MOGE v0.7.786

I'm happy to announce that the issue due to which I had to lock AI empires from conquering Admin Nodes was easier to fix than I feared. Now aggressive AI empires will see ANs as valid targets, build and send fleets to conquer them.

Version changes:

- AN conquest unlock

- victory conditions

- difficulty settings

- trader/spy network automatic incremental reveal of AI empire territory

- new fleet feature: Instant Gate Ping, once per turn a fleet can ping a neighboring gate and get a yes/no response on the presence of other fleets/fauna on the other side (detection threshold for fleets: GV >= 8)

- added ARMI panel buttons to cycle between ANs (shortcut Tab/Shift-Tab)

- Tab/Shift-Tab cycles EMPIRE panel tabs

- Lowered QPS stats, -1 attack pip and -1 shield regen

- Orbital Defense Systems show up as chevrons on game tiles (up to 3, based on ODS level)

- fixed zero-distance gate deploys no longer waste a turn in network transit

- fixed queuing ships at an unstaffed shipyard no longer silently strands the batch

- fixed wrong military shipyard stalled message

- fixed various labels

Next up:

Diplomacy will have to wait a bit more. While the AI expands and builds sizable fleets, in some playtests I noticed that somehow it manages to box itself in by being too eager with its IRG deployment, leaving only a couple of access points that require quite a bit of galactic circumnavigation to get to. The next release will improve on AI expansion, try to unlock Gate Defense Systems, and also add a number of new quests.

Extra note:

I recommend playing on the small and medium sized maps, the large one was meant for the initial 8 empire setup I had in mind (which may land post-EA), or for really long game sessions.

Crash logs live at ~/.local/share/moge/crash (Linux) or %APPDATA%/moge/crash (Windows).