[1.0.36] Release Notes

[Frogsquadron]

Full patch notes below:


[IMPROVEMENTS]

• Added a scroll bar to the company list on the left banner of the economy screen
• Disabled and greyed out trade route lines between turns in the economy screen
• Polished Chat messages (rename, join)
• Players can now force their fleet to take a direct path by using the Ctrl key
• Added info about spaceport and population transit in the Star System List
• Planetary destruction cinematics can now be disabled
• Added the possibility to rename Vodyani arks
• Added starting skills in the skill tree panel, now visible as two skill circles on the right of the hero skill tree screen under "Starting Skills"
• Fleets can no longer escape a player when the player is selecting a target
• The player is now aware that he can activate population growth using luxuries when reaching the required amount of said luxury
• Ground battles now start automatically when the ending turn button is pressed
• Added Guardians information in Guardian curiosity tooltip; the player knows what they get before exploring the curiosity
• Ground battles on a mothership now have a specific ground texture
• Added Unique planet lore in Planet screen
• Global improvements of the performances in game

[QUESTS]

General

• Secret Quest Reward: All "?" are now replaced by "Random Technology"
• Hidden tooltips "?" have been replaced by "Random [icon] Technology" in order to be clearer
• “Good Life” Exploration Quest is now validated even if the player orbits around an outpost which is turned into a Colony, if the population slots are sufficient
• "The living plague - Part 2" quest is no longer completed after a logistics ship reaches the system
• Minor Faction quest which requires to pass 3 laws no longer can be started if there are already 3 active laws
• Fixed an issue where the custom factions lose all gameplay affinities after becoming Sheredyn or Mezari by completing UE Chapter 3: "No turning back"

Horatio

• If the player already possesses a System level 4 in “There Can Only be One Trillion” (Chapter 3 - Choice Industrialist), this system will now count for the objective completion
• Horatio Chapter 3 part 2 is now triggered properly

Lumeris

• Third choice of the main quest Chapter 4’s alternative objective no longer uses only the first four strategic resources
• The Lumeris quest "A matter of influence" can no longer be completed by Ship Bound custom factions without meeting the requirements

Riftborn

• Rewards on the first chapter of the Riftborn main quest are more balanced
• Quest Chapter 1 Step 2 Religious Objective is now doable if the player has the Vodyani Affinity
• Chapter 3, two of the rewards display a bonus which wasn’t correctly applied. Now, it is functional
• The Riftborn quest can no longer be resolved if another Empire attaches a Mothership to a system

Sophons

• Reward Seduxury on the Chapter 1 of the Sophons quest is now less costly
• Main Quest Chapter 1: third choice now has a complete different reward, which decreases the Minor Faction Action Praise’s costs (or Bribe) by -30%
• Main Quest Chapter 2 Military Version: Reward has been balanced to be more interesting
• Chapter 4 Reward effects are clearer now

United Empire

• Curiosities explored by spending industry in colonized systems now count for the completion of the first UE chapter
• Main Quest Chapter 1: Increased the Traitor’s Reach Reward. Now this outpost is a Terran planet with a positive anomaly on it, and there is a secondary planet on this system
• The Daily Slogan reward of the United Empire Chapter 1 was underwhelming comparing to another reward of the same chapter. It now increases the basic food output of an outpost by 50%
• Planets and systems involved in Chapter 4 of United Empire now have a compass and a quest marker
• Lord of War United Empire population quest now has 2 new rewards, chosen among Technologies instead of Prestige points

Vodyani

• The counter of the Quest "Hope in Heresy" (Chapter 4, step 1) displayed false info. Now, the counter displays the same information as the objective description
• In the event of failure, the Vodyani Population quest now explains why the quest has failed
• Hope in Heresy part 2 can no longer be achieved by another empire than the Vodyani

[MODDING]

• Added warning message when exporting resources is supposed to overwrite files
• Resource export screen is disabled while an export is in progress
• Fixed empire improvements not being editable by mods
• Added compatibility between saves with and without non-gameplay mods

[MAC]

• Fixed the planet scan view which was not displayed properly
• Fixed ship path feedback
• Fixed game remaining stuck when using the Exit to desktop feature

[DESYNCS]

• Fixed DustInflation desyncs
• Fixed desync on hero experience
• Fixed desync on retrofit

[AI]

Generally improved AI performances including:

• The AI is now aware of victory conditions and pursues them according to faction personality
• Added a mission to help an ally in defense
• Fixed an issue where a fleet spawned by a quest did not move and the quest cannot be complete
• Fixed an issue where Unfallen fleets were asking for rooting at each decision resulting in a lot of warning and performance issues
• Vodyani AI now uses support modules on motherships in a better way
• Fixed an issue where AI was unable to retrieve a destroyed Singularity resulting in an error message
• Fixed an issue where Vodyani AI was trying to use the spaceport resulting in a lot of warnings
• Fixed an issue where the AI was trying to buy a Hero during the metaplot
• Fixed an issue in CostsSnapshot merge resulting in invalid cost and wrong decisions being taken by the AI

Multiplayer

• Fixed AI taking control of player actions if a multiplayer session is reloaded and player slots are changed
• Optimized game session release. Launching several games in one session should not be a cause of crashes anymore

Military and fleet behavior

• The AI now computes ship design for heroes
• The AI now changes its fleet composition depending on the situation
• The AI now chooses better support modules
• The AI now uses advanced hulls better, and uses a wider variety of ship design modules
• The AI is now able to understand flotilla ranges better in order to select an ideal play and create better decks
• The AI is now able to use complementary weapons and handle module levels in a better way
• The AI is now able to use militarist laws ‘lower fleet costs’ and ‘spoils of war’
• The AI now handles ground battle strategy better
• Fixed an issue where AI was not able to wake up to answer battles
• The pacifist and benevolent AIs now don’t like to use planet destroyers
• Simple encounter (AI on AI battles) now properly handles fleets with multiple heroes
• Improved merge fleet behavior

Minor factions and diplomacy

• The AI now uses all the minor faction actions
• Improved the declaration of war against minor factions’ heuristic
• Fixed AI being able to interact with minors it doesn’t know
• Created the sandbox mode in the diplomacy behavior
• The AI now takes truce breaking and diplomatic demand abuse in consideration in term evaluations
• There are now negative consequences for declaring war after a diplomatic demand has been accepted
• The AI now takes already invested resources into consideration for contract cost computation
• Unfallen AIs are now able to root their allies
• Diplomacy AI now reacts in a better way to the use of core cracker
• Fixed an issue where the Unfallen were sending a trespass mood message when you moved on a system you own they have rooted
• Fixed an issue where an AI declined an Alliance despite requesting it
• Fixed an issue where AI would infinitely try to propose a contract
• Fixed an issue where diplomatic behavior cycles were not detected correctly resulting in behavior issues
• Fixed AI trust being significantly lowered because they treated trespassing with exploration vessels as ‘military trespass’
• Fixed an issue where AI sends diplomatic messages to the users stating that they have sent gifts even though they have not

[Frogsquadron]

[FIXES]

Tooltips and other visual features

• Fixed tooltip positions on New Game Screen
• Fixed tooltip of faction droplist in new game screen for custom factions
• Improved system buyout tooltip
• Added explicit failure description in construction tooltips when you cannot buyout a construction because it is turn based
• Added failure tooltip when the player tries to move a hangar
• Added tooltips on Faction cost/Population cost/Trait count in Custom faction panel
• Improved the Wonder Constructible feedback in tooltips
• Destroyed planets are now properly displayed as destroyed with the correct tooltip information in the galaxy view
• Tooltip of systems under the entwine process no longer overlap the bottom of the screen
• Tooltips are no longer displayed during the loading screen if they’re visible while performing quick load
• If a hero is a Senator, the “next level” part of his senator skill is hidden in the Senate screen (on tooltip)
• Fixed words bleeding through the tooltip for several modules
• Made Bhagaba assimilation trait "Culturally Resistant" description more explicit
• The turn transition indicator is displayed when performing quick load
• The "Sacred Harvest", "Feeding Pits" and "Endless Research Park and EndlessWorld" (Wonder1) duration value is now modified inside its tooltip based on the chosen game speed
• Changed migration minor action error "system is full" to "no valid system available"
• Fixed the Relation bar not updating when the player used the Declare War and Cease Fire actions on a Minor Faction on the same turn
• The last quest viewed is not selected when reopening the "quests and events" screen
• Removed the Colonize button from appearing on a Destroyed planet label
• Fixed Anomaly reduction information showing false information for AffinityGameplayVampirilis
• Moved the FIDSI values for Huge and Large planets inside the FIDSI sectors in Star system management scan view
• Made the In-game timer option modification more obvious (tooltip and label)
• Other empires’ hangar information is now properly hidden in all circumstances
• Player no longer receive a false "Abduction Complete" notification if a Leecher is destroyed while leeching a system
• Fixed an issue where the "Destroy Planet" action displayed the same duration regardless of game speed
• The loading save menu, the competitors panel and the loading screen image now properly reflect the faction chosen when picking randomly
• Fixed Technology Unlocked notification layout sometimes appearing broken the first time the notification was opened
• Capped the remaining turn until new population feedback to 99 (will display 99+). Improved the feedback of losing population in the side panel system population
• Portraits are now so they look okay in 4:3 faction selection
• Removed Politics Unlocked notification from Auto-popup menu
• Fixed the G2G feed in main screen so that the text will always be fully visible when the mouse is over the banner
• Reduced the size of the net value in the Control banner and removed the decimal in some other cases.
• Fixed the population sectors being hidden in a 5 planets configuration
• Fixed an issue where the Negotiation screen continued to be displayed after a multiplayer session ends
• Fixed the feedback when trying to reach an unreachable node with a fleet (advice for Free Move instead of Wormhole technology)
• Fixed an issue where false information was displayed in guardian curiosity tooltips inside the star system management screen
• Added Total Upkeep label for selected law on Laws Management Modal Window
• Made Neighbors count clearer in Star System Management Scan View
• Removed a graphical corruption on the system level disk in the system view
• Fixed outpost migration not saying why it is halted
• Added info on spaceport and population transit in the Star System List (No Empire Demographic screen is available)
• Fixed the hero ship design statistics according to hero skills
• Fixed attached arks not showing up properly
• Prevented the StarSystem tooltip to be shown while hovering the Constellation label
• Text is now properly displayed in the marketplace news feed
• Luxuries are now shown in the economy screen when they have been seen on a system
• Added assignment information in the Skill Tree Panel
• Hero ships / ship design upgrades: the ship upgrade cost is now hidden until anything has been modified in the ship
• A warning message is now displayed when a hero assignment will replace an already assigned hero.
• Probe placement mode / time singularity mode are now canceled if the user opens a screen on the control banner or the scan view or clicks the end of turn
• Fixed an issue where the ground battle notification "ready" button could bleed out of the window in some languages
• Fixed outpost counter and tooltip when playing Riftborn
• Added specific description in tooltip of ground battle action when invading an ark
• The Home System icon no longer overlaps with the "colonizable planets" icons when the home system tab has more than 4 lines
• Boosted populations now display their effect properly in population modal window and tooltips
• Added feedback on besiege & blockade effect so it says it removes all resource production
• Added cut off (word wrap) when there is a ‘-’ (hyphen) to prevent weird word wrap with fleet names, particularly in German
• Fixed the Show quest markers button’s behaviour; the view now cycles through all the quest nodes if there are several
• Added info on reinforcement man power on the ground battle notifications (Users are now informed about the maximum manpower deployment limit for invasions)
• Fixed the inspect button in the marketplace
• Elements from the Empire (Target) Selection (when several empires can be fought in a system) are now properly displayed on higher resolutions
• Fixed Hero assignation to fleet when double clicking an invalid line; the invalid lines are now disabled
• Fixed diplomatic scan view showing center of empires that aren’t known
• Destroyed arks tooltip now display the effects of arks on the system
• Fixed tooltip of hero upkeep reduction skill
• Added Alignment info on treaty tooltips in the diplomacy screens and panels
• Fixed empire screen and system construction queue displaying different values for same construction
• The name of the hull class no longer gets cut off when switching between ship designs in the Ship Design screen
• Added info in side panel on why an outpost will not receive migration
• Added icon on the star system label if the system hosts the Marketplace
• Battle tactics card now have a comprehensive tooltip in the tech tree
• Fixed non-boostable populations displaying info on desired resource (only for guardian and Riftborn)
• Created a specific message when the player can’t destroy a quest planet

Gameplay

• Removing and re-equipping the same module should now consider the ship design to be the same, so no upgrade is needed
• A spaceport can now detect when its destination has been destroyed
• Unfallen colonies successfully invaded by the Vodyani can no longer be instantly recolonized
• Ships can no longer be disbanded when around an outpost
• Improved tooltip of Riftborn unique building
• Prevented OverPopulation feedback from appearing on Outposts
• Fixed sacrificing guardians with "Sacred Harvest" not removing the guardian global +5 approval bonus or extra pop slot information
• Reviewed gains on Vox Populi & Steaming Fertilizer Tricks Hero Skills
• Minor faction praise is now canceled upon declaring war
• User can no longer have both peaceful and aggressive alliance veto on an empire
• After system invasion, remaining attacker manpower is given back to orbiting fleets or attacker empire.
• When discovering a new Population Affinity, the associated Luxury used for population bonuses is automatically discovered if not known already
• The planet population slots on the planet HUD are now properly updated with the upgrades made by the "Floating Superstructures" unlock
• System buyout is now impossible when the cost is 0
• Planets can no longer be destroyed while the planet destroyer fleet is being attacked
• Major Factions are now able to control a constellation they don’t see entirely
• Added check on empire elimination status in diplomacy
• Made possible to realize a survey at any time in exchange for influence (added a button in the senate screen not available for Cravers)

Bugs

• Fixed various issues where wrong diplomatic notifications would appear with unlocalized strings in it, for the wrong players
• Fixed saves loading slowly because of very large amounts of unused AI ship designs
• Factions no longer sometimes reset if a player joins the lobby twice in a row
• Fixed resource exports crashing the game when done too many times
• Fixed battle scan view no longer displaying ship health after loading mods
• Ancillary Academy is now functional
• Fixed the initial count of population for CustomFaction with AffinityGameplayVampirilis
• Players no longer remain stuck during the end turn transition while viewing the invasion cinematic in multiplayer games
• Users no longer remain stuck in the loading screen when starting sessions as custom factions with the Mutual understanding trait
• Fixed trait count for CustomFaction using AffinityGameplayCravers
• The game is no longer stuck when an empire is eliminated while performing a ground invasion
• Fixed a bug where players were able to join an eliminated empire in multiplayer
• Fixed an issue where the users which use different mods could still join MP sessions through steam invites
• Fixed simple encounter resurrected hero ships not getting damaged
• Fixed quest colonization not working with custom factions with Unfallen gameplay
• Fixed an issue where players cannot assign heroes as governors from the "Hero Management" screen
• Fixed dead AIs being able to do diplomacy
• Fixed error when taking a system which has no population
• The user can no longer quick saves/load during the loading and viewing of a Battle
• Fixed Hero and HeroShip experience being desynchronized when ship levels up with a battle
• Fixed issues when quickloading during the KeyArt Loading Screen (BlackCurtainWindow) (displayed when quitting games or briefly before loading a game while in a game)
• Pending connections are now ignored when verifying the game state synchronization
• It is no longer possible to load a save when in load/save window, to avoid loading a save that’s being deleted
• The player is no longer automatically reassigned to the first slot when changing the session mode from multiplayer to singleplayer
• The player no longer stays stuck in the "Connecting to lobby" loading screen if the host exits the lobby
• The player is now assigned to their previously occupied lobby slot when re-joining
• Fixed error in hero inspection window when inspecting recruitable heroes
• Fixed stuck situation when quitting the game from the planet view (maximum zoom)
• Fixed multiplayer errors when players have different amount of palette colors with mods
• Fixed hero upkeep minimum being negative infinite
• Fixed loading save after a UE-like custom faction turned into a Sheredyn or a Mezari faction.
• Fixed an issue where probe launching was still active when passing turns
• The skippable assert is no longer generated when saving changes to a hero ship design from the Hero Overview screen
• Access to save files is now working with Avast Antivirus (file extension is now .sav instead of .zip)
• Fixed hero ships being destroyed when a space battle retreat fails
• Fixed "New laws" panel in elections screen
• Fixed the Population Collection Bonus selection when creating a custom faction from a standard faction
• Fleets no longer move automatically after canceling an auto explore action via GUI
• Simplified encounter retreat now properly applies the 60% HP damage
• Fixed ark modules effect not being applied immediately after retrofitting the ark
• Fixed simple encounter retreat not taking health into account
• Fixed vines not being destroyed when the owner’s empire was eliminated
• Fixed minor bribe lasting 4 turns instead of 5

[Frogsquadron]

[HERO BALANCE]

Military and ship improvements

• Authoritarian Leadership:
  • Tier 1 reduced from +40% to +25% Maximum manpower on Fleet
  • Tier 1 added +10% Siege damage
  • Tier 2 reduced from +80% to +50% Maximum manpower on Fleet
  • Tier 2 added +20% Siege damage
• Battlefield Grandmaster:
  • Reduced from +40% to +25% Damage on Fleet
  • Reduced from +40% to +33% Shield on Fleet
• Blunt Force Trauma:
  • Divided all tiers by 2 (from +20/+40% Projectile Damage on Fleet to +10/+20% Damage on Fleet)
• Burning Light:
  • Divided all tiers by 2 (from +20/+40/+80% Energy weapon Damage on Fleet to +10/+20/+40% Energy weapon Damage on Fleet)
• Defensive AI Integration:
  • Reworked tier progression (from +10/+20/+40/+80% Shield on Fleet to +5/+10/+25/+50% Shield on Fleet)
• Legendary Authority:
  • Final tier: reduced from +8% to +2% Health per current Command Point on Fleet
• Military Spine:
  • Reworked tier progression (from +1/+2/+4/+8% Damage per current Command Point on Fleet to +0.5/+1/+1.5/+2% Damage per current Command Point on Fleet)
• Post-Relativistic Targeting:
  • Divided all tiers by 2 (from +10/+20/+40/+80% Damage on Fleet to +5/+10/+20/+40% Damage on Fleet)
• Patchwork Defenses:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +20 to +10% Health on Fleet
  • Tier 2: reduced from +40 to +20% Health on Fleet
• Righteousness of the Ordained:
  • Reduced from +40% to +25% Health on Fleet
• Tunnelling Defense:
  • Tier 1 reduced from 40% to 25% Ground Troop Health on System
  • Tier 2 reduced from 80% to 50% Ground Troop Health on System
• Zero Tolerance:
  • Tier 1 reduced from 2% to 1% Ground Troop Health per Pop on System
  • Tier 2 reduced from 4% to 2% Ground Troop Health per Pop on System

Movement, probes and vision

• Celestial Mechanics:
  • Starting tier: reduced from +2 to +1 Maximum Movement on Fleet
  • Tier 1: reduced from +8 to +6 Maximum Movement on Fleet
• Deep Space Adaptation:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +2 to +1 Maximum Probe Stock on Exploration Ships
  • Tier 2: reduced from +4 to +2 Maximum Probe Stock on Exploration Ships
• Fleet Black Market:
  • All tiers: increased Probe Refill Rate on Exploration Ships to +50% for all tiers
  • Tier 1: removed upkeep reduction on Fleet
• Horatic Curiosity:
  • Tier 1: increased from +10% to +20% Vision Range on Fleet
• Overclocked Scanners:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +4 to +3 Vision Range
  • Tier 1: reduced from +8 to +6 Vision Range
• Prescient Guide:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +4 to +1 Maximum Movement on Fleet
  • Tier 1: reduced from +20% to +15% Shield on Fleet
  • Tier 2: reduced from +8 to +2 Maximum Movement on Fleet
  • Tier 2: reduced from +40% to +30% Shield on Fleet
• Sensitive Systems:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +8 to +4 Vision Range on Fleet
  • Tier 2: reduced from +16 to +8 Vision Range on Fleet
• Slim Probe Model:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +4 to +2 Maximum Probe Stock on Exploration Ships on Fleet
  • Tier 2: reduced from +8 to +4 Maximum Probe Stock on Exploration Ships on Fleet
• Startrekking Instruction:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +2 to +1 Maximum Probe Stock on Hero Ship
  • Tier 2: reduced from +4 to +2 Maximum Probe Stock on Hero Ship

Governor skills

• Blue Sky Speculator:
  • Reduced science gains on all tiers (from +20/+40/+80 to +15/+30/+60 Science on System)
• Clerical Corrections:
  • Tier 2: reduced from +2 to +1 Deposit Value on Planets
  • Tier 2: added +5 Approval per deposit on System
• Endless Consumption:
  • Increased from +32% to +50% FIDSI on non-depleted Planets
• Forced Labour:
  • Divided industry gains on all tiers (from +10/+20/+40 to +5/+10/+20 Industry on System)
• Geniocrat:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +40% to +30% Science on System
  • Tier 2: reduced from +80% to +60% Science on System
• Infallible Authority:
  • Starting tier: reduced from +1 to +0.5 FIDSI per Pop
  • Reduced from +4 to +2 FIDSI per Pop
• Mechanical Genius:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +20 to +15 Industry on System
  • Tier 2: reduced from +40 to +30 Industry on System
• Renegade Master:
  • Reduced from +8 to +5 Approval per NonMajor Pop on System
  • Added +2 FIDSI per NonMajor Pop on System
• Tech Hubs:
  • Reduced from +80 to +50 Industry per Anomaly on System
• Titan of Industry:
  • Reduced from +4% to +2% Industry per Hero Level on System
• The Joy Initiative:
  • Added -20% Upkeep on System
• Vox Populi:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +20% to +15% Industry on System
  • Tier 2: reduced from +40% to +30% Industry on System
• Peer Review:
  • Tier 2: reduced from +20 to +10 Science on System
  • Reduced science gains on all tiers (from +1/+2/+4/+8 to +0/+2/+2/+4 Science per Hero Level on System)
• Personal Militia:
  • Tier 1: Reduced from +2 to +1 Influence per Pop
  • Tier 2: Reduced from +4 to +2 Influence per Pop
• Personal Networking:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +4 to +3 Industry per Pop
  • Tier 2: reduced from +8 to +6 Industry per Pop
• Public Relations Expert:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +10% to +5% Influence on System
  • Tier 2: reduced from +20% to +10% Influence on System
• Restricted Supplier:
  • Increased from +20% to +33% Luxury Deposit Value on System
  • Added +2 Industry per Pop on Ecstatic
• Rousing Orator:
  • Tier 1: reduced from +4 to +2 Influence per Pop
  • Tier 1: added +2 Influence per Pop on Happy
  • Tier 2: reduced from +8 to +4 Influence per Pop
  • Tier 2: added a +4 Influence per Pop on Happy

Other Hero skills

• Dust Catalyzation:
  • Tier 1 reduced from -20% to -25% Assignment cooldown duration
  • Tier 1 switched from -20% upkeep on Hero to -25% upkeep on Governor
  • Tier 2 reduced from -40% to -50% Assignment cooldown duration
  • Tier 2 switched from -40% upkeep on Hero to -50% upkeep on Governor
• Papers Please:
  • Switched from -50% cost on Hostile treaties to all Diplomatic treaties
• Red Tape Scyther:
  • Increased from -40% to -25% Assignment cooldown duration
• Transcendental Outlook:
  • Switched from x0 upkeep on Governor to x0 upkeep on Admiral
  • Added -10% upkeep on all Heroes

[CHANGES FROM THE G2G BALANCE MOD v1.1]

Basic Laws

• Fixed upkeep issues
• Super Tax Act: changed approval penalty (-1 per pop) to a flat (-20)
• Increased penalty of Brains over Bucks and Parks not Quarks (from -10% to -20%)
• Senator Bob Bill has been changed to an effect in per population (+2 approval per pop / -2 Dust per pop)
• Toy for Boys has been changed to lower industry instead of science (-10% industry)

Party Laws

• Trusted Broker: now the bonus increases each turn (by 2% (3% in Republic) per turn up to 30%) giving incentive to keep the law active for a long time
• Increased effects of Need to Breed (from 20% to 30%)
• Right Thing Rule changes to unlock « Force Peace » term
• Fair Trade Bill changes to +5% FIDSI / peace, +10% FIDSI / alliance
• Inverted unlock prerequisites of My Precious Precept and Trusted Broker
• Green Fertility Bill (+20% Food / Anomaly) changes to +5% FIDSI / Anomaly +2 Food / pop on planets with anomaly
• Power to the People Act changes to +2% (+4% in Republic) Science per pop type
• All Hands Dictum changes to +2% Industry per pop type
• Power to the People Act and All Hands Dictum: now have an Horatio variant which counts assimilated population instead of population types
• Racial Purity Act has a Vodyani alternative: +2 Essence per pop and +15 Essence per system
• Us or Them Decree changes to +20 Approval per Home System on all the systems
• Spoils Of War Act adds: -10% Military upkeep as a complementary effect

Unlock prerequisites

• Inverts unlock prerequisites between Admit and Improve Bill and Racial Purity Act; to have the Essence from the beginning with Vodyani
• Inverted unlock pace of Cram Exam Act and Larger Hosts Bill
• Inverted unlock prerequisite of Star Boogie Bill and Dirty Hand Acts to improve Sophons’ early game

Approval

• Planets now give penalty in -X approval per pop instead of -X
  • -5 => -1 per pop
  • -10 => -3 per pop
  • -15 => -5 per pop
  • -20 => -8 per pop
• Luxury resources and anomalies also provide approval bonuses and penalties using a "per pop" count
  • bonuses have been lowered and penalties increased
• Overcolonization threshold is lower for all galaxy sizes (from Tiny to Colossal, by increments of 1 system by size from 2 to 8)
• Transvine now provide +2 Approval per pop when used for Leveling system
• Added a new improvement (temp name: Autonomous Administration) which increases the Overcolonization threshold by 1 in stage 4 of Empire Development
• Costs 2240 Industry and 1000 Influence and only available on level 4 systems
• Leveling Arks will provide a default +1 Approval per population (not properly shown in the mod)

Balance changes

• Increased Drone Networks output from +5 to +10 Food/Industry
• Increased Cerebral Reality output from +10 to +15 Dust/Science
• Moved the unlock of level 4 curiosity to stage 4
• Increased Dust given by Galactic HQ from 25 to 40
• Added +25 Dust on The Cathedral of the All Worldly Affairs
• Replaced the default Dust module on Mothership with an Essence module
• Alms for Essence now converts 50% of Dust and provides 25% of Dust into Essence
• Unfallen vines now take 20 turns to complete (instead of 10) for a single vineship
• Population luxury boosts now double their native FIDSI bonuses as well

[FURTHER BALANCE CHANGES]

• Lumeris maximal population collection bonus is now "ignore trade route blockade even when at war"
• Fixed and increased influence costs to change battle tactics
• Removed upkeep also for admirals on Transcendental Outlook skill
• Vodyani Ark now is worth 4 CP, not 8 CP
• Alternative quests can no longer be triggered several at a time
• Changed Tax change cost formula to be more expensive
• Changed effect of Nanohaze Defenses curiosity improvement as it was outdated with ground battle rebalance
• Fixed "Autonomous Administration" being able to be built multiple times on a single system

• Riftborn Singularity costs have been raised. New costs are as follows:
• Compression Singularity: 100 Dust, 20 Titanium
• Dilation Singularity: 100 Dust, 20 Hyperium
• Fold Singularity: 100 Dust, 5 Adamantian
• Rip Singularity: 100 Dust, 5 Antimatter
• Statis Singularity: 100 Dust, 1 Orichalcix, 1 Quadrinix
• Dust Cost to queue a Singularity is 100 (base) + 100 times the total number of Singularities ever built (including Singularities in queue)

[Taritu]

Not so sure about all the reduction in hero utiity. It was sort of nice to have them matter so much.

That said, glad to see the patch.

[Brazouck]

no fighters ?

[Frogsquadron]

Originally posted by Brazouck:

no fighters ?

Before the end of summer is our current stated goal.

[HappyBarrel]

Still get the beach ball of death when I click on the diplomacy tab on mac.

[KrimsonVagus]

Still no nerf on the insanely overpowered and game-breaking Ecologist Vodyani custom faction.
I guess people don't care about custom factions...
What a shame.

[Zephyrus]

Hey Frogsquadron, I might have missed this or something but...unless I switch to Democratic, Republic, etc, I'll always be stuck on 2 law slots as a Dictatorship?

[Leraje]

New happiness mechanic seems prety rough - the per pop negatives seem to be a bit too high making the transvine damn near a mandatory resourse.

Any particular reason for a MAJOR increase in Vodyani essence consumption? The immediate access to "Species Stability" does not compensate for the inital Arc cost increase by more than 3x and the "Holy Prolifiration" costs being doubled?

[Kidjal]

Good...good...

[Digital Collective]

Wow, nice work guys!

[guanotwozero]

Many thanks for the patch...

BUT I've just spotted what looks like a significant bug when loading a savegame:

Empire happiness has plummeted - instead of my system limit being 30 it's dropped to 17, with consequent happiness of 2% instead of >80%. My capital is still at 100%, most everything else 0%.

[shtraib]

My new game for Empire crush even before press "End Turn"

[Daemone Isos]

Sorry for the silly question: Is this the same 1.0.36 as the preview patch? Or is it a revised version?

[Fractalite]

I have a humble question for you(Frogsquadron) as I have not been able to scertain what is/are the best channels with which to ask: During the alpha(which was great fun to help support) when one was in the ship design screen, each races ship had an engine noise. Or perhaps it was the powerplant. Either way, I really enjoyed the distinction there, REALLY enjoyed the Vodyani thrumming sound(it worked really well with the predatory look of the ships,) and was wondering if they could be brought back? I ask because with the full release of the game, those sounds disappeared and were replaced with a generic background.... neutral sound? Please do not misunderstand, it is not bad, in fact, if I did not know theother sounds existed I would be quite happy with it, but since I know they are there, I must make the effort because it was very neat.

Thank you for all the hard work to improve this game. It is interesting to watch.