VERSION 3.8.3 Patch (May 30th, 2023)

Improvements

• It is now possible to rename council positions by clicking on council position name in the council view.
• Added additional event chains to Under One Rule.
• Under One Rule now will take into account if the ruler was bad or good towards citizens.
• Added a checkbox to toggle automatic expansion of a sector in the sector editor
• Made the three different "Terraforming Candidate Discovered" events turn into messages if you have already found one before.
• The pre-sapients that worship the Beholder now have the Psionic trait.
• The Beholder's Psi-Inoculation process is now a pair of decisions to toggle it on and off, instead of a decision to be enacted for each pop you want to become psionic.
• The Animator of Clay has blessed the corroded one.
• Imperial Heirs will now be more likely to adopt the class of the current ruler if you have the Philosopher King civic.
• Imperial heirs will now have their chosen class weighted by civics and traditions that give bonuses to specific leader classes.
• Added the Reorganize Council agenda, which allows reselection of unlocked council positions without the need to reform the government.
• Beholder now has a recruitment event, and Azaryn's recruitment event has a couple more options
• Added a checkbox in the army tab of the planet view to control if a planet is used via the sector army builder or not
• Added scroll wheel speed settings
• Leaders in the leader pool that start with a negative trait, now correctly gets one less additional negative trait during their lifespan.
• For players without Galactic Paragons, leaders will more often get traits that match if they're assigned as councilors or not.
• Increased the age span of new leaders, but weighted towards the middle. Initial Leaders will now also be roughly the same age as pool leaders.
• The edict fund is now shown in the council view.
• Imperial empires can now crown a Chosen One to be the Divine Sovereign if the Chosen One is the current ruler or heir.

Balance

• Legendary leaders do not count towards Leader Capacity.
• The Eager trait now has an additional effect: these leaders will not contribute towards Leader Capacity until they reach level 4. Assigned some event spawned leaders the Eager (II) trait.
• Admirals that command fleets hired from marauders no longer count towards your leader cap.
• XP Penalties for going over leader capacity have been reduced. The LEADER_CAPACITY_XP_SCALE define has been added for modders to be able to easily adjust this number.
• Military fleets led by an Admiral can now explore unsurveyed hyperlanes. (This does not permit Admirals to survey planets, anomalies, or wormholes.)
• Admirals no longer give Fleet Command Limit based off of their level.
• Researching Galactic Administration now removes the cooldown for government reform, this was previously only done if you obtained it via Statecraft traditions.
• Rebalanced many traditions and ascension Perks.
• Opener for Aptitude traditions now gives +1 trait, moved from the Finisher. This is retroactively applied to leaders that have been hired or are in your leader pool.
• The Empire Needs You now gives -25% Leader Hire Cost instead of +1 Leader Capacity.
• Specialist Training now gives +25% Leader XP Gain.
• Psychological Profiling now gives -25% Leader Upkeep Cost in addition to -1 Max Negative Traits.
• Healthcare Program now gives +20 Leader Lifespan instead of +10 Leader Lifespan.
• Aptitude Finisher now gives +1 Leader Capacity and +1 Leader Trait Pick options instead of +1 trait.
• Science Division now gives -10% Scientist Cost and Upkeep instead of +20% Scientist XP Gain.
• Polytechnic Education now gives +10% Leader XP gain instead of +20%.
• Colonial Viceroys now gives -10% Governor Cost and Upkeep instead of +20% Governor XP Gain.
• War Games now gives -10% Admiral Cost and Upkeep instead of +20% Admiral XP Gain.
• Mind and Body now gives +10 Leader Lifespan instead of +20 Leader Lifespan.
• Finisher effect for Statecraft now grants Galactic Administration as a research option with 25% progress instead of giving the tech for tree.
• Resistance is Frugal now also gives -10% General Cost and Upkeep.
• Imperial Prerogative now gives +2 Leader Capacity in addition to its existing effects.
• Transcendent Learning Prerogative now gives +2 Leader Capacity, +1 Leader Pool Size and +33% Leader XP gain.
• Aptitude Tradition "Champions of the Empire" now gives bonus per Leaders' levels. Effect is now a flat -2 Empire Size per Governor level, and 0.5% Exp per Scientist level (and 2 Naval capacity per Admiral/General level)
• Guardian trait maximum effect is now +33% Defense Platform Damage and Hull Points.
• Frontier Spirit trait maximum effects changed to -10% Colony Ship Cost and +50% Colonization Speed and +1 starting pop for colonies.
• Cyborg generals now increase planetary combat width.
• Reduced passive experience gain by 30% for Progenitor Hive leaders from level 1-6 and 50% for Progenitor Hive leaders between 7-10.
• Gray Eminence destiny trait now reduces the effects of empire size, instead of reducing empire size directly. Updated Aturion Efficiency to match Gray Eminence.
• Now imperial rulers do not lose imperial heir trait, so they don't become worse when they take over the country.
• Lowered the spawn chance for the legendary paragon Keides by 75%.
• Autocannons are no longer valued at three times their intended military power.
• Now criminals are also unhappy when under oppressive autocracy civic
• Kai-Sha's "Expanded Contact Network" event will now upgrade her Shady Contacts trait if she already has it. And gives intel on other empires if it has already been maxed out.
• Replaced -20% Empire Size reduction for Aturion Efficiency trait with -10% Empire Size Penalty.
• Leader traits that have base resource production now produce the market equivalent of 8 energy/month for tier 1 and 24 energy/month for tier.
• Aggressor admiral sub-class now gives +7.5% weapon damage.
• Artillerist II trait now gives +7.5% tracking.
• Fortifier trait now scales between -5% Starbase upgrade cost and -5% Defense platform cost at tier 1 to -10% Starbase upgrade cost, -10% Defense platform cost, +5% Starbase hullpoints and +5% Defense platform hullpoints at tier 3.
• Armada Logistician trait ship upkeep maximum reduction is now -10%.
• Military Pioneer trait maximum effects are now +20% Ship Build Speed and -10% Ship Build Cost.
• Guerilla Tactician now gives a flat 10 Evasion instead of a +50% Evasion multiplier.
• Architect of War now gives -10% Military Ship Cost.
• Charisma trait now has a maximum Edict Upkeep reduction of -10%
• Removed -5% Military Ship Cost from the Strategist sub-class
• Geological Consultant trait maximum effect reduced to 9 months of unity per blocker removed.
• Retired Fleet Officer trait maximum effects reduced to +20% Ship Build Speed and -10% Ship Build Cost.
• Agrarian Upbringing trait now checks for country_uses_food = yes instead of being biological.
• Shipwright maximum effects reduced to +10% Ship Build Speed and -10% Ship Build Cost.
• Frontier Spirit maximum effects reduced to -10% Colony Ship Cost and +45% Colonization Speed.
• Architectural Sense maximum effects reduced to -10% Buildings and Districts Cost, -5% Buildings and District Upkeep, +25% Planetary Build Speed.
• Experimenter trait now gives a maxium of 2×Leader Level Research Points per month.
• Explorer trait maximum effects reduced to -10% Science Ship Cost and +25% Anomaly Research Speed.
• Expansionist maximum effects reduced to -10% Outpost Alloy and Influence Cost.
• Great Researcher trait now gives 5×Leader Level Research Points per month.
• Taskmaster trait XP reduced from 600 to 500. In return it now has soldiers produce 2/2/2 Energy/Minerals/Food (for countries that use food) or 3/3 Energy/Minerals (for countries that don't)

Bugfixes

• Under One Rule now changes to Imperial Authority when transitioning to Galactic Emperor or Psionic Sovereign.
• Intellectual Espionage trait now takes into account all researcher category jobs on the planet.
• Fixed an issue where the Expanded Hive Warren would get deleted if there was no remaining unupgraded Hive Warrens on the planet
• Updated all researcher jobs to check for Academic Recruiter.
• Increased the army upkeep from Disorder II trait.
• Chainbreaker trait now requires Egalitarian ethics.
• Honored Warmaster trait now requires Xenophile ethics.
• Commented out cut prospecting decision.
• Kidnapper trait now checks that the general's owner allows slavery instead of checking their ethics.
• Taskmaster trait no longer gives an undocumented +5% Building Speed per soldier job.
• Now you can't terraform with Azaryn without launching her special ability.
• The Death of a Great Leader event should no longer fire when you send a leader off to the Keepers of Knowledge.
• Cloaked Ships will no longer block starbases from being rebuilt.
• Moved gestalt nodes further apart from each other in the council view so that trait picking doesn't get blocked when they have a lot of traits.
• The planet visuals should now update properly when planets change class
• Fixed an issue where traits given via event options would not correctly display triggered effects
• The ambience sound effect played in the council view is now properly affected by the ambience volume slider
• Fixed an issue where leaders that changed empires would retain their council position in their old empire
• Updated all researcher jobs to check for leader_trait_academia_recruiter
• Fixed a bug where modding the species appearance would not apply to the ruler
• leader_trait_industrial_espionage now takes into account all researcher category jobs on the planet.
• The Scholarium Investigator leader trait now gives +25% Assist Research Efficiency instead of failing to give 10% Research Speed as a non-council trait.
• Fixed a COOP bug where it was possible for several players to unlock council positions at the same time resulting in duplicates
• If there is a wormhole in the capital system, then the Keides wormhole will spawn in a random neighboring system 1-2 jumps away
• Cordyceptic Stargazers now correctly spawn with an amoeba fleet again.
• Fixed Eager Explorer empires spawning with an extra scientist.
• Slaves are now properly set under dystopian living standard
• Any Gestalt empire generated after game start (e.g. from machine uprising) should now correctly get their Gestalt council nodes.
• Hyperdrive technologies no longer show duplicated icons.
• Fixed issues where starbase modifiers would apply to defensive platforms when they shouldn't
• Fixed an issue where pre FTL empires spawned from the necrophage origin would spawn in orbit of their planet
• Fixed a bug where ships would sometimes stop following its target when they entered a hyperlane
• Zroni Relic will now add 1 level to the leader, but won't choose trait on random it will be up to player to chose the trait.
• Fixed notification map ping staying visible for some time after dismissing the notification.
• Fixed a bug where some traits would not properly localize their names when their modifiers are part of tooltips
• Fixed a bug where the Insightful trait tooltip would duplicate headers for its effects
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to unassign envoys from their current task
• Fixed Resilient trait to properly adjust for synths. Did the same for destiny trait which was giving leader life span
• Crusader Spirit Opinion Modifier: Now it gives -80 opinion towards everyone of different ethic and +20 to the same ethic empires
• Fixed issues with the fleet manager where the buttons to increase and decrease the number of ships would not work correctly when using shift or ctrl modifiers
• Rogue Scientist event chain shouldn't trigger for Governors assigned as Head of Science.
• Updated some trigger loc from "No of ..." to "Number of ..." to be more consistent with the rest of the game.
• Fixed Tooltip for Paranoid Leader Trait
• Fixed title case for anomaly.3141 "The Depths of Alien Life"
• The event that allows you to pick a Chosen One no longer says "three individuals" are capable of absorbing such power and proceeds to list four names.
• Events that give the Chosen traits now check that the leader in question is psionic.
• Fixed an issue where you could reinforce a fleet when the template was not filled with the correct ships even though the fleet was filled on command limit
• Fixed the spawn chance modifier of the anomaly The Orb, as it could not spawn before.
• Beholder planetfall error message now states that an empty building slot is required.
• Fixed icon for brainslug species trait again.
• You can no longer psi-inoculate hive-minded pops or those being purged.
• Fallen empire capital planets should now have the correct planetary designation.
• You can no longer create subjects from sectors if the primary species would be an infertile clone army species.
• Marauder admirals can no longer serve on the council or be manually fired.
• Fixed some edges where a ruler could be chosen by a shroud entity but not awarded the trait.
• Added scripted loc for GetDefenseForceOrArmada and GetGDFOrArmada
• Updated Cybernetic Advantage agenda so it doesn't display placeholder art.
• Regular empires no longer have machine or hive-mind leaders in their external leader pools and vice versa.
• Cloned Organs/Self-Preservation Protocols now correctly has the same effects as Mind and Body.
• Fixed incorrect modifiers on the adoption effect of Synthetic traditions.
• Fixed MP lobby chat messages and scroll bar spilling outside the chat box.
• Fixed most tooltips in the game browser not working.
• Fixed Plantoids Species Pack DLC not showing up in MP lobby DLC list
• Fixed misalignment of the DLC icons in the multiplayer lobby
• Fixed icon lists sometimes becoming vertical when they should be horizontal
• Fixed coop presence icons not always showing their tooltip.
• The Interstellar Recruitment Office tooltip now specifies why you can't build it if you already have one in your empire.
• The sentinels archaeology site will now put Azaryn back on her own ship when she returns.
• Fixed a bug where some mercenary fleets would not have an admiral assigned to them
• Mercenary Admirals now get Mercenary Warrior Trait and 2 admiral traits to represent their level
• Mercenary Enclaves should no longer steal their admirals which they just rented out

AI

• AI will now wait until it has at least 5 planets and 25 years before choosing a specialization designation for its homeworld
• Fixed an issue where AI would be unable to build any buildings if they desired to build the Ancient Refinery but did not have access to any minor artifacts

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a number of Out of Sync errors.
• Increased performance in the leader view
• Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when a scientist was elected ruler while performing science ship orders
• Fixed a rare, but persistent crash when an empire was destroyed
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes happen if there were issues opening or writing log files
• Fixed crash in MP lobby when you confirm disbanding a coop group if the player list changed while the confirmation popup was open.
• Disabled tooltips in the loading screen to avoid crashes related to focus loss.**

UI

• Re-enabled tooltips while the game has no focus as hiding them caused issues for screen readers.
• Added tooltips for the join/leave coop empire button in the MP lobby when you can't click it.
• Added a tooltip for the coop checkbox in the MP lobby when you can't change it due to being ready.
• Use different titles for the multiplayer and coop game browsers.
• The multiplayer game browser now has a column that shows whether a game allows coop.
• Fixed an issue where the active agendas list would sometimes duplicate elements
• Added a new version of the main coop presence view to the topbar for resolutions with width >= 1600
• Auto-confirm disbanding a coop group in the MP lobby if all other players leave the group.
• Modifiers that affect leader experience gain will now be indented under a "Experience Gain Rate:" header
• Added confirmation prompt when selecting a country during hotjoining
• Lysator Syng's hire tooltip now shows that hiring him will give you 3 pirate ships as well.
• Show decimals for power projection breakdown in naval cap tooltip

Modding

• Added setrandom$CLASS$_background_effect script effects, to assign a random background class to a leader. $CLASS$ can be replaced with admiral, general, governor, or scientist.
• Added support for custom_tooltip_with_modifiers for council positions.
• Updated documentation for council positions to include new script support. See 01_test_councilor.txt for an example of a council position not linked to civics.
• Added script effect "unlock_council_selection = yes" to force validation of council positions and allow the player to reselect their council positions.
• Fixed the ethics OverLappingElementsBox not reloading properly
• Fixed the spacing parameter not working for vertical OverlappingElementBoxTypes
• Added new "empire_size_add" modifier, which flatly increases or decreases the Empire size.
• Council position unlock screen will now show council positions which are available by scope check but don't require any civics
• Added console command "debug_trait_weights", which enables logging of some of the trait random roll weights.
• Added military_power_multiplier to weapon components, which allows manual adjustment of combat power assessment for intangibles that are otherwise difficult to automate.
• Use 2 decimals for army upkeep in army view

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VERSION 3.8.2 Hotfix (May 11th, 2023)

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the mouse input would be offset when playing with fullscreen on.
• Fixed an achievement not always being awarded correctly.
• Fixed the Kidnapper trait applying to the whole empire population instead of the given planet.
• Fixed a bug where permanent rulers would not get their ascension perks when finishing the special projects to convert them.
• Anglers now once again count as farmers.
• Fixed map tracking sometimes not working for first contacts and archaeology sites.
• Holo-Theatres are now correctly destroyed when a gestalt empire conquers the planet they are built on.
• If an empire stops having Imperial Authority, the Imperial Heir trait is removed from their former heir.
• Leaders can no longer start the game with traits that produce resources. This should stop machine leaders from keeping a bonsai tree garden as a hobby.
• Restored the brainslug species trait.
• You can no longer psi-inoculate hive-minded pops or those being purged.
• Fixed an issue where some situation modifiers were not applied correctly.
• Fixed The Beholder, Keides, Azaryn, and others leaders from Paragon mutating due to traveling through shroud tunnels.
• Now Crusader Spirit will correctly impose the Crusader spirit civic on empires who lose the ideology war.
• Now the Imperial heir will have 0 Unity upkeep (upkeep from negative traits can still apply).

STABILITY

• Fixed a COOP crash when two players were selecting ascension perks at the same time.
• Fixed a crash related to pops with invalid species.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during removal of invalid trade deals.
• Fixed an out of sync related to events.

BALANCE

• The Minister of Exploration now grants +3% jump drive range per level.
• The additional unity duelists gain from the Arbiter of Duels is now added to their base output instead of multiplying the base output.

AI

• Fixed an issue where the AI would repeatedly attempt and fail to invade the pre-FTL empires from the Fear of the Dark origin.

UI

• Event notifications can now be configured in message settings.
• Added ship engagement range modifier to ship tooltip.
• Crime/Deviancy modifiers should now show the correct name in more places.
• Fixed Galactic Paragons not being shown in DLC lists.
• Fixed UI issues affecting the council view for gestalt empires after they unlocked their third civic.
• Fixed overlap between achievements and forum link button in the main menu on non-Steam platforms.
• Fixed text overlap between coop filter and cross platform filter in the matchmaking view.
• Improved the layout of the Multiplayer lobby DLC icons.
• Message settings are now sorted in alphabetical order.
• Message settings that have been changed and later changed back to their default values (without using "Reset Default") will now be saved as changed values.
• The coop filter checkbox in the multiplayer game browser is now checked by default.
• The player name used for Multiplayer is now saved more consistently.
• When hot-joining a coop empire, events that are open for other players in your empire before the hot-join will no longer be shown to the joining player.
• Icons for tiered traits should now correctly display a Roman numeral 'I' for tier 1, for players without Galactic Paragons.

MODDING

• Fixed a case where modded games could crash when using custom leader classes.
• Fixed crash on session start when using modded leader classes.
• Fixed some incorrect documentation for message types.

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Galactic Paragons

Galactic Paragons

• Unique Council Roles: Specialized roles and benefits are included in Galactic Paragons to expand upon the new Council Mechanics in Stellaris! Find dozens of unique council roles based on your civics and government types, and unlock additional positions as your empire evolves.
• New Dynamic Leaders: Recruit, improve, and follow the leaders of your empire through the ages! You may shape them by picking their traits, selecting their veteran class, and guide them towards their destiny, up until they retire - or perish!
• Meet Galactic Heroes: Attract paragons of renown to your council: unique leaders with their own art, events, and stories may join your empire and bring their own benefits to your government. Or, discover four Legendary Paragons with intricate event chains and unique mechanics!
• New Traditions, Civics, And More:
• A new “Under One Rule” Origin that tells the tale of the leader who founded your empire
• Eight new Civics focused on leadership, from immortalizing the personalities of leaders past in digital archives to heavily optimized council selection via corporate charter
• 12 new Veteran Classes
• Hundreds of new Leader Traits
• Two new Tradition Trees, giving players new edicts and improved leaders
• New ships, art, and story content
• 6 new achievements introduced

VERSION 3.8.1 - Gemini

FEATURES

• Added two Cooperative modes, allowing up to five players per empire. More information can be found in Stellaris Dev Diary #293.
• Cooperative PvE can be initiated from the main menu - all players that hotjoin the hosted game will join the primary player’s empire. This mode is primarily intended for teaching new players or for lower intensity cooperative gameplay.
• Cooperative PvP can be allowed by the host of a standard multiplayer game. When enabled, empires can open themselves up to allow other players to help control their empire. We expect this game mode to be useful for competitive team play.
• Please note that Cooperative modes are still considered to be a beta, and may be less stable than standard multiplayer, or may have some unusual experiences. We will continue to polish and refine Cooperative mode over the next few patches.
• Empire Council: Ruling a Galactic Empire is hard work, and your council of trusty leaders is there to help you. Base-game Stellaris now includes a ruling council, where up to three leaders will assist you in ruling your empire - your Ruler, your Head of Research, and your Defense Minister.
• Each leader gives bonuses to their area of expertise, which grow increasingly more powerful as they level up over time.
• Gestalts will have a collection of immortal “nodes”, that will level up and gain new traits over time, which we feel better suits them thematically.
• Ruler Creator: Added a new step in Empire Creation that permits the selection of your ruler’s appearance and starting trait(s).
• Renowned Leaders: Updated several leaders to use new Leader systems:
• Updated Tuborek with new effects to use the Paragon System.
• Updated Reth Unddol with new visuals and effects to use the Paragon System.
• Updated Gray's Menu and effects to use Paragon Systems.
• Updated the Caretaker with new visuals and effects to use the Paragon System.
• Updated the S875.1 Warform with new visuals and effects to use the Paragon System.
• Updated the Oracle with new visuals and effects to use the Paragon System.
• Ground Combat and Bombardment Changes: Several changes have been made to armies and bombardment.
• Army Builder tab added to starbases, which allows easier creation of Assault Armies across a sector.
• An army can be set as a Rally Point - new troops will automatically try to merge with this fleet (regardless of whether they were queued with the Army Builder or the old Recruit button).
• Planets can now select whether or not to Deploy in Orbit any newly recruited armies.
• Planets can now be taken through Orbital Bombardment if all defending troops have been killed. A policy can be set if you wish to refuse this form of surrender, and planets will not surrender to genocidal opponents.
• Bombardment is significantly more damaging than it used to be. More pops will die, and more buildings and districts will be ruined.
• Orbital Bombardment will now scale with the amount of ships bombarding, the first 100 fleet size ships will do full damage, after that each additional 100 fleet size will add 70% of that efficiency. For example, 300 fleet capacity worth of ships will deal 100% + 70% + (0,7^2 = 49%) = 219% total worth of bombardment damage.
• Bombardment effects are scaled based on the number of pops, buildings, and planet size. Small dense planets will suffer greater losses than large, sparsely populated planets.
• Ground Combat is also more devastating to planets than it used to be, but much less so than bombarding.
• The effect of collateral damage from different army types have also been adjusted, previously the collateral damage on army types was a linear value and not a multiplier, which meant that in practice high damage high collateral units like Xenomorphs could effectively do less collateral damage on the planet compared to normal troops because they would kill the enemy troops very quickly. This is no longer the case as the collateral damage modifier now acts as a multiplier on any damage dealt.
• Planetary Capital buildings now spawns 0/4/8/16 defensive armies for free based on the tier of the building.
• Sector Editor: It is now possible to edit Sectors in the Planets and Sectors screen. Systems can be freely moved between sectors as long as they are in range of the Sector Capital. Sector Capitals must now be at least four jumps away from any others.
• Customizable Menu: It is now possible to rearrange the list of options in the left side menu, by pressing the new Cog icon at the top. This will also correspondingly change the hotkeys to open these menus, allowing you to rebind these menu items to whichever F1-F10 key you prefer to have them on.
• Customizable Message Notifications and Toasts: Messages and notifications can now be customized to suit your needs.
• Added a new message type called a “toast”, which pops up and disappears automatically after a brief period of time.
• Settings -> Messages, Ctrl+Click, or cogs (on certain messages) will open the Message Settings menu.
• Messages can be disabled, enabled, or set to automatically pause the game.
• Fleet and Ship Designer:
• Merged into tabs of the same screen.
• Now displays a longer list of fleets.
• Copy Fleet Template and Overwrite Fleet Template features added.
• Delete + Enter will delete a fleet.
• Science Ship Automation: You can now enable or disable more Science Ship automation modules.
• Explore Systems - will explore the galaxy by entering systems and discover any planets and hyperlanes in there
• Survey Systems - will survey new systems the science ship enters
• Investigate Anomalies - will automatically research anomalies
• Excavate Archaeology Sites - will automatically excavate Archaeology sites
• Research Special Projects - will automatically research special projects

IMPROVEMENTS

• Added new Capital Designations for non-Gestalt empires. (Factory Capital, Forge Capital, Trade Capital, and Extraction Capital).
• Added unique textures for Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Uranus for the Sol system.
• Added unique textures for Earth and Mars when terraformed based off of available heightmap data.
• Improved animation for gas giants.
• Added a new anomaly: The Orb.
• Added a special solar system protected by the Lone Defender.
• Added a decision to clear the wreckage on a Broken Shackles starting planet in the event that they are conquered before they enact the Memorial to the Unshackled decision.
• Improved accuracy of tooltips on the galaxy setting screen and implemented experimental nested tooltip functionality.
• The mind-wiped species from On the Shoulders of Giants will now have the Forcefully Devolved trait.
• There is now a 1% chance that a pre-ftl civilization will spawn with the Forcefully Devolved trait.
• Added hotkey 'u' to upgrade fleet button.
• Broken Shackles empires will now have their starting Minister of Defense and Head of Research be recruited from any of the species in their empire.
• Added keyboard command for jumping to the next day, ‘.’
• Added Ship Section Templates to the Ship Designer which allows for easier creation of designs of a certain role, such as carriers or missile focused designs.
• Auto-designed ships and those designed by the ship role button will now only equip archaeo-components if your empire has the Archaeo-Engineers AP.
• You can now hotjoin an MP game to control the Daemonic Incursion.

BALANCE

• The Khanate Successor origin now unlocks raiding bombardment.
• Fallen Empire starting rulers are now level 10.
• Species traits that gave +N leader level cap now give reduced leader upkeep and reduced maximum leader negative traits.
• Reduced focused capital production bonuses from +20% to +15% following dev diary feedback.
• Random leader starting age range increased to 25-35
• Bonuses for many Authorities changed. Previous benefits such as the old form of Agendas and Mandates have been removed.
• Democracies focus on their factions, with +10% Faction Approval and they Reset Government Reform and Policy cooldowns following elections. Their ruler provides +2% Faction Unity and +5 Edicts Fund per level. The people have spoken!
• Oligarchies focus on their ruling council, and have +2 Effective Councilor Skill. Their ruler provides +5% Councilor Experience Gain and +5 Edicts Fund per level.
• Dictatorships focus on their ruler, who provides -2% Pop Amenities Usage and +10 Edict Fund per level.
• Imperial empires focus on their Capital System, which produces +10% Resources from jobs. Their ruler provides +0.25 Maximum Influence from Power Projection and +5 Edicts Fund per level.
• Megacorps have +20% Commercial Pact Efficiency, but +50% Empire Size from Planets. Their ruler provides +2% Branch Office Value and +5 Edicts Fund per level.
• Hive Minds have +25% Pop Growth Speed and -25% Empire Size Effect. Their ruler grants +2% Monthly Unity and +5 Edicts Fund per level.
• Machine Intelligences have +1 Pops When Establishing Colonies, +1 Mechanical Pop Assembly, +10% Mining Station Output, +50% Empire Size from Planets, and 50% Pop Growth Reduction. Their ruler grants -3% Empire Size from Pops and +5 Edicts Fund per level.
• Lowered base Minor Artifact storage capacity to 2,000. The Facility of Archaeostudies increases this by 2,000 or by 4,500 if the Archaeo-Engineers AP is taken.
• Criminal Syndicates now have -20% to Branch Office cost.
• Broken Shackles laborer jobs no longer benefit from modifiers applying to artisans or metallurgists.
• Broken Shackles scavengers are now considered researchers for the purpose of modifiers.
• Gave the Grand Herald archaeo-tech components.
• Rebalanced the "Shroud-Touched” traits that can be gained by leaders going through a Shroud Tunnel.
• Commercial Pacts now give High Economic Intel on Colonies.
• Empires with the Payback origin gain a damage bonus against ships belonging to militarily superior empires.
• The Seize Galatron casus belli is now unlocked the first time the Galatron is used, instead of upon acquisition.
• Trade collection will now prioritize the capital and then sector capitals if they are in range, even if other starbases are closer, resulting in overall greatly reduced piracy from trade routes if collection is there.
• Curator order now offers Gestalts a Trait instead of a Scientist.
• Changed Technocracy bonus to award Scientists a random expertise trait in addition to their other traits.

AI

• Massively reduced the number of starbases assigned to cloaking detection for the AI.
• Fanatical Spiritualists will now always outlaw robot workers.
• AI attitude updates now happen only monthly and on diplomatic actions.
• Relaxed AI budget requirements for orbital ring upgrades.
• Allowed AI to build economically useful orbital ring buildings without a matching designation.
• AI takes into account planetary production impact of possible orbital ring buildings when considering building orbital rings.
• Stopped AI from never fully re-evaluating ship designs if it had no preferences specified in its AI personality.
• Fixed an issue where AI would calculate a forecast of planet build queue items using a pop which could not work jobs provided by these buildings leading to incorrect results.
• AI is now much more restrictive about building gene clinics.
• AI will now prioritize building new starbases at the Sector Capital more.
• AI will now micromanage their enforcer jobs by using the scripted logic provided by the Planet Automation System.
• Fixed an issue where AI would not attack pirate stations in their empire.
• Ai will now resettle pops with low habitability to planets with higher habitability in the early game.
• Adjusted AI alloy spending budget to be a bit better at spending alloys on starbases and colony ships at the same time.
• Fixed several issues where AI would build or upgrade amenity or crime buildings even when they had already forbidden jobs from these buildings.
• AI trader persona are now the only ones who will build trade hub starbases and they will now only build them in sector capitals.
• Improved peace time AI for upgrading fleets and patrolling trade routes.
• AI empires that has Thrifty perk on their main species are now also eligible for the Peaceful Traders and Ruthless Capitalists AI personalities.

STABILITY

• Tooltips will no longer be shown when the game has lost focus (tabbed out or any other focus loss). This will prevent crashes caused by tooltips being generated in contexts where they aren't expected.

UI

• Disabled tutorial in Multiplayer (but not coop PvE).
• Auto-close auto-opened anomaly window if the science ship has already started researching the anomaly.
• DLC icons on the empire creation screen now appear in the same size and in order of releases.
• The popup when you are kicked or banned or the server is lost will now appear in front of other windows.
• Truncate long empire, government and species names in hotjoin.
• Make scrolling smoother in some places.
• Display special project energy cost in situation log.
• Auto Track Log Entries setting is saved in the save game.
• Fix certain windows (e.g. ship orders) being too small compared to the sprite tiling, which caused graphical bugs.
• Removed the in-game web browser. The game will now use the system browser instead.
• Adjust chat input and chat entry to the new chat window size.
• Changed player ready string to text icon.
• Planet view no longer closes when opening other UIs like the pop resettlement or market view.

BUG FIXES

• The Espionage Operation "Imperium: Target Seditionists" now correctly aborts if the Imperium falls.
• Fixed incorrect costs for Caravaneer deals.
• Payback: fixed incorrect tooltip in "Flagship Updated" event.
• Broken Shackles: fixed "First Contact with MSI" modifier not disappearing under certain circumstances.
• MSI can now use raiding bombardment with fleets hired from mercs.
• Fixed checkbox tooltips in "Host server" window not appearing.
• Fixed some scoping errors that prevented the "Indoctrinate Society" operation from working correctly.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to do two jump drive orders back to back by queuing them up via shift clicking.
• Insight technologies should no longer be randomly awarded from events such as Old with Defects.
• Removed Broken Shackles being scripted to start without a shipyard.
• Pledging Secret Fealty to another empire now gives them +20 Intel on and knowledge of all of your diplomatic pacts.
• Fixed the trapped in the storm special project stating the planet is trapped in a storm on the planet instead of the science ship being trapped in the storm.
• Fixed "Cross-platform play" checkbox sometimes not being checked by default.
• Choosing to hand over system ownership during the course of Pre-FTL Observation event "Among Us" now correctly grants you a Claim on that system.
• Removed erroneous custom tooltip for the finisher effect of Psionic traditions.
• Fix an issue where starbases would do cloaking detection for the wrong empire for 1 day.
• System and star name should now match even if the player selects an origin that has a special starting system.
• Enclaves should no longer keep offering you their services if you become a fanatical purifier.
• If you are a corporate angler when you finish the Fear of the Dark story line you will now become a regular angler.
• You will no longer get stuck with two unuseable civics if you become a Fanatical Purifier while a Barbaric Despoiler.
• You can no longer become a Fanatical Purifier while the Galactic Custodian or Galactic Emperor.
• A synthetically ascended empire should no longer refer to their own pops as having owners.
• Fixed some grammar in the Hivemind Voidspawn reanimation event.
• Fixed an issue with an unlocalized version of MSI in the initial interaction between a Broken Shackles and Payback empire.
• Fixed an unlocalized string for the Reanimated Tiyanki Matriarch.
• Removed a double “be” from a machine become the crisis event.
• Multiple Tuboreks should no longer be hidden inside the shielded worlds.
• Fixed Status Quo in a Subsidiary war subjugating the wrong empire.
• Fixed incorrect calculation used for Offspring amenities.
• Lithoid pre-sapients "working" in zoos now correctly eat minerals.
• Fixing truncated build queue items in the starbase view.
• Former pre-FTL worlds will no longer display the technological age of the former civilization during colonization.
• Added a new description to the Broken Shackles Homecoming event if the world is a tomb world.
• The "Direct Join" window now blocks other input.
• Corrected the Ancient Target Scrambler tech not stating that it unlocks the Ancient Target Scrambler ship component.
• The Radio Telescope Array now reduces the chance of Pre-FTL awareness decay instead of increasing it.
• Archaeoshields should now properly provide their shield hardening bonus.
• Fixed materialist culture workers (and death chroniclers) not having the effects of the Charismatic or Repugnant traits.
• Fixing custom diplomatic action sounds playing for unrelated empires.
• Fixed materialist culture workers (and death chroniclers) not having the effects of the Charismatic or Repugnant traits.
• Added missing background for Ironman game setting.
• Added missing "gateway" icons and tooltips to cloaking and detection technologies.
• Changing policies now correctly removes diplomatic pacts with pre-ftl civilizations.
• Fixed issues where sectors would not always include all systems within range, also fixed related issue where sector map mode would sometimes draw borders between systems in the same sector
• Deleting templates in the fleet manager will no longer reset the scrollbar, added 'Delete' hotkey to template removal.
• The "Host server" window now blocks other input.
• Prevented joining full MP games.
• Fix MP game browser listing full games even if "Not full" is checked.
• Species with servile trait can no longer be given the Full Military Service rights and thus generate leaders.
• Ringworlds now use empire color.

MODDING

• Add_random_research_option script effect now ignores Insight technologies by default.
• Added the creator scope for leaders, allowing you to scope to a leader's country of origin.
• Added reset_policy_cooldowns = yes effect.
• Added the special_max_amount = yes/no parameter for resources.
• Council position support use of conditional_tooltip = "LOCKEY" to display custom tooltips for triggers you define in is_leader_possible = { }, triggers defined here are not otherwise shown in the council position tooltip.
• Scripted triggers may now generate up to one automatic event option icon each
• Calling GetAge in localization should no longer show the leaders age if marked as hidden
• Added controls to the fleet imgui view and added jump drive information to ships
• Using the ImGui view shortcut for selectables (ctrl+alt+right click) on the same selectable when it's already open, will now close the view.
• Added expansion_planner = yes/no for districts. This controls if the district type should be visible in the expansion planner or not and defaults to no.
• Views containing longer texts will now automatically reload when changes in localization are detected.
• Added damage_vs_superior_empires_mult modifier
• Add remove_from_federation script effect
• Removed support for the "Major" flag and potential trigger in events.
• You can also use from for the ship design in section template ai weights
• You can now scope to a ship's design using 'design = {}'
• Added has_role trigger for ship designs
• You can now refer to the ship design using "from" in ship components. It may have incomplete information, but it will have at the very least the ship's designated role stored in it.
• Added copy_flags_and_variables_from effect to copy all flags and variables from one scope to another
• Replaced set_is_female with set_gender
• Renamed country_mia_time_mult to fleet_mia_time_mult so that you can apply it at leader or fleet level too
• You can now use "initializer = random" in the spawn_system effect
• New trigger "num_candidate_supported", returns number of times an election candidate has been supported this election.
• Removed add_ruler_trait and remove_ruler_trait in favor of using add_trait and remove_trait instead
• Add random_ruler to create_leader's class field. This will randomize between valid ruler classes for the empire
• Removed the ruler specific class. The ruler can now have other
• Kill_leader leader effect now accepts ruler = <yes/no> instead
• Has_ethic trigger now works on pop_faction scope too, returning their guiding_ethic.
• Added on_planet_returned on action which triggers when an owner of a planet regains control of it
• Made species_classes overwrite extendably too
• AI economic plans now overwrite in an "extendable" way, so you can define a further "basic_economy_plan" which adds an extra subplan, and it will append this subplan to the existing basic_economy_plan
• Ownership limits now no longer overwrite the full object but are instead "extendable", which means you can define a second "default" and put an entry in, and the game will add that to Vanilla's definition of "default"
• Activating an Agenda triggers OnAction "on_agenda_finished".
• Fixed faction_approval not working as country modifier.

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VERSION 3.7.4 (March 30th, 2023)

BALANCE AND IMPROVEMENTS

• Pre-FTL civilizations now have a chance of having a "close call" when nuclear war threatens to break out.
• Payback Origin
• If you defeat the Debt Collectors three times, the MSI will use the Humiliate war goal against you instead of trying to vassalize you
• The Debt collectors won't bug you anymore if you're currently at war with the MSI
• Fixed Payback war goals to ensure you can't vassalize or impose ideology on homicidal empires
• Slightly increased surrender acceptance of Payback war goals
• Payback origin: fixed a rare instance where the Debt Collectors event chain could get soft locked if the debt collectors were defeated by another empire
• Payback empires now get a consolatory prize if the MSI gets destroyed by a Marauder empire
• Fixed an issue where a Payback empire using the End Threat (Payback) war goal against the MSI could end with a whimper instead of as intended.
• Increased starbase reactor power by roughly 15%.
• Hive-Minds with both Cordyceptic Drones and Stargazers now start with 3 reanimated amoebae.
• Pre-FTL Awareness cannot naturally decay below 10.
• The Raise Awareness espionage operation now prevents pre-ftl Awareness from naturally decaying for 5 years.
• The Triumviri ending for Fear of the Dark is now achievable from infiltrating the Fevorian government.
• Buffed MSI by giving them some bonus naval capacity and starting technologies.

BUG FIXES

• The devolving beam now properly destroys the final contingency world (when boosted with the Archaeo-Engineers Ascension Perk)
• Fixed Sabotage Starbase operation failing to destroy starbase components
• Fixing a case where you were blocked from building orbital rings on a Fear of the Dark planet
• It is no longer possible to acquire multiple Galatrons from reliquaries
• Hivemind pre-FTLs will no longer be producing consumer goods.
• Fixed an issue where the Solarpunk society wouldn't reattach itself to the galaxy.
• Fixed an issue where the Solarpunk society would stay neutral after being attacked.
• Fixed an issue where Sol X and your Beta homeworld would overlap.
• Fixed the Dark Forest achievement not triggering in some cases due to interactions with marauders.
• Construction ship and science ships gained from picking a specialization as part of the Imperial Fiefdom origin now correctly start with hyper drives for empires with the Eager Explorer civics.
• Fix AI Empires building hundreds of observation stations if you don't own First Contact
• Empire naming adjectives should now be seen for German, Simplified Chinese, and Russian.
• Removing an unnecessary progress bar in the clear blocker view.
• Removed happiness penalties from unemployment from living standards, these are now solely applied from job strata.
• AI with Clone Army Origin now creates clone vats to keep their colonies alive.
• Starbases should now correctly reflect their new sensor range on the monthly tick.
• Ancient Saturator Artillery tech now unlocks the Spinal Mount Bow section for battleships.
• Fixed decloaking in a system with pre-ftls not correctly firing the event to increase awareness.
• Broken Shackles empires with robots outlawed now correctly purge machine and mechanical pops.
• Terraforming a planet now also has a chance of triggering an awareness increase.
• Fix crash when a species doesn't have a valid archetype
• Removed ability to use the "reveal yourself" diplomatic action while you're already revealing yourself
• Pre-FTL agreements like "give technology" now get correctly removed once a pre-FTL civilization becomes spacefaring
• Blocked "Salacious Affair" envoy event from firing on pre-FTL worlds
• Removing the option of upgrading at neutral starbases
• Fixed the Fear of the Dark Separatist country being localized incorrectly in German, Polish and Spanish.
• Added correct icon for Negative Media Coverage modifier.
• If a pre-FTL society has more than one planet then none will keep being available for observation once the society becomes fully aware.
• Dig sites should no longer generate minor artifacts for users that do not own Ancient Relics DLC
• Corrected icon for Declining Healthcare modifier.
• Class-4 Singularity can now be constructed when rewarded by event.
• Made it so you can't get an option in an espionage event that requires an interference policy that doesn't allow for espionage.
• Genocidal empires can now use assimilation species rights targeting their species. This should fix Fanatic Purifiers not being able to cybernetically or psionically assimilate lost colonies, splinter planets or the like.
• Adding missing cloaking stat on ship design view.
• Blocking the possibility of terraforming while the planet is under colonization.
• Fixed a crash when loading old savegames
• Fixed tooltip bug with fleets from defensive pacts in a war.

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Update 3.6.1 (December 6th, 2022)

Bugfixes

• Fixed DLC being listed as “corrupted” in the launcher due to checksum mismatch.
• Added missing French scripted localization.
• Fixed adjective generator in the empire creator not working for some languages.
• Several ship sizes that lacked role definitions now have them.
• AI will no longer rent mercenary reinforcement fleets enroute to the main fleet.
• Fixed graphical artifact appearing in the ship browser.
• Fixed overlapping portraits sometimes appearing in the first contact view.
• Fixed subjects being able to become the federation president in arena combat successions.
• Empty fleet templates generated automatically will now be cleared after a set amount of time.
• Machine uprisings can now spawn fleets with all unlocked ship types.
• Fixed mechanical fallen empires missing part of their ringworlds.
• Pre-FTL civilizations should now generate defensive armies.
• Prevented AI Cyborg Hivemind empires from assimilating already cyborg hivemind pops, which could get them stuck in endless assimilation.
• Blocked pops with the Psionic trait to also receive the Latent Psionic trait.
• Gateway Sites and Ruined Gateways show up in outliner.

Balance

• Juggernauts now have the same base maximum speed as Battleships and Titans.

Stability

• Fixed a crash when older custom names contained certain special characters <3

Modding

• Fixed crash when overwriting e.g. certain pop jobs or districts individually
• Fixed is_ringworld trigger being overwritten by a scripted trigger

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Update 3.6

The Stellaris 3.6 “Orion” update includes many changes to combat. More counters should exist for different strategies, and mixed fleets should be more viable than before, covering for the weaknesses of other ship types.

COMBAT REBALANCING

• Ship Roles can now be selected to auto-design ships that actually fulfill certain roles, such as Artillery, Brawler, Torpedo, and so on. If you do not possess any weapons that fulfill the selected role, it’ll do its best with what you have.
• Added a new ship size: Frigates are an advanced form of Corvette specialized in delivering G class weapons.
• Torpedoes now gain a multiplicative damage bonus to their damage based on the ship size of the target, as do Prethoryn missiles. The Unbidden also get a reduced variant of this. This bonus is capped at +800% damage.
• Torpedoes now have a maximum firing arc of 25 degrees and a shorter maximum range.
• Energy Torpedoes such as Proton and Neutron Launchers have been changed into G class weapons with a minimum range. Damage has been adjusted to be balanced as a Torpedo class weapon, and like the new Torpedoes, they deal increased damage to larger targets. Unlike standard torpedoes, they remain instant hit weapons for now.
• Some sources of Evasion have been replaced with other effects.
• Small weapons of a category now have a slightly faster refire rate, Large weapons of a category now have a slightly slower refire rate.
• Added a minimum range to all Large weapons except Lasers and Autocannons.
• Weapon component tooltips now display minimum range and firing arc.
• Significant adjustments have been made to various ship combat behaviors.
• Ship combat computers now ignore certain weapons for desired range purposes, and base their desired distance on the actual loadout of the ship. "Swarm" and "Torpedo" behavior will charge in, "Picket" and "Line" behaviors will attempt to stay at the range of their median range weapons, and "Artillery" and "Carrier" will try to stay at the range of their longest ranged weapons.This generally increases the desire for ships to remain at range if possible.
• Artillery and Carrier combat computers now use the new maintain_range combat behavior, which attempts to back off if at less than roughly half their desired range.
• Strike Craft no longer intercept missiles, but will continue to fight each other. Reduced the health and refresh rate of most strike craft.
• Flak Batteries now more strongly counter Strike Craft, while Point Defense now more strongly counter missiles and torpedoes. Strike Craft are more reliant on Shields, Missiles and Torpedoes are more reliant on Armor. Due to their ability to bypass shields, Strike Craft are very effective against other Strike Craft.
• Added Armor Hardening and Shield Hardening modifiers, which reduce armor and shield penetration. Added new aux components that use Exotic Gases, Rare Crystals, Living Metal, or Zro to provide armor and shield hardening.
• Autocannons now have a faster fire rate (and thus are very high damage for their weapon size, but have very short range).
• Added Medium and Large Autocannons.
• Disruptors and Autocannons are now considered Brawling weapons, with short range but faster attacks.
• Mining lasers are now classified as Brawling weapons. Refire rate and general stats have been adjusted.
• With the exception of Autocannons, Kinetic and Missile weapons no longer have bonus hull damage.
• Lasers now deal 25% bonus hull damage.
• Increased the power consumption, cost, and damage of Plasma weapons to differentiate them more from other energy weapons.
• Ships now get a limited number of disengagement opportunities. All current drives provide 1 disengagement roll once the ship takes hull damage below its disengagement threshold, and the Hit and Run war doctrine grants all of your ships an additional attempt. Civilian ships set to evasive will continue to try to disengage with each hit.
• The Hit and Run doctrine provides +2 Disengagement Opportunities.
• Admirals now grant their fleet +1 Disengage Opportunity at levels 5 and 10.
• The Enigmatic Encoder now proves +1 Disengagement Opportunity rather than evasion.
• Armor components now grant twice as much armor as before. Shield components now grant +50% more than before, but regen remains the same. Hull components grant less than before.
• Hull Technologies now give 10% hull instead of fixed values.
• Armor and Hull regen now behave like shields - five times faster outside of combat. (Regen values are now 20% of the previous values for most components.)
• Missiles now fit into S weapon slots and have had their damage modified accordingly, Swarmer Missiles go into M. Torpedoes (and Proton/Neutron Launchers) are now the only weapons that fit into the G slot.
• Adjusted the maximum range of all non-torpedo missiles. Reduced the range of torpedoes. Decreased Missile Accuracy from 100% to 85%.
• Made XL weapons more likely to target battleships and titans.
• Massively increased the chances to lose or damage ships when a fleet uses emergency FTL to escape a battle.
• Reduced the time before emergency FTL can be initiated during combat.
• Ships should try to spread out a little further away from one another in combat.
• Ion Cannons now have 3 Aux slots. The Destroyer (Interceptor), Cruiser (Gunship), and Battleship (Broadside) stern sections now have an extra Aux slot.
• Adjusted power costs for Aux slot utilities.
• It is no longer possible to kill a dragon by distracting it with a large fleet of transport ships.
• The cap to the Force Disparity bonus for fleets that are significantly outnumbered has been dramatically increased.

FEATURES

• Reworked the Ascension Paths from Utopia into tradition trees.
• Added a version of the Synthetic ascension path for machines to Synthetic Dawn.
• Added Conclave Federation Election type to Federations.
• Added Ascensionists civic to Utopia for regular empires and equivalents for hives and machines. Provides +25% planetary ascension effects, -10% ascension cost, and reduces the additional cost of traditions from empire size by 25%.
• The Epi-Genetic Triggers technology and Genetic Resequencing tradition now both allow the removal of pre-sapient traits from species via species modification. The Servile trait from the Syncretic Evolution origin and traits bestowed by the Enigmatic Cache count as pre-sapient traits for this.
• Added various new galaxy shapes, such as 3 and 6 arm spirals, and some more experimental and irregular shapes.
• Galaxies now default to Spiral (2-Armed) rather than Elliptical. Tiny Galaxies now support Spiral (2-Armed) galaxies.
• Added an archaeology site in a new solar system with a debris belt.
• Added support for Text To Speech in various views containing longer texts.
• Added the Cordyceptic Drones civic to Necroids for hiveminds, allowing them to reanimate all organic space fauna..
• Added an event on game start with Common Ground origin to let you pick your federation type. Implemented new event chains.

IMPROVEMENTS

• AddedRolled Slave Revolt content into the general Separatist Revolt Situation as a variety when slaves try to revolt.
• Added "planet revolt" VO to planetary revolt situation
• The habitability planet icons in the system view can now be clicked just like on the galaxy map.
• Added a Planet Automation setting which allows for construction even during resource deficits.
• Added tooltip for Detox saying how many Toxic Terraforming Candidates you have within your borders.
• Machine name lists now use hexadecimal and 0-based sequential names.
• Made auto-migration happen via weighted random (so the destination planet will be algorithmically chosen from among the valid destinations, rather than pops always favoring a certain planet until it is full even when multiple are available).
• Changed how Planet Automation is presented in the Planet View to more clearly show that there are settings available.that the player can use.
• Planet Automation Crime Management will now forbid enforcer jobs if you have 0 crimes and allow enforcer jobs if you have more than 27 crime.
• The tooltip for planetary automation designation setting now explains when it will create new jobs.
• Added a new event image for reanimation related events
• Added the Parasitic Overmind Government type.
• Explicitly prevented various scripted solar systems from spawning inside Marauder territory. These include Amor Alveo, Wenkwort, the Caravaneer capital, and Lost Colony origin systems.
• Delayed the start of precursor events for empires with the On the Shoulders of Giants origin. Players who are busy exploring their own backstory may begin exploring those of the broader galaxy after completing the 'Intercepting History' event chain, at which point Precursor events are 3x more likely to appear.
• Habitats built in orbit of large zro, alloy or dark matter deposits now also collect these deposits.

BALANCE

• Occupied planets no longer produce or consume resources from buildings or pops.
• Added nanite autocannons and flak cannons as a reward for killing the scavenger bot.
• The Aquatic trait now costs 2 points.
• Driven Exterminators can now assimilate other machines after taking Synthetic traditions.
• Added a Robot Assembly Complex building that gives 2 roboticist jobs. This is unlocked by a new Robotic Assembly Systems technology.
• The Logic Engines trait is now allowed on droids.
• Tweaked Galactic Market location formula to far more strongly favor trade value in its criteria.
• Capped Federation Experience at 2000 above what is required for level 5, so that level 5 federations with AIs are no longer one of the most fragile configurations known to man.
• If a species cannot live on a planet, it is now the first to be purged from it (this closes a Clone Army exploit related to slowly purging other species instead).
• Artificers now no longer produce engineering research.
• Made Zro Distillation more likely to appear if you have a Shroudwalker teacher.
• Pearl Divers have had their CG output increased, with a corresponding increase in food/mineral upkeep. Their trade value output has been reduced.
• Splinter Hive holdings now require at least 30 pops present on the subject planet to be constructed.
• The Toxic Entity now has an acidic gland dealing 1.25% hull damage per day to all ships in the same system. This does not apply to the player controlled variant.
• A large number of tweaks to the ethic assignment weights. Includes making certain weights based on diplomacy with empires of a particular ethos have an impact that is more dependent on the number of empires you are engaged in such diplomacy with.
• Fixed some oddities that hampered authoritarianism, e.g. now relations with authoritarian empires boosts authoritarianism, and if you are authoritarian, it will no longer boost egalitarianism for you to give your pops good living standards. Finally, also added some weights based on the job the pop is actively working (e.g. priests, nobles and soldiers)
• Certain technologies are no longer cheaper than other technologies in the same tier.
• Food Processing Centers, Mineral Purification Hubs, Energy Nexuses, Alloy Nano-Plants, Civilian Repli-Complexes, The Auto-Curating Vault, Citadel of Faith, Corporate Vault and Alpha Hub now have increased cost and upkeep on ringworlds, in exchange for providing the benefits normally giving by their related orbital ring buildings.
• Ringworld colony designations and ecumenopolis planet class now provide both mechanical and organic pop assembly.
• Colony designations on ring worlds now provide +10% pop growth and assembly speed (this can be multiplied through planetary ascension). The default "ring world" designation provides +15%
• Ecumenopolises now give +25% growth and assembly speed, rather than +50% growth (and no assembly)
• Efficient Bureaucracy civic now grants Bureaucrats, Priests, Managers and Death Priests with Edict Fund production that scales with modifiers to their Unity production.
• Imperialist and Supremacist factions will now be pleased forever if you defeat a Leviathan, not just for 20 years. They are also a bit less selective about which Leviathans they are pleased about you killing (i.e. the list has been updated for those added since the Leviathans DLC)
• Several factions now care about the type of federation you are in, if it is one attached to a particular ethic
• The Imperialist faction will now care about how much of your fleet power you are using.
• Factions will now disband and not reform if they can command the support of less than 3% of the electorate.
• Halved the culture worker modifiers for Egalitarians, Xenophobes and Xenophiles.
• Doubled the culture worker modifier for Pacifists.
• Increased the time it takes to do first contact with other civilisations by about 30%.
• Slightly increased the chance of having a unique first contact event chain.
• It is now allowed for the galaxy to contain multiple void dweller empires.
• Moved the repeatable technologies for strike craft into Society - Military Theory.
• Reduced governing ethics attraction of newly-conquered pops.
• Removed defense platform cost and upkeep reductions from Bulwarks. Bulwarks now gain inherent shield and armor hardening as they level up.
• Strategic resource planetary automation will no longer fill fortress designation planets with refineries instead of strongholds.
• Subjects that are not disloyal will now gain ethics attraction corresponding to their overlord's ethics (this was already the case for spiritualism, now it is the case for all ethics).
• The Cybrex and Sentinel factions now scale to a limited degree based on the setting for endgame crisis difficulty (their difficulty = square root of crisis difficulty).
• Martial Law, Hunter Killer Drones and Compliance Drones planet modifiers now provide penalties to both mechanical and organic pop assembly.
• Zro distillation technology no longer explicitly requires Psionic Theory, but is extremely rare without it.
• Buffed the daemonic incursion by giving them additional naval capacity, reduced ship upkeep and many more fleets (scaling off of their naval cap).
• Updated Merc and Salvager station designs due to changes in which weapons could fit in which slots.
• Extradimensional Anchors and Portals now have a shield hardening aura for allies in that system.
• Larger Extradimensional ships and structures now have a point defense solution. Bzzt.
• Special endgame crisis factions such as the Aberrant, Cybrex and Sentinels now show up a bit earlier during the endgame crisis on large galaxy maps.
• Presapient traits now have no trait point or trait pick cost.
• Ascension Paths:
• Assimilation tooltips now state if they will remove psionic or cybernetic traits.
• You can now psionically awaken cyborgs. Doing so removes any cybernetic implants they have.
• Installing cybernetic implants in a psionic species now prevents them from having any psionic abilities.
• Non-hive-mind cybernetically ascended empires can now remove the hive-mind trait from hive-minded cyborg pops by assimilation.
• The budding trait is no longer mutually exclusive with the vat-grown trait. The polymelic trait is now mutually exclusive with all versions of the budding traits.
• Rebalanced the Cyborg, Erudite, Psychic and Synthetic leader traits.
• AI Opinions:
• Dramatically increased the absolute value of most opinion modifiers.
• Increased the opinion modifiers granted from first contact, decreased the base rate at which they decay and made the decay rate modified by improving/harming relations.
• Increased the opinion penalty for undertaking Become the Crisis.
• Maximum opinion from Improve Relations has been increased to 150. Minimum opinion from Harm Relations has been decreased to -150. Previous values were 100 and -100 respectively.
• Opinion modifiers from espionage operations now have their decay rate affected by improving and harming relations.
• Opinion modifiers from Galactic Imperium interactions now have their decay rate affected by improving and harming relations.
• Refactored opinion modifiers from Galactic Imperium.
• Only xenophobes are now happy if the caravaneers are destroyed.
• Xenophile, pacifist and corporate are upset if the caravaneers are destroyed.
• Traditions:
• Rebalanced Harmony, Prosperity, Mercantile, Versatility, Synchronicity and Adaptability traditions.
• Origins:
• Mechanists: Now provides +15% robot assembly speed and +1 robot trait pick as origin modifiers instead of -5% robot upkeep. The starting robots now have the bulky and high maintenance traits and the matching trait for whichever worker job they hold. Finally, they now have Robomodding as a guaranteed research option from the start of the game.
• Shattered Ring: The number of segments that are colonizable on game start now depends on the Guaranteed Habitable Worlds setting. These segments have a large amount of blockers including some that require advanced technology to clear, but impact the habitability of the segment. Shattered Ringworld segments are no longer ideal worlds, but have a base of 100% habitability. Repairing shattered ringworld segments now qualify you for the Galactic Wonders AP. The cost and time to restore the shattered ringworld segments has been reduced by 25%.
• Corpse-Filled blockers now take a year to clear.

AI

• AI will now value you offering them fleets. This fixes several cases where you could cheese the AI with worthless offers (e.g. fleets that you have just disbanded, or fleets that have no FTL drive, or are 100% of your total fleet despite being just 1 ship)
• Added base unity target for machine empires so they can afford more leaders in the early game.
• AI assault transports will now go ahead and invade planets if they have enough strength even if they have additional reinforcements on they way.
• AI will no longer assign excessive amounts of fleets to bombard the same planet.
• AI will no longer get stuck trying to activate tradition trees it was blocked out from activating, like the ascension perk trees. (This previously mainly affected modded games).
• AI will now build armies based on the size of their economy.
• AI will now correctly avoid superior enemy forces when pathing to link up with their fleet group
• AI will now use war time edicts, and pay for their strategic resource from their stockpile without constructing additional rare resource producing buildings.
• AIs lacking rare resources will no longer create ship designs that rely on them.
• Fixed an issue where the Prethoryn Scourge did not run all of its AI code sometimes making it less effective.
• Fixed an issue where AI would sometimes build strongholds even though their economy plan for navy cap was not activated.
• Made the AI generally want more battleships, and generally varied the AI's desire for a certain distribution of ship sizes between personalities.
• Made strategic AI take friendly following fleets into account when computing fleet power.
• Empires will now support crisis decelerations against empires they are at war with.
• Fixed issues with AI's difficulty-adjusted economic modifiers, and certain misevaluations of modifier benefits in its economic strategy

STABILITY

• Fixed Out of Sync involving branch office power production.
• Fixed a crash when ascending planets
• Eliminated potential out-of-sync due to diplomatic relations.

PERFORMANCE

• Fixed lag from having a combination of a large number of species and a large number of colonisable planets.
• Opening the fleet manager in the late game will now have a much-reduced impact on frame rate
• Reduced UI frame rate lag from several sources (notably related to fleets and calculations of whether and where any reinforcements can be recruited)
• Further improved the performance of using triggered economic category modifiers.
• Made mean time to happen events early out if they have fire_only_once and have already fired. (I.e. they will stop draining performance once no longer relevant).
• Slightly sped up the calculation of pop job weights when updating them from serial (i.e. not during the monthly batch parallel update)
• Added caching to AI fleet power calculations.

UI

• Added terraforming candidate icon to galaxy map and system view.
• Reduced notification spam from empires having certain CBs on you.
• Selecting fleets from the galaxy map will now no longer select fleets merging with larger ones. This permits selecting all large fleets in a system without disrupting any fleets that are on their way to merge with them.
• Caravaneers now tell you when you will be allowed to open another Reliquary in the tooltip where they say they can't offer one right now as they need more time to prepare.
• Added planetary designations to the dropdown list for selecting planets in the resettlement view, and generally made it look a bit nicer.
• Tooltips regarding offering or receiving Federation Association status now explain that this is basically a non-aggression pact
• Added a more helpful tooltip to the Inter-Dimensional Trade modifiers.
• The technology card UI will now resize dynamically depending on the size of the content in the card.
• Fixed selected technology card scroll bar overlapping the unlocked content icons.
• Fixed mouse shortcut tooltip for pausing the game being displayed in multiplayer even though it cannot be used in multiplayer.
• Added a tooltip for war demand achievement acceptance that lists systems you lack claims on.
• Added information on potential branch offices for megacorps to the "Kick from Federation" diplo action's tooltip, since Commercial Pacts between federation members are not a thing
• Expansion planner view now has ahave Terraforming Candidate filter. which will help the player to find the uninhabitable planets which has potential to be terraformed to habitable ones. Also there is new status icon which will help distinguish the planets which are possibleis possible to terraform from the ones that are notis not. (not owned, tech requirements, etc...)
• First Contact event chains will now progress if there is a purely random event with only one option. (Note that this only covers events between stages, not the ones that end stages, which may also only have one option). You can tell if your first contact chain is not blocked by a pending event by the alert looking less urgent.because the alert icon will look a bit less threatening.
• Fixed the tooltip for commercial pacts showing the wrong value for how much you would benefit in terms of trade income.
• Fixed it being possible for the subject toThe subject will no longer be able to press the "Build Holdings" button in the agreement view.
• Added modifier details to production and upkeep of building tooltips.
• Added modifier details to production and upkeep of district tooltips.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed strike crafts flying far below the fleet during combat.
• Added check for disabled fleet when ships are destroyed and end combat if the last ship is disabled. This may solve some instances of the “invincible fleet” bug.
• The last pop on a planet will no longer auto-migrate away.
• The asteroid colony event will no longer get distracted when shot and is now slower to allow for more time to react.
• The Holy Guardians will no longer mind if you turn their Holy Worlds into other planet types as long as you have the Head of Zarqlan. MAY HIS WILL BE DONE
• Fixed planetary ascension modifiers increasing rather than decreasing empire sprawl.
• Auto-designed ships can no longer equip space amoeba weapons.
• Fixed it being possible to get Slave Optimization agenda and Iron Fist trait without actually having any slaves.
• Added missing megastructures to the Giga-Engineering achievement check.
• Repairing the Shattered Ring now makes it have an appearance that matches your empire’s scheme (as restoring ruined ring worlds does).
• Fixed the possibility that the automatically-spawned Commonwealth of Man or United Nations of Earth could spawn next to a xenophobic fallen empire.
• You will no longer get a notification of another empire completing their gateway construction when you are the first to make a gateway and it activates some other gateway.
• C.A.R.E. Relic World now has Dense Ruins rather than Former Relic World (which it could then get twice if you made it an ecumenopolis)
• Fixed a case where the Caravaneers would ask en empire they had never met to relocate there after their home system was destroyed.
• It is no longer possible to engage the Marauders in conversation multiple times, simultaneously.
• Fixed some cases where orbital deposits could spawn on habitable planets.
• Expand the Planetary Sea is now no longer available on a planet you are terraforming.
• Renamed the 'Planetary Government' and 'Planetary Unification’ technologies for Machine and Hive Mind empires. Machines now begin with 'Planetary Instantiation', and may research 'Uniform Data Standards' as before. Hive Minds begin with 'Planetary Plexus', and now refer to the subsequent technology as 'Evolutionary Convergence'. The actual effects of these technologies remain unchanged.
• Fixed that the ruined quantum catapult in the salvager system spawned above the black hole.
• Tweaked a solar system generated as part of the Imperial Fiefdom origin. The vassal's neighborhood gas giants are no longer quite as close to consuming nearby asteroid belts.
• Marauder clans may no longer spawn in systems which are adjacent to player empires.
• Fixed "blocker cleared" VO not playing.
• Fixed STT button not being clickable in the multiplayer lobby.
• Fixed STT button being malplaced in the multiplayer lobby.
• Fixed an issue which would prevent the Galactic Rebellion from forming if its instigator was the only independent (i.e. non-subjugated) empire left in the galaxy.
• The Spiritualist Awakened Empire should no longer be capable of making a gestalt consciousness turn into a spiritualist empire.
• Fixed some issues with intel logic that could mean that occupied planets could be set to flip between surveyed and unsurveyed each day.
• Executing the envoy that hand-delivered a strongly worded letter no longer incorrectly locks policies that are not causing you to be in breach of galactic law.
• Eating the envoy that hand-delivered a strongly worded letter now locks policies that are causing you to be in breach of galactic law.
• Pacifist Xenophobe empires are no longer in two minds about those who choose to destroy Caravaneer fleets. Pacifism wins out and they now only hold a negative Opinion towards such empires, rather than both positive and negative.
• Reunited the ‘Code Changes’ and ‘Incompatible Code’ empire modifiers with their missing icons.
• First Contact events involving the Shroudwalker and Salvager enclaves now play appropriate sound effects.
• Fixed the broken ringworld segment for the fallen machine intelligence from hiding behind the other segments.
• Empires released by those that have the Divine Sovereign civic will no longer inherit the Divine Sovereign civic.
• Devouring Swarms should no longer come and inspect your ringworlds.
• Fixed an unsupported glyph appearing in place of apostrophes in assorted 'Specialist Subject' events.
• Fixed Corporate Dominions required to have finished Mercantile Traditions to form a Trade League.
• The unbidden no longer have an increased opinion of you if you destroy the Caravaneer's home.
• Added missing flags for Could Be Worse to the Knights' version of Venus and the toxic planets in the Toxic Entity's system.
• Colony event "Wasteland Radiation" won't trigger anymore if your species is immune to radiation.
• Completing the Flesh is Weak special project will no longer allow psionic pops to keep the psionic trait when they gain the cybernetic trait.
• Contingency Worlds now become ordinary colonizable worlds upon losing their Pops.
• Colonies that are depopulated in the middle of ground combat will now correctly end the battle.
• Fixed generated war names when a crisis is declared by the Galactic Community.
• Fix for when becoming a vassal resets all Policies and Species rights to Default.
• Fixed issue with war names using the wrong Empire's name.
• Fixed "Crystal Ball" event not triggering correctly upon entering the Crystalline Home System.
• Fixed being unable to reorder the build queue of your branch offices and subject holdings.
• Fixed colony auto designations really thinking you wanted hydroponics stations.
• Fixed galcom resolution Neutral Defenders, Tiyanki Pest Control and the Tiyanki Conservation Act not correctly unlocking sanctions.
• Fixed missing alpine world modifier in Contingency's habitability preference.
• Fixed missing goto button for "Mineral Factorial" anomaly event.
• Habitats built in orbit of planets with multiple deposit types, such as the mixed energy and alloy deposit spawned as part of the Knights of the Toxic God origin can now only have one of research, mining or generator districts instead of overflowing with too many district types
• If you open a Vault on a tomb world Earth, you will now find Humans inside rather than random aliens (unless Humans already exist in the galaxy).
• Lead ships should no longer run into the enemy disregarding their combat computer.
• Percentage based hull, armor, and shield regen modifiers now show their values correctly. (As +1% rather than +0.01%)
• planet_stability_add modifier now has a single decimal place, meaning that Death Chronicler and Chronicle Drone jobs are correctly shown to be producing 2.5 stability instead of 2.
• Fixed localization for the Trader Proxy Office.
• The Horizon Signal events converting your empire species' portraits wholesale now give you a little bit of warning ("This may have significant and unpredictable consequences")
• Removed out dated sector automation logic which was activated for planets when sector automation was enabled but planet automation was deactivated.
• Robot empires will now take planet habitability into account correctly for auto-survey targets.
• Shroud Chosen Leaders will no longer lose their chosen trait on becoming rulers.
• Stopped you getting the Xeno Comedy event as a gestalt empire as it didn't really work flavour-wise for them.
• Synth ascension now gives a warning for the Overtuned origin.
• You can now crack pre-ftl worlds within your borders.
• Using planet crackers against pre-ftl civilizations now requires the Unrestricted Native Interference policy.
• Fixed caravaneer diplomacy view not having a close button.
• A fleet moving towards an orbital object that gets destroyed will now move to the star of the same system, rather than stopping.
• Adjusted fleet view textbox max height to remove truncation in Korean.
• Fixed unavailable resource terms in agreements being considered when validating agreement proposals.
• Defense platforms no longer sail away when in combat but too far away from engaging the enemies.
• Corrected the caravaneers focus button sprite and added a location for every related diplomacy event script so that the button shows up.
• Pops employed at removed jobs now gets fired instead of sticking around.
• Fixed species modification window not showing all species traits if you had a large number of traits.
• Thought Enforcement edict is now available even if you haven't made contact with another empire.
• Fixed the ‘disband fleet’ button in the fleet view using the disband ship icon.
• The option to close communications with Mercenary Enclaves upon first greeting them has been moved to the bottom of the event screen, in line with other, similar events.
• Corrected SPQR family name gender.
• Daemons will no longer use any random namelist.
• Fixed inconsistent coloring in leader trait descriptions.
• Fixed the diplomatic mapmode showing tooltips saying you were in a Commercial Pact with someone if you had a Research Pact with them, and vice versa.
• The tooltip for planetary ascension upgrade will no longer show upgrade info for the non existent tier 11.
• Fixed missing X on Xeno-Compatibility tooltip for non-xenophiles.
• Fixed a tooltip for the Life-Seeded Origin which would appear to repeat a query on the Relentless Industrialists civic.
• Added missing tooltip for district sorting in expansion planner.
• Fixed the tooltip for the Megacorp authority in empire creation not explaining why it was unavailable if the Megacorp DLC was not enabled.
• Currently picked anomaly scientist's skill icon now has the correct tooltip.

MODDING

• Fixed num_free_districts sometimes providing erroneous results if used with districts that were not capped by modifiers.
• Made excessively confusing way of doing tradition tooltips make you have to explicitly tell the game you want to overwrite the automatic modifier and effects tooltip with a custom one (custom_tooltip). Also added custom_tooltip_with_modifiers and made on_enabled show up in the tooltip too
• Added government_election_years_add and government_election_years_mult.
• Added ability to script in modifiers on ship sections.
• Added support for sound_is_advisor on show_sound in events.
• Added on_resolution_passed and on_resolution_failed on_actions.
• Added position_on_current_resolution and position_on_last_resolution.
• Added a quick open option for IMGUI views related to selectable entities ingame. Holding ctrl + alt and selecting a ship or fleet will now open the IMGUI debug view for fleets and ships.
• Split if_resolution into a separate if_scaled_resolution. This allows for separation of pure and scaled resolution conditions in GUI script.
• Added <resolution_category>_vote_strength_mult modifier.
• Added a galaxy_shape trigger.
• Added a is_capitalist scripted trigger to check for corporate authority, merchant guild civic or corporate dominion civic.
• Added a valid_leader parameter to federation types to limit the leadership candidates.
• Added ability for planet automation to forbid and allow jobs.
• Added additional_crisis_strength trigger.
• Added console commands "text_to_speech_raw" and "text_to_speech_loc".
• Added country scope num_planetary_ascension_tiers trigger.
• Added envoy_cohesion_effect_mult modifier for federations.
• Added federation_experience_add modifier.
• Added modifiers planetary_ascension_effect_mult and planetary_ascension_cost_mult.
• Added set_variable_to_random_value effect.
• Added triggered_ship_modifier in component templates.
• Added upgrade_trigger block for planet automation which allows for individual logic of when buildings should be allowed to be upgraded.
• Fixed last_added_deposit
• Fixed print_scope_trigger not working
• Fixed root and from scopes within create_leader and create_ship
• Fixed show_in_outliner in megastructures not actually working.
• If you add too many options in an archaeology site or first contact, it now adds a scrollbar for those that don't fit in the interface.
• Made galaxy shapes (map/galaxy) into regular database objects. This means you can define new ones.
• Made the fail text of a tradition's "possible" check show up in tooltips.
• Moved most pop upkeep and resource production to inline script.
• Removed pop_assembly_speed modifier. You should use planetpopassembly(organic)mult instead. The sole difference previously was the former only worked in species traits (the untriggered sections) and the latter worked everywhere else (but not species traits). The error log didn't warn you of this, either. So now the latter works everywhere and the former no longer exists.
• Added destroy and abort triggers for starbase modules and buildings.
• Ship roles can now affect weapon selection. Added a define for the ship roles effect on the weapon selection.
• Integrated ship roles to the remaining components and their selection process with an additional define for utility components.
• Ethics are now individually overwritable.
• Added size_damage_factor to weapon components, which modifies damage based on the ship size. At 0, there is no effect. Positive values multiply the weapon damage by the value times the target ship size. (Ship size is treated as a minimum of 1 for these calculations.)
• Added point_defence_targets to component template, which sets valid targets for PD weapons. "missile" and "strike craft" are valid options. See 00_weapons_pointdefence.txt and 00_strike_craft.txt for examples.
• Localization can now handle grammatical cases and complex grammatical dependencies.
• Added support for grammatical gender and plural in names.
• Added a tag system to enable localization to be aware of names' grammatical genders and similar attributes.

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Update 3.5.3 (October 11th, 2022)

Improvements

• You will no longer get alerts about envoys dying.
• AI will now research debris.

Balance

• Shared Burden now doubles the unity gained from the egalitarian faction.
• Ensured consistency in the Toxic God starting resources: the home system will now always contain a +3 alloys deposit. A nearby one will contain another +2 and a further +6 energy.
• Federation subjects that cannot vote can no longer persuade federation members that someone should not be invited into a federation
• Capped Noxious happiness bonus at 40%.
• Vassals that leave an overlord's war by a change in the agreement will now get a truce with every opponent.

Planet Automation

• Removed out dated sector automation logic which was activated for planets when sector automation was enabled but planet automation was deactivated
• Clarified the tooltip explaining when planetary automation will create new jobs
• Planet Automation Crime module will now forbid enforcer jobs if you have 0 crime and allow enforcer jobs if you have more than 27 crime
• Added a Planet Automation setting which allows for construction even during resource deficits
• Changed how Planet Automation is presented in the Planet View to more clearly show that there are settings that the player can use

Bugfix

• Fixed Toxoid presapients having Aquatic portraits.
• Fixed gateway tags not showing up in the solar system map.
• Fixed megastructure outliner right click not focusing on the megastructure (as is standard for other outliner objects).
• Fixed one of the outcomes of the Ancient Robot World arc site featuring visual bugs (placeholder model due to not having a correct graphical culture set).
• Updated tooltip for Mutagenic Spa to match values given by Bath Attendant jobs.
• All resolutions in the Galactic Market category now require the market to be formed in order to be proposed.
• Fixed farm appendages bonus from “Damn the Consequences” edict.
• Fixed low maintenance to be an actual bonus.
• Added the actual effect of Damn the Consequences to its effect tooltip.
• Fixed Situation modifiers not updating in some circumstances when you changed Approach or Stage.
• The Debris Field anomaly will now reliably fire an event when you research it.
• Fixed copy paste error in Toxoids 3 name list (male regnal names).
• Fixed the Toxic God branch office building not reliably boosting quest progress, depending on your chosen civics.
• Fixed radiotrophic simple drones for lithoid hive minds having their mineral upkeep increased instead of decreased.
• You can now only consecrate one habitat per activation of the Toxic Maw.
• Updated the tooltip for requiring additional activations of the Toxic Maw.
• The Prethoryn Brood Queen relic now correctly sets the relic activation cooldown timer.
• Machine Intelligence pops are now correctly purged again when conquered by an organic empire.
• Fixed Heritage Sites and Hypercomms Forums not converting to Pillar of Quietuses and Galactic Memorials respectively.
• Fixed an ungrammatical pronoun being used in one of the early Toxic Knights quests.
• The primitive habitats in Federation's End system are no longer in danger of being turned into barren worlds by asteroids.
• Fixed a stray “?” in the event where the Shroudwalker enclave is destroyed.
• Corrupt Survey Data event can no longer happen on planets with moons, as it would leave the moon orbiting nothing, and due to cost cuts we can assume that the holographic projection couldn't also cover the moon.
• Fixed the Toxic Knights end bugging out if you SPOILERS using a mercenary fleet.
• Clarified the negative happiness impacts of the Noxious trait in a pop's happiness breakdown.
• Fixed misleading tooltip for why an AI will say no to your request to join their federation (it suggested they did not want to be a federation partner with a current member, but actually it meant that that member did not want to be a federation partner with you).
• Fixed Luminous Blades modifier stating it was a bit more effective than it actually was.
• Fixed megashipyards not benefitting from certain country-wide ship cost and build speed modifiers.
• Fixed cases where if a hive forced a regular empire to release a vassal with a status quo peace deal, the resulting empire would be a hive empire without hive pops. (Also fixed it for machines, and for the opposite case of regular empires attacking or machines).
• Added missing effect to the tooltip of the Psionic Archive relic.
• You can now once again apply species templates that would remove beneficial traits, so long as you were able to make the template a valid combination in the first place.
• Leader and envoy portraits now switch correctly after undergoing synthetic ascension.
• Science ship modifiers are no longer doubled in the tooltip.
• You should no longer be able to have multiple monuments on a single planet (again).
• Fixed issue where invalid research alternatives may be left in TechStatus after adding pre-learned technologies at start of game.
• Spiritualist Empires now care about Relentless Industrialism on their holy worlds.
• Chemical Bliss no longer states that it causes unemployed pops to produce unity.
• Fixed various crashes.

AI

• Increased the monthly random chance that an AI will decide to start preparing for war.
• AI empires will now bring their assault armies towards the enemy during war preparation phase.
• Reduced the maximum AI war preparation period from 60 months to 30 months.
• Fixed an issue where AI would use their "prepare for war" gather logic even during an ongoing war.
• Fixed an issue where the AI would try and gather their fleets for an upcoming war in a system which they could not access.
• Fixed AI sometimes not hiring enough scientists to keep researching.
• Fixed some cases where AI would inexplicably spam admirals.
• AI hive-mind will no longer destroy hive warrens.
• Fixed AI not allocating at least the desired_min to its budgets. Double-allocating resources is less risky than having it not be respected, as with the Influence budget there's a fair chance that the desired minimum may never be hit
• Improved AI's early game alloy expenditure (it wanted to put a lot into buildings even though most of the time none of the buildings cost alloys)
• Xenophile empires are now more likely to build trading hub type starbases, changed from materialists.
• Fixed issues with starbase module logic which made AI forbidden from building anything on certain starbases.
• Fixed an issue where AI fleets would get stuck in a loop of resetting their move orders during hyperlane windup time.
• Fixed an issue where AI empires were not allowed to downgrade shipyard type starbases if they had an ongoing construction of ships which made AI empires have much more shipyards than intended.
• Fixed an issue where bombarding AI fleets would get stuck in a loop of flying between the starbase in the system and orbiting the bombardment target when they were waiting for assault armies to invade their bombardment target planet.
• Added additional logic for AI to merge fleets which are close to each other during wars to reduce the amount of small AI fleets.
• Fixed an issue where AI empires would incorrectly try and merge their assault armies together by using FTL reinforcement mechanic, causing their ground troops to be indefinitely stuck in MIA mode.
• Fixed several issues with AI regrouping logic where fleets would suicide one by one instead of grouping up together before attacking.
• AI empires who do not use food will no longer build hydroponics on starbases.

Modding

• Added show_in_outliner (default: yes) to determine whether a megastructure type should be shown in the outliner
• Specifying a "key" in a triggered modifier will now at least some of the time make the modifier have that key as its "name"
• Fixed the script profiler (previous results using it should be disregarded)
• Added ability for planet automation to forbid and allow jobs
• Added upgrade_trigger block for planet automation which allows for individual logic of when buildings should be allowed to be upgraded

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Update 3.5.2 (September 22nd, 2022)

• The Toxic Entity will no longer bless those unworthy. (You cannot select a Toxic God solar system initializer without the Knights of the Toxic God origin).
• Crisis will now destroy the starbases of the systems it invades, fixing an issue where the AI would sometimes not land their armies on colonies properly.
• You can no longer put the Toxic God's strike craft on your ships if you defeat the Prethoryn.

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Update 3.5.1 (September 20th, 2022)

New Toxoid Empire Art:

• Species portraits
• City set
• Ship set
• Colossus ship

New Origins:

• Knights of the Toxic God
• Overtuned
• New Ascension perk: Detox
• New Traits
• Exotic Metabolism
• Noxious
• Inorganic Breath
• Incubator
• New Civics
• Scavengers
• Toxic Baths
• Relentless Industrialists

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Update 3.4.5

• Fixed megacorp impose ideology (again!)
• Fixed empty War Names
• Fixed Out of Sync upon hotjoining as an Overlord
• Fixed Out of Sync after triggering a revolt

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Update 3.4.2

Balance

• Allegiance Wars can now be resolved with a Status Quo peace deal. With this, the rebelling subject(s) remain under their original overlord, but have the Failed Betrayal (Status Quo) modifier, which prevents swearing Secret Fealty to another empire, applied for 5 years.
• Offspring ships have the following adjustments:
• +50% Hull, Shields, Armor, Damage and Bombardment Damage
• The base cost off Offspring ships is doubled (e.g. for corvettes it is 60 alloys + component cost)
• The upkeep cost of Offspring ships is doubled.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed hired merc fleets being unable to bombard planets.
• Fixed tooltip for Failed Betrayal modifier.
• Progenitor Hive tooltip now states that it can release sectors as subjects.
• Claims in an Allegiance Wars are only ceded when occupied.
• Technologies that affect corvettes, destroyers, cruisers and battleships now also affect Offspring versions of these ships.

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Update 3.4.1

Balance

• Default oppressive subjugation terms for AI empires now no longer have the Integration Permitted term, instead they have a Basic Resources Tithe (15% for vassals, 45% for Subsidiaries). The Integration Permitted term still applies for player empires.
• The Shroudwalker teacher planet modifier now gives increased weight to draw psionic technologies.
• Bailouts from deficits now scale by the number of decades since the start of the game.

Bug Fixes

• Restored the "go to" button's tooltip in the situation log for non-situations
• Fixed an out of sync when the Khan started vassalizing empires
• Fixed effects from certain Situations not applying until the 2nd stage was reached
• Blocked overlords and subjects from rivaling each other.
• Fixed Bulwark Advisory cost not being calculated correctly.
• Leaders from non-psionic species now shouldn't get the Psionic trait if another sub-species awakens. (E.g. leaders in COM won't gain the Psionic trait if the UNE undertakes Psionic Ascension).
• Fixed broken Prospectorium Advisory modifier
• Subjects without independent diplomacy can now revoke pledges of secret fealty.
• Added a missing name string, "Empire", which forms part of randomly-generated names for empires with the Imperial authority.
• Cave Dweller growth penalty doesn't apply to lithoids.
• Bulwark Disintegrator Fields are no longer removed if a tier 3 bulwark conquers a system from another tier 3 bulwark.
• Fixed the title truncation in simple chinese in the Espionage Operations view.
• Overlords cannot sign defensive pacts with their subjects and vice-versa.
• Overlords cannot invite their subjects to form a federation with them.
• Subjects cannot surrender to the Khan.
• Destroying an orbital ring now leaves behind a ruined version to be repaired.
• Repairing a ruined orbital ring now removes the orbiting debris.
• Food processing tech no longer shows physics icon for holdings.
• Fixed Salvagers accepting reduced payment for engineering insights.
• Fixed Shroudwalkers not accepting payment for certain divination services.
• Fixed Subterranean modifier only applying to building costs instead of building and district costs.
• The loyalty value shown in the holdings tab should now correctly display loyalty gained from the holdings
• Fix inconsistent agreement terms when creating agreements from non-diplomatic actions
• Fixed Situation outcome time indicator being bugged when the Situation was ticking downwards
• Fixed an outcome to the Living Snow event chain now firing

Modding

• Enabled scripted loc in the persistent name system (so you can name your stuff using scripted loc, so long as it doesn't have brackets within the scripted loc)

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Update 3.4.0

Overlord Expansion Features

Three new advanced subject types called Specialist Empires have been introduced, which excel in certain areas while having deficiencies in others.

• Bulwark - A bastion of defense that leaves basic resource acquisition to others.
• Prospectorium - Excels at resource acquisition but has weaker research.
• Scholarium - Specializes in research but relies on their allies for military support.
• Similar to how Federations advance or degrade based on Cohesion, Specialist Empires improve based on loyalty, gaining additional perks and strengthening their bonuses and penalties as they level up through three tiers.

New Constructions and Megastructures

• Hyper Relays - Chained together, Hyper Relays permit high speed fleet travel and projection of effects to systems connected via the network.
• Orbital Rings - Built around your worlds, Orbital Rings act similarly to Starbases and allow further development or defense of these core planets.
• Quantum Catapult - The galaxy is within reach as the Quantum Catapult lets you fling ships across the galaxy, though with questionable accuracy. Yeet.

New Enclaves

• Salvager Enclave - A generally friendly bunch of tinkerers, obsessed with engineering, battle debris, and restoring or scrapping antiquated ships.
• Shroudwalker Enclave - Disciples of the Shroud, the Shroudwalkers can call upon its powers to create shroud tunnels, or to attempt to divine the future - if you dare.
• Mercenary Enclave - Empires can release a fleet to create a self-reinforcing Mercenary Enclave that brings dividends back to their patron. But remember, business is business, and concepts like loyalty don’t pay the bills.

New Origins

• Imperial Fiefdom - Your first steps into space were brutally short. Immediately subjugated alongside several others by a powerful and decadent overlord, you begin the game as a Specialist Empire of your choice.
• Teachers of the Shroud - Your civilization was identified as a civilization of interest long ago by the Shroudwalkers, who carefully nurtured your development as their visions instructed. Your species begins with the Latent Psionics trait and in contact with the Shroudwalker coven.
• Slingshot to the Stars - The Slingshot to the Stars origin explores how a nearby Quantum Catapult could shape your civilization. The histories of your people are filled with tales of brilliant lights flashing across the sky before the long seasons of darkness.
• Subterranean - The underground homes of Subterranean empires grant defensive and mining benefits while allowing them to avoid hostile environments on the surface, at the cost of slower expansion.
• Progenitor Hive - Hive-Mind only (also requires Utopia). The hive relies on the presence of the powerful offspring of the progenitor, guiding the hive’s will with incredible skill. Protect them well, for the drones are lost without their presence.
• New Ascension Perk - Profit from conflict with the Lord of War Ascension Perk.
• Overlords can now build a holding on Subject Planets, these are the holdings included in Overlord:
• Orbital Assembly Complex
• Propaganda Office
• Satellite Campus
• Ministry of Energy
• Ministry of Extraction
• Ministry of Production
• Splinter Hive - Hive-Mind Overlord only
• Distributed Processing - Machine Intelligence Overlord only
• Offspring Nest - Requires the Progenitor Hive origin
• Offworld Foundry - Requires a Prospectorium subject
• Vigil Command - Requires a Bulwark subject
• Ministry of Science - Requires a Scholarium subject
• New Galactic Community Resolutions - Debate the place of Mercenaries and the rights and responsibilities of subjects and overlords with three new lines of Resolutions.
• New music tracks - 4 new songs added to the game and Original Soundtrack

3.4 “Cepheus” Features and Changes

• Situations - Include a new system for tracking and interacting with ongoing stories in your empire
• Deficit Situations will trigger if you have a negative monthly balance of a resource and it runs out.
• Revolt Situations may trigger on planets with low stability, overhauling previous rebellion mechanics.
• Machine Uprising Situation replaces old Machine Uprising event (requires synthetic dawn)
• Leviathan Situations celebrate your great triumphs when besting such mighty beasts.
• Other narrative Situations have been implemented to add even more flavor to your campaigns.
• Negotiation of Subjugation Agreements - The terms of subjugation agreements can now be negotiated and changed. Some terms that can be altered include:
• Integration Possibility
• Diplomatic Freedom
• Ability to Expand
• Resource Subsidies and Tithes
• Defensive and Offensive War Responsibilities
• Overlord Holding Limit
• Sensor Sharing
• The default terms of some contracts have been updated to fit the new system, and some specific terms or settings require Overlord.
• Allegiance Wars - The Pledge Secret Fealty diplomatic action has been added, which allows subject empires to secretly plot with a new overlord. This permits a War of Allegiance - a new war goal that allows empires to fight other Overlords for control of subjects that have pledged secret fealty to them. All subjects that have pledged secret fealty will turn on their former overlord during the war.
• Subject Changes/Improvements:
• New holdings that may require certain civics, origins, or DLC:
• Overlord Garrison
• Emporium
• Aid Agency
• Ranger Lodge - Environmentalist Civic
• Noble Chateaus - Aristocratic Elite Civic
• Recruitment Center - Citizens Service Civic
• Gaia Seeder Outpost - Idyllic Bloom Civic (requires Plantoids)
• Tree of Life Sapling - Tree of Life Origin (requires Utopia)
• Dread Outpost - Reanimators Civic (requires Necroids)
• Sacrificial Shrine - Death Cult Civics (requires Necroids)
• Reemployment Center - Permanent Employment Civic (requires Necroids and Megacorp)
• Franchising HQ - Franchising Civic (requires Megacorp)
• Communal Housing Outreach - Shared Burdens Civic (requires Utopia)
• Organic Haven - Rogue Servitor Civic (requires Synthetic Dawn)
• Experimental Crater - Calamitous Birth Origin (requires Lithoids)
• Subjects now have a Loyalty value, rather than loyalty solely depending on their opinion of their overlord.
• Subjects’ ethical compatibility with their Overlords may result in a monthly loyalty bonus or penalty.
• Having more than one subject adds a monthly loyalty penalty to all subjects, which can be worked around with various civics and or the Shared Destiny ascension perk.
• Subjects and Overlords have a bonus to infiltration growth on each other.
• Operations on your subject or Overlord are reduced in difficulty.
• Additional trade deal options between subjects and Overlords have been added.
• Releasing a sector as subject now grants an initial 100 intel on that subject.
• Integration is disabled by default.
• Sectors released as subjects can now inherit the following origins from their parent empire, where appropriate - Progenitor Hive, Subterranean, Void Dweller, or Calamitous Birth.
• Gateways (and Hyper Relays) can now be built in subject space.
• AI Subjects of Player Empires now receive AI bonuses as if the difficulty level of the game were one level lower, rather than losing their bonuses entirely.
• MegaCorp Improvements as both Overlords and Subjects:
• Empires that are the target of Impose Ideology wars or those created from Status Quo peace deals are no longer rival Megacorps, but instead Oligarchies with the Merchant Guilds civic.
• Corporate Overlords can establish branch offices in their non-corporate subjects without having to sign a Commercial Pact. Likewise, corporate subjects with a non-corporate overlord can open branch offices in their overlord and fellow subjects.
• Major improvements to Planetary Automation:
• Planetary Automation scripts based on designation are now more focused regarding what they build.
• Right clicking on the planetary automation button will now open a menu which allows you to customize your focus of planetary automation: for instance, as well as the designation based focus (“build more minerals buildings”), it lets you enable handling of amenities and housing, crime, as well as more specialized building options such as psi corps.
• Sector automation and planetary automation have been unified into the same system (sector automation will activate planetary automation for all planets in the sector, and assign relevant planetary designation types to the planets unless overridden.)
• Additional planetary or sector automation options have been added:
• Added a Unity sector automation setting
• Forge, Factory and Industrial designations are now available on Ring Worlds
• Fortress world designation is now available on Machine Worlds and Hive Worlds
• Automatic Resettlement Improvements
• The Auto Resettlement formula for picking which planet pops will be resettled to has been improved: it is now easier to steer pops towards your capital and other special worlds (e.g. ring worlds).
• Pops will now pick which planet to auto-migrate to based on which planet has the most free jobs, rather than the least. They also now take free housing into account better
• "Ideal" worlds such as ring worlds, gaia worlds, hive worlds and machine worlds now have a 50% higher score when pops are deciding where to automatically resettle to. So they are more likely to want to move to your newly-founded ring world, for instance. Capital world planet designations also have a +10% score, and freshly founded colonies have 25% from their designation.
• The resettlement tooltip (found by hovering over unemployment in the planet view) now provides far greater insights into how the system works, including showing the reasons pops cannot automatically resettle or the planet they are most likely to resettle to.
• The outliner has been updated so planets with unemployed pops that are auto-migrating are now shown a yellow suitcase. The red suitcase should only appear if the planet actually requires your attention to resolve the unemployment problem.
• Various AI improvements with a focus on military behavior - full details in section below
• Added 73 new flag emblems, 63 new flag backgrounds and 47 new flag colors (including white!).
• 12 new emblems each to match the Plantoid, Lithoid, Necroid, Aquatic, and Imperial shipsets
• 6 new emblems for the Corporate and Legion categories
• 1 new emblem for Paradox Arctic in Umeå
• Added improved human portraits, with 5 phenotypes, 5 eye colors, 7 clothing styles and many, many hairstyles (including facial hair)!
• Added Japanese and Korean language support.

Balance

• Subjugation casus belli is now automatically granted towards inferior empires.
• The Parliamentary System civic now allows factions to be generated much earlier in the game.
• Defense Platforms now have increased range, fire rate, tracking, and hull points, and are faster to build.
• Base market price for slaves doubled from 500 to 1000 energy credits to make selling pops more viable. Slave traits cost Modifiers for the Slave Market have been increased by roughly 10 times for positive ones and 4 times for negative traits.
• Endgame Crises can now happen after 25 years rather than 50 of the End Times.
• The Plunder wargoal now increases the chance to steal relics (that aren't the Galatron) to 50%.
• The Numistic Administration trait no longer provides an increase to energy output, it now provides a +33% output to trade value from jobs.
• Removed the requirement to have an upgraded capital building in order to build research labs or rare resource manufacturing buildings
• The Shared Destiny AP no longer affects subject integration cost or trust, instead removes the monthly loyalty penalty from having multiple subjects. Additionally, it can now be taken by Corporate empires.
• The Grasp the Void AP now grants increased draw weight for FTL travel techs.
• The Unbidden can no longer spawn in pulsar systems (as the star will disable their Dimensional Portal's shields)
• Resistance is Frugal no longer grants your strongholds a unity production of 3, instead it gives you 0.5 unity for each defensive army you have.
• Strength of Legions and Warbots now start with rank 3 Admirals and Generals.
• Espionage Operations now cost Influence to start rather than Energy Credits. Costs have been reduced by a factor of 10.
• Low Military Intel is now gained at 30 Intel instead of 40 and Medium Military Intel is now gained at 60 Intel instead of 70. The effects of Medium and High Military Intel have been swapped - medium now allows you to view ship loadout, high now grants visibility of location of military fleets.
• Added a nanites deposit to the Scavenger Bot system so you can use the reward you get for killing it.
• The Subterranean empire from the Seismic Disturbances event chain now spawns with the new Subterranean origin.
• Numistic Data Modeling technology now provides +5% Trade Value.

AI

• With sufficient Intel, there will now be a notification that the AI is planning to declare war on the player.
• Fixed a variety of AI military fleet behavior issues, including:
• AI will be better at merging fleets where that makes sense (e.g. during peacetime, or when they have the same mission)
• Fixed issues where your allies would follow your take point command even though they were not hostile to your targets, and several other issues with take point and follow fleet behavior
• AI will now more actively engage hostile crises if they or their allies have been attacked by them
• Fixed an issue where an AI fleet could get trapped in an enemy system by a disabled starbase. It will now approach the starbase to capture it.
• AI will now enable buildings that have been disabled.
• AI will now scale the production of rare resources according to the size of their economy.
• Moderately reduced the frequency of how often AI will sell slaves on the market.
• AI will now only consider jobs producing at least 3 amenities when doing the planet amenity balancing logic.
• AI will now declare "death spiral status" if they have 0 minerals and a negative mineral income. Jobs consuming minerals will be deprioritized until a sufficient mineral income has been reached and the empire can start rebuilding itself.
• The AI will now wait for a period of time before changing planet designations when taking over a player empire in multiplayer.
• AI members of a federation will no longer propose a vote on a law change that has been proposed in the last 10 years by anyone in the Federation.
• The player now gets a notification when the AI has recalled their embassy.
• AI will now only propose an embassy if they have a positive +50 relation and remove their embassy if they have lower than -50
• The AI is now better at dealing with non-standard colony ships (e.g. private colony ships, Lithoid colony asteroids).
• AI will now sell resources more aggressively to buy what they need in order to recover from death spiral type situations.
• Fixed several issues with Galactic Community voting, AI will no longer propose resolutions against their alignment, AI can recall their proposals or vote against their own proposals in some situations where it makes sense. Tooltips will now show the reasons an AI empire is voting the way they are.

UI

• Added new section in outliner for loaned out fleets (lease timer and its tooltip).
• The alert for diminishing resource stockpiles now properly only lists resources which you will imminently run out of.
• Added tooltips for agreement presets and specialist types to the Agreements view.
• The outliner will now tell you about blockers you can remove if you are approaching the planet's carrying capacity and therefore suffering growth penalties.
• Improved the layout of the Host DLC icons and surrounding elements in the Multiplayer Lobby.
• Moved the “Copy Server ID” functionality to a separate button in the multiplayer lobby.

Performance & Stability

• Optimized calculations for whether you are in breach of any galcom resolutions, which should provide a boost if many sanctions have been passed.
• Improved the performance of using triggered economic category modifiers.
• Improved performance of bypass handling in pathfinding to account for the fact that there are now many more of them in the galaxy (via hyper relays).
• Adjusted various ship textures for improved performance.

Other Improvements

• Significantly improved pop job assignment weightings:
• Automatic scripted handling of resource output, trade and amenity bonuses and penalties from traits, i.e. pops with the better traits for the job will more reliably take the job. This eliminated many errors where we had imperfectly attempted to achieve this result in a much less robust and more verbose way.
• Weighting now takes into account output penalties from low habitability
• If you are in deficit, jobs producing that resource will now be weighted significantly higher, so your pops won't ignore mining jobs while your empire burns for lack of miners.
• Added new Subjugation War Terms policy, which sets the default Agreement Terms used when subjugating other empires through war.
• You can now nominate other empires to Custodianship, provided they meet the requirements.
• Idyllic Bloom has been improved by allowing construction of the Gaia-Seeder buildings (and holding!) to be built on a wider range of planet types, in exchange for increased upkeep, depending on the empire’s terraforming technology. In addition, the civic can now be combined with the Life-Seeded and Shattered Ring origins. Finally, Idyllic Bloom empires start with a Phase 1 Gaia-Seeder on their capital where appropriate.
• Shroud Entities that propose Covenants will now prefer empires that have ethics or civics that match their outlook. The End of the Cycle is more likely to offer a Covenant if another empire is a level 5 crisis.
• Several improvements to Baol/Zroni spawning: they will no longer spawn arc sites in your capital system, one of the Baol arc sites is now vastly less likely to spawn in someone else's territory, and they are a bit less likely to all spawn in a heap in neighboring systems.
• Modifiers giving administrator output now correctly reflect the sort of administrators the empire uses.
• Individual names for game objects can now be localized, allowing players to read names in their own language.
• Renamed the Corporate and Gestalt versions of Catalytic Processing to Catalytic Recyclers and Organic Reprocessing respectively.
• Improved emissive areas for certain ships and turrets.
• Quget.

Bug Fixes

• Federation allies in Common Ground and Hegemony origins no longer start with 0 resources (sometimes therefore falling into deficit immediately)
• Multi-path jumps should now show proper arrows.
• Bypass travel times are now correctly specified in days.
• War exhaustion icon now displays the correct values when resuming a saved game.
• Fixed the appearance of invalid em dash characters in a Crisis diplomacy message and a First Contact/Diplomacy tutorial event.
• Update to VIR's diplomatic tact subroutines: the tutorial no longer refers to enclaves as likely possessing an animal intelligence.
• Added a scrollbar to planetary production resources in planetview so they don't overflow.
• Fixed a variety of issues and oversights where the job weight scripts would not take into account all production bonuses given by traits.
• Fixed certain megastructure construction positions.
• Planet automation can now use resources from the shared stockpile even when not part of a sector.
• Fixed some cases where you would get popups that instantly disappeared while being in a federation.
• Fixed DLC icons in the Multiplayer lobby sometimes escaping outside of their container.
• Fixed Ancrel.4078 "Fire" event triggering for species that don't eat food.
• Fixed order of repaired ringworld segments for ruined and partially ruined ringworlds.
• Deviant drones no longer provide trade value based off their living standards.
• Gestalts can no longer get the Numistic Data Modeling tech.
• Fixed rare case where the empire flag would be randomized for empires created in MP.
• Fixed certain colony designation effects not having Planetary Ascension multipliers applied to them,
• Fixed a bug where empires could sometimes (e.g. on revolts) end up registering as owning more starbases than they actually did for a time.
• Fixed the ship reinforce button sometimes telling you repeatedly that there are no available shipyards.
• Enrolled engineers in the Curator's seminar on "Ringworld Repairs and You!" (Repaired ringworlds from the shattered ring origin and alpha refuge no longer have display issues).
• The shard will no longer inform the player twice about its demise.
• Fixed an issue where the list of supporters for an upcoming resolution in the Galactic Community didn't refresh correctly when clicking between two Resolutions with the same number of supporters.
• Fixed armies being mistaken for buildings in some build queue tooltips
• Here Be Dragons empires are now less amazed to see an Ether Drake (it's still a remarkable occurrence, but not something the likes of which they've never seen before)
• Fixed an issue where only one pop would switch jobs when shift-clicking to change job priority
• Sectors released as subjects by empires with the Pompous Purist civic will have the civic removed.
• Fixed some issues with AI Uprising Empires, where the created empire would have unreasonably large fleets, but could also immediately go bankrupt in several resources.
• Fixed issue with scrollbars ending up outside of the technology window in the "researched” tab of the technology view.
• Fixed Starbase triggered station modifiers not always applying properly (which means that now e.g. Offworld Trading Companies have an effect again)
• Fixed some cases where countries would have policies set that they were not meant to be allowed to choose.
• Fixed players being unable to replace e.g. a Mining District with an Industrial District if they were already replacing two Generator Districts with Industrial Districts.
• Fixed scrollbar for DLC feature descriptions not being reset.
• Fixed unlocalized DLC names in Multiplayer lobby.
• Fixed tooltips for Mortal Initiates.
• Fixed truncated data percentage in fleet view (in simple chinese).
• Fixed fleet orders and activity text localisation overlaps.
• Non-Disclosure Agreements in the Subterfuge traditions now correctly states that it increases Infiltration Required for hostile operations, rather than saying it increased the cost.
• Added alternate text and event rewards for when Gestalt empires with the Doomsday origin colonize their first planet.
• Transit Hubs no longer have incorrect and outdated text referring to previous versions of the automatic resettlement system.
• Improved tooltips for Plunder wargoal.
• Fixed federation background not rendering correctly
• Fallen Empires spawned from the Scion origin have the correct graphical culture.
• Fixed some issues where Artificers had the Artisan icon in certain texts
• Fixed missing modifier icon for Ancient Trading Route
• Fixed a rendering issue with drop pods.
• Fixed a rendering issue with the mammalian orbital habitat.
• Fixed some megastructures not animating properly.
• Fixed hyperlane shader.

Modding

• Script Values, Variables and Modifiers:
• Added scripted_modifier directory where you can define new modifiers you can use in static_modifiers and apply via modifier:<modifier>
• Solved issues where certain modifiers (or static modifiers in modifier fields) were not useable in certain places due to load order issues
• Added the ability to use mult = value:script_value in triggered modifiers
• Added support for “square = yes”, “square_root = yes”and “pow = x” in script values
• The game will no longer spit out errors about event targets if you try to feed a parameter with decimal places (e.g. 0.5) into a script value
• Added trigger check_economic_production_modifier_for_job to simplify job weights; rolled out script values across job weight calculations
• Amended the distance_to_empire to support use of script values (both it in them and them in it)
• Agreements, Subject Types and other Subjugation Topics:
• Added new 'agreement' scope type
• Added new database in common/agreement_presets for scripting presets of subject agreements
• Added new database in common/agreement_term_values for scripting different options for subject agreement terms
• Added new static database in common/agreement_terms for scripting terms for subject agreements
• Replaced triggers can_be_subject, is_subject_type, and has_tributary with as scripted triggers
• Added new 'subjects' trigger to check how many subjects a country has, regardless of agreement preset
• Added agreement_event as an event type, along with an agreement_event effect
• Added on_agreement_change_accepted on action that triggers when a subject agreement negotiation has been accepted
• Added remove_secret_fealty effect to remove a secret fealty pact between two countries
• Added trigger has_secret_fealty_with to check if there is a secret fealty between two empires
• Add 'has_monthly_loyalty' trigger to check a subject's monthly loyalty
• Add 'has_loyalty' trigger to check a subject's loyalty
• Added an agreement_preset trigger for checking the selected preset in the agreement scope
• Added new effect for setting the preset of a subject agreement
• Added the effect set_agreement_terms for setting the terms of a subject agreement
• Added a trigger to check if a subject agreement has an active specialization for a specified specialist type
• Added a trigger to check the specialist level of a subject agreement
• Added a trigger to check if a subject agreement has a specific specialist perk active
• Added use_demanded_terms parameter to set_subject_of effect for applying agreement terms of previously demanded agreement diplo action
• Added highly scriptable Situations system with many flexible parameters, effects and triggers
• Situations are now their own scope (accessible via “any_situation”)
• You can fire a new Situation via start_situation effect
• The properties of the Situation are customizable in the common/situations folder. A documentation file provides full information on what parameters are available within the system (e.g. how fast the Situation progresses, what happens at various stages of it, and how the interface should look)
• Added ImGui UI System
• DearImGui is a third party UI development tool that helps us rapidly develop debug UIs.
• Use “ImGui show” command to view a list of available views.
• Use “ImGui show <view name>” to open an ImGui view.
• Current release contains demo views and a “fleets” view for viewing internal fleet and ship data.
• You can now specify a pop faction as the location of your event and the button will take you there.
• Added scripted checks to diplomatic actions such that it is possible to forbid AI from doing diplomatic actions via script.
• Country types can now be given limited_military_construction and limited_leaders, which will let them build fleets and hire leaders but bypasses most other construction.
• Turned effects store_galactic_community_leader_backup_data and restore_galactic_community_leader_backup_data into scripted effects using new, more flexible effects for storing and restoring backup data of a country
• Added on_colony_yearly_pulse
• Added on_colony_25_years_old on_action
• Added planet_garrison_strength trigger
• Converted has_citizenship_rights from a scripted trigger into a trigger. This makes its performance significantly better (useful as it is checked a lot)
• Added disable_building and ruin_building effects
• You can now use num_districts in country scope
• Global script variables can now be accessed in localization with $@VariableName$
• Added "direction = corewards/rimwards" parameter to spawn_system
• Added trigger to check if a country has a Secret Fealty pact from a subject of the target country
• Error logs within scripted effects and triggers will now have useful file locations again
• Shifted script for how many of each ship an AI wants to build from country_types to ship_sizes.
• Shifted script for which armies an AI wants to build to the army_types entries from country_types
• It is now possible to limit which ships an aura will affect by using a 'limit' trigger in the aura block of the ship component script
• Add support for scoping to last_created_design
• Add script lists for owned ship designs
• Added remove_ship_design and remove_global_ship_design effects
• Added modifiers ship_friendly_territory_fire_rate_mult, ship_friendly_territory_accuracy_add, ship_friendly_territory_accuracy_mult, ship_friendly_territory_evasion_add, ship_friendly_territory_evasion_mult, ship_friendly_territory_shield_add, ship_friendly_territory_shield_mult, ship_friendly_territory_tracking_add, ship_friendly_territory_tracking_mult that is only active while in a friendly territory
• Added count_starbase_buildings trigger
• System scope is now supported on count_starbase_buildings and count_starbase_modules.
• Added owner_type option to buildings to specify if a building is a holding or not
• Added effects add_starbase_component and remove_starbase_component to add and remove ship components to starbases that are standalone from modules and buildings
• Added empire and ship wide windup modifiers for all bypass types. Following the "mod_<bypass_type>_<empire ship>_windup format
• Added quantum catapult modifiers
• Added on_pop_resettled on_action
• Added the ability to do country_add_ethic = random
• Added triggers num_researched_techs_of_tier and can_research_tier
• Added a replaceable block to starbase modules taking scope From: Starbase, FromFrom: Starbase.Owner
• Added a script folder common/tradable_actions that can be used for scripting actions that can be traded in trade deals
• Improved performance of checking “all” on count_x script lists, and also fixed some cases where it was not possible for it to return true.
• Added define for how long the AI will wait before proposing a federation law change after a change in that category has been proposed: AI_FEDERATION_PROPOSE_LAW_CATEGORY_COOLDOWN

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3.3.4 Hotfix Patch Notes

• Fix to address performance impact on mid- to late-game saves.

Known issue

• Under certain circumstances Starbase modifiers may not immediately update, such as after the death of a ruler or activating edicts like Fortify the Border. Saving and loading or queuing a starbase module will refresh and correct the modifiers.

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3.3.3 Patch Changelog

Balance

• Planetary Ascension Tier costs have been adjusted. The effect the number of -Ascensions has on the cost has been dramatically reduced, but the effect Empire Size has on the costs has been increased.
• Colonists now only produce 3 amenities to be more in line with other amenity producing jobs. Reassembled Ship Shelter produces 7 to make up for it.
• Embracing a Faction now costs Unity rather than Influence.
• Promoting and Suppressing Factions intentionally remains free, other than causing the factions distress.
• Edicts no longer increase empire size from systems or pops
• Sacrificial edicts now increase the unity output of death priests by +3 Unity while the edict is in effect.

Bugfix

• Fixed starbase modifiers not updating when ruler dies, picking ascension perk and researching new technologies.
• Fixed an issue where edicts would get disabled if the player had a deficit of any resource.
• Fixed timed edicts expiring one day after being enabled.
• Death Chroniclers and Chronicle Drones now correctly provide both Amenities and Stability.
• Galactic Memorial now provides 3 Unity per Ascension Perk instead of 2.

AI

• Fixed an issue where AI empires would not upgrade their mineral purification plant building.
• Fixed an issue where AI would get stuck in a loop building and destroying the food processing plant for void dweller empires.
• Fixed an issue where AI empires would put too many planets on the factory world designation.

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3.3.2 Hotfix Patch Changelog

• Fixed localization issues affecting articles in French, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese
• Fixes a crash that would occur when attempting to apply a species template to a species with a different amount of traits than what is in the template.
• Fixed species template application trait add/remove checks being inverted.

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Changelog for build #55182677743581531 - Stellaris (Paradox)  Back to Builds  Edit changelog VERSION 3.3.1 ################### Unity Rework ###################

• Some technologies that increased unity production now instead increase Edict Fund by 20.
• Autochthon Monument, Corporate Monument, and Simulation Site building lines now generate a small amount of Unity and increase Unity generation from jobs on their planet.
• Autochthon Monuments and other similar buildings now produce Unity based on the number of Ascension Perks the Empire has taken.
• Cutthroat Politics now also reduces Edict Upkeep by 20%.
• Executive Vigor Ascension Perk now grants 100 Edict Fund instead of 2 Edict Capacity.
• Grand Council and Harmonious Directives Traditions now grant 50 Edict Fund instead of 1 Edict Capacity.
• Imperial Cult Civic now grants 100 Edict Fund instead of 2 Edict Capacity.
• Inwards Perfection now grants 50 Edict Fund instead of 1 Edict Capacity.
• Planetary Unification now grants +5% Unity production and a one time Unity award instead of +2 Unity.
• Brand Loyalty civic now grants 25 Edict Fund instead of 1 Encryption. Subsumed Will and OTA Updates now also grant 25 Edict Fund.
• Capital designations now provide production bonuses.
• Feudal Society now also reduces Leader hiring costs by 50%, waives Unity upkeep costs for employed Leaders, causes employed Governors to instead generate Unity equal to their skill level, but removes the ability to dismiss Leaders.
• Finishing tradition trees now unlocks the ability to select previously locked Federation types.
• The Imperial Authority now gains increased Influence from Power Projection.
• Added Planetary Ascension Tiers to enhance Planet Designations through Unity
• Reforming government now costs Unity. The cost is based on Empire Size.
• Renamed Administrator jobs to Politicians. Assigned Bureaucrats, Priests and other related jobs to the new Administrator economic category.
• Resettling pops that previously cost Influence now costs Unity. Abandoning colonies still costs Influence.
• Unity Ambitions and Campaigns now function like Toggled Edicts and last until canceled with upkeep rather than costs.
• From Beta: Increased Spiritualist discounts on edict cost and upkeep to -10%/-20% from -5%/-10%. Cutthroat Politics now grants -20% edict upkeep.
• Hive empires can now build a variant of the Autochthon Monument line called Sensoriums.
• Leaders have a base cost of 100 unity and cost 50 additional unity for every leader owned leader, not counting the ones you start with. The cost goes down whenever a leader dies or is fired.
• Memorialists and Death Cults can now choose whether to build their specialized Unity buildings or regular ones. Memorialist buildings now replace the Autochthon Monument line.
• Merchant Guilds no longer produce bonus unity.
• Rulers now provide +5 Edict fund per level instead of their previous Edict Duration and Unity Boost.
• Suppressing or Promoting factions no longer costs Influence. Known Issue: Unity costs for - Faction Manipulation is not yet in place.
• Technocracy no longer generates unity. Instead the Civic now doubles the chance that your scientists will discover a technology from within their expertise. The civic only requires you to be partially materialist. ################### Necroids Species Pack Features ################### New Civic: Permanent Employment added. ################### New Content ###################
• Added 2 new bespoke star systems and 3 new anomalies to be discovered: “Temporal Prism”, “Lost Soul” and “Ancient Vending Machine”. Also added a colony event chain, “Insidious Ophidians”.
• 2 new archeology sites were added to the base game: “The Mask of Transformation” and “Rage Sage”.
• Added Plantoid, Lithoid, Necroid, and Aquatic pre-sapient pops to discover for owners of the respective Species Packs. ################### Balance ###################
• Activating an edict now requires one months upkeep cost worth of stockpiled resources.
• The Hydrocentric Ascension Perk now allows empires to flood habitats, making them suitable for Aquatic species.
• Edicts can now have a cooldown before they can be disabled.
• AI Megacorps should spawn half as often as before now.
• Increased the likelihood of getting endgame crises that are not the Unbidden.
• Beta: Empire Sprawl has no effects under 100 rather than 50.
• Beta: Increased Unity production of Bio-Trophies from 1 to 3.
• Beta: Reduced the costs of higher tier edicts and campaigns.
• Scientists currently researching a technology can now gain new traits as they level up
• Distinguished Admiralty now gain +2 starting level to their Admirals and Generals.
• Fixed unmodifiable traits so that you can now correctly remove special habitability traits, along with various other traits that you were not meant to be able to add but it was fine to remove. - Also allowed you to apply existing species templates containing such traits to the rest of the species. (This mainly covers flavour-based traits - there are still some such as Mechanical or Psionic or Necrophage which you will not be able to add or remove via species modification)
• From Beta: Empire Size effects on edicts, campaigns, and ambitions now directly affect the base costs of these, so bonuses like Spiritualist ethic's cost reductions now reduce costs and upkeep by the expected percentages.
• Increased political power of ruler and specialist strata under Decadent Lifestyle.
• Increased the consumer goods upkeep of Decadent Lifestyle.
• Integrated Preservation no longer increases admin cap, instead it gives your empire a flat 30% increase to Automatic Resettlement Chance.
• It now costs 25/50 influence to upgrade a habitat in addition to the alloy cost.
• Leaders now only stay in the active pool for 1 year, hire them quickly before they leave!
• Beta: Megastructures no longer have a unity upkeep
• Pearl Divers now produce one more trade value (3 by default) and will not steal Angler jobs when food is short anymore.
• Reduced campaign costs and ambitions costs significantly, re-added Edict Cost Reduction to spiritualists for Unity Ambitions and Sacrifices.
• Regenerative Hull Tissue, Nanite Repair System and Nanobot Cloud have had their values sliced in half however they now heal on a percentage basis rather than a static one leading to a net buff in most situations.
• Servile pops should no longer retain the trait if they become zombies.
• Spiritualist empires can now acquire the technologies associated with the Autochthon Memorial and similar buildings, as well as their faith based line. Spiritualists are no longer allowed to take ‘Byzantine Bureaucracy’ since they don't have Bureaucrats.
• Telepaths now give +5% planetary output and get bonuses from planet administrator modifiers
• The "Sell to Private Collector" minor artifact decision now grants a flat 500 energy and has a 6 month cooldown.
• The Here Be Dragons endgame trigger now lets Machine Intelligences with the Synthetic Age ascension perk reach it after 4 ascension perks rather than 6.
• The Living Metal technology can now be discovered as long as you have some within your borders.
• The Void Dweller finisher from the Expansion tradition tree now also discounts upgrading habitats. ################### AI ###################
• AI can now create more specialized planets by switching place of buildings on two different planets with each other.
• AI will no longer instantly buy ever single slave pop on the slave market.
• AI will now prioritize its alloy expenditure in a more sensible way, focusing on ships then starbases modules/upgrades and only building defense platforms as a last resort.
• AI bonus willingness to choose rare tech has been reduced from 400% to 50%, AI would often spend a very long time researching expensive rare tech in the early game if they had the chance.
• AI is now much more likely to pick cheaper research options when all else equals.
• AI will now take into account free jobs and items in the construction queue when setting its economic targets.
• AI empires are now more likely to pick the mind over matter ascension perk when available.
• AI empires are now much more likely to finish their ascension path.
• AI empires that require food will no longer build bioreactors.
• AI empires who are not using food will now delete agricultural districts if they happen to have one, for example when they conquer.
• AI ethics such as militarist, spiritualist and materialist will now have an effect on the AI overall economical strategy where they will have additional focus on alloys, unity or science respectively.
• AI fleets who are following a player fleet with "take point" will now merge with each other when they reach the player fleet.
• AI fleets will now follow the player more closely with a follow command when they are in the same system.
• AI is now much more likely to prioritize surveying a system if they know there is a colonizable planet there resulting in faster expansion.
• AI rogue servitor empires will now build an organic sanctuary on each planet that has upgraded their capital building, and build additional ones on planets with high science or industrial output.
• Overhauled AI weightings for picking techs so that it favors technologies that increase research speed instead of almost always researching weapons (faster research means better weapons in the long run). Also fixed various bugs with this, for example extremely low weightings on researching robotics.
• AI can now balance how many pops it needs that produce amenities better (mostly relevant for Hiveminds, so they don’t put ALL their pops on amenity creating jobs).
• AI will no longer destroy superfluous buildings and districts during a temporary occupation of a planet.
• AI will now demolish superfluous districts, commonly obtained during conquest and purging the previous owners.
• AI will now favor the trade policy which generates consumer goods over the default wealth creation policy.
• AI will now favor researching techs unlocking the weapon type they favor (according to their personality).
• AI will now make sure planets contain at least one free building slot if it has unemployed pops and it is unable to find any possible construction which contributes to the AI's economic plan.
• AI will now only build defense platforms if they have maxed out their fleet cap.
• AI will now only upgrade fleets if there would a substantial benefit (+30% fleet power determined by define SHIP_FLEET_POWER_UPGRADE_THRESHOLD )
• AI will now remember if they have fought against a crisis together with the player and continue following their fleets as long as the threat of the crisis remains.
• AI will now spend more of its alloys on upgrading starbases when they have reached their fleet cap.
• AI will now more reliably build habitats again.
• Ai budget for alloys will now heavily favor building colony ships if we have claimed planets we want to colonize.
• AI now understands how to evaluate energy grids and other buildings that apply modifiers to the planet (so now it can create specialized planets better).
• Allied AI will now help its allies defend against the mid and late game crisis.
• AI is now much more likely to prioritize surveying a system if they know there is a colonizable planet there resulting in faster expansion.
• AI will now look at the individual unemployed pop when considering what job to create for it, solving various issues where jobs were created for pops who could not work them.
• Fixed AI often aborting jump drive orders during windup.
• Fixed Lithoid Tree of Life food building and destruction loop
• Fixed a bug where the AI would sometimes try to replace one lost science ship with an excessively high number thereof.
• Fixed an issue where AI can not build any buildings when negative on food and consumer goods at the same time.
• Fixed an issue where AI would continuously upgrade buildings and create an excessive amount of jobs.
• Fixed an issue where AI would incorrectly multiply the trade value generated by a building by the number of jobs provided by the building twice.
• Fixed an issue where AI would only consider solving amenities issues with buildings if there was no unemployment.
• Fixed an issue where AI would put too many pops working amenities jobs.
• Fixed an issue where hive minds were unable to build the spawning pool.
• Fixed an issue where repeatable tech were getting an extra chance to be research as if they were rare techs.
• Fixed an issue where the AI did not colonize low habitability planets when there are no other options causing doomsday origin empires in particular to often experience a very swift end to their species.
• Fixed an issue where the AI would not budget to use ship boost edicts.
• Fixed an issue with AI budgeting preventing it from using terraforming gasses when it wanted to.
• Fixed several issues where AI would get stuck and not build any modules or upgrade any starbases when there were open module slots which were unable to be filled according to the AI's starbase template.
• Improved "Take Point" Follow behavior for fleets.
• Improved AI construction ship behavior, construction ships will now prioritize tasks that are close to them and avoid going to another system that already has a construction ship in it. - Heavily increased priority of building starbases in systems with planets. Increased allowed budget for alloys on planet construction which prevented AI from building energy grids.
• Life Seeded AIs now always want the World Shaper ascension perk.
• Lithoid empires are now more liberal in spending minerals on their colony ships.
• Reduces AI willingness to take a lot of planets with very low habitability.
• Removed weighted random from AI construction as it now more correctly prioritizes which buildings to build.
• The AI will now use minor artifact decisions with extra focus put on Arcane Deciphering.
• Total overhaul for scripted AI tech selection. The important techs are now: extra research speed, extra resource production, resource producing buildings, ship types and starbase types.
• Updated AI construction ship logic so that they will keep working around the system they have been sent to instead of going back and forth between the empire borders (which was a very -inefficient way of building stations)
• Updated AI tradition selection to align better with the current state of the game.
• Adjusted AI tradition tree and ascension perk selection.
• Nanite repair system will no longer be used by the auto designer when the empire does not have access to nanite income.
• Fixed an issue where AI necroid empires didn't build chamber of elevation on their planets.
• Fixed an issue where clone army origin species would not always build ancient clone vats on their new colonies when possible.
• Fixed an issue where the AI were not allowed to build Gaia Seeders. -Fixed an issue where the AI would incorrectly evaluate the potential resources gained by constructing a building.
• Fixed an issue where the AI would sometimes revert to obsolete fallback behavior when deciding what to build.
• Trade value is now affected by difficulty bonus. This will make non hive mind empires more competitive on higher difficulty settings compared to hive mind AI empires. ################### UI ###################
• You can now see Unbidden anchor systems on the galactic map.
• Clicking the fleet size icon in the top bar now opens the fleet manager.
• Improved legibility of approximate job output indicators on districts and buildings, and made those on buildings also show country modifiers (those on districts already did).
• Optimized elements for leader upkeep and age to fit localization better and avoid UI overlaps.
• Technologies which let you clear blockers now give a tooltip which says how many such blockers are on your colonies.
• Tooltips should no longer show any percentage values with decimals. ################### Stability ###################
• Fixed a bug where the closest_system effect could cause an OOS (it would OOS when hovering over the tooltip of certain events).
• Fixed a crash if script tried to change the species rights of a country (e.g. pirates) without species rights.
• Fixed a crash that would occur if a timed modifier element in the expansion planner was hovered after the modifier expired.
• Fixed an OOS if you ever use every_system_in_cluster in a tooltip (luckily, we never did that)
• Fixed crash when using pass_targeted_resolution in events ################### Performance ###################
• Reduced frame rate impact of opening planet view.
• Optimized (slowed down) recalculations of species view and colonization menu so that they don’t tank framerate.
• Refactored bonus resources that civics grant to jobs.
• Refactored unemployment benefits from living standards.
• Refactored Living Standards to use pop modifiers on the living standards script, instead of being checked for each pop category.
• Updated ship shader to support empire color in emissive, decreasing the amount of draw calls for Aquatic ships.
• Greatly improved performance of upgrading fleets. This mainly affects the tooltip of the UI (which was very expensive when hovered over), but also saves some time each time the AI attempts to upgrade its fleets. ################### Bugfix ###################
• Beta: Bio-Trophies now cost Unity to resettle instead of Influence.
• Fixed Shared Burdens not providing unity for unemployed pops.
• Fixed an issue where pops would mass switch from one job to another (for example maintenance drones).
• Fixed modifiers for Police State civic.
• Reduced Unity gained from the Trade League trade policy.
• Trade value from jobs now get a penalty from low planet habitability.
• Colony designations that increase unity from Administrator jobs now have weighting for spiritualist, hive and machine empires.
• Fixed order of Galaxy Size options in galaxy setup not being ordered based on the number of stars.
• “Synths Scuttle Starbase" now refers to the starbase orbiting a star, rather than a planet.
• Assorted, minor fixes to grammar and punctuation.
• Added Planetary Automation behavior for districts that grant Bio-Trophy jobs.
• Added missing custom icon for ship component "Nanite Repair System".
• Beta: Rogue Servitors can now upgrade their Simulation Centers.
• Beta: Rogue Servitors now have access to the correct Unity producing buildings.
• Blocked ascension tier upgrade on unowned planets.
• Blocked building ships in occupied shipyards.
• Chronicle Drones now care about photosynthesis.
• Citizen Service Soldiers now produce their unity.
• Colonizing Consecrated planets no longer enables breaking the Consecrated Worlds limit.
• Deluging primitives now removes the observation outpost.
• Democratic manadates now check for uncapped rural districts, allowing democratic candidates on shattered rings to usher in a new age of digging too deep and too greedily!
• Save files can no longer be ‘resumed’ if the required dlcs are not available.
• Edicts are now canceled if an empire can not sustain the upkeep.
• Enhanced the memory of Memorialist Hive Minds (they can now correctly build the special Memorialist buildings)
• Ensured that the Arcology Project checks for agricultural districts on Wet Aquatic worlds. Venus realized that they were larger than Earth and has decided to shrink to a more appropriate size.
• Fixed "The Library" dig site occasionally granting unaccessible deposits.
• Fixed Criminal Heritage Galactic Emperors.
• Fixed Curators retelling the wrong info when asking again about the Scavenger's origins.
• Fixed Defense Grid Supercomputer not immediately applying its effect upon construction.
• Fixed Megacorp Death Cults not starting with a Sacrificial Temple".
• Fixed Memorialists seeing that some techs unlocked buildings they could not build.
• Fixed Planetary Unification tech description overflowing the box.
• Fixed Sociocultural History tech showing it unlocked the Bounty Sacrifice twice.
• Fixed a bug where system wide auras sometimes persisted after leaving a system.
• Fixed a bug where you could end up with multiple Zroni homeworld systems.
• Fixed an issue where Medical Workers' habitability bonuses would not affect habitability impacts on pop growth correctly.
• Fixed an issue where a ghost Unbidden Portal would continue spawning ships.
• Fixed an issue where only the fleets of the main attacker would go MIA in enemy territory when a new war starts.
• Fixed an issue where scientists would only get expertise traits based on the fields they were not actively working on.
• Fixed automatic ship design name generation often generating a design with an invalid name (i.e. one your empire was already using somewhere) when using certain name lists.
• Fixed clicking top bar influence icon opening the edicts view.
• Fixed expired timed modifiers being visible in the expansion planner.
• Fixed fleet upgrade button telling you your ships were already upgrading telling you your ships were already upgrading twice.
• Fixed it being possible to build ships in occupied mega shipyards.
• Fixed it being possible to upgrade the ascension tier of planets not owned by the player.
• Fixed leader cost sorting option in the leader view sorting by energy instead of unity.
• Fixed looping checkbox clicked audio in the Apply Species Template view.
• Fixed potential issue where Sentinels (crisis-fighters) used the same global event target as Sentinels (stone soldiers from an arc site).
• Fixed reinforcements not arriving to the target fleet and instead showing up at the station when an evasive path was needed in order to get to the target fleet.
• Fixed reinforcements not using evasive path.
• Fixed several places where tooltips in the contacts or diplomacy views would mistake guaranteeing and being guaranteed, and supporting independence or having one's independence supported.
• Fixed some inconsistencies with whether Aquatic habitability modifiers were applied and displayed.
• Fixed some megastructures not animating properly.
• Fixed some misgenderings of rulers in German espionage and Galactic Imperium events.
• Fixed some spacing issues in the localisation of the fire event effect in foreign languages.
• Fixed species modification planetary trait list sometimes overflowing. Starbase modifiers should now be applied more quickly after changing.
• Fixed starbase modifiers not always being properly updated when removing buildings or components.
• Fixed the Manifesti faction demanding you outfit your ships with the Gestalt equivalent of sapient combat computers.
• Fixed the species gender selector not having the correct impact on certain Vanilla species' leader portraits.
• Fixed the tooltip of Open Border policies sometimes helpfully telling you that your country was default (in a way that isn't translated to other languages)
• Fixed trade UI showing negative values for Collection Range and Protection Range under some circumstances
• Fixed transport ship jump drive cooldown resetting when invading a planet.
• Fixed unlocalised text "UNKOWN_ORDERS" in a certain tooltip in the fleet interface
• Fixed various living standards incorrectly providing unity instead of a happiness penalty for unemployed pops.
• Fixed wrong color of font used in the Alien Box event in Brazilian Portuguese
• Fixing missing line break for the alert about Necrophyte Shortages in Chinese
• From Beta: Chronicle Drone and Death Chronicles now have the same production.
• From Beta: Chronicle Drones are now Administrators Great Khan will no longer turn hostile towards their own satrapies
• Increased reward of the "Shattered World" anomaly event from 3 to 5.
• Beta: Life-Seeded Permanent Employment Megacorps will no longer all be zombies. Loading... New Rogue Servitor Planetary Automation Algorithms installed. Bio-Trophy district management for habitats and city worlds updated... Have a nice day.
• Machine Intelligence empires with the Rogue Servitor civic won't be forced to burn organics during the Primordial Soup event.
• Masters Writing of War and Politics now also cost unity.
• Nanite repair system will no longer be picked by the ship auto design if you do not have nanite income.
• Pop job weight for enforcers is now adjusted based on if there is crime or not.
• Posthumous Employment Centers can now be seen even if you can't build them yet.
• Religious Arcologies should now provide appropriate jobs for Death Cults.
• Revolts in systems with enclave stations will no longer be granted ownership of the enclave station (it will remain in the hands of the enclave).
• Sacrifices now have a unity cost.
• Science ships no longer get a free survey completion when their target system gets taken over by someone else. Streamlined "Unknown Contact" event chain by turning the "Study the Living Sea" planetary decision into a special project.
• Taking "The Flesh is Weak" no longer makes your species lose its gender presets.
• The Caravaneers will no longer turn Gestalt Rulers psionic.
• The Materialist faction is now happy that you’ve discovered the secrets of the precursors even if those precursors are the Baol or the Zroni.
• The Nemma World colony event will now actually fire.
• The Rubricator is no longer lost to the player if a non-default empire kills Shard.
• The orbital station on New Baldarak (which is rendered useless by the events that create New Baldarak) is now correctly removed.
• The portrait selection view for empire creation now gets a scrollbar if the number of portraits exceeds the two visible rows.
• The project for reanimating Hrozgar now uses the correct art.
• Transport Fleets should handle Landing armies better, notably when in ‘Aggressive Stance’.
• Updated various job weights
• Void dwellers no longer start with a broken Posthumous Employment Center.
• You can now build a Fleet Academy if you have queued a Shipyard (you don't need to wait for it to complete)
• You cannot drag and drop ships into someone else's fleet anymore.
• Zombies can no longer colonize planets.
• Added a missing line break in the Take Point button's tooltip.
• Added missing tooltip when hovering the shipyard tab of a mega shipyard owned by another empire.
• Added missing description for "Precognitive Interface" and "Psi Jump Drive" components in the Technology menu.
• Added missing description for "The Sentinels" planetary feature.
• Added missing description for deposit "Project Cornucopia".
• Added missing galaxy settings tooltips to the galaxy creation screen, both in Multiplayer and in single player.
• Added missing header in the description of "Omega Theory" technology.
• Added missing header in tooltip description of "Defense Platform" and "Habitat".
• Added missing information about required DLC for the Corporate Authority.
• Clarified the tooltip for automatic development to be clear when you had it turned on or not.
• Fixed Angler job name not displaying in FR
• Fixed Megastructure view description resetting so that it no longer shows the wrong description when switching between different kinds of Megastructures.
• Fixed Megastructure view description sometimes not reflecting the selected Megastructure.
• Fixed Megastructure view not always using the default image when no structure specific image exists.
• Fixed a Galcom resolution tooltip saying that the empire was already supporting the resolution when in fact it was meant to say it was already opposing it.
• Fixed a bunch of empire names being missing (and therefore English) in Chinese. Mainly Machine Empires and the Galactic Imperium.
• Fixed a bunch of issues in various federation law acceptance tooltips (several had missing or hard to interpret and ugly information).
• Fixed a dev comment being present in an event text when you encounter an empire with Here - Be Dragons during First Contact.
• Fixed a missing species name in event The Dragon has Landed.
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip breakdown for the habitability of an uninhabited planet was missing country modifiers.
• Fixed an unlocalised tooltip in non-English versions of the game when hovering over a megastructure's effects.
• Fixed broken localization reference in Doomsday Origin.
• Fixed cases of unlocalised text when the Galactic Community or Empire tried to build too many Titans for its Defense Force.
• Fixed gender selection tooltip in empire creation stating that clicking a non selected gender will revert to default gender settings.
• Fixed grammar of adding a single clue to an arc site or insight to a first contact.
• Fixed incorrect description of traits "Inspired Researcher" and "Inspired Surveyor".
• Fixed it being possible to get unlocalised "Greetings!" in other languages when you opened diplomatic interactions with other empires for the first time.
• Fixed missing loc string for Nemma Mining Operation deposit.
• Fixed missing localization for PLANET_ASCENSION_TIER_EFFECT_DESC in the tooltip for planetary designation.
• Fixed that an empty broken Federation details tooltip would show up if you tried to look at the federation of a country with no federation in the contacts view.
• Fixed the tooltip of Integrated Preservation tradition.
• Removed references to edicts and factions from influence tooltip.
• Shortened string SLAVE_MARKET in French.
• The description for the Imperial Navigation System no longer speaks of the Community of old. - The tooltips giving estimated job upkeep and production are now better at dealing with stuff like rogue servitors (where it would previously estimate based on an organic pop which could not work the job, sometimes giving the tooltip a food upkeep instead of a minerals one).
• Fixed "Tebri" and "Tebiron" (prescripted empire planet and system names) being untranslated in Chinese. ################### Modding ###################
• Added support for "is_essential" property on buildings which when added to the AI build queue will remove all non essential build tasks.
• Added "random" toggle to scripted loc. If you set "random = no", it will pick the loc key with the highest weight, or the first valid one if no weights are specified, rather than acting as a weighted random.
• Added ai_ignore_was_human console command for toggling ai passiveness after taking over a human controller empire on/off.
• Added complex_trigger_modifier to mtth functions: now you can use complex_trigger_modifier = { trigger = num_favors parameters = { who = from } trigger_scope = owner mode = add potential = { <triggers> } } in places where you could use modifier = { factor = 1 <triggers> }.
• Added downgrade_all_buildings and downgrade_buildings_of_type effects.
• Added error logging for when a window uses a scroll bar but does not have a background.
• Added is_starbase_type trigger.
• Added resource_revenue_compare and resource_expenses_compare triggers.
• Added script_values, which are like ai_weight versions of scripted triggers. You can refer to them by key to get a number via value:my_value.
• Added skip_federation_cooldowns console command.
• Easier mod overwriting of objects that dynamically add modifiers.
• Enabled further mathematical operations in many modifier = { factor = x } fields. The full list is now: set, mult/factor, add, subtract, divide, modulo, round_to, round = yes, floor = yes, ceiling, max, min, abs = yes (all taking a number on the right, except where otherwise specified)
• Enabled scripted localization for base scopes, meaning that "Root." is no longer needed in some localization strings.
• Enabled the use of the "distance" trigger in script maths (e.g. export_trigger_value_to_variable).
• Exposed the default megastructure portrait key as a define.
• Extensive defines to modify the math around the planetary ascension.
• Fixed a number of potential crashes on startup due to interactions between the load order and a number of effects and triggers.
• Fixed a tooltip crash firing a nonexistent event.
• Fixed a variety of issues with the use of variables as multipliers in triggered resource tables.
• Fixed ambient objects' scale_to_size making ambient objects appear a different size the first time you looked at a solar system than subsequent times.
• Fixed crash when closing TweakerGUI.
• Fixed issues where mods overwriting objects (e.g. jobs) that dynamically add modifiers would cause issues where the added modifiers would not work.
• Fixed station_modifier and triggered station modifiers on starbase modules or buildings, not immediately applying their effects upon construction. In value-based triggers where you would say e.g. num_pops > 32, you can now no longer say num_pops > from, but you can instead say num_pops > from.trigger:num_pops. This change was doing for technical reasons, to save on memory usage by not saving two event targets in each trigger.
• Often-reused scripted effects and triggers will now no longer show misleading file locations in error logs.
• Renamed election cost modifier country_election_influence_cost_mult to country_election_cost_mult to not reference influence, as it now costs unity.
• Replaced the modification boolean flag for traits with the additional triggers species_possible_add, species_possible_merge_add and species_possible_merge_remove.
• Stopped some weight/chance fields inexplicably returning 1 even when script said the base should be 0.
• Variables that accepted "trigger:<trigger>" now also accept "modifier:<modifier>".
• You can no longer use "count" in any_x triggers. You should use count_x instead (which uses much better code).
• You can now again specify that a leader made with clone_leader is an event leader (or immortal).
• You can now use count_x script lists in export_trigger_value_to_variable.
• You can now use script values in ships' empire_limit. *AI economic plan and AI build plan tooltip now shows sub plans and the current income targets, also now able to name sub plans.
• Job reassignment reworked to reevaluate between each change, this means that you can now script more dynamic job weight behaviors without causing mass migration of pops from one job to another. For example, you can base energy credit weight based on empire deficit/surplus or you can base amenities job weight on the planet amenity level.

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Stability & Performance

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• Fixed the game crashing when interacting with the gender selection interface in Empire Creation, when playing in non-English languages.

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• Fixed the game crashing if the script tries to set an Empire hostile to itself.

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AI

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• Fixed AI not voting for federation laws.

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Bugfixes

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• Fixed starbase modifiers invalidation.
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip for why an AI wants random succession could display "Poor Cohesion: 20" up to 4 times.

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Aquatics Species Pack Features

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• Added a new Aquatic pre-scripted Empire.
• Added a new Phenotype with 16 new portraits (15 normal + 1 robot) of fishy looking Aquatics.
• Added a new City Set and room backdrop for Aquatics.
• Added a new bubbly Ship set.
• Added a new Advisor Voice.
• Added a new Civic: Anglers.
• Added a new Species Trait: Aquatic.
• Added two new Origins: Ocean Paradise and Here be Dragons.
• Added a new Ascension Perk: Hydrocentric.

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Humanoids Species Pack Features

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• Added a new Civic: Pompous Purists.

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• Multiplayer hosts that own the DLCs now unlock portraits as well as ship and background sets from the Plantoids and Humanoids Species Packs for clients that do not own them.
• Added the ability to pick your main species' gender during game setup.
• Added over 200 new star names for random galaxy generation.
• Added 13 random events to terraforming to make the feature more engaging.
• Added 4 new asteroid-related anomalies to spice up old anomaly categories.
• Added 4 new Gas Giant anomalies.
• Added 4 new anomalies to existing, uninhabitable worlds anomaly categories.
• Added new options to several old anomaly events which share categories with the newly added ones above.
• Enabled the Ship Browser for all players.

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• Reinforcement fleets will now attempt to find a safe but longer path if the shortest path to the target fleet is not considered safe. This will reduce how often reinforcement fleets are spawned at the shipyard at the cost of increasing the MIA time (due to taking a longer path) in these cases.
• Reinforcement fleets now consider systems that have both hostiles and allies in them to be safe for pathfinding purposes.
• Reinforcing fleets using jump drives no longer require a safe hyperlane path to the fleet they are reinforcing.
• Improved how shipyards are selected when constructing reinforcements to better utilize stations with multiple shipyards and mega shipyards.
• Reinforcing fleets that fail to find a safe path to the target fleet will now merge with other fleets orbiting the same shipyard, if both fleets intended to reinforce the same target fleet.
• Plantoids and Fungoids are no longer forced to have no gender, as you can now freely pick species' genders. Instead, every randomly generated species now has a 30% chance of being one of: genderless, female-only or male-only.
• Added an additional option to the Alien Box event chain for Gestalts.
• Added an Industrial colony designation to Ecumenopolis.
• Made it so colony events will not fire on newly terraformed worlds to avoid some Ludonarrative Dissonance.
• The default flag of new empires is now randomized, say goodbye to the red-black triangle flag!

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• Functional Architecture and Constructobot: Reduced the free building slots granted from 2 to 1.

• Agrarian Idyll empires now get one planet building slot per four Agricultural districts built.

• Reduced the ship upkeep cost modifier for Clone army Admirals variants to 5/10/20% respectively.

• Ruins of Shallash arc site no longer has a chance of giving quite as much unity as defeating an endgame crisis.

• You can no longer use planet killer weapons on primitives inside your borders if you lack the appropriate primitive interference policies.

• Pops working the Livestock job now have 10% less political power.

• A lot of anomalies were rewarding 3 Society Research deposits, there is now more variety.

• Made Awakened Fallen Empires use Traditions.

• Several productivity-improving technologies are now no longer of dubious benefit, as their upkeep (and production) effects now only apply to jobs actually primarily producing resources.

• Nerve Stapled Hivemind pops can no longer perform complex drone jobs.

• Reduced the amount of jobs added by Leisure Arcology Districts to bring them into line with other Ecumenopolis districts.

• Ion cannons are no longer free to maintain, and have an upkeep cost of 8 energy.

• Necro-Hives:

• • Cut Necrophage pop assembly penalty to 50% from 75%
• • Made pop output modifiers (positive and negative) no longer apply to hive minds.
• • Made the -50% organic upkeep also apply to energy, for photosynthesis.
• • Devouring Swarm Necrophages now spawn with extra infrastructure to account for the lack of chambers of elevation.

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• Fixed an OOS caused by using button effects in custom MOD UI, so now you can go back to building that Nicoll-Dyson Beam to "ensure galactic peace and prosperity".

• Improved the performance of pop factions updating their support values - resolved an issue where the game looped over every pop in the Empire for each faction, rather than calculating it once for the whole Empire and referring to that value for each faction.

• Improved the performance of planet_resource_compare trigger, and cut down on its use a bit as it's still quite expensive.

• Improved the performance of a variety of checks by making more extensive use of species happiness caching.

• Cached calculations of pop_has_random_ethics to reduce performance impact of repeatedly checking it, by 50%.

• Optimised Rising Unemployment event's triggers to be only 15% as costly.

• The game will no longer try (and fail) to run Grey Goo event True Masters on every planet, every day.

• Optimised checks for whether a pop can belong to a certain faction by pre-filtering pops by ethics in code (rather than running the script checks on all pops). For modders: this means that a faction will only allow pops which match its "guiding_ethic" in it, unless "use_guiding_ethic_as_pop_filter = no" is specified.

• Optimised several expensive pop faction demands that were checking all pops instead of all species, and similar.

• Improved the efficiency of checking whether a pop faction should exist.

• Optimised checks for jobs' "possible" trigger so that the four most common triggers are now pre-calculated per pop rather repeatedly for each job that a pop can take. (The format looks a bit different now, with possible_precalc, so modders will need to update a bit here - the error log will warn you in most cases, except that you also need to add a check when you use complex_specialist_job_check_trigger).

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UI

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• The Music Player controls bar now starts hidden and can be extended by clicking the music icon.
• The title of the Music Player is now localised.
• Pop strata icons no longer overlap in Living Standards' tooltips.
• Tab-key in Console now also lists commands containing entered text.
• Disabled "Delete" and "Update Template" buttons when editing a base species template.
• All languages now list the main menu hotkeys ("N" for New Game, etc).
• Added a description to how migration works to the Transit Hub star base.

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AI

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• Improved AI algorithm for picking which building and district to build by fixing an issue where it would not handle buildings or districts which produced multiple resources very well
• Improved AI logic for building starbase modules and buildings. It will no longer spam crew quarters everywhere, and will instead be better at building useful things like resource-producing buildings and titan assembly yards.
• On starbases, AI can now build Ice Mining Stations, if it is hydrocentric
• On starbases, AI can now build Dragon Hatcheries if it got the tech
• On starbases, AI is building less crew quarters in general and in places where it doesn't make sense
• On starbases, AI is building a lot more anchorages
• On starbases, AI is also building a bit more solar arrays if it is a gestalt
• On starbases, AI is also building hydroponics now, since that has been buffed a lot and is way more useful to the economy
• On starbases, AI will now handle starbases after taking over from a player - but it will NOT build lots of defense modules everywhere and tank the economy that way
• Made AI empires more careful about running out of food.
• Rogue Servitors AI (and player default) is now to give their bio-trophies migration rights, rather than to not do so.
• The AI is now able to create Ecumenopolises.
• AI is now better able to budget for repairing the Shattered Ring World that Shattered Ring origin Empires start with.
• The AI is now better able to budget for terraforming, and will more readily terraform planets into classes which are ideal for them.
• Fixed AI sending small fleets to attack starbases without grouping up.
• Fixed AI trying to build starbase buildings and modules it wasn't allowed to be building in certain cases
• Improved AI weights for planet killer weapons, so they will tend to pick the one that benefits them the most. (This also applies to the player's auto-generated ship designs).
• The AI will now consider anti-crime campaigns a valid way of fighting crime. But it will also occasionally make deals with crime lords if it is the victim of a Criminal Syndicate.
• Fixed an issue where AI empires would leave fleets behind in others' space after peace was concluded.

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Modding

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• Starbase components can now accept economic output modifiers in station_modifier and system_modifier.
• Added on_queued and on_unqueued in decisions, and fixed a bug in abort_effect. (Also added an example sheet to show what all works: abort_effect and abort_trigger were probably hidden features).
• Added use of [loc] commands in decision descriptions.
• Fixed set_owner not working on Juggernauts.
• In component_templates, valid_for_country is now a trigger rather than a weights block, as that is how it acted. (So if you used it, you will need to update that).
• Added on_destroy_planetwith<planet_killer_key>_queued/unqueued on_actions.
• Added species_gender trigger, which checks what gender settings a species allows.
• Fixed a mod compatibility issue where has_deposit would not predictably return false if referencing a non-existent deposit.
• Added a create_nebula effect.
• Changed terraforming costs to use the post-Megacorp economy system.
• Removed unused technology parameter terraform_cost_change (use regular cost modifiers instead).
• Removed 'energy' parameter from terraforming links (use 'resources' instead).
• Changed any_planet_army, count_planet_army, random_planet_army, and every_planet_army to no longer be restricted to armies owned by the planet owner. Use 'is_owned_by = planet.owner' as a limit to achieve the same result as previously.
• Fixed issues with inputting prev and from scopes in fire_on_action.
• set_name can now be used on first contact sites.
• Added custom tooltips database for galactic objects with triggers to be executed for every system.
• Added allowed_planet_classes to trait definitions for locking traits behind planet class selection in empire creation.
• Added "show" trigger to ship size empire_limit to control when the limit is shown to the player.
• Added planet_clear_blocker_speed_mult..
• Fixed set_starbase_building/module to use slots starting with 1 rather than 0. This now matches both remove_starbase_building/module effects, and vanilla usage, but modders who compensated for this mismatch will need to adjust for the fix. Also improved error logging for these effects.
• Fixed missing names in tooltips for modifiers granted in triggered modifier sections of starbase building/modules.
• Fixed starbases only refreshing slots on the next day after you use set_level, so set_level and directly followed by set_starbase_module would not work.
• Added ideal_planet_class to traits. It can be used for defining which planet class a habitability trait should apply to.
• The add_trait effect’s tooltip now says what the trait does.
• Fixed the "no" cases of several boolean triggers: is_bottleneck_system, is_idle, has_war_goal, has_valid_ai_personality, is_site_under_excavation, is_site_completed (they previously counted “no” as “yes”).
• Added defines for the thresholds controlling when to accept a longer path for reinforcements when the shortest path is not safe.
• Added REINFORCE_MIA_TIME_MULT and MIA_TIME_MULT for controlling reinforcement and MIA times.
• Replaced define variable SHIPYARD_REINFORCE_MAX_DISTANCE with SHIPYARD_REINFORCE_MAX_JUMPS.
• Replaced define variable SHIPYARD_DISTANCE_DIV_FACTOR with SHIPYARD_REINFORCE_DISTANCE_MULT.
• Removed define variable SHIPYARD_MAX_OVER_CAPACITY.
• Added finish_arc_stage console command for finishing the stage of the archaeological on the selected planet.
• The "possible" trigger of a tradition category's adopt tradition will now print in the tooltip for adopting that category if it fails.
• Added the possibility to get the number of civics for an empire scope with "civics_count" trigger.
• Added the possibility to remove a civic by index e.g. "force_remove_civic = 2".
• Added on_capital_changed on_action.
• Added on_action on_planet_class_changed.

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• The notification shown when upgrading a defense platform now only appears when all queued upgrades are complete.
• Fixed the purchasing event of the Ministry of Culture displaying the wrong job for Machine empires.
• Changed the Atmospheric Hallucinogen modifier to more accurately follow the flavor text.
• Surveying from the system map now queues orders correctly and displays the correct tooltips.
• "Crisis" diplomatic greetings now appear when talking to a crisis empire, rather than when being one.
• Fixed the three extradimensional crisis factions occasionally getting reinforcements in each others' dimensional portals.
• Devouring Swarms no longer have access to the Diplomacy Tradition Tree.
• Fixed the effects and shortened the duration of the pop output modifiers granted by the What Separates Us event.
• Fixed Corporate Galactic Imperium not having access to Catalytic Processing and Mastercraft Inc.
• The Flesh is Weak Special Project no longer causes your species to lose their namelist.
• Cracking a non-colony planet no longer rewards Menace.
• Corporate and regular civics that share very similar effects have been made mutually exclusive.
• Fixed it being possible to remove and add traits that shouldn't be possible to change, via species modification.
• Fixed enlightened primitive Lithoids getting farms instead of more mines.
• Ancient Clone Vats can now only assemble Clone Soldier pops.
• Infertile Clone Army pops will no longer be able to reproduce just because they are having a nice night out with the Caravaneers.
• Fixed Nivlacs sometimes not being radiotrophic for owners of Plantoids.
• The Resolution "Right to Work" now no longer slows down organic pop assembly.
• Mastercraft Inc. now have access to their Artificers on Ecumenpoleis.
• Shattered Rings should no longer turn into spheres when the Gray Tempest attempts to turn it into a nanite world.
• Racket Industrial Enterprise will no longer say they will give you 4 pops and then only give you 3. They also realized that while trying to scam you they were giving you a great deal so they increased the cost of the pops.
• Catalytic and Master Crafter habitats colony designations should behave as expected.
• Citadel of Faith, Auto-Curating Vault, and Vault of Acquisition are no longer gated behind the wrong planetary capital building.
• Robots will no longer have 0 upkeep while living a decadent lifestyle.
• After the Reanimators discovered that the Dessanu Consonance armies are made out of nanites they politely stopped reanimating them.
• Made it so subjects can't join federation if federation law states that subjects can not join.
• Made it so that fleets in combat while a star eater destroys a system ends combat and goes MIA.
• Fixed 'newly founded colony' immigration pull accidentally capping out at 15 months after colonisation rather than 15 years. Now correctly set to 15 years or a population of 10 pops, whichever happens first.
• Fixed fleets containing only one ship type and only one ship not being present in the fleet manager.
• Science ship now considers Hostile Intel while planning an evasive route, this fixes a problem where science ships do not flee from hostile fleets.
• Fixed reinforcements arriving at the shipyard if the target fleet was in combat when they finished construction.
• Fixed reinforcement construction miscalculating which shipyards to use when reinforcements were being sent via bypasses.
• Time taken for fleets to reinforce via fleet manager should now be the same as if reinforcing manually.
• Fixed an issue in which during the year 2280, empty Marauder raid fleets could be created.
• Clone Army pops from other empires should now decline even if their new owner has the Clone Army origin. These Pops no longer reduce the main species’ assembly speed.
• Fixed a bug preventing the event which allowed you to acquire relics of other empires when invading their capital.
• You can no longer use your science ship to transport Shard to a separate system.
• The Corporate Dominion civic now unlocks the Trade League Federation type.
• Fixed MIA times sometimes being longer than the estimated travel time between the point of origin and the destination system.
• Fixed an issue with the fleet manager where it was possible to create fleets larger than the allowed command limit.
• Fixed the assimilation process overwriting/resetting species rights in certain circumstances.
• Fixed references to "pc_shattered_ring_habitable_adj" in certain first contact event chains.
• Fixed Policies sometimes showing that they could not be changed until a date that was in the past.
• Fixed the Terraforming button on planets sometimes being unavailable without a reason being stated (e.g. pre-sapients being present).
• Fixed it being possible to start the game using an invalid empire design by abusing confirmation prompts.
• Fixed attack animations spuriously triggering when ships enter into the camera view.
• Fixed clicking the falling intel alert opening the Diplomacy tab instead of the Intel tab.
• Fixed an issue where transport, juggernaut, and colossus ship icons in the fleet view were displayed incorrectly.
• Fixed some habitat colony designations not using habitat icons.
• Fixed the displayed cost sometimes being inaccurate when attempting to apply a species modification.
• Fixed an issue where flak batteries showed the “small guns” 3D model instead of the “point defense” 3D model.
• Privateers will no longer be intimidated by exceedingly large fleets and will still spawn from the Arm Privateers operation.
• Undead Armies resurrected during battle will no longer sometimes disband a month later.
• Fixed cases where the Insufficient Ancient Clone Vats modifier would apply while purging a completely different, non-clone species.
• Fixed a bug where a species wouldn't ever grow on a planet with low habitability, also fixed that nothing would grow if you locked growing only that species
• Ancient Drones will no longer be removing deposits that have benefits.
• Adding Subterranean Liaisons no longer uses a placeholder icon.
• Fixed an issue where "Call In Favor" and "Support" text would overlap in the federation vote UI.
• Fixed void dwellers starting on Sol getting a starting message mentioning a trinary star system.
• Fixed the description of Alloy Foundries when playing Gestalts and Catalytic Processors.
• The Thought Enforcement Edict now correctly mentions the reduction in crime it provides.
• Updated Merchant Guilds tooltip to be more in line with similar civics.
• Updated the Remnant Origin tooltip to be more in line with similar origins.
• Updated the description in Bulwark of Harmony to be more Machine Intelligence friendly.
• Updated the Contingency Core Relic tooltip to mention that it only works on Machine Pop Assembly.
• Fixed that the Planetary FTL Inhibitor technology tooltip incorrectly informed the player that a Stronghold would support an FTL Inhibitor.
• Updated Machine Building Speed Tooltips to mention that they only affect machines.
• Standardized the tooltips of the different slavery types to be more clear about what they offer.
• Prosperous Unification now has a more fitting tooltip for gestalts.
• Fixed a broken macro in the Chinese tooltip for Catalytic Processors.
• Fixed the inconsistent translation of the description for Byzantine Bureaucracy civic in French.
• Removed duplicate message in situation log tooltip for special project.
• Added missing square bracket in German string mod_planet_technician_energy_produces_mult, which had caused the GetTechnicianPlural macro to display in game.
• Shattered Ring Sprawling Slum tooltips now match the regular planet ones.
• Fixed Voidborne Ascension Perk displaying an incorrect tooltip for hiveminds.
• Fixed some Brazilian Portuguese grammatical errors.
• Fixed missing modifier names in certain interfaces from several colony designations, and a few other places.
• Corrected Mistranslation in Polish Tradition Strings
• Clarified tooltip of civics that cannot be manually added or removed after game start to specify that they cannot be added too.
• Fixed Imperial Armada Fleet Size text in the Galactic Imperium view not being localized.
• Fixed broken First Contact tooltip localization refs.
• Fixed poor tooltip for Caravaneers Local Franchise event.
• Added missing effects tooltip for Terraforming Candidate planet modifier.

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Performance and Stability

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• Fixed a crash where releasing a vassal as a Clone Army could cause an invalid species.

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• Fixed the Clone Army origin tooltip not having a matching ship upkeep reduction with their admirals. Also changed the bonus to scale in a cleaner way, the upkeep is now 5/10/20% based on the Army's decisions.
• The Genetic Crossroads special project will now abort if a species completes Synthetic Evolution before finishing it.
• Fixed habitability of planets that clone armies have abandoned through lack of clone vats being locked at 0% for them.
• Ancient Clone Vats can now only assemble Clone Soldier pops.
• Going into a food deficit when using the Catalytic Processing civic will now give a -50% production penalty to alloy production. This penalty is in line with the penalty non-catalytic empires suffer from a mineral deficit
• Fixed players being able to move their Science Ship to blow up systems using the “Elder One” event.
• Fixed exploit where AI acceptance from Eminent Diplomats tradition also applied to trade deals.

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Known Issues

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• The penalty to alloy production from a food deficit in catalytic empires is not shown in the deficit tooltip.
• Mastercraft Inc. Civic does not change Artisans into Artificers on an Ecumenopolis.
• Some inconsistencies in the number of jobs exchanged by Foundry Station designation for empires with the Catalytic processing civic.
• It’s possible for the Nivlac species to be created without the Radiotrophic trait in certain instances.
• Party Aftermath event can create crossbreed species between caravaneers and an infertile clone pop.
• Shattered Ring World can turn into a planet due to takeover or devastation.
• Mechanical pops with a Decadent Lifestyle have no pop upkeep.
• Awakened Empires don't use traditions properly.
• Machine empires can spawn with the necrophage origin.

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3.1 Stanislaw "Lem" Free Features

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Buffing the backlog

Plantoids

• Idyllic Bloom civic added. Can be used for Plantoids and Fungoids and gives the ability to transform ideal worlds into Gaia worlds.
• Added Phototrophic, Radiotrophic and Budding species traits for Plantoid and Fungoid species.
• Added Catalytic Processing civics for all government types.
• Maweer Caretakers pre-scripted empire now uses Idyllic Bloom civic in place of Inward Perfection.
• Owning the Plantoids Species Pack adds the Phototrophic trait to the Nu-Baol.
• Owning the Plantoids Species Pack adds the Radiotrophic trait to the Nivlac.

Humanoids

• Added Masterful Crafters Civic.
• Added Pleasure Seekers Civic.
• Added Clone Army Origin.

Synthetic Dawn

• Rogue Servitors can now take the Arcology Project Ascension Perk and restore Relic Worlds to Ecumenopolises.
• Ecumenopolises owned by Rogue Servitors have Sanctuary Arcologies, capable of housing Bio-Trophies.

Apocalypse

• Added a new 'Unyielding' tradition tree.

MegaCorp

• Subversive Cults no longer have access to the Temple of Prosperity, instead gaining the Subversive Shrine.

Ancient Relics

• Added three new archaeology sites for Ancient Relics.

Lithoids

• Extended the Rock Brain anomaly event chain for certain Lithoid empires.

Necroids

• Reanimated Armies Civic has been renamed to Reanimators and their empires can now reanimate Biological Leviathans, among other things.
• Enabled Necrophage origin for Hive Minds.

Nemesis

• Added a new 'Subterfuge' tradition tree.

Selectable Traditions

• Reworked the Traditions interface to make Tradition Trees selectable. Allowing Empires to have access to more than 7 different trees (Empires are still limited to only having 7 active trees).
• Adaptability, Synchronicity and Versatility traditions are now their own tradition trees, rather than being tradition swaps.
• Diplomacy and Adaptability are now both available to almost everyone, and are no longer mutually exclusive.
• Added a new 'Mercantile' tradition tree to the base game.

Other

• Updated the star system layout of Alpha Centauri to be more scientifically accurate.
• Updated the visuals of the Sea of Consciousness star system.
• You can now queue construction of starbase buildings that require certain modules before those modules have completed construction (such as the Offworld Trading Company).
• Void Dweller empires with species that eat food now start with a 100 food stockpile instead of none.
• Added two new archaeology sites to the base game.

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Balance

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• Sectors released as vassals from megacorps are now released as Oligarchies with the Merchant Guilds civic and one or two random civics (depending on their technology).
• The Federation Science Challenge now takes greater account of empires' relative technological standing when picking a winner.
• When a Reanimator country defeats an organic army in battle, they have a 1/3 chance of creating a new undead army.
• Reanimators no longer need to research any techs before they can build their necromancy building. Their necromancy building now gives two Necromancers instead of one. Necromancers now produce +2 each extra society and physics, but one fewer defensive armies.
• Increased chance of pops escaping Necrophage purging to 25%.
• Reworked the Void Dweller trait to now provide a Pop Output bonus of 15% on habitats and a Pop Output penalty of -15% on non-artificial worlds, ringworlds have neither a bonus nor a penalty. Additionally, they have a -30% happiness penalty on non-artificial worlds.
• Removed stability modifier from Memorialist building and added it to Memorialist job instead.
• Death Cult sacrifice bonuses now depend to a far greater degree on the % of your population you have just put to death (rather than on the sheer number of sacrifices). They will generally be far more impactful in the early game.
• Death Cult: number of Mortal Initiate jobs from upgraded buildings reduced to 2 and 3 from 3 and 5, as your demographics can usually not sustain massacring 5 pops per planet every decade.
• Beacon of Liberty: Gave +15% produced Unity -> Now ALSO also gives -15% Empire Sprawl from Pops
• Imperial Cult: Gave +1 Edict cap -> Now gives +2 Edict cap
• Idealistic Foundation: Gave +5% Happiness -> Now gives +10% Happiness
• Environmentalist: Gave -10% Consumer Goods Upkeep -> Now gives -20% Consumer Goods Upkeep
• Parliamentary System: Gave +25% Faction Influence -> Now gives +40% Faction Influence
• Efficient Bureaucracy: Gave +10% Admin Cap -> Now gives +20% Admin Cap
• Nationalistic Zeal: Gave -10% War Exhaustion Gain and -10% Claim Cost -> Now gives -20% War Exhaustion Gain and -15% Claim Cost
• Functional Architecture: Gave -10% Building and District Cost, -10% Building and District Upkeep and +1 Building Slot -> Now gives -15% Building and District Cost, +2 Building Slots, Upkeep reduction removed
• Subspace Ephase: Gave +15% Naval Capacity -> Now gives +20% Ship Speed and ALSO gives +15% Naval Capacity
• Divided Attention: Gave +10% Admin Cap -> Now gives +20% Admin Cap
• Constructobot: Gave -10% Building and District Cost, -10% Building and District Upkeep and +1 Building Slot -> Now gives -15% Building and District Cost, +2 Building Slots, Upkeep reduction removed
• Slaver Guilds : Reduced enslaved population from 40% to 35%
• Indentured Assets: Reduced enslaved population from 40% to 35% (Megacorp civic)
• Technocracy: Added 1 Consumer Goods upkeep to Scientist Jobs that create unity because of Technocracy
• Non-homicidal Necrophages no longer start with two extra pops. (The purifier and swarm variants keep it, since they lose a few pops during the purge).
• Necrophages can now only have Stone, Bronze or Iron Age primitives as their guaranteed planets. These planets are also guarded by a few more defence armies than they usually would be.
• The Necrophage Elevation Chamber no longer provides a planet stability bonus.
• Reduced Slaver Guilds and Indentured Servitude slave percentages from 40% to 35%.
• Open Markets diplomatic tradition moved to Mercantile.
• Insider Trading diplomatic tradition moved to Mercantile.
• Secured Shipping diplomatic tradition removed. Effect moved to Mercantile traditions.
• Added three new traditions for Diplomacy: Diplomatic Networking, Direct Diplomacy, Eminent Diplomats.
• Bulwark of Harmony tradition moved to Unyielding, replaced with Harmonious Directives which increases edict cap by +1.
• Mind and Body harmony tradition now also increases leader skill cap by +1.
• Kinship harmony tradition effect on demotion time increased from -25% to -75%.
• Supremacy adoption effect no longer increases starbase capacity by +2, but instead increases naval capacity by +20.
• Trade Policies are now locked behind the Adaptive Economic Policies Mercantile tradition.
• Rebalanced Pop costs for Caravaneer events to better reflect pop growth changes.
• Rebalanced pop rewards and costs of multiple events to better reflect pop growth changes.
• Reduced the pop requirement for Executive Retreat and Xeno-outreach Agency to better reflect the current pop system.
• Prosperity traditions finisher no longer provides merchant jobs or gestalt jobs, but rather increases planet stability by+5 and pop resource output by +5%.
• Reworked and rebalanced how some rare events are fired: e.g. repeatedly entering and exiting systems will no longer eventually guarantee certain events.
• Tweaked carrying capacity formula to make housing usage modifiers more useful again (instead of taking total housing, it now takes total pops plus free housing).
• Reduced the benefit orbital stations and starbase constructions receive from technologies when gathering resources.
• Planetary designations that provided build cost modifiers now instead provide upkeep modifiers.
• Urban World designation now reduces the upkeep of buildings and districts instead of affecting industrial district cost.
• Refinery designation now increases production rather than reducing upkeep.
• Added an Industrial World planetary designation that provide reduced benefits to both alloy and consumer good production, and do not shift jobs. The existing "Industrial World" is renamed "Factory World".
• Automatic planetary designation selection will no longer be quite so sure that Refinery Worlds are what you really need more than anything else right now.
• The Shattered Ring starting segment is now a size 25 habitable world with normal districts. Housing, Generator, Trade, Industrial and Farming districts present will convert to Ringworld Districts at a 5:1 ratio when the Ringworld is restored.
• Buildings and districts that add bio-trophy jobs no longer add to carrying capacity, since having bio-trophies that use no housing will now increase carrying capacity already.
• Reduced exorbitant fees for using Golden Rule federation elections (i.e. the money you get from distributing or appropriating the pot now more closely corresponds to the pot).
• Industrial districts now convert into Foundry Arcologies and Factory Arcologies depending on the planetary designation.
• The final level of capital building now unlocks all 4 corporate building slots (up from 3).
• Judgment Corps domination tradition no longer increases crime prevention, but rather makes Enforcers produce 1 Unity.
• Domination tradition finisher no longer increases monthly influence gain by +1, but rather increases increases admin cap by +20% for all empires.
• Colonial Viceroys domination tradition now also increases monthly influence by +0.5.
• Sacrificial Temples are now limited to 5 per planet.
• Halved the minerals from mining The Interloper.
• Replaced the mineral deposit on The Irreparable Damage with an engineering research deposit.
• Rogue Servitor industrial habitat districts will no longer provide Artisan jobs but can still access the jobs by activating the Factory Habitat colony designation.
• Cave Cleaner is now a Worker-tier job rather than Specialist.
• Gas Plant Engineer job is now less attractive.
• Racket Destroyer deal cost increased from 200 Minerals to 2000 Minerals.
• Hive Minds are now able to purge other hive pops again.
• Added so you can terraform a Tomb World to a Gaia World directly if you have the correct prerequisites.
• Made it so that empires can't get worthless buildings from Reverse-Engineering Arcane Technologies.

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• Added a sanity check to prevent a possible crash when closing the game during gameplay.
• Extend the timeout for client to respond to the startgame message so they wouldn't be kicked out the session by the host.
• Fixed an Out of Sync error on hotjoin.
• Significantly reduced the freeze caused by spawning the L-Gate.
• Slightly reduced the performance burden of the auto-migration system.

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UI

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• Changed humming ambient sound in main menu to "Ambient" category and volume.
• Added indications in the UI (purge tooltip in species rights and planet view) as to how likely pops are to escape your current purge type, so long as the chance is not 0% or 100%.
• There is no longer a "Close" button on diplomatic events, so you can no longer accidentally close important decisions by hitting "Esc" to e.g. save.
• In the pop selection within the planet interface, you can now see how much of their output comes from buildings such as Mineral Processing Centers (which increase mineral output by lump sums), as well as how much of their upkeep is from edicts.
• Various job modifiers have been improved to indicate Gestalt alternatives and similar variations.
• The left-hand navigation bar will remain in a collapsed state when the mouse is left hovering, after making a menu choice.
• Fixed so it's possible to click the lock icon when leftbar/navbar is in expanded state.
• Switched the presentation order of Alloys and Consumer Goods in various UI contexts to match the order in the top bar.
• Added clearer information on when you will next be able to use certain espionage operations in tooltips.
• Added information on when the next Necrophage Elevation Ceremony will be on their elevation buildings' tooltips.
• Corrected several errors in the tooltips for setting or unsetting a forced assembly species (specifically in the amount of assembly progress you will lose).
• Fixed UI for Operation Sabotage Starbase.
• The game will now tell you that the game is ready to start in the hotjoining interface (where previously there would be no message after "synchronizing game").
• Food from deposits should now be possible to see on the map.
• Added Hyperlane Opacity slider, defaulting to 0.3.
• Clone Vats building is now sorted under Pop Assembly in the Construct Building list.
• Tweaked colors of Restricted systems names to be slightly more readable.

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AI

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• The AI will now cancel espionage operations for which it lacks the available spy power / infiltration level.
• AI can now build 4-6 construction & science ships depending on how well it is doing financially, meaning some empires will expand and have their mining stations quicker than others.
• The AI should now upgrade its fleets during peacetime.
• AI now waits 15 years to fully take over the player.
• Improve AI human takeover behavior:
• • No naval bonus from difficulty in takeover.
• • AI does not colonize after takeover
• • AI does not destroy buildings after takeover.
• • AI stops building armies after takeover
• • AI stops building starbases & starbase modules after takeover
• • AI stops buying & selling pops after takeover
• • Code:
• • • AIs taking over for a human player now take that into account when deciding on buildings to construct.
• • • AI now considers building caps when deciding on what buildings to construct.
• • • Removed the Upkeep check for approximation because of locking itself out of building certain stuff in deficit
• • Script:
• • • Reduced amount of jobs allowed to build new stuff
• • • Increased scores for deficit, focus & amenities building weights
• • • Reduced weight for pop buildings
• • • Economic plans now favor less research and more stability and economic balance
• • • Added a job weight for low income for artisan jobs
• • • Increased job weight for technicians for low income situations
• • • Reduced low income threshold for miner jobs
• Economic plan fixed for hive & gestalt.
• AI now cares more about energy & alloys. Added a building limit define.
• The AI can now propose targeted Galactic Community resolutions even if they do not have Terrible or Excellent opinion of the target.
• Changed the way that AI weight of Galactic Community resolutions is affected by opinion towards target and proposer, so that it is a multiplicative value instead of additive.
• Increase the amount of saved credits.
• Allow 10% over admin cap.
• Don't build starbases on income below 100.
• Consolidate economic plans & better subplans. Instead of economic plans based on time passed the AI now checks its own economic situation in order to adapt its strategy. As in, if I’m low on consumer goods I will not build research facilities.

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Modding

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Variables

• In places where you use the value of a variable, you can now generally use "trigger:<any simple value trigger>" or "scope.another_scope.my_variable" (or a combination of the two: "capital_scope.trigger:num_pops" would work).
• Made variables work in the last few scopes they didn't previously work in.
• Overhauled how triggers using a single numerical value work. You can now do the following with them:
• • Check against another scope for which the trigger would be valid, e.g. num_pops = from.owner.
• • Check against a variable in the current scope, e.g. num_pops = my_saved_variable.
• • Save the value the trigger would return true at (i.e. with = operator) as a variable, e.g. export_trigger_value_to_variable = { trigger = num_pops variable = my_var } => sets my_var to 61 if the current empire has 61 pops. For triggers using { }, you can specify parameters in “parameters = { }”
• Enabled the use of variables for values in effects using a single numerical value work. E.g. add_experience = my_var
• Changed format of check_variable_arithmetic considerably to let you specify multiple parameters (including e.g. multiple add parameters).
• Added round_variable_to_nearest effect, in case you don't want to set something to 47.152
• Added a time_multiplier parameter to add_modifier, so that you can multiply your number of days/months/years by a variable.
• Added ordered_script_lists. So you can order, say, all playable countries, by their number of pops and run an effect on the one with the most, least, or e.g. 3rd most pops.
• Enabled use of variables in all "modifier = { factor = X }" calculations.
• Triggered resource tables can now take a "multiplier = variable" parameter, e.g. "produces = { multiplier = my_var energy = 100 }".
• You can now use variables for the count parameter in "count_country" and the like.
• Fixed multipliers for add_modifier in country scope (it worked elsewhere fine, just not in country scope...).
• Simplified check/set/add/multiply/etc_variable to use the new format for "value". I.e. you don't need to specify = { } for complicated things anymore (in fact that won't work) but should instead use dot scoping.

Other

• Consolidated has_non_swapped_tradition and has_swapped_tradition triggers into a single has_active_tradition trigger.
• Added define for maximum allowed number of tradition category selections.
• Added potential trigger to tradition categories.
• Added num_researched_techs and fixed a bug where num_repeatable_techs wouldn't count you researching multiple levels of the same tech.
• Special projects can now take triggered descriptions.
• Fixed the AI being able to pick is_dialog_only event options and therefore escape the consequences of an event.
• Defensive armies now have a pop-scope spawn_chance, so that you can control a bit better which ones are spawned.
• Added save_detail_ai_build_plan console command.
• Added reroll_random effect, which can be used in cases where random_lists would return the same result multiple times, but don't use in places where the random is used in tooltips as the result in the tooltip is likely to be wrong.
• Adoption and Finisher tooltips of Tradition trees are now automatically generated.
• Added ability to specify a numerical empire_limit for buildings (and have it show nicely in tooltips, like the planet cap).
• Corrected spelling of "is_for_colonizable" and "colonizable_planet".
• Added triggered pop modifiers for species traits.
• Added defense_platform_modifier to Starbases.
• save_ai_build_plan_details now also saves the decisions to ai.log.
• Added fire_and_forget parameter to Resolutions.
• Added num_sapient_pops trigger for planet and country scopes.
• The clone_leader effect now copy the event leader and immortality flags.
• Added parameter in starbase levels to exclude them from trade collection, so that trade collection range modifiers in country scope can be useful.
• Added country_hostile_claim_influence_cost_mult modifier.
• Added starbase_defense_platform_capacity_mult modifier.
• Colony type icons now take keys instead of numbers.
• Added num_tradition_categories trigger.
• Created a triggered planet modifier that only works for pop_growth_speed.
• Added on_actions for on_tradition_picked and on_ascension_perk_picked.
• Added set_visited effect to make you able to see a solar system you have never visited before, also fixed the "no" case of set_surveyed.
• Added triggered desc = { } for districts (to overwrite the base district, not to added an extra line to the tooltip as in the current triggered_desc).
• Added set_saved_date effect.
• Added script flags (with effects and triggers as usual) to all scopes missing them.
• You can now use scripted loc in the names of button effects.
• Added hostile_<type>_difficultyadd and hostile<type>_difficulty_mult modifiers.
• Added hostile_<category>_difficultyadd and hostile<category>_difficulty_mult modifiers.
• Added espionage_hostile_operation_difficulty_add and espionage_hostile_operation_difficulty_mult modifiers.
• Added espionage_hostile_operation_cost_add and espionage_hostile_operation_cost_mult modifiers.
• Added use_armynames_from to army types (works like use_shipnames_from in ship sizes).
• Added a modifier diplo_action_acceptance_add that increases AI acceptance of all diplomatic actions.
• Added on_building_downgraded on_action.
• set_name now works on sectors and wars.
• Added add_blocker effect (which unlike add_deposit will let you have control over which deposit the blocker will block).
• Rephrased pop_can_live_on_planet trigger to can_live_on_planet (working in either pop or species scope, and taking a planet event target rather than a boolean).
• added triggers "is_starbase_building_module" and "is_starbase_building_building" checking if the scoped starbase is building a specific item.
• added trigger "starbase_buildable_is_in_queue_before" to check if a buildable is in queue before another. Scope is starbase.
• Split has_system_trade_value trigger into that (and fixed a case where it would return the wrong number), has_collected_system_trade_value and has_uncollected_system_trade_value.
• Fixed various issues with setting species archetype restrictions for government elements (civics, authorities) so that it is now checked in every case and can be used safely.
• The effect "change_species_characteristics" can supports "add_trait", "remove_trait" and "add_traits_at_start_of_list"-flag.
• Added effects to set a country's ruler title or heir title to a specified value, and to restore them to default.
• Added should_remove_response_message_when_not_possible property for diplomatic actions, to remove response messages of the diplo action type if the possible check fails.
• trigger_docs has been split between its components, which are now in their own subdirectory. Modifiers are now also in their own log file.
• Fixed a bug where using a solar system as a location on various effects (e.g. enable_special_project) would not work but also not give an error log message. It now sets the location at the primary star in that system.
• Added documentation for certain advanced scripting functionalities in scripted_effects/99_advanced_documentation.txt.
• Added GetFossil and GetFossilPlural loc keys for species.
• Added Civics and Origins "species_class" condition. Old "species" requirement is now called "species_archetype" instead.
• Added galcom_member and council_member script lists.
• Replaced AI define RESOLUTION_WEIGHT_OPINION_FACTOR with multiple other defines.
• Replaced use of icon_frame in army types with sprites.
• Changed observation_outpost into a scope change rather than a trigger/effect. This means it can be used on the right hand side of effects and triggers, e.g. exists = observation_outpost. On the other hand, "limit" no longer works on it, and it will no longer refer to every observation outpost in the country from country scope.
• Removed any/every/random_mining_station/research_station as you should use just mining_station/research_station instead (more efficient).
• Added on_action on_country_released_in_war.
• LOGISTIC_POP_GROWTH_CEILING, REQUIRED_POP_GROWTH_SCALE, and REQUIRED_POP_ASSEMBLY_SCALE defines have been removed as they have been replaced by sliders in galaxy generation.
• Traits can now be restricted to a Species class (e.g. fungoid).
• Removed need for bombardment_stances to use icon_frame. The game will now look for a sprite called GFX_planet_modifier_ground_support + <key>.
• Planet classes also now use "icon = <sprite>" instead of icon_frame.
• Removed hardcoding of species archetype behaviour. Relevant happiness and growth modifiers are now automatically generated. (Note: a few of them have changed name slightly, and "robotic = yes" has been shifted from species classes to species archetypes).
• Added on_star_system_destroyed on_action (called at the start of destroy_star_system).
• Added orbital_station script list for country and system scopes.
• The detail view shown when clicking ambient objects will no longer cut off text longer than a couple of lines.
• Removed count_diplo_ties, as it is the same as count_relation but used older code.
• Removed count_armies as it is the same as count_owned_army and count_planet_army but with older code.
• Removed use of icon_frame in non-starbase ship sizes. It now only does something on starbases. Other ship sizes use "icon = key", which will look up several individual sprites; modders can therefore add new ships without overwriting the sprite sheet dds file.
• Allowed you to define triggered descriptions for jobs and buildings.
• Ambient Object descriptions can now take [loc.GetProperty] commands.
• Added game_rule should_force_decline_species, which if true will set a species to decline on a planet regardless of purge status or overcrowding.
• Fixed on_army_killed_in_combat so it can't be called multiple times per army.* In certain cases where one would use "mult" in weight scripting, you now should use "factor" (the game will warn you on startup in error.log).
• Added has_climate trigger for planets.
• Added abort_trigger for event chains (the ones in common/event_chains).
• Fixed issues with scopes when using finish_site and finish_current_stage archaeology effects.
• Added GetRemnantName/GetSpeciesRemnantName for cases where you really want your dead robot not to leave a skeleton.
• Improved the randomness of random functions within while loops and every_x loops.
• The "after" effect in events will no longer fire when an "is_dialog_only" option is picked (making it fire multiple times for the same event).

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Bugfixes

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• Fixed some cases where someone else opening the L-Cluster would cause the related Situation Log entry to stick around forever.

• Archaeology sites (and espionage operations) now correctly use the difficulty of the current stage, rather than that of the last stage.

• Reinforcement fleets now get removed when destroyed.

• Fixed colony ships not being affected by ship construction modifiers.

• Fixed a number of inconsistent id3 tags in the Soundtrack DLC's MP3 and FLAC files.

• Removed negative Void Dweller trait, preventing players from genetically modifying species to avoid taking penalties.

• Removed the hidden event to flip Void Dwellers traits.

• Made it so that only Organics get taxed for the growth discouraged decision.

• Scions can no longer choose to comply with staying out of the War in Heaven.

• Fixed Lithoid Craters being removed when terraforming into Hive worlds.

• Fixed an unlocalised tooltip in the Baol event chain.

• Made it so Calamitous Birth can't stack multiple Lithoid Craters or Buried Lithoids.

• Fix for typo in Sanctuary of Repose building tooltip.

• Fixed it so that if you ever reforge your Doomsday homeworld it will no longer have the Doomsday modifier.

• Gestalts will now quickly stamp out crime on conquered planets.

• Made it so Nanites can't ever spawn on terraformable worlds.

• Made it so that a shielded planet won't show up in the event art when you pacify a habitat.

• Shortened the Voidborne description so that it fits inside the Ascension Perk UI.

• Fixed Messenger Project not being visible on galaxy map.

• City Sizes on the planetary view now increase faster to account for recent changes to pop growth.

• Replaced certain parts of localisation which were plain strings with appropriate localisation references.

• Point Defense will no longer ignore missiles if strike craft are present on the battlefield.

• Fixed non gestalt empires from being able to colonize with gestalt pops while in a federation.

• Fixed it not being possible to issue move orders to explored and surveyed systems while having only science ships selected.

• Fixed some interface elements using hardcoded strings rather than translated text.

• Made the Event ‘The Cube’ more gestalt friendly.

• If you swap from organic to artificial pop assembly or vice versa during mid-assembly, you now lose all progress in that assembly.

• Fixed you finding an encryption key on your own empire (again!).

• Fixed Target Uplink Computer effect not applying to defense platforms.

• Added weightings which were missing from the Fanatical Purifiers name parts list.

• Addressed issues with synchronized loc. entries for Pop Faction names. The various faction names now use the correct strings and may be rendered in Simplified Chinese.

• Contact Report: Remnants event now happens when you encounter a ruined megastructure.

• Fixed Ministry of Culture displaying the wrong job description for Machine Empires

• Updated the job priority tooltip to be more clear

• Made it so the Earth Custodianship isn't locked behind the Humanoid DLC

  • Addressed issues with various synchronized loc. entries for Empire names. Random names for empires including Hive Minds, Necrophages, Fanatical Purifiers and Corporate authorities now use the correct strings and may be rendered in Simplified Chinese.

• Ascended Synthetic Spiritualists will no longer outlaw their own rulers.

• Fixed the wrong event text being displayed for the Grassy Militia anomaly event.

• Claims distance cost modifier now considers wormholes, even if borders are closed.

• Updated First Contact Protocols tooltips to more accurately reflect the effects.

• Improved consistency in map mode names.

• Fixed an instance where Crisis factions couldn't reach their offensive targets and got stuck

• Reinforcing fleets will now arrive and attempt to merge even if the target fleet is in combat.

• Fixed jobs without employment caps being listed as X employed out of -1 available slots in job breakdown tooltip.

• Sprawling Slums tooltip changed now accurately reflects what the deposit actually does on clear.

• Fixed repealing Resolutions not working as expected.

• Repealing the 4th resolution under the Mutual Defence category now makes proper reference to the Castigation Proclamation, rather than the Military Readiness Act.

• Fixed the Prioritized and Deprioritized indicators on pop job assignment icons blocking mouse input.

• Fixed colony designations including pre-sapient pops when evaluating pop limitations for the potential trigger.

• Fixed crash when using the add_pops command.

• Corrected capitalization in descriptive text for Organic Sanctuaries and Organic Paradises.

• Fixed several issues related to planets displaying negative available jobs.

• Fixed auto-pause not working for anomalies if auto-unpause was enabled.

• Fixed the On the Shoulders of Giants Origin sometimes starting you off in a solar system with too many planets.

• Rebalanced likelihood of certain rare events from occurring.

• Starting with the Void Dweller or Shattered Ring origin in combination with the Reanimators civic now starts your empire off with a Dread Encampment.

• Fixed it not being possible to enact the "Create Resort World" decision after repealing it

• Fixed cases (e.g. Lithoid Necrophages) where species would repeatedly start assembling or growing and then cancel after the next monthly tick.

• Fixed some cases where Necrophages would pause regular pop growth during purging.

• Fixed issues with the portrait tooltip in empire creation sometimes being empty or containing empty lines

• Fixed the “Randomize Ruler Name” button not always being enabled even though the requirements for it were met.

• Fixed it being possible to open DLC landing pages during hotjoin and breaking the UI flow.

• Fixed template list in fleet manager sometimes getting stuck in a scrolled state when a template was removed.

• Industrial Worlds and Industrial Habitat designations no longer attempt to remove Foundry Drone jobs for Rogue Servitors, they now target Fabricator jobs.

• Fixed construct mining station tooltip showing maintenance on energy mining stations.

• Fixed pops sometimes staying in jobs that no longer existed after colony designation was changed.

• Hive minds now perceive the "Living Sea" event with bespoke event text, rather than seeing the same events which are granted to regular, non-machine empires.

• Fixed the Go To button for the "Unit Lost" event.

• Made it so 'Diplomatic Corps ridiculed' expires after 3600 days.

• Forge and Factory World designations now remember that a third tier of the buildings exist.

• Fixed missing strings of random names for Supremacist and Technologist pop factions.

• Fixed the icon for picking a colony designation being a robotic cow. Also made the robotic cow be used correctly for Machine Fringe Planets.

• Humiliated modifier now has a negative icon.

• Leisure districts no longer provide housing for Rogue Servitors.

• Tooltips for Organic Sanctuary buildings and Leisure Districts for Rogue Servitors have additional information about their jobs.

• Made it so you can not stack multiple "Missing Tree of Life" modifiers by trading systems.

• Updated the Tooltips of the Ministry of Culture to be more appropriate for Gestalts.

• Made it so the Infested World counter correctly updates when destroying a system with a Star Eater.

• Reworded Lithoid rare resource traits to be clearer to the player.

• Rebalanced the amount of pops required to gain certain event jobs.

• Event "Unit Lost" now makes proper reference to the affected fleet.

• Fixed Mars missing Terraforming Candidate when Sol spawns naturally.

• Machine World Preference now uses the appropriate icon.

• Fixed some consistency issues where Discovery traditions were called Exploration in French.

• Fixed tooltip for Collective Reasoning tradition.

• Fixed various instances of an invalid apostrophe glyph appearing in localized text.

• Fixed it being impossible to communicate with caravaneers in certain circumstances.

• Fixed exploitable_planets trigger always returning false (and its tooltip).

• Made tooltips for invalid species traits highlighted in red in empire creation.

• Fixed repair fleet orders not being carried out to completion if placed in a queue.

• Implemented unused icons for titan ship components.

• Fixed uncolonized Habitats mysteriously turning into shattered worlds when subjected to Star Eaters or the Aetherophasic Engine.

• Fixed DLC icons being accessible in MP empire selection.

• Adjusted a response string for spiritualists upon completion of First Contact, preventing a name reference from exceeding its bounds.

• Fixed a missing loc string if your request to form a Federation timed out.

• Fixed reference to "tiles" in collateral damage's tooltips.

• As Death Cults, you no longer lose effects from active Sacrifices if you temporarily cease to have any Mortal Initiates (e.g. by sacrificing them all).

• Fixed event-spawned leaders lacking certain traits they should have had from their species' characteristics, such as Psionic and Erudite.

• Fixed modifiers to district build speed not being applied to tooltips when you choose to build them.

• Fixed Academic Privilege Living Standard's tooltip missing some crucial information on what it does (+10% pop research output).

• Fixed certain Traditions, such as Machine Synchronicity tradition Integrated Preservation, only taking effect after some delay or upon reload.

• Fixed some issues with "Life Finds a Way" event not doing what the tooltip said.

• Fixed misleading tooltip of the Oracle Nexus event.

• Clarified some matters in the Memorialist civic tooltip.

• AI controlled slaver guilds should now colonize planets.

• Fixed a rare issue where you could have a +-1 skill bonus in first contact skill tooltips.

• Cleared planets and asteroid belt from the Shattered Ring solar system.

• Fixed a wrong Ethics reference in Polish localization

• Made the Tradition "Faith in Science" have a less misleading tooltip.

• Fixed <leader class> skill modifiers applying to multiple or all leader classes, instead of just the one they were meant to apply to.

• Fixed traditions that refund you costs of demolished buildings to properly refund you if you manually demolish or downgrade buildings using the planet interface.

• All colony designations of the appropriate type will now gain benefits from Resolutions such as Environmental Ordinance Waivers.

• Fixed buildings with a queued upgrade in progress being counted twice towards building count limits.

• It is no longer possible to shift criminals to worker jobs by manually prioritizing the worker job.

• Fixed it being possible to retain species rights that had been made invalid by a change in government type or civics

• Made it so the Hologram Planet anomaly no longer can spawn on planets with already existing dig sites.

• The Totalitarian Faction will now be happy if you have the Slaver Guilds civic.

• Agrarian Idyll Civic now properly adds 2 farming districts to your homeworld.

• Purging every primitive on a planet now removes the Stellar Culture Shock modifier.

• The ruler of the Galactic Imperium is no longer blocked from getting the Subjugation war goal / CB when they kindly offer protectorate status to another empire.

• Hive Worlds no longer have access to both the Forge World and the Hive World Foundry colony designation.

• Upon invading a Ketling primitive world the associated special project will now be removed from your situation log.

• Fixed Fungoid research station model to remove hole in cylinder.

• Passing Space Amoeba Protection Act resolution no longer allows you to pass the Tiyanki Conservation Act again.

• Passing either the Tiyanki Conservation Act or the Tiyanki Pest Control will now fulfill the "pass a resolution" Galactic Focus.

• Fixed cases where the cooldown for finding archaeology sites in quick succession would be triggered even though no archaeology site was found.

• Fixed you getting unsuitable arc sites in the L-Cluster.

• Void Dwellers are now correctly given starting resources depending on species and ethics.

• Fixed not being able to revoke nominated Galactic Market planets if the relocation vote was ongoing.

• If Shard is defeated the relevant event chains will be removed from all other nations.

• The "What Separates Us" event will no longer fire if the other species are robots.

• Added a more negative icon to the "Failed Savior" modifier.

• The Shifting Sands event now properly gives a boost to physics research.

• Lost to Bureaucracy event will no longer create planetary features out of thin air when you clear the blockers spawned.

• Reintroduced gaining menace from turning a world into a Tomb World via bombardment.

• Fixed defense platforms not being destroyed when dismantling a starbase.

• Modified mesh to resolve Z-fighting between ringworld sections.

• Enclave text boxes now reset correctly between messages.

• Fixed an issue where you could take in Caravaneer pops even if your policies would automatically purge them.

• Fixed Merchants Guilds not giving enough jobs from the Imperial Palace building.

• Dimensional Horror now shows on the galaxy map.

• "Repeal Crisis" resolutions are no longer missing an icon.

• Fixed a bug that allowed you to gain menace by repeatedly vassalizing and releasing the same empire.

• Fixed it being possible to open ship details for strange vessels via the fleet manager.

• Added missing icon to the Study Hive Mind Drones Modifier.

• Fixed a case where the third Baol arc site would not spawn.

• You now gain visibility on the systems where you know the next Baol or Zroni arc site will be if you have never been there before, rather than having to guess where they are.

• Fixed army transport fleets sometimes forgetting fleet stance and control group information when embarking

• Land Appropriation and automatic resettlement now respect whether a species is allowed to live on the planet (e.g. won't resettle organics onto Machine Worlds).

• Reanimators is now fully incompatible with Synthetic Ascension, rather than just quietly doing nothing as before.

• Prosperity Traditions Interstellar Franchising and Public Works (+Hive/Machine variants) are now fully informative of which districts they provide boosts to.

• Unemployed Lithoids will no longer move back to a Doomed homeworld through auto-migration, even if there are plenty of good jobs and housing available. (can_planet_receive_auto_migration added to Game Rules.)

• Notifications for refused peace offers are now properly removed when a war has ended.

• Fixed various error log messages relating to Crisis Objectives, along with several edge cases where the rewards were not granted when they should have been.

• Stopped the automatic picker for assembling species from picking obsolete species with fewer traits.

• Fixed Lithoids using Biological pop growth modifiers to determine whether they should be more likely to be picked as the next species to be grown.

• Fixed a case where a Fallen Empire could send you multiple demands to change your ways if you didn't answer them fast enough.

• Fixed pop Self Modification chain from pitting modified species against modified species.

• Vassals created by the Galactic Sovereign no longer believe that they are also Galactic Sovereigns. There can only be one.

• Fixed a too-long string cutting off invader power values in ground combat view in French.

• Fixed an issue where destroying the Contingency's final world with a Star-Eater would not not properly end the Contingency Crisis.

• Updated numbers in espionage operation roll tooltip to show correct information.

• Fixed an issue where Nomads would keep asking for a Planet over and over, before establishing communications.

• Thought Enforcement tech is now researchable with the Utopia DLC.

• Fixed a crash upon mousing over a system with planets in as an observer.

• Fixed a couple of Edicts having wrong deactivation cost.

• The tooltip when you can't reinforce a fleet shouldn't duplicate the cause.

• Fleets can be reinforced even if one ship type in the fleet can't be built.

• Adjusted the term used in French to refer to empires who oppose Galactic Community resolutions.

• Further fixes to the end of the Cybrex precursor chain.

• Added defines to support Diffuse color as Emissive rather than Player color for skinned as well as static models.

• You can no longer invite someone you are at war against to join your side in a new war.

• Fixed it being possible to get multiple Imperial Cores via certain war goals releasing new empires.

• Corrected opinion text placement in the Declare War view.

• Grammar fixes to anomaly event "Adrift", and event "The Discovery of Alien Life" (assimilator variant).

• The Manifesti faction should no longer reform after it has disbanded, either through suppression or lack of popularity.

• Fixed several cases where the Vultaum, Yuht, First League, Irassian, and Cybrex precursor chains would not end properly if someone else found the homeworld first.

• Fixed the Research Institute building not properly converting to Planetary Supercomputer when conquered by Gestalt empires, and vice versa.

• Fixed auto-resettlement for Void Dweller habitats and certain other planets (needs a new save, though).

• Fixed a typo in the Ruined World archaeology chain.

• Fixed the spelling error in the “Restored Warship” event.

• Fixed excessive unemployment caused by the Cave Cleaner job being too attractive.

• Fixed an issue where Branch Office value tooltips could be displayed based on the wrong Branch Office owner.

• Branch Office value generated from Criminal jobs for Criminal Syndicates is now properly shown in the tooltip for Branch Office value.

• Fixed typo in “Operatives Toe the Line”.

• Fixed crash on sector colony development update.

• Fixed missing tooltips for increase/decrease buttons in monthly trade view.

• Hyperlane registrar should now be unlocked with the correct technology.

• Hive Minds can no longer assemble non-hive pops from spawning pools.

• The colonizable planet icon should no longer disappear when a ship leaves an unsurveyed system.

• Victorious ground troops will no longer embark automatically if there are hostile military fleets present in the system.

• Starbase Defense Platforms can no longer be upgraded while the starbase is engaged in combat.

• Fixed fleet speed being dictated by the first ship in the fleet instead of the slowest one.

• Updated German translation for Arc Emitter.

• Fixed a typo in Haahn's species name.

• Fixed a few German text overlaps.

• Fixed broken text references in "Pirate Haven Destroyed" event.

• Fixed planetary deposit interfaces not showing triggered modifiers as icons.

• Fixed jump distance counting not always finding the shortest path.

• Fixed cases where event options with random effects were often not as random as they should be.

• Updated a couple of Neural Slug events for Hive Mind empires.

• When you play as the Commonwealth of Man, the UNE will now always correctly spawn again.

Update 2.2.0-1 (07 December 2018)

• Fixed a freeze on starting a new game on certain dual core systems

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Update 2.2.0 (06 December 2018)

Please be advised that 2.2.0 WILL UTTERLY DEMOLISH SAVES from previous versions! If you have games that you want to complete, please roll back to the previous version before trying to load the save.

DESIGNERS' NOTE

Greetings!

Stellaris has (once again) undergone bold changes! In 2.2 the focus of the changes has been to rework how you develop planets and to deepen the game's economy. The purpose is to make the management of planets more fun and engaging.

Tiles are gone, and have been replaced with Districts, Buildings, and Jobs. You will now instead construct City Districts, Farming Districts, Mining Districts, and Generator Districts, as well as various Buildings with more specialized roles. Districts and buildings provide Jobs, and a job worked by a Pop will produce resources.

As a planet gains more Pops it will unlock more Building Slots. Buildings work similar to how they did before, but now most of them provide Jobs instead of producing resources directly.

2.2 also introduces a new Trade Route system. What you essentially want to do is to collect Trade Value (found in space and produced on planets) by upgrading a nearby starbase. You should then set up a Trade Route leading back to your home system. Trade Value is converted into usable resources when it reaches your Trade Capital.

We recommend you to take a look at the updated tutorial!

Megacorp Expansion Features

Megacorps

• Added the Megacorporation empire type, which features unique civics as well as the ability to become an economic powerhouse by spreading branch offices on the planets of other empires

Ecumenopolis

• Added new ascension perk: Arcology Project, enabling the Decision to convert a planet to an City-World completely covered in urban sprawl

Xeno-Compatibility

• Added new ascension perk: Xeno-Compatibility, which allows cross-breeding between species

Universal Transactions

• Added new ascension perk: Universal Transactions, which makes it easier for Megacorporation empires to establish branch offices and commercial pacts

Caravaneers

• Added the Caravaneers, nomadic space traders who will give unique offers in exchange for a variety of resources, and also offer games of chance in their home system

New Civics

• Added new civic: Byzantine Bureaucracy, that reduces housing/amenities usage and allows for the construction of Bureaucratic Complex building that adds administrator jobs

• Added new civic: Merchant Guilds, that add a merchant job to capitol buildings, and merchants provide unity

• Added Shared Burden civic for all your luxury space communism needs, with a new prescripted empire using it, the Kilik Cooperative

New Megastructures

• Added new Megastructures: the Matter Decompressor, Mega-Art Installation, Interstellar Assembly, and Strategic Coordination Center, including ruined versions you can discover

Slave Market

• Added a galactic Slave Market so you can buy or sell slave Pops and robots (once the Galactic Market is established)

New Voices and Music

• Added 3 new advisor voice sets as well as 16 minutes of new music (added to the soundtrack DLC as well)

New Canon Empires

• Added new pre-scripted Empires using Megacorp mechanics, and changed the existing Chinorr to a Megacorp

Achievements

• Added 10 new achievements

New Utopia Expansion Features

Hive Worlds

• Added new ascension perk: Hive Worlds, similar to Machine Worlds but for Hive Minds, which allows them to terraform planets into living planets on which only hive drones can live. Hive Worlds gain a bonus to resource output and are not limited by deposits in how many resource districts they can support

2.2 ‘Le Guin’ Free Features

• Added Simplified Chinese localization

• Removed planet/habitat tile system, replaced with districts, jobs

• Pops and Pop Jobs now belong to a social class (Pop Category) that determines their luxury needs. Social classes are ranked, and Pops that belong to a higher social class will refuse to take jobs belonging to a lower class until they demote over time

• Added unemployment for pops without suitable jobs, which lowers planetary stability if their living standards are low

• Added planetary housing, which is not a hard cap. Lack of sufficient housing causes planetary instability

• More dynamic pop growth system: populations can grow and decline based on their rights, living standards, immigration/emigration

• Added crime. Crime is generated by overcrowding and poor living conditions, and negatively affects planet stability. It can also generate events

• Added new and reworked planetary decisions and empire edicts

• Added new resource types (alloys, consumer goods, etc) which tie in to the economic simulation in many ways, diversifying the domestic activity of empires considerably

• Added the Internal Market, where resources can be converted into other resources at a cost

• Added the Galactic Market, in which all game resources can be bought and sold in open exchange between empires, with prices fluctuating based on supply and demand. This is formed when enough Empires are in contact with each other, replacing the Internal Market. Genocidal empires do not get access to the Galactic Market

• Added trade routes, where you can collect trade value from upgraded starbases and send it back to your trade capital to convert to wealth for your empire. Reworked piracy system to link in to this, and added a patrol order so your fleets can actively suppress piracy

• Added commercial pact diplomatic agreement, where the signatories gain trade value equal to 10% of the other party

• Added Administrative Cap based on owned systems, districts, and colonies. It is a soft cap that, when exceeded, applies scaling penalties to leader cost, edict cost, research speed, etc. This replaces the old system of static penalties based only on systems owned, and more accurately reflects the size and complexity of your empire. Administrative Cap can be increased with techs and ascension perks

• Introduced a new concept called Empire Cohesion. Empire Cohesion is increased by each owned system, and decreased by each external hyperlane connection and cut-off (non-owned) system inside your borders. If cohesion loss goes above cohesion gain, you will suffer penalties in the form of increased empire size and the corresponding costs it brings

• Added 9 new basic Mandates relating to your empire's internal economy

• Tweaked army display and ground combat screens, with improved army icons

• Reworked planetary bombardment to produce devastation, which damages housing, amenities, trade value, and pop growth. High devastation will ruin buildings and kill pops

• Reworked sectors to be automatically generated, removing the "mini-economies" and having them directly contribute to your empire stockpiles

• Reworked factions to always give an amount of influence based on their faction approval, rather than having a hard cutoff below which they would contribute nothing

• Reworked the Tradition Trees to synchronize with all the new systems

• Replaced authoritarian Caste System with Stratified Economy living standards: does not use slavery but has a similar effect (happy rulers, downtrodden masses). Authoritarians can still use species-wide slavery. Slaver guilds civic is now required to enslave own species

• Added alert messages for completing a Megastructure's intermediate upgrade steps

• Added a conclusion to the Strong Magnetic Field events

• Unity Ambitions are now a free feature, and no longer restricted to owners of Apocalypse

• Added new single star custom system options

• Created and implemented new SFX for Natural Wormholes which have been silent until now. No more.

• Since the Chinorr have become a Megacorporation, replaced them in non-Megacorp games with a new prescripted empire, the Glebsig Foundation

• Added technology Resort Worlds that unlocks the ability to designate a colony as a Resort World. This colony will be unable to have districts and most buildings built on it, but will increase amenities and immigration pull across the empire.

• Added tech for Penal Colony worlds which have high crime rates but decrease crime on other planets

• Added a tech for slaver empires to designate a world as a Thrall-World. Thrall-Worlds cannot support city districts or manufacturing/research buildings, but get vastly increased growth rate and access to special buildings and jobs for slaves

• Updated tutorial to explain the new systems

• Added the multiplayer observer mode from the 2.1.4 beta to the default game version

• Deploy Hunter-Killer Drones decision can now be toggled on and off

• Added a game setup setting for how many habitable worlds are guaranteed to spawn near your starting system

• Research Agreements are now diplomatic actions, rather than being part of trade deals

• End game victory conditions reworked into a score system, tallying up your total empire accomplishment based on size, population, military, tech, federations, and many other measures

• Added some new Colony events.

• Civilian ships are now constructed at starbase rather than planets

• Added pop selection view to colony ship construction in starbases

• Colony ships can now be built populated with any species which you have a migration treaty with

• Colony ships built via the expansion planner will be automatically constructed at the starbase nearest the target planet

• Planets have a decision to stop pop growth, although this comes with a penalty to stability for regular empires.

• Blockers now generally reduce the usable districts on a planet, while clearing them often unlocks additional district types.

• Clearing Blockers can now also give one time bonuses, i.e. clearing a slum grants a pop.

• The homeworld of the First League is now an Ecumenopolis

• Notifications dealing with the player’s own empire are now marked with a golden yellow rim to distinguish them from those affecting only other empires

• Added 6 new corporate-themed empire flags

Balance

• Improved distribution of space creatures and unique systems

• Leader Capacity has been removed from the game and replaced with energy credits upkeep for each leader

• Subterranean civilization famine event now uses food rather than energy

• Increased the delay between the Prethoryn Vanguard and the main swarm arriving

• You no longer get influence when another empire finishes first contact project before you do

• Teachings of Warriors event now only gives energy as reward for selling to a private collector

• Removed neighbor restrictions on rivals and most CBs

• No longer possible to pick Imperial Prerogative as first ascension perk

• Federation members now automatically have a commercial agreement with each other, but have to pay 15% of their energy credit income in federation taxes

• Federations are now always led by the most powerful member empire rather than having a rotating presidency (25% more power than leader is required to replace an existing president)

• Added a decision to curtail planetary growth through voluntary measures, available to empires that don't allow other forms of growth control. It reduces growth by 75% at the expense of increased pop upkeep

• Reworked relative empire power to be based on fleet power, economic power and tech power (in order of descending importance). Economic power is calculated as the amount of resources produced by the empire each month, multiplied by the base value of said resources, while tech power is calculated by the total cost of researched techs

• Added two new technologies for machine empires that improve pop assembly speed

• Nivlac pops now generally spawn in groups of 15

• Nivlac species trait effect on habitability and pop growth has been significantly reduced

• Added Cadet difficulty setting as an 'easy' level below Ensign, granting the player economic buffs

• Admirals no longer gain the Fleet Logistician trait from a random (MTTH) event

• Changed Forlorn Ruins modifier to be -5% happiness instead of -20%

• Drastically reduced the research cost for Entropic Recursion and Doctrine: Strange Loop, and removed their associated buildings

• Drastically reduced the Machine Uprising's starting fleets so they shouldn't immediately economically collapse

• Habitats now have a monthly alloy upkeep on their capital building

• Strong/Weak traits now have a small effect on worker output

• Culture shock is now a planet modifier rather than a pop modifier

• Assimilation now faster, and planetary culture shock will be removed if there is only hive/cyborg/machine pops on the planet, because free will is a painful illusion

• Xenophobes now get +10%/+20% pop growth instead of claim cost reduction (to balance for not having as much growth from migration, etc)

• Ascension perk Defender of the Galaxy now grants bonus damage against the Tempest too

• Ascension perk Galactic Contender also grants bonus damage vs the gate builders

• Yuht, Vultaum, and Irassian Home systems now have some additional resources

• Having an L-gate in your space increases the odds of rolling gateway tech if you don’t have a regular gateway

• Spiritualist faction will no longer be unhappy about Tomb Worlds if you get Wormed

• Having Psionic pops in your empire allows for the possibility of rolling the Psionic theory tech if not otherwise possible

• Several existing civics have been adjusted to affect the new jobs system: Police State, Agrarian Idyll, Aristocratic Elite, Citizen Service, Exalted Priesthood and Technocracy

*Species trait Thrifty now increases Trade Value production, new trait Ingenious increases Energy Production

• Reduced cost of robo-modding a species

• Reduced the cost of bio-modding a species

• Databanks Uplinks tradition now increases research station output instead of unlocking assist research

• Assist Research is now available from the start of the game

• Ending a resource deal with a merchant enclave early now gives -5 opinion

• Distinguished Admiralty civic effect on admiral level cap reduced from 2 to 1. In addition, the effect on naval capacity has been replaced with ship fire rate

UI

• Split the policies and edicts view into their own views

• You can now start the game with the "-console" argument and it will dump all console commands to the info.log file

• Added various info about target planets in the Resettlement dropdown list

• Colonization screens only show the list of species and will generate a ship from the closest shipyard

• Species are sorted in habitability order on the colonize "select species" window

• Expansion planner now shows scripted district in a moddable way instead of being hardcoded into energy, minerals, food

• The expansion planner now shows Rare Deposits

• Added navigation sidebar and moved all topbar menu items to it

• Reworked planet battle view to show frontline, reserved and disengaged armies separately

• Standardized colors for displaying cost and time

AI

• AI now considers the potential resource gain against its system upkeep cost when deciding whether to build an outpost

• Adapted AI to new economy system

• Improved early game economy AI

• AI will now revoke claims it has on empires it wants to maintain a long-term alliance with

Modding

• Added scriptable leader classes, old classes are now attributes for the new ones

• Added on_crossing_border on-action

• You can now set an arrival_effect on auto_move_to_target, this will fire that scripted effect on arrival

• Added "on_fleet_combat_joined_attacker" and "on_fleet_combat_joined_defender" on_action. Both are fired when fleet enter combat, scopes etc in the file "00_on_actions.txt"

• Added country_trade_fee modifier

• Replaced free_pop_slots trigger with free_housing trigger

• Updated the "if" trigger to work in the same way as the "if" effect: if { limit = {...} } else_if { limit = {...} } else { ... }

• Added define for default trade change

• Added MARKET_FLUCTUATION_EPSILON define to avoid useless calculations

• Added last_building_changed / last_district changed triggers

• Added on_system_lost and on_system_gained on-actions

• Create Species can now accept an event_target for the species class create_species = { class = event_target:caravaneer_fleet2_country.species }

• Most modifiers in the game now take custom_tooltip to print a custom desc

• Added perc_communications_with_playable trigger

• Added triggers "has_rival = <Target>" and "has_overlord=<Target>"

• Added is_half_species trigger

• Added create_half_species effect

• Added country-scoped variants of event pulses. Which countries get these is controlled in country type settings

• Added GetRulerName to localization script in Leader scope

• The "has_colonization_control" trigger now works like other species rights trigger: has_colonization_control = { value = no country =root }

• Added a "can_colonize_with_species" game rule

• It is now possible to directly script a civic as changing the empire's homeworld class, and this will be reflected properly in empire designer

• The number of district types shown in the expansion planner is now fully moddable through a Define ( EXPANSION_VIEW_NUM_DISTRICTS ) However, the gui files must also be changed to have that number of district buttons/icons

• Added set_market_leader effect

• Anomalies with a null_spawn_chance set that are set to only happen once for the country/game will now be blocked from being rolled again if they fail to pass the null spawn chance check, meaning that some anomalies can be made properly rare and not occur in every game

• Added the "diplomacy_economy" database where you can defines upkeep and production of resources for various types of diplomatic relations.

• Added remove_deposit effect

• Added is_deposit_type trigger

• Add define for resource base, min and max price on the market

• Add defines for constants in price change equation

• Buildings can now have a custom tooltip effect

Bugfixes

• Fixed incorrect starbase Missile Battery description

• Restoring changes to Impossible Organism event to allow Nivlacs to be spawned on any planet, not just the capital

• Fixed Contact Report: Primitives event sometimes fetching the wrong text key

• Fixed incorrect pluralization for Gene Warrior armies

• Fixed a handful of Crystalline Entities not being affected by the Crystal Pacification project

• Fixed the Lokken Mechanists pre-scripted empire using the wrong ruler title

• Fixed a bunch of old sound files that had bad loops or other cruddiness

• Fixed literally unplayable localization bugs

• Removed references to a nonexistent special project in an event chain

• Fixed an edge case where paying off Marauders would cost you nothing

• Fixed "The Xvan Labs" special project spawning in too-distant systems

• Preventing Ketling planets subject to ongoing invasion, orbital bombardment and/or starbase construction from progressing to spacefaring Ketlings

• Fix crash at start when the outliner settings contain double entries

• Fixed Leviathans first contact report not firing in some cases

• Scavenger Bot and Tiyanki Matriarch systems are now flagged as hostile (and guardian) systems

• Fixed bug where upon re-election a ruler would not get a proper new mandate

• Fixed Crisis ambient audio continuing to loop after Crisis has been defeated

• Fixed an issue where Primitives would accumulate too many Ethics over time

• Removed arrow from peace messages since they were misleading

• Added localization that had been missing from Observation events that had been missing since 2015, good golly Miss Molly

• Pacifists are now blocked from Aggressive First Contact protocols, as charming as it was that they had a loophole in their ethical structure that permitted unlimited violence until polite first greetings had been exchanged

• Leviathan Death Notification message should now function

• Fixed the bug when in the MP Lobby create new empire tab was shown beneath custom empires

• Fixed the multiplayer "show players" mapmode being saved and reloaded in single player mode, resulting in all-grey maps

• Fixed tutorial making observer mode outline visible in single player

• Master Builders Ascension Perk no longer applies twice to Habitats

• Marauder fleets now actually show up in the Marauder Vengeance event, rather than merely threatening to do so

• Fixed a crash when deleting an empire led to having a corrupted empire design selected

• Create vassal button now checks properly if a vassal can actually be created

• Fixed multiple contact from same empire

• Fixed empires created by rebellion, being released as a vassal always showing up with grey map colour

• Fixed the "blue solution" sometimes not granting a trait

• The red/green/blue event now adds a custom free trait so as not to mess with trait points.

• There will now always be a minimum of one L-Gate system when playing with the Distant Stars Story Pack, regardless of galaxy size

• Fixed peace deal localization

• Fixed some loc references in post-war messages from Fallen Empires

• Fixed the Horizon Signal event chain sometimes resulting in Pops getting incompatible traits

• Fixed the Grateful Refugee pop modifier potentially stacking (modifier is now instead refreshed if the pop becomes a refugee again)

• Contact Report: Leviathans (story.8) should now fire for all leviathans (will now display a special desc for mechanical leviathans)

• Fixed an issue with terraforming in the Atomic Clock event

• Numerous other bugfixes and performance improvements