Changelog

[Team Jolly Roger]

Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition / 02.08.2017

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Interplanetary Version 1.1.6430 / 05.07.2017

• Rearranged Technologies for visual clarity
  
• Cloning Initiative project adjusted
  
• Small under-the-hood improvement regarding Action Phase simulation

Interplanetary Version 1.1.6426 / 14.06.2017

• Navigation Enhancements
  
  • Added the ability to pan the camera by holding Middle Mouse Button
• New Planet and Visuals
  
  • New Player Planet: Breach
    
  • Enabled Starfield Background Randomization
• 2nd Stage Targeting Polish and Fixes
  
  • Defense ranges automatically visible when targeting inside their area-of-effect
    
  • Made planet-clicking easier on Missile targeting by increasing the click area and adding a highlight
    
  • Canceling 2nd Stage Targeting now takes you right back to Targeting View
    
  • Fixed an bug that caused the Intel View of the wrong player to be shown when canceling 2nd Stage Targeting
• Defense Polish and Fixes
  
  • Defense range visuals can be toggled on and off (B)
    
  • Fixed bugs that sometimes caused defenses to not activate when they should have
• Build Menu Polish and Fixes
  
  • Improved Build Menu highlights
    
  • Allowed tooltips on greyed out buttons
• Miscellaneous
  
  • End Turn button cosmetic adjustments
    
  • Removed Analytics
• Balance Adjustments
  
  • Technologies rearranged
    
  • Technology Science costs adjusted
    
  • Railgun base damage reduced
    
  • Railgun upgrades adjusted
    
  • Missile base damage reduced
    
  • Missile projectile velocity adjusted
    
  • Missile upgrades adjusted
    
  • Laser base damage reduced
    
  • Laser upgrades adjusted
    
  • Super Weapon building HP increased
    
  • Telescope Array intel yield reduced
    
  • Data Security Hub counterintel yield reduced
    
  • Cloning Initiative Project buffed

Interplanetary Version 1.0.6383 / 20.11.2015

• Fixed the occasional UI breakdown caused by opening and closing Codex
  
• Railgun fragment amount reduced from 4 to 3

Interplanetary Version 1.0.6378 / 07.07.2015

• AI performance optimizations
  
• Minor Load Game performance optimizations
  
• Fixed typos on Event Log

Interplanetary Version 1.0.6355 / 12.06.2015

• Networking fixes
  
  • General network stability improved
    
  • Fixed issues with game getting stuck on Action Phase when players disconnect during turn processing/simulation
• Game Setup fixes
  
  • Fixed Planet Material amount limit, now practically limitless
    
  • Fixed "Accept"-button to exit the menu instead of it working like an "Apply"-button
• Event Log camera fixed to cycle through damage areas instead of each damaged building
  
• Fixed Intelligence View occasionally showing the wrong player's information when navigating through the Event Log
  
• Fixed chat overflow issues

Interplanetary Version 1.0.6324 / 28.05.2015

• Fixed AI building over Ruins
  
• Fixed Data Security Hub Science upgrade stacking Science every turn
  
• Fixed AI building invalid Power Grids during load game.
  
• Fixed ruins to be always visible
  
• Fixed weapon list scrolling off screen
  
• Fixed load game defeated planet icons and added Old Earth icon

Interplanetary Version 1.0.6308 / 22.05.2015

• Camera zoom distance increased
  
• Slightly Improved AI calculation speed
  
• Disabled saving during action phase (caused major issues when loading saved games)
  
• Fixed Science achievement triggering on all players
  
• Fixed save game file names ignoring case sensitivity
  
• Restored missing intelligence icons

Interplanetary Version 1.0.6295 / 16.05.2015

• Network stability increased

Interplanetary Version 1.0 / 11.05.2015

• New Features Added
  
  • Online Matchmaking
    
  • Match Customization Options
    
  • City Projects
    
  • AI Difficulty Levels
    
  • Save Games
    
  • Damage Area Visualizations
    
  • City/Science Growth Mechanics
    
  • Achievements
• Event Log completely overhauled
  
• New Tech Tree added
  
• Offshore Mine building added
  
• Upgrades rebalanced
  
• Intel UI completely overhauled with added mechanics
  
• UI improved overall

Interplanetary Version 0.7.5470_EAC_7.2 / 16.01.2015

• AI can now only build one superweapon of each kind, as intended
  
• Missiles and Lasers do not fire anymore if targeting is not properly finished
  
• Upgrade related turn processing bug fixed.
  
• City health bars now update properly on city icons and population bar
  
• Hotseat victory conditions fixed
  
• Intelligence View no longer cycles through dead planets
  
• Building health bars now change color according to the damage level
  
• Added scaling indicators to health bars
  
• Codex updated
  
• Minor AI fixes
  
• Online Lobby UI fixes

Interplanetary Version 0.7.5435_EAC_7.1 / 19.12.2014

• Shot difficulty now affects AI accuracy, which has also been generally lowered
  
• Weapon damage to cities increased
  
• Player turn status markers re-implemented
  
• Victory screen bug fixes
  
• Event log performance issues fixed
  
• Action phase simulation accuracy increased (less zigzag movements for shots and the
• chance of appearing to go through the planets is minimized)
  
• Timeout for AI calculations added, fixing AI getting lost in thought
  
• Missile bug fixed
  
• AI turn message spam fixed

Interplanetary Version 0.7.5394_EAC_7 / 12.12.2014

• Simple Single Player mode with early AI bots added.
  
• Networking overhauled.
  
  • All previous online connectivity issues should be fixed!
    
  • Mobile broadband connections (and all other kinds of obscure things) now supported.
    
  • LAN multiplayer temporarily disabled due to new network structure.
    
  • Player turn status markers temporarily disabled. Will be back soon.
• UI overhauled.
  
  • Menu UI graphics redone.
    
  • Menus streamlined.
    
  • Main Menu background modified.
• Planet selection added.
  
• Player avatars added.
  
• Fixed the turn-processing freezing Laser bug (again!) Should be gone now.
  
• Laser animation changed to a nicer one.
  
• Optional game analytics added.
  
• Loading screens added.
  
• New music added.
  
• Minor sound tweaks.

Interplanetary Version 0.6.4981_EAC_6.6

• Fixed online games crashing at turn processing due to Laser weirdness [Edit: This problem still persists in some cases!]
  
• City and Building graphics are now visible only if the player has enough intel
  
• Camera now centers on the player planet when entering Targeting View
  
• Material production upgrades changed to consume Planet Material
  
• Cities now get destroyed when population reaches 0, as opposed to 1/6 of maximum
  
• Sun gravity increased
  
• Planets shifted farher from the sun.
  
• Laser effects made slightly more visible
  
• Defense building Visibility increased
  
• Railgun Visibility slightly decreased
  
• Missile Population damage increased
  
• Laser Population damage increased
  
• Defense Energy consumption increased
  
• Upgradeable Intel amount for Data Security Hub decreased
  
• Upgradeable Counterintel amount for Telescope Array decreased

Interplanetary Version 0.6.4390_EAC_6.5

• Building Upgrade mechanics added
  
• Turn-Processing time greatly improved

Interplanetary Version 0.5.4183_EAC_6

• Codex
  
• New Building Window
  
• Misleading city lights removed from planet surface
  
• Balance changes
  
  • Railgun damage increased
    
  • Asteroid Diversion damage increased
    
  • Weapon targeting angles decreased
    
  • Projectile minimum targeting velocity decreased
    
  • Planet speeds increased
    
  • Non-player planet sizes increased
    
  • Solar Laser distance from the sun decreased and standardized
    
  • Missile homing range decreased
    
  • Kinetic Defense range decreased
    
  • Shield Defense range slightly decreased
    
  • Mine visibility decreased
    
  • Defense visibility decreased
    
  • Science requirement for some technologies increased
    
  • Build Energy costs increased for Mines, Defenses and Intel buildings

Interplanetary Version 0.4.4061_EAC_5

• Lobby Chat
  
• New Player Planet: Noxious
  
• New Planets and Suns
  
• Steam Trading Cards, Badges and Emoticons
  
• Defense Building Visibility Decreased

Interplanetary Version 0.3.4027_EAC_4

• New graphics for cities, buildings and ruins
  
• Different craters for different weapon impact points
  
• Additional music for build phase and action phase
  
• Targetable weapons damage reduced
  
• Shield Defense doesn't block missiles anymore
  
• Sound effect fixes
  
• Networking host migration fixes

Interplanetary Version 0.2.3983_eac3

• New Planet Texture
  
  • New player planet added: The Shredded Dune
• Explosions!
  
  • Redone explosions for "normal" weapons to be more visible from far away and prettier to look up close.
  • Different color smoke for shots that land in water.
• Sun Graphical Improvements
  
• Various New Particle Effects
  
• Keyboard Zoom Added
  
  • "E" and "Q" can be used to zoom in and out
• Balance Tweaks
  
  • Damage increased for Missile, Laser and Solar Laser
    
  • Damage reduced for Railgun and Asteroid Diversion
    
  • Firing cost reduced for Missiles and Lasers
    
  • Activation cost increased for Shield Defense
    
  • Accuracy and range increased for Kinetic Defense
    
  • Build cost decreased for Kinetic Defense
    
  • Build and firing costs increased for Superweapons
    
  • Science cost increased for Superweapons
    
  • Population boost increased for "Arcologies" tech.
    
  • Planet material drain decreased

Interplanetary Version 0.1.3960

• In-game chat
  
• Indicators to show which players have ended their turns
  
• Building unlocks in Techtree now have simple descriptions
  
• Added a simple reminder when trying to end turn with no active research
  
• New player planet texture: Jungle
  
• Small changes to UI graphics
  
• Changed the version number scheme

Interplanetary Version 0.0.3922

• Online connections more stable
  
  • UPnP settings added
    
  • Port selection option added
• Passwords added to online games
  
• Defeated players' orbits are now greyed out
  
• Minor fixes to the tutorial
  
• Gamesettings folder is now hidden on Unix based operating systems.