v2.6.0 Changes List

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Changes List for 2.6.0 (unreleased)

This post includes bug fixes or minor changes. Any more significant changes will have their own post.

Fixes

• Centre on Selected Body and Create Colony on the Minerals window work on Wide View.
• Fixed error sequence #1954, #1943, #478, caused by an Alien Race without a class naming theme.
• Move Waypoint now functioning correctly.
• Parasites dragged into a different fleet or sub-fleet will be launched.
• Species characteristics, such as growth rate, research rate, etc. are passed on when used as a base species for a new species design.
• 'Redo minerals' works correctly for comets.
• Lagrange stabilisation time no longer displayed for comets.
• If a class has no valid hull type, it will be saved as a cruiser.
• Fixed plasma carronade tech cost at 70cm and above.
• Wreck text uses same tonnage rounding as class summary.
• Fixed bug that could result in new race being created on a planet with less than 20% water.
• Fixed bug that duplicated parasites attached to a fleet when using drag-drop on the Fleet window, without being visible to the player. This could cause deletion problems in certain situations.

Minor Changes

• Population requirement removed for Spaceports. This is line with population being required for 'producing' installations, rather than 'facilities' installations.
• Removed crew requirement for maintenance storage bays.
• You can only tractor inactive shipyards.
• If a ship is transferred to another race, including via capture, any trade goods on board are removed.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Limited Planet Distance

A new game-level option for v2.6 is Limited Planet Distance. This option has the following effects.

• No planets or asteroids will be created if their perihelion is more than twice the distance of the outer ring of survey locations. That is 12 billion kilometres for Sol.
• Bodies with eccentric orbits that have a perihelion within the limit and an aphelion outside will still be created, but their starting position will be somewhere on the portion of their orbit that lies within the limit.
• Companion stars with a perihelion more than 24 billion kilometres from the primary will be deleted unless they have a planet with a LaGrange Point and either the primary star, or another star within 24 billion kilometers of the primary, has at least one gas giant or superjovian.
• Companion stars with eccentric orbits that have a perihelion within the 24 billion kilometre limit and an aphelion outside will still be created, but their starting position will be somewhere on the portion of their orbit that lies within the limit.

Every current system body in Sol will still be created as they all have perihelions less than 12 billion kilometres.