0.811
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• increased chance of getting more Drox Guild quest options
• added tactics/skills screen, button, and hot key stuff (screen just says Coming Soon for now)
• added 6 anomaly icons
• made it so static models with alpha model data gets cached correctly (will speed somethings up some)
• changed it so things like TemporalFlux don't constantly spawn right on top of a non-moving player (Mortac)
• can no longer remove original text from a quest generated waypoint (Tnega)
• fixed specific monsters not getting used in a quest when started from a different quest (like earthquake machines from Machine Invasion) (Annex)
• now chests from treasure maps spawn at least a rare item and give 0.25 legend points (Eris Shrugged)
• decreased some of the top fear/legend quest rewards from 10.0 to 5.0
• turned off player ran from monster upgrade chance (Eris Shrugged)
• added new achievement to Steam
• added a small effect to instant pickups to be a little more noticable
• now will only play 1 high rarity component dropped sound at once (Darkness)
• now most loop sounds fade out instead of abruptly ending (this is mostly engines and projectiles)
• decreased war declared sound volume (Bluddy)
• destroyed race will no longer drop duplicate techs (Darkness)
• now moons around planets with rings start a little further out
• key names can now be translated
• mouse button 3-5 are now MB3, MB4, MB5 (so they fit better)
• added translations for leftcontrol, rightcontrol, leftalt, rightalt, pagedown, and pageup
• fixed some key names being wrong when you clicked to change them in keyboard options
• added cheat_noLose so I could test some things for longer periods of time with cheats
• improved cheat_playTestTeleport to vary teleport position better

0.810
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• now can install beam, missile, virus, or freezer weapons with enough tactical or computers
• now can install plasma cannon, EM, and ballistic weapons with enough tactical or engineering
• now can install ballistic weapons with enough tactical or structure
• now can install fighter weapons with enough tactical or helm
• now can install ramming components with enough tactical or structure
• now larger sectors have a higher monster level ramp than smaller sectors (The Grand Mugwump)
• now smooth object angles a little better (Bluddy)
• increased Guild Points for Drox quests by 50% (so easier to get a Guild Win) (Eris Shrugged/Bluddy)
• collision damage now takes into account player and enemy speeds
• added 8 race trait icons
• added 10 new planet bonus icons
• added sound when component gets a rarity bump when identifying it (Redsovietz)
• fixed Ape and Drakk Cortex Hybrid stats/bonuses not matching (BuildTheWall)
• now if population is below 10% of max, get a 5X bonus to growth if enough food
• now if population is below 25% of max, get a 2.5X bonus to growth if enough food
• added Guild Wins to journal (Verdusk)
• added Guild achievement
• fixed some problems with mouse button 5 (Tchey/roykela)
• changed radiation color to a lighter purple (Eris Shrugged)
• for X needs this item, now just mention treaty name if not a normal peace treaty (Eris Shrugged)
• now quest update messages go through the normal center print system so don't overlap other messages
• now get rid of primitive anomaly a little bit better (Jean/kouhei)
• can no longer request a beacon from primitive races (Excellion)
• fixed missing NamedChestDestroyed translation (Redsovietz)

0.809
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• now smooth entity movement better - gets rid of a lot of hitches
• no longer broadcast sound events for non-players
• broadcast sound is now limited to once each frame
• made teleport detection on client a little better
• fixed primitives and subjects still getting in the way of diplomatic/military wins (Darkness)
• now reward/gift chests should spawn near the player (They Live/Darke/Eris Shrugged/tiagocc0)
• now reward chests are marked as required quest object (so will show up on map) (Darke)
• unstable wormhole anomaly now has a min level of 10 (Eris Shrugged)
• races can now have a minimum level before they will show up
• ancient races now have a min level of 10 (LotusBlade)
• race traits can now have a minimum level before they will show up (at least when they are a random trait)
• race traits that make it so they can't sign treaties now have a min level of 10
• increased BaseShieldsRegen from 0.5 to 1.0 (Kurama Kitsune)
• fixed weapon speed on weapons getting counted multiple times in DPS (Annex/Darkness)
• no longer save cfg file immediately after zooming in/out to prevent slowdown (Darkness)
• now black boxes stay around for 30 minutes instead of 5 (Darke)
• races with traits with CantSignTreaties can no longer be Xenophile or Radical Xenophile
• added 6 new young race portraits - 2 mineral, 2 amphibian, avian, and plant
• added a bunch of escape notice to immunity after resurrecting status effect
• increased trap chance on storage pods from 0.2 to 0.33
• delivery directly to rebels no longer takes all of the current type of item (Kurama Kitsune/Poilux)
• delivery directly to rebels now takes the lowest level item of the correct type that satisfies the quest
• dps on plasma cannons and ballistics are now valued less (Darkness)
• added a collision help topic (ScrObot)
• fixed plasma cannon damage type (should be thermal)
• now many quests show their status effect icon
• now show monster icon in quests that target monsters
• primitives no longer demand things
• removed a "No fake entities left" message, just slows things down when things are already probably slow
• now when run out of fake entities for effects, put particle back on free list instead of deleting
• sped up Emitter::draw a little if no particles to draw
• fixed a slowdown when adding waypoints on map (it was saving cfg each time for temporary change) (Darkness)
• races now save their definition by name instead of index (save games more stable when I add new races)
• changed the texture that Lifeform Type: Mineral uses
• can no longer click on list items that aren't displayed (Eris Shrugged)
• added a Damage Types topic to full help topics page (Sharp)
• now damage types are color coded: Thermal - red, EM - blue, Kinetic - brown, Radiation - purple, and Explosion - yellow
• fixed randomize button sometimes selecting character options that aren't offered
• fixed randomize button never selecting Bare Bones and No Life options (Eris Shrugged)
• now Planet/Race needs this item text mentions your treaty level with them (Eris Shrugged)
• fixed misspelling in Assimilator text
• fixed missing KnockbackMult translation
• added plasma cannons to thermal resistance text
• added virus weapons to EM resistance text
• added mines to explosion resistance text
• removed extra space in shields description
• fixed repeated word in civil war text
• changed saveVersion to 235
• fixed having duplicate ModifierWeaponSpeed1 entries

0.808
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• now on resurrect, engines and thrusters are repaired so you at least can escape if resurrect in a dangerous place (Darke/Darkness/Bluddy)
• now on resurrect, you get 10 seconds of immunity from damage (using any component ends the immunity)
• fixed defense not working when hit from the side or behind (KevinC)
• fixed many Drox Guild quests not solving or failing correctly (Bluddy/Verdusk/Eris Shrugged/Agnosticjihad)
• can now deliver rebel goods directly to the rebel ship that gave you the quest - this makes it so you can deliver even if at war with race (Dragonface/Excellion)
• now it is harder to get a race to declare war on someone they have a treaty with (Sharp)
• fixed a problem with marine damage not scaling correctly when they level up (Lichice/Jean)
• fixed race icons on planet not matching the last race you talked to instead of the planet (phoagne)
• fixed being able to sometimes click on race technology items (Eris Shrugged)
• fixed race ship components being classified when they shouldn't be
• fixed a problem with some NPC ships leveling up when the player leveled up and causing weird issues like being really slow (stretch)
• now highlighting delivery package button tells you quest title so you know what you are delivering
• fixed weapon heat sinks (and other similar components) (Jean/Darkness/uhamster9)
• races no longer target primitives with rumors, espionage, propoganda, and sabotage (Kurama Kitsune)
• primitive races no longer target anyone with rumors, espionage, propoganda, and sabotage (Kurama Kitsune)
• no one takes damage on collision when the player has resurrection damage immunity
• projectiles can no longer pierce through planets
• now when highlight component/object text, it also highlights the entity and shows the highlight text for that component/object
• fixed max relation displayed when highlighting a race icon (FicusCat)
• planets should no longer get more than 1 starving status effect at a time
• cleaned up Drox screen some (Bluddy)
• turned AttackHeightDiffMult off (shouldn't have changed anything but no reason to do extra calculations)
• fixed overlapping buttons on race get quests screen (Sharp)
• fixed exit all button on race solve quests screen not positioned well
• left clicking on an enemy when nothing is in the left click slot no longer makes you follow the enemy (Confusedus)
• now race icon on character screens shows when highlighting it
• fixed first bonus skill looking like you always had it and skill level matching ship level
• marines no longer cause knockback
• fixed sometimes when you get a new race and the race icon is incorrect until you restart the save game (trhoffend)
• set up icons for the lifeform types (decided just to use race icons we already have)
• fixed QuestFailCovenantDestroyed missing translation (Bluddy)
• fixed QuestCovRepelledAttack missing translation (Annex)
• fixed missing translation BonusSkillXAvailable
• changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 91

0.807
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• fixed a Drox Guild quest when failed fails the entire sector (they are supposed to be optional) 

0.806
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• added Drox Guild quests back in (they are now optional)
• added a new win type - Guild Win (get points from Guild quests) (Bluddy)
• chained mines are now much more rare than normal mines and now have a min level of 10 (KevinC/kouhei)
• races with Devourer and Assimilator traits will no longer sign treaties
• races with Exterminator, Holy Crusader, Devourer, and Assimilator are now more aggressive and get bonuses
• added 3 new random race portraits - Aquatic, Mollusk, and Synthetic
• fixed linked weapons not working in 1 path through the code (goodgimp/Eris Shrugged)
• increased points needed for fear win from 500.0 to 600.0
• now get less fear points for destroying a primitive race
• now get a bigger legend points penalty for destroying a primitive race
• now races need to have a few ships before they will instigate a war (they can still be pulled into wars) (Annex)
• now get a discount on jump gates from friendly races (Bluddy)
• now get a price increase on jump gates from unfriendly races (Bluddy)
• now only players get radar bonuses (should make defense stat better for players)
• increased relation change from Diplomat ship from 2.5 to 5.0
• decreased structure/armor plating steal on Scavenger component some more
• races that can't sign treaties should no longer try to offer them (just to reject them)
• fixed a problem preventing cargo bays from having modifiers (Darkness)
• now show a starving status effect on planets that don't have enough food
• now automatically pick up instant consumables if they are useful
• now technology is automatically discovered when you pick it up (instead of hogging inventory) (Darkness)
• secret wormholes now stay on the map (Eris Shrugged)
• decreased AddAdditionalChance on a couple of mines
• now stay in paying crew mode after paying one crew (makes it a lot easier to pay multiple times) (Darkness)
• now ceasefire money actually goes to the race
• names are now drawn on top of blips on map so you can see the names better (Darke)
• added splitter lines to component text
• fixed "scout scout has been killed" duplicate text
• added Website/newsletter links in game
• changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 90

0.805
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• can now add another 3 skills/components to each use slot, so for example can now fire 4 different weapons from a left mouse click
• fixed 2 problems using multiple components in same frame (bugs introduced in recent patch) (Sharp/Redsovietz)
• fixed energy per engineering point on some classes being less than normal rather than more (BuildTheWall)
• bumped freezer/virus weapons up 50% to match recent beam increases (KevinC)
• increased NextToDistanceForItems from 150.0 to 300.0
• added Mollusk race music
• added treaty to planet menu
• added race icon/portrait to planet menu so a little easier to remember who is who
• added quest icon support
• now subrace rebel quests have their portrait in the background
• now normal rebel quests (rebellion and civil war) have their portrait in the background
• fixed planet health bars not matching population range correctly when race has a max health bonus
• cargo bays can now have modifiers (Eris Shrugged)
• fixed left clicking to use a component that you don't have enough energy for repeatly giving out of energy warning/sound (Excellion)
• now won't use any energy if use marines on a ship with shields or a non-ship target (Excellion)
• no longer get multiple buzzes for a warning that is already displaying on the screen
• fixed ancient marines not working (Jean)
• now if you hold down the ctrl key when selling a stack of components with the space bar it will sell the entire stack (kerzainuhamster9)
• karma stuff now ignores primitive races (Eris Shrugged)
• doubled XP reward from anomaly that gives XP (Eris Shrugged)
• now add icon to highlight text for race icon, race portrait, and race traits
• now mention Tweaked Find Chance bonus on each achievement achieved
• can no longer sell technology component itself (Eris Shrugged)
• can now put non-weapons into the first use slot (Eris Shrugged)
• fixed system ensuring unique system names not working correctly (Annex/kerzain)
• fixed swapping 2 same type items numbers increasing each time (Alstein/floofyfunster)
• removed ancient info from lose progress screen (Bluddy)
• removed bounty hunter info from lose progress screen
• removed Drox quests from win/lose progress screens
• moved fear/legend info on win progress screen down a little to fit stuff better
• increased size of reset fog of war button to fit text better (Sharp)
• now speed with current/next hull stuff takes into account gravity reductions (Eris Shrugged)
• added system name to guard, destroy, and help our planet messages (Eris Shrugged)
• now health bars of planets/ships from races you have a mutual protection pact or alliance with are dark green
• fixed consumables in left or right click slots playing sound when used but reuse timer not up yet (ScrObot)
• no longer show technology price on component (not really meant to sell component)
• fixed planet status menu layout to fit everything (ScrObot)
• added Exit All button to many of the relation screens (Varkon)
• fixed a couple things on game help screen (ScrObot)
• changed "Use skills to attack" to "Use weapons to attack" (Eris Shrugged)
• fixed missing PointsFromNextLevelUp translation
• fixed marine text indentation
• fixed an indentation problem on missiles
• changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 89

0.804
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• now higher rarity passive components with simple stat changes get a bonuses to their main stat(s)
• added "Allow Basic Mouse Target Move" option that if you turn off your ship won't move if you click on an object or planet (Eris Shrugged/stretch)
• fixed another problem with rumors sometimes not using the correct origin race (Annex)
• decreased beam power requirements by 33%
• increased beam damage by 50%
• player fighters will now shoot at asteroids (Annex/LotusBlade)
• decreased missile reuse time from 3.0 to 2.0
• starbases now launch fighters slower (darksilver)
• no longer show health bar on uninhabited planets (Kurama Kitsune)
• added Drox command take to economic win text (Eris Shrugged)
• added Drox clone/ship cost to economic win/lose text (Eris Shrugged)
• no longer show health bar on selected entity UI for uninhabited planets
• now "health" bar on selected entity UI on planets is called population instead of structure (Jean)
• fixed Player Thrusters Volume control not working (Gabeux)
• added max 50% boost restriction text on thrust boosts (Kurama Kitsune)
• changed damaged crew health status to severe injuries (close to out of action), critical condition (non-hardcore out of action), and dead (hardcore) (Bluddy)
• added a few more words to name filter
• fixed a couple problems with The Drox has rewarded for destroying a race text (Eris Shrugged)
• fixed missing PassiveComment translation (Sharp)

0.803
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• server now tries port guessing so NAT punchthrough is a bit more robust
• changed server registration time from 120.0 to 20.0 seconds so NAT routes don't time out
• now take into account NATs that decrement port numbers by 1 or another small number
• now always send local address for assisted join
• fixed high frame rate + trying to use component every frame overflowing the networking
• now send less player data across the network
• optimized Entity network traffic some
• optimized Actor network traffic some
• optimized Projectile network traffic some
• optimized ItemGround network traffic some
• now send a lot less player info on connect message
• now subject empires are ignored when checking military and diplomatic wins (Eris Shrugged)
• now young races have a random service they can provide (gambling, retraining, scavenging, etc)
• young races can now emerge on military and diplomatic wins (can spawn in further worlds with same name, icons, and traits)
• fixed players getting moved when another player leaves the game
• fixed high rarity component dropped sound not playing (They Live)
• can no longer custom order Doomsday weapons from scavengers
• fixed Mutant subrace not being set to pacifist correctly
• now filter random planet, star, and race names a little
• fixed LastKnownLocation & UnknownLocation missing translations (Sharp)
• fixed port in getAddressString (just a developer thing)
• changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 88
• changed saveVersion to 233

0.802
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• vassal, tributary, and protectorate treaties can now be broken from either side
• federation members will now always vote no for wars against subjects/overlords
• now federation members handle wars better when subjects are on other side (federation is more important)
• now handle interaction between federations and outside alliances better (Excellion)
• fixed higher rarity components not dropping correctly (Djozar)
• fixed not being able to attack ships after destroying their planet (kouhei/pandk9/Sideswipe)
• decreased ProtectorateMaxPowerRatio from 0.75 to 0.25
• decreased the natural relation degradation for the player by 50%
• fixed espionage never working (Varkon)
• quest monsters can now attack planets
• fixed ai not trying to get another enemy once first one was killed sometimes
• fixed rumors from planets not having the correct source (Lynn)
• greatly increased chances of monsters needed for quests to spawn
• fixed MaxCount on sounds not working correctly
• fixed protectorate overlord not having a minimum relation level
• planet guard ships now try to protect the planet from neutral projectiles like asteroids (LotusBlade)
• decreased BaseFear from 10.0 to 5.0 (races have less natural fear of each other)
• increased DamageFearMult from 10.0 to 30.0 (races fear actually damage to their planets/ships way more)
• no longer get "Declare war on..." option for protectorates and vassals since they aren't allowed to declare war (Excellion)
• fixed some paid to go to war messages when no war started (Excellion)
• now makes sure war is going to go through before announcing honors treaty by declaring war (Excellion)
• should no longer get repeated attacking planet messages (Darkness)
• can now get relations with ancients up to the normal maximum relation (100) (Lichice)
• now races won't declare wars on races they've recently discovered (phoenix_54d)
• increased chances of first 3 cargo bays dropping (HoboElf)
• ancients are now treated like other races when it comes to getting legend points (will make legend wins harder)
• increased FearPointsNeededForWin from 450.0 to 500.0
• increased LegendPointsNeededForWin from 250.0 to 300.0
• fixed splinter race sometimes failing (Jean)
• added individual loot multiplayer option (Varkon)
• ai now has a max distance it can shoot things from (kouhei/Darkness)
• fixed sometimes relation dropping to 0.0 when a treaty is cancelled
• increased ProtectorateOverlordBaseValue from 5.0 to 10.0
• now when races split or a subrace/rebel leave them and the original race start off with worse relations (Sharp)
• decreased LifeStealPerKill/ArmorPlatingRepairPerKill stuff from 2.0 to 1.5
• will no longer ram neutral ships like monsters giving quests (Excellion)
• now get 2.0 legend points for discovering a primitive race (normal is 0.5) (kerzain)
• now get 0.1 legend points from scanning planet anomaly (just like normal anomalies) (kerzain)
• now wandering vendors start with credits to buy things (Jackrel)
• fixed karma events going to the wrong race sometimes
• fixed karma events not getting announced
• fixed not getting info on items with passive skills like Harvester, Leech, and Energy redirector components (Djozar/HuntingU/AHrEJl)
• increased SubracePlayerRelationBoost from 10.0 to 20.0
• increased DemandFactorFear from 0.1 to 0.2
• now rebels show correct name/info when highlight their logo/portrait (Sharp)
• now don't play more than 3 messages alerts at the same time (IchigoMait)
• fixed not getting a warning when clicking on a invalid jump gate destination (Eris Shrugged/Bluddy)
• decreased life of Ballistics from 10.0 to 3.0 seconds (kouhei)
• decreased life of Plasma from 7.5 to 4.0 seconds (kouhei)
• fixed Satellite Defense System not spawning
• now show treaty name on most race specific relations screens (tomd237)
• fixed random plant race not showing portrait correctly
• can no longer have multiple sentient race planet enhancements (splinter, lost, primitives, etc)
• decreased MaxMoons for different planet sizes some
• command highlight text now shows you current speed and speed with next hull (Excellion)
• changed save version to 232
• improved MaxSpeedDesc a little (Excellion)
• removed priority print of karma announcements
• fixed missing translation QuestEventTownAttackTownAttack3 (Sharp)
• fixed StatusEffect missing translation (ScrObot)
• fixed OnPassiveProcText missing translation (ScrObot)
• fixed Energy Redirector spelling
• simplified ActorCovenant::shouldBreakTreaty quite a bit
• fixed a load game issue (probably only happens during dev stuff)

0.801
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• made radar much more useful by increasing MaxRadarRange from 300.0 to 1000.0
• now an undiscovered planet in radar range will show on the edge of your minimap
• now all planets in radar range will show up on system map
• planets and gates now have a radar bonus so it's easier to find them
• added Simplify Race Statements option, defaults to on, basically simple race statements go directly to event messages instead of needing player to go to the race screen
• fixed federation always voting no on peace even when they wanted it (Sharp)
• fixed another federation voting issue basically making it need to be unanimous
• races in federation are now allowed to cancel treaties (Sharp)
• greatly increased identifing components time (4x faster)
• increased scanning chest/objects time (2x faster)
• increased ItemIdentifyExtraModifierChance from 0.05 to 0.1
• asteroids system modifier now has a minimum level of 10 (ScrObot)
• illusions system modifier now has a minimum level of 10 (ScrObot)
• added descriptions to Vassal, Tributary, and Protectorates on trade screen (ScrObot)
• increased beam damage by 50% since the damage now decreases by distance quite a bit
• components no longer compare to empty slots (so don't get green + on everything)
• ancients are initially a little less aggressive towards the player
• decreased TributaryMaxPowerRatio from 0.85 to 0.5 (Bluddy)
• decreased VassalMaxPowerRatio from 0.75 to 0.4 (Bluddy)
• decreased VassalFearMult and TributaryFearMult from 0.5 to 0.3 (Bluddy)
• now ships around planets will fly back to their planet instead of teleporting (They Live)
• now get a message if a peace trety was rejected by a federation (kouhei)
• increased starting MaxPowerLoad by 33% (75 to 100)
• now race specific components auto equip into the correct slots
• now on level up you can be given any of your race specific components (not just crew) (KevinC)
• primitives are no longer consider for diplomatic and military wins or losses
• now if you sign a peace treay with one federation member the rest will follow (they already voted to allow it)
• alliances and federations tend to get stronger over time now
• decreased ancients NaturalHateMult from 3.0 to 2.0 (their relations will degrade slower)
• decreased ObjectChancePerBlock from 0.06 to 0.045
• changed priority level on most quests (Sharp)
• no longer get a chest for each primitive race in fear & diplomatic wins
• fixed numbers on offensive and defensive rams displayed incorrectly (they are addition/subtraction, not a % chance)
• fixed defensive numbers on rams not showing up
• now rams actually have a credit value
• gates now always send across the network when you are in the same system
• increased RadarForMaxRangeBase from 300.0 to 400.0
• now planet sub-screens will go away when you click outside of them (ScrObot)
• drones can be put into stashes now
• tab now toggles between system & sector map and doesn't change minimap, also setting now saves correctly (Bluddy)
• planets now spin slower (ScrObot)
• added show trades option on relation screen
• relation screen now defaults to hiding eliminated races (one time force change)
• relation screen now defaults to hiding primitives races (one time force change) (Eris Shrugged)
• moved event text up a little to not go over status effects
• made it so you can't get multiple war sounds at once (Darkness)
• now handle removing a shield correctly (Excellion)
• now highlight text box will be at least the size of the icon (if there is an icon) (ScrObot)
• turned general pleas for help off for now
• now clean up unidentified stuff a little better on primitive planets when they change state (Bluddy/Dragonface)
• added QuestChildQuests and NoChildQuestsOutstanding translations (Dragonface)
• fixed credits pickup text (They Live)
• fixed getting multiple object is farther than it appears messages sometimes
• fixed starlane highlight text having system name twice (ScrObot)
• fixed missing translation CollisionDamageOffense (ScrObot/Monkeyhuouse)
• fixed missing translation QuestAnnouncePersonalGift (ScrObot)
• updated max speed in help topics (Excellion)

0.800
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• This is the first alpha version.