.78b/.79b

Released: Nov 9, 2012.

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Patch Notes[]

Applied .78 hotfix.
Repair drone module and functionality.
AI behavior for accepting peace to all AI personalities.
Number of opponents selector to galaxy creation options.
Some icons to the ship selection panel to show what cargo a ship has and what effects it is under (i.e. disabled, inhibited).
Ground troop icons to help them stand out from the background of the colony screen.
Ability to save Work In Progress ships before exiting the ship design screen.
New icons to the galaxy view to display planetary statuses.
New icons to the planet list view to display a planetary status.
System indicators to note when enemies were spotted there recently. Indicator persists behind fog of war until the system is re-updated.

Several outstanding issues with resupply bays.
A bug where AI invasion fleets were not attacking.
A bug where a single nuclear bomb was destroying a world's entire population.
A bug, discovered through the implementation of these icons, where ships were not having their cargo persist through a save.
Bug where you could right click a troop to launch it when it was in the same square as a building, and then the building would also receive the right click and ask you if you wanted to scrap it.
Issue where AI governors were able to immediately build new outposts when you destroyed an old one.

The shipyard screen so that invalid slots are always red, and so that the powered radius from a powerplant will blend on top of red / green squares.
Bomb behavior to have a 25% chance to definitely hit something, and a 75% chance to just hit a random square.
Doubled the reach of power conduits to inspire better ship design, which goes.
The presentation of buildings on the ground combat and colony screens with...
Power of explosion from power plants to be much larger.
Improvements to the defensive AI. Yet more to come.

The warp inhibition unlock item and replaced it with a Warp Inhibitor ship module.