Sigh,  the synthetics get only O.1 population for 1 Durantium again.   These wild swings instead of incremental adjustments makes it difficult to assess balance issues.  My observation is that  0.1 pop for 1D puts synthetic races at too much of a disadvantage.  On the flip side, +1 pop for 1D and 1P does the exact opposite. 

My gut feeling is that +0.3-0.4 pop per 1 D might be closer to a good balance. 

Neither of those values should have changed.  I'll investigate.  

I verified my files and got the usual .bin and .dat files.  I started a new game and saw 3.2 at the lower right.  I went straight to the tech to get hydroponic farm.  It still costs nothing.

I checked the ImprovementDefs.xml in the Crusade directory.  There is no <Value> line for the <BonusType> for the hydroponic farm.

The values for ManufactureLife are what Moser_Alchemist reported.

Ok, we just pushed an update to fix this.  Re-start steam to get the fix.  Sorry about that.

Shameless re-post from the 3.04 thread,  which I will continue to re-post every patch until I get a dev response of "thanks we'll think about it" or "thanks but no thanks,  we like it the way it is".

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Can you please put in some code that destroys all (or all but 1) existing pop when a planet is conquered by an incompatible civ?

I would define "compatible" as Carbon/Aquatic with Carbon/Aquatic.   Synthetic only with Synthetic,  and Silica only with Silica.

It is slightly rediculous,  immersion breaking,  and game-breaking that a race that spends so much time and resource to build more pop gets unlimited instant free pop conversion if they take over a meat planet.    It is only slightly less rediculous (but more amusing) that when a meat race takes over a synthetic planet,  the robots all start having babies.

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(I almost want to say, "for £5 I will not interrupt this patch!")

Weird bug: when i try to add commander in a fleet, it ends up being a constructor. It has the model and name of constructor but also has some description of commander. When I decomission it, I get free administrator point and I can then reassing the commander, get a constructor and decomission again. This way I can get infinite amount of administration points but I can't have any more commanders.

This happened all of sudden. I already had some commanders made and assigned to fleets but all of sudden this happened when I added a commander in a fleet.

After making a new game, the issue replicated. After assigning 5 commanders, the sixth becomes a constructor and the aforementioned bug takes place.

Also I noticed that my carrier type privateer commander spawns 4 ships with huge hulls that have 400 hp while the carrier itself is large ship type and I haven't even unlocked huge hull tech.

So I guess there is unofficial way to beat the game and it's called: Find exploitable bugs and conquer the galaxy.

We don't have plans to change at the moment.  

Are you using any mods? I can't add more than one commander to a fleet here, and the command ship and its description look fine.  

Maybe related to the problem i post here on top https://forums.galciv3.com/492136/problem-i-have-found-to-date-version-actual-31-intrigue

You can ( at 3.10) still "transfer" commanders that upgraded and have "special" ships ...

Patch is now live!

I'm just getting a 200+ MB DL from steam. Would be nice to know what it is

edit: ok, scratch that. It said 200 MB to dl, but once it started to update it jumped to 0 and completed instantly. Strange.

Hmmmm. Perhaps I was premature about the Coordination Temple. Is it that the 'bumps' are only delivered to hexes that surround the Temple? e.g. if the Temple is next to a city, you get +2 pop. If next to a Research Facility, +2 to that, and so on. It is looking that way to me now. 

Can anyone confirm or offer a counter explanation?

Thanks!