changes.txt

3.0832:
 - Fix:  Drones can now be pushed or added to a trade
 - Fix:  Ship dockspace check more refined.

3.0831:
 - Fix:  Trashed mail older than 7 days will be deleted regularly
 - Mod:  All mail older than 30 days will be deleted regularly
 - Add:  Alliance mapping data available.
 - Mod:  Map now shows the number of incoming ships of enemy,ally and own with the first few of each type
 - Mod:  Server is more responsive when you have thousands of incoming ships
 - API:  Map Status now shows the number of incoming ships, not every one individually

3.0830:
 - Mod:  Even more changes to SAWs. (We'll keep banging on these keys.)
 - Fix:  Correspondance school is no longer an acredited option for spies.
 - Fix:  Dillon Forge can not be upgraded with Halls of Vrbansk
 - Note: Dillon Forge cannot be demolished/plan stripped/upgraded
 - Fix:  You cannot now sacrifice Halls of Vrbansk that have not completed their build

3.0829:
 - Add:  Added bulk trading in plans/glyphs/ships to SST

3.0828:
 - Fix:  Planet resources shouldn't go below zero.
 - Add:  Battle Logs generated when SAWs neutralized.
 - Add:  Email generated when SAWs neutralized.
 - Mod:  Repair cycle on SAWs increased to 15 minutes.
 - Fix:  Slight change to starting planet locations.
 - Mod:  SAWs downgraded (a bonus was applied twice.)
 - Add:  (API only) At shipyard you can now specify the number of ships to build

3.0824:
 - Mod:  AI empires can use supply pod tech.
 - Mod:  DeLamberti will now sell plans on the Trade Ministry

3.0823
 - Fix:  Scanners sent to unoccupied planets no longer cause an exception

3.0822
 - Add:  DeLambert trading buy and sell
 - Add:  Redefine Species available at University level 30.  WARNING: Drops attribute total to 45.
 - Mod:  SAWs adjusted a bit more. SAW level taken more into account.

3.0821
 - Fix:  Added types to battle logs.
 - Mod:  Supply Pods are more evenly loaded.
 - Fix:  Spies steal more than pond scum.
 - Fix:  Fleets ask for captcha only on hostile actions.

3.0820
 - Mod:  Security Sweep improved.
 - Fix:  Supply Pods now deduct resources on send.
 - Mod:  Excavators no longer trigger defenses.
 - Mod:  SAWs improved.
 - Rule: Interstellar Broadcast Module now contributes to a Space Stations influence
 - Fix:  Battlelogs report Defending Body Name.
 - Add:  Battlelogs report Attacked Body Stats.
 - Fix:  Gas Giant Platforms on habitable planets can be demolished regardless of plot count.
 - Add:  Blackholes can move bodies.
 - Fix:  Halls will not upgrade glyph buildings past university level plus one.
 - Fix:  When probes are stolen, alliance IDs are switched as well.
 - Mod:  Lowered upgrade cost of Distribution Center.
 - Mod:  Spies may have a reversal of fortune.
 - Mod:  Rebellions make unhappy planets even unhappier.
 - Add:  Something interesting :)

3.0817
 - Add:  Black Hole Generator Code added.
 - Mod:  Lowered chances of glyphs discovered being announced on N19.
 - Add:  Glyph Recipe for Black Hole Generator added.
 - Mod:  Adjusted costs and storage for Distribution Centers.
 - Rule: Alliances are now ranked first by influence, then by population
 - Rule: Sitters are now allowed to vote in parliament
 - Add:  Experimental code to bulk-trade in glyphs/plans/ships in Trade Ministry 'Add Trade'
 - Rule: You may now have nine of each of Grove of Trees, Lagoon and Sand on each Colony.
 - Fix:  Spies waiting on trade at the Merc guild can no longer be burned
 - Add:  There is now a 25% boost for building speed

3.0816
 - Fix: SST and Trade no longer causes exception on accepting a trade
 - Fix: Space Station Plans now increase in cost correctly
 - Fix: When a spy runs "Appropriate Resources", travel time of the stolen ship is correctly calculated.

3.0815
 - Add: Partial repairs on buildings, dependent upon resources, is now possible.
 - API: Added surface version number for bodies to better indicate that a refresh is needed.
 - Fix: Alliance Stats now shows number of space stations and influence.
 - Fix: Updated documentation for Shipyard.
 - Fix: It is no longer possible to downgrade a spaceport if it could not support the number of ships present.
 - Fix: Very high negative happiness, and very long building times should not crash the planet.
        Maximum build time per building is now 60 days.
 - Fix: Empires no longer show a 'ghost' alliance when they leave in the stats page.
 - Fix: Damaged Space Ports no longer count towards the max ships a colony can support.
 - Fix: Damaged Shipyards no longer count towards the max ships a colony can build.
 - Fix: Instant spy travel has now been fixed. Spies sent to a colony should only become operational after the ship arrives.
        Spies will infiltrate after arrival and will be slowed down by Gratch's Gauntlet.
 - Fix: Transport ships set to 'stay at target' now correctly unload the cargo when the sending colony destructs en-route.
 - API: Added a 'download' hash to the building status
 - Fix: Failing Incite Insurrection will catch the instigators and cohorts, instead of doing a self purge.
 - Fix: Defending & Attacking Spies will no longer do negative actions against their allies.
 - Fix: Pushing ships to a colony via Trade or SST is no longer allowed if there are insufficient docks for the ships
 - Fix: Accepting a trade via the Trade or the SST is no longer allowed if you have insufficient docks

3.0814
 - Fix: creating a munitions lab does not break isolation status
 - Fix: Gratch's Gauntlet cannot upgrade via a plan
 - Fix: Essentia vein can be downgraded
 - Fix: It is possible to build ships while having negative docks free
 - Fix: Terraforming an orbit 8 fails when doing a respec
 - Fix: Bleeders will upgrade past level 30
 - Fix: Empire names can be created to impersonate other empires
 - Fix: Build ships does not return the ship ID
 - Fix: Plans displayed in different orders in PCC,Trade and Transporter

3.0813
 - Add: When one 20 Stars tournament ends, the next one should begin automatically.
 - Fix: Fix an issue with skip attack messages and excavators.
 - Fix: Fix an issue with tick planets.
 - Fix: Water Purifiers and Atmospheric Evaporators will now receive the environmental affinity bonus.
 - Fix: Fixed the regression bug involving snarks targetting craters.
 - Fix: Trades are withdrawn when a planet is insurrected.
 - Fix: Battle logs will only be retained for seven days.
 - Fix: Ships owned by members of your alliance will no longer attack your ships.
 - Fix: The correct message_id will be returned when running Incite Mutiny and a defender is recruited.
 - Fix: The correct number of spies will now be sent via the SpacePort's send_spies.

3.0812
 - Fix: Battle logs will be captured when sending a scanner or surveyor to an uninhabited body.

3.0811
 - Add: Battles will now be logged.
 - Add: Added a setting to the profile to skip attack messages.
 - API: Added view_battle_logs to the SpacePort.
 - API: Added fleet_send_limit to the data returned by the Space Port's get_ships_for method.
 - API: Added reason_not_trained to the return of train_spy.
 - API: Added searching to the work block of the Archaeology Ministry.
 - Fix: When a planet is insurrected, all spies that are in training will be executed on sight.
 - Fix: Attempting to delete the same probe twice will no longer cause an error in the Observatory.
 - Fix: Alliances without any members will be deleted from the stats.
 - Fix: Spies wised up once again. They will no longer steal a planet's resource debts.
 - Fix: Snarks can no longer damage deployed bleeders.

3.0810
 - Fix: Spies wised up some more. They will no longer steal Bleeder plans.
 - Fix: You can now push food, ore, water and energy to the Space Station that controls your planet's star.
 - Fix: The medal for setting up a Space Station completely works now.
 - Fix: Spies tasked with 'Mercenary Transport' will no longer show up in the list of available spies.
 - Fix: If you have more than 100 spies on a foreign planet, the Space Port's prepare_fetch_spies will now return more of your available spies.

3.0809
 - Fix: Tax payments will be properly rotated.
 - Fix: Transferring spies within your own empire using the Mercenary Guild now works.
 - Fix: Added additional information about view_taxes_collected.
 - Fix: Spies wised up. They will no longer steal levels from Bleeders.

3.0808
 - API: Cleaned up the data returned by train_spy in the new spy training buildings.
 - API: Added spy name to the training costs section of the data returned by view in the new spy training buildings.
 - Fix: Spies up for sale via the Merc Guild will no longer be available for other assignments or able to be burned.

3.0807
 - API: Removed view_spies from the new spy training buildings.
 - Fix: Spies trained via the new spy training buildings will level up appropriately.
 - Fix: When a Merc Guild trade is withdrawn, the spy will no longer change home planet to the planet the Merc Guild resides on.

3.0806
 - Fix: Mercenaries Guild will no longer show foreign spies on your planet.
 - Fix: Spy Pods will now behave properly when shipping spies purchased through the Mercenaries Guild.

3.0805
 - API: If there are multiple plans for a building, body's get_buildable will return the plan with the highest extra_build_level. The build time cost for 1+X plans will show the time for the +X level.
 - API: Add can_scuttle and can_recall to ship status.
 - API: Add rename_species to Genetics Lab.
 - Add: Added the Intel Training Facility.
 - Add: Added the Mayhem Training Facility.
 - Add: Added the Politics Training Facility.
 - Add: Added the Theft Training Facility.
 - Fix: Another tweak of the waste recycling rates/ship build times.
 - Fix: Spies purchased from Mercenaries Guild will now belong to the purchaser.
 - Fix: Halls of Vrbansk will no longer upgrade buildings that are already being upgraded.
 - Fix: BFG, Meteor Shower and Stellar Flare will now target all Infrastructure buildings except for the PCC.
 - Fix: Attacking ships that target buildings will turn around if they cannot find a target building.
 - Fix: SS modules can now be downgraded.
 - Fix: Disbanded Alliances will no longer show up in the Alliance ranking.
 - Fix: The votes needed for a pending proposition to pass will be updated when the status is checked.
 - Fix: Abandon probe only removes one probe from the star now.

3.0804
 - Fix: Another fix for negative waste recycling rates.

3.0803
 - Fix: Time reduction calculations will no longer cause waste recycling rates to go negative.
 - Fix: Foreign Aid proposition fixes: removed link from proposition name, added a space between 'resources' and the amount, changed the planet link to a starmap link.
 - Fix: Dents are now ignored when determining if Parliament or the Station Command Center should take damage.
 - Fix: Halls of Vrbansk no longer allow you upgrade buildings past level 30.

3.0802
 - Fix: Waste Exchangers are now limited to level 15 except on capitols with a stockpile.
 - Fix: Waste Exchangers now take damage when there is no waste to process.
 - Fix: Corrected the "Disabled a Building" spy message.
 - Fix: Corrected a bug caused by having either a Parliament or a Station Command but not both.
 - Fix: Enabled the script that destroys Space Stations that are lacking a Parliament and Station Command Center.

3.0801
 - API: Police Stations can now detect incoming and orbiting ships.
 - Fix: When Space Station modules take damage due to lack of resources, Parliament and Station Command will be exempt until all other modules have been destroyed.
 - Fix: Added an additional means of destroying Space Stations that are already without Parliament and Station Command Centers.
 - Fix: Food and Ore amounts on Space Stations will now be updated.
 - Fix: Space Station destroyed message will now be formatted properly.
 - Fix: Space Station created medal message should now be formatted properly.
 - Fix: Corrected docs for SpacePort's view_foreign_ships and view_ships_orbiting methods.
 - Fix: get_status on allied Space Stations will now show resources.
 - Fix: Slight performance boost for the inbox.

3.0800
 - Rule: Space Stations are abandoned when both their Parliament and Station Command Center are destroyed.
 - Add: Added the Waste Exchanger building.
 - API: Removed the RPC boost.
 - Fix: Space Station modules will now take damage due to lack of resources.
 - Fix: Added additional check to FireBFG.
 - Fix: New empires will not have smoldering craters on their newly founded planet.
 - Fix: Party happiness will no longer disappear a second after being awarded.
 - Fix: Excess Gas Giant Platforms and Terraforming Platforms can now be demolished.

3.0702
 - Fix: Member's only colonization properly checks the Alliance id.
 - Fix: New players will not be given a planet around a star under the member's only colonization law.
 - Fix: Corrected sweeper description.
 - Fix: Another fix for RenameAsteroid.
 - Fix: Ships will be docked when they are unloaded from another ship.

3.0701
 - Fix: Passed EvictMiningPlatform, FireBfg, RenameAsteroid, RenameStar and RenameUninhabited propositions will no longer fail with not in jurisdiction errors when they should not.
 - Fix: Passed RenameAsteroid and RenameUninhabited propositions will no longer fail with a DBIx error.
 - Fix: get_bodies_for_star_in_jurisdiction will now throw an exception if you pass it a star outside your jurisdiction.
 - Fix: Spies that have been killed in action can no longer be burned.
 - Fix: Correct how the Offense/Defense stats are calculated.
 - Fix: Space Stations will now be counted in the stats along with the other bodies.
 - Fix: Cache completed missions sooner in the method call.
 - Fix: Deploying a Mining Platform correctly checks Alliances now.
 - Fix: get_mining_platforms_for_asteroid_in_jurisdiction should work now.

3.0700
 - Rule: Only allow 5,000 RPC per day and limit rate to no more than 50 per minute.
 - API: Added an RPC boost that doubles the RPC per day and increases the throttle allowance by 50%.
 - Fix: Abandoning a planet will no longer cause stolen ships to turn around.
 - Fix: The typo that crept into Parliament rename star has also been corrected.
 - Fix: Ships pushed via the Trade Ministry will count against the receiving SpacePort's count as soon as they are sent.
 - Fix: Trade Min and SST get_prisoners() now includes the sentence expiration of the spy.
 - Fix: Prisoners now list their sentence expiration as well.

3.0603
 - Fix: Space Stations should no longer complain about food.
 - Fix: Updated propose_rename_star docs.
 - Fix: Successful insurrection will transfer probes to the new planet owner.
 - Fix: Only pilotable ships with a hold size of 700 or greater can be used to transport abducted spies.
 - Fix: Planets belonging to an empire that are in an alliance will once again be tagged with an alignment of 'self' instead of 'ally'.
 - Fix: Updated documentation for Body and Embassy.
 - Fix: Parliament's propose_fire_bfg and propose_rename_star no longer thrown an Internal Error.
 - Fix: Parliament messages that used to say "jurisdiction of this station" will now say "jurisdiction of <station name>".

3.0602
 - Fix: Empire size in Universe Stats increased from 2,147,483,647 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.
 - Fix: Installing SS modules no longer fails after the proposition passes.

3.0601
 - API: Add set_speed parameter to the SpacePort's send_fleet method.
 - Fix: Probe destroyed/detonated messages will include the probe's planet of origin.
 - Fix: SpacePort's send_fleet method no longer reduces the speed of ships.
 - Fix: Space Station's influence_remaining will now be properly calculated.
 - Fix: Parliament's propose_seize_star will no longer fail.
 - Fix: Propositions need int( ( members + 1 ) / 2 ) votes to pass.
 - Fix: An exception will be thrown if you attempt to propose_transfer_station_ownership to an isolationist.
 - Fix: Attempting to send spies will pull the correct list of spies.

3.0600
 - API: Added trash methods to the Inbox.
 - API: Parliament messages will be tagged as such instead of Correspondence.
 - API: Added Alliance, Attack, Colonization, Complaint, Excavator, Mission, Parliament, Probe, Spies, and Trade tags to the Inbox.
 - API: Added profile settings to disable excavator, probe detected, and spy recovery messages.
 - API: Archived and trashed messages are marked as read.
 - Rule: Archived messages will no longer be deleted. Trashed messages will be purged thirty days after they were sent.
 - Fix: Corrected documentation for the rename method in Body.
 - Fix: Trel total victory captured message.

3.0501
 - Fix: Denton Brambles now produce roots.

3.0500
 - API: Added proposing induction of new alliance members at Parliament level 10.
 - API: Added proposing expulsion of alliance members at Parliament level 10.
 - API: Added proposing election of a new alliance leader at Parliament level 11.
 - API: Added proposing taxation at Parliament level 15.
 - API: Added proposing sending foreign aid to planets at Parliament level 16.
 - API: Added proposing renaming uninhabited planets at Parliament level 17.
 - API: Added proposing members only colonization at Parliament level 18.
 - API: Added view_taxes_collected to the Parliament module.
 - Fix: Police Station docs now show up under Modules instead of Buildings.
 - Fix: view_ships_orbiting will now return the ships that are orbiting your planet instead of just the count.
 - Fix: Fighters will return home after defending (instead of doubling the travel time).
 - Fix: Fix defender's home field advantage.
 - Fix: Only one excavator is allowed in a send_fleet call.
 - Fix: Failure of Appropriate Resources spy mission works again even if there wasn't a defender.
 - Fix: A passing vote for the Abandon Station proposition no longer causes a server error.
 - Fix: Added docs for Beaches.
 - Fix: Corrected typo in Theme Park documentation.
 - Fix: Sending scows with send_fleet will remove the proper amount of waste.
 - Fix: Repeal law no longer causes a server error.

3.0402
 - API: Changed parliament propositions and laws to use email formatting rules.
 - Rule: SAWs will now defend before allied ships
 - Rule: Space Station Hulls will trigger defenses
 - Rule: Lagoons, Groves, and Sand now produce less because they were unbalancing.
 - Fix: No longer possible to exploit timing on trade adding to generate free resources
 - Fix: SAWs will not attack ships of same empire or same alliance
 - Fix: Some of the new laws and propositions weren't being stored correctly.
 - Fix: API documentation for propose_enact_writ().
 - Fix: Home field advantage crash.
 - Fix: Was giving home field advantage to foreign spies on security sweep.
 - Fix: Alignment flag was set wrong for ring indicator on space stations.
 - Fix: After the 3.0400 update Space Stations don't return *_hour, *_capacity, *_stored (e.g. water_hour, food_capacity, energy_stored), happiness, and building_count.
 - Fix: Space station command upgrade error.

3.0401
 - API: Slightly changed propose_fire_bfg().
 - Rule: Reduced the output Lagoon, Grove of Trees, and Patch of Sand decorations, and limited to 3 per planet.
 - Fix: Modules were allowed to be built on planets but not stations.

3.0400
 - Add: Added the Opera House, Art Museum, and Culinary Institute space station modules.
 - Add: The Lost City of Tyleon.
 - Add: Added Gratch's Gauntlet which adds 3 hours to infiltration time per level.
 - Add: The Police Station space station module has been added.
 - Rule: Security Ministry Seekers can also target Police Stations now.
 - Rule: We now allow 20 ships per fleet.
 - Rule: Allied spies no longer "infiltrate" on your planet.
 - Rule: Security sweep can once again find infiltrating spies.
 - Rule: Spies no longer bounce. There is either a success or a failure. They can still however not be able to complete a mission on success (try to steal a ship and there isn't one to steal, etc).
 - Rule: Spies now have luck. A random number between -500 and 500.
 - Rule: Security ministry is now more oppressive on happiness consumption.
 - Rule: Defending spies now have home field advantage. Security ministry level * Security ministry efficiency / 2. So a level 10 at 50% efficiency is home field advantage is 250.
 - Rule: Spy success is now calculated differently. power - toughness - home field advantage + luck, where >0 is success for the attacker.
 - Rule: You can now incite rebellion and appropriate technology of empires 100 ranks from you instead of 50.
 - Rule: Decorations now provide something besides beauty. Each one is different.
 - Rule: SAWs now cost less in upkeep.
 - Rule: Station modules cannot be upgraded past the station command level.
 - Rule: If the IBS, Opera House, Art Museum, or Culinary institute are downgraded or demolished then the jurisdictional influence they exert is also repealed.
 - Rule: The following plans are no longer findable via excavator: Library of Jith, Citadel of Knope, Crashed Ship Site, Oracle of Anid, Kalavian Ruins, Interdimensional Rift, Pantheon of Hagness, Temple of the Drajilites
 - Rule: The following plans are now findable via excavator: Beach 1-13, Amalgus Meadow, Crater, Denton Brambles, Lake, Rocky Outcrop
 - API: Added "station" element to the status of bodies and probed stars.
 - API: Added "alliance" and "influence" elements to the status of bodies that are space stations.
 - API: Added proposing enacting writs at Parliament level 4.
 - API: Added repealing an existing law at Parliament level 5.
 - API: Added transfering ownership of stations at Parliament level 6.
 - API: Added seizing control of stars at Parliament level 7.
 - API: Added renaming stars at Parliament level 8, along with a method to get the list of stars in the jurisdiction.
 - API: Added broadcasting on Network 19 at parliament level 9.
 - API: Added renaming asteroids at parliament level 12.
 - API: Added members only mining rights at parliament level 13.
 - API: Added evicting mining platforms at parliament level 14.
 - API: Added proposing firing the station's BFG at Parliament level 25.
 - API: Anyone can now view the laws passed by a space station, by simply calling view_laws() on the parliament.
 - API: The stations list is now populated in the /alliance.view_profile() method.
 - API: The Mercenaries Guild API has been corrected.
 - API: The view_ships_orbiting() method of the SpacePort now correctly shows the foreign ships orbiting your planet as opposed to your ships that are orbiting foreign bodies.
 - Fix: Space station propositions weren't all working properly when passed/failed.

3.0301
 - Fixed the massive repeating resource warning messages.

3.0300
 - Add: Added Mercenaries Guild building.
 - Add: Changed crater to dent when on space station.
 - Rule: Resource warnings are now tracked per planet rather than per empire.
 - API: Changed recallable to orbiting in the spaceport's get_ships_for results.
 - API: Added view_ships_orbiting() to spaceport to allow viewing the ships orbiting your planet.
 - API: Added recall_all() to spaceport.
 - Fix: Sped up account creation process to eliminate timeouts.
 - Fix: Spies require 350 cargo space consistently through the API and docs.
 - Fix: API problems with new parliament methods.
 - Fix: Terraforming lab description.
 - Fix: Space Station Lab clobbers second plan if you call make plan while it's building one.
 - Fix: A few minor performance improvements.

3.0200
 - Add: Added Amalgus Meadow and Denton Brambles glyph buildings.
 - Add: Small improvements to starting player experience.
 - Rule: Surveyors now return efficiency information in the table of building data.
 - API: Added {VoteYes 0 0 0} and {VoteNo 0 0 0} formatters to the email DSL.
 - API: Through parliamentary vote you can now: rename and abandon a station; build, upgrade, repair, downgrade, and demolish a module on a station.
 - API: Slight change to the Space Station Lab API to accomodate displaying descriptions and images for the plans.
 - Fix: Chat now works properly in SSL mode or out.
 - Fix: P16 type planets were being misidentified as P17 planets.

3.0100
 - Add: The space station lab is now capable of producing some module plans.
 - Rule: Deployed bleeders now require a captcha to be demolished.
 - Rule: SAWs now spend water * 100 instead of efficiency (when possible) to prevent heat damage.
 - Rule: Only ships that are performing hostile actions will trigger captchas.
 - Rule: If an account has essentia after 21 days of inactivity, it will spend 1 essentia (if possible) rather than enabling self-destruct. This allows people to keep their accounts long-term even if they want to take a break for a while.
 - API: Added get_stored_resources method to Distribution Center.
 - Fix: "can" result in distribution center returned 0 always.
 - Fix: All body resource attributes have been upgraded to support 9223372036854775807 instead of 2147483647.
 - Fix: Space stations now count against your next colony cost while in transit.
 - Fix: Added missing Malcud Field, Ravine, Lapis Forest, and Beeldeban Nest API docs.
 - Rule: Only ships that are performing hostile actions will trigger captchas.
 - Fix: Allow Spy Pods to show up as available in get_ships_for results.

3.0001
 - Add: Added Space Station Lab building, which will eventually allow building space station modules.
 - Add: Added Station Command Center, Parliament, Warehouse, and IBS modules for space stations.
 - Rule: Allow building space station hulls.
 - Rule: Members of an alliance have alliance controlled stations added to their planet list.
 - Rule: Waste Recyclers now add 400 waste storage at base.
 - Rule: Archived messages will be purged thirty days after they were sent.
 - Rule: Spy shuttles can be sent to orbit planets.
 - Rule: Now allow 10,000 RPC per day, but rate limited to no more than 30 per minute.
 - API: Sending ships that trigger defenses requires the new captchas.
 - API: Sending spies requires the new captchas.
 - API: Running spy missions require the new captchas.
 - API: Added send_fleet() to spaceport to allow sending multiple ships to a single target at once. This requires a valid captcha.
 - API: Added mission_count to spy status.
 - API: Added filter and sort capability to the spaceport's view_all_ships() method.
 - API: Expanded the spaceport's recall_ship() method to allow recalling an orbiting spy shuttle which also fetches as many idle spies as will fit.
 - Fix: Formatting problem with trade accepted.

2.4700
 - Rule: Spies now have a minimum recovery time of 1 hour.
 - Rule: Spies now retire after 150 offensive or defensive missions, which means they can perform 299 total missions if divided equally.
 - Rule: Trade accepted message now tells you who accepted the trade.
 - Rule: Defender shot down messages have been added.
 - Rule: Distribution Center building adds new storage possibilities.
 - API: The status for defending fighters will now include from and orbiting blocks (as returned by view_all_ships(), get_ships_for(), etc). The get_ships_for() now includes a recallable block when that lists the fighters that defending that body.
 - API: Added /captcha RPC with methods fetch() and solve().
 - API: Trade Ministry and Transporter's accept_from_market methods use the new captchas.
 - Fix: Drones will once again defend properly
 - Fix: Ships defending other planets won't attack their own empire
 - Fix: Attacker shot down messages will once again show the proper Empire.
 - Fix: Essentia veins higher than level 1 will properly produce essentia.
 - Fix: Missions won't repeatedly run against the same spy
 - Fix: Missions requiring multiple of the same glyph will no longer cause errors
 - Fix: Hacking Network 19 will properly reduce happiness and will send correct messages.

2.4600
 - Add: "Allied Defense" as outlined below.
 - Rule: Fighters' defensive capabilities have been expanded; they can now be sent to defend foreign bodies (planets and asteroids).
 - Rule: Stakes now have a combat rating of 250 and trigger defenses.
 - Rule: Colony Ships and Small Colony Ships now have a combat rating of 1000 and trigger defenses.
 - Rule: Mining Platform Ships now have a combat rating of 600 and trigger defenses.
 - Rule: Detonators now have a combat rating of 1850 and in addition to being able to detonate probes at a star, they can also be sent to asteroids to destroy all of their mining platforms.
 - Rule: SAWs' defensive capabilities have been expanded; they now defend all asteroids in their system (in addition to the allied planets).
 - Rule: Sweepers' offensive capabilities have been expanded; they can now be sent to asteroids as well as planets.
 - API: Added recall_ship() to spaceport to recall fighters from their defensive task.

2.4502
 - Fix: The adjusted cost will be used when building buildings instead of the base cost.
 - Fix: Offline buildings can now be demolished.
 - Fix: Scows will now travel only to their intended destination.
 - Fix: Defenders will no longer attack themselves (thuds were appearing to defeat sweepers).
 - Fix: Another illegal division by zero on Planet.

2.4501
 - Fix: Cargo Ships from the Zyler Mining Strike mission have had their hold size increased from 85,000 to 100,000 and speed decreased from 100,000 to 2,500.
 - Fix: Happiness limit increased from 2,147,483,647 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.
 - Fix: Stolen Colony Ships & Short Range Colony Ships will no longer deduct happiness.
 - Fix: Running a successful "Abduct Operatives" spy mission when there are no defenders will return a "No contact" message instead of "Narrow escape".
 - Fix: Running a successful "Assassinate Operatives" spy mission will now return the correct message ID.
 - Fix: The shipyard's get_buildable call will once again populute "reason" for ships that cannot be built.
 - Fix: Spelling corrections in the API.
 - Fix: Defenses (fighters, sweepers and SAWs) will no longer trigger again when ships arrive back home.
 - Fix: Resource storage buildings no longer allow dumping negative waste. They will throw 1009 if you attempt it.
 - Fix: Thuds don't get hung up if launched at a planet that is subsequently abandoned.
 - Fix: Snarks will now select a random building from the list of least damaged buildings. 

2.4500
 - Rule: Essentia can now be divided into tenths.
 - Rule: Essentia codes can now be used between servers (except the test server).
 - Rule: The limit on plans per planet has been eliminated.
 - Infrastructure: Centralized all assets on game.lacunaexpanse.com and d16cbq0l6kkf21.cloudfront.net for better caching between servers.
 - Infrastructure: Added zones to separate the chat environment for each server.
 - Infrastructure: Updated many of the ship images to provide more detail and color.
 - Fix: Stats not updating.
 - Fix: Illegal division by zero on Planet.
 - Fix: Ship carrying spies arrives at uninhabited planet and throws an exception.

2.4400
 - Add: Configurable settings for Tournament Server play.
 - Rule: Environmental affinity now adds 4% per level to waste and water storage capacity.
 - Rule: Mining affinity now adds 4% per level to ore storage capacity.
 - Rule: Farming affinity now adds 4% per level to food storage capacity.
 - Rule: Science affinity now adds 4% per level to energy storage capacity.
 - Rule: Farming affinity now increases food production 4% per level instead of 3%.
 - Rule: Mining affinity now increases ore production 4% per level instead of 3%.
 - Rule: Science affinity now increases energy production 4% per level instead of 3%.
 - Rule: Environmental affinity now increases water production 4% per level instead of 3%.
 - Rule: Environmental affinity now increases waste consumption 4% per level instead of 1%.
 - Rule: Management affinity now reduces building build times by 5% per level instead of 3%.
 - Rule: Manufacturing affinity now reduces ship build costs by 5% per level instead of 1%.
 - Rule: Research affinity now reduces building build costs by 5% per level instead of 1%.
 - Rule: Genetics lab now requires 1 level for each point you graft on to your species.
 - Rule: SAW protects all allied planets in the same star system.
 - Rule: Growth affinity now affects the cost of your next colony, rather than political affinity.
 - Rule: Political affinity now increases happiness production by 10% per level rather than 6%.
 - Rule: Growth affinity can now be changed as part of species respec.
 - Fix: Abducted operatives didn't stay prisoners long enough.
 - Fix: Farming affinity was being applied to manufactured foods instead of manufacturing affinity.
 - Fix: Environmental/Science/Mining affinity was being applied to waste conversion buildings instead of manufacturing affinity.
 - Fix: Stop ask of 0 essentia for trade/transporter by using fractions.
 - Fix: Mining platforms were miscounting the number of platforms on an asteroid based upon how many were en route.
 - Fix: Ore production calculation bug when mining ministries are used.
 - Fix: Change in population not being tracked by stats, which caused fastest growing medal to be handed out incorrectly.
 - Fix: Spy mission counts weren't being tallied correctly, which was affecting medals and stats.
 - Fix: Messages coming from wrong spy to wrong empire for insurrection.

2.4301
 - Fixed counter intel reports being signed by wrong agent.
 - API: Identifying buildings that don't use a plot in get_builable() by no_plot_use = 1.
 - Can no longer downgrade your capitol if you still have a stockpile.
 - Fixed instantly available spies when fetched from remote planet.
 - Fixed counter spy tutorial message.
 - Can no longer downgrade/demolish Terraforming Platforms or Gas Giant Settlement Platforms unless you have available plots.
 - Fixed a bug where space port wouldn't be able to see a ship's path if it couldn't also see the type.
 - Fixed a bug where Gas Giants didn't display properly the level of ore they were producing.
 - Removed old trade system.
 - Fixed "Security sweep kills my own spies on ally's planet".
 - You now get a message if your planet captures a ship with spies.
 - Fixed the regex documentation for mail formatting to work for negative ids.
 - Snarks will no longer target craters.
 - You can no longer push ships if there aren't enough docks on the remote planet.
 - Spies no longer train in parallel.
 - Can no longer use Trade Ministry or Transporter until it has been completely built to level 1.
 - API: Added rpc_count to empire data and rpc_limit to server data on each response.
 - Fix a problem with Trel attack.
 - API: Now returning on body x,y with spy status in intelligence ministry.
 - You can now upgrade glyph buildings using plans.
 - Fixed spy theft mission messages.
 - Fixed spy abduction.
 - API: Exposed id, is_ally, is_own in the incoming ships list on the planet status.
 - Fixed Bleeder weakness in AI.

2.4300
 - Added Trelvestian AI.
 - Added supply pod.
 - Rule Change: If your storage is ever lowered for any reason, excess resources will be dumped on the ground.
 - Rule Change: Munitions Lab now available at University Level 9.
 - Fixed documentation bug on spy listing in Intelligence Ministry.
 - Fixed the bug where Citadel wasn't giving the ships it catches.
 - Fixed the bug where ships would get stuck if the foreign body they were going to didn't have an owner.
 - Fixed bug where "abducting operatives" would leave them in limbo on their own planet.

2.4201
 - Fixed the bug where if an invitee built multiple universities then the inviter would get the essentia reward for each university built.
 - Fixed a bug where you could lower your growth affinity using the redefine species function.
 - Fixed a bug where you could cheat the archaeology ministry.
 - Fixed mission command crash bug.
 - Fixed the bug where you could build the waste monuments even if you didn't have the waste needed.

2.4200
 - Added "Security Sweep" defensive spy assignment.
 - Added "Insurrection" offensive spy assignment, but it cannot be run on empires ranked more than 50 below you.
 - Added "Abduct Operatives" offensive spy assignment.
 - You can now steal glyphs using the "Appropriate Resources" spy assignment.
 - You can now steal plans using the "Appropriate Technology" spy assignment.
 - All spy recovery times have been changed to better reflect mission difficulty.
 - Defender's recovery time is now half attackers recovery time, rather than being a flat 5 hours.
 - You can now destroy resources, glyphs and plans by running "Sabotage Resources".
 - If you steal a building (not a plan) using the "Appropriate Technology" spy assignment, it reduces the level of the building by one.
 - You can no longer run "Appropriate Technology" on empires that are ranked more than 50 below you.
 - Changed XP earned for spy mission assignments. Now 10 for success, 6 for failure, and 2 for bounce.
 - You can no longer burn a spy that has been captured.
 - See "Spies" and "How Spying Works" in the wiki for details on all the spying changes.
 - If you have ships heading to a body that becomes uninhabited while on route, the ships will now turn around and come home instead of falling dead.
 - If you have spies on a body that becomes uninhabited while they are on the planet, they will teleport home.
 - You can now only have 1 subspace transporter per planet. That's all that ever made sense anyway.
 - Improved excavation chance by distance a bit more.
 - Captured spies no longer show up in foreign spies on the security ministry.
 - You can now send up to 3 stakes in a 24 hour period, and the happiness requirement has been lifted.
 - Whenever you are returned a planet or a star via get_status() they now return their zone as well.
 - Genetics Lab's run_experiment output now includes everything from prepare_experiment as well, so you can immediately run a second experiment without another call.
 - Exposed "max_occupants" on shipyard.get_buildable().
 - API now tells you exactly what assignments a spy can be given at the present time and how long the recovery time will be.
 - Fixed a bug in the genetics ministry where killed spies didn't get killed.
 - Fixed a crash bug with fleet movement missions.
 - Fixed a formatting problem in the "Enemy Captured" email.
 - Fixed a formatting problem on plans with extra build levels.
 - Fixed quake message for Thuds.

2.4102
 - Fixed bleeders and thuds being added to the normal build queue on striking ground.

2.4101
 - Fixed the API docs for Trade Ministry and Transporter that were referring to deprecated methods.
 - SAWs now attack before defensive ships.
 - SAWs now have a cooldown time of 5 minutes, regardless of level.
 - SAWs are now available at University level 8.
 - You can now build Stakes at level 10 Observatory.
 - Lowered the base speed and combat of the Sweeper by 400.
 - The odds of finding better stuff with an excavator are now increased by the distance it travels from its home planet.
 - Added another voting site to the Entertainment District.
 - Lottery in the Entertainment District is now per zone rather than server-wide. You can still only vote on each link once per empire per day, but if you wanted to, you could vote on a different link in a different zone.
 - Fixed genetics lab api error.
 - Eliminated "In Transit" as a ship status, in favor of "Waiting on Trade". The incosistency was causing many problems.

2.4100
 - When looking at trades in the market they are now sorted by price.
 - Added 5 new waste monuments: Great Ball of Junk, Junk Henge Sculpture, Space Junk Park, Pyramid Junk Sculpture, and Metal Junk Arches.
 - Added Shield Against Weapons building. SAW is great for ripping enemy ships from the sky. 
 - Added Atmospheric Evaporator water producer building. This is the tier 2 water building.
 - Added Stake ship. This can be used to hold a target planet until your colony ship arrives.
 - You can now only have 2 singularity plants per planet. Existing planets with more than 2 are grandfathered in.
 - You can now only have 2 luxury housing buildings per planet. Existing planets with more than 2 are grandfathered in.
 - Fixed: Was calculating efficiency wrong for security ministry and space port as far as detecting ships.
 - Flipped Space Port's ability to see the type of ship vs the path of where it's coming from, because it's more realistic that way.
 - Fixed reusable spy pods (not supposed to be reusable).
 - Fixed corn meal grinder and cider bottler to work in any orbit.
 - Fixed trade accepted email.
 - Fixed sending too many spies.
 - Fixed pushing brings everything back to source planet.

2.4002
 - Scanners had a typo that caused them to create crash bug upon arrival.
 - Fixed a bug in the new market system.
 - Fixed the crash bug with the mission system after the release of the new ship system.
 - Fixed a bug where colony ships where spending the happiness for the colony after next, rather than the next colony.
 - Fixed a bug where trades withdrawn didn't land the ships.
 - Fixed a bug where pushing wouldn't deliver the goods.
 - Fixed defenses not being triggered for scanners.

2.4001
 - Galleons had incorrect build time.
 - Surveyors had incorrect speed.

2.4000
 - Fixed bug where some spy missions would return invalid JSON.
 - Fixed: Halls of Vrbansk get_upgradable_buildings was returning wrong URLs.
 - Added mission payout history to mission curator panel.
 - Added missing "colony founded" message.
 - Reorganized the prereqs for buildings and ships so you are told the unique prereqs first.
 - Refactored ship classes.
 - Scows are no longer expendable if used to dump waste into a star.
 - Scows no longer have a 0 hold size if you have no Trade Ministry, however the Trade Ministry helps them greatly.
 - Excavators now work on inhabited planets.
 - All ships now return max_occupants in their status.
 - Ships now have a combat rating, which is used in ship-to-ship combat calculations.
 - Munitions lab gives a 5% bonus to combat rating, but increases ship cost by 3%.
 - Deception and Science affinities each give a 3% bonus to combat rating.
 - The Crashed Ship Site gives a 5% bonus to combat rating.
 - All ships, except drones, can now survive ship-to-ship combat if their combat rating is higher than the ship going against them.
 - Ships lose combat rating equal to the amount of the combat rating of the ships they fight.
 - Fighters now die based upon their combat rating going to zero, rather than a random roll of the dice.
 - Fighters no longer instantly reset after combat. Their speed determines how quickly they get back into a reset position.
 - If you have existing fighters, and they had a speed lower than 2000, it is now 2000.
 - The level of the Shipyard building the ship now adds a 1% bonus per level to all attributes of the ship, without raising its cost.
 - Added Snark II, which has a splash damage radius of 1.
 - Added Snark III, which has a splash damage radius of 2.
 - Ship stealth has been refactored to be balanced and useful. All existing ships will keep their stealth, but new ones will have new values.
 - If the Security Ministry level times 700 is over a ship's stealth carrying spies, then those spies will be apprehended. 
 - If the Spaceport level times 450 is over the stealth of the ship, you will see the type of ship.
 - If the Spaceport level times 350 is over the stealth of the ship, you will know where the ship is coming from.
 - Diminished efficency diminishes the Security Ministry and Spaceport's effectiveness.
 - Freighters can no longer fetch or deliver spies.
 - Added Barge, Galleon, and Hulk trade ship classes.
 - Added Placebo 1 thru 6, which are used to fake an attack.
 - Added Bleeder attack ship.
 - Added Surveyor reconnaissance ship.
 - Added Sweeper attack ship. Sweepers can also be used to defend a planet.
 - Added Thud attack ship.

2.3902
 - Halls of Vrbansk now also returns building URL.
 - Fixed a problem where your resource buildings could exceed the stockpile limit.

2.3901
 - Fixed a bug with the management affinity calculation.
 - Fixed a bug where Theme Park would return an error even though it worked.
 - Fixed a bug with the Genetics Lab where it would return method not found on prepare_experiment().
 - Oracle of Anid can now be found via excavator.
 - Enabled happiness in missions.
 - Fixed a crash bug with mining platforms.
 - Fixed a bug where users weren't getting the 1 essentia credited back to their account on Transporter trades if they expired from inactivity.
 - Fixed "can't locate ask_type" bug on SST.

2.3900
 - Exposed Theme Park methods.
 - Fixed a problem with getting the upgradable building lists in the Halls of Vrbansk.
 - Embassy stash wasn't decrementing exchanges remaining display value.
 - Exposed recipies for Halls of Vrbansk.
 - Exposed Genetics Lab methods.

2.3801
 - When stash is empty embassy.view_stash() will return {} instead of null for stash element.
 - Fixed several bugs where assigning a spy would send back a JSON processing error message rather than the actual mission message.
 - Fixed a search problem with the Halls of Vrbansk.
 - Fixed a problem in the mission curator panel where curators weren't getting paid for their efforts.
 - Fixed a pagination problem in the mission curator panel.
 - Mistakenly set stash size to 5m rather than 500k. This has been fixed.
 - Stash was letting you donate/exchange more than you had.

2.3800
 - Changed map.get_stars() to allow fetching of more stars at once.
 - Exposed the API for the Oracle of Anid.
 - Clarified captcha/guid API documentation for trades.
 - Added distance exception for a star in the Temple of the Drajilites because users found it too confusing that you could fetch a star, but not necessarily view it's planets.
 - Created a new "market" API to replace the existing trade system. New methods to trade and transporter are: add_to_market(), withdraw_from_market(), accept_from_market(), view_market(), view_my_market(), report_abuse()
 - The following trade and transporter methods are now deprectated and will be removed as soon as the web client and iphone client have been updated: add_trade(), withdraw_trade(), accept_trade(), view_available_trades(), view_my_trades()
 - Fixed embassy.donate_to_stash() causing an exception in RPC.
 - Fixed a grammar issue in the spy sabotage report.
 - Fixed problems with captcha where solution was 0.
 - Fixed redefine species bug.

2.3700
 - Fixed pagination in mission curator panel.
 - Exposed API for Halls of Vrbansk.
 - Added fleet movement missions.
 - Added mission stats download for mission curators.
 - Fixed a typo in embassy.view_stash().
 - Fixed a bug where happiness was not returned to the planet if a colony ship had to turn around.
 - Fixed a bug where a spy could steal a level 0 building plan.

2.3600
 - Added alliance stash methods to the embassy.
 - Added mission curator panel.
 - Fixed plot size problem from SSD.

2.3501
 - Fixed "The Gift".

2.3500
 - Development ministry now immediately returns "needs_surface_refresh" on subsidize build queue.
 - Scows can't launch unless there is enough waste to fill them.
 - Added Subspace Supply Depot to the end of the tutorial.

2.3400
 - Fixed Archaeology Ministry to have a University prereq of 11 rather than 10.
 - Added Mission Command to the tutorial.
 - Some tweaks to existing missions that people complained about.
 - Fixed bug where mining platform ship was counted twice as it arrived at an asteroid.
 - Stop listing duplicate missions.
 - Added more missions submitted by users.
 - Separated mission files into their own git repo for the new curator position.
 - Fixed bug where drones and fighters could be used even if they weren't Docked.
 - Fixed ship as cargo bug.

2.3300
 - Started keeping a public change log.
 - Added missioncommand.skip_mission().
 - Fixed a bug where you'd get an overflow message before you should.
 - Added entertainment.duck_quack() and modified .view().
 - Added Subspace Supply Depot.
 - Stopped combining items in mission objectives to make it easier to read.
 - There is no longer a limit to the number of missions in a zone.
 - Fixed a bug with plan matching for missions.
 - Can no longer use scows for mining.
 - Created stubs for Black Hole Generator, Gratch's Gauntlet, Halls of Vrbansk, Kastern's Keep, The Dillon Forge, and Theme Park.
 - Fixed the bug that caused the Saben to instantly auto-recolonize planets after abandoning them.
 - Added Library of Jith.