Alpha 10 released

= New Episodes: Work continues on a series of hand crafted story episodes, designed to pull new players into the game and provide some excellent adventures for existing players.

• Black Hole Sun - Part 1

• Black Hole Sun - Part 2

• Black Hole Sun - Part 3

• A wolf in Sheeps Clothing - Part 3

= New Tutorials These are short tutorials and are generally incorporated into the story episodes. But will pop up whenever you are trying to do these things for the first time:

• Docking Tutorial

• Mining Tutorial

• Combat Tutorial

• Crew transfer Tutorial

= Performance

• Large improvement to drones when searching for repair works.

• Reduced the particle density on ships arriving and departing, to help with performance

• Make FindNearby only look at given layer and given object type if object type given. Helps with drone performance.

• Calculate incoming quantities of each container only once in TryStoreCargo, improves WorkQueue Update performance.

= Text Input

• You can now filter any long list of files/saves/ships etc by typing a short word

• You can now freely move the cursor in a text field and delete characters in any position.

  • 'LEFT' or 'RIGHT' to move the cursor backwards or forwards one character.

  • 'HOME' or 'DOWN' to move the cursor to the beginning of the input.

  • 'END' or 'UP' to move the cursor to the end of the input.

  • 'DEL' now forward deletes text in a text input field.

= SMALL CHANGES

• The game mode 'Survival' is now locked until the player completes phase 1 of the stargate

• The game mode 'Free Roam' is now locked until the player completes the 'Flight Ready' mission in Creative or Survival mode

• Nb. Both modes can be easily unlocked by editing the preferences.txt file:

UnlockSurvival    true
UnlockFreeRoam    true

• Battle Stations button is now available in Tactical mode

• Changed drone behaviour to look to use any available Drone Bays

• FTL user interface improved. You can now include other ships after clicking the Prepare Jump button

• Clicking Prepare Jump from the System Map will now prepare a jump with just that ship, even if another jump is in progress.

• The OPPOSITION system that sends hostiles to attack the Stargate on a timer has been completely disabled (it sucked)

• Mining Laser now require to be installed either in a wall (like the guns) or on a piece of scaffold.

• When installing Mining Lasers they will now auto-rotate to fit the wall/scaffold.

• Allow to buy/sell entire stack by ctrl clicking.

= BUG FIXES:

• Issue #258: In creative mode, when entering ship name / author name the key strokes execute in the background

• Issue #259: If you outgun the pirate you can kill the ship leading to a hardlock and game CTD.

• Issue #260: Docking Tutorial window doesn't go away when you click skip.

• Issue #261: The Wolf in sheep clothing mission is available to start from the beginning after completing it.

• Issue #267: Only selected ship rotates to align for jump in creative / survival / free roam.

• Issue #241: Orders not saved correctly in stargate mode because not copying system id when copying orders.

• Issue #243: Meteor shower during resin collection phase of tutorial.

• Issue #277: Scavenger still hails you even if destroyed.

• Issue #247: Some imported/bought ships will have the crew dying of suffocation.

• Issue #161: Install order disappearing when closest box of desired item to install is on a track.

• Issue #233: Netural fighters attacking player when in meteor shower.

• Issue #229: Turning with thrusters uses engines when another ship is preparing a jump.

• Issue #231: If a window is open (eg: FTL jump) and you go to tatical mode, tactical mode stops tracking cursor.

• Issue #279: Docking Port flipped on reloading ship, if placed at top of grid in edit mode.

• Issue #288: Rescue mission does not fail and disappear if the ship is destroyed.

• Issue #225: Weapons consoles not activating connected weapons

• Issue #221: Hostile ship not attacking after some ships jump away

• Issue #198: Can jump ship when docked with other ship that isn't jumping but ships stay docked.

• Issue #234: Stargate progress is incorrect.

• Issue #153: Money duplication glitch when buying ship at shipyard.

• Fix spelling mistake in the title of the Tech Tree Window: 'RESERACH' -> 'RESEARCH'.

• Fix window not closing when window close button is pressed.

• Performance slow down with ships arriving / leaving. Should be better with improvements to particle and layer rendering.

• Fix flightready mission causing crash when selling original ship and FTL jumping with another ship.

• Fix camera moving to wrong place when switching out of tactical if ship moved while in tactical.

• Fix tutorial coming back after skipping tutorial.

• Preserve ids of layers and objects when restoring a system archive, but still rebase time.

• Fix crash on loading a rescue mission on a ship that has been archived.

• Docking tutorial now dismisses itself if the target ship is derelict or non-existent.

• Track performance in certain situations improved.

• Fix install FTL objective not completing in flightready mission.