We just released the first patch for Settlers of Orion (SOO). Here is a quick overview of the fixes and changes.
Fixed several bugs with the AI players movement.
Made some drastic changes to the price of ships and structures. This should make it easier to build structures, especially later in the game as the price to build structures goes up at a slower pace than ships.
Players can now choose to move their ships one sector at a time without the need to continually change the ships destination. With the game pause, you can now press the 'M' key to move the next ship just one sector, and then it will auto pause.
Changed the fade out time on all message. They were about 1 1/2 seconds and now they are 1/2 of a second.
When starting a new game you can now move ALL of the sliders that control the randomness of objects by pressing the Shift key and then using the mouse scroll.
When using AI Sanctions, you now have 4 options instead of just 2. Before they were just on or off. Now they can be off, easy, moderate and hard. This changes how many resources the AI players will need to donate for the sanctions. What was the default of being on, is now the hard level. The moderate will require 1 more of each resource and the easy requires 2 more of each. The harder levels also give you more bonus game tokens as well.