The Balance and Community Servers Update 108271 is now live!

Balance changes:

Leveler

• Increased Leveler build cost to 800 from 600
• Decreased Leveler turn rate to 50 from 60

Polish/fixes

• Fixed sudden death mode not displayed for other players in new game lobby (patched via community mods)
• Fixed zoom to celestial for POV camera
• Added tooltip for POV camera button
• Fixed attack, move attack and area attack for point / follow units to attack from max weapons range instead of rushing into and hugging target eg bots, hornets, etc.
• Fixed multiple saves during same game corrupting config
• Fixed missing selection_icon_diameter for classic vehicle fabber
• Fixed missing selection_icon_diameter for classic tactical missile bot (bluehawk)
• Community Servers Support:
• Posting community servers beacon
• support for 32 players with 16 alliances
• command line option --gameover-timeout
• command line option --community-servers-url
• command line option --community-server-public-host
• command line option --community-server-region
• added missing help for recently added command line options.
• added state to server beacon
• added offworld support for AI only (no human players) testing

Some additional AI changes are also live via community mods:

• increased max fabber counts for Relentless / Absurd AI (more challenging)
• removed PreventsWaste personality tag from Hard AI to reduce jump from Normal AI for new players (easier)

Some additional 1v1 ladder rank display improvements are also live via community mods:

• added 1v1 ladder rank position or inactive status on start menu
• added 1v1 ladder rank updated position to game over

Some additional Galactic War improvements are also live via community mods:

• added moving between explored worlds so you can choose your battles (no longer forced to fight)

Some additional preset unit restrictions for AI skirmish and multiplayer are now live via Community Mods:

• Disable Nukes
• Enable All

Improved game server browser sorting is now live via community mods:

• Unlocked games
• Unlocked sandbox games
• Locked games
• Waiting custom servers