• Fixed AI not reacting to economy shortages as quickly as in older game versions
  
• Fixed AI not considering ware shortages on station builds when the station is not yet operational
  
• Fixed AI not properly escalating the priority of wares that are blocking ship builds in some cases
  
• Improved performance of AI decision on where to expand/build a factory
  
• Improved Xenon mining analysis when the Xenon shipbuilders are in a sector that does not have all needed minables

• Workaround for a (vanilla) bug where pirates may fail to steal crates from a station they hacked if SETA is running
  
• Factions will no longer buy from a player shipyard in the following conditions:
  
  • It is in a hostile sector that the player is not also hostile to
    
  • There are nearby enemy combat ships that the player is not hostile to
    
  • A hostile faction is already building there
• Trade ships will now pick up nearby dropped unowned ware crates before starting a trade search if the drops are part of their ware basket
  
  • This means that if you get hacked and your trade ships return they will try to pick up the wares and put them back
• Tweaked calculation of resource usage for faction shipyards that are stalled so the faction's economy AI will react a little more urgently
  
• (Split Vendetta) While FRF is a colony, ZYA will deploy a few trade ships to harvest any useful resource surplus from FRF territory
  
• (Split Vendetta) Fixed a (vanilla) bug that prevented Split factions from building starter factories in sectors they control/contest
  
• (Split Vendetta) Added a shipyard/wharf trader job for CUB
  
• (Split Vendetta) CUB will request FRF trader jobs to fill economic holes since CUB does not currently have any

• Fixed some Xenon ship builders not having a dedicated miner when the DLC is installed
  
• Fixed Xenon miners in the Tharka's Cascade/Matrix #79B group not working correctly
  
• Fixed AutoTrade rarely taking an excessive amount of time to find a trade
  
• Fixed AI sometimes failing to add production for a needed ware because it tried to attach the module to a station that was in the process of being expanded already

Fixed a rare crash on game load

• NPC traders will now avoid travelling through Xenon sectors if possible
  
• Fixed a (vanilla) bug causing factions to lose track of what factory expansions are currently pending
  
• Fixed a bug where factions could get stuck in a loop of building new Claytronics production to supply their unfinished Claytronics production
  
• Worked around a (vanilla?) bug where the Split factions are unable to expand factories, only create new ones

• 3.0 compatibility
  
• Station traders never consider supply wares or habitation wares as critical (i.e. don't ignore primary resources because they are empty)
  
• Station traders will temporarily give up on shortage wares if there are no viable offers
  
• Fixed a rare bug where factions in a hull parts shortage could end up with a lot of half-finished factories

Additional fix for build drones on CVs

• Fixed (vanilla) CV build drone issues introduced by 2.6 HF1
  
• Fixed CVs not checking if they need to resupply while idling looking for work
  
• Fixed Xenon Wharf having excessively low build drones

• Updated for 2.6 compatibility
  
• Removed some early game behavior that is no longer needed because the factions start in a better state
  
• Implemented a partial workaround to the issue where faction shipyards' building drones mysteriously vanish