City Report

In the 2014-07-02 update, the way City Reports are distributed was changed.

City reports are no longer automatically sent to players via the Mail system.
It is now required to actively request a city report in order to view/receive it.

A new window will appear when choosing to view recent or history reports. The format of the report is the same as it used to be.

Using the slider at the top of the window, it is possible to see previous city reports, the inventory section is removed from reports that are older than 2 hours though.

Requesting a city report via mail simply sends the newest city report to the character's mail.

If a city is in distress (enemy in sensor range, under attack, disease, infestation, decay) the city will send a mail to everyone in the city's chain-of-command. The distress mail contains nothing but the basic location info and the short distress message.
To get more information about the distress, bring up the history report and use the slider to locate the reports with the distress in it.

How to

View city reports:

1. Open the Governance window (F12)
2. Go to the Places tab
3. Select all (using CTRL or SHIFT) the cities you govern
4. Right-click one of them, then click "Recent Report..." or "History Report..."

Get city reports by mail:

1. Open the Governance window (F12)
2. Go to the Places tab
3. Select all (using CTRL or SHIFT) the cities you govern
4. Right-click one of them, then click "Recent Report by Mail..."
5. Open the Mail window (F2)
6. Click the "Request New Messages" button

Indy Tools and Mods

• HazeronAdviser
  City status and ship log viewer for Shores of Hazeron.

Quotes from patch notes

Update 2014-07-02: City Cycle Reports

Overhauled the way cities generate their city reports.

• Routine city reports are no longer sent to you via mail.
• City reports are accessed using the star map. Right-click on a city to request a report.
• Two kinds of reports can be requested.
  • Recent report sends you the most recent two city reports from a city, so they can be compared for changes. This is typically a small amount of data.
  • History report sends you all reports generated in the past 24 hours. That is 112 reports and it's a fair bit more data.
• Reports appear on a modeless dialog so you can view several at once.
• When requesting a report for a city in your current solar system, the response time is very fast.
• When requesting a report for a city in a different solar system, the report can take some time to appear, usually several seconds, potentially longer; be patient.
• Tech level upgrades show green as before but the highlight is based on comparing the previous report to the current report. Therefore, the first report in the series cannot show this highlighting. This fixes a bug where the highlighting was sometimes incorrect in the old reports.
• Distress and decay reports still send you a mail message that contains only the distress or decay subportions of the city report. That way the mail program can continue to inform you of problems at cities.
• City reports are available to anyone who is in the same empire as the city. I did not see this as a security issue. Please don't decide you want these restricted to chain-of-command.

Update 2014-07-03: Governance Places

Improved the Places page of the Governance (F12) window.

• Enabled multiple selection of cities in the list.
• Added right-click menu options for selected cities.
• Recent Report - Just like on the star map.
• History Report - Just like on the star map.
• Recent Report by Mail - Requests the last city report be sent to you via mail.
• Surrender - Surrenders city to another empire.
• Removed surrender buttons, now on right-click menu.
• Added Galaxy column to the cities table.

Update 2014-07-07: City Report Authority

Citizens should not be able to request city reports unless they are in the chain-of-command of the city.

Done. When selecting more than one city, you must be in the chain-of-command of all selected cities.

Update 2014-07-07: City Report Data Load

City reports are taking too much space to store.

• City reports now discard item inventory after 2 hours.
• City reports now discarded after 48 hours instead of 24 hours due to huge reduction in size by dropping inventory.
• This is stated on the tool tip for the timeline slider on the dialog that shows city reports.