v1.6.3 - Balancing / stability update

• Rolls ITSpawnUtility into SpawnUtility.
  
• I was worried this might cause compatibility issues with HET. But it doesn't! Hooray.
  
• Increases the distance between ships on a number of wave tables to give larger ships some room to move around.

v1.6.2 (Comparatively) Minor update

• Fixes a bug where the player wouldn't get a mail about pirates when they hire an informant.
  
• Adds a global pirate cap to the decapitation strike event.
  
• Adds a global pirate cap to the pirate attack event.
  
• Adds a global pirate cap to the deepfake distress signal event.
  
• Updates how the increasing threat spawn utility sets pirate titles to work better.

v1.6.1

• Turns off debug in pirateattack.lua

v1.6 - Auto-traits and tactical shifts

• Now 2.0 compatible!
  
• Killing persecutors now increases hatred with the faction that the persecutors spawned from.
  
• If any player manages to reach 700+ hatred with a pirate faction, the pirate faction automatically gains traits.
  
  • These traits will go into effect immediately for all players.
    
  • The traits will not be immediately visible. The pirates must be spied on with informants for the traits to be revealed.
    
  • Traits are now only revealed for the player bribing the pirates with the informant, and not globally.
• Removes the boss encounters from Increasing Threat. They have been added to Extra Ship Classes Core.
  
  • The behavior of the bosses is otherwise unchanged.
• Increases the distance between spawned ships for the higher tier attack waves (the ones containing Prowlers, Pillagers, and Devastators)

v1.5.2

v1.5.1 - Executioner Bugfixes

• Removes addExecutionerStandardEquipment from shiputility.lua

v1.5 - Extreme Threat Detected!

• Fixed a bug where a player would encounter a deepfake distress signal despite not having enough hatred to do so.
  
• If a deepfake distress signal or decapitation strike event cancels itself due to conditions not being met, the gloal pause timer on the event scheduler is reset.
  
• When a player in an alliance successfully resolves a pirate attack, decapitation strike, or deepfake distress call, hatred is increased for all memebers of the alliance in the sector.
  
• Implements the secondary pirate traits.
  
  • Vengeful pirates launch special attacks vs. players more frequently.
    
  • Craven pirates attack civilized sectors less often.
    
  • Tempered pirates accrue hatred less quickly, but lose less hatred over time and cannot be bribed.
    
  • Covetous pirates lose more hatred over time, and lose more hatred when being bribed.
    
  • Brutish pirates send more ships in special attacks.
    
  • Wily pirates send ships with special modifiers in attacks / events.
• Pirates slowly lose hatred towards the player over time.
  
• Pirates can now be bribed at a smuggler's outpost. This costs 10% of a player's credits, or 1 million credits, whichever is higher.
  
• Increased the rate of pirate attacks.
  
• Adds a second pirate attack event that occurs closer to the core.
  
• Reduces the hatred gain per attack and increases the cooldown of special attack types to offset this.
  
• Rips out the default fake distress signal event and replaces it with a custom-built one. This means that any OTHER mods that modify the fake distress signal event will effectively have their changes wiped out.
  
• Sorry. I got tired of dealing with compatibility issues with other mods. So other mods start getting stepped on.
  
• Fake distress signals are now much more dangerous.
  
• Adds 6 new bosses when answering a fake distress signal. These bosses will only be encountered under the following circumstances:
  
  • The player has beaten the story.
    
  • The player is in the core.
    
  • The pirates hate the player enough.
    
  • The player has not encountered one of these new bosses recently (within the last 2-3 hours)

- Decapitation strikes happen more frequently if HET is installed.
- Pirate attacks contain more ships, and hatred is accrued more quickly if HET is installed.
- Deepfake Distress Signals spawn Executioners if HET is installed.
- Updates some behind-the-scenes code such as logging, etc.
- Adds Infiltrators at the Smuggler Outposts. You can use infiltrators to get a rough idea of how much the local pirate faction hates you.
- Adds several possible traits to pirate factions. Despite the update to the diplomacy UI, the traits aren't actually implmented yet and will be relevant in future updates.
- Fixes a client-side error with radio chatter.

- Added the "Deepfake Distress Signal" Event.
- Fixed a bug that caused an error when a pirate attack spawned for a player with no notoriety value.
- Decapitation strike hidden cooldown is now based on unpaused runtime of the server and not OS time.

- Added the "Decapitation Strike" event.
- Increases the chance of pirate attacks spawning.
- Added radio chatter.
- Increases the amount of hatred accrued from pirate attacks, especially at higher difficulties.
- Increases the amount of notoriety accrued at higher difficulties.
- Changes how hatred / notoriety special attacks work so that they are on a per-player cooldown on each faction rather than a global cooldown on that specific faction.