v0.3.0b


*** Improvements and rebalances have been made across the board to make the mod more polished.

*** Quality of life features have been added, such as the possibility to automate cargo haulage from one point to another, including the automatic use of FTL.

*** Added new planet and star types.

*** This version introduces an entirely new feature focused on the management of populated settlements. Settlements can be of different types depending of a number of criteria and can choose a particular focus to contribute to the empire. Civil acts can also independently be enacted on each settlement for various effects, but beware of the population morale!

• Abilities
  
  - Repair is now available on all shipyards in addition to stations or ships with a construction bay. It can now target support ships in addition to flagships, stations and orbitals, and will auto cast on valid targets within its range.
  
  
• Artifacts
  
  - Added Nascence Device. Instantly adds a random Food resource to target owned planet. Activation cost of 750 Energy.
  
  
• Artificial Intelligence
  
  - AIs now build commerce stations to establish trade routes between their territories.
  - AIs now build a factory in territories where no labor is available to establish a trade route.
  - AIs now build research complexes if their research generation rate is too low.
  
  
• Buildings
  
  - Added Resort. Gives 1 Money generation. Adds 1 Influence pressure. Replaces up to 3 regular cities. Reduces total pressure capacity by 3. Base and maintenance costs of 120k and 30k, respectively.
  - Added Penitentiary. Generates 1 Labor/minute. Moderately increases morale. Replaces up to 1 regular city. Base and maintenance costs of 100k and 10k, respectively.
  - Added Resort. Gives 1 Money generation. Replaces up to 3 regular cities.
  - Barracks now adds 1 planet Loyalty. Defense Reserve Bonus and maintenance cost have been reverted to vanilla values (+15 (down from +20) and 20k (up from 0), respectively).
  - Mining complexes now additionally cost 15 Research to build.
  - Command centers now add 1 Defense generation and 1 Defense pressure instead of 2 Defense generation.
  - Forges have been completely overhauled and costs adjusted. They also now consume Ore when using Labor. The next forge tier is unlocked only once the previous tier is built, and all tiers are always available to build. Each tier now has a higher Labor bonus.
  Forge tiers now have the following stats:
  
  • Tier I: Increases Labor generation by 20%. Base and maintenance costs of 250k and 50k, respectively. Also costs 50 Labor to build. Consumes 12 Ore / minute when the planet is using labor to build.
    
  • Tier II: Increases Labor generation by 40%. Base and maintenance costs of 500k and 100k, respectively. Also costs 100 Labor to build. Consumes 24 Ore / minute when the planet is using labor to build.
    
  • Tier III: Increases Labor generation by 60%. Base and maintenance costs of 1M and 150k, respectively. Also costs 200 Labor to build. Consumes 36 Ore / minute when the planet is using labor to build.
    
  • Tier IV: Increases Labor generation by 80%. Base and maintenance costs of 2M and 200k, respectively. Also costs 400 Labor to build. Consumes 48 Ore / minute when the planet is using labor to build.
    
  • Tier V: Increases Labor generation by 100%. Base and maintenance costs of 4M and 250k, respectively. Also costs 800 Labor to build. Consumes 60 Ore / minute when the planet is using labor to build.
  - Space elevators now cost 1M (up from 750k), no longer cost labor and instead have a build time of 8m.
  - Arcologies have been rebalanced. Each one now adds 3 population (down from 5), replaces 3 cities (down from 5) and increases pressure cap by 3. They now have a build time of 7m and a build cost of 2M (down from 2.5M) as well as an Ore cost of 1.5k (down from 2k), and no longer cost labor.
  - Spires now have a build time of 9m (up from 3m).
  - Fixed a bug where the research cost was not updated when a healthcare complex is removed.
  - Fixed a vanilla bug where foundries were not showing the correct labor value in their tooltip.
  
  
• Gameplay
  
  - Defense Reserve can now only be deployed on planets where an Outpost is present in the same or an adjacent system.
  - Repair rates of all ships, stations, supports and satellites are now 4 times slower.
  - Changed Set Drop-off Point ability to trigger only when cargo storage is full. Any ship with cargo storage now has this ability. As a direct effect of this change, ships with mining lasers and lightsails will now track their target and keep mining even when they overshoot it (you're welcome).
  - Added Set Pickup Point ability. Toggle where this ship's pickup point for cargo is set. When the cargo storage has free space, automatically pick up as much cargo from the indicated object as possible. Any ship with cargo storage has this ability. Combined with Set Drop-off Point, this allows to set up automated supply routes.
  - Ability orders that require movement will now automatically make use of hyperdrives, jumpdrives or fling beacons if available and if the cost wouldn't set the current FTL Energy below the defined Percentage of Reserve. If the ship can use several FTL methods, the cheapest will be chosen.
  - Fixed a vanilla bug where elapsed time was not tracked correctly for planet statuses.
  - Fixed a bug which would cause a system in which a protoplanet or planet generator was used to become corrupted upon loading a saved game.
  
  
• Government Traits
  
  - Vanilla government boni have been removed in favor of the government-related boni provided by settlements.
  
  
• Lifestyles
  
  - Star Children now have Superstructure Hull unlocked at game start (WotH DLC only).
  - Star Children are now smart enough to use crop regulation before their homeworld is destroyed and start with one Harvest influence card.
  - Ancients now indicate in their description that they ignore all morale modifiers.
  
  
• Orbitals
  
  - Doubled the labor cost of all orbitals.
  - Outposts and starbases now add +5 and +10 Defense Reserve, respectively.
  - Starports now also increase civilian Money production by 10%, meaning they now increase all civilian pressure production by 10%.
  - Decreased the import rate bonus of Ore and Base Material from starports to 10% (down from 25%).
  - Singularity labs maintenance cost is now 90k (up from 25k).
  - Staging hubs can now build orbitals and stations and store 10k cargo (up from 5k).
  - Added Construction Yard Staging Hub module. Generates 1 Labor per minute. Can build ships and drydocks and provide repairs. Build and maintenance costs of 250k and 130k, respectively.
  - Shipyards now have the Repair ability.
  - Tactical satellites now have a different model and are much smaller.
  
  
• Planets
  
  - Added an icon for the Moon Base project.
  - Moon bases now cost 400k (down from 500k) and no longer provide a maximum population bonus. Mechanoid lifestyles no longer get a 100k bonus from them either.
  - Added Supermoon, replacing the vanilla Artificial Moon from the WotH DLC. Produces enough water and food to satisfy all planet level requirements. Generates 5 labor/minute. Build cost of 7.5M and 1000 labor. Also costs 3k Ore to build.
  - Artificial Moon no longer requires the WotH DLC and now adds a 6x6 surface area. Produces enough water and food to satisfy planet level 1 requirements. Generates 3 labor/minute. Now costs 4M, 500 labor and 2k Ore.
  - Artificial Planetoid now costs 10M and 1500 labor.
  - Infrastructural Development no longer costs ore and labor and now costs 200k with a build time of 45s instead.
  - Settlers now take 60s being loaded into colonization pods (up from 30s).
  - The Megafauna condition (available with the WotH DLC) can now only spawn on planets with a native Meat resource.
  - Disabled the Frozen Wasteland condition (available with the WotH DLC).
  - Added a new planetary condition: Total Permafrost. The resource of this planet gives half its pressure. Can generate a water resource for this planet.
  - Added icy planets. These planets can spawn at outer rims of systems, always have an ice biome and the Total Permafrost planetary condition. They can have one of the following resources: Pekelm, Deuterium.
  - Added 'hot jupiters', class IV and V gas giants orbiting very close to their star. They can have one of the following resources: Alkali Metals, Iron (level 1), Glass (level 2), Silicon (level 2, only with the WotH DLC).
  - Slightly decreased the frequency of gas and ice giants.
  - Gas and ice giants may now have less moons than before, or even none at all. Artificial moons and floating continents will solve your space issues.
  - Fixed a bug where clients in multiplayer would never have Infrastructural Development nor Subsurface Habitation Complex available to build.
  
  
• Research
  
  - Artificial Moons secret project was renamed to Supermoons. Now requires building 5 artificial moons. Unlocks the Supermoon construction. Still requires the WotH DLC.
  - Artificial Moons is now a regular research node. Does not require the WotH DLC.
  - Fixed an oversight where Verdant lifestyle could research Metropolitan Optimization and Arcologies nodes. These nodes are now replaced with Modular Habitats nodes.
  - Verdant lifestyle now has an additional Modular Habitats node where the Megacities node normally is.
  
  
• Resources
  
  - Star Children will now witness the destruction of their homeworld, which will leave asteroids behind, with a guaranteed Supercarbons asteroid among them.
  - Slightly decreased the frequency of FTL Crystals asteroids.
  - Slightly increased the frequency of comets.
  - Decreased the frequency of Water on planets.