Changelog - Histidine91/Nexerelin GitHub Wiki

For changes before version 0.8, see Pre-0.8 Changelog
For changes up to version 0.9, see Changelog to 0.9
For changes up to version 0.10, see Changelog to 0.10

• Remove starting Waystations from the Luddic Path planets (they help accessibility in general but also enable shortages of commodities they shouldn't care about)
• Salvation: Change final stage if player gets caught with Shroud hullmods; fix autoresolve strength modifiers not working; tweaks
• Add an auto-mine ability
• Derelict Empire now hostile to player at start (previously inhospitable); gets clearer faction names
• Player faction's diplomacy traits can be set in its diplomacy profile
• Add a bullet point to offensive fleet intels for rep change (if any)
• Add some new settings in LunaLib
  • Fleet event filter
  • NPC operative activity toggle
  • Multiplier for diplomacy trait effects on dispositions
• Fix crash when autoresolving battles against some stations
• Request market intel correctly handles player transferring market through other channels
• Fix a hot and cold condition being applied to Cethlenn instead of their intended planets
• Fix crash with new game dev start from unskipped intro
• Modding changes
  • Add Domain Claimant, Domain Loyalist and Domain Rebel diplomacy traits
  • Fix owning-faction market condition only applying to colonies that didn't exist at start
  • Fix InvasionIntel child classes not obeying abortIfNonHostile

• Fix post-fleet-event relationship losses being 100 times larger than intended and applying to counter-invasions
  • This latter issue resulted in factions becoming hostile to themselves
• Fix ground battle AI not finding fire support targets

• Fleet pools start at 100 points
• Operative action fixes
  • Properly handle combination of event filter level and intel queue settings (this also applies to diplomacy intel)
  • Fix some covert actions still not being reported to their manager
  • Fix action time penalty for having excess operatives also applying to NPC factions
• Fix gaining extra skill point at start under certain conditions
• Fix recognition event crash if reaching market size >8
• Modding: VassalManager.vassalize returns the alliance it creates

(changes since beta 0.12.1x are prefixed accordingly)

• Broadly replace invasion point system with a new 'fleet pool' (and 'ground pool') system
  • Fleet pool is spent on largely the same things as before, a few more Nex things that create fleets, and vanilla patrols
  • A high fleet pool will increase the fleet size multiplier of the faction's markets somewhat, negative values will greatly reduce it (down to 0.5 times)
  • Fleet pool accumulation isn't penalized from being at peace or having multiple ongoing events in the sector
  • Invasion settings in files or the mod settings menu should generally still work as expected
  • Invasion grace period default 90 -> 180 to account for differences in when points start accumulating
• [post-beta] Add a setting for global invasion/raid cooldowns
• Autoresolved combat for faraway invasions/raids will damage participants
• Strategic AI enhancements
  • Try to increase accessibility if needed for exports, and transfer fleet points to other factions if they're fighting people we don't like
  • When cancelling a build action, don't abort any actually ongoing constructions
  • 'Make peace' action increases in priority based on current war weariness
• Add Siege Bombardment Mode fleet ability
  • While active, the nearest ground battle where player is an attacker will not end even if no attacker ground units remain
  • Uses Fire Support ability every time it comes off cooldown
  • This is intended to automate the 'pre-bombardment' tactic for players who use it
• Reduce swinginess of peace/war states
  • Ceasefire time 150 -> 240
  • Recent war (no ceasefire) time 120 -> 180
  • Diplomacy events that lead to war try to push relations below the -50 threshold
• Fleet requests can have the fleet faction set
• Override vanilla's ship quality manager
  • Now always uses highest quality available regardless of output
• NPC offensive fleet actions can lower relations between the involved factions
• [post-beta] Automated ships can be stored if the market faction does not ban AI cores
• Add a certain major event for colonies (currently cosmetic, will be used with future diplomacy features)

• Resort and reword the fleet-related (and other) settings in mod settings menu
• Add parameter autocompletes for most console commands
• Breakdown of modifiers to maximum faction relations can be seen in a few places
• keepSModsForRecoveredShips setting now accessible in LunaLib ingame menu
• [post-beta] Text formatting for operative procure equipment action
• [post-beta] (maybe) Fix displayed reason when blockade aborted

• Fix some bugs when custom starts inappropriately remember last selected background
• Various fixes to blockades, including a huge bug in size calculation
• Fix strategic AI not being reset on faction elimination -> respawn
• Fix skill points from starting level not being removed on returning to previous screen
• Fix starting operative count not being properly reset on Ensign/Lieutenant starts
• Fix war weariness not incrementing from failed invasions/raids/etc. as intended
• Fix fleet requests being able to circumvent markets going to commissioner (now can/have to use Andrada option)
• Showdown mission handles sequence break if player skips spawning the straggler
• [post-beta] Fix Showdown being able to target IndEvo artillery stations for real
• Ensure transponder is not required to dock at player-ruled markets, including outposts
• Add further safety to player special task group recovery cost
• Fix some vanilla dialog text for explored ruins on gas giants potentially not being used

• Add a VassalManager class
  • Vassals are forced to ally with their overlord
  • ...but aren't counted as alliance members for a few things (in particular voting rights and relationship checks for factions quitting alliances)
  • ...and won't independently try to start wars
  • Factions will not currently enter/leave vassal state unless scripted to
• Fix covert actions not being reported to manager and listeners
• Add an alliance event listener
• Add a scroller to create ground unit buttons
• Add some support for ground units having an equipment commodity but no personnel commodity
• [post-beta] Add noRandomStartLocation faction config tag
• [post-beta] Fix alliance invalid factions list not being public

• Remove some unwanted logging messages
• Lower volume of several sounds

• Remnant raids will stop after completing Remnant quest chain (can ask contact to turn them back on/off)
• Player special task groups can have one more officer (to account for commander)
• Player special task group on independent mode will automatically revive lost ships when there are enough of them
• Instigate rebellion actions stop if market is of own faction
• NPC base strikes won't target bases marked as important
• Nex fleet actions appear in Colony threats intel filter if targeting a player-governed colony
• Fix crash if Princess of Persea quest skip is enabled in random sector
• Fix VIC Stolas start not being available if intro is skipped
• Fix some NPC industry upgrade behavior
• Fix random sector crash from markets exceeding size 10
• Colony expeditions (in particular player-requested ones) won't go to abyssal systems
• Change how invasion fleet size mult is applied to individual fleets
  • This fixes unexpected behavior with very small/large multipliers
• Derelict Empire V2 colonies are moved back to main econ group if they decivilize (previously this only happened on capture)
• Fix potential div0 in undersupplied market concern
• Strategic AI: fix detection of whether industries under construction fulfil the build industry action, remove a case where it might delete existing industries
• Operative SP uses are recorded in player history intel
• Tweak logic for a certain scene in Salvation
• Add a tooltip to independent faction start

• Fix AotD-related crashes in sector generation
  • As a side effect, NPC factions will not build the advanced fuel industry
• Fix duplicated system count slider in random sector
• Fleet request maximum size specified in settings.json (default 2000, was 1500)

• Add 'procure equipment' operative action
• Illegal goods can be targeted for Destroy Commodity Stocks action
• When a player market is taken by someone else, storage fees are waived for 90 days
• Freshly captured markets won't be targeted for offensive action by unrelated third parties for 75 days
• Add a global size offset setting for random sector colony generation
• Independents (except mercs) don't send fleets to bother player over build station missions
• Kanta's Protection should stop aggressive actions by pirate strategic AI if enabled
• Adjust some faction colonization chances and diplomatic attitudes for lore accuracy
• Adjust some vanilla planets' conditions for lore accuracy
  • Culann gets a Cryoarithmetic Engine and Hesperus gets a battlestation
• Two alliances can't merge if they both have permanent members
• Don't allow building outposts in deep space locations
• NPC mining fleets are smaller in general
• Fresh NPC colonies build defenses as intended

• New game settings are saved between application runs
• Reduce volume of victory sound effect
• Add a 'fully randomized start'

• Strategic AI fixes
  • Greatly reduce memory usage for saving
  • Commissioning faction won't cede player-governed colonies to third parties
  • Fix errors in computing/predicting output of industries
  • Fix AI using covert actions when prohibited by the faction config
  • Build industry action auto-fails if not started in 120 days
• Fix crash if something tries to create an alliance in code with deprecated alignment
• Fix crash from Fragments mission picking system with no jump points
• Fix alliances being confused about the direction of merger
• Faction directory: safety for out-of-bounds market size
• Disabling care package restores old free starting blueprint

• Refactor industry generation for AotD support
• Fix colony expedition requests being able to circumvent AotD pre-collapse defenders or commission colony limits
• Add config settings for Remnant raid size and whether factions create new colonies outside core worlds
• Fix crashes if another mod removes Alpha Site or the Nameless Rock
• Mission "Salvation" no longer gives TASC planetkiller if that mod is enabled (since item no longer exists)

• Rework the own faction setup dialog into a 'care package' that also appears in free start
• Fix rebellion's suppression fleet request only allowing allied markets as origin
  • Also now works from commissioning faction (and not from outposts)
• Fix new game crash when not running LunaLib
• Fix Remnant quest skip crashing in random sector
• Fix Abyssal Space Oddity quest skip not giving Threat detection
• Fix strategic AI build heavy industry action not checking for market's industry capacity
• Ideological alignment actually deprecated now

Thanks to b277a, roflsian, JamesTripleQ and Lukas04 for their pull requests in this update.

• Derelict Empire V2 planets are larger and better-defended, developed and supplied
• DE V2 works correctly in random sector (identical to V1)
• Random sector: fix bonus AI cores applying to random structures instead of the ones they were supposed to
• Fix battle background wormholes appearing in codex

• Alliances will stop League, Diktat and Church colony crises
  • Sindrian Fuel crisis may still happen with PAGSM, pending investigation
• Expanded options for random colonies at game start
  • Can have up to 250 colonies
  • Can set maximum size of these colonies (uniform distribution)
• Add a Derelict Empire V2 scenario
  • Random colonies outside the core worlds belong to Derelicts
  • Compatible with non-random sector
• Faction strategic AI can request that player return a claimed market
• Factions that would not normally sat bomb can do so if two sat bombings have occurred in the Sector
  • This only detects sat bombing by player or through Nex NPC faction events
  • Previously: factions would be allowed to sat bomb player specifically if player had ever sat bombed
• Add config option to disable rebellion smugglers on player markets
• NPC buy ship offer will no longer give 1 SP per S-mod by default; instead it gives the same bonus XP as scuttling the ship, with 100% BXP converted to 1 SP
  • Can be changed in ingame settings
• On faction elimination, the faction ceasefires with relevant enemies
  • Does not apply to player faction
• Galatia and Magec gates pre-scanned when skipping At The Gates
• Random diplomacy events will try not to break ceasefires (but can still end wars)
• Add a slider for starting operatives on new game
• Player can request suppression fleets in rebellion intel
  • Only for player, commissioning faction or allied markets
• Outposts can't be built in random abyss systems (Limbo will still work)
• Unrest added from ground battles capped at 15

• Incoming invasion/sat bomb intel has a button to quick-request a defense fleet
• Special task groups can be ordered to revive their dead ships or disband entirely at a specific location
• Can transfer command pre-battle to the flagship player had at start if encounter, even if it's automated
• Conquest missions can take player-governed planets
• Setting for colony expeditions only after Galatia are now in LunaLib menu
• Faction directory can accommodate more entries per page
• Introduction to Nexerelin will be skipped for recurring players
• Remove occasional redundant pages in paginated dialogs
• Relief and colony fleet requests can have their strengths customized if so desired

• Fix NPC factions being able to force-pull player into their alliance when alliance offers are disabled
• Fix Remnant raids not occurring
• Fix Silverlight (R) not having its tags
• Fix crash on loading a new game save with Scythe of Orion skip
• Fix Remnant and Hyperspace Topography quest skips not working in non-random sector
• Fix False Idols skip not removing story protection properly
• Fix blockades potentially sticking in strategic AI forever
• Fix fleets affected by the Follow Me ability not joining ongoing battle
• Fix respawn fleets being capped by faction production
• File Drawer Problem: Fix pirate base not spawning if game was reloaded after accepting mission
• Fix ReloadNexConfig command not reloading Luna settings
• Fix a temporary memory leak on new game
• Fix devmode fast start crash
• Fix LeaveAlliance command needing exact ID match
• Fixes for strategic AI's war weariness concern
• Rebellions can occur on independent markets and not on Derelict Empire markets
• Try to fix infinite loop in Usurpers dialog when faction max relations with Diktat are too low

• Default settings: strategic AI on, NPC sat bombing off
• Add quest skip option for Abyssal Space Oddity
• Add Remnant mission achievements
• Add sector defender mode to settings.json
  • When enabled, invasions can only be launched by or against hostile-to-all factions

• Strategic AI can be enabled or disabled for specific factions with useStrategicAI in config (will do nothing if player has strategic AI disabled)
• reportPlayerOpenedMarket and reportPlayerAbandonedColony are called following outpost build/dismantle respectively
• Deprecate Ideological faction alignment
• Punitive expedition setting moved to fleets tab; false by default

• Improve checks for whether NPC fleets are close enough to deploy/support ground battle units
• Joining Persean League leaves player's existing alliance, if any
• Buy ship bar/contact offer shouldn't ask for IBB boss ships
• File Drawer Problem: notify mission failure on attacking Mauve; fix convo with wrong person if retrying mission
• Abyss map label will adjust its position based on sector size
• NAT Investigators in Sectorpol colony crisis will explain reason for their presence when asked
• Refactor market builder to better handle AotD, fix market upsize bonus in random sector no longer working
• Story skip polish/fixes
• Fix GUI bug in random sector faction toggle
• Ground battle intel no longer shows loot that's actually just existing storage contents
• Tariff mults configurable in Luna mod settings menu
• Retroactive fix for rebellion support fleet AI crash covers more cases
• Fixes in the 0.12.0b reuploads
  • Fix crash with certain custom starts (e.g. The Infernal Machine and Notre Dame)
  • Fix diplomacy rep limit crash

• Rebellion smugglers marked as smugglers and have low rep impact
• Add 250 point option to Hyperspace Topography skip
  • This is just enough for Reverse Polarity in 0.98
  • Default-skip-story setting will enable this option
• Academy quests: Handle case where Kallichore or Coureuse but not both are skipped
• New game dialog remembers last selected background within the current session
• Contain aggression concern raises the priority of actions based on the target's infamy
• Diplomacy AI module shows infamy
• Fix special task group revive cost calculation being too low
• Fix Shrouded Dweller and Threat not being hostile at start
• Fix commodities disappearing from storage after market capture
• Fix Catalytic Core and Synchrotron planet filters not working
• Re-fix player special task group ships losing their variants
• Fix displayed 'excuse' for satbombing a satbomber
• Max points in new game own faction setup now configurable in settings.json

• Add False Idols to story skip system
  • Includes fix for the quest not being accessible if using Knight Errant skip
• Remnant final mission fixes
  • Fix Silverlight's shards randomly flying over stuff when they shouldn't (it was kinda cool looking but not intended behavior)
  • Loosen some distance checks to reduce potential cases of mission failing to generate
  • Fix a couple of dialog bugs
  • Silverlight now codex-unlockable
• Fix an exploit with selling to, raiding and then conquering a market
• Fix fleet events during rebellion getting stuck
• Fix multiple operatives on internal security mode doing the same action
• Fix ceasefire offer's intel tag
• Fix non-fatal NPE when talking to Hannan about potential League membership
• Fix how conquest mission creator filters out zero-reward missions
• Number of blueprints available at Prism blueprint trader now configurable in settings.json

• Fix Threat not spawning
• Fix rare crash and incorrect text in rebellion intel
• Temporary fix for right-click on shroud special item crash
• Lost scientist mission still works if pirate base failed to spawn
• Tweaks to starting background descs and handling of codex entries

• Compatibility with Starsector 0.98
• Add operative counterinsurgency action
• Player can request blockade fleets
• Add hyperspace topography "quest skip"
• Rebellion events will have smugglers running arms to the rebels (reverse suppression fleet, basically)
• Add a "contain aggression" strategic AI concern
• Factions avoid negative diplomatic events if war weariness is too high and strategic AI is off
• Update deep hyperspace clearing on sector generation to match vanilla (halved radius)
• Open market will buy automated ships if AI cores are legal in faction; military market will always buy
• Location of respawn event bases no longer hidden
• Add two achievements
• Add a standardised system for printing faction descriptions in new game dialog
• Add a toggle for NPC colony growth
• Fix ground battle crash when market has no industries and no Population & Infrastructure
  • Will still crash if there is not at least one industry-like present
• Fix Arroyo comms check for final Remnant mission
• Try to fix neutral fleets sometimes joining battles when they shouldn't
• Fix an unidentified mod conflict that would make invasions unavailable
• Fix raid fallback for invasionOnlyRetake factions for real
• Hegemony inspector custom bounty can't spawn around hidden markets

• Fix skip story memory keys and person unhides applying even when that quest not skipped
• Fix crash with Silverlight obtained from Remnant quest skip
• Fix player sometimes starting with colony on free start
  • This was caused by having non-core starting worlds enabled in random sector
• Fix alpha core on Ground Defenses/Heavy Batteries reducing garrison size instead of increasing it
• Fix special task groups ignoring their current order to patrol local system
  • This was caused by the vanilla 'military response' script when a local raid or similar event was ongoing
  • Now only STGs with specific tasks are allowed to join the response
• Fix unrestricted min/max values for NPC buy ship price mult setting
• Follow Me order only lasts 7 days instead of 15 but can be refreshed
• Non-invadable markets show a greyed-out option instead of no option

• Random sector new game setup fixes
  • Make sure gate memflags and transverse jump + neutrino detector are added properly
  • Don't apply quest skip memory keys to random sector if inappropriate
• Fix + log recent crashes from operative actions on null market
• Fix AI admin handling on market transfer or granting autonomy
• Fix invasionOnlyRetake factions sometimes never launching raids
• Display refund amount if a player fleet request is cancelled
• Final Remnant mission: Un-disrupt Gilead station if needed for final battle

• Blockades will end if no markets of the target faction remain in system; capturing a blockaded market will remove the blockade condition
• Player-requested invasion fleets will make the captured markets autonomous if player has no free admins or governing capacity left
  • Revoking this autonomy will not cause unrest (once per market)
• Autonomous colony default income mult 0.2 -> 0.25
• Factions don't send suppression fleets if allied with the rebels' sponsor faction
  • Player faction (and governed colonies) also don't send any suppression fleets
• Player's autonomous and governed colonies can get Luddic Majority on upsize
• Random sector Kanta's Den is no longer a free port; actually gets its admin
• Contact-buys-ship mission a bit less frequent
• Random sector max planets slider 80 -> 120
• Fix NPE in mission "Salvation" if Eochu Bres is decivilized
• Fix CTD when using story skip with random sector
• Fix excessive rep gain from transferring a rebelling colony to rebel faction
• Fix special task groups not picking new tasks properly
• Attack fleet in mission "Fragments" won't spawn more than 2000 units away
• NPC factions try to avoid colonizing targets of an ongoing mission
• Fix wrong description texts for Mairaath under a different faction
• Add nex_enableMiningFleets field to settings.json
• Mining output .csv supports adding new commodities

• Expand the 'skip story' option to support specific amounts of progress, and multiple vanilla/mod quest chains
• Rebellions from low stability should obey some invasion config options
  • Specifically the 'no invasions until player colony' and 'no invasions of core worlds' rules
• Strategic AI can act to help allies against a faction not currently hostile to the AI faction
• Adjust some alliance war/peace vote behavior
  • On war declaration, add -5 relations padding so random rep gains won't push the faction back over the peace threshold
  • Factions that are not at war with each other following a vote should avoid deliberately going to war for some time after
• Add a config option for player special task group maintenance costs
• Player special task groups can use wormholes
• Starlight Cabal from Underworld is now a pickable faction at start
• Marine XP gain from ground battles now based on share of damage dealt
• Change some handling of invasion points to avoid large overdrafts
• Fighting in a system with player outpost doesn't reduce colony crisis points any more
• Added config option for price multiplier in NPC 'buy ships' mission
• Add a settings.json option for pirate/Pather bases to spawn even when their factions are dead

• Blueprint swap at Prism Freeport gives ship/fighter preview
• Invasion point counter in diplomacy profile and strategic AI page has a breakdown tooltip

• Fix for AI core drops being reduced by Automated Ships skill (vanilla bug), by Lukas04
• Abyss gate in RAT shouldn't mess with player special task group behavior anymore
• Fix sat bomb events not taking place if invasions are disabled
• Fix a potential crash with IndEvo ambassadors
• Ground battle fixes
  • Can no longer join ground battles from the right place in another star system
  • Defending ground units with an associated fleet don't lose planet-side bonuses if their fleet is within support range
• IndEvo artillery stations get their faction set correctly on market capture
• Fix intimidate option not working in File Drawer Problem
• Fix Illustrated.Entities incompatibility on captured markets
• Fix some likely mod incompatibilities when modifying NPC fleet join battle behavior
• Fix improper behavior of AI admins when market is captured
• Fix memory leak with custom start fleet
• Remnant dead drop complication fleets are low rep impact, like vanilla
• Some operative actions will auto-abort if target faction is now an ally (unless action is by player)
• Autonomous colonies: Fix temporary control menu breaking in certain cases with multiple pages
• Remove EMP that doesn't actually work from Silverlight's Alicorn

• Add projectile trails to Silverlight's Alicorn
• Typo fixes by nissa

• Various bits of Second in Command compatibility
• Some Strategic AI refactors
  • In particular, reapplyPriorityModifiers is called from AI module after generation, instead of the concern always having to do it
  • Executive module has getters for the number of actions a faction can take per meeting, and the StatBonus required to change this
• Reduce the number of libraries needed at compile time
  • Removed: ApproLight, Knights Templar, Underworld
  • Added: Second in Command
• Custom starts can hide or disable themselves in their script

• Add option for player faction to automatically resist the police colony crisis
• Fix some dialog options for vanilla colony crises being removed
  • This bug made the negotiation options for Luddic Church and Sindrian Diktat crises inaccessible
• Fix strategic AI not being able to form new alliances
• Fix multiple player special task groups sharing the same financial report node until next game load
• NPC operatives don't try to sabotage non-disruptable industries
• Lost scientist mission should work if retried
• Diktat colony crisis shows appropriate texts if PAGSM mod is running
• GroundBattleLog supports custom message types

• Blockade nerfs
  • When strategic AI is off, conversion ratio from raids 0.3 -> 0.2, further halved if invasions are disabled in config
    • Conversion ratio is configurable as nex_raidToBlockadeConversionFreq value in settings.json
  • When strategic AI is on, blockade action has 50% chance to not be considered as an action for any given concern
  • Remove 35% invasion point discount for blockades
  • Blockade period 180 -> 120 days
• Fix a concurrent modification exception when bulk reviving ships in special task groups
• Prevent a crash with UNGP's John Wick rule
• Fix a dialog interaction in police colony crisis

• Can't weaken rebellions by buying more goods on the black market than were sold into it
• Player special task groups will use a gate if both they and the task target are in gate systems
• 'No invade story-critical markets' and 'no invade starting markets' settings won't affect raids or blockades
• Fix free port crisis crash when no eligible factions
• Fix crash on start when using ApproLight in random sector
• Fix strategic AI ignoring 'invasions only after player colony' setting and a bug in fleet event targeting
• Fix random sector memkey being set only after new game time pass
• Fix blockades always being replaced by invasions with strategic AI off
• Alliance offer intel includes relevant strategic AI info and link button if applicable
• Don't double stack defenses on Agreus when Ko Combine mod is running

• Alliance fixes/improvements
  • NPCs joining or merging an alliance requires player consent if player is a member
  • Fix strategic AI spamming player with invites to an existing alliance
  • Alliance offer cooldown is short if player accepts, long if rejected or expires
  • Strategic AI can request an alliance merger
  • When using strategic AI, don't ally outside of AI actions
  • Pirate factions won't spontaneously join alliances
• NPC factions can launch blockades
  • Unlike the League colony crisis blockade, these are smaller but don't have command or supply fleets to snipe
  • Blockade has chance to replace raid if strategic AI is disabled (sat bomb now replaces invasion instead of raid)
• Colony crisis stuff
  • Crises that originate from a specific market (League, Church and Diktat ones) will be properly suppressed if the origin (Kazeron, Hesperus or Sindria) is captured by another faction
  • Add a pseudo-Independents colony crisis involving free ports (can be disabled in config)
  • Remnant contact will now negate Remnant colony crisis points
• Remnant mission 'Salvation' improvements
  • Knight fleet will use ships from Knights of Ludd mod if available
  • Boss shard launch behavior closer to what was intended
  • Fix some irregularities in special merc's immortality
• Invasion etc. adjustments
  • Player colonies below size 4 won't be targeted for military actions (except in Starfarer mode)
  • Autoresolve for Nex military events will take into account allied factions in the system
  • Base strike missions and colony expeditions consume invasion points
  • 'Revenge' invasions will not spawn if invasion points too low
• Ground units fighting won't cause industry disruption any more
• Strategy AI can have captured markets returned to the original owner if sufficiently friendly
• Luddic shrines can be visited even if the markets are captured
• Having an outpost won't block supplies request from quartermaster
• Derelict Empire also takes over pirate-type factions' markets at start, if pirate invasions are enabled
• Luddic Church ground battle bonus is squared on worlds with Luddic Majority
  • Previously it was squared for being militia
• Increase bonus XP for agent action SP use and ground battle Inspire
• NPC special task groups 1/13th smaller, respawn delay 30 -> 60
• Proxy raids launched by strategic AI won't be hostile to sponsor faction
• Base strike missions should happen half as often or less

• Boolean settings to disable invasions/raids/sat bombs and colony expeditions
• Faction directory won't display factions that only have hidden markets

• Clarify intel text when tribute is cancelled by external factors
• Fix inconsistent captain's pronouns in 'File Drawer Problem' mission
• Market desc changer handles player colonize/abandon

• Fix undersupplied market concern crashing on update() if no producers left
• Fix an unusual crash with player special task group on game load
• Fix NPC factions not invading if their invasion point capacity has reached the minimum allowed
• Fix strategic AI general warfare concern causing sabotage of unrelated factions' industries
• Fix joining a ground battle sometimes not forcing relations to hostile when it should
• Fix stabilize package option being available when it shouldn't if a dialog option is removed
• Fix player saturation bombardments not being tracked in some places
• Buy ship rule should now work properly with S-modded built-in hullmods
• Fix invasion point refund for cancelled actions not taking stage into account
• Don't generate conquest mission if the reward is zero
• Fix repeat relations action allowing free reuse of story point effect
• Fix recruit operative action not showing on own markets
• Maybe fix prices not updating sufficiently after delivering commodities to suppress rebellion
• NPC ground units shouldn't be able to deploy if their fleet is destroyed (if fleets were not abstracted on battle start)

• Ground battle stuff
  • Add some config options for ground battle attacker and defender strengths
  • Fixes/improvements in support for custom ground unit types and Crew Replacer mod
  • Market conditions can generate ground battle troops
  • Add handling for HMI Fang and Draco market conditions, AotD Planetary Defense Bureau industry
• Add some relevant getters/setters for insurance intel

• End vanilla faction hostilities on loading Nex into existing save
• Update Silverlight variants for new OP costs

• Compatibility with Starsector 0.97
• Fix some logic in faction respawn
  • Previously eliminated non-playable factions will no longer be marked as 'alive' if they get a market again
  • Factions that shouldn't have strategic AI will no longer get one when respawning
  • Avoid potential cases of double counting respawn attempts
• Vengeance fleets no longer spawn from hidden markets
• Fix NPC heavy units in ground battles not having their fleet set
• Log an error and continue instead of CTD if ground battle tries to load a plugin that doesn't exist
• Diplomacy events should no longer happen in new game time pass

• Strategy AI fixes/adjustments
  • Don't start wars with negative diplomacy actions if war weariness too high
  • Try to fix offensive fleet actions being used against non-hostile markets sometimes
  • Add a setting for hiding strategic AI of other factions from intel
  • Strategy AI doesn't try to build stuff on player-governed markets (unless AI faction is player)
• Rework ceasefire prevention check, should be more reliable now
  • Factions should not ceasefire if military action between the two sides is ongoing, counting allies
  • Invasions, raids etc. will not block ceasefire if still in the initial planning stage
• Silverlight DP 80 -> 75 (make it a little easier to use without neural link)
• Academy stipend can be disabled in new game settings
• Personal intel tracks planets surveyed, and shows officer deaths if Price of Command mod is running
• Officer death setting: survival chance also uses crew loss mult modifier
  • Destroyed ships still have an officer survival chance if crewLossMult < 1
• Raids no longer attack hidden markets in the target system
• Fixes
  • Fix custom starts being broken by new backgrounds feature
  • Fix non-transponder cargo scan still checking for heavy arms while commissioned/allied
  • Random sector/own faction doesn't put markets on NOT_RANDOM_MISSION_TARGET entities (like Sentinel)
  • Fix error from merc fleet gen plugin not being restored on game load
  • Fix transmitting update when a rebellion suppression fleet is defeated
  • Fix 'alliance offer to own commissionee' bug
  • Fix logic for when lower relations action chooses to show min relations
  • Fix a rare crash with strategic AI raids
  • Try to prevent cases of covert actions targeting self or friendly
• Salvation mission points player more directly to Arroyo
• Wiping out independents no longer removes them from market transfer list
• Show daily invasion point increments in diplomacy profile and strategic AI intel
• [Modding] Reduce priority of our reputation action response plugin, and don't run it unless the action is one we care about
• [Modding] Ground battle features, fixes
  • Delegate some GroundUnit functionality to a new, customizable GroundUnitPlugin
  • Buttons to create ground unit types can be tied to a player memory key, will be hidden if not present
    • This also applies to the commodity amount display for the commodities those units use
  • Fix ground units using a bunch of hardcoded stats instead of reading from config

• Develop strategic AI to a releasable state
  • This is a "new" gameplay feature that seeks to make NPC factions act in a more goal-directed manner
  • Can be enabled in settings (default off)
  • Mods can modify or add their own strategic 'concerns' and 'actions' to the system
• Add a new personal background system in new game dialog, by Lukas04
• Add a new Remnant story mission, "File Drawer Problem"
• Rearrange order of Remnant story missions
  • Fragments and File Drawer Problem require Welcoming reputation
  • Showdown requires Friendly reputation and completing either of the two previous missions
  • Salvation requires Cooperative reputation and completing Showdown, will also disable File Drawer Problem once completed
• Gameplay improvements to some Remnant missions
  • Notably, Showdown will have strength scaling on both sides to account for variability in the size and number of patrols each nexus has
  • Also try to fix janky behavior by the ally fleet in Salvation
• Invasion points are still generated in peacetime, at 25% the base rate
• Invasion point stockpile capped at about 180 days' worth of output for that faction (but will not be less than the points needed to trigger an invasion/raid event)
  • Pending a potential broader overhaul of resources available to NPC factions
• Lower ground battledrop cost mults for ground defenses
  • Ground def 1.5 -> 1.25
  • Heavy batteries and planetary shield 2 -> 1.5
• Prism checks no-sell tag for weapons as well
• Enhanced vanilla systems adjustments
  • Tigra City has sparse ore and poor farmland instead of moderate ore
  • Eventide has midline instead of high tech battlestation
• Pirate/Pather commissions will mitigate the Hostile Activity contributions from their respective factions
• Player special task groups get a 20% discount on operating expenses
  • Revive costs unchanged
• Selling survey data to a faction will increase its chances of being picked for colony expedition
  • Faction loses its bonus after being successfully picked
• Add a new game setting to disable having neighbors in own faction start (non-random sector only)
• invasionPointsPerPlayerLevel default set to 1 (was previously 1.5, or 2 after being rounded by LunaLib ingame menu config)
  • Also fixed value not being read from config file
• Buy ship offer shouldn't pick a Sierra ship
• Pirate activity on NPC markets won't target non-hostile markets
• Remove Luddic Path's factional market condition (+10% accessibility)
• Factions vote yes on alliance vote if their current relationship is the same as the target one
• Can offer RAT abyss cores to the hypershunt discovery encounter

• Invasion point stockpiles are shown in diplomacy profiles and strategy AI intel items
• Faction directory can also print all markets with revanchist claims
• Player auto-move in ground battles has option to allow deploying new units from orbit
• Counter-invasion intel also appears in colony threats
• Ground battle defender strength estimate accounts for modifiers
• Lower sound effect volumes for ground battle outcomes

• Add a bit of gameplay info to "Showdown" and "Salvation" briefing dialogs
• Fix a diplomacy setting description being under the wrong setting
• Fix ceasefire offer intel missing its title

• Fix crash if have active patrol package but no hostile activity intel
• Fix a brawl mode crash
• Fix ceasefire offer crash if relations are already at max
• Fix a crash that could happen when checking a market's original owner
• Fix crash when using military base starting bonus with own faction start
• Maybe fix fleet event crashes if star system has no jump points
• Crash safety for special task group generation
• Fully fix the issue with special task group ships sometimes losing their variant and requiring a restore
• Fix ground defenses being disabled by ground combat sometimes
• Fix some bugs/exploits with AIM merc companies
• Try to fix recruit operative action sometimes failing
• Fix repeat relations setting not working with lower relations action
• Fix own faction start potentially having both patrol HQ and military base if starting on a moon
• Make random sector's Kanta's Den get appropriate memory flags
• Fix admins disappearing from comm board in faction ruler mode
• Fix heavy industry transfer-and-raid exploit when time isn't advanced
• Fix The Usurpers quest still trying to start in random sector
• When playing music in personal info intel, try to make it go away when done
• Can't loot an industry in ground battle more than once (fixes defender infinite sell–loot exploit)
• Fix AIM anti-piracy package being purchasable when it shouldn't be, if viewing T&C first
• Remove relationship syncing from Derelicts

• Add setting for 'skip story' default to LunaSettings
• Add settings.json option to have no rep penalty with third parties for sat bomb
• Enable indirectly changing the min/max value of LunaConfig settings
  • If the value in settings file is lower than min or higher than max defined in code, settings value becomes the new min/max

• Music tracks not specified in a faction file can be added to music picker in data/config/modSettings.json
• Custom start defs can be added and modified via code
• Arbitrary ground battle plugins can be defined, plugins can execute code on battle generation
• Mods should now be able to add their own operative actions (previously there was no way to add them to the orders dialog)
• Fix Nex_TransferMarket.NO_TRANSFER_FACTIONS being non-mutable
• Fix SectorManager's present factions list never actually losing elements

• Add GraphicsLib maps for boss ship, by Himemi/Cieve-san

• Update vanilla faction starting fleets to comply with doctrines (including ships added by SWP)
• When repeating operative action, update target faction if current market owner has changed
• Alicorn main projectile passes through missiles and fighters
• Silverlight no longer tagged as known to Remnants (does not apply to existing saves)

• Fix a crash in Remnant mission 'Salvation' if it couldn't find an orbit for station
• Remove autofit goal variant for boss ship that would crash the game if used (may not apply to existing saves)
• Fix null pointer in operative travel order dialog when an operative has no market
• Fix null pointer if a market decivilizes while NPC covert action is ongoing
• Workaround some weird crash with nonexistent special item when computing industry value
• Fix Luddic Path base manager replacement when adding to existing save
• Fix planet desirability detection for random sector/own faction planet picking
  • Also adjust some condition valuations for desirability
• Maybe fix variant breakages in player special task groups
• Safety for invalid ground battle ability visual panels
• Fix some missing admins in Derelict Empire or from expedition-founded colonies

• Nex_MarketCMD calls NexPostShowDefenses after showDefenses
• Fix ground battle's faction bonus subplugin not handling integers (or strings)

Does not include changes in beta 0.10.6y-z

• Add Remnant mission 4, with a unique boss ship (recoverable after end of mission)
  • Available at cooperative relations with contact after starting mission 3
• Hostile activity integration
  • Operatives disrupting a cell will reduce activity by -20
  • Special task groups anywhere, and requested defense fleets in a player system, contribute to hostile activity reduction
    • Only largest defense fleet event counts; all STGs count but with diminishing returns from the sum of their strength
  • Talk to an AIM representative to buy an anti-piracy patrol package (reduction equal to 15% of current hostile activity progress for 3 months)
  • Operatives' internal security mode will find pirate bases involved in Hostile Activity
• Player can choose to defy the outcome of an alliance vote (ignore the vote if it passes, at a cost to relations with allies)
• Patrols won't care about player transponder if player is system owner
• Respawn invasion events have a 1000x revanchism mult when picking targets
• Starfarer mode colony growth mult 0.5x -> 0.75x
• Buy ship mission returns the AI core if selling an automated ship
• Militia Power UNGP rule: Rugged Construction ships do not count as military for Militia Power
• Add a new Luddic Church merc company; adjust some of the others
• Random sector: Add Kanta's Den, add a few pilgrim fleets
• Sindrian Diktat has Devious trait

• Add a "Personal Info" intel item (allows setting player honorific and interaction music)
• Add a 'Personal' intel tab and move some things to it, including insurance
• Add more settings to Luna menu
• Militia Power UNGP rule displays breakdown in tips screen
• Add arrows to fleet request screen
• Add a warning if player is over officer limit after taking ships from special task group

• Fix Nex loading wrong Luna settings value for fleet request cost
• Fix crash due to procure ship action unlocking storage in wrong place
• Remove old Nex override for Pather tithe check (no longer desirable)
• Block The Pilgrim's Path and The Usurpers events in random sector
• Fix player being able to trade with a market immediately after starting invasion
• Fix bug where defying vote cost 5 relation points instead of 10
• Fix player stats tracker persisting between different saves
• Fix non-ally diplomatic victory not working
• Properly handle pirate/Pather base manager replacement when adding Nex to existing save
• Remnant missions: try to make things not pick IndEvo artillery station when they want a nexus
• Ground battle: Fix being able to loot items when no troops onsite
• Maybe fix financial report for player special task group being split after game load
• Fix Sierra interactions with latest SotF
• Fix some lingering instances of $market
• Fix a minor memory leak on new game

• Fix various issues where ground battle unit defs were still relying on old hardcoded system
• AIM mercenary fleets improvements
  • Merc ships can now have names specified
  • Merc officers can have personality set
  • Free skeleton crew is based on ship's actual min crew, not the hull spec's

• Add a couple of Scythe of Orion interactions when player has relations with Remnants
• Update random sector entity image picker