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0.20.3.0 - Reliability Fixes, Minor QOL / Balance Tweaks
Upgrade to go lang 1.26.3. Upgrade to ebiten 2.9.9. Android: Improve reliability and clarity when google cloud save is extremely slow or cannot be reached on startup. Militia ship type is now correctly categorized as a…
0.20.2.1 - Add Ship Bugfix, Minor Perf Fix
Fix regression from last patch where add ship button on military tab wouldn't work. Improve performance of 'remove all ships' button on military tab when your fleet is large.
0.20.2.0 - QOL Improvements, Crash Fix
Upgrade to go lang 1.25.6. Upgrade to ebiten 2.9.7. Upgrade more golang dependencies to latest. Show 'Toggle Dev Stats' button when dev stats are open, so it's easy to close. Remake: Improve middle purchase button to on…
0.20.1.0 - Various Bugfixes
Fix crash regression when adding a 'Specific' automation upgrade item. Fix auto add ships feature to add ships if you manually built at least one building of the corresponding factory. Fix military tab bug where adding…
0.20.0.2 - Crash Fix
Fix crash when editing a loadout that is not selected.
0.20.0.1 - Bugfixes
Steam: Stop popping up a command line window with game launch. Fix a regression in behavior on military tab that can cause unresponsive UI and crashes. Android: Fix memory leaks in the go java interface code. Android: R…
0.20.0.0 - New Ships, New Boss, New Automation Option, Graphical Improvements!
Implement a new automation feature that allows more fine-grained control, dividers. They may not be placed below any upgrade preference that has no max level set. They will make sure that automation buys everything abov…
0.19.8.0 - New Setting To Disable Text Spam
Upgrade to ebiten v2.8.8. Fix resolution switcher UI to work again after recent resizable window changes. New setting to disable popup message spam (because it annoys some players, and anyway late game it gets crazy).
0.19.7.9 - Bugfixes (Including Android Crash Fix!)
Upgrade to golang 1.24.1 for windows and MacOS. Fix a crash bug affecting older versions of android (and perhaps linux too) by downgrading to golang v1.22.12 on those platforms. Fix some other references to dole out tha…
0.19.7.8 - Bugfixes
Fix bug where auto-collect autopilot ability was not benefitting gold income the way it should have (it now benefits battle gold drop rate as intended). Fix bug where some trade UI elements would appear above the trade…
0.19.7.7 - Window Resizable, and Fix Gamebreaking Exploit
Upgrade to golang 1.23.5, which has performance improvements for CGO which benefits MacOS, Linux and Android (but not Windows). Support maximizing or resizing the window on windows/mac/linux. If you resized the window a…
0.19.7.6 - Better Freeze Workaround To Reduce RAM Usage
This patch simply uses a better workaround for the freeze issue. Instead of Idle Armada delaying the garbage collector as much as possible (which increased memory usage), we found a specific feature of the go runtime to…
0.19.7.5 - Changes to Address Freezing on Windows
I finally found a way to reproduce the freezing behavior that many users are seeing on windows. It turns out the key is to run it with steam overlay. I understand it's some interaction between ebiten engine, steam overl…
0.19.7.4 - Perf Improvements, V-Sync Option
Prefer discrete GPU on windows to make sure we aren't getting slowed down by an integrated GPU. Make v-sync a visible setting, and show v-sync status on dev stats page. Reduce the maximum windowed size because it was so…
0.19.7.2 - Add Profiling Mode
Add -profile commandline, which when passed outputs various detailed performance information compatible with the go tool pprof (see details on settings -> dev stats page, or by hitting slash button on keyboard). Change…
0.19.7.1 - Minor Tweaks, Perf Telemetry
Reduce CPU somewhat for farm rate calculations. Fix bug where the visible battle would pause when a computer's clock time is adjusted backwards. Add various counters in dev stats screen that will be used to help diagnos…
0.19.7.0 - Fix hang / stutter that can occur sometimes
Fix bug where game could hang for a little while when doing background push / farm rate calculations. Upgrade to ebiten v2.8.6.
0.19.6.1 - Fix Remake Crash
This fixes a crash when switching to remake.
0.19.6.0 - Trade UI Fixes, Other Bugfixes
Upgrade to golang 1.23.4. Upgrade to ebiten 2.8.5. Fix bug that can cause long offline calc to almost catch up, then spend more time processing with just a few seconds of 'offline' time remaining. Fix regression where s…
0.19.5.0: Bugfixes, QOL Improvemnets
Upgrade to golang 1.23.2. Upgrade to ebiten 2.8.1. General dependency upgrade including android NDK 27.1. Greatly increase the ceiling of visible numbers from E+120 -> E+306. Reduce the chance of battle statistics overf…
