Tech Tree Polish, the Gas Giant and Ghosts That Fly With Your Station

Improvements

• Tech tree: right-angle connector lines on their own lanes, fewer crossings, an amber frame on the selected tech with the tree sliding to it, grey locked techs, and costs like 1,000 and 12.5k
• Window titles are one size, section headers one style, and a Fleet row's Destroy button is quieter so Deploy stands out
• Windows, panels and dialogs fade in quickly when they open
• New planet: the Gas Giant, ringed blue or plain brown, sometimes replaces a Terra World in newly explored space. Research drones earn 1.25x there
• Unbuilt ghosts against a mobile station fly and land with it, and bots build them where it lands. If one has no room, the station hovers until it does or you cancel the ghost
• Placing, hovering or selecting a Comet Catcher, or Alt view, shows where its comet destroys buildings as a red zone
• Blueprint ghosts are see-through green holograms, red where you can't place them
• Hits and beam ends land on the near side of the target's hull, not inside it
• Alt view icons sit just above each building's top
• Every command is now a Steam Input action. Once the new controller layout is published on Steam, you can rebind them there and prompts show your own buttons
• Steam Deck: every keybind hint shows a controller button, and two-button combos show as two icons
• Steam Deck or controller: a selected building's windows dock into one tabbed column on the right. On desktop it's an experimental setting
• Windows prepares shaders on the title screen, as the Mac does, so first visits and your first respawn stutter less
• Modders: PreventFleetIdleMarker is back