It just says "String not Found" many many times for me.
It sounds like not all your files got updated. You can try going into the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Stardock\Drengin.net\GalCiv2 and change the version for DarkAvatar to something earlier than 1.7 and then re-start Stardock Central. That should cause it to let you download the beta again. Try using US-1 if you're not using that server.
1. Provide a warning when paying off leases when doing so will put you in dept. I was playing as the Yor, and researched "Xeno Ethics" and became good. As such, I got a 10,000 bc lease. Then when I accidentally paid it off all at once, it took me 30+ turns at an unconfortbly high tax rate just to recover.
Hmm, when I was testing it would tell me that I didn't have enough in my treasury to pay it off. Maybe it only warns you if the debt will be beyond a certain level. I'll check it out.
2. I would like to be able to decommision multiple ships at once, instead of one at a time. Allowing us to Ctlr + click to select multiple individual ships, and Shift + click to select all ships between the 2 selected will help to quickly scrap old ships.
I think you can do that on the Stacked ship list, select a bunch and then hit Delete. I'll look into it for the Maintenance tab though.
3. Could we get a auto-survey standby mode? In this standby mode,
if any new anomalies become available, the ship will wake up and switch to auto-survey mode.
Umm...I think so. I'll have to check; it should be similar to the Guard functionality.
Are you sure there's a new planet lights image? I didn't get one in the update. Still the same old image.
Actually, maybe the actual file didn't make it in to the update. It was in our internal change log (the one with all the codespeak), though, which is why it's mentioned in this change log.
What's the word on save game compatibility with 1.61 saves?
1.61 games should still work with 1.7