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This patch makes it easier to keep track of race ships, makes races take fear into account more, makes it easier to cause rebel factions, increases war weariness, increases use of non-combat race ships, fixes armor plating issues, and fixes several more minor issues.

0.845 change list:

* fixed armor plating issues introduced in last patch
* increased radar mult (2X) and max (4X) for race ships you have a high level of knowledge of (spies and/or treaties)
* increased MaxFear from 50.0 to 75.0 (race fear will impact things more)
* increased FearMultOtherWars from 1.1 to 1.5 (fear getting into too many wars)
* decreased FearMultEnemyOtherWarsfrom 0.9 to 0.67 (fear someone less if they are already in wars)
* decreased FearMultProtectionPacts from 0.9 to 0.8 (less fear when have mutual protection pacts)
* increased FearMultEnemyProtectionPacts from 1.1 to 1.25 (more fear when enemy has mutual protection pacts)
* decreased FearMultAlliances from 0.8 to 0.67 (less fear when have allies)
* increased FearMultEnemyAlliances from 1.25 to 1.5 (more fear when enemy has allies)
* now count vassals as allies when calculating fear of other races
* increased DamageFearMult from 30.0 to 60.0 (fear races that have damaged us much more)
* decreased MinPowerDiff from 0.5 to 0.25 (can have less fear of weaker races)
* increased MaxPowerDiff from 2.0 to 4.0 (can have more fear of stronger races)
* now helping rebels during civil war always splits race
* rebel quests can now send you farther away for the item needed, but should now always show up
* now when any kind of unrest is quelled on a planet, it gets some unrest resistance for a while
* increased RelationChangeMinLongWar/RelationChangeMaxLongWar 50% (higher war weariness)
* now long war relation change gets applied a second time at 2X max war time
* now long war relation change gets applied a third time at 4X max war time
* races are now willing to pay for treaties (at least with other races)
* increased TechWorthMult from 12.0 to 20.0 (races value tech more)
* doubled chances of freighters and cruise liners
* split RelationChangeDiplomatShip and RelationChangeDiplomatShipSponsored
* doubled chanced of diplomat ships
* decreased RelationChangeDiplomatShip from 12.0 to 3.0
* now show task info when highlight ship blips on minimap and system/sector maps
* added rest of plasma cannon icons (6 more)
* fixed a bug in Time::operator=( seconds ) (this bug's probably only been there for ~17 years) (not sure how many bugs this caused, but it was doubling the long war value)
* fixed not testing for duplicate quests in some cases because hadn't set planet yet
* fixed getting duplicate civil wars
* now show relation boost from escorting ships
* increased speed of race colony ships and freighters to 150.0
* decreased CrewHappinessChangeLevelUp from 5.0 to 1.0
* doubled range of fighters from a starbase
* fixed schism Blast Cannon (and other monster weapons that use TargetSpread) not shooting correctly
* now extra wormholes (ones not near the system edge) display appropriately on sector map
* fixed not getting task info on scouts
* fixed Scavenger Rebels description on Choose Race screen (itgt...)
* updated Fungus race music
* changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 105