There is a new 1.0.7.2 Public Beta in the Members Club. It fixes many reported issues, including crashes, balance, diplomacy, etc., plus other improvements. All listed below, with a link to the 1.7.0.1 changes.
Please give it a try if you are interested and give us your feed back on these changes.
v1.0.7.2 Beta - November 29, 2011
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[b]CRASH FIXES[/b][ul]
- fixed occasional crashes when click on some options in diplomacy screen
- fixed crash when load game with independent colony added via game editor
- fixed bug where loading a savegame with different galaxy dimensions while in another game would sometimes crash
- fixed rare crash when fleet loads troops
- fixed various other rare crashes
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- fixed problem where restricted resources were sometimes not being distributed properly
- improved resource transport and distribution by freighters
- rebalanced weapons damage to armor, especially when very high-tech armor
- reduced number and tech level of ships in debris fields
- increased minimum time between disaster events from 2 years to 4 years
- empire policy setting ImplementEnslavementWithPenalColonies always off by default for player empire
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- fixed Mining Rights so that no longer cause offense when building mining stations in same system as other empire's colonies
- fixed pirate alliances so that allied pirates do not attack your ships
- when attack pirates with an alliance, the alliance is automatically cancelled, allowing the pirates to attack you
- fixed slavery offense not being reset when no longer enslaving foreign race
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- fixed occasional situations where unbuilt fleet ships were leaving construction yard before construction complete
- fixed issue where automated military ships were not checking whether within fuel range when moving to a system in response to threats
- fixed bug where fleets would occasionally head to top-left corner of galaxy when assign refuel mission using Action button
- fleets now exclude tiny star bases (e.g. former pirate bases) when considering where to retrofit or repair
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- improved AI ship design to attempt to design cruisers and capital ships within current construction size limits
- fixed bug where critical research successes or failures would sometimes happen to queued research projects (i.e. not current project)
- fixed bug where AI would sometimes design monitoring stations without long range scanners
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- cancel transfer of characters to a colony when it changes ownership - prevents your characters from becoming stranded at enemy colonies when they are taken over
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- add extra cycle option for D key: turn off shield bars
- fixed mouse cursor to make consistent and not revert to other cursors
- fixed inconsistent maintenance costs displayed in Designs screen, Design Detail screen and Ships and Bases screen
- fixed inconsistent values shown in diplomacy screen for attitude (factors did not always add up)
- fixed tooltips sometimes not appearing in Characters screen (Character skills and traits)
- updated system influence image to be properly centered
- updated some ship images to eliminate unwanted extra engine thrusters
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- fixed crash when have more than 22 ship sets in theme
- removed limits to design name families in designs.txt file (no longer 14)
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- tweaked undocking after refueling so that military ships will attack nearby threats sooner
- added logging to game startup to help diagnose startup crashes/problems, missing components, etc
- AI will now never disband troops on ships that are manually controlled
- fixed bug with calculations for race victory conditions of Oldest Mutual Defense Pact and Oldest Free Trade Agreement
1.7.0.1 Changes
