Update 2.32.165 - Tele-Defense & Metal Island

New "Tele-Defense Tower" and endpoint: a defense tower which teleports enemy troops to a target location.

Default Map: the "Deathmatch" scenarios beatified again by the Tony, the artist (last time didn't properly work). Please let us know what you think.

Modding: the map screenshots are now stored within each map. You set them where you also set the icons. That means you don't need to specify them anymore during upload!

Modding: example how to add custom research items (via custom.hjson).

Modding: verifying that all custom assets have a "size:" given.

Modding: updated research and remove irrelevant options.

Modding: option to remove unused assets such as graphics & sound FX via the "Remove Unused" menu entry. Only possible before release when still v1.0.0.

Modding: editor allows controlling enemy units during testing.

Modding: editor UI lists now support drag and drop (rather than the up/down arrow) to re-arrange items.

Manual: list of major human factions and coalitions added to the in-game manual.

Balancing: Walldozer has slightly reduced attack (-20%).

Balancing: Missile Defense (incl. Alien Missile Defense) with slightly higher cost (+25%).

Balancing: Power Poles cannot be captured by inverter beams (e.g. as used by Assimilators).

Game Setup Popup: they popup does not close anymore when an entry was invalid, allowing to easier fix the issue without having to restart (usability).

Tournament Players: there is now a popup that lists all the tournament players (not just the ones in a game).

Password Protected Games: creating them is now free (no cost). Instead, there is now a donation popup asking for covering server fees (can be skipped).

Server Fees: it's now possible to donate coins to cover server fees for multiplayer.

Coin Statistics: coin statistics, i.e. what given out and what's been used is now visible inside the player stats.

Translation Statistics: now show also within the player stats, in addition to the language center.

Payment Dialog: Look & Feel of the payment popup improved.

GUI: some dropdown menus enhanced with keyboard search function.

GUI: file drop now works for certain image/etc. input buttons (where normally a file dialog were shown).

Translations: fixed the parser of translatable texts to also include comic bubble texts (regex didn't include the vertical line & dash).

Translations: make it clear that no AI-generated texts will be accepted.

Translations: added quite a few translations from e.g. the maps which were not yet available for translation.

Language: latest translations added - Thanks :-D

Settings Screen: elements re-ordered for clarity.

Maintenance: bundle batch-upload functionality (internally used).

Maintenance: bundle batch-update functionality (internally used).

Maintenance: check for negative version numbers.

Maintenance: reduced logging from (E) to (I)/(W) where applicable.

Maintenance: limiting max. number of pending translations to 250 to prevent abuse. Have the pending translations approved first before continuing.

Maintenance: showing map version when approving pending maps.

Maintenance: IP lookup table switched to "ipblocks" (from GeoIP).

Maintenance: rate limiter for username recovery.

Maintenance: Steam SDK wrapper updated to latest 1.10.0.

Maintenance: payment methods updated (e.g. Stripe)

Maintenance: "jsch" library upgraded to 2.28.0 (Server).

Maintenance: gradle build system updated with shared platform plugins and central properties file for all envs.

Maintenance: Droid credential library and logging updated.

Maintenance: Droid dependencies updated to latest.

Bugfix: reverted the previous default map to the latest (Tony's changes removed) as the tutorial didn't work anymore.

Bugfix: enabled research for all the skirmish maps available in the campaign.

Bugfix: Release Tracker was doing too much file I/O (on Server!).

Bugfix: Epic purchase restore/etc. didn't work because some dependencies were missing.

Bugfix: rendering line-graphs was wrong on WebGL.

Bugfix (Trial): Droid SignIn updated as it doesn't work for all users (unclear how to properly fix).

Bugfix Crashes: in animation editor when width or height was '0' (division by 0).

Bugfix Crashes: for drag to target when there as an integer overflow.

Bugfix Crashes: verification added that the break between amo bursts cannot be '0'.

Bugfix Crashes: preventing stackoverflow when locale lookup was called again from the same thread in a recursive loop.