STNH 4.5.1 Update & Compatibility Patch NHV 0926 The Undiscovered Country - (00f0fa)
\_Before you update: Cygnus breaks save compatibility - blame PDX not us\_
Gameplay, AI and Balance \- Improved starbase detection-building module weighting \- Overhauled elements of Borg, Ferengi, Klingon & Romulan personalities. \- Added a multiplayer option for naval-cap switching. \- Added Water Purifier building limits. \- Improved espionage mechanics and added flavour updates for Section 31, the Obsidian Order, and the Tal Shiar. \- Reduced research-agreement bonuses to prevent excessive stacking. \- Rebalanced flagship deep scan - higher cost and duration, with fleet-leader XP rewards. \- Rebalanced Sarajevo, Minuteman, and Engle transport sizes. \- Added Undine Army Countermeasures \- Reworked Borg AI, adaptation, assimilation, and sleep-cycle behaviour.
Events and Content \- Updated Romulan War events and fixed Romulan–Earth Neutral Zone formation. \- Updated hero mission and expanded/fixed Great House event content. \- Improved Garidian Expansion, the UFP BoTF map, and the Lembatta Cluster. \- Expanded the Lembatta Cluster into a longer exploration story with discoveries, rewards, and follow-up content. \- Added Quadrant Isolation to the Q menu. \- Improved Iconian and Andromedan War difficulty, with safer Iconian planet-target limits. \- Added/clarified Shuttle Bay modules \- Xenophobic empires now strongly prefer native-species leaders and rulers \- Minimum leader recruitment age is 18. \- Updated the Departmental Efficiency modifier. UI & GFX \- Updated policy UI, category display, and confirmation UI for 4.5. \- General UI, audio, localisation, and compatibility fixes based on beta feedback. \- UI - ship view improvements \- UI - slave market view fix \- UI - outliner progressbar fix \- Situation-log UI improvements & fixes \- Improved performance through cached scripting. Fixes \- Corrected Coridan portraits, Sarajevo class size, and fighter/torpedo component availability. \- Fixed Tomed incident fleet spawning using valid, era-appropriate designs. \- Corrected Enterprise-B/Flagship II design and refit availability, plus Modulated Phaser II eligibility. \- Removed inappropriate movement/FTL components from static stations. \- Corrected starbase mines, modules, component effects, and orbital-battery upgrades. \- Removed obsolete vanilla 4.5 starbase modules. \- Fixed UFP integration - member worlds, colonies, populations, and sector names are preserved. \- Fixed independence wars to use the correct war goal and grant independence on victory, including save-game fixes. \- Fixed Klingon, Romulan, and Federation event-chain progression blockers \- Fixed Materialist faction population calculations. \- Fixed minefields, holos energy jobs, \- Fixed Nor-class starbase construction, and Terok Nor/DS9 Bajor ownership gating. \- Removed capitals from the Clear Border War goal option. \- Fixed Grand Archive dismantling \- Fixec ship retreat settings (pending a full Paradox fix). \- Fixed localisation, hid the Defense Policy, and corrected espionage operations. \- Fixed Utopia Planitia flag for TNG starts \- Fixed Bajoran Occupation popup after Bajor is freed. \- War declarations against non-independent empires and Border War war-goal feedback. \- Unification Center unity production \- Planet resupply mission cleanup \- Subcomplex dismantling \- NX upgrade ship selection \- Obsidian Order building order. \- Sword of Kahless inaccessible spawns \- Fixed councillor slots in multiplayer games. \- Disease event diplomacy now targets correct worlds \- Fixed New Horizons intro-music DLC compatibility. \- Fleet-view automation buttons; Doomsday ship pathing; crime-event loop; \- Fixed broken Tomed progression. \- Moving Forest negative effects; Private Engineering Contractors research; \- Reviewed & fixed unavailable engineering components. \- AI cloak removal in combat. \- Fixed espionage operations and import-policy flags. \- Fixed Ayazi class tradition unlock. \- Enterprise-A can now be decomm'd correctly
Localisation - Full localisation update across all 7 languages including fixes and updates