Today we are pushing the v1.65 update from the Insider Build to live! All notes have been condensed and combined below for ease of reading. This update brings a keen focus or some U.I updates and changes to the planet screens based on community feedback.

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07/28/23 | Hot Patch Changelog

UI 

• The distance at which the HUD over planets changes to different states is updated to prevent them from blocking the view of ships.

• Distance in which the # of ships in a fleet is hidden has greatly increased.

• Font changed for the # of ships in a fleet text display on the map to be smaller, more readable.

• Player colors do not display on the sector power ring unless you have encountered them (thus no more spoiling who is in a sector) at the start of the game.

• Increased the zoom distance before the ship count in fleets is hidden.

Galaxy 

• High quality worlds are slightly more likely to be spawned when a habitable planet is selected to be generated. 

• More variance in the types of worlds that are generated. 

• Extreme planets are slightly more common. 

Gameplay  

• Abundant game settings now give you more stuff (in all ways). 

• Removed the Space Elevator requirement for Supply ships to be designed.  They are now available at the start of the game to be designed. 

• Serenity Trait: Removed approval and tourism bonuses from culture trait. 

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07/27/23 | v1.65 Changelog

AlienGPT

• Added new alien images.

• Added new Robotic images.

• Updated background images.

Art

• Added more icons.

Audio

• Updated ship selection SFX.

• Reduced the volume of some ship selection sounds. 

Culture Trait Updates

• Competitiveness - All citizens with the Individualist trait + 1 Raw Wealth to the planet.

• Obedience - All citizens with the Totalitarianism trait provide +25% Max Manufacturing.

• Diversity - Citizens increase Core World Influence by 1% per social skill.

• Universal rights - All citizens with the Egalitarianism trait provide +1 raw Culture to the planet.

• Cultural Pride - All citizens with the Traditionalism trait provide +1 raw Wealth to the planet.

• Devotion - All citizens with the Traditionalism trait provide +1 Raw Minerals to the planet.

• Innovation - All citizens with the Progressivism trait provide +1 Raw Tech to the planet and unlock the "Innovation Complex."

• Fatalism - Unlocks Death Commandos Executive Order (annihilated target enemy fleet.).

• Diversity: Citizens now increase their Core World influence through their social skill.

• Interdependence: Minor worlds in our Influence provide 3X the resources to their sponsor world.

Events

• Reduced the frequency of planet spawning events.

• Crisis events are more common.

• Colony distance from Core World before the delay increased from 3 tiles to 10 tiles away.

• Leader events are set to work once per player, so prevent the game from having no actual events if many players are selected.

• New event: Breakaway colony. Occurs only 1 per game.

• Fixed logic bug that caused events set to run once per game to run once per player.

• Factory Child: The "Raised By Squatters" leader trait triggers the event.

• Inheritance

  • Enabled event that is now triggered by the "Excluded Inheritance" trait.

  • The first choice gives 500 credits instead of 200.

  • Changed the second choice to give a leader-focused trait as a reward.

• Culinary Dream

  • Enabled event that is now triggered by the Trained Chef leader trait.

  • Fixed AI modifier to reduce Diligence of leader on 1st choice.

  • Changed the second choice to reduce loyalty by 10.

• Duel Scar

  • Enabled event that is now triggered by the Duel Scar leader trait.

  • Fixed AI modifier to Improve the Resolve of a leader by 2 for the first choice.

  • Fixed AI modifier to Reduce the Diligence of leader by 3 for second choice.

• Noble Lineage

  • Enabled event that is now triggered by the Minor Nobility leader trait.

  • Changed modifiers for the first choice to -250 Credits,

  • Rewards "Echoing Heartstone" artifact power.

  • Changed modifier for the second choice to be -10 loyalty.

• Recovery

  • Enabled event that is now triggered by the Overcame Addiction leader trait.

  • Changed modifier for first choice to reduce crime by 15% and improve leader loyalty by 10.

  • Changed modifier for first choice to reduce crime by 5% and improve leader loyalty by 15.

• Engineer

  • Enabled event that is now triggered by the Detail Oriented Engineer leader trait.

  • Changed first choice to modify leader Diligence by -10 for 10 turns, providing a Precursor Archive artifact power.

• Removed Claustrophobia, Cult Revelation, and Career Diplomat.

• The "Breakway Colony" Event likelihood increased slightly.

• Fixed events that were missing the speaker's name.

• "Breakway Colony": 

  • The new colony has its own colors.

  • Fixed a related diplomacy crash

Factions

• Xeloxi to human conversations updated.

• Xeloxi encyclopedia entry added.

• Mimot lose Expansionist trait, but gain the Scientific trait.

• Mimot starting money lowered from 1000 to 100.

• Mimot Pacifist citizen chance increased from 5 to 25%.

• Mimot food cost increased from 1.5 to 2.

• Terran colors are slightly more blue (less cyan).

Galaxy

• Yellow star spawn likelihood was reduced from 30 to 25.

• White star spawn likelihood was increased from 10 to 15.

• Purple stars lose a habitable zone planet spawn spot.

• Ship graveyard anomalies reduced in likelihood.

• Increase in sector sizes in general.

• Stars are somewhat smaller in size visually.

• Sectors can spawn closer to each other. This won't be as "pretty" in a screenshot but is better for gameplay.

•  Further improvements in sector spacing.

Gameplay

• Prestige victory value for owning a sector reduced.

• You can no longer assign governors to planets of class 10 or lower. 

Miscellaneous

• Removed exploit whereby players can temporarily take out their civ capital and build a Supply Depot and Colonial Generator.

• The Asteroid Decay rate reduced from 2.5% per tile to 1% per tile.

• The Colony Decay rate increased from 2% to 4% per tile.

• # of sectors on the largest map size increased.

• Players can now choose rude responses to rude aliens.

• New Citizen specialization was added. Citizen specialization has no bonus except for the default planet defense that all citizens add.

• Constructors no longer require an Engineer.

• Added a new type of citizen: Thrall. Thrall citizens provide a 1% money bonus but a -1% approval bonus.

• Slaver mission added for Drengin and other slaver races.

• Slave Finding mission was added, which provides money and 1 Torian thrall.

• New Orbital Improvements.

• Recruiting station: Boosts growth.

• Colonization Center: Increases Growth.

• Orbital Prison: Reduces Crime.

• Atmospheric Cleanser: Reduces Pollution.

• New orbital improvement icons.

• Planetary improvements.

• Level Effect stat for Research districts increased from 3 to 4%.

• Research districts now available at the start of the game.

• Farming districts now available at the start of the game.

• Starting planetary improvements moved back to early tech tree requirements to introduce this mechanic to players gradually.

Planets

• Precursor planet spawn likelihood reduced from 3 to 2.

• Terrestrial worlds spawning as class >16 decreased from 20 to 15.

• Extreme planet likelihood reduced from 15 to 10.

• Drengi's sister planet's food production increased from 2 to 16.
  Drengi's wealth increased from 4 to 5.

• Drengi fertility increased from 6 to 8.

• Habitable planets always start with at least 1 mineral and 1 tech.

• Added a new Planet named "Freehold."

• Adjusted Earth back to class 28.

• Planet Kryseth wealth reduced from 4 to 3.

Planets Tiles

• Added Lakes, grasslands, and floodplain tiles.

• Increased variance on what tiles can show up on a given planet type.

• Mountains now provide a culture boost for influence improvements, text updated.

• Lakes now provide a tech boost, and text is updated.

• Updated Earth Terrain.

• Plains no longer provide a bonus to production.

• Wastelands provide a -1 to research.

• Wetlands provide a -1 to manufacturing.

Tech Tree

• New Tech: Xeno Industrialization.

• Subspace Stream detection now provides +2 to the sensor range.

• Improved tech tree descriptions.

• The Tech Rarity icon is no longer displayed in the UI since we don't use it.

• Tech Rarity is hidden on the quick research list.

Ships

• Changed Siege ship's hull size from medium to small so that it is unlocked with the other frigate class ships when Space Doctrine is researched.

• Ships' culture traits no longer flip to pirates on their next turn. 

• Fixed bug that caused some weapon components to be in the wrong category.

• New Tech: Weapon Systems.

• New Tech: Evasive Tactics.

• New Ship Component: Targeting Computer, increases accuracy of ships.

• New Ship Component: Weapon Jammer, increases evasion ability of ships. 

• Probes are buildable at the start again.

• Supply ships are now available at the start of the game.

• Supply module cost reduced from 50 to 40.

• Constructor Modules no longer require a citizen, but their manufacturing cost is now increased from 15 to 50.

Planet Screen Updates

• New Planet backgrounds are based on what type of planet they are.

• Updated planet terrain tiles visuals.

• Planet Surface tiles no longer have a colored border.

• Layout changes to the planet screen to look better.

• Changed the planet grid to be a neutral color.

• Always display an icon that shows a tile's bonus (not just if it's a special tile).

UI

• Clean up Graphs screen.

• The tooltip text is now bigger.

• Starbase screen updated not to require a Citizen.

• The Shipyard window uses the correct military production icon.

• If there are no available Planet improvements, the container is hidden.

• Fixed a bug in which the Military Manufacturing being sent to the shipyard was the wrong value and icon.

• Fixed typo of Military Production icon.

• Consistent use of the military production icon.

• The Military Manufacturing icon has been updated to use the same asset in various places.

• Long Save Names now display an ellipse rather than being cut off.

• Updated the tooltip on the Culture screen to prevent text overlaps.

• Updated Policy screen so that text lines up correctly.

• Fixed a problem that sometimes prevented you from dragging and dropping policies.

• Strategic Zoom visual adjustments to make it more readable. 

• Ship sizes on maps increased slightly to make them easier to see.

• Disabled Galactic markers on the most distant zoom level.

• The colony scroll bar matches the colony list on the HUD.

• Added a scrollbar to the "research complete" window. 

Text

• Fixed typos.

• Fixed missing line break in a tooltip.

• Flavor Text (German) has \n removed.

• Fixed spelling errors and removed \n tags, which were screwing up translation parsing.

• "Prestige leader" changed to "Top opponent."

• Changed "food" to "resources" to deal with civs that don't consume food. 

• Fixed manufacturing typo.