- You can now stop shipyards from bugging you with "I'm idle" messages without needing to decommission them
- There seem to be many more higher-class planets than there used to be!!
- The new text for population cap, approval, etc. in the planet management screen is very useful; however, whoever inspected the quality of the English did a lousy job...
- Coercion is continuing to make it more difficult to keep your colonies happy (it was too easy before)
Desirable: for a planet's approval rating to have an arrow icon to show whether it is going up or down next turn.