Updates:

• Improved main menu to have descriptions of factions.
• Improved responsiveness of main menus buttons.
• Worked on UI in general. Trying to improve feel and usefulness.
• Added a trading skill that will gain XP on buy/sell. Currently, this skill improves the prices you buy/sell at.
• Buffed player health to make combat fairer.
• Added a minimum income for defeating an enemy.
• Added weighted adding of ships as recruitable NPCs. Smaller chance of larger ships being added. This should reduce the number of high-end ships being recruited while also allowing more low-end ships.
• Implemented saving and loading of non-unique NPCs.
• Updated NPCs to glow when selected as the travel target. Additionally, your travel indicator will also follow them.
• New “line” to vaguely show where you are going.
• Increased possible time multiplier. It is now possible to set the game to 5x speed.
• The space key while in the map view will focus so you no longer need to click somewhere to move to get the camera to refocus.
• The camera can no longer be moved while in a station menu.
• Reduced gain of XP for blasters. Also added messages showing damage after a few seconds of firing to keep from spam but allow you to know how much damage you have done.
• Added tooltips to skills in the skill menu.
• Added text to show how many skill points the player has in the skill menu.
• Command skill now affects how many ships you can have in your fleet. You gain 5 fleet capacity per skill level.
• Can now name your character.
• Updated several texts format to have more consistency.
• The player can now surrender from in-combat rather than being required to load or go back to the main menu.
• Selecting a planet in the ledger will now open a prompt asking if you would like to travel to this location. Selecting yes will set your travel destination to that planet and close the ledger.
• Update the station UI to correctly show NPC, faction, and station name correctly.
• Module system now enables players to customize the equipment on their ships.
• Randomizing starting item amounts for stations.
• There is now text showing the exact amount of health the player has in combat.
• Explosion fire now actually glows.
• Reduced exp gains to balance leveling.
• Map model now changes based on what ship you are flying.
• Notification when you leave a faction.
• Blasters now use core energy to fire.
• Ledger now shows watch faction and their relation to the player's faction.
• Bomber AI improved to try to maintain a larger distance with their longer-range missiles.
• Updated shop UI to be more visually pleasing and expandable.
• The number of fleet members now affects the player's movement speed on the map.
• Redesigned the party menu to support an infinite amount of units.
• Added refinement of ores and production of modules for ships.
• Added the ability to go to select asteroid clusters and mine asteroids for resources. 

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug causing the ship's name not to be shown in the shipyard menu.
• Fixed several bugs to do with the audio and improved the overall audio experience. Systems are now in place to prevent overplaying sounds and several sounds have been changed in combat.
• Fixed bug causing multiple songs to play over one another.
  
• Fixed a bug causing the back button in the faction selector to not work.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing cruisers from aiming turrets properly, resulting in them only hitting enemies in front of them.
  
• Fixed a bug causing the camera to not change zoom levels based on what ship the player was flying.
  
• Fixed a bug allowing multiple menus to be up in the location menu.
  
• Fixed Game breaking bug causing certain NPCs to break the dialogue resulting in the player being unable to continue.
  
• Fixed bug stopping skill menu from updating.
  
• Fixed bug in siege combat causing a large performance loss.
• Fixed bug causing traders to not trade.