Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that a ship will only attack an enemy which it can itself "see". 

If so, this does not seem lifelike. An enemy can enter your large trinary system and be detected by a city, but if your ships are patrolling at the other edge of the system, they won't go and help until their own sensors pick it up. If your enemy is in another system, even if they're wreaking havoc and it's only next door, that fleet won't do anything at all.

Should your empire share sensors? You would set a ship policy: "respond to threats within X radius". If an enemy is picked up by any means within X parsecs, the ships will try to intercept according to their officer's posture. This would increase the effectiveness of patrols and NPC defenders drastically, I believe, as well as suiting common sense.

(If we really wanted to go overboard, we could set weighting factors for combined hp of enemy contacts vs distance from current position. If a fleet of 90 billion hp is detected all the way across your empire, your ships will try to help. If it's only 2000 hp they won't bother. Or, conversely, a small ship might avoid contacts bigger than itself.)

Shields Disrupted
Shields can be difficult to breach with transporters when they get shot down, then come right back up again. An opportunity should be created to beam aboard.

http://hazeron.com/gallery/DisruptedShield.png

When shields are reduced to zero by damage, they become disrupted for 20 seconds. This is per side on spacecraft.

• The visible appearance of the shield bubble changes. On spacecraft, the visible appearance of the disrupted side changes.
  
• Disrupted shields do not block moving objects or weapons fire.
  
• Disrupted shields continue to charge as usual.
  
• Disrupted shields do not block transporters. On spacecraft, transporters are not blocked if any side is disrupted.
  

• A city or base with heavily damaged buildings will incur a -1 morale penalty.
  
• A city or base with burning buildings will incur a -1 morale penalty.
  
• Buildings that are heavily damaged or burning do not run any manufacturing processes.
  

http://hazeron.com/vid/ShieldHits.mp4
http://hazeron.com/vid/ShieldBaseAtlantisLanding.mp4

Military Shield Projector
Military shield projector building is now operational.

• Shield bubble appears at the proper radius; it was previously incorrect.
  
• Shield protects its contents where they literally reside inside the bubble. Parts of buildings that extend outside the bubble can be targeted.
  
• Shield projector recharges its capacitors every 10 seconds. Energy is taken from power plants connected by ground.
  

• Shields block weapon fire that originates outside the bubble. Weapons hit on the shield bubble, not the hull.
  
• Shields do not block weapon fire that originates inside the bubble. Weapons inside the shield can fire outward.
  
• Shields do not block explosives used to open doors because the blast originates inside the shield. This is a change from old style ships, where hull doors were protected by shields.
  
• Shields block objects that enter the shield too fast. An object is blocked if it enters the shield with a speed greater than 150m/s relative to the shield. This one is going to kill some people.
  
• Shields do not block objects moving around inside the shield or moving from inside to outside the shield.
  
• Shields block missiles, rockets and bombs that enter the bubble. They explode on the shield surface. Shrapnel does not hit shield contents. Bombs that hit shields do not make craters in nearby terrain.
  
• Shields absorb blasts and collisions. The protected ship cannot be pushed by hitting the shield.
  
• Incendiary, acid, etc. weapons that explode on the shield do not inflict the protected ship with fire or acid.
  

• On spacecraft, sides of the shield bubble are transparent according to energy at each side of the shield.
  
• On buildings, shields do not have sides and the entire shield bubble uniformly becomes more or less transparent.
  

Remember when building processes were able to be sped up with the appropriate types of tools or electricity? This seems to have been phased out for most buildings with the New-Style designer (apart from a select few which do have it), resulting in horrendously slow building speeds (4 labor/sec) which is a major pain in the ass for buildings which require an upward of tens of thousands of labor to complete.

Is this feature going to be reimplemented anytime soon? It's kind of tiring waiting for buildings to complete (my 15 line hydroelectric power plant took 3 hours), while my pc is heavily locked down due to how much Hazeron takes from it, and you have no pops to help since its a newly created colony.

Delete Blueprint
I deleted a building blueprint from the on line library. It said it was deleted. Then it came back.

Fixed.

Delete Blueprint Window Closes
When I delete a blueprint from the on line library, the window closes. This is annoying when I want to delete more than one blueprint.

Fixed.

Gun Tower and Weapon System Ammo Storage
Gun tower and weapon system should require storage for their own ammunition.

Fixed. Existing blueprints will continue to be valid without storage but they will have nowhere to store ammunition (or lenses, as appropriate). They may not work efficiently.

Who Imports Tech?
What building imports tech disks?

Mass media building now imports tech disks. They also import blank paper and blank disks so they can publish tech about their local industries.

Harvester Modules in Buildings
When making a military weapon system, I was offered a selection of harvester modules and a tractor beam.

Fixed.

Patent Already Recorded Q
When a process reports that a patent is already recorded, the Q would be nice to know.

Fixed. Q is reported of the patent that could not be stored.

Storage Crystal Error
Storage crystal reported it was full when it had lots of free space, after I tried copying a blueprint to it that was already on the crystal.

Fixed failure message when the cause is an existing duplicate design.

Building Blueprint Intended Purpose
Buildings could be filtered better if the intended purpose of each blueprint was known.

Building blueprints now store their intended purpose.

• Intended purpose is configured on the properties window, using the combo box that used to show if the design was valid for a particular industry and why not on failure. The setting in that combo box is now saved with the blueprint.
  
• The blueprint must be valid for the intended purpose to pass finalizing.
  
• There is a 'Not Specific' option.
  
• Intended purpose is used only for filtering. It does not limit what industries can use the blueprint.
  

At present, patents that are known to an empire are shared across both sides of the discontinuity. This seems to break the separation otherwise imposed by the discontinuity.

It would be relatively easy to split patent knowledge between the parts of an empire that exist on each side of the discontinuity.

Before doing that, I wanted to hear some opinions. Is this a problem at all?

add some blinking effects to stars. this way it looks way more alive.

Another convenient feature would be to allow toggling broker shipping routes on the star map. This would make tracking production chains much simpler.

It'd be very convenient if the in-game star map took the last reported location of a ship from fleet mail (or even real-time position?) and displayed it on the map. This would make it easier to know where everything is located in a single glance.

Q1 Bug
A bug was reported that output Q was not correct when building Q of operation increases over time.

This is fixed. Process will be corrected at the next Q increase of the building. If you have a process that needs to be updated immediately, remove and recreate the process.

World Overpopulation Morale OBOB
A world very close to its population limit reported morale -21 due to overpopulation. Morale penalty is supposed to be -20 at max population.

Fixed an off-by-one-bug when calculating the world overpopulation morale penalty.

Military Base Cramped Living Conditions
My military base reported cramped living conditions. It struck me that was par for the course in the military, if memory serves correctly.

Military bases are no longer subject to cramped living conditions morale penalty.

World Building Limit
I built my first full city using the new buildings, all the way to space travel, including moon base to mine eludium and lumenite. I wasn't particularly efficient at it, just rambled through it using smaller buildings. About the time the first wormhole capable spacecraft got built, the city started reporting a morale penalty for world building limit. I haven't built any military defenses yet.

Based on this experience, I increased the world building limit to 400, up from 200.

Military Shield Radius
The radius of the shield bubble made by a military shield projector is based on the volume of the shield equipment. The radius of the shield is now reported in the building design report. The shield bubble is now visible.