Great!

It's looking good, I like the new pirate designs - that skull is awesome

Just be aware that due to some XML errors pirates can't make medium missile ships nor P- or L-variant ships, just like every other AI faction.

Support tickets: #FKU-565-64241 (medium missile ships) #BTB-329-42580 (large BattleshipP variants)  #LGK-861-93154 (weapon augments)

I've fixed the missing ships here: https://forums.galciv3.com/467065/page/1/

Please integrate this in to 1.04 

I'm on the beta opt-in, so I've been playing with this for a few days. Nice update. Thanks for all the hard work!  

Quoting Kurt_Blitzer,

reply 6

"Fixed typos"

...

"Foxed an issue where ship upgrade in multiplayer were free"

 

"Foxed" is a perfectly valid word! Not sure if just lucky though. LOL

Since this beta came out/installed any ship with unused movement points in the turn no longer preempts the end turn. The unspent movement points are thus lost.

As well I've noticed that the setting for abundant habitable planets, extreme as well, does not produce maps with abundant planets. It seems to have no affect. I've tried starting many games and exploring to find very few habitable planets.

Lastly it seems kinetic weapons have improved, not sure if they're worthwhile yet. However the AI is using them effectively.

Playing insane map, 48+ hours, manual and auto saves crash to desktop.  Very disappointing.

According to my ticket I submitted last week on this per Derek Paxton and Stardock support this issue has been addressed and will be fixed in the next update.

On a side note I was able to continue my game by disabling auto save and playing 20+ turns later I was able to finally save with out it crashing.  Then crashed again, repeat and the issue finally stopped.  Now after about 200 turns later I haven't run into another issue with auto save/manual save.