Stareater v0.9-alpha

• Diplomacy requires establishing a contact first
• Hangars and tow for moving ships without IS drives
• Gradual star and planet surveys
• Research selection during player's turn instead of separate phase
• Interstellar migration happens in the background without visible transport ships
• Starting conditions can have different starting infrastructure levels
• Previous game player count and type is remembered
• Reworked fuel supply distance calculation
• Added large hull sizes: liner and asteroid
• Reworked hull attributes
• Design updates have "mark" number
• Reworked organization level calculation
• Updated fleet selection panel
• Star information on galaxy screen
• Updated star system screen
• Updated bombardment screen
• Updated reports window
• Various game data improvements
• Fixed ship duplication

Stareater v0.8.3-alpha

Game rules changes:

• Diplomatic contact established when scan range is entered
• Tow ships and carriers can move non-IS ships around the galaxy map
• Effective IS speed influenced by towed ships
• Supply distance calculation considers whole "line" instead of only endpoints
• Population migrates between stars passively, without "real" transport ships

Game content changes:

• Non-weapons can be mission equipment
• Added liner and asteroid hull types
• Reworked hull type definition data
• Increased armor absorption per hull size
• Lowered inertia increase per hull size
• Decreased cloaking, jamming and sensor strength changes per hull size

Game engine and UI changes:

• Last game player count and type is remembered
• Keyboard shortcut for opening reports
• Reports automatically shown on a new turn
• Report for the first contact
• Fixed report filtering
• Toolbar button image when there are reports
• Star with stareater "brain" has a special mark on the map
• Icons for carried and towed ships in fleet panel
• Converted the rest of WinForms controls on the main window
• Aligned bombardment screen look and feel with star system screen
• Development indicator for owned star systems
• Indicator for stars with empty planets
• Reworked design data
• Reworked galaxy map selection data

Stareater v0.8.2-alpha

Game rules changes:

• Changed how mining works

Game content changes:

• More star names

Game engine and UI changes:

• Updated DLL dependencies
• Fixed ship duplication after battle
• Fleet selection with game engine UI
• Slider values can be changed with mouse wheel
• Reworked how GUI elements "catch" mouse events
• Star names hidden when zoomed out too much
• Reworked starting population and infrastructure assignment

Stareater v0.8.1-alpha

Game rules changes:

• Research results are chosen during the player's turn
• Predetermined star type for home systems
• Planet atmosphere affects space lifting factor

Game engine and UI changes:

• More info in star system screen
• Tooltips for star and planet traits
• Reworked star system screen a bit
• Major rework of research window
• Save data is more resistant to changing game content
• Fixed disappearance of ships when colonizing a planet
• Fixed disappearance of ships when population transporter passes by

Stareater v0.8-alpha

• Nicer graphics (intro, buttons, panels)
• Replaced toolbar with ingame GUI
• Major rework of text rendering

Stareater v0.7.4-alpha

• Tooltips
• Fleet pathfinding
• Migration and colonization rework
• Removed biology field and UKSA organization

Stareater v0.7.3-alpha

• Map generator populates systems with semi-random planets and stars
• More star traits
• More planet traits
• Map preview show starting and potential star system quality
• Catalyzer (space monster) flies off after tainting a star
• Fixed issues running under mono on Linux
• Fixed lockup when a player is attacked at undefended system

Stareater v0.7.2-alpha

• Interstellar migration
• Reworked colonization
• Fuel mechanic
• Nestable GUI elements
• Replaced GUI on galaxy map

Stareater v0.7.1-alpha

• Star system policies
• Galaxy scan range
• Scan range outline toggle

Stareater v0.7.0-alpha

• Autosave
• Hidden wormholes at unexplored stars
• Fixed decimal number issues in quantity selection dialogs