Administrators 

• Starbases now require one "Administrator" to build
• Number of starting Administrators depends on galaxy size
• Research certain Government Technologies to  increase the number of Administrators
• Current number of available Administrators can be seen on the resource bar or the starbase list tab.

 Diplomacy 

• General pass on conversation weights such that the AI will talk more and offer more interesting trades.
• AI players who dislike you will charge you more in diplomacy
• Changed diplomacy attitude label from "allied" to "loves (they're not allied)
• Changed diplomacy attitude from label "war" to "hates" (they're not at war)
• AI should be better at focusing on a given weapon or defense tech rather than trying to research multiple paths.
• AIs will heavily weight their relations with other players based on who is at war with whom and why
• AIs will tend to come to the aid of their friends even if the enemy is more powerful
• AI now has the capability of explaining in detail why they rejected (or accepted) a trade offer (though will require translation of new strings)
• AI will use a redlining system of evaluating proposals such that each sub-AI routine will add marks to the proposal with potential veto power. 
• AI now has the capability of explaining in detail why they rejected (or accepted) a trade offer.
• By default, the auto-generated military ships will have their categories folded for easier UI navigation.

Balance 

• Home planet production points base increased from 1 to 10
• Significantly reduced starbase spacing radius to 2 tiles, allowing you cluster them closer together.
• AI is substantially better at evaluating what ship to build, when and where
• Early game improvements made less expensive
• Late game improvement benefits reduced slightly 
• Research improvements have been rebalanced.

UI Improvements / Bug Fixes

• By default, the auto-generated military ships will have their categories folded for easier UI navigation.
• When a player designs a ship, it will, by default, be added to the favorites
• Added the currency, morale, population, and turns information to the planet and shipyard window
• Changed Terran and "space monster" fighters size from small to tiny, matching the sizes for other factions.  This change prevents a crash in the ROT campaign
• Map Editor: Fixed a problem that prevented the Mini-map Preview from working.
• Replaced Diplomatic Specialization 3 to be "Efficient Administration" on all trees. (Base Game and Campaigns.)
• Fixed bad Matter Disruption Cost multiplier that was making Matter Disruption 2.6 times more expensive than it should have been.
• Changed the width of the asteroid tooltip window and "nearest owned planet" value so that the value can no longer overlap
• Negative Strategic resources are no longer shown in the trade options when they were negative
• Updated map lighting settings to decreased ambient light and increased key light to make the ships look less flat.
• Mercenaries: Ships that you can't afford are greyed out.
• Fixed issue where Ancient Kinetic Augmenter had weapon FX even though it is a support module.
• Removed military ring Starbase range boost now that we have implemented Administrators.
• Fixed a problem that was causing rebellions in peaceful corners of the galaxy.