As soon as someone controls an Ascension crystal, have an icon show up and informs you that Ascension has started. Mousing over should show you how far along each civ with Ascension is from ascending as a % bar with (turns).
UI Layout updates
Updated most screens to use fonts, colors, and font sizes consistently.
Made fonts bigger wherever possible.
General cleanup of margins and list entries wherever possible.
Removed extra returns from the "word on the street" blurbs.
Move some of the drop-downs in options screens to keep them from clipping.
You can now adjust the difficulty level mid-game through the options screen (single player only).
Starting ships don't append a number to their name unless another ship of the same design has already been spawned. This is to support custom flavorful names for core starting ships from starting ship designs
Updated starting ship names of factions added to the game after Crusade.
Shipyard display now shows how much production is being sent to that shipyard, so you know how fast it can build things.
Fixed an issue causing the unit buttons from not showing up in Medium UI on the Colony List screen.
Planet view list now displays research
Aliens can now be tagged as being available or unavailable as random civilizations
Fixed Tourism exploit in Crusade version of the Consulate
The AI has been ordered top stop freezing time to keep its mission ships safe. (stuck turn fix)
Addressed "word on the street" grammar and spelling mistakes
Removed duplicate planet data in crusade and base game data folders that could potentially cause bad things(TM)
Adjusted the choose civ screen to improve text wrapping
Fixed alignment issue on the Drath starting screen
Fixed a bug that prevented commanders from being assigned to United Earth ships
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