A few ideas for building decals. Since spacecraft have ship name and all that.

• Building type name
  
• Building name
  
• City name (when in a city)
  
• World name
  
• System name
  

• Building type icon
  

• Sector name
  
• Galaxy name
  

I believe on of the tenets of Hazeron design is that players should have control over the ship equivalent to that of NPCs?

Currently, NPC navigators are able to plot a course to coordinates, but players can only select systems which are visible in sector view. It would be nice to be able to define an arbitrary point in a more reliable way than the current "click on the map" mechanism.

I just had my whole crew wiped out because a monster had a QL255 disease.

It appeared on my bridge and infected some of my crew. Because crew always have their helmet visors open unless in a vacuum, they quickly infected each other. When a crewman fell unconscious from the damage, another crewman came to carry him to the sickbay, infecting everyone else on their way to the sickbay. Other crewman started to fall unconscious, summoning uninfected crew from other parts of the ship to the infected area.

Meanwhile my troops were all just standing around watching. Since they always have their helmet visors closed, they weren't affected by the disease at all. The monster was killed within seconds after appearing thanks to the troop posted on the bridge, but that didn't help against the disease that wiped out the crew.

Anyway, to the actual suggestion.

If you have a sickbay on the ship, and the medical console is manned. I suggest that the medical crewman call out an alert when a disease is detected on the ship. All crewmen, officers and passengers should close their visor if they have them to prevent infection. Sick people should report to the sickbay for treatment if antitoxin is in stock.

3DS Import
The 3DS importer has a bug when importing models with parts that have a transformation matrix. When any unit of measure other than feet is chosen, the parts are not positioned properly.

Fixed an error when applying unit of measure scaling to transformation matrices.

Empire 0 Capture Ship
Empire 0 should not be able to capture spacecraft.

Empire 0 avatars no longer trigger the capture sequence when sitting at the helm of a spacecraft.

Empire 0 Build Ships
Empire 0 should not be able to manufacture spacecraft.

Spacecraft factories will no longer make spacecraft for empire 0.

Political Stance on Star Map
The star map highlights spacecraft based on their political stance toward the star map's empire. This is backward from the way it highlights other things with political stance.

Fixed backward political stance check when tallying spacecraft in a system.

Wiki Image Upload Bug
Images cannot be uploaded to the wiki.

Fixed a file permissions error introduced when the wiki was moved to the new server.

Farm Animals
New style farms never spawn a live farm animal.

Finished animal spawn code at new style buildings. Like old style buildings, they will spawn one or two farm animals, depending on the manufacturing process. Most animal processes spawn one animal. The process to make Animal Carcasses spawns two live animals, one male and one female.

Search Star Map
A search function was requested.

Search function added to star map to search sector names, system names, system catalog names, city names, city empire names, spacecraft names, and spacecraft empire names.

Catalog Names
It was requested that the catalog names of solar systems be shown in more places, particularly for those that have been given a name.

Solar system catalog names now appear...

• XML Output tagged as 'catalog', if the catalog name is different from the system name; otherwise it is omitted.
  
• Mission travel orders user interface now shows system catalog names.
  
• Star map places tree control shows catalog name with system name.
  

What do people use as a base unit for their models?
Meters? Centimeters? Something in between?
I was aiming for 10cm as it seems to be good unit for a single small ingame object.
But it got me wondering.

It would be much simpler if the Auction mode was just a checkbox on the For Sale dialog.
For Sale is almost identical to Auction anyway.

Simply add a checkbox next to the price input field that says "Auction", when checked you disable the price input field and do an auction command instead.

Star Map Refresh Sector
It would be nice to be able to refresh any given sector easily.

A right-click context menu option was added to the tree control to refresh one single sector in the star map.

Star Map Update
Star map update takes a long time even if I update one sector.

Fixed partial update of star map.

Star Map Refresh Galaxy
Doesn't work.

Fixed query for a single galaxy in star map.

Star Map Signal Strength
It was requested that all systems show their signal strength bars.

Signal strength is now visible on all systems. A button was added to the toolbar to turn them on|off.

Star Map Scanned Indicator
A scanned indicator would be nice in the star map.

Added a scanned indicator to systems that have been surveyed by your empire. A button was added to the toolbar to turn them on|off.

Star Map Query Clear Current
It was requested that the star map query have an option to clear the local star map data first.

Two check boxes were added to star map query window.

• One check clears all star map data when the query is made, so the result is only the query.
  
• One check fills in the local 3x3x3 box of sectors in the star map, after it is queried.
  

• Information is based on position reports broadcast by all spacecraft every 10 minutes.
  
• Star map shows spacecraft and stations as an icon, by political stance, with a count of each. e.g. 2 Empire Ships, 1 Enemy Station, etc.
  
• Ship display toggle added to tool bar.
  
• Station display toggle added to tool bar.
  
• Right click a system to request a detailed report of all spacecraft.
  
• All friend and empire spacecraft are reported.
  
• Enemy and neutral spacecraft are reported if they are in a system that contains sensors belonging to your empire or a friend empire. Sensors can be provided by cities or spacecraft that are not in deep space.
  
• Range cannot be precisely determined. A coarse "system range" is applied. Spacecraft are detected if they are in the system and not in deep space.
  

The reason clothing, suits and armor stops taking damage once it reaches a durability of 1, was so that you wouldn't suddenly become naked when someone shot at you.
This has the weird side effect of having us run around with broken clothing or suits and never noticing it.

Just a minor suggestion would be to have clothing and armor with only one durability point left gets destroyed upon death of your avatar.
If the original issue was that people became naked when their clothing was damaged, a happy middle ground would be to simply only remove clothing when an avatar dies. Since is it not weird for your avatar to wake up naked after respawning.

Server Deadlock
A server deadlocked while a ship was idling with its FTL drive on.

Fixed a deadlock situation that was not new. It was surprising this bug lived this long. It probably caused previous server deadlocks.

Star Map Refresh
It takes a long time to update the star map after the empire has explored a lot of space.

Added star map update options to get all known space (as now), only a specific galaxy, or only sectors within a specified radius of your current sector.

I will add a right-click refresh to the list of sectors, to get a sector and other sectors within a radius of it. I didn't quite finish it for this update.

Star Map Range Filter
A way to restrict the star map display to just my sector or my 3x3x3 box of sectors was requested.

A range filter was added to the star map. It consists of a button to turn the range filter on|off and it has a spin box to set the sector range, from 0 to 99. The range value controls the number of sectors beyond your current sector that are displayed.

Star Map Faint Lines
The lines around sectors are very faint on the star map.

Enhanced the brightness of sector border lines and wormhole lines on the star map.

Star Map Select
It would be nice to be able to select a system's sector on the star map.

Right click menu now has two new select options. One selects the system and the other selects the system's sector. The selection is a toggle. If those things are already selected, the menu option will deselect them.