, 1 drone, uses AM blaster
  • Ship system is now "Active Flare Launcher"
    • Modified to have unlimited uses and slightly improved flare speed
• Aurora:
  • Increased speed to 80 (was 70)
  • Reduced max flux by 20%
  • Reduced deployment cost to 30 (was 35)
  • New ship system: "Plasma Jets", short-duration high-effect version of maneuvering jets with a focus on speed rather than maneuverability
  • Goal is to make the Aurora fit in with the high-tech approach of "lower weapon range, but able to dictate engagements"
• Heron: reduced top speed to 80 (was 90)
• Ship AI:
  • Improved venting logic (able to vent while taking insignificant damage)
  • Improved escort AI behavior
  • Bombers will try to stay behind carriers while not cleared to engage
  • Will now autofire hardpoint weapon groups if they don't have many weapons in them
• Removed the following assignments:
  • Fighter Rendezvous
  • Strike Base
  • Rally Carrier
  • Recon
  • Strike
• Optimized performance of proximity fuse weapons (e.g. flak)

Miscellaneous

• Contact for procurement mission will no longer initiate comms when player is being sought by patrols
• Fixed visual issue with scrolling area shadows when over bright backgrounds
• Removed crew experience levels
  • Base CR for ships is 70%
  • Stat improvements start at above 70% (was: 60%)
• Added damage type information to weapon tooltip (i.e. "200% vs armor, 50% vs shields")

Modding

• StarSystemAPI
  • void initNonStar() method for locations not centered on a star
  • getHyperspaceAnchor() now returns a SectorEntityToken
• CombatEngineAPI
  • boolean inFastTimeAdvance()
• Added spawnProjectile() method with an extra parameter for the projectile spec id
• Added applyDamage() method with extra parameter that controls whether it plays a sound
• ShipAPI:
  • PersonAPI getCaptain()
• Added SUSPEND_RECOIL weapon render hint, forces recoil sprite to still be rendered but not moved by recoil
• .skill files from mods are now merged with base vanilla skill files. For skill effects, only works for hullmod unlocks.
• ShieldAPI:
  • void setCenter(float x, float y)
• FactionAPI:
  • String pickRandomShipName()
• ModPlugin:
  • void onNewGameAfterProcGen()
• Fixed bug in RelationshipAPI.ensureAtBest/Worst()
• Fixed infinite loop related to system-activated engines being disabled on a ship with no normal engines
• Added "UNBOARDABLE" ship type hint
• Abilities now defined in abilities.csv instead of abilities.json
  • Same basic data, plus cooldown information, icon name, and AI plugin class
• Added "tags" to abilities that govern how abilities interrupt/disable each other
  • Example:
    • Emergency Burn has tags: burn+, stealth-, sensors-
    • Active Sensor Burst has: burn-, stealth-, sensors+
    • They're incompatible because they have a pair (two pairs, actually) of opposite tags
    • One is disabled while the other one is active
  • For toggle abilities, incompatible abilities are simply turned off on activation, but not disabled
• Fixed issue with ship contrails showing from hidden nozzles
• Added HIDE_IN_CODEX ship spreadsheet hint
• newGameCreationEntryPoint, newGameSectorProcGen plugins: new instance created on every new game, so can store data in data members if needed
• Added "short" field to hull_mods.json, used for description in skill tooltip

Bugfixing

• Fixed bug where it was possible for another dialog to open after exiting a campaign game
• Fixed bug where ships with certain systems (i.e. flare launcher) would never be picked for combat assignments
• Fixed bug where mothballed ships could suffer from an accident if other ships in the fleet were at 0% CR
• Fixed bug where a patrol could do transponder-on cargo scan right after a transponder-off one
• Fixed bug where a patrol far from their home market would care about your transponder status if you interacted with them
• Fixed issue with fleet state after attempting to use a jump point but being moved away from it before being able to jump
• Fixed bug where it was occasionally possible for a retreating phase ship to leave the entire battle running in slow-time
• Fixed minor collision detection bug when checking whether exact bounds contain a point
• Fixed ship AI issue where heavier (by internal mass value) frigates would not try to avoid collisions with lighter ones
• Fixed issue where using "Fast Missile Racks" immediately after firing some types of missiles
• Trying to activate an out-of-ammo shipsystem will no longer turn off the zero-flux speed boost
• Fixed bug with phase ships not properly considering the incoming DPS from fast-firing weapons