New features and updates

• Leader perks are shown in realm view depending on espionage and number of meetings two realms have had.
• Tool tips for planet view how planet productions are calculated
• Carrier ships are not able to do trading.
• Carrier ships do not require cargo space.
• New rare tech which can be found from space anomalies:
  • Plasma Cannon
  • Ion Cannon
  • Organic armor
  • Solar armor
  • Distortion shield
• Tractor beam rare tech, which can be found when surveying the black hole.
• Deadly virus event adds rare tech which can be used in espionage.
• There is now message if there are unassigned leaders available.
• Sound effect for privateering.
• Alarm sound when combat starts.
• New font for credits and displaying currently playing songs.
• Privateer fleets are considered anonymous when making news about them or history events.
• AI's privateer ships should not destroy trade ships.
• AI selects espionage missions types with reasoning and not just randomly.
• Casus Belli calculation. If realm is making border crossing, demands or other bad things, it is possible to gain casus belli against it. Possible casus belli reason is mentioned when war is declared when casus belli is possible.
• New espionage mission: False Flag. This will increase possible casus belli calculation value.
• Combat has been improved: Some of the passive components can be overloaded and these give more tactical choices for combat.
• When planet is being nuked news about casualties will be calculated correctly.
• Image added for random event: The Lost Treasure
• Ship bridge background for Sporks.
• Ship bridge background for Chiraloids.
• All space races have secondary names.

Bug fixes

• Fixes null pointer if game screen was wider than full map.
• Removes duplicate ship components when designing the new ships.
• Changes correct icon for Nuclear bomb components.
• Minor typos fixed.
• Fix issue where saved games were not sorted.
• Fleet tiles are updated when star map view is shown.
• Historical events are cleared if realms do not fit into map on first try out.
• Trade fleets now consider all space anomalous dangerous.
• Planet governor is now killed if planet population is killed during conquer.
• Realm view and government information had wrong font when using newer than Java 8.
• Stupid and scientist perk now work correctly when leader is ruler.

New features and updates

• Fleet commanders can now do espionage missions on enemy planets
• New random event: Cultural hit boots planet's cultural value
• New leader specific random events:
  • Accidents happen and leader dies
  • Terrorist attack on planet where governor might be killed
  • Ruler gets stressed and gains mental perk
  • Leader gains level
• Tutorial for ship designs
• Tutorial for diplomacy
• New leader perks:
  • Wealthy - If leader is about to die he/she would only lose this perk and continue living.
  • Chatterbox - Leader perk that gives espionage bonus to other realms
  • Healthy - Leader lives longer than others
  • Mental perks: Aggressive, Peaceful, Logical and Mad
  • Skillful - Gives bonus on every job
  • Incompetent - Gives negative bonus on every job
• Leader with power hungry perk can kill the ruler on governments where ruler reign time is for the life
• New space anomalies
  • Ancient Mechion joins to realm as a leader
  • Time warp anomaly damages the ship, but leader can make research can gain boost for propulsion research
• New galaxy starting position: Ancient realms start at the middle and others from the borders of the galaxy.
• Ruler can now give the second attitude for the realm. Ruler now sets the second possible attitude for realm. First one is still from the space race.
• Route button text is now Route FTL
• Adds secondary names for Teuthidaes, Mechions and Greyans
• Adds image for Aggressive wild life random event
• Adds Homarian bridge image
• Adds Teuthidae bridge image

Bugfixes

• UI in diplomatic view does not allow human player to change AI's offer. Previous versions it looks like player can change it but it only affect on UI. Now UI does not allow changing it either.
• Clean up UI for too tall text fields and removes unneeded ":" from labels.
• Fixes JFrame growth on certain desktop environments when restarting the game
• Ship designs can now have only one type of engines
• Fixes rare bug where planet background was not fully drawn on planet views.
• Removes extra spaces when wrapping the text in information text areas.

New Features and updates

• Leaders game mechanics
  • Leaders can be assigned to governors and fleet commanders. These will grant bonuses according the leader perks.
  • Leaders have limited life span which varies on space race where they belong.
  • Each realm will also have single leader assigned automatically as ruler. Ruler also grants bonuses for whole realm.
• Each space race have unique name generators for leaders.
• Leaders also caused minor changed to governments and leader lifespan for space race
  • Some governments can have heirs. These heirs are free leaders which might be a leader at some point.
  • Some governments will have election periodically to change leader to new one
• When something significant happens to a leader there will be galactic news about it.
• AI is able to handle also leaders
• News music won't be playing full length when news screen is not visible
• There is new music for new screen when some leader dies and this is shown as a first news.
• New random event images
  • Meteor hits planet
  • Meteor misses planet
  • Mysterious signal
  • Technical breakthrough
• Mothoid space ship bridge image
• Greyan space ship bridge image
• New default galaxy creation values. These are now planned for first time players
• Tutorial now tries to tell about space combat and different ship components in combat.

Bug fixes

• When fleet is destroyed also mission attached for that fleet is removed.
• Possible fix for IllegalThreadStateExcepition (This happened quite rarely)
• Ally stops attacking against ally if ally has occupied enemy planet.
• Enabling or disabling tutorial now works.
• News Corporation side panel was too narrow

Build envinroment changes

• Coverall support has been disabled
• Test coverage has been increased
• JUnits which required save games are now done without loading save game
  • There is still JUnit for loading saved game.

New features and updates

• AI should colonize planets over radiation limit if it has radiation dampeners
• Very early version of tutorial
• Galaxy has black hole at the center
• Ancient Realms
• Single save game for single session
• Medium to huge galaxies now have more Deep Space Anchors and anomalies
• AI now tries to focus for easiest victory for it
• Cleaned UI at planet view
• Possibility to have diplomacy with Space Pirates
• Added sound when colonizing the planet
• Human bridge background added

Bugs fixes

• Space pirates can now build artificial planets
• Fixes issue where fleet was sold to another realm but that sector still has second fleet from original realm
• Planet production cannot be negative anymore
• Human player planets actually have production when game starts.
• Multiple simple NPEs or out of bounds fixed which happened rarely

New features and changes

• Show hit chance in combat
• Cultural domination victory requires broadcasting building (Broadcasting antenna/Broadcasting network or Deep space scanner)
• Number of fleet is now limited by fleet size which can be affected by buildings, government and space stations.
• AI can trade obsolte ships with other realms
• Random events may happen in galaxy
• Minimap is available in starmap view
• Difficulty levels for Space Pirates
• Refactored how Space pirates gain more power
• Possible error messages now contain more information where exception happened
• Added new icons for buttons in starmap view
• Focus on event now shows cursor location in starmap view
• Trade news also tell which realm owns that planet where trade happened
• Added sound effects for rushing buildings and scrapping space ships
• Added Mechion ship bridge image

Bug fixes

• AI can now make peace with other AIs
• AI is trying to make peace if war fatigue goes too high
• If war happens trade ships stop doing the trading between war parties
• Conquer button is disable if no human fleet is orbiting the planet
• Fixed NPE when trying to do diplomacy with space pirates

New Features and changes

• Diplomatic victory . Requires building United Galaxy Towers. . Number of towers depend on Galaxy size. . Number of diplomatic votes are chosen when game is being created.
• Galactic Olympics . Participating gives diplomatic bonus between realms who participated. . Not participating gives diplomatic bonus between realms who did not participate. . Olympic winner and organizes also receive cultural bonus.
• Domination victory require only over 50% of home planets, not all
• Scientific achievement techs has been reordered a bit on different tech levels.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed wrong size JFrame boundary on Windows 10 machines.
• AI does not make map trade over and over again unless map is really updated.
• Trade mission can be now started from ally's panet and fixed NPE from that.
• More of the diplomatic events happen in planet
• Fixed bug where AI made claim and human player declined and that caused human to start a war.
• AI creates new scouts ships even if old ones are destroyed.
• Biggest military ship is visible on fleet instead of the first one in the fleet.

New Features and changes

• New colors for phasors and antimatter beam
• Scientific victory condition
• AI upgrades starbases
• Added Game Icon when running the game
• Improved AI's diplomatic trade
  • AI now focuses trade techs which it needs not just first ones on the list
  • AI no longer accept trade deals from bigger military realm unless there is peace
• Added new planet images
• Possibility to trade only planet positions, this is handy when making trade deals
• Added two new star map musics and one combat music
• Added shield animation into combat
• Added new sound effects:
  • Shield sound effect
  • Privateering sound effect
  • Engaging the FTL sound effect
  • Sound effect for destroying/recycling the buildings
• Added Centaur ship interior background image

Bug fixes

• Ship damage could penetrate shields or armors in certain cases when it should not
• Fixed bug where attacking against AI's privateer ship caused a war
• AI now handles planet buildings much better and even builds the last building and upgrades buildings
• Single minded governments had sad/happiness effect on planets
• Fixed text bug if AI offered trade embargo it wasn't visible
• Possible fix on rare race condition bug on while AI is taking actions
• Fixed many todos and fixmes from the code

New Features and changes

• Realm screen showing information about space race and government.
• AI Turn is now really fast. UI is updated in another thread and AI is doing turn in another thread.
• More Nuclear technology in game. There are more orbital nukes in game.
• Planet screen, New UI for showing all the basic information about realm's planets.
• When last planet has been conquered from realm war against that realm is no longer count for war fatigue.
• Improved AI's planet handling methods.
• Increase the limit for cultural victory.
• Improved AI's fleet moving.
• Diplomacy screen now has ship interior shown as background.
• Two realms can make trade embargo against the third one.
• News when first trader ships arrives to another realm.

Bug fixes

• Fixed too many pirates bug if game length was over 400 turns.
• Rushing options gained from government did not work.
• Bombing all planet population did make original realm to lose control for that planet.
• Government with +1 war happiness gained bonus if pirates were in the game.

Version updated from Alpha to Beta

Currently game is very much playable and contains quite much of finished things. So I decided to change Alpha to Beta since this is getting closer and closer to be finished game. Of course this is not done yet, but current version can be played and the won and lose multiple ways.

New features and changes

• Space pirates are now the "board" player playing against all realms
• When new space pirates are added there will news about them
• Automatic trade missions for human players ( New Trade fleet view )
• Government types giving benefits and disadvantages
• Colonized planet now has happiness value if government type is not Hive-minded or AI
• War cause fatigue which cause more unhappiness on planet
• Credits cannot go negative, instead they cause war fatigue or destroy buildings
• New planetary events
  • Molten lava
  • Black monolith
  • Ancient palace
• Space anomalies to find which can contain good or harmful events
• New popup display used when discovering space anomalies
• Diplomatic trade now allows trading planets and fleet which are visible to other party

Bug fixes

• Fixed possible NullPointerException on AI's spy missions
• Fixed AI keep declaring war even it already was in war
• Fixed wrong positions for starbases in combat

New features and changes

• Multiple Resolution Capabilities with larger fonts, removed OS decoration from game frame.
• Options view setting up screen resolution, sound and music volumes.
• True alliance between realms, two realms are counted as a one for scoring and victories.
• Cultural victory condition, game can be won with high cultural value.
• Domination victory condition, game can be won by conquering all the home worlds.
• Improved AI's planet handling.
• Improved AI's colonization and space exploration
• Improved AI's espionage
• Research cost for tech is now scaled according the game length and galaxy size
• Colonized planet now automatically gets at least one culture.

Bug fixes

• Fixed AI's defensive pact diplomatic offering texts.
• Fixed human colony design's extra usages.
• Fixed AI's making hundreds of attack missions(This bug was introduced while developping the 0.7.0Alpha but this is not in 0.6.0Alpha release).