Detailed Changes

• Three new playable races: Klackon, Meklar and Terran Khanate
  • Klackon Traits (Tireless, Uncreative, Hive-minded)
    • Homeworld Minerals: Poor
    • Uber Planet: Cavernous (transforms from Arid)
    • +50% Food from Population
    • +25% Production from Population
    • Starting Tech: Biology
  • Meklar Traits (Industrious, Erratic, Unpredictable)
    • -50% Food Consumption
    • +25% Production from Population
    • Ship Auto Repair Enabled (instantly repairs after combat)
    • Starting Tech: Physics
  • Terran Khanate Traits (Hard, Determined, Violent)
    • -20% Ship Production Cost
    • +25% Beam Attack
    • +20% Command Points
    • Starting Tech: Engineering
• Support for Mac OS X (Not optimized yet, please take a look at our recommended specs)
• Custom Race creation enabled
• New victory Condition: Technological Victory
• Improved ship auto-upgrade
• Improved tooltips for morale
• Added missing holograms in Breakthrough (research) screen

• Racial Perks have been re-assigned and re-balanced
  • Alkari - New trait: Ship Combat Speed Bonus
  • Bulrathi - New trait: +25% Ground Combat Rating
  • Human - New traits: +25% Trade Treaties bonus; Improved Disposition from diplomacy
  • Psilon - New trait: -25% Ground Combat Rating
  • Sakkra - -25% Food Consumption trait replaced with +50% Population Growth
• Research progression and pacing has been rebalanced, especially for the midgame and endgame
• Deep Sea Cooling research bonus changed from +25% to +3 and moved to Advanced Engineering (tier 3)
• Moon Laboratory research bonus changed from +4 to +6
• Improved galaxy generation to increase differentiation of star colors and planets over different galaxy ages
• Ships are now upgradable and repairable when orbiting all owned colonies and outposts, as well as allied colonies
• Added difficulty levels: Easy, Average, Hard and Very Hard (Average being the one where the AI is playing with the same economical benefits as the human player)
• Improved Jump Gates: now built by Space Factory at Warp Points, moved earlier in the tech tree (from tier 7 to tier 6), and travel speed when using them doubled
• Re-balanced Racial Biases
• Vast improvements on differentiation of races (bonus/malus, strategy, diplomacy, etc.)
• Enabled 8 races for Circular Large galaxy (was 6 because the races restriction for EA1); Spiral currently remains limited to 6
• Music and Voice Over has been properly balanced

• Fixed bug in AI asking for invalid technologies
• Fixed OffensivePact send WarDeclaration in Client and DespiseBreakPromise check
• Improved colonization behavior: Now the AI is able to manage multiple Colony ships at the same time and its colonization schemes are not hindered by its war efforts
• Improved war preparation: Defensive and offensive analysis has been improved
• vastly improved production
• Improved Strategic analysis: AI will make more decisions based on chances of obtaining different victory conditions
• Improved Strategic analysis finetuning of potential targets for war
• Improved handling of multiple war fronts
• Performance optimization in engage task
• Improved combat analysis: New formula for estimating relative fleet strength
• Defensiveness personality trait now used in defense formula

• Monsters collision/avoidance boxes fixed
• Fixed Space Dragon 3D mesh
• New Combat Screen with detailed information on fleets
• Pause as a mechanic: Tactical battles start in paused mode in order to make the important initial tactical decisions
• Fixed range feedback on tooltip and overlay
• Size of pirate ships has been Increased
• Added civilian ships to tactical battle: They hold their ground at the back of the battlefield and flee if they get attacked
• Added Retreat option: Ships must reach the edge of the battlefield and warp out to successfully retreat
• Several fixes for tactical UI
• “Tactical” button replaced with “Take Command”
• ”Simulate” button replaced with “Auto-Resolve”
• Added Speed and Range Controls (Implementation, Integration into the game)
• Added Tactical Options (Pause on Options, Esc brings Options, Confirm Simulate on Leave, Populate Options Menu accordingly).
• Added Persistence to tactical options
• Fixed Facing, size and modifiers costs
• Intro improvements

• Changes in arrow icon and jump gates
• Animation changes on Main Menu and Single Player
• Added buildings list to manage structures
• Added UX components for speed and range controls
• Updated Invasion/Bombardment UI
• Added buttons to specify how many Troop Transports should be used on a given invasion
• Tactical
  • New Icons added
  • Animated Auto-cast feedback added
• GNN
  • Fixed a bug where the race name would repeat in the headline

• Fixed trading: Player is unable to request Exchange Tech when the player does not have technology for Exchange Tech
• Fixed State Machine: Some lines of dialogue where not being triggered as intended

• New localizations: German, French, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese
• Updated Localizations
• New changes on Game Credits screen

• Improved Audio Manager
• Improved Tactical mode sounds
• Improved Strategy mode sounds
• Several mixer updates, general click sound updated, "upgrade" button sound added and GNN music loop-able

Dev Diary #2