1.026
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• added a new difficulty level - Ultimate, everything but player/components can go up to level 200
• now active thrusters can take you above the speed cap (Tuidjy)
• fixed secrets being empty a lot at high levels (Tuidjy)
• races will no longer give you contacts for free (tim14916)
• now damage per energy used by Big Bang adds tactical damage bonus (Tuidjy)
• increased Geomagnetic Storm reuse time from 3.0 to 5.0
• decreased Pulsar per leve damage from 25.0/35.0 to 17.5/27.5
• Brunt can now put swarm missiles in their racial slot (lancefighter)
• attack & defense now show more correct hit chances when in higher difficulties (Ludak021)
• now default Drox involvement to Light instead of Minimal
• stations now give much more xp and relations gain
• non active crew now has happiness drops/expects to be paid (only half as fast as active crew though)
• now show component icons in upper right corner of highlight text
• added a splitter to component text
• made joystick deadzone configurable
• there is now a 5 second delay before you win a sector so you can see your final actions (Steve)
• now resume text will show level, race, and character options (once saved with new version)
• now Drox alliance/war order when completed shows in green on Drox screen (Steve)
• changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 26
• probes now highlight attack correctly (Steve)
• simplified some code in Sentient::updateDynamicStat
• fixed returning to fullscreen twice
• now cap MaxTurnSpeed to 1000 to keep ship controllable with keys (Tuidjy)
• now reuse timer display on icon survives moving component to different slots (Evan)
• now restarting a challenge sector will reset your maps and gates correctly (Evan/Chumpy)