Pre 0.8 Changelog

v0.7.7b

• Compatibility update for new DynaSector version
• Add Frankenstein IBB to Prism ship list
• Lower prisoner drop rate from officers in enemy fleet (less than half overall)
• Templar invasion point mult 0.4 -> 0.3
• Scrolling notification messages on war/peace state change between the player and another faction/alliance
• More specificity on which diplomacy events pirates can use
• Prism: Fix IBB renewal config option; fix handling of IBB fighter wings
• Fix Exigency mysterious_contact handling
• Fix a possible crash with broken faction configs
• Fix SetRelationship not working when player-aligned faction is passed as an arg
• Some text fixes/cleanups

v0.7.7 "Period Without an Update"

• Gameplay
  • Add dialog options to control followers faction alliances
  • Separate Templar invasion handling
    • There are Templar invasion and counter-invasion points, separate from the regular invasion points
    • When Templar invasion points are filled up, Templars invade one of their enemies
    • When Templar counter-invasion points are filled, one of Templars' enemies invade them
  • Add revenge fleets (first iteration)
    • After the player kills enough fleets or their faction captures enough markets, an enemy faction will send a powerful invasion fleet at player
    • See config file for options
  • Bonus prisoner drops from killing ships with officers (base prisoner drop rate reduced to compensate)
  • Don't exclude a pirate faction from victory check if player is a member
  • Mining base accident chance 0.5 -> 0.4
  • Agent raise relations effect range 0.8-0.14 (was 0.9-0.14)
  • Prism: Only carry ships from IBBs we've actually killed, not just accepted the mission for
  • Asteroid belt around star always spawns if nebula not present
  • Add morality tag for factions (currently only affects reputation changes from selling slaves)
• GUI
  • Faction join/leave now done by talking to market officials
    • For most factions this is the station commander or military base commander
    • For pirates and Templars it can be anyone except the quartermaster/supply officer (or mercs)
  • Reorganize start options menu a bit to prevent overflow
• Console commands update
  • SetRelationship now automatically syncs faction relationships to player relationships
  • CreateDiplomacyEvent can create a specific event
  • Remove some unused commands
• Bugfixes
  • Fix procurement mission crash if pirates were wiped out
  • Fix some free start effects persisting into new game with another faction within the same application run
  • Actually start at level 16 (instead of 15) on SS+ commander start
  • Fix a money-farming exploit involving agents
  • Fix crew loot from battles
  • Preferential targeting of player markets in Starfarer mode now actually works
  • Fix some stat tracker bugs
  • Validate random starting ships (must have at least one member that is not a fighter wing and has nonzero cargo/fuel capacity)
  • Crash safety for mining fleet spawn
• Miscellaneous
  • ORA support
  • Full support for rules.csv directory/faction joining entries on faction mod side
  • Remove support for Starsector+ pre-3.4.0

v0.7.6d

• Corvus Scavengers (Tore Up Plenty) support
• New player faction flags/crests by Soren
• Remove SCY faction config (moved to Scy mod)
  • Patch version instead updates the config to match the Scy one
• Failsafe, debug for alliance name picking

v0.7.6c

• Fix broken binary star systems (applies to existing saves)
• Obey "enable pirates/independents" config settings when using all factions
• Revert asteroid mining danger (0.15 -> 0.2)

v0.7.6b

• Add DME start, directory options
• Fix patrol fleet manager crash with unsupported factions
• Fix sector generation crash from not having (enough) habitable planets

v0.7.6

• Faction updates/handling for: Exigency, ApproLight, Metelson, Ship Pack
• Mining adjustments/fixes:
  • Add SCY planets
  • Asteroids give a bit more ore, a bit safer to mine
  • Fix exhaustion rate for planet types not being used
  • Fix Shepherd (D) not being able to mine
• Sector generation:
  • Add two faction start
  • Tone down effects of star color on lighting
  • More planet names; add origin comments
  • Uninhabited systems can sometimes have relays
  • Make sure 70% of systems have at least one market belonging to a pirate faction (the others can have them too); configurable
  • Some factions can have more markets than others if so set in faction config
  • Add config toggles for presence of pirates, independents in non-Corvus mode
  • Fix some asteroid belt-related issues
  • Sector generation crashes instead of failing silently if it fails to load planetNames.json
• Other game start stuff:
  • Add random starting ships option
  • Pirate starting solo Cerberus is shielded, has different weapons
  • Auto assign starting officers
• Don't restore player relationships to previous state when leaving a pirate faction (once a pirate, always a pirate!)
• Stronger Templar defences against invasion
• Any fleet responding to an invasion is treated as having seen the player with their transponder off
• Prisoners can be ransomed to hostile factions if transponder-off trade is permitted and transponder is off
• Don't trigger warmonger event when joining an ally in battle, or enemy fleet is low-rep-impact
• Add hotkeys for most dialog options
• Various text amendments/fixes
• Fix behavior of some mod submarkets on market capture
• Fix patrol generation bugs
• Add crash safety if fleet factory fails to spawn fleet

v0.7.5c

• Fix sector generation crash
• 40% chance of system primary having a guaranteed asteroid belt (was 100%, then 0%)
• Fix possible SS+-related crash

v0.7.5b

• Better conquest mission availability
  • Upon creation, place on all markets hostile to the target and suspicious or better to the issuer (not just the issuer's markets)
  • Remove mission if issuer is no longer hostile to target
  • Unlist from market if the market is no longer hostile to target, or becomes inhospitable or worse to the issuer
• Compatibility with future SS+ versions
  • Note: Any SS+ version older than 3.4.0 is no longer supported! Even 3.4.0 loses some minor functionality
• Sabotage reserve fleet: effect on security level 0.25 -> 0.4
• Sector gen: remove mandatory asteroid belts; only 50% chance of Lagrange asteroids for gas giants
• Fix background image crash when using Ship/Weapon Pack

v0.7.5 "Planet Buster"

• Compatibility with DynaSector, Ship/Weapon Pack, Underworld
  • Backward compatibility with SS+ 3.4.0 maintained, but any future releases of SS+ will likely have irregular behavior if the descendant mods are not also present
• II's Olympus-T and Olympus-X can be used on markets to inflict major stability damage and destroy commodity stockpiles
  • This will cause relationship penalties with any factions not at war with the target
• Agents, saboteurs and prisoners cannot be used on Templars
• Own faction/free start starting frigate is Centurion instead of Monitor
• Hammer-class Torpedoes can be used for mining
• Cabal submarkets more common
• Invasions destroy some commodity stockpiles
• Military bases make more marines, fewer agents/saboteurs
• Reduce chance of markets picking military base as special condition
• Increase agent/saboteur decay (0.5 -> 0.8)
• Supply workshop makes fewer hand weapons
• Fix Prism Freeport selling some ships it shouldn't
• Fix start ship selection for Artefact (noir)
• Fix invasion fleet event icon in Intel screen list, tweak text
• Change faction elimination, respawn messages

v0.7.4e

• Use SS+'s doctrine hax for patrol, invasion, strike, defense and response fleets if SS+ is present (big fleets prefer big ships over small ones)
• ICE exiles can't launch or be targeted by invasions
• Reset smuggling suspicion on market capture
• Followers patrols will chase player for smuggling suspicion, but won't actually perform the scan
• Battles from refusing to submit to a smuggling suspicion scan won't cause warmonger event
• All invasion fleet events are tagged as important
• Add Blackrock's obsidianBG (2).jpg background (was deleted from BRDY; fixes crash on entering system)
• Failsafe for DiplomacyManager crash if a battle has no winner and/or no loser
• Fix boss ships not being consistently cleaned up and piling up in store
• Fix prismUseIBBProgressForBossShips config setting
• Fix followers auto-forming alliances when told not to
• When adding Nexerelin to an existing game, replace other CoreScripts with Nexerelin's own

v0.7.4d

• Prism Freeport updates/improvements
  • Cycle only half the stock on market refresh, instead of all
  • Add ship and weapon blacklists
  • Tariff goes down as relationship with independents goes up
  • High-end seller becomes inaccessible if relationship is neutral or worse
  • No longer sells Templar weapons (again)
  • Nexerelin doesn't spawn its own Prism Freeport if SCY does (i.e. in Corvus mode)
• Update SS+ compatibility
• Update followers faction ship list (non-SS+) to 0.7.2a
• Conquest mission: Reward increased (base 2^size -> 3^size); add mult to config
• Move exerelin_config.json to root folder
• Add config option to keep followers from auto-joining alliances (untested)
• Non-Corvus mode uses a smaller version of the vanilla lobster pens condition (fixes super cheap luxury goods)
• Fix bugs from setting factions at start to anything other than "all", including salaries not being paid
• Fix turning hostile to player_npc when betraying an ally
• Fix interaction dialog getting stuck from exception after failed invasion
• Fix Starlight Cabal not being hostile to anyone in Corvus mode

v0.7.4c

• Replace Knight in Blackrock large military fleet start with Stenos
• Allow minPlanets/minStations to exceed max
• Fix commissions not being removed properly on low reputation
• Fix Ascalon not being invadable
• Fix Lieutenant start having wrong level in SS+
• Fix Neutrino being marked as incompatible with Corvus mode
• Update Tiandong dual interaction image handling

v0.7.4b

• Starsector 0.7.2 compatibility
• Support for SS+'s Starlight Cabal
• Tooltips for Omnifactory, Prism Freeport, free start starting options
• Update Diable starting trade fleet (large)
• Update Infected starting fleets for shortened ship names in upcoming Flu-X version
• Lower effect of agent relations raising a bit (previously +10-15, now +9-14)
• Mining configs for three II planet types (and one vanilla one)
• Tag some event reports as important
• Externalize event names
• Fix missing starting officers
• Fix Bushi, Kadur, Qamar, Artefact starting options
• Fix solo Neutrino starting ship
• Fix solo starting ship options not using SS+ setting if available
• Fix larger starting fleets getting way too many supplies/fuel/crew
• Fix interaction image handling for Shanghai in non-Corvus mode

v0.7.4 "Head Start"

• Add conquest missions
  • Factions will pay you to conquer markets belonging to their enemies
  • Capture by an invasion fleet (even a randomly generated one) counts for success
• Add selectable starting fleets
  • Available options: solo frigate, small combat fleet, small trade fleet, large combat fleet, large trade fleet
  • Only used by the SS+ integrated factions, Spire, Infected and Looters at present
  • Not all factions have all options
• Rename normal/fast/extra fast starts to Ensign, Lieutenant, Commander
  • Lieutenant start also adds one officer and Commander adds two
• Followers can auto-join alliances again
  • Joining a new faction makes followers leave their alliance, unless the joined faction is also in the alliance
• Add Bushi, Kadur/Qamar support
• Update ApproLight support
• Vanilla's easy mode can be enabled at start (simultaneously with Starfarer mode, if so desired)
• Limited faction respawns (untested); can be set in config
• Custom ping effects for Follow Me ability
• Fix own faction start not spawning homeworld after a previous free start in the same session
• Fix alliance manager breaking on invalid faction configs

v0.7.3

• Implement resource depletion/regeneration for mining
• Gas giants yield considerably less resources when mined
• New mining variants for NGO
• Patrol interval less affected by recent losses
• Don't spawn patrols from a market the player is currently invading
• Add a new vanilla background
• Add Kadur Theocracy and Qamar Insurgency to faction-specific diplomacy events
• NPE safety for alliance manager
• Fix Omnifactory not being in home system for mod factions in Corvus mode
• Fix back button in faction directory coming before some faction options

v0.7.2

• Actually start with 4 skill points
• When losing faction commission due to low reputation, cease being hostile with enemies of faction
• Workaround for relationship weirdness if commission issuer signs a ceasefire/peace treaty
• Invasion and response fleets restore some of the target/defended market's reserve points when despawning
• Reduce officer level bonus for invasion/strike/response fleets from large markets
• Followers don't execute covert ops by default; can be excluded from diplomacy in config
• Move pirate homeworld from Umbra to Qaras
• Make sure certain Scy markets get the right submarkets back if recaptured from Templars
• Highlight messages for agent actions that bring peace
• Sector generation:
  • Omnifactory spawns in faction home system in Corvus mode
  • Relays orbit pointing down
  • Try to reduce orbits of things overlapping planets
  • Update Thracia background reference (now a .png)
  • Use some nebula maps from mods
• Fix some Corvus mode capitals
• Fix losing reputation with Neutral from slave trade
• Fix Omnifactory, Ascalon flavor texts
• Fix possible crash with some system locales
• Fix some fleet assignment texts not being externalized
• Set correct is/are verb for followers
• Don't use placeholder tooltips for white stars

v0.7.1 "Ho Ho Ho!"

• Sector generation fixes
  • Improve ring textures for asteroid belts
  • Objects orbit more slowly
  • Better handling of station orbit distances
  • Fix belter stations orbiting in opposite direction to asteroid belt
• Starting skill points 6 -> 4 (match vanilla/SS+)
• Tweaks to economy generation handling of food, supplies, lobsters
• Reduce agent production
• Automatically set hostile status for commission holders if war breaks out
• Invasion fleet event reports for when fleet is turned back or invasion fails
• Tweak special fleet naming by size; reduce officer level bonus
• When market is captured, make previous faction's stuff buyable in submarkets
• Response fleets: don't do enemy size check before deciding to spawn
• Mining stuff:
  • Ingame mining help (gives per-ship mining strength list; list of all mining ships and weapons available in the Sector)
  • Add Tiandong Qianzi as miner
  • Move mining ship/wing definitions to .csv
  • Fix Mining Pod not getting its mining strength bonus
• Update high-end seller's handling of boss ships for new SS+ version
• Don't use dark nebula (ugly)
• More planet names
• Workaround for Follow Me behaviour (use passive orbit for the first day, aggressive thereafter)
• Fix Prism submarket ship spawning (in particular, stop carrying Templar ships)
• Fix Sphinx star market bug
• Fix possible text formatting crash when parsing some .json configs
• Hopefully fix invasions by independents (and other unwanted types) for real this time

v0.7a-e beta "Bigger and Beta"

• Update for Starsector 0.7.1a
  • Joining a faction automatically issues a commission, if the faction issues them (replaces any existing commission)
  • Handling for relationship changes of players with commissions when factions cease hostilities
  • Faction commissions also provide access to allies' equipment in military submarket
  • Disable vanilla faction hostility event
• Starsector Plus compatibility fixes
• Expand, refine economy balancer; tweak some market conditions
• Replace some faction configuration .jsons with .csvs; move some stuff to faction config files as well
  • In principle, adding Nexerelin support for a faction should be entirely doable from within the faction mod now
• Update Diable Avionics, Metelson support
• Non-Corvus mode allows stars further from center, if there aren't enough close ones
• Custom patrol fleet handling (requires new game)
  • Templar, Spire patrol fleets smaller
• Invasion fleets a bit bigger
• Templar, Spire special fleet (invasion, strike, response) sizes smaller
• Fewer utility ships in mining fleets
• Don't spawn relays in uninhabited systems
• Reinstate dissident market condition
• UI changes:
  • Rename player_npc to "followers"; add crest
  • Faction changed event messages delivered immediately
  • Remove planet definition entries that duplicate vanilla entries
  • Replace uses of faction logos in event message icons with crests
  • Use decimal group separators where applicable
  • Show prisoner reputation effects in the right place
  • Don't reset starting options on new game
  • Custom image for high-end seller submarket (from SCY)
• Remove Corvus compatibility checks for player spawn at start
• Bugfixes:
  • Follow Me: fix fetching unrelated fleets; fix handling of already-following fleets
  • Fix crash on capturing a relay-associated market if planetToRelay map is not set
  • Fix a random faction having two homeworlds if player chose free start
  • Fix independents (and potentially other non-playable factions) doing things they shouldn't (covert ops, invasions, etc.)
  • Fix war weariness checks happening too often
  • Fix relationship with player_npc when applying Nexerelin to existing save
  • Fix free start hugging planets it shouldn't
  • Safety against "market in star" bug
  • Fix mining variant fallback

v0.7 "Magnificent Seven"

• Updates for Starsector 0.7
  • Add Luddic Path handling
  • Add special handling for good rep investigations
  • Add ability: Follow Me!
  • New planet types can spawn, be mined
  • Update Corvus mode locations
• Corvus mode selectable from within the game config menu
• Add Scion Collective, ApproLight support
• Fixes/improvements for star system generation:
  • Enable uninhabited systems
  • Non-Corvus-mode systems use a preset list of start points instead of full randomization
  • Fix moon generation; moons more common now (a gas giant can have up to three)
  • Belter stations actually spawn now
  • Binary companions get their own jump points
  • Tweak selection of stellar objects for spawning belts
  • Increase number of asteroids in star-orbiting belts
  • Remove an ugly background
  • Better handling of asteroid belt, relay orbit distances from stars
  • Stars and gas giants have lower mass (things orbit them more slowly)
• Huge economy generation revamps
• Mining improvements/fixes:
  • Uninhabited planets (not just moons) can be mined (25% higher danger)
  • Base accident hull damage 500 -> 400
  • Add Laminar as Diable miner
  • Heavy Mining Laser strength 5 -> 8
  • Shepherd strength 10 -> 9
  • Mining Pod (hull) strength 0 -> 0.5
  • Armored Mining Drone (hull) strength 0 -> 0.7
  • Increase rocky unstable output (1.3 -> 1.4 ore), reduce danger (0.75 -> 0.6)
  • Mining fighter wings can lose CR from accidents
  • Fix null reference when only miners are wings, no ships
  • Mining hazard rating shown with 2 decimal points
  • Fix mining cryovolcanic worlds
• UI improvements:
  • Hide dead factions in intel screen (except pirates, etc.)
  • Diplomacy, covert ops events get special icons
  • Markets with military bases listed as such in directory
• Various gameplay changes:
  • Independents spawn at start
  • Market invasion defense made slightly higher for smaller markets, lower for larger ones
  • Invasions less frequent; add grace period
  • Extend grace period for alliance formation
  • Sindrian Diktat gets Lions' Guards at their homeworld
  • Having transponder off reduces detection chance of agents/saboteurs
  • Don't add/remove free port condition on market capture in Corvus mode
  • countPiratesForVictory off by default (i.e. they no longer need to be killed to win)
• Diplomacy improvements/fixes:
  • Dominance mod (for diplomacy) uses the higher value for the two factions rather than the average
  • Infected (Flu-X) no longer categorized as a pirate faction
  • PBC can experience the "tech stolen" diplomacy event
  • player_npc does not have warmonger penalties by default
  • Don't make factions neutral on death
  • Random start relationships higher on average
• Bugfixes:
  • Prevent crash if game somehow fails to find a valid mining ship
  • Fix war weariness null crashes
  • Fix Shanghai not changing faction on market capture
  • Fix dominance mod boost in hard mode
  • Fix Protonian Tech support
  • Probably fix some weird sector generation issues if starting new game multiple times in one session
• Miscellaneous:
  • Update Starsector+ compatibility
  • Player teleporting to homeworld now included in start game save (i.e. persists after reload)
  • Externalize tariffs to config
  • Allow 10 and 12-planet, zero station starts
  • Externalize market destabilization texts
  • Fix misleading comment for crewLootMult config option

v0.6.2 "ICE ICE Baby"

• Add support for the following factions:
  • Idoneus Citadel Garrison
  • Pegasus Belt Council
  • Flu-X (treated as pirate faction; hostile to all)
• Economy refinements (again):
  • Economy balancer smarter in general
  • Economy balancer can remove shipbreaking centers if needed
  • Hydroponics lab is population-based instead of fixed throughput (can supply 20% of its own market's food requirements by default)
  • Balance food supply/demand by adding/removing hydroponics labs
  • Agriculture planets prefer terran and arid over water and jungle types
  • Lower ore mining, refining complex chances
  • Reduce market points in general
  • Autofactory costs more points
• Allow spawning only some of the available factions at start
  • Available options: 3 factions, 5 factions, 50% of available factions, 75% of available factions, all factions
  • Player's selected faction is always one of the spawning factions (except player_npc)
  • Pirates always spawn
• Nexerelin can be added to an existing save game
  • This could be used to circumvent Corvus mode incompatibility, but functionality is not guaranteed
• Un-hardcode, fix handling of hostile-to-all factions (currently this is Templars, Dark Spire, infected)
  • Hostile-to-all state controlled by a faction config int (0-3)
• Add Neutrino Falken as boss ship
• Add SS+ arcade background
• Player mining takes half as long and produces half as much
• Update Corvus mode entries
• Update Omnifactory to v1.11b
• Fix free refitting at Omnifactory
• Fix mining fleet crash with some unusual mods in Corvus mode
• Fix wrong number of starting factions when only allowing starting factions to respawn
• Fix asteroids sometimes being too close to sun
• Possible fix for bug where respawn fleets cause alliance war/peace message spam

v0.6.1c

• Fix strike fleet stand down behavior
• Fix some non-player factions being hostile to famous bounties (applies to existing saves)

v0.6.1b

• Further economy adjustments:
  • More supplies and domestic goods in general
  • Supply balancer takes into account orbital stations
  • Reduce number of volatiles markets
  • Most markets can't have volatiles complexes by default
  • Increase point cost of volatiles depot
  • Fix homeworld autofac sometimes being removed
• Link boss ship availability to SS+'s IBB sidequest progress
  • Defeating a famous bounty fleet unlocks the boss ships it used
  • Unsung does not require IBB progress
  • Disable in config to have all boss ships available at start, as before
• Add Cleric (super Paladin) as a boss ship
• Boss ships available for sale at a time 2 -> 3
• Remove reputation penalty (with target) from a failed invasion attempt
• Fix bug where a friendly fleet capturing a market while player is still invading leads to angering that faction

v0.6.1 "Starship Tycoon"

• Revamp economy generator to fix extreme price/supply issues
  • Remove all randomness from market archetype assignment; use a Tetris-style rotation system (n.b. the markets can still be of different sizes and have variable market conditions)
  • Implement smart algorithm for balancing supply/demand (and thus prices) of domestic goods, supplies and metal
  • Adjust many market condition costs, chances
  • Recycling plant: doubled crew requirements, produces somewhat more supplies and metals
  • Markets can no longer have both an orbital station and a spaceport
  • Make some planet types a bit more common (primarily to increase food supply)
  • Reduce random bonus points for seeding market conditions
  • All HQs have a bonus recycling plant and hydroponics lab
  • All sector capitals have a bonus hydroponics lab
  • Homeworld has a fuel production facility on top of the HQ bonuses
  • Prism Freeport gets an extra hydroponics lab
  • Larger initial stockpiles for supplies, fuel and food
  • Fix a major bug with condition min/max sizes (was using <= and >= instead of < and >)
• Retool Prism Freeport's handling of boss ships
  • List of boss ships moved to external config file (data/config/exerelin/prism_boss_ships.json)
  • Number of ships available at a time is controlled by config (default 2)
  • Once a boss ship is bought from the Prism Freeport, it won't be sold again (can be disabled in config)
  • Add new boss ships from Starsector Plus v2.9
  • Add Neutrino Unsung as a boss ship
• Mining fleets spawn more often; prefer ore over volatiles where relevant
• Tiandong uses certain Chengdu variants in mining fleets
• Metelson uses Pala mining variant in mining fleets
• Own faction/free starts get an Alastor-class frigate, if SS+ is enabled
• Remove warmonger penalty when NPC fleet attacks player for refusing a customs inspection or toll/fine payment, or for installing a comm sniffer
  • Penalty still applies if the player attacks the patrol without hearing them out first
  • Also remove penalty if no enemy ships are killed
• Strike fleets that get hammered to <50% FP while in patrol mode should go home properly
• Uninhabited moons can use desert, water and jungle types
• Display basic outcome (success/fail, detected) of player's agent/saboteur actions in dialog screen right away
  • You still need to wait for the intel event to come in to get the exact result numbers
• Add a warning + (partial) crash prevention for incompatible factions in Corvus mode
  • Will still crash on mods that use economy.json, unfortunately
• Planet names: add more In Conquest Born entries and station names
• Starsector+ v2.10 compatibility fixes (fleet injector; famous bounties)
• Fix some cases of comm relays changing hands inappropriately on market capture
• Fix a possible crash when attempting to flip a comm relay upon market capture
• Fix various issues with alliance relationship handling

v0.6.0 "Farer of Stars"

• Add "Starfarer Mode" starting option (hard mode: halved salary and insurance payouts, other factions more aggressive towards player's, enables SS+ bounty hunters)
  • May not work entirely as it should
  • Other features may be implemented later
• Add binary star systems (~20% chance for each system; can be changed in config)
• Overhaul sector generator to use a system with specialized market archetypes; should also create a more overall balanced economy
• Add diplomatic penalty for starting a war with other faction (the "warmonger penalty")
  • Penalty is higher with own faction, and with any faction that likes the victim
  • Can be turned off in config
• Add Avesta Station for Ahriman Association (can be disabled in config)
• Remove intel screen link from faction directory completely (it's a crash waiting to happen)
• Add Tiandong Heavy Industries support
• Templars have better invasion defense; launch invasions half as often
• More intuitive strike fleet behavior if target turns out to be friendly
  • If target belongs to own faction (i.e. captured), patrol around it for 40 days and then despawn there
  • Else, go home and despawn
• Mining gas giants gives some organics (and slightly fewer volatiles)
• Mining accident chance for each ship is weighted by its mining strength
• Mining accidents cause less CR loss for larger ship classes
• Reduce effectiveness of saboteur's food destruction ability
• Externalize fleet assignment texts
• Remove default fleet names from faction configs
• Add a few more planet names from Sunrider
• Clean up unused tags from config file
• Fix Exigency crash in Corvus mode
• Fix invasions targeting abandoned stations and neutral factions
  • Abandoned stations can't launch invasions either
• Fix Templar markets sometimes incorrectly having the military submarket
• Fix badly broken relationship handling in some areas (leaving faction; relations with player_npc)
• Fix wrong player reputation with eliminated factions if playing as pirate
• Fix own faction customs inspection (was on when set to off in config and vice-versa)
• Fix slaves sold event taking place even if no factions are affected
• Fix typo in faction switch text, diplomatic defeat message
• Fix some event labels in menu starting with lowercase letter if the faction is like that

v0.5.2 "Can We Fix It?"

• Sector generator improvements/fixes
  • Planet spacing more regular
  • Relays orbit further from bigger stars
  • Entities have a 20% chance to orbit in the reverse direction
  • Fix screwy planet number handling in some places (like which planet should be the system capital)
• Base mining accident chance 0.8 -> 0.5
• New Galactic Order has fewer enemies; remove invasion bonuses (no longer needed)
• Templars can't participate in alliances
• Fix patrols not caring about comm sniffer installation or market invasions
• Fix player reputation gains with alliances
• Fix player_npc being able to form alliances
• Fix player relationship with newly formed alliance not being properly averaged
• Fix SyncRelationships command
• Fix mothballed ships still contributing mining strength
  • Ships under 40% CR also get a penalty to their mining strength
• Fix mining fleets spawning too infrequently (practically never)
• Fix mining fleet size being modified by faction's response fleet size mod

v0.5.1 "Feast or Famine"

• Add Rural Polity as a possible market condition
• Urban Polity slightly less common; can only appear on worlds not considered a hostile environment
• Terran, jungle, arid, water, desert planets (but not moons) 25% more common
• Ore extraction and processing market conditions less common; hydroponics more common
• Add ResetRelationships command (won't work properly with mod factions in a Corvus mode game)
• SyncFactionRelationships is now just SyncRelationships
• Remove ssp_arcade.png background for now (fixes crash; applies to existing games)
• New Galactic Order no longer hostile to Tri-Tachyon
• Reload Prism's boss ship list on each market refresh (for factions added mid-game, etc.)
• Remove intel screen link from not-docked faction directory (prevents crash when clicking on cargo tab)
• Fix correcting of "orphans made" stat for prisoners/crew captured

v0.5.0c

• Add The Reaper (Junk Pirates) to mining ships list
• Add option for min. 6 stations per system
• Fix crash on interacting with a star
• Fix crash when starting with fewer planets/stations than minimum
• Fix SCY background selection; remove a couple of unwanted BGs

v0.5.0b

• Fix strange Prism Freeport crash
• Grammar tweaks for a few docking messages

v0.5 "Rock Bottom"

• Add mining
  • Asteroids, uninhabited moons and gas giants can be mined
  • Different planets give different resources
  • Sometimes accidents can damage a random ship or cause it to lose CR, or kill crew
  • Sometimes mining uncovers a hidden cache with various goodies
  • Can be configured in data/config/exerelin/mining_config
• Add Protonian Tech, Oculian Berserks support
• Invasions occur more frequently, particularly as the player gains levels
• Factions launch a pair of strike fleets when reaching the halfway mark on the invasion counter
• Fleets responding to a player invasion attempt no longer break ceasefires that got signed between said attempt and reaching the player fleet
• Tweak invasion balance (particularly for Templars)
• Add more factions to some faction-specific diplomacy events
• Add a Hydroponics Lab market condition
• Aquaculture and lobster pens have higher spawn chance, but won't appear on dry planets (only terran, jungle and ocean worlds can have them)
• Moons can be jungle worlds
• Count markets held by player_npc for diplomacy/agent dominance mod
• Prism Freeport can sell the mod-ships seen in SS+ arcade mode if configured to do so (default off)
• Asteroid belt stations should be more common
• Don't use Citadel's twin cities illustration for stations
• New star, planet names (from In Conquest Born)
• Move Exerelin config files in data/config to /exerelin subfolder
• Fix a background image crash with SS+
• Fix gas giants sometimes appearing in inner system
• Fix SetMarketOwner console command
• Fix some tariff bugs

v0.4.2c

• Fix hang on starting a non-Corvus game

v0.4.2b

• Add support for Firestorm Federation, Metelson Industries
• Storage on player homeworld is unlocked for free in Corvus mode as well
• Add NGO alignments
• Update Omnifactory to v1.11
• Externalize station names
• Fix Tri-Tachyon homeworld being Achaman instead of Tibicena
• Fix NGO fleet names, starting variant
• Fix a lowercase letter in faction directory

v0.4.2 "Sieg NGO"

• Add New Galactic Order support
• Expand victory handling
  • Non-player factions can win a diplomatic victory
  • If the player is not a member of the winning faction but does have friendly or better relations with them, win an "ally" victory of the appropriate type
  • Victory screen now also works as a defeat screen
  • Victory/defeat screen displays some stats (requires a new game to work properly)
• player_npc can't participate in alliances any more
• Some factions (Templars, Spire) don't drop prisoners
• Try to fix fleeing invasion fleets being chased across the entire cluster
• Fix not being able to request a fleet if the player has just enough credits
• Externalize most previously hardcoded strings (for localization)
• Replace SetClosestMarketOwner console command with just SetMarketOwner (takes a market arg)

v0.4.1 "Return to Corvus"

• Corvus mode fixes/improvements:
  • Fix crash when playing without SS+
  • Fix tariffs being broken after market capture
  • Almost all Nexerelin-compatible factions have their homeworlds set
  • Capturing an entity marked as a system capital captures the system relay as well
  • Exigency pays salaries, insurance
  • (Probably) fix comm relay issues with Avesta Station (Ahriman Association)
  • Don't reset Exigency relationships on faction elimination or failed respawn attempt
  • Update config file comment
• Don't allow agent use if alert level reaches 100%
• Easy start renamed to fast start; add extra fast start
• Fix invasion fleets having wrong origin/target if multiple factions launch an invasion on the same day
• Fix respawn fleets not having any marines
• Don't reset faction relationship if respawn invasion fails but we were already hostile to begin with
• New Prism Freeport sprite; tweak some properties
• Prism Freeport tariff can be modified in config file
• Faction directory: "markets" -> "market(s)"

v0.4.0c

• Fix forgetting player faction after application restart
• Fix background crash with Shadowyards, Valkyrians
• Fix Omnifactory location crash in Corvus mode
• Fix a couple of minor issues with fleet requests
• Add some more faction homeworlds (Corvus mode) to snap to
• ExigencyCorp and Association players start with destroyers
• Remove obsolete config options

v0.4.0b

• Corvus mode polish
  • Leave faction relationships to be set by vanilla + mods, unless randomization is on
  • Ascalon has a military submarket when held by non-Templars
  • Faction directory: special handling for ExigencyCorp
• Teleport player to homeworld at start (including in Corvus mode)
• Fix player faction being improperly set when multiple new games are started in one session
• Fix Citadel interaction images
• Fix a couple of reports

v0.4 "Diplomatic Immunity"##

• Implement alliances
  • A brief guide is available at https://bitbucket.org/Histidine/exerelin/wiki/Alliances
• Add Corvus mode (beta)
  • Uses the vanilla starmap and systems (e.g. Corvus, Askonia, etc.) instead of a randomly generated one
  • Also works with mods, but no faction mods support this at release
• Revamp invasion system
  • All factions accumulate invasion points based partly on sum of market (size * stability)
  • When invasion points reach a certain amount, the faction gets an invasion fleet
  • Templars and pirate accumulate invasion points faster the more enemies they have
  • If a faction's only enemies are Templars and/or pirates, it charges invasion points more slowly the more enemies there are of its enemies
  • Reduce Templar invasion offensive/defensive bonuses to balance for these changes
  • Some numbers can be modified in config
• Invasion fleet intel events get their own icon
• Requested strike fleets go straight to target instead of dithering around the star system
• Fix dysfunctional respawn fleets
• Fix some small bugs with requesting a defense fleet
• Faction directory is available even when not docked anywhere (press D)
• Ceasefires less frequent
• Add a dominance system
  • Factions/alliances with more markets get more negative diplomacy events and fewer positive ones (the affected faction/alliance must control at least 25% of the sector's population)
  • Likewise for NPC covert actions and player agents lowering relationships (no lower bound)
• NPC use covert ops more often; weightings for choice of action tweaked
• NPC covert ops have 50% greater effect
• Templars get a market condition that prevents stability loss from smuggling and adds +1 stability; added/removed on market capture as appropriate
• Templars don't post bounties any more
• Prism Freeport improvements:
  • Will no longer buy ships (at a negative price)
  • Ship/weapon counts can be modified in config file
  • Has a light industrial complex
• Homeworld storage unlocked for free at start
• Agents, saboteurs more expensive
• Starting Monitor variant (own faction/free start) stronger
• Starting friendly relationship 50 -> 40
• Starting relationship with selected faction 50 -> 60 (still 100 for player_npc)
• Recycling Plant doesn't produce heavy machinery any more
• More asteroids in belts
• Use backgrounds, interaction images from mods if available
• Use first star name instead of "Exerelin" when applicable
• More planet names
• Fix customs inspections not working
• Fix buggy behavior if two fleets capture a market at the same time
• Fix being able to attack player_npc fleets after joining some other faction
• Fix reputation loss from slavery
• Fixes to some event reports and other text items

v0.3.8b

• Fix qualityFactor floor not being applied in all instances (probably never in the case of SS+)

v0.3.8

• Add victory screen
• Invasion fixes/improvements
  • When picking a faction to invade someone else, Templars get a higher weighting for each faction they're at war with
  • Fix other factions not invading Templars if they aren't at war with anyone else
  • Factions prioritize invading non-Templar planets
  • Templar invasion attack bonus 12.5% -> 15%, defense bonus 12.5% -> 20%
  • Invasion/strike/response fleets have minimum quality factor 0.7 (prevents bugs with them sometimes being empty)
  • Requested fleets move to target immediately instead of orbiting origin market for a few days
  • Halve fleet request costs (both marines and ships)
  • Fix Templar invasion fleet name
  • Fix a couple of invasion text errors
• Templars post bounties
• Maybe fix own faction inspections for real this time
• Add a vanilla background

v0.3.7c

• Fix crash at start of comm sniffer investigation

v0.3.7b

• Reduce Templar invasion offense/defense bonuses to 12.5% (was 25%)
• Improved fleet request system
  • Has its own option tree, with configurable fleet size and marine count
  • Ships in a requested fleet are no longer free
  • Can summon a defense fleet to protect a non-hostile planet (don't put marines in it!)
• Invasion grace period 30 days -> 60
• Cathedral can appear in Luddic response fleets too; doesn't appear in fleets that are too small (<120 FP)
• Smarter check for nearby fleets to see if they should attack an invasion fleet
• Tweak fleet name prefixes to have higher FP bounds (i.e. an Invasion Fleet needs to be considerably bigger now to be called Grand)
• Response fleets can have custom names
• Templar fleets get custom names
• Remove patrols blocking agent/saboteur insertion (it's massively annoying and the security alert level is a much better balancing factor)
• Change some target weightings for agent relationship changes (in particular don't weigh current enemies so heavily for lowering relations)
• Reputation penalty from invading a market is applied when the command is issued, instead of when an alerted fleet touches the player
• Starting hostile, inhospitable relationships are -60 and -40 respectively (don't get to move up one level just by killing a bunch of their enemies' fleets)
• Random relationship range is now (-100, 55) instead of (-100, 100) for more wars
• Pirates default to hostile if randomizer doesn't set their relationship to something else
• Don't reset faction relationships to zero on faction elimination, if one of them is Templars
• Fix recycling plant producing too many rare metals
• Free port market condition is now a faction config option
  • No longer hardcoded in sector generator
  • Changes (along with tariffs) if market is captured
  • Current factions with free markets: Tri-Tachyon, Pirates, ASP Syndicate, Junk Pirates, Ahriman Association
• High-end seller is independent (fixes getting rep with Neutral for trading with it)
• NPC invasion fleets don't target independent markets
• Remove exception from changing independent market owner
• Remove high-end seller submarket icon (defaults to owner icon)
• Fix SCY faction config not working on Linux
• Double base prisoner cash values (per-level increments unchanged)
• Maybe fix own faction tolling, investigations (probably not, though)
• Investigations are cancelled if the market is captured
• Star maximum distance increment reduced
• Market list in faction directory is now sorted by star system and size
• Add "%" symbol to alert level display from intel report
• Fix "attack again" dialogue option

v0.3.6b

• Fix several security alert bugs
• Fix a couple of small typos in the Prism Freeport flavor text

v0.3.6

• Add faction respawning (toggle in starting options)
• Add Prism Freeport (sells high-end ships and weapons from all factions at a steep price)
• Pirate factions can be set to not count towards victory (in config file)
• All factions get a size 6 HQ planet at start (if one is available)
• HQ market condition gives 20% size bonus to reserve fleet size (previously 10%); increases reserve build speed by 25%
• Normal planets now in size range 4-5 (previously 4-6)
• Add 12 and 16 star starts
• Stars are further apart if there are fewer of them, and closer if there are more
• Fix stars being all the same size
• Some factions have custom invasion and/or response fleets in SS+ (this means the Cathedral can appear, among other things)
• Templars get 25% bigger invasion and response fleets
• Don't spawn response fleet if it won't be at least half the size of the triggering invasion fleet
• Invasion fleets attract nearby hostile combat fleets to them (probably)
• No invasion fleets for first 30 days of game (can be changed in config file)
• Markets get a higher "security alert" level as more destabilization/sabotage attempts are made, successful or otherwise; this reduces the chance of further such actions in the short term
  • Reduces the effectiveness of agent bombing
  • Set the relevant values in data/config/agentConfig.json to 0 to disable this
• Agents can gather intel on markets (stability, alert level, reserve size)
• Add console command SyncFactionRelationships.java
• Change console command FlipClosestMarket to SetClosestMarketOwner (accepts faction arg)
• Fix Hegemony interaction dialog

v0.3.5

• Add P9 Colony Group support
• Work towards support for Blue, Red
• Templars get a +25% strength bonus during invasions (both as attacker and defender) (can be changed in faction config)
• NPC invasion fleets underdeploy in terms of marine count against planets with defensive market conditions and/or faction defence bonuses (makes them less likely to capture strong planets)
• Base marine multiplier on NPC invasion fleets increased (1.1 -> 1.15) to compensate for the above
• Ceasefire/peace treaty reputation effects increased
• Add custom faction stations; one more generic station
• Enable per-faction invasion fleet names

v0.3.4

• Add easy start option (more credits; start at level 6)
• Add free start option (same as own faction start but you don't have a planet; i.e. classic solo start from Exerelin)
• player_npc doesn't launch investigations into or do customs inspections on player
• Trading with own faction or player_npc doesn't cause reputation penalties with other factions
• player_npc starts inhospitable (rather than hostile) to Templars on own faction/free starts
• Player faction won't pay salary or insurance if they're dead (have no markets)
• Fix crash if Exerelin star is renamed
• Fix Omnifactory orbit
• Some new planet/star names
• Blackrock and Mayorate start hostile to each other
• Clean up unused junk in faction configs
• Change Templar unfriendly market message

v0.3.3

• Revamped sector generation
  • Creates more realistic systems
  • Planets somewhat closer together on average
  • Sector capital no longer needs to be closest planet to sun (it can be second or third)
  • Fix Omnifactory random location
  • Omnifactory also obeys Kepler's third law
  • Markets distributed more evenly between factions
  • Markets tend to pick two of the same primary resource/industry market condition where possible (increases market specialisation)
  • Player homeworld is always at least size 6
  • Shipbreaking center can spawn for size 5 planets (previously 6)
  • Aquaculture spawn chance a bit higher (food was too scarce)
  • Habitable moon chance slightly increased
  • Habitable moons can be ocean or desert worlds
  • Player homeworld always has a heavy autofactory (makes supplies)
  • Stars spread out a bit more
  • Code cleanups
• Players can change faction, or play as their own faction (code player_npc)
  • Own faction start is under vanilla factions category (starts at 100 reputation)
  • player_npc faction will work with you even if you're a member of another faction
  • player_npc currently uses the independents' ship set
  • Currently player_npc does not benefit from SS+ skilled captains or other fleet modifications; effects on items for sale at markets are unknown
  • Joining a faction requires friendly or better reputation
  • Factions (except player_npc) will boot you out if they turn inhospitable or worse towards you
  • Thresholds for salary cut / insurance payout denied raised
  • player_npc can be configured with the appropriate files (look in data/world/factions/player_npc.faction and data/campaign/rules.csv)
• Invasion support fleets actually spawn now
• Response fleet returns to base and despawns if it has half its starting FP or less, and it has less than half the FP of the original target
  • The second condition replaces the older <25 FP requirement, which didn't keep too-small fleets from bothering the player
• Response fleets regenerate faster (particularly at low stability values)
• Pirates can invade and be invaded if set to do so in config (default off)
• Players can request a boarding fleet to attack a market, for a fee (probably not worth it atm)
• Diplomacy tweaks
  • Increased effects of most diplomacy events, agent lowering relations by 5 or so points (some raised by more, some less)
  • Increased chance of a few diplomacy events intended to push two factions towards the tipping point
  • Ensure-relationship-at-best/worst effects of diplomacy events are now applied after the plain numerical change instead of before

v0.3.2

• Fix reputation changes with SS+
  • This reintroduces a minor bug in v0.3, but no-one noticed it and it corrected itself fairly quickly anyway
• Fix multiple manager scripts running in parallel after loading a game (!!!)
  • Requires a new game, but at least it'll stop adding more scripts to a current save
• Templars now use the Templar submarket (will be added/removed after market capture as appropriate)
  • This will be applied to old saves
• Templar markets and pirate markets don't run the merc/pirate fleet spawn script any more (requires a new game)
• Factions can be configured to not spawn patrols (requires a new game)

v0.3.1

• Fix invading Templar planets
• Fix being able to attack own faction fleets, or invade/sabotage own planets with SS+ (requires new game)
• Factions that don't normally spawn patrols (e.g. Templars) will now do so (may or may not require new game)
• Fix various other possible compatibility issues
• Fix slave trading reputation effects
• Fix SS+ invasion fleets not having troop transports
• Turn off intel screen button at comm relays (avoid NPE)
• Celestial bodies (planets, moons, asteroids, relays, stations, alpha jump point) obey Kepler's third law
• Alpha jump point orbits first planet in system instead of star
• Response fleets despawn instantly once their patrol ends instead of hanging around for a few days
• Response fleet patrol lasts twice as long (60 days)
• Response fleets give up and go straight home if they drop below half their starting FP and their current FP is less than 25
• Tweak response fleet composition in SS+
• Valkyrian starting ship is now an Inquisitor instead of a Longinus
• SCY starting ship is now a Talos instead of a Tisiphone

v0.3

• Work towards SS+ compatibility
• Version Checker support
• Fix pirate starting relationships
• Fix SCY compatibility again
• Stars now seeded in a concentric pattern
• Fleets can drop a few green crew as loot
• Revise invasion fleet, response fleet sizing
• Invasion fleets gain 1 DP per player level (can be configured)
• Max response fleet size also increases by 1 DP per player level (controlled by same tag)
• Invasion fleets can now come with support fleets that fly around shooting stuff
• Free market planets have 10% tariff (previously all planets had 20%)
• Marine losses during invasion vary less with relative strengths
• Reserve strength incrementing works properly
• More backgrounds, including the free set by Psiyon
• Update/fix some text descriptions

v0.2.3

• Fix misreporting of market captures
• Fix SCY support
• Fix Mayorate being listed in the wrong category
• Change starting Templar Martyr variant to Saltare
• Reduce default star/planet/station count
• Remove size 2 stations

v0.2.2

• Compatibility with Exigency, II and Templars (once they're updated)
  • SCY too, but I forgot to uncomment the lines in rules.csv so you'll have to do it manually unless I update again by then
• Fix crash after fighting with independents
• Agents, prisoners, saboteurs less common
• Reduce reserve damage from saboteur action
• Lower chances of detection from destroying food
• NPC covert action interval increased 30 days -> 45
• Don't change storage submarket faction on market capture

v0.2.1

• Fix agent destabilization effects not decaying
• Fix faction relationships not being cleared properly if the player eliminates them

v0.2

• Initial release