Game version 0.95.127 released

Notable changes:

• Space station equipment status is now saved and loaded properly. [Issue #715]
• Fleets are auto-reequipped only once after a battle (not on every approach to a planet with a spaceport).
• Space stations are auto-reequipped only once after a battle (not constantly, which made equipment management non-operational).
• Holding down the mouse over +1 and -1 buttons to change equipment counts works again.

Game version 0.95.126 released

Notable changes:

• Fixed the equipment screen to prevent adding technology to slots which don't support that particular technology (e.g., rockets to laser slot). [Issue #712]

Game version 0.95.125 released

Notable changes:

• Fixed diplomacy screen becoming inaccessible. (Issue #708)
• Fixed missing letter in the Russian font (Issue #711).
• Fixed some labels.
• Fixed some trader chats (Issue #711).
• Modified the loading to fix older saves where the aliens shared the same Police Station as the human player.

Game version 0.95.124 released

Notable changes:

• Tanks now try to get closer to their targets in ground battles. If you give them an explicit attack order, they will approach the target, fire one round, then move one cell closer if possible. If you give a move or stop order, they go into a form of guard mode and won't try to get closer to their target (i.e., they will hold formation). In attack-move this behavior is not enabled. You can disable this in the open-ig-config.xml under aiGroundAttackGetCloser.
• Showing the bar and diplomacy room is now dependent on the walks.xml definition of the current level's ship design, not the level number. In addition, diplomacy was moved to the level 5 ship.
• Aliens have now a separate police station (in the data files) which is cheaper and provides morale boost. This should improve their numbers and economy.
• Campaign editor improvements. You can now create a copy of the existing campaign and adjust a few properties. However, I suggest using the copy feature only and make changes by the old fashioned  XML editing.
• Aliens now produce their special units.
• Fixed AI static defense planning for races who don't have banks and trader spaceports.
• Aliens are now able to colonize any number of planets after 2 weeks into rank 4.

Launcher version 0.42 released

Added a quick verification step to check the SHA1 of the jar and upgrade files since sometimes I don't update the version number or file date on the project page. This may happen if a critical bug is discovered right after a release, but only few downloads happened till then.

Note to modders that this new launcher behavior might constantly complain about incorrectness if you modified the main open-ig-upgrade-XYZ.zip file.

Game version 0.95.123 released

Notable changes:

• Fixed case when mission objectives were not properly triggered when the computer audio notification was turned off [Issue #705].
• The planet management AI now won't produce Orbital Factory if there is none in the empire [Issue #705].
• Modified the save system to use XML+GZIP instead of plaintext XML. Existing saves will be automatically converted to the new format.
• Population loss on planets where the owner's race is different from the population race is now 3 times as fast.

Game version 0.95.122 released

Notable changes:

• Fixed fleet and shield regeneration not working properly.
• Fixed some UI errors in case of main menu language change (CTRL+1...CTRL+5)
• Modified skirmish initial planet count minimum to 1 to avoid crashes [Issue #705] due zero total lab required. I will extend the skirmish to handle 0 initial planets later on where the player's fleet is just deployed somewhere and may colonize a planet he/she wishes at start.