8 - Changes from TC/AP

Along with all the main new features, alot of little changes have also been made to the game.

Below is a brief list of many of those changes.

Improved Ship Commands/Navigation

• Added global blacklist to prevent your ships from entering sectors
• All ship commands give feedback if their route is blocked by blacklist
• Many ship command menus have been improved
• Buy/Sell ware commands interface improved (plus added waiting until full cargo)
• Buy/Sell ware for best price improved, ships will no longer goto the same stations (included coordination with other player ships, ie Trade MK3 and Station Managed ships)
• Ship commands now display more and better information about what they are currently doing, IE in your Property Owned Menu
• Fetch and Deliver commands, these simple commands allow easily moving goods between your own stations instead of relaying on the Buy/Sell commands
• Trade Distribution command is a more complex command for moving goods between your stations and ships

User Interface improvements

• New search function in various menus
  • Hotkeys are assigned in the controls menu.
  • Hotkeys are then used to filter the menus.
  • A search button is also available in the top bar
  • Includes: Property Owned, Player Logbook, Sector list, Encyclopedia, Shipyard trade list + more
• SETA will continue to work while navigating menus (can be disabled in gameplay options)
• Mission icon filters added (allowing you to choose what mission types are displayed)
• Mission icon priority adjusted (depending on ship class you are in)
• Improvements for Triple monitor (moving radar, weapons and monitors to center screen)
• Added docking information for ships and stations.  Splitting up the docking per port/type and including incoming ships
• Added clickable hyperlinks to link to other menus (mainly used for encyclopedia pages)
• Improved sorting in various menus
• Increased size of some additional menus (most menus will now increase their height based on screen size)
  
  
• Property Owned Menu Enhancements
  
  • Favorites Tab added, allowing you to assign any ships/stations to favorites and view in a separate tab
  • Stationary Tab added, splits the stationary objects, satellites, defense towers, beacons, etc, into a separate tab
  • Additional filters added to options, ie laser towers, player ship, etc
  • Profiles, allows you to save the current filter settings to a profile that you can then switch between.
  • The ship grouping have been split to group and sort options, to allow different sorting methods in each of the groupings
  • Additional Groupings added
  • Group/Sort options added to stations
  • Hide from property menu option added to stations
  • Custom Groupings, allows you to put ships/stations into custom groups you can define
  • Search feature, for filtering the list by a search string
  • Collapsible Groupings, allows you to collapse the individual groups, hiding any of the ships/stations
  • Added grouping of docked ships to carriers
    
    
• Shipyard Trade Menu Enhancements
  • Search added
  • Ships/stations separated into class groups
  • Class groups have been sorted alphabetically
  • S/M/L availability adjusted per ship (so some ships may have L while others may just have S)
    
    
• Player Status Menu Enhancements
  
  • Race Notoriety display improved, with visual representation of rank
  • Police Licence display replaced with Icon
  • Added change indicator, displaying which ranks have changed since last viewed
    
    
• Galaxy Map Enhancements
  
  • Adjusted Population display of planets
  • Display race rank with currently owner
  • Added docking rights (weather you can dock at the stations or not)
  • Added Facilities available (equipment/trade/shipyard/pirate base)
  • Added Supply and Demand wares (which wares are produced, which are required)
  • You can jump directly when viewing the universe map (SHIFT+j)
  • Improved Planets/Moon counts
    
    
• Sector Map Enhancements
  
  • Added Search Filter
  • Added Additional tab, split the asteroids/gates/etc to an other tab
  • Added separators between various ship/station types
    
    
• Encyclopedia Enhancements
  
  • Added Search Filter
  • Moved race owned pirate ships to pirates group (ie pirate versions of Argon/Teladi ships)
  • Added Additional production information to stations
  • Added production information on ware pages
  • Added Interlinks between encyclopedia pages
  • Added hyperlinks to objects from encyclopedia (ie pages showing stations that sell a ware)
  • Added Ware quantity display at stations (when you have a satellite in sector)
  • Added ship/station/wing commands to ware pages (what commands need that ware)
  • Various other menus can now link directly to Encyclopedia pages using info hotkey
  • Added additional information about bullets and behaviors
  • Added additional information for lasers (DPS, OOS Damage)
  • Added Friend/Foe lists in Race pages
  • Added Sectors
  • Added Notoriety required bar to various ware pages
  • Added common Abbreviations
  • Added docking information to station pages
  • Ship Info Additions
    • Ship type added (can see what the ship type is even if the ship as a unique/job name
    • Variant display added
    • Class display added (both short and long)
    • Maker race added (See who makes/sells the ship)
    • Added marines count/boarding ability
    • Added base sale price (actual price depends on your notoriety)
    • Added Headquarters cycle times (production/repair/reverse engineering)
    • Added Headquarters production resources needed
    • Added Total Guns count
    • Added S/M/L loadout display and price

• Best Buys/Best Sells
  • Now correctly highlights wares when viewed via Advanced satellite
  • Added selection in best sells to display all wares in sector (not just in your ship)
  • Added Merchants (Barter) and blackmarket goods
  • Added option to extend the range to include multiple sectors with Satellites
    
    
• Trade Menu Enhancements
  • Added icon to display what weapons/shields can be equipped on your ship
  • Added display to show what wares are currently equipment
  • Added Notoriety graphical display, to easily compare the ranks
  • Added additional information if items cant be bought/sold
    
    

Improved piracy gameplay

• Cargobay hacking.
• Blackmarket, allowing you to buy illegal wares and weapons/equipment usually restricted to race notoriety
• Race ranks for pirates and Yaki.
• Working Cargobay Shielding to protect against police scans
• Pirate Shipyards and Equipment docks
• Purchasable pirate ships and stations
• More economy for pirates, they now have more factories to produce wares and can even build more with thier own Supply TL's
• Working comms for Surrender and Surrender Freight

Barter/Blackmarket

• The selection of wares available from Bartering has been increased
• You can now select the quantity of wares instead of just all of it (price is dependent on how much you take)
• No more notoriety issues where merchants will refuse to deal with you
• You can now specify any ware to barter with
• The Blackmarket allows buying illegal wares as well as weapons and equipment without notoriety restrictions
• Other ships will also be buying and selling wares to the merchants

Improved Station Building and Complexes

• Better feedback for placing stations
• Change to how complexes are built, allowing multiple stations to linked at the same time
• Allowing easy adding of stations to existing compelxes
• Allowing easy removal of stations from complex, without breaking the existing complex
• Stations can have their production upgraded to XXL
• New ship commands for moving goods between player owned stations (deliver and fetch)
• Trade distribution command for moving wares around multiple stations
• Station Manager, automatically manages all assigned ships to buy/sell wares for factories/complex
• Control over your stations serial code, alpha, beta, etc
• Docks/Headquarters have control over each ware (Buy, Sell, Trade, Storage)

Boarding Improvements

• Marines will now use the Advanced spacesuit when boarding (faster + shielded)
• Spacewalking marines better connect to hull when boarding, no more bouncing around.
• Order of marines that die is now predetermined at beginning
• Hacking defense is now predetermined at beginning
• HQ (and docks) can now store marines
• Marine price adjusted to better reflect their training
• Freight exchange now prevents moving Cargo life support when marines are onboard (prevents killing them)
• Marine training barracks is available to the player to train their own marines
• Terran Marines and training barracks are available
• Modding:
  • Various boarding values can be changed dynamically via scripts
  • Additional stats/skills can be added to marines
  • Training time/cost can be adjusted
  • Script commands available for control marine training
  • Script commands available for better moving marines between ships/stations

New or Improved Hotkeys

• Enemy targeting hotkeys updated to include separate hotkeys for missiles and ships
• Target nearest missile hotkey added
• Counter Missile hotkey, for launching counter missiles are incoming missiles (without needing to select missile type, or switch target to incoming missile)
• Search hotkey, to open search bar in various menus
• Compare hotkey, to add ships to compare against each other at the shipyards
• Boarding Hotkey, for launching your marines at your target
• Missile Barrage hotkeys, for firing of barrage from your Missile Frigate
• Select Profile hotkey, to quickly switch between profiles in your property owned menu
• Various menu hotkeys added for opening each menu

Minor Fixes/Improvements

• Drones are launched from docking bays if ships have them (instead of just appearing in space)
• SETA now effects the jump time when ordering ships to jump
• Your spacesuit comes preinstalled with SETA
• Added ability to un-deploy wares like laser towers/satellites for easy retrieval
• Pirate Scavengers will now collect dropped loot and deliver them to pirate bases for resale
• Repair lasers can be used on any ship without triggering hostile action
• Abandoned ships will no longer evade when being hit

New Upgrades

• Jumpdrive Installation Kits, these can be carried in bulk and install a Jumpdrive and Navigation Command Software MK1 to a ship.
• Single-Use Jump Beacon, Cheaper jump beacons that are temporary, they only last a short time, and cant be collected
• Mining Command Software, adds automated mining and trading commands to you ship
• Piracy Command Software, this software is used to automate plundering of ships
• Build Command Software MK1, allows you to connect complexes together
• Build Command Software MK2, allows you to repack and move existing stations
• Build Command Software MK3, allows automated building of complexes
• Missile Defence System, for automatic launching of counter missiles

Graphs and Reports

• Trade report on all ships/stations added.  Records all trade transactions
• Global Trade reports displays all wares bought and sold by ship/station
• Empire Trade Report, displays all wares bought and sold across your empire (including your trades)
• Account Transaction Report, displays all money transactions where money goes into or out of your main account
• Station Transaction Report, displays all money transactions where money goes into or out of your station account
• Net Worth, menu details your current net worth, including a break down of each category (ships, stations, wares, etc)
• Added Net Worth graph, show you whole net worth over time
• Added Station net worth, shows the total net worth of a station over time (including wares on ships)
• Added Station Profitability, shows the profit made per hour of your station
• Added Station Compare graphs, allows you to select multiple stations and compare their net worth and profitability