Patch 5 - Automated Exploration (1.0.7)

Automated Exploration

Requested by quite a few people, here is Automated Exploration:

• Select one or more Scouts and press the ‘Automated Exploration’ button in the ‘Selected Forces’ window (bottom right) or the ‘A’ key to command them to Auto-Explore.

• Giving a Scout any other command will cancel their Auto-Explore.

• Auto-Exploring Scouts will go to any Star Systems without other friendly Scouts and scan all planets there, then move on to the next.

• This uses the AI behaviour, so where Scouts go is based on calculated prioritisation.

• When all Planets are scanned, the Scouts will continuously cycle through every Star System repeatedly, indefinitely updating your map.

Destroy Completed Civil Projects

• Completed Civil Projects can now be deleted by pressing the cross icon next to them.

• This does not apply to the ‘Hall’ Project or Projects that provide construction slots - ‘Space Station’, ‘Capital Shipyard’, ‘Space Elevator’, ‘Electromagnetic Factory, & ‘Zero-G Construction Site’.

UI

• Icons fanned out around an Icon Group now always appear in front of nearby Planets, making them easier to interact with.

• Added Star System name to “Enemy Fleet Detected” notifications.

• Transparency of icons not under cursor now changes gradually, rather than instantly as previously.

• Added a warning icon in the Planet Industry tab to indicate low Machine growth. (Maintaining Machine growth through a game is key to planet and faction development).

• Added some text to the Fleet Formation tab to indicate how to move Ships between formation lines.

• Made the buttons for closing windows slightly bigger.

Tutorial

• The ‘Happiness’ and ‘Disorder’ tutorials now trigger if a planet’s happiness drops below 35%, addressing an issue where players were not aware that too many armies on the surface was causing population loss.

Bugs

• Fixed issue with resources not showing on planets not yet inhabited.

• Various typos and text correction.

• Fixed incorrect rotation in Colony Ships in Space Battle view.

• Fixed incorrect values in Project Operation Cost tooltip.