r21933b
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Critical fixes:
+ Fixed a crash that could occur when building both a Naval and
Science station in the same system.
+ Fixed a Suul'ka Horde crash that resulted from relocating assets.


Other fixes:
+ Fixed phantom mouse-over effects in combat.
+ Fixed a case where asteroid monitors were not being removed.
+ Fixed a case where selected ship changes were not being reflected in
the combat UI.
+ Slaves are delivered to colonies on ship arrival.
+ Made some improvements to star map UI stalls.
+ Network packets are now more respectful of less common MTU limitations.
+ Shield graphics are now disabled when associated ship sections are destroyed.
+ Fixed grappling hook lag.
+ Fixed assault shuttle behavior after the target colony is defeated.
+ Pirates will now prefer to attack nearby freighters.
+ Life- and psi-drain now works on enemy planets.
+ Fixed reaction opportunity spam.
+ Can no longer retrofit ships in a system without a colony.
+ Fixed an issue that would cause automatic station placement not to
consider planets orbiting other planets, or independent system limitations.
+ Added missing weapon icons.
+ Fixed cases where station placement was not possible in independent systems.
+ Fixed the bug that prevented retrofitting in networked games.
+ Fixed a bug that was delimiting relocation range.
+ Fixed various missing text strings.
+ Fixed a bug that was causing relocating fleets not to show up in the star map.


Other changes and additions:
+ Combat double-left-click now makes ships move to their destination
without holding formation.
+ Added War Mind effects.
+ Improved free turret and spinal mounted weapon accuracy.
+ Combat AI now makes use of Psionic powers.
+ Defenses and Reserves can now be relocated.
+ Introduced advanced network configuration options, which can be
accessed from the game launcher.
+ Introduced new strategic AI research and colonization algorithms.
+ Reaction dialog is now an overlay.
+ Default initial savings is now 500,000.
+ Police cutters now default to the reserves fleet and must be placed
as defensive assets, but are now capable of traveling with fleets and/or be relocated.



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