This patch adds buying planet data from races, adds option to sponsor diplomat & colony ships, makes radar tracking of allies better, fixes beacons for all races, and fixes several more minor issues.

0.841 change list:

• you can now trade for all of a race's planet data (just buying new data)

• can now sponsor diplomat ships from one race to another (basically you pay for it)

• can now sponsor colony ships for races (basically you pay for it)

• now beacons work for all races

• now good friends (mutual protection pact and up) show up on radar much farther out

• now good friends (mutual protection pact and up) show up system map

• now when get planet data from spies it will show up correctly on the map

• now player quests will update their seed and other info if the main quest seed has changed for some reason

• can now solve quests from race diplomacy for accept in person quests

• increased consumable thrust boost time from 30.0 to 60.0

• fixed not being able to select a race on rumor menu from planets list

• added 6 defensive ram icons

• added plasma weapons to race tech page

• halved nexus spawn chances

• increased RelationChangeDiplomatShip from 5.0 to 8.0

• fixed a problem where could highlight a race name that no longer displays on system/sector map

• fixed junk and storage pod health

• should no longer get duplicate scout planet quests (from same race)

• delivery goals now stay consistent when ships gets distracted by something

• delivery goals now stay consistent across save/load

• added colonize sound for race ships

• added delivery sound (for race ships and player needed item quests)

• will no longer spawn nexus' during respawn

• added commas to worth number on planets screen

• changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 102