- Added Outlaw Sectors DLC support
- Added Smuggling Specialization planet development (Outlaw Sectors DLC Only):
- Steal up to 4.5% (1.5% * 3 stages) of global trade income (all players trade income combined) per planet.
- The maximum amount of global trade profit that can be stolen is 40% across all players.
- Each stage of Smuggling adds a 25% tax penalty for that planet up to a max of 75%. -This is mutually exclusive with Social and Industry specialization.
- Added Rampant Militias (Outlaw Sectors DLC Only):
- Every potentially colonizable world except homeworlds and pirate worlds will periodically spawn a random fleet of militia units with a fleet supply value of 20.
- A given planet will not exceed a militia max capacity for that planet.
- The max militia capacity at a planet is: (20 fleet supply + .025 * population at that planet) * a scalar proportional to the maximum fleet capacity researched * a scalar based on the number of planets in the galaxy.
- The frequency of spawning is proportional to the maximum fleet capacity researched in the current match ranging from 10 to 4 minutes with a 25% variance.
- Capturing a valid militia world will cause future spawned militia at that world to join your side as uncontrollable units so long as you control that planet.
- When the max militia at a planet is reached, the militia will seek an adjacent gravwell target to attack unless they are already engaged. Neutral militia will attack any non-pirate gravwell adjacent and player owned militia will attack any non-pirate gravwell adjacent with enemy units detected.
- Militia at a target planet with no enemies to engage will return to their planet of origin.
- Militia will attack any non-friendly units including raiding pirates, enemy neutral militia, enemy player militia, and enemy normal units.
- Added Pirate Turf (Outlaw Sectors DLC Only):
- Pirates will now simultaneously raid multiple players dependant on the number of players in the game.
- 1,2,3 players = 1 raid.
- 4,5,6,7,8 players = 2 raids.
- 9,10 players = 3 raids.
- The players selected will be the players with the most bounty.
- All bounty applied against a player will receive a 25% bonus amount.
- Pirates will spawn 15% faster.
- Added 12 new maps (Outlaw Sectors DLC Only).
- Maps that can only be played with a specific DLC now show up green if you own the DLC or red if not. A text description is shown when the map is selected indicating the reason for the state.
- Added Enhanced Mod Memory Support:
- Mods now use less memory.
- Entering, exiting and re-entering a modded game no longer accumulates memory usage.
- Changing mods no longer causes unnecessary memory consumption.
- Overall memory usage is also reduced.
- Players who don't own Outlaw Sectors can still play with a host who does own it.
- Fixed two crashes present in version 1.84.