Features and Fixes

• Added an "anchor" toggle that lets you exclude ships in a fleet from being selected by default.

• Ships no longer fire on harmless targets, wasting ammo.

• Ships no longer think that unarmoured decorative spikes are vital enemy systems that must be destroyed at all costs.

• Fixed some minor GUI/display bugs.

• Limited length of ship and empire names to 50 characters to prevent messages taking up a distracting amount of space.

• Game preferences are now stored in the game data directory (%APPDATA% on Windows). This improves performance of the open file screen and allows you to do a full, clean reinstall.

• Improved game performance by a few percent.

• Registration for non-Steam users works again.

Balance Changes

These balance changes were suggested through a community process on Discord. Thank you all for participating!

Modules

• Saw blades damage 30 -> 25, but increases to 30 with advanced metallurgy tech.

• Targeting computer weight 500 -> 400.

• Grenades base damage 20 -> 25.

• Deck gun HP 40 -> 50, added light steel armour, reduced crew requirement by 1, cost $50 -> $70, +10% accuracy, +25% shoot troops range.

• Increased kinetic bomb accuracy by 50%.

• Engine pod: added light steel armour.

• Suspendium ray damage: 15 dmg x 12 shots -> 12 dmg x 12 shots.

• Pressurised suspendium dust tank lift 1200 -> 1400.

• Grapeshot cannon damage: 7 dmg x 14 shots -> 8 dmg x 14 shots.

• Aerial charge: +40% accuracy, +50% speed.

• Fire door weight 20 -> 10.

• Triplane, Biplane, Bomber, Torpedo bomber: modules no longer produce drag.

Armour

• Dragonhide HP 60 -> 75.

• Massive stone wall HP 100 -> 130.

• Reinforced wooden armour weight 15 -> 12.

• Shell armour cost 10 -> 6 (5 -> 3 in conquest).

Decorative/structural modules

• 1x1 slope weight 3 -> 2.

• 3x1/1x3 slope weight 7 -> 6.

• 4x1/1x4 slope weight 9 -> 8.

• Round corner weight 4 -> 3.

• Concave corner weight 3 -> 2.

• 3x1/1x3 curve weight 7 -> 6.

• 0.5x2/2x0.5 slope weight 3 -> 2.

• Crenellation weight 10 -> 5.

• Stained glass windows now have the same stats as ladderless corridors.