Onboarding
We have added a short onboarding process to the start of a new game; you will choose your race, name your faction, pick your faction colours and be able to select a starting location.
Selecting your start location should make it easier to play with your friends!
Other Improvements
- Slowed down middle mouse scrolling.
- Removed exclamation mark tile from universe screen.
- Surrender confirmation dialog now prevents players from clicking "yes" more than once.
- Engine version no longer shown on the server list.
- Improvements to connection and sector change event for high ping connections (over 100ms).
Bug Fixes
- Shroud and fog of war would occasionally not show on screen.
- Crash when changing/jumping sectors.
- Feedback screenshot now includes UI elements.
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