Hey everyone!
We've got a surprise for you today:
Another Community Update for Endless Space 2 is in the works in collaboration with a few of our amazing community members.
This beta is packed with improvements to the AI as well as some balancing for ground invasions and the Nakalim, and more.
[p align="start"]Of course, we want to hear from you if you think these changes are a move in the right direction, so we have made the Patch available as an opt-in beta. This beta is only available in English. You can play in other languages, but some text may be shown in English. We're working on this already, but didn't want to wait any longer to get your feedback.[p align="start"]Here an overview of the update
Numerous AI Improvements and fixes; too many to list a single theme
Rebalanced most ground combat tactics and defensive improvements
Rebalanced Nakalim, especially Slumbering Ruins
Fixed the critical issue with the Academy Quest that could cause pending turns
Various other fixes: Find the full changelog at the end of this post
If you want to give this update a shot, you can find it on the "patchpreview" branch in the Betas tab of the game's properties on Steam. And if you do, please don't forget to let us know what you think. :)
Many thanks to CaptainCobbs for once again working for us on this update, and a special shoutout to Ninakoru and FearSunn as well for their invaluable input for the AI improvements and fixes, and FrostGremlin for additional writing on some diplomacy messages.
We hope you'll have fun with the new balance changes and improved AI!
- The Amplitude Team
Endless Space 2 "Community Patch" - 1.5.73
AI
Credit to Ninakoru and FearSunn for donating these fixes
Fixed AI repeatedly trying to set up a singularity when they already have one set up
Fixed AI being unable to assign heroes when one of their heroes are injured
Fixed AI thinking it is low on manpower when manpower is maxed out
Fixed AI getting confused about systems it is able to colonize
Fixed AI not properly checking if it is able to invade a system
Fixed AI not being able to search quest curiosities in some situations
Fixed AI not making fleet attacks properly
Fixed several instances of the AI getting stuck, causing the turn to be stuck pending endlessly
Fixed AI trying to disband a behemoth, when that is not possible
Fixed AI trying to merge fleets while those fleets are already involved in an encounter
Fixed AI trying to launch a mining probe when it shouldn’t be able to
Fixed AI not using ships awarded from assimilating a minor faction
Fixed AI Lumeris not being able to buyout outposts
Fixed AI not properly evaluating the need to research expansion techs
Fixed AI Pirate Slayer factions trying to repeatedly cancel a pirate mark, as they are completely unable to
Fixed AI improperly queuing orders to Behemoths, Colonizers, and Explorers
Fixed AI not properly prioritizing population capacity system improvements
Fixed AI Vodyani trying to increase population capacity, as they are completely unable to
Fixed AI not prioritizing researching terraformation when the need for it arises
Fixed AI improperly evaluating the importance of defending outposts
Fixed AI getting really confused when trying to attack privateers, pirates, or minor factions
Fixed AI trying to harass an outpost with a scout when it shouldn’t be aware that the outpost even exists
Fixed AI deprioritizing building a military when it is at an extreme military disadvantage
Fixed AI being able to complete any “destroy fleet” quest objectives
Fixed AI getting confused when trying to invade a system for a quest that it doesn’t have access to
Fixed AI always sending the maximum number of population a spaceport can fit when moving population around
Fixed AI trying to launch a mining probe when no probes are available
Fixed AI forgetting science and industry costs when you load a save
Fixed AI failing to queue items with strategic or luxury resource costs
Fixed AI being unable to attack fleets within their own system’s influence and also trying to attack invulnerable quest fleets
Fixed Minor Faction AI trying to attack Major Empires it is friendly with
Fixed AI getting confused when it is unable to capture a system with influence conversion that is immune to influence conversion
Fixed AI getting stuck and confused when trying to use queue-blocking resource conversion improvements
Fixed AI being unable to discern if minor factions are friendly when checking star systems under hostile influence
Fixed AI not being able to assess that a system may be owned by multiple players (such as with outposts and sanctuaries)
Fixed AI being unable to add modules to the ships of heroes acquired via quests
Fixed AI not being able to properly evaluate the number of turns a dust buyout will save
Fixed AI trying to send all its fleets to the center of the map after loading a save
Fixed AI being able to attack cloaked fleets they are unable to detect
Fixed AI getting confused when trying to reduce an already reduced anomaly
Fixed AI repeatedly trying to offer outdated diplomacy deals
Fixed AI not being able to use faction-specific variants of white weapon modules
Fixed AI confusing declaring war with bribing due to a mixup in diplomatic definitions
Fixed AI not being able to dismiss battle replays from rip singularities, causing endless turn pending
Fixed AI inconsistently cancelling fleet missions and made them control fleets more responsively
Fixed AI trying to merge ships into fleets that were already full and Academy fleets
Fixed AI not checking if it has open borders with the target empire or if the target is the Academy before leeching
Fixed AI not being able to increase its need for a strategic resource if it wants a module that uses it
Fixed AI trying to assign a hero to Academy fleets
Fixed AI trying to collect relics in systems it cannot reach or doesn’t have open borders to
Fixed AI not being able to search quest curiosities
Fixed AI Vodyani avoiding attaching Arks to systems with Sanctuaries
Improved AI ability to detect which technologies strengthen its ability to invade systems
Improved AI so that it will be more consistent at supporting invasions due to the manpower needed to make it happen
Fixed AI never wanting to research hull upgrade technologies
Improved AI motivation to colonize slumbering ruins
Improved AI motivation to want to build approval improvements
Improved AI motivation to colonize planets in already owned systems
Fixed AI dust goals being a little sad, they now scale with population
Improved AI to start thinking about increasing population capacity a bit earlier
Improved AI food and population increase motivation unless the system is full
Fixed AI not researching planet colonization techs when wanting to develop a system
Improved AI Vodyani by making them favor razing systems to expand their empire
Improved AI motivation for developing trading companies
Reduced AI motivation to want to terraform, since it doesn’t give as much as building a new improvement
Improved AI by making them less likely to want to terraform instead of building improvements
Fixed AI with the “Innovative” trait wanting more dust rather than science, increased AI motivation to research technologies as the game goes on, with AI factions that get a head-start on techs (like Nakalim) will have lower initial motivation to research
Improved AI Umbral Choir by motivating them to go for economic victory, and Hissho by motivating them to go for supremacy victory, fixed AI current victory path heavily affecting early-game decision making
Improved AI Vodyani so that they will evacuate minor faction brainwashed systems as they are closer to their empire than any colonizable system
Fixed AI trying to assign governors to blockaded systems, and improved AI so that they assign governors to their most important systems first rather than going in order of acquisition
Fixed AI not properly having motivation for republic custom laws, and increase motivation of custom laws overall
Added AI ability to understand all currently existing ground battle strategies and any unknown or modded strategies
Fixed AI not building special improvements like the Academy Embassy, Nakalim’s Awaken System, Lumeris Shadow Banking, or military buildings that improve ships built on that system
Improved AI by making them not consider buildings they have zero interest in, in order to measure their fast building turns for industry motivation
Improved AI ability to donate to the Academy
AI bonuses on harder difficulties will be more relevant to what AI factions actually need
Fixed AI not properly transitioning to back from other some diplomatic states once concluded
Fixed AI not properly checking for war state if ally needs help
Fixed AI repeatedly asking for agreements if they were refused recently (5 turns)
Fixed AI properly checking if the person they are doing diplomacy with is in an alliance or alliance already
Fixed AI trying to offer peace or alliance to factions with the Eternal War trait and are not currently pacifists
Fixed AI threatening for tribute if they are not stronger than you
Fixed AI so it doesn't get stuck looping between warring states
Fixed AI asking for a truce with empires in alliances with factions they want to kill
Fixed AI so they do not try to commit to a war if they are already in a war or not stronger than the faction they are hostile to
Fixed AI performing sneak attacks on other factions even when they do not have the military to back it up, and also if they do not have military hull techs researched
Improved AI by adding three distinct types of sneak attack behaviors, one for factions with the “Renegade” trait, one for factions with the “Militarist” trait, and one for everyone else. Non-Renegade and Non-Militarist factions will make sneak attacks on cordial and peace, but not when friendly or in an alliance
Fixed AI suddenly declaring sneak attacks upon loading a save
Fixed AI trying and failing to offer Co-Operation Protocol faction pacts when they do not have it researched
Fixed AI trying to repeatedly declare Diplomatic Embroglio while it is already in effect
Fixed AI trying to offer Trade or Science Agreements when they don’t have the influence to maintain it
Fixed AI trying to compute gifts with the Master of Dust as it doesn’t exist anymore
Added some extra checks to the AI before they commit to diplomatic desires
Improved AI by making it able to propose Map Sharing, Vision Sharing, and Trade Deals in a broader variety of relation states
Improved AI Debug Logging
Improved AI in how they calculate purchasing power
Improved AI so they are willing to trade for more resources beyond what they need, but at reduced sway
Fixed AI asking for unreasonable quantities of resources
Fixed the trade evaluation bar in diplomacy rounding inaccurately
Improved AI so that they stockpile luxuries they produce and are interested in using for system development
Improved AI so that they pick system development luxuries more intelligently
Added AI ability to boost their population, AI will prioritize luxury resources be used on system development, rather than population boosting
Added AI behaviour for stocking luxury resources for populations they own, and infrequently buying those luxuries from the market
Fixed AI so that activated laws are refreshed each processing pass rather than each turn
Fixed AI so that they can properly set and remove tasks that cannot be cancelled
Improved AI motivation for keeping laws related to approval and FIDSI
Fixed AI getting confused that they didn’t properly allocate laws that cannot be abolished
Added AI ability to allocate laws for military power and movement gain
Fixed AI so that they can abolish laws and are aware of which laws cannot be abolished
Fixed AI so that they will prioritize laws that cannot be canceled when allocating net income into laws/treaties
Added AI motivation to enact more military laws
Expanded scope of some AI gains to include more properties so comparisons are more accurate
Fixed AI only building important buildings on their best system, rather than sufficiently important systems
Fixed AI so that they will prefer to build resource-boosting planet improvements when available
Fixed AI so that they prefer Hissho Fealty Center when available
Fixed AI Nakalim so that they may build Temples of the Lost on Planets
Fixed AI Nakalim so that they can evaluate whether they are able to slot a relic into a hero, and so that it tries to apply relics on non-governor heroes
Fixed AI so that it doesn’t try to assign heroes to unavailable fleets
Fixed AI so that it doesn’t try to build a behemoth while one is already in the queue
Improved AI so that it is better at estimating power differences between factions
Fixed AI so that they will cancel attacking a system if they aren’t able to attack it anymore
Fixed AI Motivation for Approval on Conquered Systems
Fixed AI Hissho so that it can place Fealty center properly and so they don’t replace it with something weaker
Improved AI Cravers so that they can use their special Feeding Pits special improvement
Fixed AI avoiding systems stuck with outdated motivation
Fixed AI trying to merge invalid fleets
Fixed AI getting stuck in failing loops when trying to invade systems
Improved AI so that it checks if there is enough manpower when trying to invade
Improved AI so that it will avoid sending invasion support fleets through dangerous systems
Fixed Umbral Choir AI not being able to return fleets to its home system when they are done with their tasks
Fixed AI so that they properly evaluate their sympathy for the Academy
Fixed AI fleets not cancelling their pathing when trying to merge or become privateers
Improved AI so that they can more consistently go to nodes when trying to discover nodes for other missions
Improved AI motivation for movement and command point technologies
Reduced AI motivation for Vodyani Ark modules
Improved AI so that Economy Behemoths will include an engine module
Improved AI so that cloak/anti-cloak modules will only be slotted on defenders or coordinators
Improved AI so that they retrofit and repair their fleets more consistently
Improved AI so that they waste less time when trying to merge fleets together and merge fleets more consistently
Improved AI so that they are better able to distribute their fleets for offense and defense
Improved AI so that they reallocate heroes more effectively
Fixed AI not being able to disband, cloak, or attack in some situations
Balance
Minor Faction Population Collection Bonus thresholds reduced, from 10-20-50 to 5-10-20
Sublime University - Lost 1 Science per Population, Gained +5% Science
Flak damage against squadrons reduced by 50%
Buffed Flak Damage on the following weapons: Improved Ultradense Slugs (120 -> 150), Improved High-I Slugs (90 -> 120), AGN Slugs (150 -> 180)
Titanium Slugs bonus changed from improved flak damage to reduced medium range penalty
Antimatter critical hit chance material bonus reduced from 15% to 10%
Projectile health now scales with module multiplier
Increased hull weakness on small ships from 100 to 120 (this should reduce their durability overall)
Hunter damage bonus increased from 20% to 25%
Reduced victory requirement scaling of conquest victory for alliances, so that the required systems can no longer exceed the size of the galaxy
Increased base economic victory threshold by 28% (700k->900k) to be in-line with the timing of the other victory types
Reduced strategic resource requirement of wonder victory (125 -> 100 Titanium/Hyperium, 80 -> 60 Antimatter/Adamantian)
Anarchy now takes 4 turns (from 5)
Removed or reduced dust upkeep on trade buildings
Nakalim Rebalance
Slumbering Ruins no longer get Sustainable Farms and Epigenetic Crop Seeding upon colonization, and instead get “Holistic Defenses”
Slumbering Ruins colonization bonus nerfed (10 relics, 300 dust -> 5 relics)
Slumbering Ruins awakening bonus changed (100 FIDS, 20 Influence -> 20 Food, 20 Dust, -100% Food Consumption)
Slumbering Ruins now only gives 1 population instead of 2
Slumbering Ruins now only gives 3 relics instead of 5
Nakalim now receive ~50% less relics from quests
Well Founded now only reveals systems up to 30 parsecs away, rather than the entire constellation
Temples can no longer be built on gas planets
Nakalim no longer start with a Colonizer
Nakalim Diplomacy Relic influence gain is now capped at 100%
Sublime University - Lost 1 Science per Population, Gained +5% Science
Reduced Spiritual Elucidation Foundation - -5 Science per Relic (from 10)
Research Retreats - 2 Science per Anomaly (from 5)
Body Language Institute now gives 25% influence, from 5%
Academy “Request Fleet” action cost nerfed from 20 to 35
Manpower Rework
Holistic Defenses - +250 Garrison Capacity, +200 Deployment Limit
Civilian Emergency Center - +200 Garrison Capacity, +200 Deployment Limit
Impervious Bunkers - +250 Garrison Capacity, +200 Deployment Limit
Budakai Bunkers - +300 Garrison Capacity, +400 Deployment Limit
Exotic Rats - No longer provides Garrison Capacity, +25% Troop Health, +25% Troop Damage
Patriotic Pills Plant - -10% Food to Manpower, +50 Manpower per Turn (should make this quite a bit better on smaller systems)
Multi-Mind Combat - No longer provides +1500 Garrison Capacity, +150 Garrison Capacity per Population, +650 Deployment Limit, +10% Deployment Limit
Tractable Armaments - No longer provides Deployment Limit, No longer provides +250 Garrison Capacity, +40 Garrison Capacity per Population, +600 Bombardment Damage
Integrated Weaponry - No longer provides Deployment Limit, No longer provides +500 Garrison Capacity, +60 Garrison Capacity per Population, +350 Bombardment Damage
Electromagnetic Shield - No longer provides Garrison Capacity, No longer provides +100 Deployment limit, +15% deployment limit, +15% troop health, -25% bombardment damage taken, -20% improvement and population destroyed
Planetary Guard - No longer provides Garrison Capacity, No longer provides +500 Deployment limit, +25% deployment limit, +15% troop health, -35% bombardment damage taken, -30% improvement and population destroyed
Sophonic Rampart - +125 Garrison Capacity, +100 Deployment Limit, +15% Troop Damage
Reanimator - No longer provides flat garrison capacity, now provides +20 Manpower per Population, +20 Manpower per Population on Large Planets, +40 Manpower per Turn on Huge Planets
Ministry of Truth - No longer provides +40 Manpower per Turn, now provides +50 Manpower per Turn per Population
Sim Camp - Nerfed from 10% Industry per Manpower to 8% (I was nice)
Nanohaze Defenses - +15% Deployment Limit
Citadels - +200 Citadel Garrison Capacity, +10% Troop Health and Troop Damage (didn’t work before), +50 Citadel Garrison Capacity per Population
Obliterator Shield - -50% Bombardment Damage received
System Battery - +400 Citadel Garrison Capacity
Advanced System Battery - Now requires System Battery be built
Coordinated Bunkers - +40 Citadel Garrison Capacity per Population
Scientific-Military Complex - +10% Damage and Health on Ships built on this System
Weaponized System - No longer has Food or Dust penalties, No longer provides garrison capacity, +200 Manpower per Turn, +5% Industry per Manpower
Conscription Complex - No longer provides Garrison Capacity, +50 Manpower per Turn per Population
Sonic Disruption Net - +100 Garrison Capacity, +100 Deployment Limit
Blitz - +25% Improvement and Population Destruction Chance
Swarm Assault - +25% Improvement and Population Destruction Chance
Guerilla - -50% Improvement and Population Destruction Chance, -85% Bombardment Damage Taken
Draft - +125 Manpower from Draft and Deployment Limit, +15% Deployment Limit
Patriotic Duty - +200 Manpower from Draft and Deployment Limit, +15% Deployment Limit
Protect System - -25% Improvement and Population Destruction Chance, -50% Bombardment Damage Taken
Militant Defense - -25% Improvement and Population Destruction Chance, Damage changed from 500-800 to 1000, -50% Bombardment Damage Taken
Sacred Ground (center of effect) - +20% Troop Health, -50% Improvement and Population Destruction Chance, Damage changed from 500-800 to 1500, -60% Bombardment Damage Taken
Sacred Ground (radial effect) - +10% Troop Health, -40% Population Destruction Chance, +750 Bombardment Damage, -50% Bombardment Damage Taken
Draft (Umbral Choir) - +450 Manpower from Draft and Deployment Limit, +15% Deployment Limit
Protect System (Umbral Choir) - -75% Bombardment Damage Taken
Orbital Bombardment & Rally - Reduced damage by 30%
Reduced Flak damage by 20%
Siege Module siege power reduced by 25%
Arks anchored to a system can no longer contribute manpower to ground battles
Crashes
Fixed a crash when the AI would attempt to hack an Academy-owned system
Fixed System Labels for Slumbering Ruins sometimes causing endless turn pending
Fixed a crash when trying to drag Academy-gifted fleets outside of their originally intended fleet
Fixed building a Behemoth with the Core Miner module while not having enough Adamantian causing the game to crash
Fixed game freeze when the Academy Quest starts and Academy Expansion is set to None
Fixed AI not being able to dismiss battle replays from rip singularities, causing endless turn pending
Fixed AI sometimes trying to move their fleet after a retreating from a battle, causing endless turn pending
Gameplay
Dark Matter quests that give ships now instead give ship blueprints
Dark Matter quest prerequisites redone to be more reasonable
Fixed the Academy Quest not triggering / bugging out depending on your DLC / Academy Settings
Fixed the Academy being able to convert owned systems
Added several missing tech links for Nakalim, Horatio, Hissho, and Sophons
Dust to Dust - Part 1 quest now targets the destination system rather than a random one
Fixed T1 Food, Influence, and FIDS Planetary Improvements not upgrading to T3 when skipping upgrading to T2
Added Political Events to many system improvements and technologies missing them
Updated the Categories of many system improvements
Fixed Strategic Sustenance population modifier not correctly applying when boosted
Fixed some hero skills not correctly showing up on the Planet / Trade Breakdowns
Fixed Slumbering Ruin awakening effect not properly scaling with game speed
Fixed some Academy boosts not applying properly
Fixed any effects that scale with Truce Count not doing anything
Fixed all Anomalies not counting towards total anomalies on a planet/system
Fixed T3 Hissho collection bonus not applying properly
Fixed Cube of the Viceroy being able to be enqueued multiple times
Fixed Awaken System being able to be enqueued multiple times
Fixed the temporary upkeep increase from the Riled Researchers quest not showing up
Fixed manpower not properly refilling to full at the end of a turn
Fixed singularities not being removed properly after cancelling one on a conquered system
Fixed launching a mining probe not consuming the probe until the animation finishes, allowing you to launch many probes onto the same planet
Fixed mining probes being visible when you hadn’t explored the system of the planet they were on
Fixed being able to clone Super Guardians
Fixed Academy ships from being able to have their manpower participate in ground battles
Fixed automated ships counting as orbiting friendly/enemy military fleets
Ships purchased by the Umbral Choir now start invisible
System improvements that cannot provide a bonus on a system are no longer buildable on those systems
Riftborn upgraded population creation improvements from their quest no longer consume surplus industry
Fixed Friendly Fleets Bill not having any effect
Fixed trade routes never refreshing and being blockaded the whole game
Variants of all buildings are now exclusive with each other
Vodyani food consumption now scales with game speed properly (should notice a difference on Slow & Endless)
Fixed Improved Ultradense Slugs module using the Flak sub-module of Improved High-I Slugs
Fixed salvos not correctly receiving health modifiers
Fixed the Gjallafire weapon module not being able to target behemoths
Fixed some ship design templates trying to fill module slots that do not exist
Fixed Closed Airspace tactics card not properly buffing the damage of Energy Squadrons
Fixed Flotilla Shields not applying their buff to the fleet correctly (did nothing previously)
Fix an error with Energy Weapons having a much larger cooldown than intended
Fixed an issue where boosting a population type with a trait shared by another population type with boost either of them
Fixed several population assimilation traits
Fixed “Infallible Authority” Vodyani skill did not scale with hero level
Fixed ships not having a base-repair rate when in friendly territory
Fixed Nakalim science buildings counted all Relics instead of unassigned relics
Fixed Nakalim “-50% science from ship destruction” was applied twice
Fixed “Research Cities” having a partially hidden tooltip
Fixed Improvement and Building loss not applying properly on some Nakalim ground battle strategies
Fixed Lost Cities applying “Happiness per Population²” instead of “Happiness per Population”
Fixed Scour and Rise Up ground battle strategies not properly replacing Preemptive Bombing and Rally when available
Fixed progression of the Unexpected Entropy quest
Fixed Nakalim empire relic bonuses not being applied properly
Fixed Planet FIDSI could not be negative
Fixed Gjallafire and Pirate Laser weapons having no weapon type
Fixed “Hardship Ready” not applying the correct resource penalty
Changed Pug Hero’s classification to Overseer to match their skill tree
Fixed +10% Troop Health and Troop Damage from Citadels not working before
Fixed some issues with not being able to attack other empires while within Academy territory
Fixed Nakalim building effects that target systems with Cathedrals not working
Fixed Nakalim “Donate systems to the Academy” quest choice being available when the Academy is disabled
Fixed “Relation on Minor Factions” effect on the Nakalim Diplomacy relic not working
Changed default “Academy Expansion” setting to Low
Fixed awakened slumbering ruins being able to be re-colonized to re-apply slumbering ruin bonuses
Fixed Horatio’s Faction Quest Chapter 2, Part 1 - Industrialist path not being able to be progressed if another empire destroys the quest fleet
GUI / Localization
Credit to FrostGremlin for providing additional writing
Fixed several typos
Fixed many links to Amplifiers (was Games2Gether) not working
Fixed the news feed in the main menu not being able to receive posts
Fixed Flak Damage not correctly displaying on weapon cards
Fixed many techs not correctly being labeled as faction-specific
Fixed the Basryxo population art being missized
Moved some technologies around slightly on the technology tree so that spacing was more even
Fixed Academy boosts not having GUI Elements in the FIDSI Breakdown
Fixed Approval effects from luxuries not being hidden from the Hissho
Removed Overall Cooldown from Weapon Panels
Fixed some properties not showing up properly / being improperly labeled on Weapon Panels
Fixed Deployable Ramparts not having a GUI Category
Fixed FIDSI from Mining Probes not having a GUI Title
Renamed the Tier 3 Strategic Fighter / Bomber to match the naming convention of the other bombers
Fixed the tooltip of some fleet damage / critical chance modules incorrectly saying they affected flotillas
Fixed the tooltip of Endless Augmentation Factory showing up twice
Fixed Magnate Council’s tooltip being hidden in the breakdown while ecstatic
Fixed Luxuries showing “Effects on planet” instead of “Effects within a system development upgrade” when zoomed into system orbit
Fixed Academy “gift system” icon appearing on any system under an influence
Fixed Arks not having the correct module multiplier in the ship design screen
Fixed hacking program cost changes not properly updating the GUI
Wonder anomalies are now properly categorized as such in the GUI
Fixed some types of system improvements not being correctly organized in the improvement list
Fixed System Development not having the correct improvement subcategory
Nakalim Political Relic now shows the multiplier by parties represented
Added an “infinite improvement” filter category in the system constructibles panel
Added “Infinite Improvement” system improvement category to differentiate infinite improvements in the tech tree
Added tooltip effect notes for some planet-based constructible prerequisites
Fixed the Academy Diplomacy “Request System” action not having an error message for not having vision over the desired system
Resources that the AI wants to trade are now properly shown with a “+” symbol in the diplomacy screen
Added \[citadelDefenseColored] Icon
Reworded a lot of poorly worded tooltips relating to space and ground combat
Many unclear, confusing, and outdated tooltips have been reworded
System Defense has been renamed to “Garrison Capacity”
Citadel Defense has been renamed to “Citadel Garrison Capacity”
Ship Manpower has been renamed to “Crew Manpower”
Tooltips that specified “On Happy” and “On Ecstatic” (or the Hissho equivalent) should now just say “On Happy or Above”, assuming the effect isn’t different
Fixed influence gained from Gossamer not displaying on the system influence breakdown
Fixed Cultural Invertics being shown as a faction-specific technology for all factions
Fixed bombardment damage improvements so they do not all show the same value
Fixed Mavros Skunkworks not showing the correct amount of health
Fixed an error where invading/defending troop damage was displayed as bombardment damage
Swapped Unstable Isotopes and Focused Plasma icons
Fixed missing UI elements on the Nakalim Political Relic
Fixed Xirmisala “Dust Dowsing” law not displaying properly
Fixed problems with Immaterial Connection and Sublime University icons
Fixed the tooltip of the Low-Quality Foundations anomaly
Fixed Planet FIDSI tooltips
Fixed Transcendental Outlook skill not removing upkeep on governors
Fixed inflation rounding on ship tooltips
Fixed the “Mind Matters” quest using a generic tooltip
Fixed “A Matter of Black and White” tooltip hint not showing the correct amount of laws
Removed the newline after empire relic effects
Fixed slumbering ruins colonization button not having a description in some situations
Multiplayer
Fixed desync when Pirate Bases are destroyed, however, you no longer gain academy relation when destroying pirates
Modding
Added new tab to the Simulation Debugger “Roots”, which allows you to view the simulation tree for ongoing fights, the galaxy, and other “non-empire” simulation objects
Fixed GameSettingPrerequisite “inverted” property not working properly
Added several new anomaly qualities for use by modders
The Debug fleet now has engines and no longer moves 3 parsecs per turn
Update Version 1.5.74
Fixed Market Prices repeatedly crashing to the minimum price
Fixed Mechsuit Quarter & Riftborn Miners Corp not being buildable
Fixed Advanced System Battery not being buildable
Fixed Nakalim Temples not having correct building category
Fixed several desyncs and pending turn errors related to temporary effects
Fixed Advanced Node Analyzer not replacing Basic Node Analyzer in the ship design screen
Gave Core Miner its own module category, so now it’ll show up separately from other mining modules
Fixed several AI issues from the beta that cause strange behaviors and desyncs
Fixed Riftborn Scrap Kings law not appearing in the law list
Fixed Riftborn Communion’s Guidance, Inner Panopticon, and Tainted Dust quest effects not working
Made Hay Makers minor faction trait be “on happy or above” like other similar effects
Buffed Coordinated Bunkers from +100 Deployment Limit to +500
Advanced System Battery now gives +2 Vision Range and an additional +10% Health Regeneration Rate on Orbiting Fleets
Updated all references to Games2Gether to now refer to Amplifiers
Fixed Orbital Bombardment Damage not showing up in tooltips
Fixed the error message for not having enough relics for a Temple not having a string
Fixed Sim Camp building not showing the correct value
Fixed save game button not being enabled unless you click back onto the text field
Fixed some instances where the save game button wouldn’t enable on non-steam platforms
Updated EmpireRelicSlotDefinition schema for modding
