Beta 1 (cont again)

• When the player accidentally hits an AI ship damage is accumulated. If a threshold is exceeded (by multiple hits or a powerful weapon like a rail-run), the ship turns hostile. The AI ship will "forget" the damage before it turns hostile: 1) if the AI ship recharges its shield to 100%. 2) if a (currently 30 sec) timer runs out.
• Make the system apply to stations as well.
• Large lateral thrusters now have settings consistent with small and medium thrusters. Balanced lighting and fade in/out durations
• Federal Fighter art fixes
• If a ship is scanned by the police and they discover that it has a bounty, don't turn the station hostile, just get the police to attack
• It's possible that players could get docking offences stuck on even when they were no longer causing offence now fixed
• When AI ships are starting docked don't do the hyperspace-in effect
• Fixed the incorrect engine stats so they give the appropriate benefit
• When a large planet is converted into a star, clamp the spin speed so that it cant spin too fast as planets and stars follow different rules
• Fix generated system name mismatch that was causing missions to fail
• Use localised faction names in the galaxy map
• Station menu now shows the local major faction rather than the system major faction
• Fix for star lens flares appearing through planets
• Fix floating station names and text on station surfaces
• Sort the commodity screen trade data drop-down menu alphabetically
• Decreased damage modifier from for missile weapons against shields
• Lowered hardness piercing stat on explosive missiles to make them less effective against larger ships
• Prevent cargo duplication
• Allowing gravitational distortion effects around white dwarves and neutron stars
• Fixed light range on the class2_B retro drives so that it doesn't light up the Adder cockpit, also moved the lens flare offset so it's actually visible
• Tweak Python collision to make cargo scooping a bit easier
• Decal colouration fix for the Viper's Mercenary paintjob
• Fix some artifacts when close to the surface as the position of the vertices changes with different levels of tessellation
• Heat generated from weapons fire is now increased based on how empty the weapon cooling system is
• Shield cells generate heat while charging
• Abort the docking process if the station becomes hostile during it
• Clear boost state when docked
• Don't scan if the advanced scanner module is disabled
• Landing pad numbers now consistently numbered front-to-back then clockwise in stations (in other words, bones 0 and 12 swapped over, so that pads 1 and 13 are now in their correct places). Also checked Outposts and fixed pad numbers there too, so that the medium pad is always the highest pad number
• Balancing pass on Plasma Point Defence
• Balancing pass on dumbfire weapons
• Rebalanced heat gain in certain weapons (Beam laser, Missile Rack, ECM, Chaff, Plasma Accelerator, Pulse Laser)
• Supercruise lens flares now smaller when close to them
• More detail and softer/more subtle sun rays in star lens flare
• Fix the landing gear disappearing when retracted on the Eagle, which leaves a hole in the ship
• Rebalanced boost heat amounts as they were all set to 10 when that was only appropriate for the sidewinder
• Add starport to BU 741
• Increased ammo for the top range shield cell banks slightly
• New improved torpedo explosion effect
• "Seeking Luxuries" Rarer in boom states
• Improve AI behaviour if they get trapped in station structures
• Turreted weapons Set to Target Only will no longer fail to fire if you aim at a subsystem
• Point defense turrets can no longer cause aggro or commit crimes on your behalf
• Turrets will now check if their line of sight is blocked before firing, should drastically reduce accidentaly hits
• Turret weapons set to Target Only will now obey the correct range limit and not waste ammo when out of range
• Added in interdiction chatter lines
• Federal Dropship art fixes
• Turn on the aim-blocked checking for all weapons set in a Fire at Will or Target only mode
• Up the rate of damage the python receives from overheating
• Increase the timer before dishing out a bounty for trepassing in a station to 90 seconds from 30. People in big heavy ships should be able to avoid being killed for that mistake
• Refraction particles now only visible when FX quality setting is set to high
• Spark and most debris particles now disabled in low FX quality setting.
• Added star class filter to the galaxy map
• Prevent infinite stream of pirates in extraction zones
• Set up Distance Based Lodding for explosions
• Added a new "ultra" shadow quality, a replacement "medium" with one extra cascade, and replaced the existing "low" with the old "medium"
• "California Sector IR-W D1-26" no longer requires non-existent permits to visit
• Increase player arrival distance in capital ship scenarios
• Fix when you had confirmation window that your group had been created where was no focus on it
• Fix when you attempted to disband your group but chosen "cancel" in confirmation window for this action you'd have disband button still greyed out
• Attacking ships wanted by the local jurisdiction doesn't necessarily incur the rep hit
• Fix where the message log would say you've claimed a ship's local bounty when you didn't because you haven't basic-scanned it
• Ice planets optimised and improved visually
• Tweaks for hanger cameras for various ships
• Pending states in the system status panel dissapear after viewing and then viewing a faction that does not have a pending state fixed
• Players cannot press "B" on an xbox pad to exit the commodities market while the "galactic average" tab is highlighted fixed
• Exiting game during combat has an infinite spinning 0 timer icon at the end of the countdown fixed
• Tweaks to reduce stuttering around planets caused by surface texture generation
• Optimisations for particle effect management
• Reduced the glow scale on the medium thrusters so they don't clip through the ships
• Added some extra logging to track down voice comms issues
• When you target a sub-target of a ship, the sub-target GUI displays incorrectly
• Show stored ships in the correct locations
• Rename the duplicate 12 Aquarii system to Bentonio
• Adjusted shadow max frustum distances up a little so that high/ultra settings manage to encompass station during drop from supercruise
• All ships now rebalanced to work with new gui lighting set up. Emergency lights and chair lighting have been standardised across ships
• The UI focus mode toggle button closes the chat pane if you wait a few seconds when it is selected fixed
• Make low influence minor factions able to generate missions at a comparable rate to influential minor factions
• Atmosphere colour and intensity tweaked for gas giants and reduced saturation of neon atmospheres
• Fix a mistake in the English version of the description for type II gas giants, it had been replaced by the description for type III gas giants
• Fixed searching for stations, it now correctly cycles between all systems that contain a station with that name
• Also fixed searching using generated system names so that it only matches systems that have that name, rather than also matching to authored systems
• Reputation in the mission summary screen now includes the contribution from the major faction
• Restored missing Founders World permits from some Commanders who have reached the rank of Elite in Combat, Trading or Exploration
• Fix a bug stopping newly created Commanders' names from appearing in the Comms Panel during the first few minutes of their career