We have released the 1.017 patch for Drox Operative. Since the last official patch, the patch allows races to build stations near starlanes and wormholes (IotA), now gives quests better rewards based on destination distance, and fixes a bunch of other minor issues.
Here's all of the changes for patch 1.017.
- races can now build stations near starlane/wormholes (IotA)
- now quests give extra credits, xp, and relations boosts the more systems away the goal is from the originator
- fixed secondary item text not following your price comparison choice (Steve)
- fixed auto equip not following your price comparison choice
- fixed scavenger custom order or things like energy leechers (Tuidjy)
- fixed giving alliance/war Drox rewards more than once (CaptainWinky) (IotA)
- nearby stations now count as guards for planets (IotA)
- increased BaseThrust from 50 to 55
- fixed a few problems when transferring a quest when a planet is destroyed (Cockbite)
- now cap scavenged components to 5 levels above planet level
- fixed a couple issues with marine levels (Tuidjy) (IotA)
- increased scavenge cost by 25%
- changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 20
- fixed a problem where some races were getting marked as eliminated sometimes when player won the game (IotA)
- race ships now use a better approximation of hull and engine values so a destroyed engine or a better researched engine make a difference
- made galaxy selection UI widget larger (IotA)
- fixed a crash when you have a drop down box selected and use the debug console command reloadmenus
- reworked the extended characters in font so they all match correctly
- reworked lose game menu to look better
- added ancient specific explosion to ancient ships (IotA)
- can no longer drop marines that are current boarding another ship (wrestless) (IotA)
- added some text to galaxy highlight to explain a little about what the persistent galaxy stuff does (Steve) (IotA)
- fixed a mutiny quest typo (Yindo)
- fixed some MIRV capitalization issues (Valgor) (IotA)
- reworded some galaxy selection stuff to make a little more clear (IotA)
- fixed no orders to start a war text (Steve) (IotA)
- improved can't board warning (wrestless) (IotA)
