Interstellar Space: Genesis news & patch notes

Hello everyone, Today we want to share an important update about the future of ISG, and more specifically about the long-awaited third expansion.

Expansion III is coming in 2026

After many months of dedicated work developing and refining this massive new chapter of ISG, we’re excited to announce that Expansion III is planned for release in 2026. Development is progressing steadily, and this expansion is shaping up to be exactly what we envisioned it to be. We're also building upon everything we’ve learned from both your feedback and our own evolving design goals. While we’re not ready to announce a specific release date yet, we can say with confidence that the expansion will be out in 2026, unless something very unexpected prevents it. That said, our priority remains quality, depth, and long-term impact — and that means taking the time needed to do it right!

A truly galactic expansion

Expansion III is designed to push ISG into a new level. Without going into too much detail just yet, it will introduce:

• Expanded lore and narrative elements. Uncover hidden histories and cosmic mysteries that reshape the way you view the galaxy.

• New strategic systems and technology. Use new systems and acquire powerful technology capable of significantly altering the balance of power across the galaxy.

• Epic new content. Discover and experience surprises in every corner of space, with enhanced challenges, capable of putting even the most powerful empires to the test.

Why we’re keeping details limited for now

Over the course of ISG’s development, we’ve learned that revealing too much too early can create expectations around systems that are still evolving. At this stage, we prefer to clearly communicate the direction and ambition of Expansion III, while saving more concrete details for when they are fully ready to be shown. As development continues, we’ll gradually start sharing:

• First visuals and screenshots

• Deeper looks at new mechanics and systems

• More information about the new content, lore and technologies

From the very beginning, our goal for Expansion 3 was to deliver something truly epic, and we believe this version delivers exactly that — with new layers of complexity, challenge and replay value that reward both new players and seasoned veterans.

A word on new updates

Alongside Expansion III, we’re planning a free update, as usual, that will release at the same time and complement the expansion’s new systems. At the moment, however, there are no additional updates planned before that release. That may change, but for now our development efforts are fully focused on Expansion III and on making sure both the expansion and its accompanying free update reach the level of quality and depth we’re aiming for.

Thank you for your continued support ❤️

Your passion and feedback continue to be a huge motivation for the team. Expansion III is being developed with great care and respect for the time and dedication you’ve invested in ISG. We’ll be back with more news as we move closer to release. In the meantime, you can also sign the ISG newsletter to stay on top of all the major news. See you among the stars, The ISG Development Team

Hello everyone!

It's been a few months since we released the free 1.6.3 update. We hope you are enjoying that update with its new features and improvements.

In the meantime, we've been listening to your feedback, so here's a smaller patch that adds some improvements and a few bug fixes.

Compatibility and finishing an ongoing game

Saves from version 1.6.3 should be 100% compatible with this new version, so you can proceed with your games normally.

However, if you want or need to finish your current game with the previous version (1.6.3), please go to the Steam client -> Games -> View Games Library -> Right-Click on Interstellar Space: Genesis -> Choose Betas tab -> Select the "old_version" branch. If you require an older version (1.6.2) choose the "old_version_2" branch. If you require an even older version (1.5.3) you can choose the "old_version_3" branch.

For the best experience, it is advisable that you start new games to enjoy the new features and improvements fully, and to not have bugs.

Thanks

Thanks a lot to everyone who has bought the game, and the expansions, and has been providing feedback! If you haven't bought the Natural Law expansion yet, please consider buying as it adds 2 very nice playable races to the game, that will have their own Evolution tree with the Evolving Empires expansion, among other features and music tracks. The Evolving Empires expansion adds two major new features: Evolutions and Minor Civilizations. It also includes 7 new leaders and 2 new music tracks.

If you have a few minutes to spare, and have been enjoying what we do, please leave us a review on Steam! ❤️

Have fun!

Adam Solo

Praxis Games

VERSION 1.6.4 (changelog)

AI

• Colony governors no longer choose 'Planet Construction' projects for asteroid belts that are either settled or that have non-zero sources of Helium-3.

• Fixed a rare issue that could allow a colony governor to choose a planet construction project next for a colony where a previous one was still ready to be deployed for the same planet on that turn. This would result in two planet construction projects for the same planet.

• Colony governors no longer build a 'Cloning Facility' if the max population on the planet was already reached.

• Colony governors can now build colony bases and planet construction projects in their systems when the colony where the project is assigned has no building slots, as these are not required for these projects.

UI / GRAPHICS

• Added the option to cancel planet construction projects when they are ready, in the same way that colony base projects can be canceled.

• Added ability to decrement, and not only increment, the number of missiles and the fire arc angle configuration in the 'Ship Design' screen. To decrement (reverse order), press the 'Shift' key while clicking.

• Remote exploration icons now slightly bigger, especially in 'Huge' and 'Gigantic' galaxy sizes. Also fixed the full scan "done" remote exploration icon. It was slightly bigger than the other icons.

• The lines of open wormholes are now a brighter green. The previous darker green would appear red to a colorblind person.

• Added "except when terraforming to Barren" to the 'Atmospheric Terraforming' tooltip section on both the 'Atmospheric Terraforming' tech in the research screen and in the "bulldozer" icon in the colony view. This note was added to clarify that it's always possible to terraform to Barren without having the 'Terrestrial Terraforming' tech. You only need the 'Atmospheric Terraforming' tech to terraform to Barren (to/from a 'Cold' or 'Hot' world). It's the only exception. For all other terraforming projects, both techs are required when terraforming between biome classes (Hot, Wet, Cold, Dead). Inside each class, the 'Terrestrial Terraforming' tech is sufficient.

• The "Confirm that you wish to stand down (no attack)" note, displayed when the player has an attack opportunity on a system, explains that "Note: No further engagements will appear in this system until the situation changes or the Engage fleet panel button is pressed.". The note was revised to include "(new fleets arrive or the enemy chooses to attack you)" after "the situation changes" to help clarify what these situations are.

Evolving Empires

• New notification added to reinforce that all leaders have been dismissed from the empire after choosing the "Hub and Spoke" evolution perk. Previously, the player might have been confused and thought all leaders had disappeared without explanation.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where multiple consecutive tech trades involving some races would end with the AI ​​diplomat saying "Any other business?" but without any dialogue options being presented. The only way to proceed was to close the diplomacy screen.

• Fixed an issue that caused Kaek's command center to display its blue light slightly off-center.

• Fixed an inconsistency where only the "Personal Shield" technology was showing as improving Space Marines' combat performance, when in fact all rifle upgrades, improved armor, and the 'Power Suit' technology also increase Space Marines' combat rating. Tech tooltips for these technologies now also show a bonus for Space Marines, not just for ground combat troops.

1.6.3 Update - Features and Improvements

New Special Systems

Inertial Destabilizer

Gravity-well Projector

QoL improvements

Version 1.6.3 - Full Release Note

NEW

• New combat special system 'Inertial Destabilizer' added. Targeted ship is torn apart and spins randomly. 4-8 damage to structure points multiplied by the size class of the ship. Shields and armor can't protect the ship and are not damaged. The destabilizer has a range of 30 squares. 1 turn cooldown.
• New combat special system 'Gravity-well Projector' added. Exerts a gravitational pull that creates 'holes' in the space-time continuum disrupting any attempt at FTL travel. Enemy ships cannot flee from the battlefield as long as this system is operational.
• New option for 'Fewer' Planet Specials found in systems, between 'Few' and 'Average'.

GAMEPLAY

• Now possible to choose a higher level eco-engineering development if the technology is available to allow for it. There is no need to develop eco-engineering in sequence now (e.g. Enhanced Ecology -> Advanced Ecology -> Gaia Uplift).

UI / GRAPHICS

• The 'Representative Solar System' option choice now persists. If player sets to 'OFF' it will remain so, until set to 'ON' again.
• Now possible to decrement (and not only increment) the number of players in the 'New Game' setup screen. Holding the 'Shift' key while left-clicking with the mouse decrements the number of players.
• Now also possible to decrease and cycle back on the difficulty level and galaxy size in the 'New Game' setup screen, also by pressing and holding the 'Shift' key while clicking.
• Now, the 'Score Victory' shows "unlimited turns (Score Victory off)" in the 'New Game' setup screen when this victory condition is disabled. Before, it was not obvious the game could have unlimited turns when the 'Score Victory' was disabled.
• Changed the 'Quick' leader trait's text from "+1 Initiative on Level up" to "+1 to Initiative Level ups", to clarify that the level ups occur each time the 'Initiative' skill is increased.
• Changed the 'Genius' leader trait's text from "+1 to Primary Skill of Choice on Level up" to "+1 To Primary Skill Level Ups", to clarify that the bonus is obtained on each level up to a primary skill of choice and not a freely assignable second primary skill point level up on a different skill.
• Note added to the 'Galactic Knowledge Exchange' wonder tooltip to clarify that the benefit of obtaining technologies from others requires the technology to have been actively researched by the other empires. i.e. researched by the players and not obtained by other means.
• On-leave leaders now displayed at the end of the leaders' list in the 'Leaders Management' screen.
• Note added to the "Research Treaty" tooltip to clarify that technology exchange becomes possible when a research treaty is established. The same goes for the "Trade Treaty". The tooltip explains that trading strategic resources between the two empires also becomes a possibility when a trade treaty is established.
• The ETA for a project with no production allocated to that project, but that could finish in one turn, now shows "1 turn" to finish when enough production overflow is available. It showed "--" before.
• Game manual updated to clarify that to win a Science Victory an empire has to reach a combined ultra tech level, by researching the most advanced technologies in each research field, a certain amount of times. The player may choose how many levels are required at game setup time. The default setting is 6 levels, or as many combined 'Ultra' research breakthroughs, from any research field.

• The notification on a minor civilization just being surveyed now clarifies the immediate bonus is obtained exclusively by the empire which finished the surveying (surveyed reward). It also clarifies that the new permanent bonus is the 'surveyed bonus', which is shared with anyone who who access to the minor civ.
• Note added to the 'Random Culture Perks' option in the 'New Game' setup screen to clarify that every player in the game will have a culture tree which is arranged differently from the other players.
• Moltar affinity's 'Extreme Transformation' tooltip now clarifies that the bonuses apply to all colonies of the empire, regardless of the species that lives there.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that was allowing the 'Chaos Chain' unique derelict tech to be found more than once, in ruins and/or through galactic events.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the end of game score to not match the score shown in the 'Hall of Fame'. This discrepancy was present in all victory conditions except for 'Election victory'.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes display 'Defeat' in the 'Hall of Fame' when the player actually won an alliance victory.
• Fixed a glitch that was causing the text label on distance between star systems ('distance measuring tool' feature) to appear behind some icon graphics in the galaxy map.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the AI to stop firing some weapons in auto-combat in rare occasions.
• Fixed a series of bugs involving the 'Salvage' combat operation. First, the auto-resolve action issued from inside manual combat was producing double the results for the winner. Secondly, money and techs were not being added to the player who did the actual salvaging operation in combat (only what was left in battlefield was added, and only if the player won). The 'Salvage' operation now works as intended.
• Also related with the 'Salvage' bug above, leaders are now salvageable from combat, as designed, and now working properly. During combat, there's a chance a leader will drop in their pod after their ship is destroyed, and can be captured.
• Fixed a glitch that was sometimes causing the "allowed movement positions" of a ship to not be updated after destroying an enemy ship, which would not allow a ship to immediately move to a position where the rival ship once was.
• Fixed a bombardment report issue where the number of population killed would be under-reported by one when the colony was destroyed.
• Fixed a rare game freeze when the planet's last POP was bombed in very particular circumstances.
• Fixed a rare game freeze caused by a the 'Galactic Council' convening when everyone else had surrendered, and only the player was left in the game. The game was over at that point, but deciding to continue playing the game did not disable the 'Galactic Council', as it should.
• Fixed an issue that was allowing the 'Leaders Management Screen' (F6) to open in the background when the 'Ship Design' screen was already open, but nothing was shown to the player.
• Fixed a rare glitch that could cause a minor civilization to be shown as present in a system when in fact it had been assigned to be removed by the game in the game generation process but not actually cleared from the system, as it should.
• Fixed a glitch that could show a possible sabotage job on a system where one wasn't possible. This was a UI glitch from a previous showing of a real sabotage job possibility on a different system, the player clicked before the glitched one.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the 'Asteroid Belts" overview panel to reveal the identity of an AI player with whom the player has not made contact yet. Now the asteroid belt name in the system view shows "unknown empire"; the asteroid belt name in the asteroid belt overview panel shows "unknown empire"; and the outpost icon, also in the asteroid overview panel, also displays "unknown empire".
• Fixed an issue when displaying a notification group of multiple minor civilizations being detected in the same turn. A blank icon would appear when grouping notifications ('Settings' -> NonCritical Notifications -> Grouped). Now displayed correctly when the notifications are grouped and when de-grouping them.
• Fixed a glitch where the Wan Ironshard colony leader could be displayed slightly outside frame in the leaders' management screen.
• Fixed a typo in the 'Violent Tectonics' planet special. Extra ")" at end of sentence removed, and more emphasis was given to the note explaining how the special can be removed from the planet.

• Fixed a bug in the 'Multi-dimensional' evolution perk tooltip. Now the tooltip informs the morale penalty obtained from the specific empire towards the player's empire, and not of said empire towards another. Also, the player now receives the penalty from that specific empire, and the penalty the AI empire is receiving from the player.
• Fixed a rare bug that could block game progression when the 'Investigation' unique ability was used by the player. Erroneous notifications could appear as a result of the decision of dismissing caught leaders.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a player could receive a notification informing a minor civilization had been surveyed by another empire when the minor had already been destroyed.

• Fixed a major issue in the Terrains Pack DLC that was causing some terrains to be preferred over others for newly founded colonies, which could result in not all terrains being seen in a given game, as they should. Now the algorithm picks different terrains from the ones already in the game randomly, as was intended by the design.
• Fixed a colony visual glitch in one of the Terran terrains where a building could be "half buried in a rock".

Compatibility and finishing an ongoing game

Thanks

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Version 1.6.3 Beta - Full Release Note

NEW

• New combat special system 'Inertial Destabilizer' added. Targeted ship is torn apart and spins randomly. 4-8 damage to structure points multiplied by the size class of the ship. Shields and armor can't protect the ship and are not damaged. The destabilizer has a range of 30 squares. 1 turn cooldown.
• New combat special system 'Gravity-well Projector' added. Exerts a gravitational pull that creates 'holes' in the space-time continuum disrupting any attempt at FTL travel. Enemy ships cannot flee from the battlefield as long as this system is operational.
• New option for 'Fewer' Planet Specials found in systems, between 'Few' and 'Average'.

GAMEPLAY

• Now possible to choose a higher level eco-engineering development if the technology is available to allow for it. There is no need to develop eco-engineering in sequence now (e.g. Enhanced Ecology -> Advanced Ecology -> Gaia Uplift).

UI / GRAPHICS

• The 'Representative Solar System' option choice now persists. If player sets to 'OFF' it will remain so, until set to 'ON' again.
• Now possible to decrement (and not only increment) the number of players in the 'New Game' setup screen. Holding the 'Shift' key while left-clicking with the mouse decrements the number of players.
• Now also possible to decrease and cycle back on the difficulty level and galaxy size in the 'New Game' setup screen, also by pressing and holding the 'Shift' key while clicking.
• Now, the 'Score Victory' shows "unlimited turns (Score Victory off)" in the 'New Game' setup screen when this victory condition is disabled. Before, it was not obvious the game could have unlimited turns when the 'Score Victory' was disabled.
• Changed the 'Quick' leader trait's text from "+1 Initiative on Level up" to "+1 to Initiative Level ups", to clarify that the level ups occur each time the 'Initiative' skill is increased.
• Changed the 'Genius' leader trait's text from "+1 to Primary Skill of Choice on Level up" to "+1 To Primary Skill Level Ups", to clarify that the bonus is obtained on each level up to a primary skill of choice and not a freely assignable second primary skill point level up on a different skill.
• Note added to the 'Galactic Knowledge Exchange' wonder tooltip to clarify that the benefit of obtaining technologies from others requires the technology to have been actively researched by the other empires. i.e. researched by the players and not obtained by other means.
• On-leave leaders now displayed at the end of the leaders' list in the 'Leaders Management' screen.
• Note added to the "Research Treaty" tooltip to clarify that technology exchange becomes possible when a research treaty is established. The same goes for the "Trade Treaty". The tooltip explains that trading strategic resources between the two empires also becomes a possibility when a trade treaty is established.

• The notification on a minor civilization just being surveyed now clarifies the immediate bonus is obtained exclusively by the empire which finished the surveying (surveyed reward). It also clarifies that the new permanent bonus is the 'surveyed bonus', which is shared with anyone who who access to the minor civ.
• Note added to the 'Random Culture Perks' option in the 'New Game' setup screen to clarify that every player in the game will have a culture tree which is arranged differently from the other players.
• Moltar affinity's 'Extreme Transformation' tooltip now clarifies that the bonuses apply to all colonies of the empire, regardless of the species that lives there.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that was allowing the 'Chaos Chain' unique derelict tech to be found more than once, in ruins and/or through galactic events.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the end of game score to not match the score shown in the 'Hall of Fame'. This discrepancy was present in all victory conditions except for 'Election victory'.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes display 'Defeat' in the 'Hall of Fame' when the player actually won an alliance victory.
• Fixed a glitch that was causing the text label on distance between star systems ('distance measuring tool' feature) to appear behind some icon graphics in the galaxy map.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the AI to stop firing some weapons in auto-combat in rare occasions.
• Fixed a series of bugs involving the 'Salvage' combat operation. First, the auto-resolve action issued from inside manual combat was producing double the results for the winner. Secondly, money and techs were not being added to the player who did the actual salvaging operation in combat (only what was left in battlefield was added, and only if the player won). The 'Salvage' operation now works as intended.
• Also related with the 'Salvage' bug above, leaders are now salvageable from combat, as designed, and now working properly. During combat, there's a chance a leader will drop in their pod after their ship is destroyed, and can be captured.
• Fixed a glitch that was sometimes causing the "allowed movement positions" of a ship to not be updated after destroying an enemy ship, which would not allow a ship to immediately move to a position where the rival ship once was.
• Fixed a bombardment report issue where the number of population killed would be under-reported by one when the colony was destroyed.
• Fixed a rare game freeze when the planet's last POP was bombed in very particular circumstances.
• Fixed a rare game freeze caused by a the 'Galactic Council' convening when everyone else had surrendered, and only the player was left in the game. The game was over at that point, but deciding to continue playing the game did not disable the 'Galactic Council', as it should.
• Fixed an issue that was allowing the 'Leaders Management Screen' (F6) to open in the background when the 'Ship Design' screen was already open, but nothing was shown to the player.
• Fixed a rare glitch that could cause a minor civilization to be shown as present in a system when in fact it had been assigned to be removed by the game in the game generation process but not actually cleared from the system, as it should.
• Fixed a glitch that could show a possible sabotage job on a system where one wasn't possible. This was a UI glitch from a previous showing of a real sabotage job possibility on a different system, the player clicked before the glitched one.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the 'Asteroid Belts" overview panel to reveal the identity of an AI player with whom the player has not made contact yet. Now the asteroid belt name in the system view shows "unknown empire"; the asteroid belt name in the asteroid belt overview panel shows "unknown empire"; and the outpost icon, also in the asteroid overview panel, also displays "unknown empire".
• Fixed an issue when displaying a notification group of multiple minor civilizations being detected in the same turn. A blank icon would appear when grouping notifications ('Settings' -> NonCritical Notifications -> Grouped). Now displayed correctly when the notifications are grouped and when de-grouping them.

• Fixed a bug in the 'Multi-dimensional' evolution perk tooltip. Now the tooltip informs the morale penalty obtained from the specific empire towards the player's empire, and not of said empire towards another. Also, the player now receives the penalty from that specific empire, and the penalty the AI empire is receiving from the player.
• Fixed a rare bug that could block game progression when the 'Investigation' unique ability was used by the player. Erroneous notifications could appear as a result of the decision of dismissing caught leaders.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a player could receive a notification informing a minor civilization had been surveyed by another empire when the minor had already been destroyed.

• Fixed a colony visual glitch in one of the Terran terrains where a building could be "half buried in a rock".

• Hotfix #1 May 20, 2025: Fixed a freeze in combat when fighting against space monsters. The issue could also cause the inability to fire against space monsters.
• Hotfix #2 May 21, 2025: The ETA for a project with no production allocated to that project, but that could finish in one turn, now shows "1 turn" to finish when enough production overflow is available. It showed "--" before.
• Hotfix #3 May 21, 2025: Fixed an issue in the Terrains Pack DLC that was causing some terrains to be preferred over others for newly founded colonies. Now the algorithm picks different terrains from the ones already in the game in a random fashion, as was intended by the design.

Hello everyone. It's been a while since we last reached out and I thought this would be a good time to provide an update on the ongoing activities and on what you can expect for Interstellar Space: Genesis going forward. First, I'd like to thank everyone who has bought the game, and the expansions, so far. That is key so that we can continue providing support and producing new content for ISG. Secondly, I'd like to share that development activities were delayed this past year due to family business issues that needed my utmost attention. Progress was made on new art procurement for expansion 3, but the new features' development (coding) stalled to a halt for a few months and was reduced for the rest of the year. That said, I'm happy to report that my family issues are now resolved and I'm back to full speed on all fronts of the game development going forward, namely on the next free update and expansion 3. So get ready for more ISG action! Initially, the plan was to release everything in one go, both the free update and expansion 3. However, since the expansion 3 is delayed, and there are some outstanding issues that got resolved in the meantime that deserve to be added to the game as soon as possible, I decided to release the free update very soon (not weeks or months, real soon!) and then concentrate all efforts on the expansion work afterward.

Expansion 3 sneak peek

While I can't disclose what expansion 3 will be about yet, I feel I'd share something with you guys at this point. So, here's a sneak peek of what's coming. I remind that expansion 3 will offer a variety of new content and gameplay features for added challenge and excitement, while revealing more of the ISG universe and lore. "Epic" is one of the defining words of the expansion! So, while it is taking a while, I can say with confidence that the wait will be totally worth it!

Free Update 1.6.3

The free update 1.6.3 will fix some important bugs but also add some assorted improvements and QoL enhancements. I'm currently finalizing the update and the plan is to release it in the coming days or few weeks. I can advance that the free update will add the much requested ability to select a higher-level eco-engineering improvement, if that is available, without having to do all the eco-engineering projects in sequence. There will also be a fix for the final 'Game Score' not matching the Hall of Fame, among other bug fixes. That's it for now. Thanks everyone for reading and for all the great feedback and support! ❤️ Talk soon, Adam

Free Update 1.6.2

VERSION 1.6.2 (changelog)

NEW

• 7 new colony 3D terrains, one for each of the different planet biomes (Terran, Desert, Lava, Acid, Ice, Swamp, and Barren).

GAMEPLAY

• Infrastructure development upgrades now provide extra experience to the colony leader, as it was the case already for planetary engineering and construction projects.
• Now possible to manually rotate orbital stations in combat (a bug was preventing that before).

UI / GRAPHICS

• The confirmation screen that pops up when building an outpost on an asteroid belt now informs the size of the belt, to help identify the asteroid belt that is about to be mined.
• Added a note to the 'Score victory' tooltip in the 'Victory Conditions' panel on the 'New Game' screen, to clarify that the game doesn't end after an arbitrary number of turns have passed when the score victory is disabled.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that was causing the Aggression modifier (in the 'New Game' screen) to not work properly after saving and reloading. The game would start with the defined aggression modifier, but would revert to 'Normal' aggression after reloading. This bug was present since version 1.6 (Nov 23). Ongoing games will get automatically fixed after this update, so there's no need to re-start to benefit from this fix.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the 'Zoom & Shoot' ship kill animation, that can sometimes be displayed when finishing off a ship, to not trigger. Remember that you can skip the animation by pressing a mouse button or the 'Space' or 'Esc' keys. You can also disable the 'Zoom & Shoot' animation entirely in the 'Game Settings.
• Fixed a bug after winning a 'Domination victory' and saving the game, when re-loading that won game, the domination, score and science victory progress weren't displayed anymore.
• Fixed another bug in the 'Domination victory' that was allowing domination victory to be achieved when a homeworld was not taken but was only in the empire's influence zone. Controlling the homeworld is required for a domination victory.
• Fixed a bug in the production overflow when constructing ships or buildings that could display an incorrect number of turns necessary for project completion in the situation where there was flat production being obtained for construction projects.
• Fixed a glitch that was causing the default historical graph setting to be 'Tech' and not 'Overall', as it should, when the graph is presented for the first time in the 'Empire Overview' screen.
• Fixed a glitch that was causing the Terran terrain waterfall to not flow naturally but presenting the waterfall with a delay (waterfall display lag). Now it flows continuously since opening the Terran colony.
• Fixed a glitch that could cause orbital stations' shields' graphics to not update correctly on the next combat turn, after the orbital station automatic rotation.
• Fixed another glitch regarding rotation that was causing the ship direction in the ship panel to not update correctly after manual rotation of ships.
• Fixed a rare glitch that could cause a fleet with a set destination, but not yet travelling, to not be able to get back to a system immediately. The fleet would display "ETA: 0 turns" and be rendered on top of the system star.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the supply range borders to not update immediately after offering or receiving system gifts.

• Fixed a bug when picking the 'Master Geologist' wealth culture perk, you'd suddenly become able to spawn a technically infinite supply of space monsters by downgrading and re-raising the eco level to 3. Now, the bonus is only offered once per colony eco-3 upgrading.
• Fixed a glitch that could cause the monster spawn progress bar to go overboard in the 'Empire Overview' screen.

Terrains Pack

VERSION 1.6.1 (changelog)

BALANCE

• The 'Theory of Everything' knowledge culture perk now offers 3 free random techs, and not 2, as before. This perk needed a bit more punch. Change only reflected in games started with 1.6.1.
• The ‘Deep Space Initiative’ knowledge culture perk now only requires the player to own 10 systems to grant an extra free remote exploration. Previously (introduced in version 1.6), 15 systems were required. Therefore, this perk should now be more enticing than before. Change only reflected in games started with 1.6.1.

UI / GRAPHICS

• The 'Megacorporations' wealth culture perk now shows in the tooltip how many BCs are expected to be gained if the perk is chosen.
• The 'Space Socialites' adventure perk now shows in the tooltip how many extra culture points are expected to be gained if the perk is chosen.
• The conquest, wonder, and science victory conditions' icons were tweaked to be consistent with the other victory conditions' icons, graphics-wise.
• The 'Change Music' button in the 'Game Settings' screen is now presented only during the game, and not when accessing the game's settings from the main menu, since the music can only be changed while playing.
• Unlocking the 'Resilient Colonists' unique ability now triggers a "Colonization is possible" notification to be issued if colonies become colonizable after the ability becomes ready to be used.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that was causing an ally to became upset when their request for peace didn't go through with a third party, even after the requested empire had accepted to consider the peace deal (not their fault the third party didn't accept). The ally now acknowledges and gets happy with the request being accepted, whatever the decision of the third party.
• Fixed a rare bug that could generate an erroneous notification about an interrogation report obtained after a successful invasion, when no invasion had occurred but rather a system had been offered.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the game to not launch properly if there were files present in the custom races folder (C:\Users\\AppData\LocalLow\Praxis Games\ISG\Races) that were not XML.
• Fixed an issue that caused new scanner technology to not immediately update the empire's supply pool after the technology was acquired through a technology exchange. Now, the supply range borders are expanded immediately after.
• Fixed an issue in the Colonization summary tooltip (raised when hovering the mouse over a colonizable planet) where one of the notes was not shown when the planet reached full scan.
• Fixed an issue that could reveal the destinations of rival fleets without the player having the required scanner technology in the 'Overlapping Fleet' panel, which arises when multiple fleets are present in close proximity to each other.

• Fixed a bug in the Human affinity's 'Multi-dimensional war' evolution perk that was causing the morale penalty to still hold even after the enemy with the perk had been totally vanquished. Now, the morale penalty is removed after the player is removed from the game.

1.6 Update - Features and Improvements

New Victory Conditions

Balance tweaks, and QoL improvements

Version 1.6 - Full Release Note

NEW

• 4 New Victory Conditions! Wonder, Domination, Science, and Score victories. Also, revamped Conquest Victory now allows setting the percentage of colonized systems that are required to win. Possible also to configure the new victory conditions and the frequency of Galactic Council sessions for the Election victory.
• It is now possible to adjust the wormhole lines' brightness in the galaxy map, including disabling them.
• 'Deep Space Initiative' culture perk revamped, now provides free remote exploration on adjacent sectors to the ones explored. This shall provide for a faster and more balanced remote exploration experience in bigger maps.
• It is now possible to move weapon components up and down on a ship in the ship design screen.
• New Hall of Fame reset option added! Resetting the hall of fame reverts it to the default entries.
• The 'Powerful Creatures' planet special now also provides an empire-wide ground combat bonus.
• Added information on what each colony is currently producing to the system tooltip in the galaxy map. Hovering over each system now lists the current colony construction projects in each colony.

AI IMPROVEMENTS

• The AI now scraps planetary domes and micro gravity generators when they are no longer needed.

BALANCE

• 'Deep Space Initiative' culture perked moved from the 1st to the 3rd level on the 'Knowledge' culture branch. The 'Theory of Everything' culture perk, that provides two free technologies, now has competition on the 3rd level. And, the 'Astronomy Culture' perk, that provides a second remote exploration target is now a single choice in the 1st level.
• 'Quantum Singularity' technology now provides +100 flat research points per exploited black hole, instead of previous +200% RP on accretion disk, making it a far more interesting tech now.
• Exchanging techs with other empires via 'Research Treaty' now a bit harder and not as easy as before.
• Space requirements for some unique super technologies found in ruins were revised to be a bit smaller and even more attractive to equip. Chaos Chain space reduced from 150 to 125. Positron Torpedo from 150 to 135, and Ion Discharger space reduced from 150 to 140.
• Leader desires for building galactic wonders in their colonies were reduced significantly, especially for the wonders that would be hard to unlock with the current culture choices.
• The more powerful ships and unique technologies found in ruins now tend to be found a bit later in the game when going with lower production and research efficiency picked at game start. The less research efficiency/speed of the game, the later these powerful items will tend to be found, so that these do not come into play too early for the current research status of the galaxy.

• Subject empires will now refrain from destroying minor civilizations their overlord has access to.

PERFORMANCE

• Loading a saved game is now much faster. This is especially noticeable in big late-game saves.

UI / GRAPHICS

• Espionage assignments screen tweaked to show spy missions by category, resulting in a better presentation of available missions.
• New notification now informs the player that cloning centers may no longer be needed when a colony reaches maximum population capacity.
• The leaders management screen now offers the possibility of listing the leaders by their status: unassigned or assigned leaders shown first. Sorting by 'unassigned first' can help speed up finding leaders that may be ready for new spy operations.
• The 'Fusion Beam' effect has been replaced by the correct effect. It was using the same effect of the 'Laser Beam'.
• Hovering over torpedoes and missiles in combat will now highlight the ships' they're targeting.
• The colony invasion notification now takes you directly to the planet instead of the system view.
• Now possible to center the galaxy map on overview panel's objects by holding the 'ctrl' key and left clicking on that item. This worked for ships and fleets before, and now works for all items: colonies, planets, asteroid belts, gas giants, accretion disks, fleets and ships. This allows the player to find these items better in the overview panel.
• The 'Disable All' button in the 'New Game Setup' screen now has a tooltip to explain the behavior, what players are disabled, and that only two are left enabled.
• Tribute requests now show how much money is requested directly in the main diplomacy dialog message, and not only in the diplomatic message tooltip.
• The 'Threat to Leave' leader notification now blocks the 'Accept' option if the player does not have enough funds to pay the leader's request. The tooltip explains what options are available to the player to obtain enough funds.
• The 'Natural Wonders' and 'Exceptional Fossils' planet specials now list "+100% from Space Socialites" in the colony BC tooltip, to clarify where the extra credits are coming from.
• A warning is now raised when trying to assign a colony leader to a spy mission if a leader desire would become unfulfilled by relocating the leader to other duty.
• The tooltip for the 'Just One More Turn' button in the victory screen now clarifies that, in light of the new victory conditions' changes, you can continue playing after winning or losing due to a particular victory condition, and win (or lose) again through other means.
• Now possible to scroll the tech tree left and right using the 'A' and 'D' keys. The tech tree horizontal scroll bar was also slightly thickened to improve usability.
• Now easier to click on fighters and bombers to target them in combat.
• The Raid UI, the panel shown after raiding a colony with an assault ship, was revamped to be inline with the same theme of the other screens. It was using an older version of the UI.
• Hovering over a leader desire notification will now highlight the system, or fleet, in the galaxy map where the leader is stationed.
• The fleets overview panel now shows which fleets have leaders, and the number of them. Also possible to sort the fleets in the overview panel by amount of leaders present in the fleet.
• A bit more transparency was added to the 'Colony Structures' list panel in the colony screen. Now it looks better, as more buildings and terrain can be seen behind that panel.
• The 'Planet Construction' tooltip now clarifies that the system must have a colony to support a planet construction project in that system.
• The 'Master Geologists' wealth culture perk now clarifies that the uplifted worlds that are allowed to be terraformed with that perk are the ones that have ecological level 3, which cannot be terraformed otherwise.

SOUND & MUSIC

• Added sound when assigning a leader to a spy mission.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a major bug that could cause a game freeze when two or more 'Chaos Chain' weapon slots were fired at the same time at a target.
• Fixed a major bug that could cause significant slowdown and sometimes a crash in the system view when displaying too many Human frigate and destroyer ships. This could also happen with Moltar ships.
• Fixed a major bug in space combat that could cause a hang when using a unique ship found in ruins with bomber bays in combat without having researched any missile technology.
• Fixed a bug that was causing early research breakthroughs to only happen at turn ETA 3 to tech breakthrough. The correct behavior is at ETA 3 and 2. The wording on the early breakthrough was revised to clarify it's 3 or 2 turns for breakthrough.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing the “You can build an Outpost” notification to be displayed when the Outpost ship had already been destroyed.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the population growth rate displayed on the 'Population Details' panel in the colony screen to not update when changing production allocated to planetary engineering and towards 'Habitat Control'.
• Fixed a rare bug that was causing o known system to be displayed as 'Unknown destination', when the system was in fact known.
• Fixed a rare issue that was causing an empire name to be displayed and revealed in the fleet panel, without contact had been made with that empire before, in special circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing the 'Collective Transcendence' unique ability to unlock only after one Economics tech had been researched. At least two techs need to be researched in all fields.
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a duplicate unique tech found in ruins to be obtained by the enemy even after the player had paid exclusivity access on the 'An offer you can refuse' galactic event.
• Fixed a bug that could allow leaders to obtain more than 5 secondary skills in special game event combinations.
• Fixed a bug that was causing a lone frigate to not be able to board a target immediately after casting a tractor beam.
• Fixed a rare bug that could lead to a combat lockup when a ship was mind-controlled in the same turn it was instructed to flee. Fixed an issue that was causing peace treaties to not be displayed in the diplomacy dialog screen.
• Peace treaties are now displayed and tell the player how many turns remain until the peace treaty remains in effect.
• Fixed a glitch that was allowing the horizontal scrollbar of the research screen to be set on the last viewed position in a previous game. It now resets the position on a new game.
• Fixed a glitch in the Human default fleet. The alternate cruiser design had misaligned light effects.
• Fixed a bug in the empire rankings shown in the diplomacy screen where sometimes the rankings could be different in the first time this screen was opened with respect to following openings. Also, the ranking could sometimes be shown incorrectly in the AI diplomacy status screen. It was taking into account all empires, including the ones the player didn't have contact with yet. It now shows the correct rankings in both instances.
• Fixed a rare sabotage bug where a notification that a leader and crew were recalled from a sabotage mission would be raised even though the sabotage already happened the turn before. This special case happened when a leader was previously assigned to a ship before being assigned to a sabotage mission.
• Fixed a glitch in space combat when hovering over a ship's special system and then pressing the tab key (without moving the mouse off the special system) and then selecting another ship without a special system. The pop up info on the special system would remain on the screen and wouldn't go away until another ship was selected with a special system.
• Fixed a typo on the message when you click on an unexplored white star, "while not has bad" now "while not as bad".
• Fixed a typo on the 'Balanced' option tooltip under 'Automate Remote Exploration' had a second period after "pattern".
• Fixed a typo on the 'Battle Graveyard' galactic event, which had a bad paragraph break. The sentence "You will not know the secret." is now part of the same paragraph as "The gift shall not be yours. Stay away, or prepare to suffer."
• Fixed a typo on the 'Raid' report after raiding a planet such as "...X BC of strange artifacts," had two spaces between "of" and "strange".
• Fixed a typo on the 'Transporter Room' special system, a space was missing in "...be captured during combat.The Transporter Room has..".
• Fixed a typo where "Polution" should be "Pollution" in both the planetary engineering tooltip and eco-engineering button tooltip in the colony screen.
• Fixed a rare bug that could still cause a duplicate spy skill choice (same skill offered in both options) when leveling up a spy leader. This should now be fixed for good.
• Fixed an issue in the Alliance victory displayed in the 'Galactic Council' screen during voting. It would display "Defeat" to the player when voting for an Ally and accepting the results. Now it displays "You win an alliance victory!" when voting for an ally and the ally wins, when both accepting or refusing the AI ruling.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing an empire to offer both a peace treaty and a surrender request in the same turn.
• Fixed an issue when scrapping a project for a galactic wonder, a notification would explain that credits "could be salvaged" from cancelling the project, which could make it unclear if some further action was necessary to obtain the credits. The notification was revised to clarify that the salvaged credits "were added" to your treasury.
• Fixed an issue that was not allowing the fleet panel to close when hitting the 'Esc' key when the 'Fleet Assign Right Click' option was selected in the 'Game Settings'. It only worked in the default assigning mode. Now it works in both modes.
• Fixed an issue in the 'Overview' panel which was causing the 'Ships Overview' to not be instantly refreshed when assigning a ship to a system.
• Fixed an issue that was causing an unknown empire to be revealed by inspecting an outpost or colony built in the system view without formal contact had been made with that empire.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the supply range to not update immediately after stealing a logistics tech via espionage.
• Fixed an issue in the 'Overlap panel', shown when multiple fleets are in the same space, where sometimes an AI fleet would be described as travelling to an "unexplored system", when that system was already known by the player, so the name of the system should be shown instead.
• Fixed an issue that was causing orbital stations to not refresh immediately in the overview panel after obtaining a tech for orbital station construction, via technology exchange. Now, the overview panel refreshes immediately.

• Fixed a rare bug that could create game corruption when revealing a minor civilization that had been already assimilated, using the 'Sacrifical Lambs' evolution perk. This special case could manifest when the minor had been assimilated in the exact turn before it was revealed by another player.
• Fixed a bug that could lead to "infinite infrastructure upgrades" in a colony after picking the 'Telepathic Command' evolution perk before doing the colony infrastructure upgrade.
• Fixed a bug in the 'Extreme Transformation' evolution perk which would cancel all ongoing wars upon being selected, when it shouldn't. Only treaties shall be canceled.
• Fixed another bug in the 'Extreme Transformation' evolution perk in combination with the 'Resilient Settlers' unique ability, where the latter was not consuming its charge when colonizing planets of types for which the colonization tech was not researched. It now also consumes the ability with the Extreme Transformation perk, even if all biomes are ideal.
• Fixed a bug in the 'Spiritual Awakening' evolution perk, which was allowing bombing to occur even though the perk denies it. This is now corrected.
• Fixed a typo on the 'Minor Civilizations' tooltip on the Galaxy Setup panel of the 'New Game' setup screen. Changed "of the planet their inhabit" to "of the planet they inhabit".
• Fixed an issue in the 'Spiritual Awakening' evolution perk where it could be unclear what strategic resource technologies did the perk offered. The perk's tooltip now explains that the technologies offered are the ones associated with research choices, which are unlocked after gaining access to the strategic resource for the first time.
• Fixed an issue in the minor civilization tooltip which would reveal the name of an unknown empire that had fully surveyed them, without formal contact had been established with that empire.

Compatibility and finishing an ongoing game

Thanks

Version 1.6 Beta 2

• Added a sound to the weapon slot re-order feature in the ship design screen.
• Tribute requests now show how much money is requested directly in the main diplomacy dialog message, and not only in the diplomatic message tooltip.
• Fixed a bug in the new Galactic Council frequency option, where sometimes the value used was not the correct one. Now, the frequency of the galactic council will always be according to the option defined by the player.
• Fixed an issue that was causing closed wormhole lines to not change brightness upon player request. Now all wormhole lines change brightness via the new feature introduced by 1.6 Beta.
• Fixed an issue that was causing an unknown empire to be revealed by inspecting an outpost or colony built in the system view without formal contact had been made with that empire.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the supply range to not update immediately after stealing a logistics tech via espionage.
• Fixed an issue in the 'Overlap panel', shown when multiple fleets are in the same space, where sometimes an AI fleet would be described as travelling to an "unexplored system", when that system was already known by the player, so the name of the system should be shown instead.
• Fixed an issue that was causing peace treaties to not be displayed in the diplomacy dialog screen. Peace treaties are now displayed and tell the player how many turns remain until the peace treaty remains in effect.
• Fixed an issue that was causing orbital stations to not refresh immediately in the overview panel after obtaining a tech for orbital station construction, via technology exchange. Now, the overview panel refreshes immediately.

• Fixed an issue in the minor civilization tooltip which would reveal the name of an unknown empire that had fully surveyed them, without formal contact had been established with that empire.

New Victory Conditions

Balance tweaks, and QoL improvements

I Want To Try It and Provide Feedback!​

Version 1.6 Beta - Full Release Note

NEW

• 4 New Victory Conditions! Wonder, Domination, Science, and Score victories. Also, revamped Conquest Victory now allows setting the percentage of colonized systems that are required to win. Possible also to configure the new victory conditions and the frequency of Galactic Council sessions for the Election victory.
• It is now possible to adjust the wormhole lines' brightness in the galaxy map, including disabling them.
• 'Deep Space Initiative' culture perk revamped, now provides free remote exploration on adjacent sectors to the ones explored. This shall provide for a faster and more balanced remote exploration experience in bigger maps.
• It is now possible to move weapon components up and down on a ship in the ship design screen.
• New Hall of Fame reset option added! Resetting the hall of fame reverts it to the default entries.
• The 'Powerful Creatures' planet special now also provides an empire-wide ground combat bonus.
• Added information on what each colony is currently producing to the system tooltip in the galaxy map. Hovering over each system now lists the current colony construction projects in each colony.

AI IMPROVEMENTS

• The AI now scraps planetary domes and micro gravity generators when they are no longer needed.

BALANCE

• 'Deep Space Initiative' culture perked moved from the 1st to the 3rd level on the 'Knowledge' culture branch. The 'Theory of Everything' culture perk, that provides two free technologies, now has competition on the 3rd level. And, the 'Astronomy Culture' perk, that provides a second remote exploration target is now a single choice in the 1st level.
• 'Quantum Singularity' technology now provides +100 flat research points per exploited black hole, instead of previous +200% RP on accretion disk, making it a far more interesting tech now.
• Exchanging techs with other empires via 'Research Treaty' now a bit harder and not as easy as before.
• Space requirements for some unique super technologies found in ruins were revised to be a bit smaller and even more attractive to equip. Chaos Chain space reduced from 150 to 125. Positron Torpedo from 150 to 135, and Ion Discharger space reduced from 150 to 140.
• Leader desires for building galactic wonders in their colonies were reduced significantly, especially for the wonders that would be hard to unlock with the current culture choices.
• The more powerful ships and unique technologies found in ruins now tend to be found a bit later in the game when going with lower production and research efficiency picked at game start. The less research efficiency/speed of the game, the later these powerful items will tend to be found, so that these do not come into play too early for the current research status of the galaxy.

• Subject empires will now refrain from destroying minor civilizations their overlord has access to.

PERFORMANCE

• Loading a saved game is now much faster. This is especially noticeable in big late-game saves.

UI / GRAPHICS

• Espionage assignments screen tweaked to show spy missions by category, resulting in a better presentation of available missions.
• New notification now informs the player that cloning centers may no longer be needed when a colony reaches maximum population capacity.
• The leaders management screen now offers the possibility of listing the leaders by their status: unassigned or assigned leaders shown first. Sorting by 'unassigned first' can help speed up finding leaders that may be ready for new spy operations.
• The 'Fusion Beam' effect has been replaced by the correct effect. It was using the same effect of the 'Laser Beam'.
• Hovering over torpedoes and missiles in combat will now highlight the ships' they're targeting.
• The colony invasion notification now takes you directly to the planet instead of the system view.
• Now possible to center the galaxy map on overview panel's objects by holding the 'ctrl' key and left clicking on that item. This worked for ships and fleets before, and now works for all items: colonies, planets, asteroid belts, gas giants, accretion disks, fleets and ships. This allows the player to find these items better in the overview panel.
• The 'Disable All' button in the 'New Game Setup' screen now has a tooltip to explain the behavior, what players are disabled, and that only two are left enabled.
• The 'Threat to Leave' leader notification now blocks the 'Accept' option if the player does not have enough funds to pay the leader's request. The tooltip explains what options are available to the player to obtain enough funds.
• The 'Natural Wonders' and 'Exceptional Fossils' planet specials now list "+100% from Space Socialites" in the colony BC tooltip, to clarify where the extra credits are coming from.
• A warning is now raised when trying to assign a colony leader to a spy mission if a leader desire would become unfulfilled by relocating the leader to other duty.
• The tooltip for the 'Just One More Turn' button in the victory screen now clarifies that, in light of the new victory conditions' changes, you can continue playing after winning or losing due to a particular victory condition, and win (or lose) again through other means.
• Now possible to scroll the tech tree left and right using the 'A' and 'D' keys. The tech tree horizontal scroll bar was also slightly thickened to improve usability.
• Now easier to click on fighters and bombers to target them in combat.
• The Raid UI, the panel shown after raiding a colony with an assault ship, was revamped to be inline with the same theme of the other screens. It was using an older version of the UI.
• Hovering over a leader desire notification will now highlight the system, or fleet, in the galaxy map where the leader is stationed.
• The fleets overview panel now shows which fleets have leaders, and the number of them. Also possible to sort the fleets in the overview panel by amount of leaders present in the fleet.
• A bit more transparency was added to the 'Colony Structures' list panel in the colony screen. Now it looks better, as more buildings and terrain can be seen behind that panel.
• The 'Planet Construction' tooltip now clarifies that the system must have a colony to support a planet construction project in that system.
• The 'Master Geologists' wealth culture perk now clarifies that the uplifted worlds that are allowed to be terraformed with that perk are the ones that have ecological level 3, which cannot be terraformed otherwise.

SOUND & MUSIC

• Added sound when assigning a leader to a spy mission.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a major bug that could cause a game freeze when two or more 'Chaos Chain' weapon slots were fired at the same time at a target.
• Fixed a major bug that could cause significant slowdown and sometimes a crash in the system view when displaying too many Human frigate and destroyer ships. This could also happen with Moltar ships.
• Fixed a major bug in space combat that could cause a hang when using a unique ship found in ruins with bomber bays in combat without having researched any missile technology.
• Fixed a bug that was causing early research breakthroughs to only happen at turn ETA 3 to tech breakthrough. The correct behavior is at ETA 3 and 2. The wording on the early breakthrough was revised to clarify it's 3 or 2 turns for breakthrough.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing the “You can build an Outpost” notification to be displayed when the Outpost ship had already been destroyed.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the population growth rate displayed on the 'Population Details' panel in the colony screen to not update when changing production allocated to planetary engineering and towards 'Habitat Control'.
• Fixed a rare bug that was causing o known system to be displayed as 'Unknown destination', when the system was in fact known.
• Fixed a rare issue that was causing an empire name to be displayed and revealed in the fleet panel, without contact had been made with that empire before, in special circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing the 'Collective Transcendence' unique ability to unlock only after one Economics tech had been researched. At least two techs need to be researched in all fields.
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a duplicate unique tech found in ruins to be obtained by the enemy even after the player had paid exclusivity access on the 'An offer you can refuse' galactic event.
• Fixed a bug that could allow leaders to obtain more than 5 secondary skills in special game event combinations.
• Fixed a bug that was causing a lone frigate to not be able to board a target immediately after casting a tractor beam.
• Fixed a rare bug that could lead to a combat lockup when a ship was mind-controlled in the same turn it was instructed to flee.
• Fixed a glitch that was allowing the horizontal scrollbar of the research screen to be set on the last viewed position in a previous game. It now resets the position on a new game.
• Fixed a glitch in the Human default fleet. The alternate cruiser design had misaligned light effects.
• Fixed a bug in the empire rankings shown in the diplomacy screen where sometimes the rankings could be different in the first time this screen was opened with respect to following openings. Also, the ranking could sometimes be shown incorrectly in the AI diplomacy status screen. It was taking into account all empires, including the ones the player didn't have contact with yet. It now shows the correct rankings in both instances.
• Fixed a rare sabotage bug where a notification that a leader and crew were recalled from a sabotage mission would be raised even though the sabotage already happened the turn before. This special case happened when a leader was previously assigned to a ship before being assigned to a sabotage mission.
• Fixed a glitch in space combat when hovering over a ship's special system and then pressing the tab key (without moving the mouse off the special system) and then selecting another ship without a special system. The pop up info on the special system would remain on the screen and wouldn't go away until another ship was selected with a special system.
• Fixed a typo on the message when you click on an unexplored white star, "while not has bad" now "while not as bad".
• Fixed a typo on the 'Balanced' option tooltip under 'Automate Remote Exploration' had a second period after "pattern".
• Fixed a typo on the 'Battle Graveyard' galactic event, which had a bad paragraph break. The sentence "You will not know the secret." is now part of the same paragraph as "The gift shall not be yours. Stay away, or prepare to suffer."
• Fixed a typo on the 'Raid' report after raiding a planet such as "...X BC of strange artifacts," had two spaces between "of" and "strange".
• Fixed a typo on the 'Transporter Room' special system, a space was missing in "...be captured during combat.The Transporter Room has..".
• Fixed a typo where "Polution" should be "Pollution" in both the planetary engineering tooltip and eco-engineering button tooltip in the colony screen.
• Fixed a rare bug that could still cause a duplicate spy skill choice (same skill offered in both options) when leveling up a spy leader. This should now be fixed for good.
• Fixed an issue in the Alliance victory displayed in the 'Galactic Council' screen during voting. It would display "Defeat" to the player when voting for an Ally and accepting the results. Now it displays "You win an alliance victory!" when voting for an ally and the ally wins, when both accepting or refusing the AI ruling.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing an empire to offer both a peace treaty and a surrender request in the same turn.
• Fixed an issue when scrapping a project for a galactic wonder, a notification would explain that credits "could be salvaged" from cancelling the project, which could make it unclear if some further action was necessary to obtain the credits. The notification was revised to clarify that the salvaged credits "were added" to your treasury.
• Fixed an issue that was not allowing the fleet panel to close when hitting the 'Esc' key when the 'Fleet Assign Right Click' option was selected in the 'Game Settings'. It only worked in the default assigning mode. Now it works in both modes.
• Fixed an issue in the 'Overview' panel which was causing the 'Ships Overview' to not be instantly refreshed when assigning a ship to a system.

• Fixed a rare bug that could create game corruption when revealing a minor civilization that had been already assimilated, using the 'Sacrifical Lambs' evolution perk. This special case could manifest when the minor had been assimilated in the exact turn before it was revealed by another player.
• Fixed a bug that could lead to "infinite infrastructure upgrades" in a colony after picking the 'Telepathic Command' evolution perk before doing the colony infrastructure upgrade.
• Fixed a bug in the 'Extreme Transformation' evolution perk which would cancel all ongoing wars upon being selected, when it shouldn't. Only treaties shall be canceled.
• Fixed another bug in the 'Extreme Transformation' evolution perk in combination with the 'Resilient Settlers' unique ability, where the latter was not consuming its charge when colonizing planets of types for which the colonization tech was not researched. It now also consumes the ability with the Extreme Transformation perk, even if all biomes are ideal.
• Fixed a bug in the 'Spiritual Awakening' evolution perk, which was allowing bombing to occur even though the perk denies it. This is now corrected.
• Fixed a typo on the 'Minor Civilizations' tooltip on the Galaxy Setup panel of the 'New Game' setup screen. Changed "of the planet their inhabit" to "of the planet they inhabit".
• Fixed an issue in the 'Spiritual Awakening' evolution perk where it could be unclear what strategic resource technologies did the perk offered. The perk's tooltip now explains that the technologies offered are the ones associated with research choices, which are unlocked after gaining access to the strategic resource for the first time.

Expansion 3

Free Update 1.6

Ongoing Sale

VERSION 1.5.3 (changelog)

UI & GRAPHICS

• It's now possible to skip the 'Zoom and Shoot' space combat animation by pressing the 'spacebar' or 'Escape' keys, or by pressing any mouse button when the animation starts (I remind that this animation can be disabled in the 'Game Settings').
• Zoom level '0' now shows a bit more of the map. The step from zoom level '1' to '0' was too small.
• The fleet icon that is displayed in the galaxy map when fleets are travelling is now crisper at the lower zoom levels (when map is seen more from afar).
• Ships in the ship leaders' assignment panel are now listed by ship class, as before, but then they are sorted by travelling state (stationed or travelling), then by the system name, and finally by ship crew experience. This way, the player can know where all ships of a given class are stationed, or if they are travelling to a certain system (all listed next to each other). And, from those, finally see which have the best crew XP when assigning a ship to a leader.
• Stationed ships now show the stationed "shield icon" while travelling ships show the "ship travelling icon" in the ship leader assignment panel. Before, ships that were stationed, but had a destination set, showed the stationed "shield icon", which could be confusing.
• The Space Elevator bonus is now only displayed on buildings and ships where it applies. Before, the bonus would be listed as "+0" for all construction projects, irrespective if the Space Elevator applied to that project or not, which could be misleading.
• When a leader with the 'Envious' trait requests another leader to be dismissed, the text now clarifies that the leader in question will be immediately dismissed if the envious leader's request is accepted.

• Space monsters are no longer listed in the ship leader's assignment panel when playing with the 'Palacean' evolution affinity (space monsters join the empire with this evolution perk). Leaders couldn't be assigned to monsters anyway, so listing them there was not needed and would unnecessarily clutter that screen.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that was causing the Helium-3 amount to not be sorted correctly in the strategic resources overview panel.
• Fixed a wrap issue in the research value displayed for the Accretion disks bonuses in the strategic resources overview panel.
• Fixed an issue when offering Antimatter in a trade deal it didn't refresh the overview panel with the updated values (e.g. loss of production due to losing source(s) of antimatter).
• Fixed a glitch that would cause the "happy peaceful" music tunes to play when a 'Peace Treaty' proposal was made, even when it was rejected. It should only play the "happy" tunes when the treaty is accepted.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the AI to not use all of its weapons in combat when the ships rotated or were preparing to flee in the next turn.

VERSION 1.5.2 (changelog)

BALANCE

• Allies will now consider not destroying Minor Civilizations that belong to their allies (i.e. are inside their allies' territory).

GAMEPLAY

• It's now possible to cancel a colony base construction when the project is ready to deploy. A new "Cancel Colony Base" button is now displayed inside the system view when choosing a site for the colony base construction. Salvage is obtained when cancelling the colony base project.

UI & GRAPHICS

• It's now possible to use the 'Space' key to end the turn in the galaxy map.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that was causing a construction project at the top of the queue to not finish in the turn it should when another project was rushed right after that one in the queue. The production overflow was being wrongly applied in that case. The calculation was correct, but a wrong ETA was being shown. This is now fixed.
• Fixed a bug that was causing Spy leaders to start losing opinion immediately after being recalled from spy duty or right after finishing their last assignment. Now, they only start losing opinion when they are left unassigned for more than 5 turns, just like the other leaders.
• Fixed a rare bug that was allowing the AI to invade settlements that changed hands in the turn the invasion took place. The AI would invade and declare war on the new owner of the settlement in question, different from the one they set out to invade at the time of planning for the invasion.
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause game corruption after fighting huge battles (more than 50 ships on each side).
• Fixed a rare bug that was allowing the AI to invade a settlement that no longer existed (the settlement had been razed by someone else that same turn right before the AI decided to invade).
• Fixed a glitch in the Boarding panel in space combat that would show the status of the last boarding action when the new boarding action started.
• Fixed a number rounding issue in the boarding strength indicator in the boarding panel.
• Fixed a glitch that could sometimes cause the default ammo for missiles to be different than 5 when equipping a missile weapon in the ship design screen.
• Fixed a bug in the 'Fricking Fracking' event in which one of the options was incorrectly informing the player that the planet's biome would change to the same biome it already had, and stating the biome habitability would no longer be ideal but tolerable.

• Fixed a bug that was allowing a leader to be hired after the Kaek affinity 'Hub & Spoke' evolution perk had been picked, which denies an empire from having leaders. This happened when the leader, or leaders, approached the empire the same turn the evolution perk was picked.

VERSION 1.5.1 (changelog)

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue on the 'Ship Idle Alerts' feature which would show an idle notification when civilian ships were fleeing from a lost battle. An idle alert isn't applicable in those cases.
• Fixed an issue in the 'Continue' game feature which would resume the latest saved game on that machine and not the very latest saved game which was produced on another machine when using the Steam Cloud Saving feature. This is now resolved and the latest save is always loaded when continuing a game from the Main Menu, no matter which machine is used to play.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause a defending orbital station to not participate in battle when a Space Monster offspring attacked a colony and there was a defending fleet orbiting the system.
• Fixed an issue that could cause space monster offspring ships to be too small in the galaxy map. They are now slightly bigger.
• Fixed a bug when displaying the Ship Attack (accuracy) and Ship Defense (evasion capacity) for the leaders' component in the enemy ship panel. The values were being used correctly for the combat calculations, but the leaders' bonuses to SA and SD were incorrectly displayed as double they were supposed to be.

• Fixed a bug that could cause game corruption when a player with the 'Sacrificial Lamb' evolution perk would assimilate a minor civilization that had not yet been discovered. This happened when a minor civ would spawn inside the initial sector of the homeworld system. This is now fixed.
• Fixed an issue where the diplomatic modifier bonus provided by espionage-type minor civilizations was missing from the 'Empire Overview' screen. The diplomatic bonus is now displayed on that screen.

1.5 Update - Features and Improvements

New Galaxy Shapes

Steam Cloud Saves

Automated (Auto-assigned) Infrastructure

Ship Idle Alerts

Improved AI

And, more!

Version 1.5 - Full Release Note

NEW

• New Galaxy Shapes to be configured at game start: Elliptical, Ring and Spiral-shaped galaxies!
• Steam Cloud Saves: Save your game on one PC and continue on a different one later.
• Automated Infrastructure: Auto-assign infrastructure specializations for your colonies in one go and forget about it. Particularly useful with micromanagement in late-game for very big maps.
• New ship idle alerts: A new "ship idle" notification will be presented every time a civilian ship arrives at a system, and there's no obvious action set for it yet; the ship is "idle" (e.g. a survey ship arrived on a system and awaits new orders, or a colony ship arrived, a colony can't be built and the ship is now idle. The same ideia for the other civilian ships).

AI IMPROVEMENTS

• The AI now designs their ships with three distinct roles in mind: close-range attacker, long-range attacker, and a general defender or multi-purpose warship, all of which will behave differently in combat. Each role will tend to equip different and specialized equipment, from weapons, weapon modifications, hull reinforcement, maneuverability and special systems which will lead to new tactics.
• The AI will also make smarter choices with respect to improved maneuverability opportunities, and will be more sensible regarding the miniaturization level of the weapons it equips (e.g. A state-of-the-art weapon may not be the best choice).
• The AI does a better job at handling their leaders now. It will bring them more for key battles (especially invasions in the higher difficulties), while trying to improve their survival rate.

BALANCE

• The accuracy "to-hit" formula for ships was revised to set a limit of 5% to hit minimum, irrespective of the range and the accuracy and evasion values. This was done to avoid having 0% or very low chance hit shots.
• Free espionage level ups for leaders are now assigned more sensibly, to avoid wasting skill slots with spy skills on leaders who would probably not be a good candidate to be a spy in the first place. Colony leaders may see their existing spy skills improve but do not usually gain new ones on these free level-ups. There's also a bias to favor adding spy skills to ship leaders, but it will depend on what skills leaders already possess.
• Credits obtained from scrapping a ship have changed from a factor of 8 production cost to a return of 1 BC to 12 production cost to 1 BC. Scrapping was too good, and on par with Trade Goods. Now, it should be more balanced.
• Battle odds of 0% chance of winning are not presented now. It is rounded to a minimum of 1%. Battle odds are presented when the player has the Ultrawave Scanner.
• The initial frigate and destroyer ship designs were unoptimized at game start. The frigate design now has two lasers instead of one and more maneuverability; the initial destroyer design now starts with maneuverability level 1. It had no maneuverability before. This also affects the 2 initial frigates that are available at game start.

UI / GRAPHICS

• Holding the 'CTRL' key while left-clicking with the mouse on most notifications will center the map on the object in question (e.g. ship, system). The manual will be updated accordingly with this new hotkey in the official version of the update.
• The AI will now build ships with alternative designs. Before, they always built their ships with the default model for a given ship class type.
• The game now shows at a glance where a leader's ship is stationed, if it is travelling, or under refit, in the leaders' management panel, and also when levelling up leaders for better grasping of where leaders are currently stationed.
• The background starfield (the small "dot" stars in the background) are now slightly colored.
• The missile number icon in the ship design screen now has better contrast. It was a bit hard to grasp the ammo number before.
• The Wormhole tooltip now clarifies that both ends of a wormhole are considered inside supply range, so long one of them is. When this is the case, a fleet can travel to any end of the wormhole.
• The warning message that you're about to declare war on an empire is now displayed in yellow, for more impact and alertness on this important action.
• When a tech is researched, or obtained through other means, the 'Research' screen now displays the research field as "...in the field of Propulsion", for example, and not "in the Propulsion field!".
• The 'Direct Hit' achievement description was revised to clarify that a one-shot kill is not a requirement for unlocking the achievement, and that you need to get through shields, armor, or both.
• The ship construction notification now displays a small icon representing the type of ship that has been constructed. This makes it easier to grasp what type of ships have been built on a given turn, especially when there's a lot of ships built.
• The population assimilation ratios per turn are now displayed in the POP tooltip in the colony view (when inspecting the little POPs) when POPs are yet to be assimilated (either 'Pacified' or 'Revolting'). Also, a note was added to that tooltip to describe what actions may be necessary when the POPs are revolting.
• Added social links to the main menu: official website icon links to the game's official website; the newsletter icon allows you to register the game's newsletter; and a survey icon allows you to answer the survey 'Interstellar Space: Genesis - What's Next'.
• The supply range borders now expand immediately after a 'Logistics' technology is obtained from a tech exchange deal.

SOUND & MUSIC

• The opponent's neutral/affinity diplomacy tunes are now played right after a peace treaty is established. Before, the 'angry' tunes could keep playing if the opponent was very upset. This was done to reflect this important change in the diplomatic state.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug when an ongoing sector remote exploration got revealed by ruins search, the current remote exploration would get corrupted in that sector. This is now fixed.
• Fixed a rare bug where the UI would bring up the player's own ships and buildings for sabotage, and not the AI's. You don't want to sabotage your own ships and buildings! :) This occurred when both the AI and the player had colonies in the same system and the AI had a saboteur assigned to the player's colony in that same system. The player's saboteur would then pick up the wrong colony to sabotage.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the 'Galaxy Map' screen (the one showing the map upon a battle encounter) to malfunction and not allow that screen to be closed if the player clicked on a fleet by accident while that window was open. This is now resolved.
• Fixed a bug in space combat when fighting against large numbers of AI ships (more than 50), could cause some enemy ships to not be targetable and lead to further glitches where sometimes shots could be seen originating from enemy ships not participating in the combat. This is now fixed.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the "You've won" message to be displayed over and over every turn after the player achieved a Conquest Victory and decided to hit "Just one more turn..." and continue playing.
• Fixed a rare bug that could lead to less building slots to be available than should be allowed by the colony's infrastructure. This happened when an AI had a finished building or ship just before it was invaded. This is now resolved.
• Fixed a rounding glitch in the empire early-breakthrough value on the Empire Overview screen. It could show a negative 0.00001 when it should just list 0%.
• Fixed a glitch that would cause the Wormhole tooltip to not work / be presented on systems with Basic scan level.
• Fixed a bug that could award the 'Direct Hit' achievement when a player's own ship or battle station would blow up from critical hit while it had full shields or armor.
• Fixed a glitch in the exhausts of all but the two largest engines on the alternate Nova cruiser, which were detached from the engines and offset to one side.
• Fixed a rare bug where a saboteur could be wrongly recalled from a sabotage job at a colony before it had a chance to complete the sabotage assignment.
• Fixed a glitch that could sometimes allow a ship to keep rotating freely in combat after the rotation command had been given using the 'arrow icons' on the 'rotate' button, which could be confusing for the player. Now, the rotation operation should be much clearer and easier to use.
• Fixed a glitch in the 'Legion of Shadows' event which could cause the last line of text to be cut off, and you couldn't scroll down far enough to read it.
• Fixed a glitch that allowed the supply range borders from the previous logistics' tech to remain visible after researching Expert Logistics, which allows for unlimited supply range. No supply range borders should be visible at that point.
• Fixed a glitch that would cause not all ships to be displayed in the fleet panel when very large numbers of ships were involved (>100).
• Fixed a sound glitch that could produce two sound clicks in rapid succession when clicking on a system object for planetary assault (either colonies or outposts invasion).
• Fixed an issue that would cause the production numbers in the colony overview panel to not update immediately when strategic resources were obtained from diplomatic trade deals.

• Fixed a bug that was allowing Android Leaders to be bribed/stolen when androids are not supposed to be influenceable by Psy-Ops missions.
• Fixed a bug in the 'Capital Defense Force' (CDF) of the Kaek evolution affinity Hub and Spoke, which could cause strange behavior when one of the CDF ships was captured, which would cause other ships of the same ship class type to become untargetable when captured or simply vanish after the battle.

Compatibility and finishing an ongoing game

Thanks

Version 1.5 Beta 3

• The ship construction notification now displays a small icon representing the type of ship that has been constructed. This makes it easier to grasp what type of ships have been built on a given turn, especially when there's a lot of ships built.
• Added social links to the main menu: official website icon links to the game's official website; the newsletter icon allows you to register the game's newsletter; and a survey icon allows you to answer the survey 'Interstellar Space: Genesis - What's Next'.
• Fixed a glitch that allowed the supply range borders from the previous logistics' tech to remain visible after researching Expert Logistics, which allows for unlimited supply range. No supply range borders should be visible at that point.

Version 1.5 Beta 2

• Fixed a bug on the 'Infrastructure auto-assign' feature that would be placing automated infrastructure improvements incorrectly into the leftmost column given a non-dash priority. This is now resolved.
• Fixed a glitch that would cause not all ships to be displayed in the fleet panel when very large numbers of ships were involved (>100).
• Fixed a sound glitch that could produce two sound clicks in rapid succession when clicking on a system object for planetary assault (either colonies or outposts invasion).
• The population assimilation ratios per turn are now displayed in the POP tooltip in the colony view (when inspecting the little POPs) when POPs are yet to be assimilated (either 'Pacified' or 'Revolting'). Also, a note was added to that tooltip to describe what actions may be necessary when the POPs are revolting.
• The colony overview panel now refreshes when new strategic resources are obtained from diplomatic trade deals, displaying the correctly updated numbers (e.g. updated production in colonies).
• The opponent's neutral/affinity diplomacy tunes are now played right after a peace treaty is established. Before, the 'angry' tunes could keep playing if the opponent was very upset. This was done to reflect this important change in the diplomatic state.
• The supply range borders now expand immediately after a 'Logistics' technology is obtained from a tech exchange deal.

New Galaxy Shapes

Steam Cloud Saves

Automated (Auto-assigned) Infrastructure

Ship Idle Alerts

Improved AI

I Want To Try It and Provide Feedback!​

Version 1.5 Beta - Full Release Note

NEW

• New Galaxy Shapes to be configured at game start: Elliptical, Ring and Spiral-shaped galaxies!
• Steam Cloud Saves: Save your game on one PC and continue on a different one later.
• Automated Infrastructure: Auto-assign infrastructure specializations for your colonies in one go and forget about it. Particularly useful with micromanagement in late-game for very big maps.
• New ship idle alerts: A new "ship idle" notification will be presented every time a civilian ship arrives at a system, and there's no obvious action set for it yet; the ship is "idle" (e.g. a survey ship arrived on a system and awaits new orders, or a colony ship arrived, a colony can't be built and the ship is now idle. The same ideia for the other civilian ships).

AI IMPROVEMENTS

• The AI now designs their ships with three distinct roles in mind: close-range attacker, long-range attacker, and a general defender or multi-purpose warship, all of which will behave differently in combat. Each role will tend to equip different and specialized equipment, from weapons, weapon modifications, hull reinforcement, maneuverability and special systems which will lead to new tactics.
• The AI will also make smarter choices with respect to improved maneuverability opportunities, and will be more sensible regarding the miniaturization level of the weapons it equips (e.g. A state-of-the-art weapon may not be the best choice).
• The AI does a better job at handling their leaders now. It will bring them more for key battles (especially invasions in the higher difficulties), while trying to improve their survival rate.

BALANCE

• The accuracy "to-hit" formula for ships was revised to set a limit of 5% to hit minimum, irrespective of the range and the accuracy and evasion values. This was done to avoid having 0% or very low chance hit shots.
• Free espionage level ups for leaders are now assigned more sensibly, to avoid wasting skill slots with spy skills on leaders who would probably not be a good candidate to be a spy in the first place. Colony leaders may see their existing spy skills improve but do not usually gain new ones on these free level-ups. There's also a bias to favor adding spy skills to ship leaders, but it will depend on what skills leaders already possess.
• Credits obtained from scrapping a ship have changed from a factor of 8 production cost to a return of 1 BC to 12 production cost to 1 BC. Scrapping was too good, and on par with Trade Goods. Now, it should be more balanced.
• Battle odds of 0% chance of winning are not presented now. It is rounded to a minimum of 1%. Battle odds are presented when the player has the Ultrawave Scanner.

UI / GRAPHICS

• Holding the 'CTRL' key while left-clicking with the mouse on most notifications will center the map on the object in question (e.g. ship, system). The manual will be updated accordingly with this new hotkey in the official version of the update.
• The AI will now build ships with alternative designs. Before, they always built their ships with the default model for a given ship class type.
• The game now shows at a glance where a leader's ship is stationed, if it is travelling, or under refit, in the leaders' management panel, and also when levelling up leaders for better grasping of where leaders are currently stationed.
• The background starfield (the small "dot" stars in the background) are now slightly colored.
• The missile number icon in the ship design screen now has better contrast. It was a bit hard to grasp the ammo number before.
• The Wormhole tooltip now clarifies that both ends of a wormhole are considered inside supply range, so long one of them is. When this is the case, a fleet can travel to any end of the wormhole.
• The warning message that you're about to declare war on an empire is now displayed in yellow, for more impact and alertness on this important action.
• When a tech is researched, or obtained through other means, the 'Research' screen now displays the research field as "...in the field of Propulsion", for example, and not "in the Propulsion field!".
• The 'Direct Hit' achievement description was revised to clarify that a one-shot kill is not a requirement for unlocking the achievement, and that you need to get through shields, armor, or both.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug when an ongoing sector remote exploration got revealed by ruins search, the current remote exploration would get corrupted in that sector. This is now fixed.
• Fixed a rare bug where the UI would bring up the player's own ships and buildings for sabotage, and not the AI's. You don't want to sabotage your own ships and buildings! :) This occurred when both the AI and the player had colonies in the same system and the AI had a saboteur assigned to the player's colony in that same system. The player's saboteur would then pick up the wrong colony to sabotage.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the 'Galaxy Map' screen (the one showing the map upon a battle encounter) to malfunction and not allow that screen to be closed if the player clicked on a fleet by accident while that window was open. This is now resolved.
• Fixed a bug in space combat when fighting against large numbers of AI ships (more than 50), could cause some enemy ships to not be targetable and lead to further glitches where sometimes shots could be seen originating from enemy ships not participating in the combat. This is now fixed.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the "You've won" message to be displayed over and over every turn after the player achieved a Conquest Victory and decided to hit "Just one more turn..." and continue playing.
• Fixed a rare bug that could lead to less building slots to be available than should be allowed by the colony's infrastructure. This happened when an AI had a finished building or ship just before it was invaded. This is now resolved.
• Fixed a rounding glitch in the empire early-breakthrough value on the Empire Overview screen. It could show a negative 0.00001 when it should just list 0%.
• Fixed a glitch that would cause the Wormhole tooltip to not work / be presented on systems with Basic scan level.
• Fixed a bug that could award the 'Direct Hit' achievement when a player's own ship or battle station would blow up from critical hit while it had full shields or armor.
• Fixed a glitch in the exhausts of all but the two largest engines on the alternate Nova cruiser, which were detached from the engines and offset to one side.
• Fixed a rare bug where a saboteur could be wrongly recalled from a sabotage job at a colony before it had a chance to complete the sabotage assignment.
• Fixed a glitch that could sometimes allow a ship to keep rotating freely in combat after the rotation command had been given using the 'arrow icons' on the 'rotate' button, which could be confusing for the player. Now, the rotation operation should be much clearer and easier to use.

• Fixed a bug that was allowing Android Leaders to be bribed/stolen when androids are not supposed to be influenceable by Psy-Ops missions.
• Fixed a bug in the 'Capital Defense Force' (CDF) of the Kaek evolution affinity Hub and Spoke, which could cause strange behavior when one of the CDF ships was captured, which would cause other ships of the same ship class type to become untargetable when captured or simply vanish after the battle.

Version 1.4.4 - Release Note

NEW

• New revamped space monsters! All three space monsters (Space Dragon, Crystal Entity, and Space Amoeba) now have completely new 3D models, which are much nicer, bringing the monster models up to par with the empire fleets in terms of graphical quality. The monsters' respective offspring now have their own 3D model, different from their progenitor's and all monsters now have new sound effects too.

SOUND & MUSIC

• Missile explosion sound volume reduced a bit.

UI / GRAPHICS

• Leader secondary skills now presented in the combat and colony view tooltips. Previously, only the primary skills were displayed.
• The valid movement positions layer is now displayed with a bit more vivid colors, making it easier to grasp how further a ship can move in the first and second movement actions.
• Ships are now sorted by ship class size and then by crew experience when using the "Ship Class Size" sort in the ships' overview panel.
• The Crew Experience tooltip, shown in space combat, now displays the provided bonuses with a better-structured, and easier-to-read presentation.
• 'Interstellar Geology' culture perk tooltip was revised to clarify that the bonus applies only to mined/extracted sources, it excludes imported strategic resources, or sources obtained from the Galactic Space Port Wonder.
• The population tooltip in the colony view now displays the ETA for the next POP in green to make population growth progress more evident.
• Note added to the wormhole tooltip to clarify that both ends of a wormhole are considered inside supply range, so long one of them is.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that could sometimes allow empires to accept a tribute request even when they had way more fleet strength than the requester.
• Fixed a glitch that could cause the 200% value in the production and research sliders in the 'New Game' screen to be cut off and show 20% in certain monitor resolutions.
• Fixed a glitch that could still sometimes cause some kinetic weapon effects to end before they'd reach their targets.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the research modifier of the 'Collective Transcendance' unique ability to not apply on the last turn of the effect.
• Fixed an issue in the hint shown on game start and when loading a game about how leaders gain experience. The whole sentence couldn't be read. That's fixed now.
• Fixed an issue that would cause one instance of Alliance request text made by the Palacean race to reference itself as the empire to ask an alliance from. Now it references the correct empire they wish to ask an alliance from.
• Fixed a glitch that could cause targeted ships to be destroyed without the shot fire being seen. The shot was made, and the damage calculations were happening, but the weapon effect could sometimes not be displayed. This is fixed now.
• Fixed a glitch that would cause a ship to rotate up when clicking on the original ship's position as the destination position for the movement action, i.e. clicking on the same grid space where the ship was.
• Fixed a bug that would cause Space monster offspring to not become visible when they arrived at systems where the player didn't have 'Advanced' scan level, required to spot space monsters, but had sensor range and the player could see the monsters moving there.
• Fixed a rare bug which could cause a leader to receive two level ups in the same turn. By design, a leader shouldn't be able to level up twice in the same turn. This could happen with very inexperienced leaders at game start. Now, it's working as intended.
• Fixed a glitch in the combat screen when using the hotkeys 'X', 'Tab' or 'Space' to cycle through all ships which was causing the mouse cursor to change to 'invalid' target icon instead of the 'targeting' icon, even though you could still fire weapons at the target after you moved to a next ship while keeping the mouse hovering the target.
• Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the 'X' hotkey to declare a ship as done to not work correctly. Pressing 'X' could still sometimes keep cycling through ships that were set as done in that turn.

• Fixed a bug that could cause game state corruption when playing with the Draguul affinity with the Sacrificial Lambs evolution perk upon assimilating minor civilizations. This happened when there were more than one minor civ assimilated in the same turn.
• Fixed a bug that could cause colony corruption when obtaining the "free buildings" Zynkeesi minor civ bonus.
• Fixed a bug that would allow a leader to be obtained through raiding a colony with the Kaek affinity's 'Hub and Spoke' evolution perk, which denies access to leaders.

Version 1.4.3

UI / GRAPHICS

• One more UI scaling option available: 135%. Therefore, the maximum UI scaling option has increased from the previous 125% to 135% now. Higher UI scale options increase the size of the text labels and icons in the galaxy map (system labels) and system view.
• The 'Infrastructure' button in the colony view, which allows checking a colony's infrastructure specialization, was tweaked and is now more evident it's a clickable button.
• Gas Giants with zero sources of Helium-3 are now displayed last when the overview panel's filter is set to list Gas Giants, and they are displayed in a slightly darker color to make them more distinct. It's still useful to list those as they are prime targets to construct planets on.
• Added max POP to upper right of the Population tooltip in the colony view. Only the actual number of POPs were displayed before, now also the population capacity is displayed in the tooltip.
• Marines count now displayed directly on the Player's ship panel in the space combat UI right next to the ship's crew experience level, with relevant tooltip.
• Yellow stars hue slight shift from green to a bit more yellow/orange.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that was allowing the destruction of minor civilizations by building Colony Bases on their planets with the 'Galactic Security Initiative' evolution perk of the Cerixx affinity. This perk prohibits killing minor civs. Colony Base construction is not possible now with 'Galactic Security Initiative'. Also, when players don't have the GSI perk, the Colony Base tooltip alerts minors will be destroyed if a new colony base is built in that system.
• Fixed a bug that was not allowing colony leaders to level up their Smuggler secondary skill beyond 'Basic' level (e.g. Zarla Zel).
• Fixed an issue that was giving 'Culture' and 'Tech' too much dominance in the overall graph score, in detriment to the contributions of the amount of population, fleet strength and production capacity.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing an Alliance victory to trigger in a situation where only 3 empires were left and one overlord empire A was allied with a subject of an overlord empire B, but A was not allied with B. At least one non-subject empire must be allied with all other non-subject empires left in the game for the Alliance victory to trigger (i.e. subjects don't count for that). In this scenario, A had to be allied with B for the Alliance victory to trigger.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing the 'Galactic Knowledge Exchange Wonder' to provide technologies unlocked by strategic resource choices (e.g. Medical Isotypes).
• Fixed a glitch that was causing missiles to not be destroyed visually in the UI when a ship had the 'PD All Targets' flag set. The missiles were being destroyed in data but would not be destroyed visually, which would cause them to remain in the battlefield until the end of combat.
• Fixed a glitch when displaying the armor name in the 'Ship Design' screen. 'Adamantium Armor' could be displayed only partially (could omit the initial 'A' which was beneath another UI element).
• Fixed an issue that was causing the Colony Overview panel to not swap the tooltip when the sort method changed. It always showed the production tooltip, even when the colonies were sorted by credits, morale, culture. The correct and respective tooltips are now displayed.
• Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause a superior amount of POPs to be present in a colony than the allowed capacity. This would correct itself in the next turn. Now these situations should not occur in the first place.
• Fixed a bug in the amount of SCPs obtained from surrender pacts, which could be display as negative SCP being obtained by the overlord empire when it should be positive instead.

• Fixed a bug in the Palacean's 'Nourishment' evolution perk that was not negating the effects of the technologies associates with strategic resource choices. Now, the effects from these techs do not apply with this perk, as it was intended to be.
• Fixed a bug in the 'Network Assembly' evolution perk where multiple ship refit projects would cause multiple production overflow to be created, one extra production overflow from each simultaneous ship refit.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing the 'Biological Materials' special system, unlocked by the 'Battle-scarred' evolution perk, to be installed in ships discovered in ruins. These ships have unique designs and are not upgradeable to equip this special system.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing for automatic declarations of war to be issued by the player's empire to an AI empire who happened to have destroyed a minor civilization that was inside the player's territory (player had exclusive rights over the minor civ). This is standard behavior when only AI players are involved. For human players, it's their decision on if they wish to declare war on the offender AI or not.
• Fixed an issue in the minor civilizations' status change notification tooltip when a minor civ switched hands from a player's ally to a non ally, the tooltip would incorrectly state the new owner as a former ally, when that was not the case.
• Fixed an issue that would list biomes without a slide bar when checking the "more information"AI Empire Overview panel, causing an overlap with nearby elements when empires had all hostile biomes (Palacean's Natural Allies evolution perk).
• Fixed a typo where it said 'Unserveyed' for unsurveyed minor civilizations in the 'Empire Overview' screen now reads 'Unsurveyed'.

Version 1.4.2

GAMEPLAY

• New 'Detected' state for 'Minor Civilizations' allows minors to be revealed with 'Basic' scan level (e.g. normal ship visit or basic remote exploration level), where before 'Full' scan was required to reveal the minor. This new state doesn't reveal the minors' type nor allows access to its relationship bonuses. For that, 'Full' scan is still required. In the 'Detect' state, you only know a minor is there (intelligent life signals detected) but you do not know who they are nor what bonuses they may provide. This resolves the unintentional destruction of minor civs with blind colonization issue, and will allow for more minors to be revealed early, although with no detailed information yet.

BALANCE

• The game offers a bit more minor civilizations at the start now. The minor civs slider tooltip now states that 5 to 12% of star systems will contain a minor, depending on the minors abundance set (none, few, average, many).
• Minor civilizations are now distributed more evenly throughout the galaxy map. Before, minor civs could appear in clusters too near each other, and not enough could be found near homeworlds. That is now fixed.
• The Cerixx affinity's evolution perk 'Technophiles', which allows buying techs with cash, now only requires 0.75 BC for each remaining RP a tech requires to be researched, where before the conversion was 1 BC to 1 RP. This balance change was also done to make them more competitive and to ease the buying of techs with money, which is a lot of fun by the way.

• The Cerixx race now has the '+1 BC per POP' racial modifier bonus. This race needed this money bonus to be more inline with its strengths as a race and to stay competitive.
• The Cerixx race now has the 'Easily Seen' special ability. They are small, but they ride big mechs after all :) This compensates the added money of the item above and it makes sense for them to be more spied on, due to their love for shiny new tech and somewhat careless behavior. They do have the 'Investigation' unique ability though, which catches spies currently undertaking espionage, so it's a gamble for who decides to spy on them.

AI

• The AI now surveys minor civilizations quicker and more efficiently. Before, the AI could interrupt surveying minors and lose progress too often, and would start surveying minors a bit too late. So, expect more competition from the AI on the minor civs department now!

UI / GRAPHICS

• Cerixx ships' Frigate A and Cruiser A now have a bigger engine trail effect to make these ships easier to tell which part is the front and the back.

• The images of buildings, planet specials and ships displayed on tooltips were increased a bit.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that would cause duplicate leaders to appear and accept working for different empires, which could lead to additional issues when influencing those leaders when a "copy" of the leader already present in the influencing empire. This was caused when all leaders were dismissed when the Kaek empire chose their 'Hub and Spoke' evolution perk, which was accounting for all leaders the Kaek knew about, and not just the ones that were actually working for them at that time.
• Fixed an issue that was not allowing for new scanner technology to take effect immediately when bought with money using the Cerixx affinity 'Technophiles' evolution.
• Fixed an issue that was not allowing the access state of known 'Minor Civilizations' to update upon picking the 'Empire Patrols' evolution perk of the Cerixx affinity evolution. Now minors' access state (e.g. exclusive access), updates immediate and not just in the next turn. Fixed a bug that would cause a blocking issue with remote exploration when playing with the Palacean affinity when a monster offspring would join the empire on a system (Natural Allies' evolution perk) without a fleet being present.
• Fixed a typo on the Android leaders' description. 'Creatores' is now 'Creators'.
• Fixed an issue in the Peacekeeper Bays' special system description, which was missing. The description read '' after loading a save. This is fixed now.

• Fixed a bug that would cause the Cerixx's 'Containment' unique ability to become permanently in effect, and blocking fleets in a system forever, after the Cerixx were vanquished, as the containment field would never be lifted after that point. Now it is lifted when the Cerixx empire is eliminated from the game.

• Fixed a bug that was allowing all empires to receive the benefit of the 'Neutronium Armor Coating' tech (bonus to armor) with available sources of the 'Neutronium' strategic resource, even without having researched the tech.
• Fixed a bug that was causing upgradeable buildings (e.g. Airspace Support Facility, Marine Garrison) to not automatically upgrade upon conquering a colony. Now these upgrade to the newest available technology.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the 'Delicate Delicacies' event action notification to disappear upon resetting or reordering the tech queue.
• Fixed an issue that was causing some lag in the planetary view for 4K resolutions, especially noticeable on the Terran terrain, but also others.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing for the function keys (e.g. F1) to be pressable on the main menu and new game screens.
• Fixed an issue in the ships' overview panel with the stationed status filter for ships. Some ships could be listed as being stationed when in fact they were traveling.

Version 1.4.2 Beta

GAMEPLAY

• New 'Detected' state for 'Minor Civilizations' allows minors to be revealed with 'Basic' scan level (e.g. normal ship visit or basic remote exploration level), where before 'Full' scan was required to reveal the minor. This new state doesn't reveal the minors' type nor allows access to its relationship bonuses. For that, 'Full' scan is still required. In the 'Detect' state, you only know a minor is there (intelligent life signals detected) but you do not know who they are nor what bonuses they may provide. This resolves the unintentional destruction of minor civs with blind colonization issue, and will allow for more minors to be revealed early, although with no detailed information yet.

BALANCE

• The game offers a bit more minor civilizations at the start now. The minor civs slider tooltip now states that 5 to 12% of star systems will contain a minor, depending on the minors abundance set (none, few, average, many).
• The Cerixx race now has the '+1 BC per POP' racial modifier bonus. This race needed this money bonus to be more inline with its strengths as a race and to stay competitive.
• The Cerixx race now has the 'Easily Seen' special ability. They are small, but they ride big mechs after all :) This compensates the added money of the item above and it makes sense for them to be more spied on, due to their love for shiny new tech and somewhat careless behavior. They do have the 'Investigation' unique ability though, which catches spies currently undertaking espionage, so it's a gamble for who decides to spy on them.
• The Cerixx affinity's evolution perk 'Technophiles', which allows buying techs with cash, now only requires 0.75 BC for each remaining RP a tech requires to be researched, where before the conversion was 1 BC to 1 RP. This balance change was also done to make them more competitive and to ease the buying of techs with money, which is a lot of fun by the way.

UI / GRAPHICS

• Cerixx ships' Frigate A and Cruiser A now have a bigger engine trail effect to make these ships easier to tell which part is the front and the back.
• The images of buildings, planet specials and ships displayed on tooltips were increased a bit.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that would cause duplicate leaders to appear and accept working for different empires, which could lead to additional issues when influencing those leaders when a "copy" of the leader already present in the influencing empire. This was caused when all leaders were dismissed when the Kaek empire chose their 'Hub and Spoke' evolution perk, which was accounting for all leaders the Kaek knew about, and not just the ones that were actually working for them at that time.
• Fixed a bug that was causing upgradeable buildings (e.g. Airspace Support Facility, Marine Garrison) to not automatically upgrade upon conquering a colony. Now these upgrade to the newest available technology.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the Cerixx's 'Containment' unique ability to become permanently in effect, and blocking fleets in a system forever, after the Cerixx were vanquished, as the containment field would never be lifted after that point. Now it is lifted when the Cerixx empire is eliminated from the game.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing all empires to receive the benefit of the 'Neutronium Armor Coating' tech (bonus to armor) with available sources of the 'Neutronium' strategic resource, even without having researched the tech.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the 'Delicate Delicacies' event action notification to disappear upon resetting or reordering the tech queue.
• Fixed an issue that was not allowing for new scanner technology to take effect immediately when bought with money using the Cerixx affinity 'Technophiles' evolution.
• Fixed an issue that was not allowing the access state of known 'Minor Civilizations' to update upon picking the 'Empire Patrols' evolution perk of the Cerixx affinity evolution. Now minors' access state (e.g. exclusive access), updates immediate and not just in the next turn. Fixed a bug that would cause a blocking issue with remote exploration when playing with the Palacean affinity when a monster offspring would join the empire on a system (Natural Allies evolution perk) without a fleet being present. (Evolving Empires expansion)
• Fixed an issue that was causing some lag in the planetary view for 4K resolutions, especially noticeable on the Terran terrain, but also others.

VERSION 1.4.1 (change log)

BALANCE

• The game now gerates a bit more minor civilizations.
• The AI now unlocks evolution perks a bit more now, especially the first perk.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a rare blocking bug that would not allow the turn to proceed because the Infrastructure, Research or other action notification wouldn't unblock in a specific scenario. This was an issue when playing with the Palacean affinity evolution and obtaining space monster offspring. It is fixed now.
• Fixed a bug related with the bug above that would cause the notifications on new monster offspring spawning notifications to not be displayed.
• Fixed a glitch that was causing the colonization tooltip to show slightly disaligned values when using the 2560x1440 resolution.
• Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause a target ship to blow up before it was hit during the 'Zoom & Shoot' animation, and the fire shot animation would not be seen in those cases.
• Fixed a glitch that was causing the 'Evolutions' and 'Minor Civilizations' features to be disabled by default on the New Game setup screen, when the game launched with the 1.4 update without the Evolving Empires expansion. This was not an issue to new users who bought the game and the expansion.
• Fixed a minor grammar/typo "A/An" issue on the Remote Exploration Report. "A has been found..." notification now reads "Special: has been found".
• Fixed an issue in the Saboteur skill description text. Where it read "Can destroy an up to level..." now reads "Can destroy up to a level..."

Evolutions

Minor Civilizations

7 New Leaders

2 New Music Tracks

Free 1.4 update

Version 1.4 - Full change log

NEW

• Added new strike craft 3D models for fighters and bombers.
• Added new Surveillance, Metalworker and Curator leader skills.
• Added new option to the New Game setup screen to allow randomizing the AI players' colors at game start.
• The Deep Cover espionage leader skill now reveals rival's space culture choices.
• Added leader level information and tooltip to the various leader screens. Shows the leader level, current experience and required experience to reach the next level (leader opinion information now presented below the desires icon).
• Added two new ship explosion effects for a total of three for added variety. There was only one explosion effect before.
• Added 8 new Steam Achievements for the Evolving Empires expansion.

AI IMPROVEMENTS

• The AI now doesn't order exploration fleets, sometimes with lone frigates and survey ships, to attack rival systems in suicidal runs.
• The AI ships now fire their weapons in combat before they flee.
• The AI now tends to equip more Spinal Mount on the Draguul and Moltar titans of their prefered weapon type (kinetic weapons for the Draguul, beams for the Moltar).
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes allow an AI ship with broken engines to move after the AI overloaded its broken engines.

GAMEPLAY

• The 'Galaxy View' is now available to be displayed on every battle encounter and not only when the AI attacks the player.
• Revised Space Dragon, Space Amoeba and Crystal Entity's adults and offspring designs.
• Manual updated with more details on how formal contact is established.
• The leader secondary skill level up will now always try to upgrade an existing skill (the left one) when the leader has 3 or more skills.
• Alliance victory now triggered when one empire is allied with all other empires. Before everyone needed to be allied with everyone else.
• Slight bias now for the first couple leader proposals to be Human-like leaders when playing with a Human appearance race.
• Added 30 new star system names
• Player fleets now travel a bit faster in the early game (with nuclear engines). Fleets traveled a bit too slowly in the beginning.

BALANCE

• Gigantic maps now have a little bit more Helium-3 resources with the 'average' strategic resources option. There were too few before.

PERFORMANCE

• Optimizations made to the amount of space required for installing the game. The game now requires around 1GB less available storage space (many old and obsolete assets were deleted).
• Significantly faster turn execution speeds now, especially noticeable at the start and the early game.

UI / GRAPHICS

• Data core artifacts the empire possesses now displayed in the research screen.
• When saving a game, after writing the save file name it's now possible to save when hitting the 'Enter' key without having to hit the 'Save' button.
• Tooltip of Wars in Diplomatic Summary in the Empire Overview screen now lists the number of turns the empires are at war.
• The Neutron Beam stun ability feedback text reworded to be more concise.
• Scrolling with the mouse wheel now works when dragging projects in the colony development queue. This allows moving an item in the queue at the very bottom to the top in one go.
• Detailed production tooltip now also shown in colonies overview panel.
• Flat production title in the production tooltip now displayed in orange to highlight flat production better.
• Overcrowding penalty in colonies reworded to "High bureaucracy" to clarify the penalty's context.
• The tooltip of orbital station module techs now clarifies modules are automatically added upon tech research.
• Uplift concept clarified in the ecological technologies' tooltip and the manual.
• The fleet icon tooltip in the galaxy map now shows the ETA of the fleet to its destination
• The strike craft animations now a bit slower in combat.
• The damage number animations displayed near ships when they take damage now move a bit slower.
• Added percentage to the Tech field Tool-tip for Government Modifiers.
• The Garrison buildings' techs now highlight they unlock Assault Ship construction more evidently. Also, the manual was updated to reinforce that Garrison facilities are unlocked by Garrison techs in the 'Defenses' research field.
• The Outpost Ship tooltip was revised to reinforce that Outpost Ships can be used to generate tourism. An entry on 'Tourism' was also added to the manual, and a text hint now also appears in the loading game screen to help clarify the game's 'Tourism' concept.
• Adding a refit project to the colony queue now dismisses the 'Idle construction icon' notification. Previously, only normal building and ships projects would clear the notification.
• The birds in the Human colony view are now a bit smaller, the ones on the top left that sometimes appear behind the UI.
• 'Request Defense Fleet' leader desire's description revised to make it clearer the turns required to achieve the desire includes the time a fleet is stationed on the system to be defended.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a glitch that would change the empire research percentage values when the 'Enter' key was pressed to proceed to the next turn. This happened when adjusting the research percentage and then hitting the 'Enter' key immediately after.
• Fixed an issue with could sometimes cause the wrong zoom level to be applied after a war declaration pop up was displayed from a system view random encounter.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes the AI would send multiple fleets to a system and take multiple system objects on the same turn.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes captured ships would appear as killed in the battle report.
• Fixed a bug that was not allowing leaders to level up their spy skills from buildings (e.g. Intelligence Headquarters) when all leaders in the empire already had the maximum number of 5 skills.
• Fixed a rare hang in the colony view with the Swamp Biome with the 'High' graphics settings in 4K resolutions.
• Fixed a glitch in space combat where sometimes trator beam effects could be left hanging in the battlefield when the target was destroyed or fled.
• Fixed a bug where Ion Cannons could sometimes re-activate the shields on a target with broken shields.
• Fixed a bug that could cause strike craft to sometimes keep resupplying and working, or just be left hanging in the battlefield, after their mothership fled.
• Fixed a glitch that caused ships in colony view to not show the correct lighting (were too dark) at game start. The issues would correct itself when desiging a ship or loading a game.
• Fixed an issue in the 'Divide by Zero' event that could cause the RP penalty number to change on each time the event was closed without making a decision and re-openning it again.
• Fixed an overflow glitch when showing culture values with 4 digits in the colony view.
• Fixed a rare bug that would cause the same spy leader skill to be offered as both options when the Intelligence Headquarters facility was built.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the wrong amount of neutronium to be used for the 'Neutronium Shells' bonus calculations. It was using the rival's supply of neutronium instead of the player's own supply.
• Fixed a bug that was causing shield piercing weapons to not bypass shields when those were overloaded.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the damage bonuses from 'Neutronium Shells', 'Beam Accelerators' and 'Antimatter Warheads' to not being taken into account for the purposes of Crew XP level damage bonus calculations.
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a battle to hang and leave the UI unresponsive when all the player's ships would flee except a single one, which was disabled and with its engines broken.
• Fixed a glitch when showing the 'Galaxy View' (to show where the battle took place) upon a battle encounter occurs when the 'Very Sparse' nebula density option was set.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent a monster from attacking the player when multiple fleets arrive at same time. Now always attacks.
• Fixed an issue in the Ship Attack from Crew XP Bonus that could show many decimal places. Now shows at most 1 decimal place.
• Fixed a bug that was causing an increased chance to kill a leader in combat and adding more crew XP than it should when the killer blow was using a weapon with the autofire modification.
• Fixed a rare bug that could create a hang and not allow the game to proceed when a colony was razed exactly before that colony got an infrastructure upgrade. This was caused by razing the colony when invasion fleets had already been sent to take that colony.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing boarding to be enabled for any ship in the battleship with no distance limit when at least one ship was in boarding range (no cursor feedback was shown but all ships were boardable).
• Fixed a typo in the More than a Diplomat Event. "Your people is" now "Your people are".
• Fixed a typo in the Milia system name, it had an extra space in the system object.
• Fixed a typo on the More than a Diplomat event, "cohesistance" is now "coexistence".
• Fixed a bug that could cause a Titan with slow combat speed to remain immobile in the battlefield, or move in an odd pattern, in auto-combat or when played by the AI.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause an orbital station to keep issuing shields overload even when the station's shields were in perfect health, causing the station to explode from heat.
• Fixed a typo in the ship refit notifications that could sometimes cause the text to wrap and present a poorly formatted tooltip.
• Fixed an issue where multiple "Ruins can be explored" notifications would be displayed when multiple fleets arrived at the system with ruins at the same time.
• Fixed an issue in the Temple of the Peacemaker event. The ruins were removed from the system and colony views but would remain on galaxy map until next turn.
• Fixed a glitch that could sometimes show ships in the colony screen with a more bright or different color.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a subject of a new subject to establish a surrender pact with its new overlord but without formal contact being established between the two.
• Fixed a rare hang when an AI had an orbital station but no orbital station techs. This happened when a colony with an orbital station rebelled.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause AI ships to increase the heat level on their ships more than they should.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes frame an empire for a job on another empire who they didn't know yet.
• Fixed a typo in the Trusting trait where it read "leader threatens to leave" now reads "leader threaten to leave".
• Fixed a bug where in rare occasions ships could be left hanging in the battlefield and could be selected/rolled-over although they had effectively been destroyed already.
• Fixed a bug that was causing salvage obtained from battle not being retrieved when auto-resolve was used without entering manual combat.
• Fixed a bug that could cause salvaged techs to not be correctly added to the player list of techs researched when those were already in the tech queue.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing players from having full visibility on all of their allies' systems and colonies.
• Fixed a glitch that could cause systems to become misaligned on galaxy map after system gift given.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a line break before the ":" mark in the Tolerable Gravity type in the Empire Status Screen in ultra-wide resolutions.
• Fixed an issue in the Impossible difficulty tooltip which wrongly stated the human player could have unfavorable starts In Impossible, when it's the AIs that tend to have favorable starts instead.
• Fixed a bug that was allowing torpedoes installed in bombers to not obey their cooldowns.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the wrong infrastructure level to be displayed in planets with the 'Ancient Shipyard' planet special.
• Fixed a glitch in a diplomacy text entry for the Nova when text was displayed for exchanging technologies.
• Fixed a typo "accept the rulling" is now "accept the ruling".
• Fixed a typo in the rebellion notification, where it said "Our people has fought fiercely now reads "Our people have fought fiercely".
• Fixed a typo in one event where one read "and hero’s welcome" now "and a hero’s welcome".
• Fixed a typo in Cyrus Olken biography, said "for the a museum" now is "for a museum”.
• Fixed a typo in the Imperial Archive empire project, the effects description had text repetition.
• Fixed a typo in the Cloning Facility, where was "remarkable fast rate" now "remarkably fast rate.
• Fixed a typo where "Election vitory" is now "Election victory".
• Fixed a bug that was allowing spy actions to be conducted in the turn the targetted empire was vanquished.
• Fixed a bug that caused the galaxy map to be displayed incorrectly after establishing a diplomatic deal.
• Fixed a glitch that would allow the effects of some Kinetic weapons to disappear too soon when hitting their target.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the Raid log to show the wrong boarding bonuses.
• Fixed an issue with the 'Planetary Prospectors' culture perk that would cause borders to not expand and richness values to not update in the colony overview panel immediately, but only in the next turn.
• Fixed a glitch that could sometimes cause fighters and bombers to not face their targets correctly after destroying them and/or when returning to the mothership for re-arm and refueling.
• Fixed a rounding issue in the espionage detection chances presented in the available espionage assignments.

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