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Game Updates

Now for the great stuff. Every game has AI these days. In 1.4 you will also experience the Artificial Life Engine (AL). What does this do? Well, it adds some more atmosphere and life to the universe. Never seen a TP liner going about it's business, ferrying passengers to and fro? Well, you will now.

Every wondered why a race with whom you are best buddies stands by whilst your freighters and stations are attacked and destroyed? Meet the new policing in the X Universe, the race Sector Patrols. And without giving too much away (we all like nice surprises!) there are a couple of other new things going on around you as well - for these you'll have to wait and see . And because Egosoft is being especially nice to you, if you are crazy and don't like the AL plugin, you can turn it off as well.

Other little tweaks include less notifications about enemy attacks on your property. Police licences will not now be lost when that 'stray shot' (yes officer, it was accidental) hits a friendly ship. Don't push your luck too far though. And as mentioned before, the AI will now certainly put up more of a fight than before . Lasertowers now defend themselves against missiles, are stronger, turn faster and are generally offering more bang for your buck, which should hopefully put them on more player's shopping lists and also create a new threat in the universe.

Strangely, some players seem to have built up large empires in the X universe. Now, you can manage it more easily. Filters in the 'Property Owned' menu have been added as follows:

- optional hull/shields indicator
- optional additional ship activity details
- filtering by ship type
- filtering by action
- filtering by status (e.g. under attack)
- filtering by homebase setting

For the factory owners out there, we have some new features in the station menus:

Adjust Settings Menu

- information about average price for all products and resources
- information about jumps per product (nearest jump at which the product can be sold at the given price)
- information about the suggested minimum selling price of the product to make profit (this depends of course on the the current resource price settings) - this one is my favourite
- price and jump settings will now update immediately in the product / resource lines whilst you are moving the price selector bar

Station Information Menu

- information about required resources per production cycle now included

Other Cool Additions

Scripts

There are several new scripts in update 1.4 (and maybe some more to follow), including:

- you've already enjoyed the Sector Trader. Galaxy Trader will take your TS just that little bit further - a whole lot further in fact if you want!!!
- improved station accountancy tools

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