Cosmoteer: Starship Architect and Commander Update 0.21.1 Patch Notes

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & commander has released a new update, 0.21.1, today, March 4, 2023, and here is the complete list of changes and fixes. This update should significantly improve game performance for many players, especially with late-game saves with a lot of “junk” floating around. Plus, it’s got a bunch of other fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Here’s the complete list:

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect and Commander Update 0.21.1 Patch Notes

Greatly improved performance when there are a lot of “junk” ships with many late-game saves.
Upgraded to Microsoft .NET 7, which may further slightly improve overall performance.
When loading blueprints from a saved ship design into the ship editor, players will now be given options to load that ship’s paint design, crew roles, crew assignments, and/or resource assignments. (The paint and role options will not be available when pasting instead of replacing.)
The game will no longer slow down automatically when players detect an enemy if enemies are already within detection range.

Added options to turn off the crew and resource assignment arrows for non-selected and resource rooms. These options are in the dropdown menu in both the crew and resource management screens.
It is now possible to salvage your own ships by holding the Ctrl key.
Players must now hold Ctrl to delete damaged parts because they do not refund complete resources.
Multiplayer lobbies names will now use the format “A-123” instead of a randomly-generated station name.
The light size toggle for the new exterior lights is now changeable in the ship editor, just like the color already is.
If the player’s ship is too far from a station to hire crew, the user interface for doing so will be disabled, and a message will be shown to explain.
Damage scaling based on difficulty level no longer applies to damage (or salvage) done to junk.
In Imagineer’s economic difficulty, players can hire the crew from stations at zero cost and as if the player had maximum fame.
Ion Beam Prisms will no longer redirect incoming ion beams when powered off. This fixes an exploit where it was possible to aim a prism and then power it off to reduce its command point usage.
It is now possible to attack a ship that you are already following.
The host can no longer force-start a Career mode game if not all players are ready.
The developer added a warning when VSync is enabled while using a Minimum Target F.P.S. of 60, which is known to cause performance issues.
Clearing debris in Creative Mode will no longer remove jump gates.
Added 15 new faction ships and stations.
Added the winning ships from the Feb. 2023 ship design contest. These ships will not spawn in Career mode but are available in Creative mode.
Miscellaneous updates to several dozen existing ships.
Various updates to the existing language translations. (Thanks, community translators!)

Bugfixes

Bugfix: Loading a ship design from the ship editor was not properly loading crew roles and assignments.

Bugfix: AI ships were over-emphasizing the firepower of each potential target ship compared to its distance.
Bugfix: AI ships were overestimating the firepower of ships with ion prisms.
Fixed a Bug where the “ALL HANDS LOST” game-over message would be displayed when the player’s control room was destroyed, even if they still had a crew.
The dev team fixed an issue where trying to upload some ship fleets to the Steam Workshop could result in an error if the ship file chosen for the preview image was too large.
Fixed an issue where the ship’s parts would show 1.0 tonnes.
The title screen logo ship was missing a door. (Literally unplayable.)

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect and Commander is now available for Microsoft Windows, while the patch notes are on its official Steam Page.