Hey everyone! We're excited to bring you a major post-release update A Step Forward, which contains several new neat features, improves balancing and Quality Of Life.
Here's the sum-up of the update, for full patch notes follow here. NEW:

• investments feature added to Economy category, which gives some major effects to several aspects of late-game (enemy scaling, research points gained...). Can be unlocked in Research
• Limit orders introduced to the market, allowing you to place orders that will be triggered when a certain price is hit. Requires unlock in research
• Combat automation panel ID added making it much easier to control your automation from map/battle, especially at high speeds

• limit orders + investments + research upgrade scaling help improve the main late-game balancing issues of market/combat/research points
• Research Points gained from knowledge will now be gained slower for the first 15 points, but faster from that point onwards this helps balance RPs gained from achievements and improves late-game scaling
• assign hotkeys will now NOT require holding down the keys. If you preferred requiring holding it down, you can toggle it back in settings -> quality of life
• when placing colonies, they will now remember the auto-expand options from the last time you changed it

• vastly improved market UI, to make it more useful
• buy/assign quick keys added to the UI, which allow you to quickly rotate between the assign/build options
• added some clearer information to the product stock page
• changed achievement rewards to show icons instead of text