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Brace yourself: but the entire combat, repair, economic, and construction models have been almost completely rewritten. To the novice player these changes are subtle enough that it feels like basically the same game. To the more experienced player, these changes are a dream come true, shaving off rough edges left and right and leaving something simpler and more elegant in its place. We had a corps of 95 community members giving us feedback, after all, so there's been a lot of vetting of this from both newer and experienced players. The main benefits of these particular changes are simplicity, transparency-to-the-player, and internal accuracy in outlier situations. •As part of the new combat model, the old concept of "shields" (as distinct from "force fields") has been removed, and the random-hit-chance and range-related components of the hit chance calculations are gone. In place of this is a new, simpler, and far better [[AI War:Combat System#Armor|"armor"]] system that affects damage output instead of hit chance. •One key simplification in this new version is the removal of all the internal ship-specific damage multipliers. In their place, we now have a small number of new [[AI War:Combat System#Hull Types|"hull types"]] and ships get visible bonuses against them. This also removes the "Strong Vs and Weak Vs" display in favor of both the raw hull attack multipliers display and a new [[AI War:STATS_Button_Overview#Reference_Tab |Reference tab]] when really detailed data is needed (presumably not often). •Following on with those massive changes, every last ship in the game has been rebalanced to a heavy degree, sometimes pretty much completely 



*[[AI War:Combat System|Combat System Overview]]
*[[AI War:Economic System|Economic System Overview]] 
*[[AI War:End Game|End Game - AI Home World Assault Changes]]
*[[AI War:Home World| My Home World has a lot of New Structures - What do they do?]] 
*[[AI War:Mini-Map_Overview| The MiniMap Grows Up]]
*[[AI War:STATS Button Overview|The "STATS" Button -- What is Inside?]]
**[[AI War:Missions_List|What Happened To The Missions List?]]
*[[AI War:CTRLS Button Overview|The "CTRLS" Button - Tame your engineers and ships.]] 
**[[AI War:Control Nodes| I can't find the control nodes]]
*[[AI War:4.000_Release| The complete 4.00 release notes]]