• NEW MEGASTRUCTURE: Galactic Mall - The galaxy's largest consumer mall and shopping center, capable of producing an impressive amount of consumer goods. Uses a new model!
  
• NEW MEGASTRUCTURE: Galaxy General Hospital - A massive hospital dedicated to the study of the various xenoraces in the galaxy and the analysis and treatment of the various diseases that affect these species. Uses a new model!
  
• NEW MEGASTRUCTURE: Strategic Resource Factory - A massive industrial complex that can produce most of the galaxy's strategic resources at great cost of minerals and energy. Uses a new model!
  
• NEW ASCENSION PERK: Matter-Energy Manipulation - This perk is required to unlock the Strategic Resource Factory.
  
• NEW TECHNOLOGY: Galactic Mall - Unlocks the Galactic Mall megastructure.
  
• NEW TECHNOLOGY: Galaxy General Hospital - Unlocks the Galaxy General Hospital megastructure.
  
• NEW STARBASE MODULE: Orbital Housing - Allows you to add civilian population housing to your starbase.
  
• NEW FEATURE: Fleet Doctrines - This is a set of 5 policies that allow the player to choose how they will focus the development, construction, and operation of their empire fleet.
  
• NEW SPECIAL SLOT MODULE: MARS Weapon System - An advanced point-defense weapon system that provides bonuses to weapon tracking and range at the cost of rate of fire.
  
• Added extra starting sensor range to Corvettes to allow them to act as scout ships that the player can send to new systems ahead of their valuable science ships.
  
• Added a new section to Corvettes that can equip a PD weapon and missile weapon.
  
• Added new section options to the Battlecruiser to make it more versatile and useful.
  
• Added a special jump drive to the Flagship that has massive range and significant bonuses over the vanilla jump drives.
  
• Added a second tier of the Strike Cruiser aura with larger effects. This unlocks automatically upon researching the Fleet Support Ship tech.
  
• Changed the Drydock to a starbase building so it's limited to one per starbase, but the player can build as many as they want across their empire. The shipyard bonus was reduced from 8 to 5.
  
• Removed the Titan from the list of auto-generated designs to prevent the game crash bug with the middle sections. Players must now manually create a Titan design once they research the ship.
  
• Added a single PD slot on each of the three Spitfire Battleship sections, to help counter Torpedo/Missile corvettes.
  
• Added three new sections for the Cruiser that have PD slots, one for each bow, mid, and stern.
  
• Fixed some minor flaws with the Deflector Array special slot icon.
  
• Updated Megastructure code to match new syntax in 2.2.3.
  
• Adjusted the costs of all NSC2 techs to match the new vanilla costs.
  
• Dramatically increased the tech costs of NSC2 reactors.
  
• Fixed the Flagship and T weapon for the Obliterator Cannon to be an Artillery type weapon as it had no ai_tag for the targeting system.
  
• Fixed Dark Matter Thrusters to follow the vanilla speed modifier.
  
• Increased the cost of the Spitfire Battleship sections for balance purposes.
  
• Added the NSC2 logo & version number to the main menu screen to assist us with troubleshooting when Steam does not update the mod properly. (It's not going away, so don't bother complaining about it.)
  
• Updated the NSC2 loading screens to credit our Beta Test team, add a few people to the Special Thanks screen, and a minor graphical update to the Holy Flagship screen.
  
• Many other minor bugfixes, tweaks, and balancing changes.

• Updated the mod code for Stellaris the 2.2.4 beta branch (The mod will also work fine for those staying on 2.2.3)

• Fixed a typo in our files that was causing the AI to not build any ships above Cruiser level. IMPORTANT NOTE: This has most likely been a bug since the original January 1 update. With this fix, your save games are going to change drastically, because you've all got AI empires with a shitload of money and now they have something to spend it on. Get ready for a ride LOL.

Uploaded a quick fix to the NSC2 country types file where the AI was allowed to build too many science ships.

• Fixed a missing Bracket on the XL-Cannon Reactor file
  
• Made the Reactor for the Obliterator Cannon have no tech requirement to fix the error with the design at the start of the game
  
• Added several dummy locators to all the section entities to clear up the error log spam of missing locators. Note: This only applies to the NSC2 asset files, any ship set files that support NSC will have errors as well.
  
• Cleaned up the namelist of android armies as they no longer exist.
  
• Fixed minor typo in the Tech localizations

• Mod code updated for Stellaris 2.2.2.
  
• Fixed a major bug where the AI wouldn't build ships.
  
• Increased the Strike Cruiser default evasion from 10% to 20%.
  
• Fixed a few other minor bugs.

Uploaded a new copy of the .mod file with 2.2.2 set as incompatible, since it breaks NSC2.

• Fleet Upgrade Times have been significantly reduced due to NSC2 ships being much larger and more complex.
  
• Created a new, more powerful reactor for the Obliterator cannon that should alleviate previous power issues.
  
• Rewrote the entire country types file to make sure that the AI builds the appropriate ship classes at each tech level.
  
• Rebalanced ship alloy costs for the Battlecruiser, Battleship, Carrier, Dreadnought, and Titan. The new ship costs are listed below.
  
• Added the proper weapon type tags to the NSC2 energy weapons so that they receive bonuses from energy weapon modifiers.
  
• Fixed the ship upkeep modifiers for the Special Slots and the NSC2 auras.
  
• Fixed the trade ranges in the NSC2 starbases file. All starbases should now have proper trade numbers.
  
• Changed the Influence Storage bonus on the Starbase Admin buildings to +3 Coordinator jobs for Machines, +3 Synapse Drones for the Hive Mind and +3 Administrator Jobs for Normal Empire.
  
• Fixed all localization issues on the Starbase building modifiers.
  
• Fixed the localization for the Drydock Shipyard Name.
  
• Fixed the Starbase Admin Building cap being 4 instead of 5.
  
• Fixed the Obliterator Cannon Core Section localization.
  
• Added a fix in the 2.2.2 beta for Rogue Serviitors in the country types file.
  
• Changed Admiral Upkeep bonus on the HQ Station to be all upkeep incase mods make leaders cost other forms of resources in other mods.
  
• All NSC2 Dark Matter reactors now require Dark Matter special resources to build.
  
• Updated all NSC2 namelists with names for the Annihilator and Obliterator cannons.
  
• Various other miscellanous minor bug fixes.

• Corvette: 30
  
• Destroyer: 60 - 150
  
• Cruiser: 150
  
• Strike Cruiser: 350 - 600
  
• Battlecruiser: 250 - 500
  
• Battleship: 450 - 900
  
• Carrier: 800 - 1300
  
• Dreadnought: 850 - 1200
  
• Titan: 1600 - 2300
  
• Flagship: 5000
  
• Colossus: 10000
  
• Support Ship: 2500

Minor Bugfix Update

• Fixed the Starbase window so that the module slots are not hiding the Trade button.
  
• Fixed all technology localization
  
• Fixed missing Starbase Levels for Gatebuilder and Caravaner
  
• Fixed missing bracket in the starbase file for Gatebuilders
  
• Fixed the broken trade window on Starbases
  
• Fixed the missing Trade values on starbases
  
• Made Cruise Missiles requires the Motes resource like vanilla Tier 5 missiles and the tech also requires Tech 5 missiles
  
• Renamed all upkeep modifiers to be the correct one for the support ship
  
• Removed solar panel code that was incorrect
  
• Fixed a vanilla issue with the Ships category not having the Titan size
  
• Fixed a encoding error in the human name list