AI War Beta 5.090 "Fish Or Cut Bait" Released!

[Draco18s]

Zenith Viral Astro Train.

Congratulations, you have destroyed the universe.

Not the first time.

[dotjd]

Not specifically related to this version, but... well, I started a game with Heroic and Crafty Spire, because I wanted a bunch of chaotic things flying around.  I got exactly what I asked for.  Man is it scary to see 5 spirecraft shield bearers of various marks protecting with 5-6 ion blasters of various marks, along with 5-6 implosion artillery as icing on the cake.  Even scarier is seeing them running around as (apparently) part of the new special forces at the 30 minute mark on diff 8/8, which means they will quite reliably follow me around.

I'm scuttling that game for other reasons (thought you only needed 1 planet between spire cities when apparently it's 2?) but I didn't come up with a single way to handle that, I just ran away.  Well... thinking about it now, I guess I could make a beachhead with a mobile builder and just drop full caps of turrets.  That might do it.

Or nukes, but that's a pretty bad solution when the problem would likely just keep recurring...

And then every so often a spire ram comes in and snipes my champion.  Joke's on the ram, i think.

[TechSY730]

Anyone else encountering strange behavior on the controls screen?

9711: The "do you want to save your settings" screen appears spuriously when opening up control screen

[Toranth]

Anyone else encountering strange behavior on the controls screen?

9711: The "do you want to save your settings" screen appears spuriously when opening up control screen

Yup, happening here, too.  As you said, it seems to be related to using the "Planet Specific" tab. 
Possibly related:  Start editing a ship design (Riot, Champion, whatever).  Then switch to another ship type.  The resulting display is all messed up.

[Faulty Logic]

A few minor questions:
What is the status of the nebula warp gate?
Will there be a shadow dreadnaught? (note: the correct answer is yes. Grant it only after one AI homeworld is dead if you must, but please have one.)
Have you made the nebulae significantly harder since 5.083? They seem to be.

[Cinth]

Anyone else encountering strange behavior on the controls screen?

9711: The "do you want to save your settings" screen appears spuriously when opening up control screen

Yup, happening here, too.  As you said, it seems to be related to using the "Planet Specific" tab. 
Possibly related:  Start editing a ship design (Riot, Champion, whatever).  Then switch to another ship type.  The resulting display is all messed up.

So I'm getting this annoying bug too.... I could load up my saved settings just fine, but when I go to spend points on my Champs, this happens.
 Actually kinda putting the game aside until it is resolved, I use the CTRL tabs a lot during the course of a game and I don't really want to fight with it to get on with the game

[KDR_11k]

Will there be a shadow dreadnaught? (note: the correct answer is yes. Grant it only after one AI homeworld is dead if you must, but please have one.)

Isn't there already a shadow battleship?

[Cinth]

Will there be a shadow dreadnaught? (note: the correct answer is yes. Grant it only after one AI homeworld is dead if you must, but please have one.)

Isn't there already a shadow battleship?

DN would be the next size up if we didn't already have all 4 hull sizes

[chemical_art]

Will there be a shadow dreadnaught? (note: the correct answer is yes. Grant it only after one AI homeworld is dead if you must, but please have one.)

Isn't there already a shadow battleship?

DN would be the next size up if we didn't already have all 4 hull sizes

There is a DN, didn't you know? You need to do 13 nebulas to unlock it.

[keith.lamothe]

There is a DN, didn't you know? You need to do 13 nebulas to unlock it.

You are a mean person

There's only 4 hull sizes that we have art for, and much too late to add onto that

BBs are already really stinking powerful.

[KDR_11k]

Will there be a shadow dreadnaught? (note: the correct answer is yes. Grant it only after one AI homeworld is dead if you must, but please have one.)

Isn't there already a shadow battleship?

DN would be the next size up if we didn't already have all 4 hull sizes

Dreadnought refers to a specific era of battleship anyway.

[Faulty Logic]

Oh well. Not going to argue about the etymology of "dreadnought."

[Draco18s]

Dreadnougat?

[keith.lamothe]

When I use the term it's largely because that's what I'm used to going after "Battleship" from Lensman, Harrington, Starfleet Battles, etc.

Connection with real world optional and mostly coincidental

[KDR_11k]

I'd probably just make stuff up because I hate the whole "space is an ocean" trope and think spacecraft should have a different naming convention.