Fighters

• Launch during combat and attack on subsequent rounds
• Ignore shields when attacking
• Cannot attack planets and are not attacked by planets
• Destroyed by any attack by other fighters or ships
• Flak weapon shoots multiple times per round and can destroy fighters, but does minimal damage to ships

Alliance Supply

• Empires may propose and agree to an alliance with each other
• Allied empires connect their supply networks through each others' supply connections
• Allied empires resupply ships within each others' supplied systems
• Allied empires share visibility information

Fractional Production Progress

• Production item progress is now stored as a fraction of completion, rather than amount of PP accumulated.
• Changes in the production cost now can't instantly complete something that has had its production cost reduced.

Beginner Bonus

• When the max AI aggression is set to Beginner Mode, the human player gets bonuses to ship shields, planet troop garrisons, and resource output.

AI Improvements

Many new pedia articles, categorization, and improved search

Production items on the queue may be paused and resumed

Ancient Guardians may appear as a defensive ground force on planets with specials, instead of Sentries that attack any ship in the system

• Improved mouse rendering and responsiveness and keyboard behaviour, particularly when switching between windows

• Tech tree rendering speed especially improved

• Species added must have a supply connection from a already-populated planet with sufficient happiness
• Production time depends on distance from the production location to the already-species-populated planet

• Additional object list column types and filter conditions
• Added right-click commands to object list to set planet focus (this works for multiple planets at once)
• Made the objectlist update when a planet changes focus
• Fixed layout placement of buttons in object filter window
• Fixed object list column sorting of numbers (as numbers instead of as text)