Build 1.26 is posted and has primarily added a revamped ship to ship comms system. I have a few things left to do, namely the trigger ties ins to add, but it is enough for me to start getting opinions. Also a ton of bug fixes some of which are listed below. As always I appreciate your bug reports and suggestions, please keep it up! I look forward to your input Captains.

Ship to Ship Random Encounter communication

I revamped the ship to ship communication during random encounters. It is my hope you will like what I have done better than the broken system in place before. When encountering a new unknown ship outside of a episode and you hail them you will be given a new input interface of four buttons surrounding the NPC avatar. From here you can start by selecting one of three main options or Cut Signal. The three main categories Talk, Demand and Offer have options beneath them that can either provide a episode trigger, material benefit, increase or decrease that races friendship rating, or cause negative results like being attacked or shunned. These values will be recorded to the race and when I add re-encounters they will effect the next time you meet them.

The friendly meter happens behind the scenes and governs your success rate in using the options. Each main option may only be used once during any one visit with a single ship. Using the keys or your joypad press to a diagonal direction to select an option and press ctrl to use it, OR use the mouse and click on them.

TALK
—–Converse

• JOURNEY Engage in conversation about each others explorations, you may learn something or get a hint that could lead to a episode
• HOMEWORLD Discover the species homeworld
• PACT Become allies, 100 percent friendliness rating

—–Trade

• Open Trade Dialog

——Request

• RESOURCES Ask for resources
• FUEL Ask for Fuel
• INFO Ask for information from their travels.

DEMAND

• SHIELDS Demand the lower a hostile posture
• LEAVE Demand they leave this sector of space
• BOARD Demand they allow a boarding

OFFER

• RESOURCES Offer Resources in friendship
• FUEL Offer Fuel in friendship
• INFO Offer information you have discovered

F2 key Reset
This has now been changed to Ctrl+F2 to cause a reboot

Random Name Generator Editing
There was numerous reports of issue with backspacing, generating random names, and inputting with various text entry fields during new game creation. I believe I have quashed them and look forward to hearing back from you.

New Government types
Added two new types of Government

• NETWORK - Decentralized collective no central government but highly interconnected (Wisdom -2, Logic +2, Agression +1)
• SYNDICATE - A group of individuals or organizations combined to promote some common interest. (Wisdom +1, Empathy -3, Logic +1)

Random weapons roll issues
A few users put the random weapons generation screens through the gauntlet and identified several issues that should be corrected now.

And many many more issues that can be found in the following sections…

http://steamcommunity.com/app/328740/discussions/3/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/328740/discussions/4/