Patch 2.60 (12 October 2017)
Base Game

    Added base production points to manufacturing/research/income production tooltips
    Fixed issue where functional components in the ship designer weren't taking the player's techs into account
    Fix for issue where player made ship components would be loaded twice, showing up as duplicates
    Fix for issue where DLC custom ship components would show up twice in the ship designer if launched from the main menu
    Moved improvement gfx from Mercenaries to base gfx folder because Crusade uses them too
    Improvements that use Arnor spice now charge you only once instead of every turn.
    Increase drawing performance on higher resolution displays
    Fixed the "Death Furnaces" ideology description to match its effect
    High level factories require Durantium to build.
    Fusion Power Plant requires 1 anti-matter to build
    Research Cloister promethion cost reduced from 10 to 5
    Cities can be built any number of times on a planet but now have 1 promethion cost. The idea is that if you have lots of Durantium, you should probably build up with Factories. If you have lots of Promethion, you can build up with cities.
    Added personality traits to Diplomacy Report Window
    Made the planet window not display manufacturing for military if the planet isn't sponsoring a shipyard
    Fixed issue where if an opponent's planet had stationed ships, but you didn't have enough espionage to see them, the "Eject All" button would still show up and be clickable
    Eject all button on planet UI of planets that are not yours
    Fix for odd behavior in MP that can result in a crash for the host in the United Planets system.
    Disabled the required win ratio for UP resolutions because no one really understood it.
    Fixed issue where the resource log wasn't being updated for administrators whenever you bought a mercenary
    Fixed issue where you could get infinite legions if you had a stationed general on a planet

Gameplay / Balance

    Prototype Hyperdrive base mass use reduced from 8 to 6 but now uses 10% of the ship's mass.
    Prototype Hyperdrive moves reduced from 5 to 2 to conform to other component performances.
    Thrusters made smaller but cost more.
    Thrusters now faster.
    Fixed typos in Tutorial_Refuge_FlavorText.xml and added in tutorial text to explain changes from 2.5.
    AI more careful about getting overextended with too many wars.
    Ripe for conquest Diplomatic mod now takes more personality traits into account.
    AI is a little more wary of going to war with lots of other players.
    Updated description for personality traits to be more explicit in what they mean.
    Changed planet word on the street text better grammar.
    Building a shipyard with a constructor in crusade will now refund an administrator
    Pirates are slightly more frisky.
    Turn time improvement.
    Made it so that the rename object dialog always appears on top (otherwise it has issues when bringing it up in places like the planet govern screen)
    Fix for missing strings in base campaigns
    Reduced power of some of the ideological events.
    Slave trade route benefits balanced to not provide quite as much approval bonus as well as reduce production bonus.
    Balance pass on base game improvements.
    Political Mastery military manufacturing reduced from 20% to 10%
    Planetology +1 raw production bonus removed
    Starport level bonus increased from 0.3 to 0.5 military production
    Space Elevator manufacturing level bonus increased from 0.3 to 0.5
    Fusion Power Plant and other high level mega improvements reduced in effect
    Updated Mercenary abilities
    Certain high level improvements no longer provide an empire wide bonus (particularly ones that can be built over and over...)
    Drengin slave improvements don't increase population cap anymore.
    More balancing to ideological events.
    Pirate event more common
    Evil motivation traits reduced from doubling to something more reasonable
    Updated and rebalanced Mercenary components just for the Mercenaries DLC.
    DLC Mega events:Pirates start with some techs that make them move faster, get some money up front.
    DLC Mega events: The Artifact diplomacy points reduced from 5 to 1 so that you don't just instantly win.
    Updated base game Manufacturing improvements to work better with the "All Construction" adjacency bonuses.
    Map generation balance fixes to make Crusade/base game let idiotic in their resource generation.
    Battle Initiation Window doesn't pop up when you are attacking an asteroid
    Added a Crusade specific FOW coloring.
    Added a Crusade specific starbox.
    Increased number of trade licenses that techs provide
    Tiny hull cost increased from 20 to 25
    Tiny hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Tiny hull acceleration increased from 0.2 to 0.3
    Tiny hull max speed increased from 0.2 to 0.3
    Small hull cost increased from 30 to 40
    Small hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Medium hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Large hull cost increased from 150 to 250
    Large hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Huge hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Huge hull logistics cost increased from 12 to 15
    Starbase maint increased from 1 to 3
    Trade Route income reduced from 5% of planet income to 3%.
    Snathi get 4 instead of 3 trade route licenses with Xeno Commerce in order for Stardock to survive their inevitable culling of Earth.
    More typo fixes.
    Rework to various colonization events to give the evil choice more goodies because evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
    Starports now cost 1 maint
    Colony and Constructor module costs reduced from 16 to 10.

UI

    Added new hotkey for building asteroid mining base (defaults to "B")
    Added tooltips to the fleet stats entry in the main game window saying what each stat represents
    Fleets now use the closest star system plus roman numerals for their name when 'creating' a new fleet ('creating' meaning when a single ship becomes a fleet)
    Fixed small space at the bottom of the command buttons list in base game mode
    Added Design Author field to the ship style set editor that shows the ship design's author (hides if it's a core ship design)

Bugs

    Fixed issue where the city improvements were showing as lit up and available to build when there were no more tiles left to place the city on
    fixes issues with some hotkeys not working, like CTRL+S, as well as being unable to assign those keys with flags correctly
    Fixed issue where fleets were getting hidden underneath things like asteroids and rally points when you select the fleet
    Fixed issue where clicking on a different improvement in the planet's build queue would not update the Rush button's tooltip with the correct rush cost
    Fixed issue where a few of the ship components with abilities were not showing up in the fleet/ship abilities list
    Fleet/ship context windows are no longer rounding down numbers to the stat breakdown tooltip giving inaccurate info for the weapons and defenses
    Erragis now correctly gives the kinetic damage reduction to all ships in the fleet, instead of just itself
    Fixed error that was setting the wrong spinner for the custom faction's second material def
    Precursor anomalies now correctly actually give Antimatter and Elerium when you survey them
    Added checks to prevent asteroids related crashes.
    Updated research video for base game tutorial.
    You can longer upload cheesed factions to the workshop
    Fixed issue where when the AI would fall-back to governors, the governor would queue up durational projects as regular improvements, causing the icon to show up on the colony map
    Made it so that whenever a new governor is assigned to the colony, the governor takes action immediately, instead of waiting for the next turn
    Added new checkbox to the Govern Planet and Govern Planet With Production Wheel windows that enables/disables allowing the governor to clear the production queue whenever a new one is assigned
    Factions that start with techs no longer start researching a high level tech without your permission.
    The economy dot on the production wheel no longer pops out on Govern screen
    Fixed issue where base game "classic" saves weren't showing the message to load the classic branch in steam
    Fixed issue where you could click a tab in the civ builder a second time to de-select it, which would then prevent the line next to it from un-highlighting whenever switching to another tab
    Fixed a MP crash related to the godlike AI
    Fixed issue where pressing the "save" button in civ builder wouldn't leave the civ builder when it finished saving
    Optimized UI code to get a perf boost
    Fix for issue where if somehow the player gets a transport ship with no population on it, they can't invade with it
    Fixed bug that caused the base game to have super high numbers of resources and habitable planets.
    Base game gets the bigger map sizes and increased densities from Crusade.
    Fixed Rare habitable planets to be a whole number.
    Improved text descriptions.
    restored prototype survey ship component, as it missing was preventing the prototype survey ship blueprint from working
    copied the map setup settings from crusade to base game to make map generation consistent between base game and crusade

Crusade

    Added base production points to manufacturing/research/income production tooltips
    Fixed issue where functional components in the ship designer weren't taking the player's techs into account
    Fix for issue where player made ship components would be loaded twice, showing up as duplicates
    Fix for issue where DLC custom ship components would show up twice in the ship designer if launched from the main menu
    Moved improvement gfx from Mercenaries to base gfx folder because Crusade uses them too
    Improvements that use Arnor spice now charge you only once instead of every turn.
    Increase drawing performance on higher resolution displays
    Fixed the "Death Furnaces" ideology description to match its effect
    Research improvements now have a maint of 0.5
    Research buildings no longer have a Promethion cost
    Research based Wonders require Arnor Spice to construct
    There's no limit on the number of cities you can have on a planet but they now cost 1 promethion in addition to food. Again, the idea is that if you have lots of Durantium, use factories to increase the productivity of your population but if you have lots of promothion then people are probably a better bet.

Gameplay / Balance

    Prototype Hyperdrive moves reduced from 5 to 2 to conform to other component performances.
    AI more careful about getting overextended with too many wars.
    Ripe for conquest Diplomatic mod now takes more personality traits into account.
    AI a little more wary of going to war with lots of other players.
    Updated description for personality traits to be more explicit in what they mean.
    Changed planet word on the street text better grammar.
    New mission: Aurorus tree expedition
    Drengin labor camps and such only provide 0.1 population cap increases instead of a full point.
    Reduced power of some of the ideological events.
    Slave trade route benefits balanced to not provide quite as much approval bonus as well as reduce production bonus.
    Balance pass on base game improvements.
    Political Mastery military manufacturing reduced from 20% to 10%
    Planetology +1 raw production bonus removed
    Starport level bonus increased from 0.3 to 0.5 military production
    Space Elevator manufacturing level bonus increased from 0.3 to 0.5
    Fusion Power Plant and other high level mega improvements reduced in effect
    Updated Mercenary abilities
    Certain high level improvements no longer provide an empire wide bonus (particularly ones that can be built over and over...)
    Drengin slave improvements don't increase population cap anymore.
    More balancing to ideological events.
    Pirate event more common
    Evil motivation traits reduced from doubling to something more reasonable
    Updated and rebalanced Mercenary components just for the Mercenaries DLC.
    DLC Mega events:Pirates start with some techs that make them move faster, get some money up front.
    DLC Mega events: The Artifact diplomacy points reduced from 5 to 1 so that you don't just instantly win.
    Updated base game Manufacturing improvements to work better with the "All Construction" adjacency bonuses.
    Map generation balance fixes to make Crusade/base game let idiotic in their resource generation.
    Battle Initiation Window doesn't pop up when you are attacking an asteroid
    Added a Crusade specific FOW coloring.
    Added a Crusade specific starbox.
    Increased number of trade licenses that techs provide
    Tiny hull cost increased from 20 to 25
    Tiny hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Tiny hull acceleration increased from 0.2 to 0.3
    Tiny hull max speed increased from 0.2 to 0.3
    Small hull cost increased from 30 to 40
    Small hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Medium hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Large hull cost increased from 150 to 250
    Large hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Huge hull maint increased from 1 to 2
    Huge hull logistics cost increased from 12 to 15
    Starbase maint increased from 1 to 3
    Trade Route income reduced from 5% of planet income to 3%.
    Snathi get 4 instead of 3 trade route licenses with Xeno Commerce in order for Stardock to survive their inevitable culling of Earth.
    More typo fixes.
    Rework to various colonization events to give the evil choice more goodies because evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
    Epiphany now costs 2 instead of 1 Spice
    Central Bank provides 1 wealth instead of 100% wealth (was a bug)
    Central bank provides 1 wealth per level
    Starports now cost 1 maint
    Bureaucrats get 10 instead of 25 bonus administrative points.
    New Improvement: Diplomatic Corps. Let's the player train Diplomats.
    Players now start out with a leader.
    Awe trait now provides benefit to all civs rather than just minors since you don't trade with Minors in Crusade
    Interstellar governance now provides a leader upon researching
    Republic government now provides a leader upon researching
    Democracy tech now provides a leader upon researching
    Star Federation tech now provides a leader upon research
    Various high end diplomacy techs now provide a diplomat
    Cultural Influence tech now provides a celebrity
    Xeno Economics now provides an Entrepreneur upon researching
    Xeno Farms now provide 0.5 food per level instead of only 0.3 (along with all the upgrades)
    Various recruit projects on planets cost less but now require a special resource.
    You can now recruit celebrities but you cannot yet eject them into space (patience).
    Treasure Hunt mission is now available at start of the game.
    Prototype hyperdrive base cost increased from 8 to 50 (duh)
    Beam weapons use slightly more mass
    Plasma weapon cost increased from 60 to 70
    Phased cannon cost increased from 70 to 90
    Rapid recharger mass dramatically reduced but cost increased from 12 to 32
    Energy Accelerator mass greatly reduced but cost increased from 23 to 50
    Harpoon cost reduced from 80 to 60
    Photonic warhead cost reduced from 150 to 90
    Triton missile cost reduced from 250 to 120
    Photon Torps reduced from 300 to 120
    Kinetic weapon mass substantially reduced across the board
    Kinetic weapons damage slightly increased
    Quantum Driver cost reduced from 120 to 90
    Singularity driver reduced from 140 to 90 cost
    Rapid reload and other special modules have their cost increased but their mass decreased. Idea is that special modules should be used by wealthy civs.
    If a commander is already in the fleet the "Add Commander" button (if available) is disabled.
    Colony and Constructor module costs reduced from 16 to 10.

UI

    Added new hotkey for building asteroid mining base (defaults to "B")
    Added tooltips to the fleet stats entry in the main game window saying what each stat represents
    Fleets now use the closest star system plus roman numerals for their name when 'creating' a new fleet ('creating' meaning when a single ship becomes a fleet)
    Fixed small space at the bottom of the command buttons list in base game mode
    Added Design Author field to the ship style set editor that shows the ship design's author (hides if it's a core ship design)

Bugs

    Fixed issue where the city improvements were showing as lit up and available to build when there were no more tiles left to place the city on
    fixes issues with some hotkeys not working, like CTRL+S, as well as being unable to assign those keys with flags correctly
    Fixed issue where fleets were getting hidden underneath things like asteroids and rally points when you select the fleet
    Fixed issue where clicking on a different improvement in the planet's build queue would not update the Rush button's tooltip with the correct rush cost
    Fixed issue where a few of the ship components with abilities were not showing up in the fleet/ship abilities list.