Stars Beyond Reach Beta Release Notes

Version 0.702

(This isn't done yet, we're still working on it.)

The starting languages that you know are now a lot higher in a variety of areas, making diplomacy actually possible with some races closer from the start (though not always the races you want, of course).
- Thanks to Misery for inspiring this change.

The radius revealed by the lander at the start of the game is now 7 tiles rather than 5, which means that no matter where you place it you should be able to get explorer camps on all sides of it comfortably.
- Thanks to mrhanman for reporting.

Fixed the bug from version 0.771 where you could not place explorer camps unless the shift key was held down.
- Thanks to Hyfrydle, mrhanman, and crazyroosterman for reporting.

(Released April 15th, 2015)

The default profile name is now "Benevolent Dictator" instead of Hydral.
- Thanks to Watashiwa for reporting.

Savegame size has been reduced to about 2/3 its prior amount (and is now much faster to save and load, too) thanks to some shifts with what is being saved about specific layers on each tile.
- Thanks to ptarth for inspiring this change.

Savegames have been shrunk a further 10% or so by adjusting some of what is recalculated upon savegame load with regard to tiles themselves.
- Thanks to ptarth for inspiring this change.

Another bit of savings on savegame size in particular in savegames that are very high up in turn counts, by culling the number of event log entries from more than 100 turns ago.
- Thanks to ptarth for inspiring this change.

Ground soldiers can now always target underground buildings in range that they have sonar data on.

Boats, Missiles/Lasers, and Torpedoes can now directly target any underground buildings that are not under another building.

Resource adjacency bonuses (natural wonder and from resource-usage buildings) are now actually shown!

Previously, resources on the surface would only be revealed if you got your buildings close enough to them -- not just if you scouted their area. That was a super bad idea, as it led to the impression that there were not many resources around. Note that underground resources still require you to sonar survey them.
- Thanks to Misery for inspiring this change.

Placement of explorer camps is only required for the first two turns now. After that it's completely optional.
- Thanks to mrhanman for inspiring this change.

Flying buildings now will show up properly under the fog of war, rather than over.
- Thanks to Misery for reporting.

The game no longer gives you a localization error the first time you go to start a new campaign.
- Thanks to mrhanman for reporting.

Fixed a bug that was letting you place explorer camps waaaaay away from your lander, but not showing the little "building valid to be placed here" icons, hence us not noticing it before.
- Thanks to ptarth for reporting.

Fixed the visual offset issue on the social progress screen when the resolution was not 720px high.
- Thanks to mrhanman and tbrass for reporting.

The trash production values on each building have been majorly revamped, because some of them were accidentally producing waaaay more than intended. This was then causing a crime death spiral.
- Thanks to ptarth and others for reporting.

The amount of crime at each building from crimes of opportunity, from inherent in the business, and from pollution (for extra-sensitive buildings, anyway) is now vastly shrunk at the start of the game, and gradually grows to become the full amount at population 10,000 and up.
- This way you aren't so hosed if you don't know to put police stations near to a stock exchange early on. Instead you'll discover that gradually and have time to react.
- Thanks to tbrass for reporting.