The Orbital Factory colony upgrade did not in fact increase the Minerals produced by Mars.  (I had already selected the +1 Minerals colonizing event, if that matters.)

It did not used to cost 50.  This is new with .50 and based on the tooltip still saying it costs -6, that has to be a bug, then.

I had the same event, with the same result (no planet), on .45.

Ascension gates are on a planet and can't be studied by a starbase.  gates should be crystals.  The same error was common in GalCiv3 before they were finally fixed.  Now they're back in GalCiv4.

The error is in StarbaseModuleText.xml

It appears twice in XenoArcheologyLabModule_Name, so be sure to correct both of them.

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I've noticed that the AI and I research differently.  Here is a screenshot showing a trade screen that shows techs that I and an AI (Altarian in this case) can trade to each other.

This means only one of us has researched that tech.  Other AI have similar techs when I trade with them.

Notice the difference in the colors of the tech icons, which shows the difference in types of techs we have researched.  Mine are mostly in Engineering and Warfare while the AI's are mostly in Colonization and Governance.  Of course, the techs both of us have researched won't be in list of techs we can trade to each other.

Does this show a problem with the research priority for the AI, or does it show a problem with my priority?

I normally dominate the AI when it comes to warfare and can take all of their colonies rather quickly.  I usually have trouble getting planetary invasion, so I have trouble taking core worlds.  This is in the process of changing as the AI is getting better at warfare.  In Alpha 0.50, the AI is better than I am at using the new Commander ships, which is causing me a lot trouble in my current war.  But that has nothing to do with tech.  I have medium ships while the AI is still using a few tiny ships.  I am also getting a lot of the techs that increase my logistics while the AI doesn't make any kind of fleets.  Without the Commander ships, the AI would be helpless.  I'm wondering if the AI needs to do more research in the Engineering and Warfare techs.  With the somewhat random techs that can be researched, does the AI start going down a path that it can't get out of?

I need to note that I just research techs that show up in the list of possible techs to research without using the re-roll option or anything like that.  I just choose from whatever appears in the first random list.  I do carefully choose what to research to try to eventually get techs that I would like to have.  Also, the AI is set to gifted in this game.

I'm just wondering if the priorities for the AI's tech research need to have any adjustments.

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I've noticed the AI aren't colonizing as much and aren't building as many starbases as they did Alpha 0.40.  A lot of good planets and resources are just sitting there in space, seemingly completely ignored by the AI.  Some AI take a long time before colonizing any planet outside their home star system.  Others colonize some extra planets, then stop.  It seems like they mostly forget the eXpand part after a while.  Those that can use subspace streams seem to prefer colonizing a planet in another sector instead of one in the star system next to their home star system.

Here is a screenshot showing my sector at turn 330.

The Corporate Sector only colonized five planets before stopping.  I have 22.  There are 48 still uncolonized because I haven't been trying to settle a lot.  I have starting trying to settle all the large planets that can become core worlds, but there are a lot of them still to settle.

The Terran planet was settled by the Altarians from another sector before they surrendered to the Terrans.  The Altarians settled only 3 planets in their home sector.

In Alpha 0.45, colonies were removed from supplying population for shipyards, and this different behavior started.  I wonder if there is a connection.

I'm not very aggressive when playing.  I mostly take it easy and watch what the AI is doing.  I don't think they're doing as much as they should.  I have the AI set to gifted.

Just a heads up we are reading all of this! Thank you for all the feedback you're giving us both here and on discord folks.

You happy one! I had enough control... and lost 50

Another bug (accured yesterday before the last hot fixes): ideology effiecency did not reduce rush costs - at least not the rush cost of a tiny 200 credit ship.

Not sure why this world is class 5. Might as well be a dead world. Also, there's no type to it.

Here are a couple examples to clarify what I mean:

Playing as festron: you can trade advanced starting techs. This seems to be much too strong at early/mid game. Maybe disable trading of starting techs?

When a Commander ship is destroyed, it is not shown very well on the screen showing the Commander ships.

I think it would be better if the whole section about the destroyed ship had a big red X and/or a notification that the ship has been destroyed.

Typo? not->now?

Edit: Oh, you fixed it just as my comment showed up!

Thanks Maybe remove the lines though. It could be confusing, like it was to me.