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[b]CRASH FIXES [/b]
• fixed rare crash when building new ships
  
  DESIGNS SCREEN
• Delete button now allows multi-selecting designs to delete
• Copy As New button now creates new design with name "Ship Name Mk2", etc (as for Upgrades)
• added row color coding with tooltip to indicate manually created designs
• added explanatory message when player attempts to edit design already in use
  
  DESIGNS AND RETROFITTING
• auto-retrofit and advisor-retrofit now properly excludes advanced ships and bases
• now ensure no Carrier ship designs are generated before empire has researched Fighter Bays
  
  RESEARCH
• increased number of research labs on AI designs for research stations and medium space port
• empires now start the game with a research station, allowing them to reach Research output sooner
  
  FLEETS AND BATTLES
• when a colony that was a fleet base changes ownership (e.g. invaded), the fleet now immediately resets its home base to somewhere else
• fixed bug where fleets would occasionally head to refuel at top-left corner of galaxy
• improved automated attack fleet reassignment when war ends with an empire (when Fleet Formation is automated)
• invading the colony of another empire is now much more likely to result in instant declaration of war from target empire
• enabled bombardment of independent colonies
  
  FUEL
• new colonies now have higher fuel stocks
• increased fuel stock levels at colonies without spaceports
• slightly increased mining rate for gas extractors
  
  CARRIERS AND FIGHTERS
• carriers with no weapons (only fighter bays) can now attack targets properly
• fighters will respond to attack targets better (less patrolling around carrier)
  
  PIRATES AND GAME EVENTS
• pirate ships now flee when shields are at 50% to reflect their raiding style
• legendary pirates now only appear if Disaster events are enabled (Start New Game - Victory Conditions step) AND pirate prevalence is not "None" (Start New Game - The Galaxy step)
• SilverMist creature now only appears if Disaster events are enabled (Start New Game - Victory Conditions step) AND space creature prevalence is not "None" (Start New Game - The Galaxy step)
  
  RACES AND CHARACTERS
• increased chance of random character generation when no characters of particular type in empire (e.g. scientists)
• allowed Naxxilian race to research Armor
  
  USER INTERFACE
• improved mouse cursor display in Research screen (no flickering)
• altered description of invasion forces at colony in Selection Panel: include population in total defenders, but in brackets indicate population strength
  
  MODDING
• fixed bug where special government types could not be selected in Start New Game screen for Other Empires when a custom theme is active
  
  OTHER
• advisors now check whether Terraforming Facility exists at colony before recommending building a new one
• fixed occasional situation where trading some techs would not work

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

[*] slightly increased mining rate for gas extractors

ORIGINAL: Locarnus

My commands to fleets/ships are still overwritten by the computer.

Its thus still unplayable and I will wait for the next patch.

ORIGINAL: Nedrear

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

[*] slightly increased mining rate for gas extractors

I can't comprehend this change... the gas extractors - considering the double cap on gas in general - are already more than twice capable than a normal mining device and you increased it? I never need more than 3 to reach max...

Maybe you wanted this to prevent a complete overhaul of AI designs?

ORIGINAL: Locarnus
My commands to fleets/ships are still overwritten by the computer.
Its thus still unplayable and I will wait for the next patch.

ORIGINAL: HercMighty
Mine crashes everytime at startup right when "fuelling pirate ships" comes up on the load screen....

ORIGINAL: Locarnus
yep, I think the main problem with the fuel is, that the computer sends 10 ships to get steel for your main colony, each transporting miniscule amounts, and no freighter transports fuel to your homeworld (from the gas giant your homeworld is orbiting) to refuel those 10 steel freighters (with 9 of them being useless and only consuming fuel, since everything they transport would fit in 1 freighter).

My commands to fleets/ships are still overwritten by the computer.

Its thus still unplayable and I will wait for the next patch.

ORIGINAL: WoodMan

My commands to fleets/ships are still overwritten by the computer.

Its thus still unplayable and I will wait for the next patch.

What automation settings are you using?  If something is set to automatic, then the computer is going to control it, set it to manual.

Been playing for two years here and to be completely honest I have not the slightest clue what you are talking about [&:]