by Eladrin

Hello again!

The Machine Age will be arriving on Tuesday, May 7th, and is available for pre-purchase on its own or as part of Stellaris: Season 08.

Stellaris: Season 08 includes all of this years major Stellaris releases at a 20% discount, plus includes the Rick the Cube machine portrait as an immediate unlock. I do a quick rundown of the things that are in it in this video:

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Today were going to look at the new Become the Crisis path, Cosmogenesis.

[h3]Becoming the Crisis[/h3]
Back in Nemesis, we introduced the Become the Crisis Ascension Perk, which let an empire choose to embrace their darkest impulses, manipulating and concentrating fluctuations in the Shroud created by horrific acts in a bid to ascend to a higher existence.

That Crisis, now renamed Galactic Nemesis, accumulated a resource called Menace by committing evil deeds in order to advance through its crisis path.

Cosmogenesis has a bit of a different philosophy. Where the Galactic Nemesis operates through explicit malice, intentionally attempting to maximize the amount of suffering they can cause, an empire following the path of Cosmogenesis is more of a crisis to the galaxy due to callous indifference while pursuing what is theoretically a more noble cause.



Cosmogenesis can be selected as your fourth Ascension Perk. (In 3.12, Galactic Nemesis will also be moved to become available as a fourth perk.) Like Galactic Nemesis, you cannot take it if you are Custodian or Emperor, or are not independent. Unlike the previous crisis path, however, this one is not ethics locked. Even a Xenophile Pacifist can delude themselves into thinking that a small amount of possible, unintentional suffering now may be a worthwhile sacrifice for a better future.


Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Galactic Nemesis dealt with quantity over quality. Cosmogenesis empires are the opposite. They seek the secrets of the Fallen Empires, desiring to reach the power they had in their prime.




Some of the Crisis Perks.

One of the shortcuts you can use to get there is the Synaptic Lathe. A powerful research facility, it harnesses the power of minds to compute and store data, with the slight downside of burning them out over time. It can be upgraded twice, and uses a simplified variant of the planet interface.


Yes, you can (and should) Ascend the Lathe

The districts unlock building slots, and either increase Research or Advanced Logic generated by the Neural Chips. The buildings can significantly modify many aspects of the Synaptic Lathe, whether it be Synaptic Preservers that reduce the burnout rate of Neural Chips, Neural Stabilizers that keep the Chips content and less rebellious, or even Synaptic Overclockers which will increase the effectiveness of the Neural Chips but burn them out much more quickly.

The more Neural Chips you have contained within the Lathe, the more effective it becomes, as every chip improves the output of every other chip, resulting in a nonlinear productivity growth curve but make sure that there is always pops for the lathe to process, or risk seeing it break down for lack of suitable components.


A brief overview of the Synaptic Lathe

To streamline the process of recruiting volunteers for the Synaptic Lathe, you can set species to use the Synaptic Service purge type, which will automatically resettle pops to the Lathe over time.


Service Guarantees Citizensh... Actually, Never Mind.

At Rank 4, youll gain the ability to experiment upon reality through your Applied Infinity Theses. These allow you to attempt to make improvements on a stubborn reality, which can have galactic or localized effects. Sometimes these go well


For our next experiment, lets round pi to 3. Itll make calculations so much easier.

But other times things dont go quite as planned, and the simple folk from other empires that just dont understand may get upset.


At least we still learned something!

Frustratingly, reality is resilient, and does not take kindly to adjustment. But the Infinity Sphere has been nice enough to provide a potential solution. A new universe would be much more malleable than this ancient one that is stuck in its ways.



Once the Horizon Needle is completed, the Exodus begins. Its time to embark the people from your colonies onto the ship, and go into a bold new world.



Should you succeed, a perfect new universe will be created to your specifications, and your people will have endless and true understanding. Based on some of the choices you make during the Exodus, there are several endings to your journey.



Oh, what happens to this universe? Thats not really your problem anymore at that point, is it?

It doesnt all explode, if thats what youre asking. That would be a terrible, senseless waste. (Okay, parts do, but thats really just collateral damage.)

[h3]Every end is a new beginning.[/h3]

The aftereffects of your final experiment will ripple across the galaxy, causing significant problems for those that were left behind. A control group that elects to stay behind and observe from your former empire will protect itself well. The rest of the galaxy isnt quite as prepared.


Their grammar was also damaged in the time stop.

With the ability to select a new empire to continue the game after losing the game (or winning, in this case), weve chosen to let you continue to explore the fate of the universe after the Cosmogenesis empire completes its mad goal. Your old empire will remain in the game as a true Fallen Empire.



[h3]Multiplayer Resync[/h3]
Another feature were adding in the 3.12 Andromeda release is a Multiplayer Resync button.

This button, as the name suggests, resyncs a game to hopefully allow you to continue if an Out of Sync error occurs. It wont always solve the issues, but when it does, itll save you some time as youll no longer have to quit and rehost the game.


Normally a reason for the Out of Sync is listed, but I forced the desync so nothing is actually wrong.


Transferring data!

[h3]Next Week[/h3]
The Machine Age is getting close!

Next week will be the first Art of The Machine Age dev diary. The artists have so much to show that theyll have another one post-release.

See you then!

Hi everyone!

I wanted you to be the first to be introduced to the new End-Game Crisis coming in The Machine Age, but it seems that a Fallen Empires fleet beat us to it, lets see how theyre doing

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[h2]The Machine Age is Nearly Here - Announcing Stellaris: Season 08[/h2]

As mentioned at the end of the video, The Machine Age will be arriving on Tuesday, May 7th.

It is now available for pre-purchase for $24.99 or regional equivalents.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2840100

But theres more - based on the popularity of Crusader Kings Chapter III, weve decided to celebrate our eighth anniversary by offering a similar expansion pass including all of the major Stellaris releases of the year for $39.99, which comes out to over a 20% discount.

Theres a chance that we might experiment with some other ideas that might or might not come out later this year, but Stellaris: Season 08 will include all of the major releases of 2024.

Players that have a Stellaris: Expansion Subscription will have access to Rick the Cube and the rest of Stellaris: Season 08 (as they release), while their subscription is running. (As with all DLC purchases, remember that while your subscription is running you count as owning everything so storefronts will block your purchase. If you are a subscriber that wants to buy Season 08, you will need to let your subscription lapse to make the purchase, after which you can re-subscribe.)

Rick the Cube is a Machine portrait. Creating an empire using this portrait will require the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack (or The Machine Age, when it releases). Synthetically ascending (requires Utopia) will allow you to choose the Rick the Cube portrait without Synthetic Dawn, or without any DLC it can be used by researching and building robots and robomodding.



[h2]Stellaris: Season 08 includes the following content:[/h2]

[h2]Day 1 Unlock: Rick The Cube Species Portrait[/h2]
Initially announced in Stellaris Dev Diary 338, Rick the Cube is no joke.

Unlocked immediately with the purchase of Stellaris: Season 08, this Machine species portrait is a cube and definitely not a human. Behold those lines, those flat sides, those runes, and tremble before their ineffable polygonal nature.

[h2]Stellaris: The Machine Age (Major Expansion - coming May 7 2024 - $24.99)[/h2]

Youve all been reading these dev diaries and thus should have a good understanding of what The Machine Age includes, but theyre making me write it again.

The Machine Age is the heart of the Stellaris: Season 08. This major expansion allows you to explore cyberpunk fantasies of technological augmentation and digitalization of consciousness, expanding the possibilities offered in game by the Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension Paths. You can address the moral and social challenges that communing with the machine brings to your space-faring empire, and face a new threat looming over the galaxy or become a new threat yourself, as you tear through time and space to shape reality to your image.

The Machine Age expansion includes:

• Individualistic Non-Gestalt Machine Empires
  
• Gestalt Machine Intelligence Empires (also unlocked by the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack)
  
• Three new Origins
  
  
  • Cybernetic Creed
    
  • Synthetic Fertility
    
  • Arc Welders
    
• Civics
  
  • Guided Sapience
    
  • Natural Design
    
  • Obsessional Directive
    
  • Protocol Droids
    
  • Tactical Cogitators
    
  • Augmentation Bazaars (Requires Megacorp)
    
• Two Mid-Game Structures
  
  • Arc Furnace
    
  • Dyson Swarms
    
• Three New Machine Ascension Paths
  
  • Modularity
    
  • Nanotech
    
  • Virtuality
    
• Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension (also unlocked by Utopia)
  
• Exploration of the effects of the cyberization or synthesization of society, with Advanced Government Forms for those who complete it.
  
• New Species Traits for Cyborgs, Machines and Robots
  
• Cybernetic portraits that change based on advancement through cyberization
  
• Synthetic portraits with both organic and synthetic variants that changed based on synthesization, usable by either organics or machines
  
• Two new Shipsets, Diplomatic Rooms, and City Sets
  
• 7 new synthetic and cybernetic inspired music tracks
  
• A new Become the Crisis Path
  
• And a new End-Game Crisis.
  

• 8 Galactic Storms with unique visual effects
  
• 1 Origin
  
• 2 new Relics
  
• 2 new precursor story arcs

• A new Megastructure: The Grand Archive
  
• 200 specimens to collect
  
• A vivarium with space fauna capturing mechanics
  
• Hatchery starbase and cloning facilities to alter space fauna and use them as fleets
  
• 2 new types of spaceborne fauna - Voidworms and Cutholoids
  
• A new Mid-Game Crisis - the Voidworm Plague
  
• 2 Origins
  
• 2 Tradition trees

by PDX-Loke

Hello!

Our latest and greatest patch, 3.11.3, is now live and ready for download.

You will recognize this changelog from that of the open beta we made available a few weeks back, just one more crash fix has been included.

Please find the patch notes below.

[h3]STELLARIS 3.11.3 "ERIDANUS" PATCH NOTES[/h3]
Improvement

• The Plasmic trait can now be removed from species if you want to clean up your species tab.
  

• Fixed global ship designs country type restriction so awakened empires are not allowed to use ai transports
  
• Fixed refugees happening every day instead of every 90-180 days
  
• Fixed secondary species in random empires not having a habitability trait.
  
• Fixed the Abandoned Gateway event not taking into account ruined gateways from the Galatic Doorstep and Imperial Fiefdom origins
  
• Fixed the accidental nerf to Civilian difficulty
  
• Fixed the Luminary Bloodline not being inherited
  
• Fixing council positions not being kept for Gestalt Consciousness empires after adding civics.
  
• Made removal of expired leader from leader pool only happen on refresh
  
• S875.1 Warform no longer disappears from leading their ship
  
• The Grave Guardians will no longer trap you in an infinite first contact loop.
  
• The Kaleidoscope no longer double dips in your income from trade
  
• The Parvus event chain will no longer end too early removing all in progresses special projects.
  
• Updated some text on the Galactic Community UI that was still referring to envoys instead of Delegates
  
• Various anomalies and dig site events no longer try and give leaders the Hyper Focus trait if they already have it, instead they level the trait up.
  
• Fixed a crash from Situation progress.
  

by Eladrin

Hello Stellaris Cube-munity!

Todays dev diary looks at the civics and kilostructures in The Machine Age, as well as looking at a 3.12 Andromeda feature - Auto-Modding.

As with all of our previews, some of this is still in development, so there are still some placeholder icons and some details may still change before release. (Which is good, since it lets us incorporate some of your feedback.)
[h3]The Civics of The Machine Age[/h3]


Lets go through each of the new civics that are coming in The Machine Age in detail.

Guided Sapience civics
The Guided Sapience civics focus on coexistence with natural or created pre-sapient species and the environment around them. Their homeworld and Genesis Ark colony ships uplift some of the most promising local wildlife to pre-sapient status, creating a Genesis Preserve that increases Society Research and Unity.

The bonuses from the Genesis Preserve are doubled on Gaia worlds.


Not listed in these screenshots, but other hostile civics like Devouring Swarm and origins like Necrophage are also excluded from these.

Natural Design civics
While other empires seek to improve themselves through genetic modification or through ascension, others are quite certain that they are already at the apex of evolution.


02_INSULT_CLOTHES:0 "Behold the [From.GetSpeciesAdj] form, glorious and bared for all to admire. Contrast with the paltry [Root.GetSpeciesNamePlural], cowering under their layers of cloth, knowing that the world does not want to see their sad frames."

Obsessional Directive
In 2003, human philosopher and professor Nick Bostrom created a thought experiment about the potential existential threat an artificial general intelligence could pose even if given seemingly harmless directives.

Nick Bostrom said:
Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

Hello Stellaris Cube-munity!

I know today wasn't in the dev diary cube-endar we posted earlier, but I felt like today was a special day.

In the finest of traditions of Stellaris cubeture, we are happy to introduce a new character portrait: Rick the Cube!



Cube Rick will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak

Rick the Cube will be available Soon for purchasers of an unannounced future Stellaris DLC bundle (and also subscribers). We will be revealing more about this DLC bundle in the near future!

Watch the Rick the Cube Short!
I am Rick the Cube!



Features:

• Somehow contains more than Eight vertices
  
• Six faces
  
• a cube to take a shining to
  
• a pleasing clockwork interior that is, at times, orange
  
• definitely not a Human, cubed
  
• not a sphere
  
• will never give you up

by Eladrin

Hello again!

Today were looking at some general gameplay changes being made to Machine Empires, Individualistic Machines, and the new Machine Ascension Paths. Some of these still include placeholder assets, and values will continue being adjusted until release.

Take it away, @Gruntsatwork.

[h3]Machine and Synthetic Gameplay Changes[/h3]
History Traits
One of the first things youll find in The Machine Age when creating a Machine empire are the history traits weve added for Machine species. These 0 point traits let you choose a little more of your backstory - these define your original purpose.

Were you originally created as Research Assistants, Conversational AI chatbots, Workerbots, or perhaps a domestic servant Nannybot meant to make life easier and pass the butter? Six backgrounds with relatively minor bonuses are available for you to choose from. These are available to both gestalt and individualistic machines.



Youll find a handful of other new traits or variants of existing biological traits for Machine species as well, including having a dedicated Engineering or Sociology Core or Integrated Weaponry to a Delicate Chassis or Scarcity Subroutines.


Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply.

Machines, Aging, and Unplanned Obsolescence

Immortality is a funny thing in Stellaris - under some circumstances (especially as the game goes on), due to the accident and death events that could target machines, you can end up in a state where a theoretically immortal machine leader is actually far more vulnerable to death as the years went on than a normal biological leader.

Machine leaders will now instead use lifespan rules, but enjoy some extra benefits:

• As real go-getters, their starting age lies between 5-10 years, so at the age of 30 they can run your science department with 20 years of experience.
  
• All machines also have an additional +20 years to their default lifespan of 80, resulting in a base lifespan of 100 years.
  
• They are now affected by lifespan-increasing technologies and modifiers, for example, those from Ascension Paths, which we will cover later in this dev diary.
  

• As a base, all machines have a 50% Habitability floor, so they will never have below 50% habitability on any world. We felt that this was important because we wanted to retain the feel that machine empires could colonize anywhere reasonably well.
  
• Machine habitability traits cover entire planet categories rather than a specific biome.
  
  
  
  • They start with Dry, Wet, or Frozen Habitability, which provide a base 75% habitability on all three biomes associated with the trait and 50% for all other natural biomes.
    
  • As usual, these habitability traits can be changed through robo-modding.
    
    
    
    • Most machine empires will have access to robo-modding from game start.
      
    • Origins like Life-Seeded or Subaquatic Machines will start with Gaia World or Ocean World Habitability and will have to research the technology to change their habitability trait, but retain the 50% Habitability floor for being a machine.
  
  
• Just like for Lifespan, they will now also gain bonuses from technologies, extra habitability from ascensions and new traits. They now also have access to the standard array of habitability technologies.
  

• Syncretic Evolution (Individualist Machines only)
  
• Life-Seeded
  
• Post-Apocalyptic (Radioactive Rovers)
  
• Void Dwellers (Voidforged)
  
• Hegemon
  
• Ocean Paradise (Subaquatic Machines)
  
• Subterranean (Subterranean Machines)
  
• Arc Welders
  
• Prosperous Unification
  
• Remnants
  
• Shattered Ring
  
• Galactic Doorstep
  
• Resource Consolidation (Gestalt Machine Intelligence only)
  
• Common Ground
  
• Doomsday
  
• Lost Colony
  
• Here Be Dragons
  
• Slingshot to the Stars
  
• Imperial Fiefdom
  
• Riftworld
  

• Your pops gain a unique Virtual Trait that becomes stronger as you progress through the tree
  
  
  
  • You gain a massive bonus to production that is reduced by the number of colonies you have
    
  • Your housing usage is reduced by 90%
    
  • Your habitability floor is increased
    
  • The more colonies you gain, the weaker your Virtual Trait and the bigger its upkeep will become
    
  • Your leaders become immortal
  
  
• You gain a new Policy to focus your intangible virtual economy
  
  
  
  • You may choose to focus intensely on Research, Unity or Governance, at the sufferance of the 2 categories you did not choose
  
  
• You gain a bonus to encryption and decryption
  
• You gain additional districts and jobs from districts
  

You gain access to:



• Ways to transform basic resources into nanites and nanites into advanced resources
  
• A new decision, similar to Terravore world consumption, to turn colonies into nanite worlds
  
• A new starbase building to harvest nanites from uninhabitable worlds
  
• New Edicts to vastly increase your productions or combat capability at the cost of nanites
  
• Nanite probe ships, to bolster your fleets
  

• Your Metallurgists will produce Living Metal
  
• Your roboticists will be boosted by utilizing living metal as an upkeep
  
• Your workers/simple drones will be boosted by your priest equivalent
  
• Your soldiers and enforcers will grant more stability and be stronger
  
• You unlock 9 advanced machine traits, several trait picks, points, and reduced modification cost
  
• All your leaders will gain the Synth leader trait
  

Hello Stellaris Community!

In time for the weekend (a long one, in some cases), the dev team has prepared a 3.11.3 "Eridanus" Open Beta! This beta addresses some issues that have been left over from the 3.11 release.

[h3]The 3.11.3 "Eridanus" Open Beta is an optional beta patch. You have to manually opt-in to access it.
Go to your Steam Library, right click on Stellaris -> Properties -> Betas Tab -> select "3.11.3_open_beta" from the drop-down.[/h3]

[expand type=details]
[Improvement] The Plasmic trait can now be removed from species if you want to clean up your species tab.
[Bugfix] Fixed global ship designs country type restriction so awakened empires are not allowed to use ai transports
[Bugfix] Fixed refugees happening every day instead of every 90-180 days
[Bugfix] Fixed secondary species in random empires not having a habitability trait.
[Bugfix] Fixed the Abandoned Gateway event not taking into account ruined gateways from the Galatic Doorstep and Imperial Fiefdom origins
[Bugfix] Fixed the accidental nerf to Civilian difficulty
[Bugfix] Fixed the Luminary Bloodline not being inherited
[Bugfix] Fixing council positions not being kept for GC:s after adding civics.
[Bugfix] Made removal of expired leader from leader pool only happen on refresh
[Bugfix] S875.1 Warform no longer disappears from leading their ship
[Bugfix] The Grave Guardians will no longer trap you in an infinite first contact loop.
[Bugfix] The Kaleidoscope no longer double dips in your income from trade
[Bugfix] The Parvus event chain will no longer end too early removing all in progresses special projects.
[Bugfix] Updated some text on the Galactic Community UI that was still referring to envoys instead of Delegates
[Bugfix] Various anomalies and dig site events no longer try and give leaders the Hyper Focus trait if they already have it, instead they level the trait up.
[/expand]

The 3.11.3 full release will come at a later date, but we wanted to get these fixes into our players' hands as soon as possible. If you experience bugs or any other issues with the 3.11.3 open beta, please make a bug report!

Thanks for playing Stellaris and have a great weekend!

[h3]Please note save compatibility is not guaranteed between versions. Should you experience bugs or other issues, please first create a new, unmodded save and see if the issues persist. If the issues persist on a new unmodded save, please make a bug report![/h3]

Edit: a previous version of this post contained the line: "[Feature] Added a familiar Friend after you explore Astral Rifts." This was mistakenly added to these patch notes, and is not included in the 3.11.3 "Eridanus" Open Beta.

by Eladrin

Hello everybody!

Today, well go through the three Origins, Ascension Situations, and advanced government Authorities in The Machine Age expansion.

[h3]The Cybernetic Creed[/h3]
Rejoice, for the The Machine Age beckons!

It's your digital prophet, Gatekeeper, dialing in to decode the mysteries of The Machine Age's upcoming Origins.

Embarking first on our divine odyssey of silicon and the soul, I will introduce you to Cybernetic Creed, a spiritualist fast track to Cybernetics. Your spiritualist pops and leaders will start with the Ritualist Cybernetics Trait, representing your people's long dedication to attempting the perfect fusion of flesh and steel.





Eschew the mundane traditionalist factions of more standard empires for a quartet of Creeds, each a pillar of your economy and spiritual ethos.



Though united in their quest for divine fusion, harmony is a rare commodity among the Creeds. Dissonance and debate fuel their fiery passion for transcendence, and often, you will be asked to make choices that will make one Creed joyous at the expense of the others.



The Conclave of Fusion Situation will unfold after you embrace your sacred mission and interface with the Cybernetics Tradition Tree.



Here, you must guide your faith, defining its doctrine and the final form of your physical vessel.

Will you elevate a single Creed to celestial prominence or attempt to weave a tapestry of unity among them?
The fuse is divine. Augmentation is worship.

[h3]Synthetic Fertility[/h3]
Next, we delve into the bittersweet digital saga of Synthetic Fertility, our fast track to the Synthetics Tradition Tree.



Boosted by a deep understanding of artificial intelligence and advanced virtual reality, your empire starts the game with 37 Pops. But despite your success, your people are on the brink of extinction. An incurable genetic affliction ravages your species, stopping them from being able to produce offspring.



In a daring leap of innovation, your civilization constructs the Identity Repository. It's a race against time as minds are uploaded, seeking refuge in the digital expanse before death takes them.



Parallel to this digital exodus, you're thrust into the urgent quest for the pinnacle of synthetic salvation - constructing robotic brains and bodies sophisticated enough to host your digital essences.


The final version of this will not have that beautiful magenta image.

Will you seek aid? Will you engineer Synthetic Frames in time to reclaim your place among the stars? Or is this the dawn of an eternal digital slumber for your people?
[h3]Arc Welders[/h3]
It wouldnt feel right not to have a Machine origin in The Machine Age. Arc Welders is available to any Machine empire - whether a Gestalt Consciousness or Individualistic Machines. In some ways, it is the opposite of Resource Consolidation. Rather than having an exceptional homeworld where all of the resources of your home system are gathered, these celestial architects hail from a small, resource-poor planet and set their eyes on the skies.



The Arc Welders began constructing an Arc Furnace on a molten world in their home system before achieving Faster-Than-Light travel. This kilostructure lets them exploit the rest of their system for minerals and, once complete, for alloy production. Expert engineers, it will only take a little more practice before they figure out the basics of Mega-Engineering. However, it may take a while before they can finish researching that technology.

More details on the molten world Arc Furnace will be revealed in the April 4th dev diary.



[h3]Mechanists Update[/h3]
With all of the focus The Machine Age is giving to mechanical empires of all forms, it is appropriate to improve the Mechanist origin as well Mechanist now grants +2 machine trait points as well as an extra trait pick, and fills that by starting your robots off with the Adaptive Frames trait, taking advantage of the new auto-modding system were introducing in 3.12 Andromeda. Youll have to wait until April 4th for complete details on how that works.



[h3]Cyberization and Synthesization Situations[/h3]
I am Ferry, one of the Content Designers on The Machine Age, here to talk about the new narrative Ascension Situations. Utopia introduced the special projects to transform the population into cyborgs or synths. The Machine Age provides you with choices to shape the cyberization and synthesization process, as well as their ultimate effects.

When the Cybernetics tradition tree is adopted, the Cyberization Situation (the Cybernetic Creed Origin has its own version) kicks off with the question who will control the implants in society: the government, private corporations, or will the public be allowed to hack their own implants?

The Augmentation Center building, which is the focus for research and development during the Situation, stays after the situation to boost the cybernetics on the planet its on.



However, not everyone is excited about augmentation. Any Spiritualists will either have to be forced to become full cyborgs or be allowed to install the minimum amount of implants necessary to function in this new world according to the Cyberization Standards policy.



For Synthetics, in the Synthesization situation (the Synthetic Fertility origin has its own version), its not only Spiritualists who are wary of the planned changes. For some reason, even more people are concerned about scanning their mind to put into a mechanical body. Does your society allow those reluctant to stay around in quaint Old Towns or do they have to go into Biological Enclaves to escape becoming a part of the new machine species?

The Identity Complex building provides Identity Designer jobs across the empire, who boost mechanical assembly speed.




Empires that start as machines, Machine Intelligence or Individualist Machines, get their own ascension situation called Transformation. What this means will be explained in next weeks dev diary.
[h3]Advanced Government Authorities[/h3]



After the Situation has concluded and the Tradition Tree has been filled, an event chain kicks off to shape society into a new Advanced Authority. Does the cybernetic society allow the individual to flourish, or are implants used to bring the population tighter together? Each of the four base Authorities and MegaCorp, as well as Gestalt Hives, can transform into a cybernetic version of the original Authority, or opt to stay the same.

Lets have a look at the Imperial Authority. One path through the cybernetic societal shift ends with the Imperial Chipset Authority, where implants are inherited within families to carry strength and knowledge forward through the generations.



The empire Ruler gets access to a new relic called the RulerChip, which contains the memories and experiences of previous rulers. As each ruler dies, their class of Official, Commander, or Scientist will grant different bonuses for the heir as they ascend the throne.



The Cybernetic Creed Origin has its own set of advanced cyber governments, one for each Authority.

For Synthetics, the main question of the societal effects event chain is if the new machine society will put a focus on the physical or the virtual world. One example for the Democratic Authority is Democratic Surrogacy, which replaces soldiers and pilots with remote-controlled bodies.



[h3]Next Week[/h3]
Next week well look at Individualistic Machine Empires, gameplay changes were making to Machine empires, and go through the new Machine Ascension Paths and Transformation situation.

See you then!

[h3]It is time to leave our flawed biological vessels behind.[/h3]
Its my pleasure to announce that The Machine Age major expansion will be released alongside the Stellaris 3.12 Andromeda update.

Focusing on cybernetic, synthetic, and machine themes, The Machine Age will begin during the second quarter of 2024.

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[h3]In pursuing the divine calling, we shall achieve the fusion of the exalted body and sacred cybernetics.[/h3]

The Technophants and Haruspex of the Cybernetic Creed will guide their flock to the perfect union of flesh and machine.


Cybernetic augmentation is not solely the province of the materialists.

[h3]Playgrounds stand empty. In time, we will cease to be.
For now, our salvation lies in the digital realm[/h3]

A doomed species races against extinction to reach the virtual world in Synthetic Fertility.


Blur the lines between the physical and virtual worlds.

[h3]Our planet is barren, but our home system is a bounty of riches.
To exploit them, we must build bigger than ever before.[/h3]

Originally designed to build mighty constructions in space, the Arc Welders must utilize that advantage to the fullest to overcome the deficiencies of their homeworld.


These masters of Mega-Engineering began exploiting their home system before discovering faster-than-light travel.

[h3]The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.[/h3]

The creators may be gone, but society endures. Your chassis may have begun identical to trillions of others in your empire, but you are no drone - you are an individual.

With The Machine Age, you can explore the game as non-Gestalt, Individualist Machine Empires!


Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

[h3]A transformative age is upon us,
sparked by innovation and oiled by opportunity.[/h3]

The Machine Age explores how Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension affect society within your empire.
Advanced government forms are available to empires that navigate the process.


The Cybernetic Creed Origin has an additional variant for each standard Authority.

[h3]Become better than you are.[/h3]

Six new civics provide additional choices for your empires.

Corporate and Hive Mind civics require MegaCorp or Utopia respectively.



[h3]Build a better future.[/h3]
Two mid-game structures are introduced in The Machine Age - exploit systems with the molten world Arc Furnace, and start your work towards a Dyson Sphere early by building the Dyson Swarm.


And so we came forth and once again beheld the stars.

[h3]Ignorance shackles us, putting the universes secrets out of reach.
No matter the price, we must break free.[/h3]

Building upon the system introduced in Nemesis, The Machine Age introduces a second player crisis path, focused on technological ascendancy at any cost.


The time has come to be part of something greater.

[h3]My children, at last I am returned to you.[/h3]

For the first time since the Contingency was introduced in the Stellaris 1.8 apek release, a new end-game crisis has been unleashed.

An ancient threat, sealed away for countless millennia, has returned.


[h3]The Machine Age expansion includes:[/h3]

• Individualistic Non-Gestalt Machine Empires
  
• Gestalt Machine Intelligence Empires (also unlocked by the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack)
  
• Three new Origins
  
  
  
  • Cybernetic Creed
    
  • Synthetic Fertility
    
  • Arc Welders
    
• Civics
  
  
  
  • Guided Sapience
    
  • Natural Design
    
  • Obsessional Directive
    
  • Protocol Droids
    
  • Tactical Cogitators
    
  • Augmentation Bazaars (Requires Megacorp)
    
• Two Mid-Game Structures
  
  
  
  • Arc Furnace
    
  • Dyson Swarms
    
  
  
• New Ascension Paths for Machine Empires
  
• Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension (also unlocked by Utopia)
  
• Exploration of the effects of the cyberization or synthesization of society, with Advanced Government Forms for those who complete it.
  
• New Species Traits for Cyborgs, Machines and Robots
  
• Cybernetic portraits that change based on advancement through cyberization
  
• Synthetic portraits with both organic and synthetic variants that changed based on synthesization, usable by either organics or machines
  
• Two new Shipsets, Diplomatic Rooms, and City Sets
  
• 7 new music tracks synthetic and cybernetic inspired music tracks
  
• A new Player Crisis Path
  
• And a new End-Game Crisis.
  

by PDX-Loke

Hello,

Our latest patch is now live and ready for download, fixing most but not yet all of the issues reported from the 'Eridanus' release last week.

Please find the patch notes below.

[h3]STELLARIS 3.11.2 PATCH NOTES[/h3]

Balance

• The Opener for Domination now gives +5% Worker Output and +5% Slave Output instead of +10% Slave Output so Egalitarians and Xenophiles arent sad.
  
• Versatility Operational Proxies now gives +1 Unity production to Maintenance Drones so that Rogue Servitors aren't left out.
  
• Decreased the cost to study (-25%) and pacify (-40%) space fauna.
  

• Ensure dead leaders are properly removed from their location so that new leaders can replace them.
  
• Fixed Federation Emissaries and GalCom Delegates not assigning correctly and not being replaceable when dead.
  
• Acquiring the Colonization Drones from the Chemical Wasteland Astral Rift will no longer lead to discovering Noxious Swamps (or other natural blockers) on Habitats (or other planets that shouldn't support these blockers)
  
• Corrected Adaptability Enhanced Recycling tooltip listing a 10% reduction instead of the 15% reduction.
  
• Corrected the finisher effect for Domination giving -15% Empire Size from Pops in some cases
  
• The finisher for Diplomacy now correctly says it gives +10% Diplomatic Weight instead of +10 Diplomatic Weight
  
• Fixed an issue where the "On the Origins of Nanites" special project didn't spawn.
  
• The Chosen will now declare a war of Cleansing on whoever breaches their wormhole
  
• Fixed habitat capital buildings given the wrong number of defensive armies
  
• Mining districts on machine worlds should no longer claim to give scrap miner drone jobs
  
• Fixed anomaly.7200 having repeated flags in their switch.
  
• Cartographer II and Cartographer III are now correctly recognised as councilor traits
  
• Fixed modifiers to mining and research station upkeep incorrectly attempting to reduce the upkeep of the planet they were orbiting
  
• Science ship auto explore feature with astral rifts sometimes skipped unexplored ones
  
• Fixed the icon for the Great Researcher trait
  
• Fixed Holy Covenants not giving High Priest jobs in some cases
  
• The Shallash system will now spawn properly again.
  
• You will no longer be able to engage in pre-FTL diplomacy with pre-FTLs not within your borders
  
• Homicidal empires will now properly annex pre-FTLs that are foolish enough to become space faring.
  
• Bio-trophies are no longer affected by Noxious Twice.
  
• Fix lack of evasion on sapient torpedo comp.
  

• Fixes the background selector for rulers being set incorrectly in the leader category of the background selectors
  

• Fixed AI leaving federations only if the federation has 2 members or the AI empire's type is unplayable.
  
• Fixed AI never asking to leave Hegemony federations.
  

• Fixed potential CTD in quantum catapult rendering
  
• Fixed crash upon startup that could be caused by write-protected user directory.
  
• Fixed CTD that sometimes happens when finishing species modification.
  
• Fixed CTD when using console command dump_event_data and the output file is not writable
  
• Fixed CTD in leader names after loading a savegame
  
• Fixed CTD that may occur when updating diplomacy for countries without diplomacy
  

• Added FEDERATION_DISBAND_THRESHOLD and FEDERATION_DISBAND_PLAYER_THRESHOLD defines, which define the AI's threshold for leaving a federation if it would be disbanded.
  

by Eladrin

Hi everyone!

Today well be taking a look at the state of the game, the upcoming 3.11.2 patch, talk about the Subscription FAQ, look at the Q&A transcript, and give a taste of whats next.

Lets get to it.

[h3]State of the Game[/h3]
The Stellaris 3.11.1 Eridanus update was released last week, and Im happy to say that the build appears quite stable crash-wise.

The number of crash reports is very low for a release, with approximately 90% of the ones we are getting being due to mods that havent been updated. Of these, more than half are specifically related to mods that affect the Galaxy Settings screen. Metrics so far show that Multiplayer seems to be significantly more stable than 3.10.4 as well, though an issue has been raised regarding observer mode causing major performance issues in multiplayer that we're currently looking into.

The Custodian Team is currently working on a 3.11.2 update including some of the things that youve all reported, preliminarily scheduled for release next Tuesday, March 12th.

SOME THINGS PLANNED FOR 3.11.2

Balance

• The Opener for Domination now gives +5% Worker Output and +5% Slave Output instead of +10% Slave Output so Egalitarians and Xenophiles arent sad.
  
• Versatility Operational Proxies now gives +1 Unity production to Maintenance Drones so that Rogue Servitors aren't left out.
  
• Decreased the cost to study (-25%) and pacify (-40%) space fauna.
  

• Fixed Federation Emissaries and GalCom Delegates not assigning correctly.
  
• Acquiring the Colonization Drones from the Chemical Wasteland Astral Rift will no longer lead to discovering Noxious Swamps (or other natural blockers) on Habitats (or other planets that shouldn't support these blockers)
  
• Corrected Adaptability Enhanced Recycling tooltip listing a 10% reduction instead of the 15% reduction.
  
• Corrected the finisher effect for Domination giving -15% Empire Size from Pops in some cases
  
• The finisher for Diplomacy now correctly says it gives +10% Diplomatic Weight instead of +10 Diplomatic Weight
  
• Fixed an issue where the "On the Origins of Nanites" special project didn't spawn.
  
• The Chosen will now declare a war of Cleansing on whoever breaches their wormhole
  
• Fixed habitat capital buildings given the wrong number of defensive armies
  
• Mining districts on machine worlds should no longer claim to give scrap miner drone jobs
  
• Fixed anomaly.7200 having repeated flags in their switch.
  
• Cartographer II and Cartographer III are now correctly recognised as councilor traits
  
• Fixed modifiers to mining and research station upkeep incorrectly attempting to reduce the upkeep of the planet they were orbiting
  
• Science ship auto explore feature with astral rifts sometimes skipped unexplored ones
  
• Fixed the icon for the Great Researcher trait
  
• Fixed Holy Covenants not giving High Priest jobs in some cases
  
• The Shallash system will now spawn properly again.
  
• You will no longer be able to engage in pre-FTL diplomacy with pre-FTLs not within your borders
  
• Homicidal empires will now properly annex pre-FTLs that are foolish enough to become space faring.
  
• Bio-trophies are no longer affected by Noxious Twice.
  
• Fix lack of evasion on sapient torpedo comp.
  
• 
  

• Fixes the background selector for rulers being set incorrectly in the leader category of the background selectors
  

• Fixed crash upon startup that could be caused by write-protected user directory.
  
• Fixed CTD that sometimes happens when finishing species modification.
  
• Fixed CTD when using console command dump_event_data and the output file is not writable
  
• Fixed CTD in leader names after loading a savegame
  
• Fixed CTD that may occur when updating diplomacy for countries without diplomacy
  

written by Eladrin

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2729490

Hello!

The 3.11.1 Eridanus update has been released!

While the release notes should look relatively familiar to people who read last week's preliminary changelog, here are the release notes for today's update:

3.11.1 ERIDANUS CUSTODIAN UPDATE RELEASE NOTES
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[h2]Feature[/h2]

• Difficulty Adjusted Technology Costs slider added to galaxy generation. This slider adjusts technology costs based on tier and game difficulty.

• Added notification message when new pop settles in zeya (Gaia planet in azilash)
  
• Added the Seddom system.
  
• Allowed conversion between Sovereign Guardianship and Corporate Protectorate civics
  
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
  
• Every participant in a war now gets a truce with the others after it ends, even if they were on the same side
  
• If you have a colony in a system when pre-FTLs become space faring you can apologize and annex them
  
• Progenitor Hive speed malus and bonuses now only affect military ships, removing the need of science ship escorts
  
• Technology and Tradition costs are now distinct sliders in galaxy setup
  
• The Anglers civic now swaps to Trawling Operations if you reform your government into a megacorp and vice versa
  
• The Eager Explorers civic now swaps to Privatized Exploration if you reform your government into a megacorp and vice versa
  
• The Eager Explorers, Privatized Exploration and Exploration Protocols civics can be removed and readded after researching Jump Drives. The Stargazers civic cannot be removed as it is linked to the species trait of the same name
  
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
  
• When the Khan awakens the event will now properly have a go to button
  
• Added the old AI crisis diplomatic room to the list of selectable diplomatic rooms
  
• Rearranged the room selector priorities so that AI empires shouldn't lose special diplomatic rooms
  
• Set the old AI crisis diplomatic room to be used by Determined Exterminators
  
• Set the "scrappy room" to be used by the Ketlings
  
• Set the "gilded room" to be used the AI overlord for the Imperial Fiefdom origin
  
• Set the "organic room" to be used by Devouring Swarms
  
• Gangsters should no longer assassinate Chosen Ones or Legendary leaders
  
• If a Zombie or Nerve Stapled pop manages to lie on their resume and become a specialist or ruler they should be demoted much faster
  
• Xenophobic leaders are now half as likely to accept brainslugs while Xenophilic ones are twice as likely to accept them
  
• Improved spawning logic for anomalies that clear deposits to not spawn on planets with strategic resources

• All pop types will now be happy while living on a gaia world.
  
• Added a tier 2 Advanced Bio-Reactor technology and building. Advanced Bio-Reactors further reduce the food output of farmers in exchange for a small amount of exotic gas output
  
• Added Gateway Cost and Megastructure Build Speed modifiers to the Galactic Doorstep origin
  
• Ascension Theory is now a Tier 4 technology that requires at least 6 traditions trees to have been completed to be drawn
  
• Balance adjustments to the Knights of the Toxic God to make some of their behavior behave the same way as other economic bonuses in the game, and make more of the choices in the chain potentially relevant.
  
• Event options in the Knights' quest that improve their capital have been significantly buffed to be better balanced compared to the options that improve knight jobs:
  
  
• Toxic God Deposits
  
• Knight output modifiers now only apply to resources, like other job output modifiers
  
• Knights now correctly inherit production modifiers from researchers and administrators
  
• Refactored how the output scaling for Knights from Squires functions, these now behave as normal additive modifiers instead of multiplicative modifiers
  
• Squires now increase the resource output of Knights by 2.5% per Squire not 2% per Squire
  
• The Luminous Blades modifier from the Knight's Quest now removes the alloy upkeep of knights and gives +25% Army damage instead of an empire-wide +1.5% alloy production modifier per knight
  
  
• Luminous Blades
  
• The Orders X-Calibrator planetary feature on their starting habitat now also provides -10% Pop Upkeep
  
  
• Knights X-Calibrator
  
• The Fortress Habitat Designation for Knights no longer provides +1 Defensive Army per Pop on the habitat, instead each Squire job provides +1 Defensive Army
  
• Bio-Reactors are now a tier 1 rare technology instead of a tier 0 Technology. Bio-Reactors now reduce the food output of farmer jobs and give them a small amount of energy output
  
• Bio-Trophy buildings no longer provide Artisan Drone and Maintenance Drone jobs
  
• Decreased the amount of research produced by unemployed pops with Utopian Abundance
  
• Delegate GalCom focus traits now have a small chance to give favors
  
• Ecclesiastical Arcologies no longer provide Manager jobs for Corporate Death Cults
  
• Ecclesiastical Arcologies now provide Prosperity Preachers for MegaCorps instead of a split between Priests and Managers for regular Spiritualist MegaCorps
  
• First League Offices now provide Prosperity Preacher jobs for Spiritualist MegaCorps
  
• Galactic Doorstep event chain now directly rewards the Gateway Activation technology and gives far more progress on the Gateway Construction technology
  
• Gospel of the Masses now provides +1 Trade Value to Prosperity Preachers (both inside their empire and those on planet on which they have branch offices)
  
• Increased technology costs, especially those of higher tier technologies
  
• Increased the cost of the Rock Potential special project to 1000 energy to account for Stellaris Inflation
  
• Increased the effects of Empire Size on Technology to match its effect on Traditions
  
• Lost Colony Parents now spawn with more developed colonies to avoid overcrowding on their capital.
  
• Machine Intelligences with a biological secondary species now have a base food income of 10 food/month, and without a secondary species or with a Lithoid secondary species, they now have a base mineral income of 10 minerals/month.
  
• Moved habitat upkeep modifiers from the domination opener to the expansion opener. Available for all, not just void dwellers
  
• Curator leader trait now provides +10% Research Speed (was +15%) with an associated +10% Researcher Upkeep. The Survey Speed bonus remains unchanged
  
• Penal Colonies now provide 10 housing.
  
• Prosperity Preachers are now a specialist strata job
  
• Rebalanced leader traits gained from Ascension Paths (Psionic, Chosen One, Synthetic, Cyborg, Erudite)
  
• Reduced output of researcher jobs
  
• Reduced the amount of Naval Cap granted by technologies
  
• Removed most sources of Ship Cost and Upkeep reductions from the game
  
• Bulwark ship upkeep reductions reduced by 50%
  
• Corporate Crusader Spirit now reduces ship upkeep by 5% instead of 10%
  
• Crusader Spirit civic now improves ship build speed
  
• Fleet Supremacy edict no longer reduces ship upkeep
  
• Grand Fleet ambition now increases power projection instead of reducing ship upkeep
  
• Logistic Understanding, Armada Logistician, and Gunboat Diplomat traits now reduces ship upkeep while docked
  
• Mark of the Instrument ship component no longer reduces ship upkeep
  
• Master Shipwrights tradition in the Supremacy tree no longer reduces ship build costs
  
• Match tradition in the Enmity tree bonus to ship build costs reduced to 5% instead of 10%
  
• Military Buildup Agenda now improves ship build speed and reduces claim costs. (It still reduces War Exhaustion on completion.)
  
• Military Pioneer trait now reduces starbase upgrade costs instead of ship build costs
  
• Naval Procurement Officer councilor now improves ship build speed
  
• Progress Oriented modifier no longer reduces ship build costs
  
• Psionic Supremacy (Eater of Worlds) finisher no longer reduces ship build costs
  
• Reduced penalty the Irenic trait applies to ship build costs
  
• Sanctum of the Eater ship upkeep reduction reduced from 10% to 5%
  
• Shipwright trait no longer reduces ship build costs
  
• Vyctor's Improved Fleet Logistics trait now reduces ship build costs by 10% instead of 20%
  
• Rulers now gain 12 XP per month
  
• Temples now provide Prosperity Preachers for Spiritualist MegaCorps instead of a split between Priests and Managers
  
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personality of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
  
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
  
• Tier 2 and Tier 3 Sacrificial Temples no longer provide Manager jobs for Corporate Death Cults
  
• Tweaked the tiers of technologies that increase naval cap and fleet command limit
  
• Warpling armies now have an upkeep of 1 energy and 0.1 astral threads per month
  
• Psychological Infertility and Existential Iteroparity can no longer be taken with the Clone Soldier or Ascended Clone Soldier trait.
  
• Two of the three habitable planets in the Trappist system are now terraforming candidates
  
• The "Tragula's Cross", "Trin's Promise" and "Loh" systems are now mutually exclusive on galaxy generation
  
• The Science Ship as a Concept now uses psionic components instead of whichever components your empire has researched
  
• Improvements to Resort Worlds:
  
• Resort Colonies now have Resort Workers and Resort Districts.
  
• Resort Workers provide empire wide bonuses to amenities and trade value from living standards.
  
• Resort World Technology appears sooner and is cheaper.
  
• Added Unity Bonus to resort world designation, lowered housing bonus
  
• Empires that value other species, such as Rogue Servitors, will now get extra annoyed if you engage in genocide or necrophaging
  
• Gestalt empires can now sell their minor artifacts provided that they have access to the galactic market
  
• Marauder ships should now have a decently larger amount of armor for most shipsizes
  
• Refugees should now also be willing to flee to Rogue Servitors if they are welcomed as Bio-trophies

• Added missing class name and icon in the leader upkeep tooltip
  
• Added missing required components to the Marauder Galleon
  
• Added new localization and triggers for Machine Empires exploring the Rift World origin.
  
• Armies now disband instantly instead of waiting for next tick
  
• Cordyceptic Empires that only had Subspace Drives on their ships are now also capable of reanimating space fauna
  
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
  
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
  
• Corrected some trait names
  
• Corrected the Scout Wing using the wrong 3d entities
  
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
  
• Diplo action tooltip now shows why we can't claim any systems
  
• distar.1081 will no longer spawn pops on colonies in progress
  
• Driven Assimilators with the Protected Pre-Sapients policy will no longer purge pre-sapients
  
• Empires with the Mechromancy AP can no longer purge cyborg zombies
  
• Event windows now correctly have no effect after the player has been defeated
  
• Extra trait points for script-generated species are now added correctly
  
• Fix countries created by `create_country` script command not having any leaders in their recruitment pool
  
• Fix duplicate ship role buttons when switching ship templates in ship designer
  
• Fix not being able to exit the game or return to menu when certain other UI windows were open
  
• Fix some leaders (e.g. paragons) getting a trait pick when you hire them even though they should not, how greedy!
  
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their leveled versions
  
• Fixed a string being undefined in the ruler designer menu
  
• Fixed an Astral Rift calling the Baol for Boal or was it the other way around?
  
• Fixed an error that prevented some Fallen Empire task events from firing
  
• Fixed cyborg zombies having a 100% chance of spawning instead of 33%
  
• Fixed default weights for pre-sapient policies
  
• Fixed Discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
  
• Fixed gestalt scientists getting research expertise traits when those traits had no effect for them
  
• Fixed heirs being able to have the Planar Theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
  
• Fixed incorrect weapon effect being used for the World Cracker
  
• Fixed invalid scope allowing pre-sapient pops to be turned into cyborg zombies
  
• Fixed issues with leaders assigned to armies or fleet that contain armies
  
• Fixed leaders sometimes getting invalid trait choices on level up
  
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II
  
• Fixed missing message title for Restoring the Balance
  
• Fixed newest achievements not working on MS Store
  
• Fixed Orbital Bombardment planet modifier not having a tooltip if there are no other planet modifiers there
  
• Fixed possibility of leader trait picks including opposites of existing traits
  
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
  
• Fixed systems at the bottom of the map spawning at wrong coordinates
  
• Fixed the Shared Burdens tooltip being outdated and mentioning additional unity from the Egalitarian faction
  
• Fixed Unity Ambitions referencing their pre-Unity rework state.
  
• Fixed Urbanist being both a Destiny trait and a Veteran trait (which prevented it from being available as a trait pick)
  
• Fleets of countries without ship_disengagement = yes (e.g. Horde) now correctly cannot use emergency retreat
  
• Former Satrapies of the Khan should no longer be informed twice when the new Horde forms.
  
• Hiring Renowned and Legendary Leaders no longer hires a mysterious clone of them instead
  
• If the Knights Keep is hit with a Pacifier Colossus there will now be unique event text
  
• It now costs 200 influence to abandon planets even if they have pre-sapients living there.
  
• Livestock slaves now inherit farmer and miner modifiers as appropriate.
  
• Making sure the negative situation outliner notifications only happens for negative situations
  
• Modifiers to empire-wide resource production now apply to resources generated through trade policies
  
• Removed reference to a loc key inside of an Under One Rule event.
  
• Renowned and Legendary Leaders no longer lose Council traits when hired by gestalt empires.
  
• Repairing The Black Crown should no longer fire generic gateway repaired events
  
• Replaced all sources of "is_leading_research = x" with "is_head_of_research" fixing numerous broken events and scopes
  
• Replaced one of the descriptions being reused for the Old Gods event chain
  
• Show turrets correctly on the Maven Cruiser and Caravaneer ships
  
• Sobek will no longer be confused and think that they came from your capital
  
• Species habitability for randomized empires is now correctly set for origins like shattered ring
  
• Stellar Culture Shock will now be applied to hive pre-FTLs if you are a hive empire.
  
• Terraforming a Barren World into a Machine or a Hive World will no longer fill that world with blockers
  
• Terraforming straight into a Hive or a Machine World now correctly removes "Terraforming Candidate"
  
• The astral rifts now correctly checks for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
  
• The Azizians event can no longer target planets that are under colonization
  
• The chance to gain negative leader traits depending on leader age now takes into account leader lifespan
  
• The Ranger Lodge will now properly produce +2 and +3 additional unity as the higher tier of Environmentalist Galactic Community Resolutions are passed.
  
• The Speed Demon anomaly will no longer show up for Synthetic empires.
  
• Updated the hire_event_leader_effect scripted effect to take account of the the Eternal Throne relic
  
• Updated the tooltip for Universal Prosperity Mandate to mention the Employee Ownership living standard
  
• When the "Prohibit Separate Treaties" federation law is enable it should now correctly remove treaties from both parties and not only the outside one
  
• When transferring ships from one fleet to another, the fleet's leader will now always stay on the old fleet
  
• AI UNE should no longer spawn if there is already an empire using the Sol initializer.
  
• Fixed a rare instance of a possible divide by 0 during rebellions
  
• Fixed orders for jump-drive-only ships being queued in the wrong order.
  
• Fixed Skrand Sharpbeak being unassigned from his ship after you hire him
  
• Fixed Skrand Sharpbeak having an excess of traits
  
• Fixed some issues with the triggers to encounter Skrand Sharpbeak - sorry he's been a bit shy recently
  
• Fixes to leader generation conditions for the leader pool if there are no valid species (such as if you nerve staple your entire population)
  
• If the Prikkiti will now build the most advanced starbase that they can instead of always trying to build a citadel even if they don't have the technology for it.
  
• If you shield the final world of the Contingency you should now receive your relic.
  
• Kaleidoscope event chain: pre-FTL countries won't be able to receive the Kaleidoscope anymore
  
• Newly released vassals now get a leader pool correctly
  
• Research stations will no longer try to go MIA when a revolt occurs.
  
• The Manifesti should no longer show up before you have encountered other alien empires.
  
• The Expel Corporation war goal now also removes Branch Offices belonging to the defender from your allies' planets
  
• A supremely unlucky pre-FTL nation should no longer be able to have multiple machine uprisings if they fight off the first one
  
• The Atomic Clock event will now properly trigger after 42 years and 3 days following the superior Stellaris Standard Calendar, which has 360 day years
  
• Authoritarianism should no longer become more popular because you have egalitarian councilors
  
• Become the Crisis AI empires will now always decline becoming vassals to awakened empires
  
• Fixed a rare case where the Shard would not turn hostile against the player
  
• Fixed a rare error that would occur if your scientist who finished a dig site died before you clicked the final dig site event
  
• Fixed the checks for the Debris Field anomaly making it rarer than it should be
  
• Fixed the Lush Planet Anomaly requiring Sol to have spawned, also updated the event rewards to work in a tileless Stellaris
  
• Hyperlanes should no longer get attached to sealed systems
  
• Imperial Fiefdom AI will no longer consider subjects to be viable overlords when they are looking for one
  
• The Fleet Maneuvers event can no longer happen in capital systems
  
• The Horizon Signal Event Chain will now correctly prioritize your head of research for narrative events
  
• The Manifesti event chain will now properly end if you apprehend them early enough
  
• The puddle technician drone job is now properly a drone job
  
• The Sentinel Order should no longer spawn in systems not connected to the rest of the galaxy, leaving everyone else to deal with the Prethoryn
  
• Upscaling the Messenger will now properly remove the negative modifiers from the ships
  
• Vultaumar III will now properly have both alloys and mineral deposits
  
• Irass III will now properly have both alloys and mineral deposits, while Irass VIII has gained its missing exotic gases

• Improved speed of AI checking whether it should send subjugation offers
  
• Various performance improvements

• Fixed crash when completing an Astral Rift if the exploring ship no longer exists
  
• Possibly fixed rare crash in galaxy map special project icon tooltip.
  
• Several Out of Sync fixes.
  
• Fixing OOS issue with planets, wormholes etc sometimes being slightly differently positioned between windows and linux.

• Add assigned Leader's name and council title to archaeology view and rift view
  
• Additional Content tab text is centered correctly
  
• Clicking on a resource in the top bar now switches to that resource in the market view instead of closing it if it was already open
  
• Clicking on the "capped resource" notification will now take you to the correct tab depending on which resource is capped (correct market tab, relics view for minor artifacts, claims view for influence)
  
• Fix claim buttons being misaligned on partially or fully occupied systems
  
• Fix Outliner tab buttons appearing over the fleet manager sidebar on smaller resolutions
  
• Fixed incorrect speed value in ship designer
  
• Fixed Outliner tab buttons appearing in front of the archaeology window.
  
• Inactive leader trait triggered modifiers are shown in the tooltip along with their trigger conditions
  
• Remove double error message for starbase building tooltips
  
• Trade protection tooltip lists empire-wide modifiers
  
• Use up to 2 decimal places for displaying stability modifiers
  
• Use up to 2 decimal places for production/upkeep in building/district tooltips
  
• If an orbital station build order is selected, its fail text in planet tooltips no longer reveals hidden information.
  
• Tooltips for Galcom sanction resolutions now show the modifiers even if they're inactive.
  
• Tooltips for Galcom resolutions that have both triggered and non-triggered modifiers no longer show the "Modifiers" header twice.

• Added better script to evaluate planet and fleet for leaders, and added description of the AI algorithms for leader assignation in the leader_classes/00_base_classes.txt
  
• Awakened Empires can now upgrade their starbases.
  
• Changed leader assignation into a single loop for all location types, sorting locations by priority and leaders by skill, then trying to assign the highest priority leader to locations in order
  
• Fixed AI being able to improve and harm relations at the same time
  
• Fixed another case of the AI assigning Leaders to invalid (empty) fleets
  
• Fixed the AI trying to assign military leaders to science fleets.
  
• Improved AI weights for Ascension Paths
  
• The AI now hires leaders the same way it assigns them. Expect an increased number of generals.
  
• The AI will evaluate a leader for a location based on the `ai_location_weight` scripted value in the leader class
  
• The Fear of the Dark AI empires will be less predictable with what extreme paths they might take.
  
• The weight value for location priority when assigning leaders is now a define. When assigning leaders, there are 2 steps, first steps leader and locations are assigned a priority value, and then each leader calculates a final weight for each location. The leader/location pair with the highest weight is then assigned. This change affects the first step (the priority in the queue), as the second step is already fully scriptable.
  
• Improved AI leader assignment weights
  
• The AI now decides whether to strengthen or undermine the galactic empire based on two new game rules
  
• The AI will no longer build additional Quantum Catapults if they already have one within 25 jumps.
  
• Improved AI decision-making for the "Find Military Applications" Artifact Action
  
• Improved AI logic when it comes to when to use the Strip Mining decision
  
• Reduced the AI willingness to accept trade deals for food or consumer goods if they don't use those resources
  
• AI Hive-Mind empires now have an increased chance to research terraforming technologies since they are unlikely to get more pop types from migration pacts.

• Add `last_resolution_category_changed` trigger
  
• Added a check for the block_homeworld_traits leader flag in all traits that provide additional jobs to the leader's background planet. This flag is not currently used in the vanilla game
  
• Added checked for the following leader flags to leader trait weights and potentials: block_army_traits, block_council_traits, block_federation_traits, block_galcom_traits, block_governor_traits, block_pilot_traits these flags set the selection weight for leader traits in their category to 0 but are ignored if the leader has a subclass specializing in the category. These flags are currently unused in the vanilla game
  
• Added game rule 'can_ai_assign_governor' to let the AI decide if a planet can have a governor or not
  
• Added NON_PARAGON_TRAIT_OPTIONS_ON_LEVEL_UP define
  
• Added not_potential_override_text_key parameter to triggered modifier (currently used in leader trait tooltips and galcom resolutions)
  
• Added on_army_disbanded on_action
  
• Added show_if_not_potential parameter to triggered modifier (currently used in leader trait tooltips and galcom resolutions)
  
• Added text_offset variable to buttonType (only used for buttons that have both a sprite and text)
  
• Added the "is_urban_planet" scripted trigger for pc_relic and pc_city planets
  
• leader_class trigger can now appear in tooltips
  
• Renamed LEADER_RULER_MONARCH_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_RULER_EXPERIENCE and LEADER_RULER_HEIR_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_HEIR_EXPERIENCE
  
• Replaced "negative", "subclass_trait", "destiny_trait" and "veteran_class_locked_trait" leader trait variables with "leader_trait_type"
  
• Updated documentation for create_species effect
  
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE
  
• Fixed "remove_deposit" effect not working in a deposit scope, fixing orbitals not removing their bonus to habitats when destroyed
  
• Replaced the loc string used to select a background for Paragon portraits with an asset selector.
  
• can_generate_military_leader_from_pop now includes the requirements of can_generate_leader_from_pop, which are now in the can_be_leader scripted trigger.

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by PDX-Loke

Hello fellow stargazers,

The 3.11.1 patch is now live and available for download.

Please find the changelog below.

Enjoy!

[h3]3.11.1 ERIDANUS CUSTODIAN UPDATE RELEASE NOTES[/h3]

Feature

• Difficulty Adjusted Technology Costs slider added to galaxy generation. This slider adjusts technology costs based on tier and game difficulty.
  

• Added notification message when new pop settles in zeya (Gaia planet in azilash)
  
• Added the Seedom system.
  
• Allowed conversion between Sovereign Guardianship and Corporate Protectorate civics
  
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
  
• Every participant in a war now gets a truce with the others after it ends, even if they were on the same side
  
• If you have a colony in a system when pre-FTLs become space faring you can apologize and annex them
  
• Progenitor Hive speed malus and bonuses now only affect military ships, removing the need of science ship escorts
  
• Technology and Tradition costs are now distinct sliders in galaxy setup
  
• The Anglers civic now swaps to Trawling Operations if you reform your government into a megacorp and vice versa
  
• The Eager Explorers civic now swaps to Privatized Exploration if you reform your government into a megacorp and vice versa
  
• The Eager Explorers, Privatized Exploration and Exploration Protocols civics can be removed and readded after researching Jump Drives. The Stargazers civic cannot be removed as it is linked to the species trait of the same name
  
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
  
• When the Khan awakens the event will now properly have a go to button
  
• Gangsters should no longer assassinate Chosen Ones or Legendary leaders
  
• If a Zombie or Nerve Stapled pop manages to lie on their resume and become a specialist or ruler they should be demoted much faster
  
• Xenophobic leaders are now half as likely to accept brainslugs while Xenophilic ones are twice as likely to accept them
  
• Improved spawning logic for anomalies that clear deposits to not spawn on planets with strategic resources
  
• Added the old AI crisis diplomatic room to the list of selectable diplomatic rooms
  
• Rearranged the room selector priorities so that AI empires shouldn't lose special diplomatic rooms
  
  • Set the old AI crisis diplomatic room to be used by Determined Exterminators
    
  • Set the "scrappy room" to be used by the Ketlings
    
  • Set the "gilded room" to be used the AI overlord for the Imperial Fiefdom origin
    
  • Set the "organic room" to be used by Devouring Swarms
    

• All pop types will now be happy while living on a gaia world.
  
• Added a tier 2 Advanced Bio-Reactor technology and building. Advanced Bio-Reactors further reduce the food output of farmers in exchange for a small amount of exotic gas output
  
• Added Gateway Cost and Megastructure Build Speed modifiers to the Galactic Doorstep origin
  
• Ascension Theory is now a Tier 4 technology that requires at least 6 traditions trees to have been completed to be drawn
  
• Balance adjustments to the Knights of the Toxic God to make some of their behavior behave the same way as other economic bonuses in the game, and make more of the choices in the chain potentially relevant.
  
• Event options in the Knights' quest that improve their capital have been significantly buffed to be better balanced compared to the options that improve knight jobs:
  
• Knight output modifiers now only apply to resources, like other job output modifiers
  
• Knights now correctly inherit production modifiers from researchers and administrators
  
• Refactored how the output scaling for Knights from Squires functions, these now behave as normal additive modifiers instead of multiplicative modifiers
  
• Squires now increase the resource output of Knights by 2.5% per Squire not 2% per Squire
  
• The Luminous Blades modifier from the Knight's Quest now removes the alloy upkeep of knights and gives +25% Army damage instead of an empire-wide +1.5% alloy production modifier per knight
  
• The Orders X-Calibrator planetary feature on their starting habitat now also provides -10% Pop Upkeep
  
• The Fortress Habitat Designation for Knights no longer provides +1 Defensive Army per Pop on the habitat, instead each Squire job provides +1 Defensive Army
  
• Bio-Reactors are now a tier 1 rare technology instead of a tier 0 Technology. Bio-Reactors now reduce the food output of farmer jobs and give them a small amount of energy output
  
• Bio-Trophy buildings no longer provide Artisan Drone and Maintenance Drone jobs
  
• Decreased the amount of research produced by unemployed pops with Utopian Abundance
  
• Delegate GalCom focus traits now have a small chance to give favors
  
• Ecclesiastical Arcologies no longer provide Manager jobs for Corporate Death Cults
  
• Ecclesiastical Arcologies now provide Prosperity Preachers for MegaCorps instead of a split between Priests and Managers for regular Spiritualist MegaCorps
  
• First League Offices now provide Prosperity Preacher jobs for Spiritualist MegaCorps
  
• Galactic Doorstep event chain now directly rewards the Gateway Activation technology and gives far more progress on the Gateway Construction technology
  
• Gospel of the Masses now provides +1 Trade Value to Prosperity Preachers (both inside their empire and those on planet on which they have branch offices)
  
• Increased technology costs, especially those of higher tier technologies
  
• Increased the cost of the Rock Potential special project to 1000 energy to account for Stellaris Inflation
  
• Increased the effects of Empire Size on Technology to match its effect on Traditions
  
• Lost Colony Parents now spawn with more developed colonies to avoid overcrowding on their capital.
  
• Machine Intelligences with a biological secondary species now have a base food income of 10 food/month, and without a secondary species or with a Lithoid secondary species, they now have a base mineral income of 10 minerals/month.
  
• Moved habitat upkeep modifiers from the domination opener to the expansion opener. Available for all, not just void dwellers
  
• Curator leader trait now provides +10% Research Speed (was +15%) with an associated +10% Researcher Upkeep. The Survey Speed bonus remains unchanged
  
• Penal Colonies now provide 10 housing.
  
• Prosperity Preachers are now a specialist strata job
  
• Rebalanced leader traits gained from Ascension Paths (Psionic, Chosen One, Synthetic, Cyborg, Erudite)
  
• Reduced output of researcher jobs
  
• Reduced the amount of Naval Cap granted by technologies
  
• Removed most sources of Ship Cost and Upkeep reductions from the game
  
  
  
  • Bulwark ship upkeep reductions reduced by 50%
    
  • Corporate Crusader Spirit now reduces ship upkeep by 5% instead of 10%
    
  • Crusader Spirit civic now improves ship build speed
    
  • Fleet Supremacy edict no longer reduces ship upkeep
    
  • Grand Fleet ambition now increases power projection instead of reducing ship upkeep
    
  • Logistic Understanding, Armada Logistician, and Gunboat Diplomat traits now reduces ship upkeep while docked
    
  • Mark of the Instrument ship component no longer reduces ship upkeep
    
  • Master Shipwrights tradition in the Supremacy tree no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Match tradition in the Enmity tree bonus to ship build costs reduced to 5% instead of 10%
    
  • Military Buildup Agenda now improves ship build speed and reduces claim costs. (It still reduces War Exhaustion on completion.)
    
  • Military Pioneer trait now reduces starbase upgrade costs instead of ship build costs
    
  • Naval Procurement Officer councilor now improves ship build speed
    
  • Progress Oriented modifier no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Psionic Supremacy (Eater of Worlds) finisher no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Reduced penalty the Irenic trait applies to ship build costs
    
  • Sanctum of the Eater ship upkeep reduction reduced from 10% to 5%
    
  • Shipwright trait no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Vyctor's Improved Fleet Logistics trait now reduces ship build costs by 10% instead of 20%
    
  
  
• Rulers now gain 12 XP per month
  
• Temples now provide Prosperity Preachers for Spiritualist MegaCorps instead of a split between Priests and Managers
  
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personality of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
  
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
  
• Tier 2 and Tier 3 Sacrificial Temples no longer provide Manager jobs for Corporate Death Cults
  
• Tweaked the tiers of technologies that increase naval cap and fleet command limit
  
• Warpling armies now have an upkeep of 1 energy and 0.1 astral threads per month
  
• Empires that value other species, such as Rogue Servitors, will now get extra annoyed if you engage in genocide or necrophaging
  
• Gestalt empires can now sell their minor artifacts provided that they have access to the galactic market
  
• Marauder ships should now have a decently larger amount of armor for most shipsizes
  
• Refugees should now also be willing to flee to Rogue Servitors if they are welcomed as Bio-trophies
  
• Psychological Infertility and Existential Iteroparity can no longer be taken with the Clone Soldier or Ascended Clone Soldier trait.
  
• Two of the three habitable planets in the Trappist system are now terraforming candidates
  
• The "Tragula's Cross", "Trin's Promise" and "Loh" systems are now mutually exclusive on galaxy generation
  
• The Science Ship as a Concept now uses psionic components instead of whichever components your empire has researched
  

• Added missing class name and icon in the leader upkeep tooltip
  
• Added missing required components to the Marauder Galleon
  
• Added new localization and triggers for Machine Empires exploring the Rift World origin.
  
• Armies now disband instantly instead of waiting for next tick
  
• Cordyceptic Empires that only had Subspace Drives on their ships are now also capable of reanimating space fauna
  
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
  
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
  
• Corrected some trait names
  
• Corrected the Scout Wing using the wrong 3d entities
  
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
  
• Diplo action tooltip now shows why we can't claim any systems
  
• distar.1081 will no longer spawn pops on colonies in progress
  
• Driven Assimilators with the Protected Pre-Sapients policy will no longer purge pre-sapients
  
• Empires with the Mechromancy AP can no longer purge cyborg zombies
  
• Event windows now correctly have no effect after the player has been defeated
  
• Extra trait points for script-generated species are now added correctly
  
• Fix countries created by `create_country` script command not having any leaders in their recruitment pool
  
• Fix duplicate ship role buttons when switching ship templates in ship designer
  
• Fix not being able to exit the game or return to menu when certain other UI windows were open
  
• Fix some leaders (e.g. paragons) getting a trait pick when you hire them even though they should not, how greedy!
  
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their leveled versions
  
• Fixed a string being undefined in the ruler designer menu
  
• Fixed an Astral Rift calling the Baol for Boal or was it the other way around?
  
• Fixed an error that prevented some Fallen Empire task events from firing
  
• Fixed cyborg zombies having a 100% chance of spawning instead of 33%
  
• Fixed default weights for pre-sapient policies
  
• Fixed Discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
  
• Fixed gestalt scientists getting research expertise traits when those traits had no effect for them
  
• Fixed heirs being able to have the Planar Theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
  
• Fixed incorrect weapon effect being used for the World Cracker
  
• Fixed invalid scope allowing pre-sapient pops to be turned into cyborg zombies
  
• Fixed issues with leaders assigned to armies or fleet that contain armies
  
• Fixed leaders sometimes getting invalid trait choices on level up
  
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II
  
• Fixed missing message title for Restoring the Balance
  
• Fixed newest achievements not working on MS Store
  
• Fixed Orbital Bombardment planet modifier not having a tooltip if there are no other planet modifiers there
  
• Fixed possibility of leader trait picks including opposites of existing traits
  
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
  
• Fixed systems at the bottom of the map spawning at wrong coordinates
  
• Fixed the Shared Burdens tooltip being outdated and mentioning additional unity from the Egalitarian faction
  
• Fixed Unity Ambitions referencing their pre-Unity rework state.
  
• Fixed Urbanist being both a Destiny trait and a Veteran trait (which prevented it from being available as a trait pick)
  
• Fleets of countries without ship_disengagement = yes (e.g. Horde) now correctly cannot use emergency retreat
  
• Former Satrapies of the Khan should no longer be informed twice when the new Horde forms.
  
• Hiring Renowned and Legendary Leaders no longer hires a mysterious clone of them instead
  
• If the Knights Keep is hit with a Pacifier Colossus there will now be unique event text
  
• It now costs 200 influence to abandon planets even if they have pre-sapients living there.
  
• Livestock slaves now inherit farmer and miner modifiers as appropriate.
  
• Making sure the negative situation outliner notifications only happens for negative situations
  
• Modifiers to empire-wide resource production now apply to resources generated through trade policies
  
• Removed reference to a loc key inside of an Under One Rule event.
  
• Renowned and Legendary Leaders no longer lose Council traits when hired by gestalt empires.
  
• Repairing The Black Crown should no longer fire generic gateway repaired events
  
• Replaced all sources of "is_leading_research = x" with "is_head_of_research" fixing numerous broken events and scopes
  
• Replaced one of the descriptions being reused for the Old Gods event chain
  
• Show turrets correctly on the Maven Cruiser and Caravaneer ships
  
• Sobek will no longer be confused and think that they came from your capital
  
• Species habitability for randomized empires is now correctly set for origins like shattered ring
  
• Stellar Culture Shock will now be applied to hive pre-FTLs if you are a hive empire.
  
• Terraforming a Barren World into a Machine or a Hive World will no longer fill that world with blockers
  
• Terraforming straight into a Hive or a Machine World now correctly removes "Terraforming Candidate"
  
• The astral rifts now correctly checks for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
  
• The Azizians event can no longer target planets that are under colonization
  
• The chance to gain negative leader traits depending on leader age now takes into account leader lifespan
  
• The Ranger Lodge will now properly produce +2 and +3 additional unity as the higher tier of Environmentalist Galactic Community Resolutions are passed.
  
• The Speed Demon anomaly will no longer show up for Synthetic empires.
  
• Updated the hire_event_leader_effect scripted effect to take account of the the Eternal Throne relic
  
• Updated the tooltip for Universal Prosperity Mandate to mention the Employee Ownership living standard
  
• When the "Prohibit Separate Treaties" federation law is enable it should now correctly remove treaties from both parties and not only the outside one
  
• When transferring ships from one fleet to another, the fleet's leader will now always stay on the old fleet
  
• The Expel Corporation war goal now also removes Branch Offices belonging to the defender from your allies' planets
  
• A supremely unlucky pre-FTL nation should no longer be able to have multiple machine uprisings if they fight off the first one
  
• The Atomic Clock event will now properly trigger after 42 years and 3 days following the superior Stellaris Standard Calendar, which has 360 day years
  
• Authoritarianism should no longer become more popular because you have egalitarian councilors
  
• Become the Crisis AI empires will now always decline becoming vassals to awakened empires
  
• Fixed a rare case where the Shard would not turn hostile against the player
  
• Fixed a rare error that would occur if your scientist who finished a dig site died before you clicked the final dig site event
  
• Fixed the checks for the Debris Field anomaly making it rarer than it should be
  
• Fixed the Lush Planet Anomaly requiring Sol to have spawned, also updated the event rewards to work in a tileless Stellaris
  
• Hyperlanes should no longer get attached to sealed systems
  
• Imperial Fiefdom AI will no longer consider subjects to be viable overlords when they are looking for one
  
• The Fleet Maneuvers event can no longer happen in capital systems
  
• The Horizon Signal Event Chain will now correctly prioritize your head of research for narrative events
  
• The Manifesti event chain will now properly end if you apprehend them early enough
  
• The puddle technician drone job is now properly a drone job
  
• The Sentinel Order should no longer spawn in systems not connected to the rest of the galaxy, leaving everyone else to deal with the Prethoryn
  
• Upscaling the Messenger will now properly remove the negative modifiers from the ships
  
• Vultaumar III will now properly have both alloys and mineral deposits
  
• Irass III will now properly have both alloys and mineral deposits, while Irass VIII has gained its missing exotic gases
  
• AI UNE should no longer spawn if there is already an empire using the Sol initializer.
  
• Fixed a rare instance of a possible divide by 0 during rebellions
  
• Fixed orders for jump-drive-only ships being queued in the wrong order.
  
• Fixed Skrand Sharpbeak being unassigned from his ship after you hire him
  
• Fixed Skrand Sharpbeak having an excess of traits
  
• Fixed some issues with the triggers to encounter Skrand Sharpbeak - sorry he's been a bit shy recently
  
• Fixes to leader generation conditions for the leader pool if there are no valid species (such as if you nerve staple your entire population)
  
• If the Prikkiti will now build the most advanced starbase that they can instead of always trying to build a citadel even if they don't have the technology for it.
  
• If you shield the final world of the Contingency you should now receive your relic.
  
• Kaleidoscope event chain: pre-FTL countries won't be able to receive the Kaleidoscope anymore
  
• Newly released vassals now get a leader pool correctly
  
• Research stations will no longer try to go MIA when a revolt occurs.
  
• The Manifesti should no longer show up before you have encountered other alien empires.
  

• Improved speed of AI checking whether it should send subjugation offers
  
• Various performance improvements
  

• Fixed crash when completing an Astral Rift if the exploring ship no longer exists
  
• Possibly fixed rare crash in galaxy map special project icon tooltip.
  
• Several Out of Sync fixes.
  
• Fixing OOS issue with planets, wormholes etc sometimes being slightly differently positioned between windows and linux.
  

• Add assigned Leader's name and council title to archaeology view and rift view
  
• Additional Content tab text is centered correctly
  
• Clicking on a resource in the top bar now switches to that resource in the market view instead of closing it if it was already open
  
• Clicking on the "capped resource" notification will now take you to the correct tab depending on which resource is capped (correct market tab, relics view for minor artifacts, claims view for influence)
  
• Fix claim buttons being misaligned on partially or fully occupied systems
  
• Fix Outliner tab buttons appearing over the fleet manager sidebar on smaller resolutions
  
• Fixed incorrect speed value in ship designer
  
• Fixed Outliner tab buttons appearing in front of the archaeology window.
  
• Inactive leader trait triggered modifiers are shown in the tooltip along with their trigger conditions
  
• Remove double error message for starbase building tooltips
  
• Trade protection tooltip lists empire-wide modifiers
  
• Use up to 2 decimal places for displaying stability modifiers
  
• Use up to 2 decimal places for production/upkeep in building/district tooltips
  
• If an orbital station build order is selected, its fail text in planet tooltips no longer reveals hidden information.
  
• Tooltips for Galcom sanction resolutions now show the modifiers even if they're inactive.
  
• Tooltips for Galcom resolutions that have both triggered and non-triggered modifiers no longer show the "Modifiers" header twice.
  

• Added better script to evaluate planet and fleet for leaders, and added description of the AI algorithms for leader assignation in the leader_classes/00_base_classes.txt
  
• Awakened Empires can now upgrade their starbases.
  
• Changed leader assignation into a single loop for all location types, sorting locations by priority and leaders by skill, then trying to assign the highest priority leader to locations in order
  
• Fixed AI being able to improve and harm relations at the same time
  
• Fixed another case of the AI assigning Leaders to invalid (empty) fleets
  
• Fixed the AI trying to assign military leaders to science fleets.
  
• Improved AI weights for Ascension Paths
  
• The AI now hires leaders the same way it assigns them. Expect an increased number of generals.
  
• The AI will evaluate a leader for a location based on the `ai_location_weight` scripted value in the leader class
  
• The Fear of the Dark AI empires will be less predictable with what extreme paths they might take.
  
• The weight value for location priority when assigning leaders is now a define. When assigning leaders, there are 2 steps, first steps leader and locations are assigned a priority value, and then each leader calculates a final weight for each location. The leader/location pair with the highest weight is then assigned. This change affects the first step (the priority in the queue), as the second step is already fully scriptable.
  
• Improved AI decision-making for the "Find Military Applications" Artifact Action
  
• Improved AI logic when it comes to when to use the Strip Mining decision
  
• Reduced the AI willingness to accept trade deals for food or consumer goods if they don't use those resources
  
• AI Hive-Mind empires now have an increased chance to research terraforming technologies since they are unlikely to get more pop types from migration pacts.
  
• Improved AI leader assignment weights
  
• The AI now decides whether to strengthen or undermine the galactic empire based on two new game rules
  
• The AI will no longer build additional Quantum Catapults if they already have one within 25 jumps.
  

• Add `last_resolution_category_changed` trigger
  
• Added a check for the block_homeworld_traits leader flag in all traits that provide additional jobs to the leader's background planet. This flag is not currently used in the vanilla game
  
• Added checked for the following leader flags to leader trait weights and potentials: block_army_traits, block_council_traits, block_federation_traits, block_galcom_traits, block_governor_traits, block_pilot_traits these flags set the selection weight for leader traits in their category to 0 but are ignored if the leader has a subclass specializing in the category. These flags are currently unused in the vanilla game
  
• Added game rule 'can_ai_assign_governor' to let the AI decide if a planet can have a governor or not
  
• Added NON_PARAGON_TRAIT_OPTIONS_ON_LEVEL_UP define
  
• Added not_potential_override_text_key parameter to triggered modifier (currently used in leader trait tooltips and galcom resolutions)
  
• Added on_army_disbanded on_action
  
• Added show_if_not_potential parameter to triggered modifier (currently used in leader trait tooltips and galcom resolutions)
  
• Added text_offset variable to buttonType (only used for buttons that have both a sprite and text)
  
• Added the "is_urban_planet" scripted trigger for pc_relic and pc_city planets
  
• leader_class trigger can now appear in tooltips
  
• Renamed LEADER_RULER_MONARCH_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_RULER_EXPERIENCE and LEADER_RULER_HEIR_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_HEIR_EXPERIENCE
  
• Replaced "negative", "subclass_trait", "destiny_trait" and "veteran_class_locked_trait" leader trait variables with "leader_trait_type"
  
• Updated documentation for create_species effect
  
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE
  
• Fixed "remove_deposit" effect not working in a deposit scope, fixing orbitals not removing their bonus to habitats when destroyed
  
• Replaced the loc string used to select a background for Paragon portraits with an asset selector.
  
• can_generate_military_leader_from_pop now includes the requirements of can_generate_leader_from_pop, which are now in the can_be_leader scripted trigger.
  

by Eladrin

Hello everyone!

Weve hit our code freeze, so barring unforeseen circumstances, the 3.11 Eridanus update will be released next Tuesday, on February 27th.
[h3]Preliminary Release Notes[/h3]
As promised, here are the preliminary release notes. Release Notes prefaced with a symbol had community involvement from our modders, and Ive placed changes that have been merged since last weeks dev diary at the end of each section and marked them with a .

[h3]3.11 ERIDANUS CUSTODIAN UPDATE PRELIMINARY RELEASE NOTES[/h3]

Feature

• Difficulty Adjusted Technology Costs slider added to galaxy generation. This slider adjusts technology costs based on tier and game difficulty.
  

• Added notification message when new pop settles in zeya (Gaia planet in azilash)
  
• Added the Seedom system.
  
• Allowed conversion between Sovereign Guardianship and Corporate Protectorate civics
  
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
  
• Every participant in a war now gets a truce with the others after it ends, even if they were on the same side
  
• If you have a colony in a system when pre-FTLs become space faring you can apologize and annex them
  
• Progenitor Hive speed malus and bonuses now only affect military ships, removing the need of science ship escorts
  
• Technology and Tradition costs are now distinct sliders in galaxy setup
  
• The Anglers civic now swaps to Trawling Operations if you reform your government into a megacorp and vice versa
  
• The Eager Explorers civic now swaps to Privatized Exploration if you reform your government into a megacorp and vice versa
  
• The Eager Explorers, Privatized Exploration and Exploration Protocols civics can be removed and readded after researching Jump Drives. The Stargazers civic cannot be removed as it is linked to the species trait of the same name
  
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
  
• When the Khan awakens the event will now properly have a go to button
  
• Gangsters should no longer assassinate Chosen Ones or Legendary leaders
  
• If a Zombie or Nerve Stapled pop manages to lie on their resume and become a specialist or ruler they should be demoted much faster
  
• Xenophobic leaders are now half as likely to accept brainslugs while Xenophilic ones are twice as likely to accept them
  
• Improved spawning logic for anomalies that clear deposits to not spawn on planets with strategic resources
  
• Added the old AI crisis diplomatic room to the list of selectable diplomatic rooms
  
• Rearranged the room selector priorities so that AI empires shouldn't lose special diplomatic rooms
  
  • Set the old AI crisis diplomatic room to be used by Determined Exterminators
    
  • Set the "scrappy room" to be used by the Ketlings
    
  • Set the "gilded room" to be used the AI overlord for the Imperial Fiefdom origin
    
  • Set the "organic room" to be used by Devouring Swarms
    

• All pop types will now be happy while living on a gaia world.
  
• Added a tier 2 Advanced Bio-Reactor technology and building. Advanced Bio-Reactors further reduce the food output of farmers in exchange for a small amount of exotic gas output
  
• Added Gateway Cost and Megastructure Build Speed modifiers to the Galactic Doorstep origin
  
• Ascension Theory is now a Tier 4 technology that requires at least 6 traditions trees to have been completed to be drawn
  
• Balance adjustments to the Knights of the Toxic God to make some of their behavior behave the same way as other economic bonuses in the game, and make more of the choices in the chain potentially relevant.
  
• Event options in the Knights' quest that improve their capital have been significantly buffed to be better balanced compared to the options that improve knight jobs:
  

• Knight output modifiers now only apply to resources, like other job output modifiers
  
• Knights now correctly inherit production modifiers from researchers and administrators
  
• Refactored how the output scaling for Knights from Squires functions, these now behave as normal additive modifiers instead of multiplicative modifiers
  
• Squires now increase the resource output of Knights by 2.5% per Squire not 2% per Squire
  
• The Luminous Blades modifier from the Knight's Quest now removes the alloy upkeep of knights and gives +25% Army damage instead of an empire-wide +1.5% alloy production modifier per knight
  

• The Orders X-Calibrator planetary feature on their starting habitat now also provides -10% Pop Upkeep
  

• The Fortress Habitat Designation for Knights no longer provides +1 Defensive Army per Pop on the habitat, instead each Squire job provides +1 Defensive Army
  
• Bio-Reactors are now a tier 1 rare technology instead of a tier 0 Technology. Bio-Reactors now reduce the food output of farmer jobs and give them a small amount of energy output
  
• Bio-Trophy buildings no longer provide Artisan Drone and Maintenance Drone jobs
  
• Decreased the amount of research produced by unemployed pops with Utopian Abundance
  
• Delegate GalCom focus traits now have a small chance to give favors
  
• Ecclesiastical Arcologies no longer provide Manager jobs for Corporate Death Cults
  
• Ecclesiastical Arcologies now provide Prosperity Preachers for MegaCorps instead of a split between Priests and Managers for regular Spiritualist MegaCorps
  
• First League Offices now provide Prosperity Preacher jobs for Spiritualist MegaCorps
  
• Galactic Doorstep event chain now directly rewards the Gateway Activation technology and gives far more progress on the Gateway Construction technology
  
• Gospel of the Masses now provides +1 Trade Value to Prosperity Preachers (both inside their empire and those on planet on which they have branch offices)
  
• Increased technology costs, especially those of higher tier technologies
  
• Increased the cost of the Rock Potential special project to 1000 energy to account for Stellaris Inflation
  
• Increased the effects of Empire Size on Technology to match its effect on Traditions
  
• Lost Colony Parents now spawn with more developed colonies to avoid overcrowding on their capital.
  
• Machine Intelligences with a biological secondary species now have a base food income of 10 food/month, and without a secondary species or with a Lithoid secondary species, they now have a base mineral income of 10 minerals/month.
  
• Moved habitat upkeep modifiers from the domination opener to the expansion opener. Available for all, not just void dwellers
  
• Curator leader trait now provides +10% Research Speed (was +15%) with an associated +10% Researcher Upkeep. The Survey Speed bonus remains unchanged
  
• Penal Colonies now provide 10 housing.
  
• Prosperity Preachers are now a specialist strata job
  
• Rebalanced leader traits gained from Ascension Paths (Psionic, Chosen One, Synthetic, Cyborg, Erudite)
  
• Reduced output of researcher jobs
  
• Reduced the amount of Naval Cap granted by technologies
  
• Removed most sources of Ship Cost and Upkeep reductions from the game
  
  
  
  • Bulwark ship upkeep reductions reduced by 50%
    
  • Corporate Crusader Spirit now reduces ship upkeep by 5% instead of 10%
    
  • Crusader Spirit civic now improves ship build speed
    
  • Fleet Supremacy edict no longer reduces ship upkeep
    
  • Grand Fleet ambition now increases power projection instead of reducing ship upkeep
    
  • Logistic Understanding, Armada Logistician, and Gunboat Diplomat traits now reduces ship upkeep while docked
    
  • Mark of the Instrument ship component no longer reduces ship upkeep
    
  • Master Shipwrights tradition in the Supremacy tree no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Match tradition in the Enmity tree bonus to ship build costs reduced to 5% instead of 10%
    
  • Military Buildup Agenda now improves ship build speed and reduces claim costs. (It still reduces War Exhaustion on completion.)
    
  • Military Pioneer trait now reduces starbase upgrade costs instead of ship build costs
    
  • Naval Procurement Officer councilor now improves ship build speed
    
  • Progress Oriented modifier no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Psionic Supremacy (Eater of Worlds) finisher no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Reduced penalty the Irenic trait applies to ship build costs
    
  • Sanctum of the Eater ship upkeep reduction reduced from 10% to 5%
    
  • Shipwright trait no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Vyctor's Improved Fleet Logistics trait now reduces ship build costs by 10% instead of 20%
    
  
  
• Rulers now gain 12 XP per month
  
• Temples now provide Prosperity Preachers for Spiritualist MegaCorps instead of a split between Priests and Managers
  
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personality of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
  
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
  
• Tier 2 and Tier 3 Sacrificial Temples no longer provide Manager jobs for Corporate Death Cults
  
• Tweaked the tiers of technologies that increase naval cap and fleet command limit
  
• Warpling armies now have an upkeep of 1 energy and 0.1 astral threads per month
  
• Empires that value other species, such as Rogue Servitors, will now get extra annoyed if you engage in genocide or necrophaging
  
• Gestalt empires can now sell their minor artifacts provided that they have access to the galactic market
  
• Marauder ships should now have a decently larger amount of armor for most shipsizes
  
• Refugees should now also be willing to flee to Rogue Servitors if they are welcomed as Bio-trophies
  
• Psychological Infertility and Existential Iteroparity can no longer be taken with the Clone Soldier or Ascended Clone Soldier trait.
  
• Two of the three habitable planets in the Trappist system are now terraforming candidates
  
• The "Tragula's Cross", "Trin's Promise" and "Loh" systems are now mutually exclusive on galaxy generation
  
• The Science Ship as a Concept now uses psionic components instead of whichever components your empire has researched
  

• Added missing class name and icon in the leader upkeep tooltip
  
• Added missing required components to the Marauder Galleon
  
• Added new localization and triggers for Machine Empires exploring the Rift World origin.
  
• Armies now disband instantly instead of waiting for next tick
  
• Cordyceptic Empires that only had Subspace Drives on their ships are now also capable of reanimating space fauna
  
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
  
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
  
• Corrected some trait names
  
• Corrected the Scout Wing using the wrong 3d entities
  
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
  
• Diplo action tooltip now shows why we can't claim any systems
  
• distar.1081 will no longer spawn pops on colonies in progress
  
• Driven Assimilators with the Protected Pre-Sapients policy will no longer purge pre-sapients
  
• Empires with the Mechromancy AP can no longer purge cyborg zombies
  
• Event windows now correctly have no effect after the player has been defeated
  
• Extra trait points for script-generated species are now added correctly
  
• Fix countries created by `create_country` script command not having any leaders in their recruitment pool
  
• Fix duplicate ship role buttons when switching ship templates in ship designer
  
• Fix not being able to exit the game or return to menu when certain other UI windows were open
  
• Fix some leaders (e.g. paragons) getting a trait pick when you hire them even though they should not, how greedy!
  
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their leveled versions
  
• Fixed a string being undefined in the ruler designer menu
  
• Fixed an Astral Rift calling the Baol for Boal or was it the other way around?
  
• Fixed an error that prevented some Fallen Empire task events from firing
  
• Fixed cyborg zombies having a 100% chance of spawning instead of 33%
  
• Fixed default weights for pre-sapient policies
  
• Fixed Discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
  
• Fixed gestalt scientists getting research expertise traits when those traits had no effect for them
  
• Fixed heirs being able to have the Planar Theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
  
• Fixed incorrect weapon effect being used for the World Cracker
  
• Fixed invalid scope allowing pre-sapient pops to be turned into cyborg zombies
  
• Fixed issues with leaders assigned to armies or fleet that contain armies
  
• Fixed leaders sometimes getting invalid trait choices on level up
  
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II
  
• Fixed missing message title for Restoring the Balance
  
• Fixed newest achievements not working on MS Store
  
• Fixed Orbital Bombardment planet modifier not having a tooltip if there are no other planet modifiers there
  
• Fixed possibility of leader trait picks including opposites of existing traits
  
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
  
• Fixed systems at the bottom of the map spawning at wrong coordinates
  
• Fixed the Shared Burdens tooltip being outdated and mentioning additional unity from the Egalitarian faction
  
• Fixed Unity Ambitions referencing their pre-Unity rework state.
  
• Fixed Urbanist being both a Destiny trait and a Veteran trait (which prevented it from being available as a trait pick)
  
• Fleets of countries without ship_disengagement = yes (e.g. Horde) now correctly cannot use emergency retreat
  
• Former Satrapies of the Khan should no longer be informed twice when the new Horde forms.
  
• Hiring Renowned and Legendary Leaders no longer hires a mysterious clone of them instead
  
• If the Knights Keep is hit with a Pacifier Colossus there will now be unique event text
  
• It now costs 200 influence to abandon planets even if they have pre-sapients living there.
  
• Livestock slaves now inherit farmer and miner modifiers as appropriate.
  
• Making sure the negative situation outliner notifications only happens for negative situations
  
• Modifiers to empire-wide resource production now apply to resources generated through trade policies
  
• Removed reference to a loc key inside of an Under One Rule event.
  
• Renowned and Legendary Leaders no longer lose Council traits when hired by gestalt empires.
  
• Repairing The Black Crown should no longer fire generic gateway repaired events
  
• Replaced all sources of "is_leading_research = x" with "is_head_of_research" fixing numerous broken events and scopes
  
• Replaced one of the descriptions being reused for the Old Gods event chain
  
• Show turrets correctly on the Maven Cruiser and Caravaneer ships
  
• Sobek will no longer be confused and think that they came from your capital
  
• Species habitability for randomized empires is now correctly set for origins like shattered ring
  
• Stellar Culture Shock will now be applied to hive pre-FTLs if you are a hive empire.
  
• Terraforming a Barren World into a Machine or a Hive World will no longer fill that world with blockers
  
• Terraforming straight into a Hive or a Machine World now correctly removes "Terraforming Candidate"
  
• The astral rifts now correctly checks for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
  
• The Azizians event can no longer target planets that are under colonization
  
• The chance to gain negative leader traits depending on leader age now takes into account leader lifespan
  
• The Ranger Lodge will now properly produce +2 and +3 additional unity as the higher tier of Environmentalist Galactic Community Resolutions are passed.
  
• The Speed Demon anomaly will no longer show up for Synthetic empires.
  
• Updated the hire_event_leader_effect scripted effect to take account of the the Eternal Throne relic
  
• Updated the tooltip for Universal Prosperity Mandate to mention the Employee Ownership living standard
  
• When the "Prohibit Separate Treaties" federation law is enable it should now correctly remove treaties from both parties and not only the outside one
  
• When transferring ships from one fleet to another, the fleet's leader will now always stay on the old fleet
  
• The Expel Corporation war goal now also removes Branch Offices belonging to the defender from your allies' planets
  
• A supremely unlucky pre-FTL nation should no longer be able to have multiple machine uprisings if they fight off the first one
  
• The Atomic Clock event will now properly trigger after 42 years and 3 days following the superior Stellaris Standard Calendar, which has 360 day years
  
• Authoritarianism should no longer become more popular because you have egalitarian councilors
  
• Become the Crisis AI empires will now always decline becoming vassals to awakened empires
  
• Fixed a rare case where the Shard would not turn hostile against the player
  
• Fixed a rare error that would occur if your scientist who finished a dig site died before you clicked the final dig site event
  
• Fixed the checks for the Debris Field anomaly making it rarer than it should be
  
• Fixed the Lush Planet Anomaly requiring Sol to have spawned, also updated the event rewards to work in a tileless Stellaris
  
• Hyperlanes should no longer get attached to sealed systems
  
• Imperial Fiefdom AI will no longer consider subjects to be viable overlords when they are looking for one
  
• The Fleet Maneuvers event can no longer happen in capital systems
  
• The Horizon Signal Event Chain will now correctly prioritize your head of research for narrative events
  
• The Manifesti event chain will now properly end if you apprehend them early enough
  
• The puddle technician drone job is now properly a drone job
  
• The Sentinel Order should no longer spawn in systems not connected to the rest of the galaxy, leaving everyone else to deal with the Prethoryn
  
• Upscaling the Messenger will now properly remove the negative modifiers from the ships
  
• Vultaumar III will now properly have both alloys and mineral deposits
  
• Irass III will now properly have both alloys and mineral deposits, while Irass VIII has gained its missing exotic gases
  
• AI UNE should no longer spawn if there is already an empire using the Sol initializer.
  
• Fixed a rare instance of a possible divide by 0 during rebellions
  
• Fixed orders for jump-drive-only ships being queued in the wrong order.
  
• Fixed Skrand Sharpbeak being unassigned from his ship after you hire him
  
• Fixed Skrand Sharpbeak having an excess of traits
  
• Fixed some issues with the triggers to encounter Skrand Sharpbeak - sorry he's been a bit shy recently
  
• Fixes to leader generation conditions for the leader pool if there are no valid species (such as if you nerve staple your entire population)
  
• If the Prikkiti will now build the most advanced starbase that they can instead of always trying to build a citadel even if they don't have the technology for it.
  
• If you shield the final world of the Contingency you should now receive your relic.
  
• Kaleidoscope event chain: pre-FTL countries won't be able to receive the Kaleidoscope anymore
  
• Newly released vassals now get a leader pool correctly
  
• Research stations will no longer try to go MIA when a revolt occurs.
  
• The Manifesti should no longer show up before you have encountered other alien empires.
  

• Improved speed of AI checking whether it should send subjugation offers
  
• Various performance improvements
  

• Fixed crash when completing an Astral Rift if the exploring ship no longer exists
  
• Possibly fixed rare crash in galaxy map special project icon tooltip.
  
• Several Out of Sync fixes.
  
• Fixing OOS issue with planets, wormholes etc sometimes being slightly differently positioned between windows and linux.
  

• Add assigned Leader's name and council title to archaeology view and rift view
  
• Additional Content tab text is centered correctly
  
• Clicking on a resource in the top bar now switches to that resource in the market view instead of closing it if it was already open
  
• Clicking on the "capped resource" notification will now take you to the correct tab depending on which resource is capped (correct market tab, relics view for minor artifacts, claims view for influence)
  
• Fix claim buttons being misaligned on partially or fully occupied systems
  
• Fix Outliner tab buttons appearing over the fleet manager sidebar on smaller resolutions
  
• Fixed incorrect speed value in ship designer
  
• Fixed Outliner tab buttons appearing in front of the archaeology window.
  
• Inactive leader trait triggered modifiers are shown in the tooltip along with their trigger conditions
  
• Remove double error message for starbase building tooltips
  
• Trade protection tooltip lists empire-wide modifiers
  
• Use up to 2 decimal places for displaying stability modifiers
  
• Use up to 2 decimal places for production/upkeep in building/district tooltips
  
• If an orbital station build order is selected, its fail text in planet tooltips no longer reveals hidden information.
  
• Tooltips for Galcom sanction resolutions now show the modifiers even if they're inactive.
  
• Tooltips for Galcom resolutions that have both triggered and non-triggered modifiers no longer show the "Modifiers" header twice.
  

• Added better script to evaluate planet and fleet for leaders, and added description of the AI algorithms for leader assignation in the leader_classes/00_base_classes.txt
  
• Awakened Empires can now upgrade their starbases.
  
• Changed leader assignation into a single loop for all location types, sorting locations by priority and leaders by skill, then trying to assign the highest priority leader to locations in order
  
• Fixed AI being able to improve and harm relations at the same time
  
• Fixed another case of the AI assigning Leaders to invalid (empty) fleets
  
• Fixed the AI trying to assign military leaders to science fleets.
  
• Improved AI weights for Ascension Paths
  
• The AI now hires leaders the same way it assigns them. Expect an increased number of generals.
  
• The AI will evaluate a leader for a location based on the `ai_location_weight` scripted value in the leader class
  
• The Fear of the Dark AI empires will be less predictable with what extreme paths they might take.
  
• The weight value for location priority when assigning leaders is now a define. When assigning leaders, there are 2 steps, first steps leader and locations are assigned a priority value, and then each leader calculates a final weight for each location. The leader/location pair with the highest weight is then assigned. This change affects the first step (the priority in the queue), as the second step is already fully scriptable.
  
• Improved AI decision-making for the "Find Military Applications" Artifact Action
  
• Improved AI logic when it comes to when to use the Strip Mining decision
  
• Reduced the AI willingness to accept trade deals for food or consumer goods if they don't use those resources
  
• AI Hive-Mind empires now have an increased chance to research terraforming technologies since they are unlikely to get more pop types from migration pacts.
  
• Improved AI leader assignment weights
  
• The AI now decides whether to strengthen or undermine the galactic empire based on two new game rules
  
• The AI will no longer build additional Quantum Catapults if they already have one within 25 jumps.
  

• Add `last_resolution_category_changed` trigger
  
• Added a check for the block_homeworld_traits leader flag in all traits that provide additional jobs to the leader's background planet. This flag is not currently used in the vanilla game
  
• Added checked for the following leader flags to leader trait weights and potentials: block_army_traits, block_council_traits, block_federation_traits, block_galcom_traits, block_governor_traits, block_pilot_traits these flags set the selection weight for leader traits in their category to 0 but are ignored if the leader has a subclass specializing in the category. These flags are currently unused in the vanilla game
  
• Added game rule 'can_ai_assign_governor' to let the AI decide if a planet can have a governor or not
  
• Added NON_PARAGON_TRAIT_OPTIONS_ON_LEVEL_UP define
  
• Added not_potential_override_text_key parameter to triggered modifier (currently used in leader trait tooltips and galcom resolutions)
  
• Added on_army_disbanded on_action
  
• Added show_if_not_potential parameter to triggered modifier (currently used in leader trait tooltips and galcom resolutions)
  
• Added text_offset variable to buttonType (only used for buttons that have both a sprite and text)
  
• Added the "is_urban_planet" scripted trigger for pc_relic and pc_city planets
  
• leader_class trigger can now appear in tooltips
  
• Renamed LEADER_RULER_MONARCH_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_RULER_EXPERIENCE and LEADER_RULER_HEIR_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_HEIR_EXPERIENCE
  
• Replaced "negative", "subclass_trait", "destiny_trait" and "veteran_class_locked_trait" leader trait variables with "leader_trait_type"
  
• Updated documentation for create_species effect
  
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE
  
• Fixed "remove_deposit" effect not working in a deposit scope, fixing orbitals not removing their bonus to habitats when destroyed
  
• Replaced the loc string used to select a background for Paragon portraits with an asset selector.
  
• can_generate_military_leader_from_pop now includes the requirements of can_generate_leader_from_pop, which are now in the can_be_leader scripted trigger.
  

by Eladrin

Hi everyone!

Last week we went over some Community fixes that we are incorporating in the 3.11 Eridanus update. Today well be looking at some of the changes the Custodians have been up to. This is not an exhaustive list as while were rapidly approaching Code Freeze, it hasnt hit quite yet so bugs are still being worked on.
[h3]Bugs, Balance, and Polish[/h3]
As Ive mentioned previously, for the Eridanus update we focused mostly on bugfixing and polish.

[h3]3.11 ERIDANUS CUSTODIAN UPDATE NOTES (EXCLUDING COMMUNITY FIXES)[/h3]

Feature

• Difficulty Adjusted Technology Costs slider added to galaxy generation. This slider adjusts technology costs based on tier and game difficulty.
  

• Added notification message when new pop settles in zeya (Gaia planet in azilash)
  
• Added the Seddom system.
  
• Allowed conversion between Sovereign Guardianship and Corporate Protectorate civics
  
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
  
• Every participant in a war now gets a truce with the others after it ends, even if they were on the same side
  
• If you have a colony in a system when pre-FTLs become space faring you can apologize and annex them
  
• Progenitor Hive speed malus and bonuses now only affect military ships, removing the need of science ship escorts
  
• Technology and Tradition costs are now distinct sliders in galaxy setup
  
• The Anglers civic now swaps to Trawling Operations if you reform your government into a megacorp and vice versa
  
• The Eager Explorers civic now swaps to Privatized Exploration if you reform your government into a megacorp and vice versa
  
• The Eager Explorers, Privatized Exploration and Exploration Protocols civics can be removed and readded after researching Jump Drives. The Stargazers civic cannot be removed as it is linked to the species trait of the same name
  
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
  
• When the Khan awakens the event will now properly have a go to button
  

• All pop types will now be happy while living on a gaia world.
  
• Added a tier 2 Advanced Bio-Reactor technology and building. Advanced Bio-Reactors further reduce the food output of farmers in exchange for a small amount of exotic gas output
  
• Added Gateway Cost and Megastructure Build Speed modifiers to the Galactic Doorstep origin
  
• Ascension Theory is now a Tier 4 technology that requires at least 6 traditions trees to have been completed to be drawn
  
• Bio-Reactors are now a tier 1 rare technology instead of a tier 0 Technology. Bio-Reactors now reduce the food output of farmer jobs and give them a small amount of energy output
  
• Bio-Trophy buildings no longer provide Artisan Drone and Maintenance Drone jobs
  
• Decreased the amount of research produced by unemployed pops with Utopian Abundance
  
• Delegate GalCom focus traits now have a small chance to give favors
  
• Ecclesiastical Arcologies no longer provide Manager jobs for Corporate Death Cults
  
• Ecclesiastical Arcologies now provide Prosperity Preachers for MegaCorps instead of a split between Priests and Managers for regular Spiritualist MegaCorps
  
• Event options in the Knights' quest that improve their capital have been buffed to be better balanced compared to the options that improve knight jobs
  
• First League Offices now provide Prosperity Preacher jobs for Spiritualist MegaCorps
  
• Galactic Doorstep event chain now directly rewards the Gateway Activation technology and gives far more progress on the Gateway Construction technology
  
• Gospel of the Masses now provides +1 Trade Value to Prosperity Preachers (both inside their empire and those on planet on which they have branch offices)
  
• Increased technology costs, especially those of higher tier technologies
  
• Increased the cost of the Rock Potential special project to 1000 energy to account for Stellaris Inflation
  
• Increased the effects of Empire Size on Technology to match its effect on Traditions
  
• Knight output modifiers now only apply to resources, like other job output modifiers
  
• Knights now correctly inherit production modifiers from researchers and administrators
  
• Lost Colony Parents now spawn with more developed colonies to avoid overcrowding on their capital.
  
• Machine Intelligences with a biological secondary species now have a base food income of 10 food/month, and without a secondary species or with a Lithoid secondary species, they now have a base mineral income of 10 minerals/month.
  
• Moved habitat upkeep modifiers from the domination opener to the expansion opener. Available for all, not just void dwellers
  
• Curator leader trait now provides +10% Research Speed (was +15%) with an associated +10% Researcher Upkeep. The Survey Speed bonus remains unchanged
  
• Penal Colonies now provide 10 housing.
  
• Prosperity Preachers are now a specialist strata job
  
• Rebalanced leader traits gained from Ascension Paths (Psionic, Chosen One, Synthetic, Cyborg, Erudite)
  
• Reduced output of researcher jobs
  
• Reduced the amount of Naval Cap granted by technologies
  
• Refactored how the output scaling for Knights from Squires functions, these now behave as normal additive modifiers instead of multiplicative modifiers
  
• Removed most sources of Ship Cost and Upkeep reductions from the game
  
  
  
  • Bulwark ship upkeep reductions reduced by 50%
    
  • Corporate Crusader Spirit now reduces ship upkeep by 5% instead of 10%
    
  • Crusader Spirit civic now improves ship build speed
    
  • Fleet Supremacy edict no longer reduces ship upkeep
    
  • Grand Fleet ambition now increases power projection instead of reducing ship upkeep
    
  • Logistic Understanding, Armada Logistician, and Gunboat Diplomat traits now reduces ship upkeep while docked
    
  • Mark of the Instrument ship component no longer reduces ship upkeep
    
  • Master Shipwrights tradition in the Supremacy tree no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Match tradition in the Enmity tree bonus to ship build costs reduced to 5% instead of 10%
    
  • Military Buildup Agenda now improves ship build speed and reduces claim costs. (It still reduces War Exhaustion on completion.)
    
  • Military Pioneer trait now reduces starbase upgrade costs instead of ship build costs
    
  • Naval Procurement Officer councilor now improves ship build speed
    
  • Progress Oriented modifier no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Psionic Supremacy (Eater of Worlds) finisher no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Reduced penalty the Irenic trait applies to ship build costs
    
  • Sanctum of the Eater ship upkeep reduction reduced from 10% to 5%
    
  • Shipwright trait no longer reduces ship build costs
    
  • Vyctor's Improved Fleet Logistics trait now reduces ship build costs by 10% instead of 20%
    
  
  
• Rulers now gain 12 XP per month
  
• Squires now increase the resource output of Knights by 2.5% per Squire not 2% per Squire
  
• Temples now provide Prosperity Preachers for Spiritualist MegaCorps instead of a split between Priests and Managers
  
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personality of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
  
• The Fortress Habitat Designation for Knights no longer provides +1 Defensive Army per Pop on the habitat, instead each Squire job provides +1 Defensive Army
  
• The Luminous Blades modifier from the Knight's Quest now removes the alloy upkeep of knights and gives +25% Army damage instead of an empire-wide +1.5% alloy production modifier per knight
  
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
  
• Tier 2 and Tier 3 Sacrificial Temples no longer provide Manager jobs for Corporate Death Cults
  
• Tweaked the tiers of technologies that increase naval cap and fleet command limit
  
• Warpling armies now have an upkeep of 1 energy and 0.1 astral threads per month
  

• Added missing class name and icon in the leader upkeep tooltip
  
• Added missing required components to the Marauder Galleon
  
• Added new localization and triggers for Machine Empires exploring the Rift World origin.
  
• Armies now disband instantly instead of waiting for next tick
  
• Cordyceptic Empires that only had Subspace Drives on their ships are now also capable of reanimating space fauna
  
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
  
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
  
• Corrected some trait names
  
• Corrected the Scout Wing using the wrong 3d entities
  
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
  
• Diplo action tooltip now shows why we can't claim any systems
  
• distar.1081 will no longer spawn pops on colonies in progress
  
• Driven Assimilators with the Protected Pre-Sapients policy will no longer purge pre-sapients
  
• Empires with the Mechromancy AP can no longer purge cyborg zombies
  
• Event windows now correctly have no effect after the player has been defeated
  
• Extra trait points for script-generated species are now added correctly
  
• Fix countries created by `create_country` script command not having any leaders in their recruitment pool
  
• Fix duplicate ship role buttons when switching ship templates in ship designer
  
• Fix not being able to exit the game or return to menu when certain other UI windows were open
  
• Fix some leaders (e.g. paragons) getting a trait pick when you hire them even though they should not, how greedy!
  
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their leveled versions
  
• Fixed a string being undefined in the ruler designer menu
  
• Fixed an Astral Rift calling the Baol for Boal or was it the other way around?
  
• Fixed an error that prevented some Fallen Empire task events from firing
  
• Fixed cyborg zombies having a 100% chance of spawning instead of 33%
  
• Fixed default weights for pre-sapient policies
  
• Fixed Discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
  
• Fixed gestalt scientists getting research expertise traits when those traits had no effect for them
  
• Fixed heirs being able to have the Planar Theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
  
• Fixed incorrect weapon effect being used for the World Cracker
  
• Fixed invalid scope allowing pre-sapient pops to be turned into cyborg zombies
  
• Fixed issues with leaders assigned to armies or fleet that contain armies
  
• Fixed leaders sometimes getting invalid trait choices on level up
  
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II
  
• Fixed missing message title for Restoring the Balance
  
• Fixed newest achievements not working on MS Store
  
• Fixed Orbital Bombardment planet modifier not having a tooltip if there are no other planet modifiers there
  
• Fixed possibility of leader trait picks including opposites of existing traits
  
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
  
• Fixed systems at the bottom of the map spawning at wrong coordinates
  
• Fixed the Shared Burdens tooltip being outdated and mentioning additional unity from the Egalitarian faction
  
• Fixed Unity Ambitions referencing their pre-Unity rework state.
  
• Fixed Urbanist being both a Destiny trait and a Veteran trait (which prevented it from being available as a trait pick)
  
• Fleets of countries without ship_disengagement = yes (e.g. Horde) now correctly cannot use emergency retreat
  
• Former Satrapies of the Khan should no longer be informed twice when the new Horde forms.
  
• Hiring Renowned and Legendary Leaders no longer hires a mysterious clone of them instead
  
• If the Knights Keep is hit with a Pacifier Colossus there will now be unique event text
  
• It now costs 200 influence to abandon planets even if they have pre-sapients living there.
  
• Livestock slaves now inherit farmer and miner modifiers as appropriate.
  
• Making sure the negative situation outliner notifications only happens for negative situations
  
• Modifiers to empire-wide resource production now apply to resources generated through trade policies
  
• Removed reference to a loc key inside of an Under One Rule event.
  
• Renowned and Legendary Leaders no longer lose Council traits when hired by gestalt empires.
  
• Repairing The Black Crown should no longer fire generic gateway repaired events
  
• Replaced all sources of "is_leading_research = x" with "is_head_of_research" fixing numerous broken events and scopes
  
• Replaced one of the descriptions being reused for the Old Gods event chain
  
• Show turrets correctly on the Maven Cruiser and Caravaneer ships
  
• Sobek will no longer be confused and think that they came from your capital
  
• Species habitability for randomized empires is now correctly set for origins like shattered ring
  
• Stellar Culture Shock will now be applied to hive pre-FTLs if you are a hive empire.
  
• Terraforming a Barren World into a Machine or a Hive World will no longer fill that world with blockers
  
• Terraforming straight into a Hive or a Machine World now correctly removes "Terraforming Candidate"
  
• The astral rifts now correctly checks for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
  
• The Azizians event can no longer target planets that are under colonization
  
• The chance to gain negative leader traits depending on leader age now takes into account leader lifespan
  
• The Ranger Lodge will now properly produce +2 and +3 additional unity as the higher tier of Environmentalist Galactic Community Resolutions are passed.
  
• The Speed Demon anomaly will no longer show up for Synthetic empires.
  
• Updated the hire_event_leader_effect scripted effect to take account of the the Eternal Throne relic
  
• Updated the tooltip for Universal Prosperity Mandate to mention the Employee Ownership living standard
  
• When the "Prohibit Separate Treaties" federation law is enable it should now correctly remove treaties from both parties and not only the outside one
  
• When transferring ships from one fleet to another, the fleet's leader will now always stay on the old fleet
  

• Improved speed of AI checking whether it should send subjugation offers
  

• Fixed crash when completing an Astral Rift if the exploring ship no longer exists
  
• Possibly fixed rare crash in galaxy map special project icon tooltip.
  
• Several Out of Sync fixes.
  

• Add assigned Leader's name and council title to archaeology view and rift view
  
• Additional Content tab text is centered correctly
  
• Clicking on a resource in the top bar now switches to that resource in the market view instead of closing it if it was already open
  
• Clicking on the "capped resource" notification will now take you to the correct tab depending on which resource is capped (correct market tab, relics view for minor artifacts, claims view for influence)
  
• Fix claim buttons being misaligned on partially or fully occupied systems
  
• Fix Outliner tab buttons appearing over the fleet manager sidebar on smaller resolutions
  
• Fixed incorrect speed value in ship designer
  
• Fixed Outliner tab buttons appearing in front of the archaeology window.
  
• Inactive leader trait triggered modifiers are shown in the tooltip along with their trigger conditions
  
• Remove double error message for starbase building tooltips
  
• Trade protection tooltip lists empire-wide modifiers
  
• Use up to 2 decimal places for displaying stability modifiers
  
• Use up to 2 decimal places for production/upkeep in building/district tooltips
  

• Added better script to evaluate planet and fleet for leaders, and added description of the AI algorithms for leader assignation in the leader_classes/00_base_classes.txt
  
• Awakened Empires can now upgrade their starbases.
  
• Changed leader assignation into a single loop for all location types, sorting locations by priority and leaders by skill, then trying to assign the highest priority leader to locations in order
  
• Fixed AI being able to improve and harm relations at the same time
  
• Fixed another case of the AI assigning Leaders to invalid (empty) fleets
  
• Fixed the AI trying to assign military leaders to science fleets.
  
• Improved AI weights for Ascension Paths
  
• The AI now hires leaders the same way it assigns them. Expect an increased number of generals.
  
• The AI will evaluate a leader for a location based on the `ai_location_weight` scripted value in the leader class
  
• The Fear of the Dark AI empires will be less predictable with what extreme paths they might take.
  
• The weight value for location priority when assigning leaders is now a define. When assigning leaders, there are 2 steps, first steps leader and locations are assigned a priority value, and then each leader calculates a final weight for each location. The leader/location pair with the highest weight is then assigned. This change affects the first step (the priority in the queue), as the second step is already fully scriptable.
  

• Add `last_resolution_category_changed` trigger
  
• Added a check for the block_homeworld_traits leader flag in all traits that provide additional jobs to the leader's background planet. This flag is not currently used in the vanilla game
  
• Added checked for the following leader flags to leader trait weights and potentials: block_army_traits, block_council_traits, block_federation_traits, block_galcom_traits, block_governor_traits, block_pilot_traits these flags set the selection weight for leader traits in their category to 0 but are ignored if the leader has a subclass specializing in the category. These flags are currently unused in the vanilla game
  
• Added game rule 'can_ai_assign_governor' to let the AI decide if a planet can have a governor or not
  
• Added NON_PARAGON_TRAIT_OPTIONS_ON_LEVEL_UP define
  
• Added not_potential_override_text_key parameter to triggered modifier (currently only used in leader trait tooltips)
  
• Added on_army_disbanded on_action
  
• Added show_if_not_potential parameter to triggered modifier (currently only used in leader trait tooltips)
  
• Added text_offset variable to buttonType (only used for buttons that have both a sprite and text)
  
• Added the "is_urban_planet" scripted trigger for pc_relic and pc_city planets
  
• leader_class trigger can now appear in tooltips
  
• Renamed LEADER_RULER_MONARCH_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_RULER_EXPERIENCE and LEADER_RULER_HEIR_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_HEIR_EXPERIENCE
  
• Replaced "negative", "subclass_trait", "destiny_trait" and "veteran_class_locked_trait" leader trait variables with "leader_trait_type"
  
• Updated documentation for create_species effect
  
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE
  

by Eladrin

Hi all!

When we first announced the 3.11 Eridanus update, we mentioned that for the patch the Custodian team would be largely focused on fixing bugs rather than new features. As part of this initiative, PDS_Iggy reached out to some community modders and incorporated some of their fixes into the base game. I wanted to spend today highlighting their contributions.
[h3]Community Fixes[/h3]
Some changes from these mods are being partially incorporated into the base game in the 3.11 Eridanus update:

Ariphaos Unofficial Patch
Developed by Ariphaos with assistance from Fireprince, and incorporates multiple other mods:

• Risa's Unofficial Patch by Risa
  
• Bug Fixes by alexrider903
  
• Bugfixes by ECHO
  
• Community Flash Patch by Roverstorm
  
• Modifiers fix by jasonpepe
  
• Unofficial Bug Patch by SirBlackAxe
  
• Glavius AI by Glavius
  
• StarNet by Savlor with assistance from OldEnt
  

• Gangsters should no longer assassinate Chosen Ones or Legendary leaders
  
• If a Zombie or Nerve Stapled pop manages to lie on their resume and become a specialist or ruler they should be demoted much faster
  
• Xenophobic leaders are now half as likely to accept brainslugs while Xenophilic ones are twice as likely to accept them
  
• Improved spawning logic for anomalies that clear deposits to not spawn on planets with strategic resources
  

• Empires that value other species, such as Rogue Servitors, will now get extra annoyed if you engage in genocide or necrophaging
  
• Gestalt empires can now sell their minor artifacts provided that they have access to the galactic market
  
• Marauder ships should now have a decently larger amount of armor for most shipsizes
  
• Refugees should now also be willing to flee to Rogue Servitors if they are welcomed as Bio-trophies
  

• The Expel Corporation war goal now also removes Branch Offices belonging to the defender from your allies' planets
  
• A supremely unlucky pre-FTL nation should no longer be able to have multiple machine uprisings if they fight off the first one
  
• The Atomic Clock event will now properly trigger after 42 years and 3 days following the superior Stellaris Standard Calendar, which has 360 day years
  
• Authoritarianism should no longer become more popular because you have egalitarian councilors
  
• Become the Crisis AI empires will now always decline becoming vassals to awakened empires
  
• Fixed a rare case where the Shard would not turn hostile against the player
  
• Fixed a rare error that would occur if your scientist who finished a dig site died before you clicked the final dig site event
  
• Fixed the checks for the Debris Field anomaly making it rarer than it should be
  
• Fixed the Lush Planet Anomaly requiring Sol to have spawned, also updated the event rewards to work in a tileless Stellaris
  
• Hyperlanes should no longer get attached to sealed systems
  
• Imperial Fiefdom AI will no longer consider subjects to be viable overlords when they are looking for one
  
• The Fleet Maneuvers event can no longer happen in capital systems
  
• The Horizon Signal Event Chain will now correctly prioritize your head of research for narrative events
  
• The Manifesti event chain will now properly end if you apprehend them early enough
  
• The puddle technician drone job is now properly a drone job
  
• The Sentinel Order should no longer spawn in systems not connected to the rest of the galaxy, leaving everyone else to deal with the Prethoryn
  
• Upscaling the Messenger will now properly remove the negative modifiers from the ships
  
• Vultaumar III will now properly have both alloys and mineral deposits
  
• Irass III will now properly have both alloys and mineral deposits, while Irass VIII has gained its missing exotic gases
  

• Improved AI decision-making for the "Find Military Applications" Artifact Action
  
• Improved AI logic when it comes to when to use the Strip Mining decision
  
• Reduced the AI willingness to accept trade deals for food or consumer goods if they don't use those resources
  
• AI Hive-Mind empires now have an increased chance to research terraforming technologies since they are unlikely to get more pop types from migration pacts.
  

by Eladrin

Hello everyone!

Its been two weeks, so lets get straight into the good stuff.
[h3]Summary of Results[/h3]
Much like the first Technology Open Beta, very experienced players formed the bulk of respondents. This time it was closer to 72% of responses coming from players with over 1,000 hours in game. (Only 1.4% said they had less than 300 hours in Stellaris, so the survey skewed very much towards our most passionate players.) Thank you all for your feedback and help.

This time, a majority of players rated technology progress as just right, with the remainder almost perfectly evenly split between it being too fast or too slow, with a majority consensus that the changes were beneficial overall.

Many players missed the breakthrough technologies and the general opinion tended to lean towards us pulling back a little too far. Many players commented that they liked how technology tiers 3 and higher felt more impactful, but lamented that with the removal of breakthroughs, tier 2 sort of melded into tier 1 technologies.

There was also quite a spirited discussion on the Stellaris forums regarding the pros and cons of galaxy generation sliders and their effects on new players.

Our general philosophy is that it is better to permit more customization of your play experience than less, but that the default settings should be a positive play experience for inexperienced players. New players tend not to adjust the sliders much, while veterans tend to have more understanding of the exact effects of the various settings and can customize their game to satisfy their needs - but the default settings, except for difficulty, should be sufficient for an enjoyable game. We do agree that the galaxy settings screen has grown a significant amount over the years and could benefit from some reworking, and will be placing that task on the Custodian to-do list for sometime in the future.

[h3]Next Steps[/h3]
Overall, I consider the Technology Open Betas a significant success. We gathered a lot of useful information and feedback, and it gave us the chance to experiment with some systems that may or may not have panned out. We will be going forward with including the changes from the second Technology Open Beta in the 3.11 Eridanus update.

Breakthrough Technologies will not be coming at this time, but we may experiment with technology spread and similar effects sometime in the future.

One new change well be making based on some of the data weve collected is that were moving Ascension Theory to Tier 4 from Tier 5, but it will only be available to empires that have completed at least six tradition trees. As Unity and Research are intended to be opposing resources to a degree, we did not want the capstone of Ascension based gameplay to be so strongly tied to the later game tech tree.

Now lets hear about one of the other changes coming in the update.

[h3]Resort Worlds[/h3]
Hello, Stellaris community. I'm Gatekeeper, a long-time modder who's ascended into being part of the Stellaris Content team. And if you know anything about what I've done in the past, I like planets.

One thing I've done recently is to imagine a galaxy where Resort Worlds aren't just post-apocalyptic fortress worlds. Instead, these are vibrant, dedicated havens of rest, starkly contrasting the often harsh realities of interstellar life.



The Resort Worlds technology which permits the Create Resort World planetary decision is no longer rare, and we've lowered it to tier 2. We've updated the decisions restrictions; it no longer has a minimum planet size but can be used on planets that have upgraded capital buildings. As funny as it was (and we did it all the time), you can no longer declare a tomb or relic world a vacation paradise.

A pass has also been done on what buildings are allowed on Resort Worlds.




Instead of providing perfect habitability, Clerks, and Entertainers, Resort Worlds now provide Resort Districts that give Housing, Building Slots, and Resort Worker jobs that provide Trade, and increase Amenities and Trade Value from Living Standards across all planets of your empire. This replaces the empire-wide Amenities reduction of the old version.



On behalf of the United Caphevan Commonwealth, we would like to wish you a pleasant stay on Evaggimar II.

[h3]Next Week[/h3]
Next week well be looking at some of the fixes and changes going into the 3.11 Eridanus update. See you then!

by Eladrin

Hello everyone!

I hope that you all had a pleasant holiday season, and want to start off by thanking everyone that submitted feedback regarding the Technology Open Beta. That data we gained from these experiments was invaluable, so lets get right into it.
[h3]Summary of Results[/h3]
As expected, the players that responded to the survey were overwhelmingly passionate players that have a ton of experience with the game. Nearly 70% of responses come from players that have over 1,000 hours played in the game. This is somewhat natural for an opt-in beta over the holidays with an intimidating feedback form, so I wanted to thank you all again for filling it out.

There was a strong consensus around the military changes (ship cost and upkeep), so well likely be keeping those mostly as-is.

The technology changes were naturally more controversial. Roughly 80% of responses believed that technology (especially at higher tiers) was overall too slow in the beta, but a majority still thought that the changes were beneficial to the game overall. Several of you pointed out that so many simultaneous changes compounded too strongly, and we agree. I was happy to see that your feedback matches our expectations - we expected that the Open Beta was tuned too harshly and that we would want to pull back from it before release.

The Open Beta also revealed several technical issues, including some major performance implications from how Breakthrough Technologies interacted with diplomacy.
[h3]Next Steps[/h3]
Overall, I view the Technology Open Beta as a great success, and as such am taking the opportunity to update it and let it run for another few weeks, after which we will decide whether or not we want to continue experimentation, integrate it into 3.11 (or 3.12), or discard the initiative.

We concur that the original Open Beta went too hard on technology. We liked some of the things we were seeing, such as tier 3 and 4 technologies becoming more valuable for an extended part of the game, but felt that it delayed other critical parts too long. Breakthrough Technologies were interesting as a slowdown mechanic, but if kept would likely need some sort of temporary (non-technology or unity related) bonuses as some form of reward for the frontrunners. The excessively high costs for late tier techs pushed some critical technologies such as Ascension Theory or Mega-Engineering too late in the game, and certain undesirable behaviors (like ignoring research entirely) were too effective.

The updated Technology Open Beta should be up on stellaris_test now, with the following changes:

[h3]TECHNOLOGY OPEN BETA UPDATES[/h3]
Feature

• Difficulty Adjusted Technology Costs slider added to galaxy generation. This slider adjusts technology costs based on tier and game difficulty.
  

• Removed Breakthrough Technologies.
  
• Reverted base technology costs to their 3.10.4 values - the increased cost between tiers is now handled by the Difficulty Adjusted Technology Costs slider.
  
• Removed the majority of Researcher Upkeep Modifiers introduced into the Open Beta.
  
• Reverted changes to Knights research output from the Open Beta.
  

• Tweaked the tiers of technologies that increase naval cap and fleet command limit.
  
• Reduced the amount of Naval Cap granted by technologies.
  
• Significant changes to Bio-Reactors:
  
  
  
  • Bio-Reactors are now a tier 1 rare technology instead of a tier 0 technology
    
  • Bio-Reactors now reduce the food output of farmer jobs and give them a small amount of energy output.
    
  • Added a tier 2 Advanced Bio-Reactor technology and building.
    
  • Advanced Bio-Reactors further reduce the food output of farmers in exchange for a small amount of exotic gas output.
    
  
  
• Decreased the amount of research produced by unemployed pops with Utopian Abundance.
  
• Event options in the Knights' quest that improve their capital have been buffed to be better balanced compared to the options that improve knight jobs.
  

Hello Stellaris Community!

We're proud to announce that #MODJAM2024 is available now! Get it here!

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Now's the time where the Community gets to step in, and vote for your favorite submission. Vote for your favorite #MODJAM2024 Legendary Leaders here!

What are the prizes, you ask? This year weve paired up again with Republic of Gamers to deliver some great prizes to our winning Modders:

1st Place: ROG Strix G17 (2023) G713 Laptop*
2nd Place: ROG Delta S Wireless Headset*
3rd Place: ROG Spatha X Wireless Mouse*
4th - 10th Place: Stellaris branded Wallet and Keychain

* Exact specifications may vary depending on winning modders region

Thanks to everyone for playing and voting in #MODJAM2024!

by MrFreake

Hello Stellaris Community!

I have to start off by saying how proud I am of all the participants this year. This year saw the most signups for Mod Jam we've ever had, the most design documents submitted, and (I think) the most final submissions. The modders have really put their all into these contributions, and I think they've turned out fantastic. I can't wait to see what you all think!

The Mod Jam mod will release today around 5 PM CET! You can subscribe to the workshop mod now, and get this new content as soon as it becomes available!

Today we're going to be talking about the final 11 submissions that haven't been seen, so without further ado:
[h3]Vizierch Raffar by BrettlesSr [/h3]


Inspiration: I had a couple of inspirations for Raffar - one was the classic trope of the scheming vizier, so I wanted to make a leader you knew you shouldnt trust but who was rewarding enough to risk playing with fire. Then Ive added lots of ideas loosely inspired from WH40ks Necrons and Dr Whos Cybermen into the mix for good measure.
[h3] Zob, Collector of Minds by Starchitect[/h3]


Inspiration: I loved collecting and tending to my leaders long before Paragons made them cool, they can be the backbone of the kind of RP focused gameplay I enjoy most. Zob takes that leader gardening instinct to the next level, as Zob only gains power as you add your own leaders and your own story to Zobs. Trait stacking can also be a fun exercise for the min-maxer in me, and Zob facilitates that in what is hopefully, a limited and manageable way.
[h3] Daniel Reinhard by Jin2188 [/h3]


Inspiration: Ive had the idea of this character in my head for some time, as the primary antagonist of an IP I never got onto paper. I decided to introduce the idea of Reinhards character to a wider community to see their opinions and acquire feedback. Im aware of the power fantasy of wanting to play the bad guys, and figured that this was a good way to feed into that. Religion is also an idea I wanted to explore heavily with my as-of-yet nonexistent IP, diving into some of the benefits and drawbacks with the worship of deities and spirituality in general. Reinhard represents the bad parts of religion/spirituality; the authoritarianism, the corruption of values, the blind obedience to dogma, while his counterpart, Michael Faulkner (who is mentioned in-game, and who you may encounter in a playthrough with Reinhard) represents the good aspects; the community, the moral values, and the idea of the larger collective working together for the common good. I was heavily inspired by real-world evils associated with religion, with Reinhard himself being inspired by what I believe most cult leaders to be like; con-men who dont actually believe anything theyre saying, but they say it anyway in order to gain power. Power is a central concept to Reinhards character, hes a nihilist who believes that nothing matters except securing ones own personal welfare, even at the expense of others. This mod is more of a proof of concept, since I wanted to make an expanded version where you could recruit Michael Faulkner as a leader as well, but I was only allowed to create a single recruitable leader for this ModJam, so I settled on this. I do intend to release this expanded version in the future, however.
[h3] Ursa Major by Honeytheyellowbear[/h3]


[h3] The Spymaster Ralph Fasmid by bbt104 [/h3]


Inspiration: Our inspiration for Ralph Fasmid came from movies and shows such as Casablanca, SpyKids, Chuck, The Kingsman, and Bourne. Casablanca was our main inspiration for his design, Chuck was the inspiration for him to be exclusive to Megacorps. Bourne inspired a small event that only happens if you dismiss him.
[h3]Mictla, Whispering Aggregation by pat173 [/h3]


Inspiration: My inspiration for Mictla's concept originated from reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time trilogy, where I aimed to craft an entity that exuded a really alien and almost horror-like essence.

In terms of gameplay I wanted a leader focused mainly on one or two aspects of the game. Mictla's bonuses are heavily on what you'd expect from the society group of technologies. I also wanted them to feel to stand out, so I implemented a unique way for them to level up as they don't gain experience over time.

Lastly I wanted to design Mictla so that it could have an impact on the player's experience. So that if the player chose to, there would be drastic changes in your empire based on your decisions and approach with Mictla's events.

We're going on an adventure!

[h3]Nar by Lithrandil2[/h3]


[h3]Spirit of the Junction, by Blue Commander [/h3]


[h3] The Synthmind Sage by Nepnep5150 [/h3]


[h3] Venerable Bubbles by Regunes [/h3]


Inspiration: To be honest I prefer Cyto
[h3] Naodeus by Dredaich [/h3]


Inspiration: In my pen & paper campaign (Pathfinder 1e) Naodeus is a benevolent magical being from beyond the outer realms trapped in the campaign world. Talil is a city founded by his adopted children. Right after I learned of the Paragon update I wanted to make this leader. This ModJAM was an excuse to do so.

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And that's it for the Legendary Leaders included in this year's Mod Jam, 26 in total! What do you think? Which one are you most excited to play?

Just a reminder #MODJAM2024 will release at 5 PM CET today! (January 11th, 2024)

Hello Stellaris Community!

Were back with another update on our annual Modder event: #MODJAM2024! Today is feature freeze for the Mod Jam. Essentially, Modders will have until 5 PM CET today to submit a feature-complete version of their submission.

Its important to note at this stage, that not everything will work correctly. Modders still have another week to bugfix and polish their submissions. Would you like to help our modders test their submissions? Join us on Discord! Join the Discord, get the PC role, and then look for the #help-test-the-mod-jam channel.

Later today or early tomorrow, we will be posting a link in that section of our Discord so the Community can play this content early, and each leader has a forum channel where you can report bugs directly to the modders.

Today, we have another eight Legendary Leaders to highlight! These leaders range from a damaged and dormant AI Weapons Platform, to an Interdimensional Phantasm that transcends space and time.

[h3]The Forgotten One by AlexMeowler[/h3]



Inspiration: The main idea of this mod is to enhance the Player Crisis gameplay, and encourage players to select the Become the Crisis ascension perk (or at least make them consider the option). To implement that idea I set two goals:

• The first goal is to make the game more dynamic (like, what if you try to play defensively and speedrun the Aetherophasic Engine?) but also with some extra additions to make it more interactive and not forcing the player to get crisis stage 5, for unlocking full mod potential, just get new tech and components and keep playing the standard game any way they want.
  
• The second goal was to give the player more means to really oppose the whole galaxy, all those mighty alliances and vassalages, As A True Crisis Should.
  

Hello Stellaris Community!

#MODJAM2024 is well under way. This year we had over 100 modders sign up, and over 60 design documents submitted. While we aren't expecting to have 60 Legendary Leaders submitted at the end of the competition (wouldn't that be awesome though?). Today, we're going to give you the first sneak peek at the Legendary Leaders our modders are currently working on, as well as give you a peek at how the final mod package will work.

The #MODJAM2024 is still currently on-pace for a January 11th, 2024 release. You can subscribe to the Mod Jam mod and get this content as soon as it releases!

Last year, we tried something a little different, in which the mid-game crises were posted by the modders themselves. For something like a mid-game crisis, this approach makes sense. Mid game crises can be iterated on for a long time, and (hopefully) these mods will continue to be supported into the distant future. However, for this year, we have decided to go for an all-in-one package, to make it easier for players to install and run the Mod Jam mod -- since last year's approach with a workshop playlist and wrapper mod was a little convoluted.

The Mod Jam Package

When starting a game with the Mod Jam mod enabled, when the game starts you will get a popup to choose which Legendary Leaders will be allowed to spawn.


We've also hooked up the vanilla Legendary Leaders to this system for the Mod Jam mod.

Clicking each leader will allow you to turn them off -- if its a leader you didn't like, or you want to guarantee which leader you play with, so you get to experience all the content. Each leader will also have a tooltip that describes in a loose sense what the leader does, so you will not be going into this completely blind.

Leaders are currently spawned one of three ways:

Random Spawns - this behavior is the most like the vanilla spawning of Legendary Leaders. The game will choose 3 to 6 Legendary Leaders to spawn randomly throughout the galaxy, from the list of Legendary Leaders that are allowed

Random Leader for Players - This option will spawn a random Legendary Leader from the list of allowed leaders within four jumps of each Player's homeworld. We could've allowed leaders to spawn for AIs as well, but that opens the opportunity to break things in interesting ways, and with the time constraints put on our modders, I didn't think it was a good idea to add an additional requirement.

Players Choose - This will spawn a choice for each player in the game of what Legendary Leader they want to spawn within four jumps of their home system. This is the option you should probably use if you want to play each and every one before you vote.


Azaryn is not in the list of choices, since Azaryn was disabled in the startup menu.

And that's the limit of the modding that I've done for this event. But you're not really here to see the stuff I made, you're here to see what the Modders have made. Like last year, we have prepared some (and are still working on) promotional assets for each one of the submissions. I know I've said this about a dozen times already, but thanks again to the Gigastructural Engineering team for letting us use their Stellar Systemcraft for the Mod Jam promotional art.

I've also invited the modders to each write about the inspiration for their mod (if they like). This explains why there are some that contain inspirations, and some that do not.

The Chronomancer by Rodahtnov and Zyralynn

Inspiration:

The leader idea is based around the fantasy of genies, fantastical creatures that provide wishes to the person they are bound to, but with some limitations, drawbacks and potential twisted results; In this case we are tied that concept to a specific sci-fi trope, which is the manipulation of time and, in some degrees, reality; the Chronolord is bound to a specific place and a specific relic, which resembles the genie lamp and as such becomes a desirable target for other empires, whether it is for envy, fighting its positive economic effects or just gaining another relic for their use.



Mircorv Core by Metallichydra

Access to some Legendary Leaders will be restricted to owners of other DLCs, such as the Mircorv Core, which will require Astral Planes in order to explore the Rift.



The Fragment by Ezraneilson.micahn

Inspiration: The Two largest Inspirations were the AEON 14 universe (Multinodal AI) and Mass Effect: Andromeda (Extragalactic Origin).



The Celestial Wayfarer by madeincanada



Perplexing Shadow by shadow_101084



Aevum T. Dohrnii by tr33

Inspiration: I spent too much time on stellaris. With this leader, you also can spend your time. Literally. Jokes aside if I had to name an inspiration it would probably be all the Dagoth Ur Memes. Aevums way of talking is heavily influenced by Dagoths cryptic speeches. The Chronomancer idea came along somewhere in the process.



The Timeless Warrior by MadamLava

Inspiration:

Ive always been a sucker for a good time loop story, and finished a game (In Stars and Time) containing the best Id ever seen by a wide margin the day before the modjam theme was announced and work began. While Im drawing more broadly from time loop tropes in general, the concept was very much on my mind.

Some commonalities from some of these stories/media I enjoyed and seek to implement for my Leader were the concepts of an impossibly large goal at the end of the loop as its breaking condition, the looping character being affected by the dissociation that repeating time enough would cause, gradually becoming more and more powerful each loop, and how they might keep certain bits of knowledge about the future concealed until the right times.

Ultimately, I picked the idea for the fundamental reason that I am presently enthusiastic about the particular flavor of time shenanigans involved as a story device, making it much easier to come up with and work on my ideas. This perfectly falls in line with my own personal axiom that Ive been using to stay focused, that being that modding should be fun.



Contingency Processing Core 1A6F by Draconas

Inspiration:

I wanted the concept of a leader that had their own agenda, and was going to try and achieve that, with or without you. The contingency gave me a great template to work off, since we all know what its goal is, and as a bonus it lets me explore taking synthetic evolution to its ultimate conclusion with machine intelligence.



Thanks for reading! We'll be back same time next week with more Mod Jam Legendary Leaders to show off!

by Eladrin



Happy holidays everyone!

Much of the Stellaris team has already taken off for a winter break, but its time for our annual retrospective on the year and thoughts about where were going next.

We had three major releases in 2023 and a Custodian release.








We started the year by telling the story of how you got the stars, with 3.7 Canis Minor and the First Contact Story Pack. In this story pack, we focused heavily on narrative origins, each one rivaling Toxoids Knights of the Toxic God for the depth of content contained within them. Broken Shackles and Payback told an interlinked story of pre-FTL civilizations that suffered under the sinister Minamar Specialized Industries, while Fear of the Dark explored the Dark Forest theory and questioned whether it was a good idea to step into the void at all.

First Contact also brought cloaking into Stellaris, giving Science Ships some new versatility, and providing Frigates a new role as sneak attackers. Canis Minor brought Archaeotech additions to Ancient Relics.

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Our anniversary in May gave us the 3.8 Gemini update and the Galactic Paragons Mechanical Expansion. This release added the Council and greatly increased the influence of leaders in Stellaris. Whether you were grooming your own leaders to serve on the Council or finding Renowned and Paragon leaders, they were much more powerful and relevant than before.

The Gemini update also added experimental Cooperative gameplay - Stellaris is a complex game, and weve found that the best teachers are you, the players.

[previewyoutube=598SFesgBSY;full][/previewyoutube]






The Caelum update In the autumn focused on improving a number of the old species packs and reworked habitats. We added the Enmity tradition tree to Humanoids along with some new traits, Void Hive and Selective Kinship civics to Lithoids, the Fruitful Partnership origin and Invasive Species trait to Plantoids, and Worker Cooperative and Mechromancy to MegaCorp and Necroids. A few new portraits came in as well, taking Plantoids from the second least played Species Class to the second most played the month after release.


Also, birds.


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And most recently, we released 3.10 Pyxis and the Astral Planes Narrative Expansion. "Pyxis" included the Leader Consolidation that finally got leaders in a state that we're generally happy with them, and once the patch cycle was complete, gave us a fully customizable outliner. Astral Planes, meanwhile, is the largest Story focused expansion Stellaris has ever released. The Astral Rifts from Astral Planes have branching narratives with multiple endings, making each one several times the size of the linear Archaeology sites of the past, and there are over 30 of them in the pack.

I have some regrets that the release was tarnished by technical issues that we introduced, and we've made some internal changes to how the team will operate to reduce the chances of these sorts of things going wrong in the future.

I'm delighted with the respect and love that Abrakam Entertainment gave to our universe and lore. Astral Planes brings new insights to some old friends and enemies, greatly expanding on narrative questions that have been asked for years.

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We have a Technology Open Beta running until January 15th, 2024. Based on how that goes, it may or may not end up being rolled into the 3.11 Eridanus update planned for the first quarter of 2024. I've found that the data and feedback we get from the community during these to be invaluable, and I look forward to seeing everything we've compiled when we get back. Thank you for helping us make Stellaris a better game.

We spent a lot of this year doing incremental rebalancing of the leader system following the Gemini update, which took more Custodian resources than I liked. Weve gotten a few things in from the list we posted in Dev Diary #314 like the new Outliner, but for 2024 well likely try to focus the Custodians on that list of topics. Eridanus will largely be a stabilization update, with the Custodian team focusing on bugfixing, game balance, and general stability.

Looking back, we had a share of unexpected issues and problems, but I'm proud of how we've all navigated the year together. I'm looking forward to what we can bring you next year and beyond.

See you next year!

- Eladrin
Stellaris Game Director



Tofu, looking back at the year.




[h3]Stellaris Dev Diaries will return on January 18th. Happy holidays![/h3]

by Eladrin

I'm pleased to announce that the Technology Open Beta that we first talked about in Stellaris Dev Diary #325 is now available for your feedback.
[quote author=Eladrin]
Stellaris has undergone a significant amount of power creep over the years, and the speed at which we're able to burn through the entire technology tree is much higher than is healthy for the game. Due to the large number of stacking research speed modifiers, repeatable technologies are reached far too early in the game. Another power creep issue mentioned by many players, it's also become trivial to stack large numbers of ship build cost and ship upkeep reduction modifiers.

The Holiday Open Beta will be a feature branch that contains the following changes, which may or may not go into 3.11 (or 3.12, or any release at all for that matter). Similar to how we handled Industrial Districts several years ago, we're intentionally keeping these separated from core 3.11 development, isolating this in a parallel track.[/quote]

The dev diary linked above contains more details regarding the intents behind some of the changes. While some changes planned for 3.11 Eridanus have snuck into this release (like some improvements to Galactic Doorstep), the overall technology rebalance is considered experimental and may or may not end up being released. It is likely to undergo some changes if it does go live.

We have created this feedback form to collect your impressions on both the partial tech rebalance and the military and economic changes that are present on the branch.

[h3]TECHNOLOGY OPEN BETA RELEASE NOTES[/h3]
Features

• Replaced basic research technologies such as Quantum Theory with Breakthrough Technologies. Breakthrough Technologies will only appear once you have researched enough techs of your current tier and are required to research to reach the next tier.
  
• Breakthrough Technologies become easier to research based on the number of other empires you have low Tech intel on that have already researched them.
  
• Enigmatic Engineering blocks your Breakthrough Technologies from spreading.
  
• Events that give progress towards random technologies can grant progress towards Breakthrough Technologies, but will not give as much as they would a regular technology.
  

• Technology and Tradition costs are now distinct sliders in galaxy setup.
  
• Added notification message when new pop settles in zeya (Gaia planet in azilash)
  

• Adjustments made to the Galactic Doorstep origin:
  
  
  
  • Added Gateway Cost and Megastructure Build Speed modifiers to the Galactic Doorstep origin.
    
  • Galactic Doorstep event chain now directly rewards the Gateway Activation technology and gives far more progress on the Gateway Construction technology
    
  
  
• Increased the effects of Empire Size on Technology to match its effect on Traditions.
  
• Rebalanced research speed modifiers. Most sources of Research Speed now have a corresponding increase in Researcher job upkeep
  
• Removed or adjusted many sources of Ship Cost and Upkeep reductions from the game.
  
• Military Buildup Agenda now improves ship build speed and reduces claim costs. (It still reduces War Exhaustion on completion.)
  
• Naval Procurement Officer councilor now improves ship build speed.
  
• Crusader Spirit civic now improves ship build speed.
  
• Psionic Supremacy (Eater of Worlds) finisher no longer reduces ship build costs.
  
• Vyctor's Improved Fleet Logistics trait now reduces ship build costs by 10% instead of 20%.
  
• Progress Oriented modifier no longer reduces ship build costs.
  
• Match tradition in the Enmity tree bonus to ship build costs reduced to 5% instead of 10%.
  
• Master Shipwrights tradition in the Supremacy tree no longer reduces ship build costs.
  
• Military Pioneer trait now reduces starbase upgrade costs instead of ship build costs.
  
• Shipwright trait no longer reduces ship build costs.
  
• Reduced penalty the Irenic trait applies to ship build costs.
  
• Sanctum of the Eater ship upkeep reduction reduced from 10% to 5%.
  
• Mark of the Instrument ship component no longer reduces ship upkeep.
  
• Grand Fleet ambition now increases power projection instead of reducing ship upkeep.
  
• Fleet Supremacy edict no longer reduces ship upkeep.
  
• Corporate Crusader Spirit now reduces ship upkeep by 5% instead of 10%.
  
• Bulwark ship upkeep reductions reduced by 50%.
  
• Logistic Understanding, Armada Logistician, and Gunboat Diplomat traits now reduces ship upkeep while docked.
  
• Increased technology costs, especially those of higher tier technologies.
  
• The Technology curve has been changed from 1000 2^n to 500 (2^n + 3^n), making the difference between an early and late-game tech more distinct.
  
• Reduced output of researcher jobs
  
• Researchers and their gestalt equivalents now produce 3 of each research instead of 4
  
• Head Researchers now produce 4 of each research instead of 6
  
• The effectiveness of Ministry of Science has been halved
  
• Astral Researchers now produce 5 physics and 1 of each other research instead of 5 physics and 2 of the other researches.
  
• Knights of the Toxic God balancing:
  
  
  
  • Slightly reduced the research output for Knight and Lord Commander jobs
    
  • Refactored how the output scaling for Knights from Squires functions, these now behave as normal additive modifiers instead of multiplicative modifiers
    
  • Knights now correctly inherit production modifiers from researchers and administrators
    
  • Slightly reduced the unity and research output for Knight and Lord Commander jobs
    
  • Knight output modifiers now only apply to resources, like other job output modifiers
    
  • The Fortress Habitat Designation for Knights no longer provides +1 Defensive Army per pop on the habitat, instead each Squire job provides +1 Defensive Army
    
  • Squires now increase the resource output of Knights by 2.5% not 2% per Squire.
    
  • The Luminous Blades modifier from the Knight's Quest now removes the alloy upkeep of knights and gives +25% Army damage instead of an empire-wide +1.5% alloy production modifier per knight
    
  
  
• Delegate GalCom focus traits now have a small chance to give favors.
  
• Reworked and rebalanced the Erudite, Cyborg, Synthetic, Psionic, Chosen One, and Chosen of X traits to include new leader assignments.
  

• Repairing The Black Crown should no longer fire generic gateway repaired events.
  

• Added `last_resolution_category_changed` trigger
  

by Eladrin

Hello everyone!

The 3.10.4 "Pyxis" update has been released today. Of particular interest in this weeks update are a fix that lets AI be more willing to recruit Scientists for exploration, a fix to certain modifiers doubling up, and some adjustments to negative leader traits.

[h3]3.10.4 "PYXIS" PATCH NOTES[/h3]
Balance

• Significantly reduced the yearly chance for leaders to gain negative traits.
  
• Due to player feedback, the Micromanager negative trait for Commanders now increases fleet upkeep instead of reducing command limit.
  
• The Lethargic negative trait for Commanders now also reduces fleet upkeep.
  
• The Nervous negative trait for Commanders now also increases disengagement chance.
  
• Having the Antagonistic Diplomatic Stance will now appease your factions asking for you to have a Strong Diplomatic Stance.
  

• Added some failsafes to generate council positions and gestalt nodes in various edge cases where they weren't created or disappeared
  
• Clarified reformed tooltip for Dark Consortium civics
  
• Declining to Hunt for the Hyacinth should now correctly remove the event chain.
  
• Fix Astral Harvesting not available for heavily conquering empires
  
• Fixed a typo in the pre-FTL Provide Technology Tooltip.
  
• Fixed Civics not swapping to their alternative when switching Governments
  
• Fixed missing loc for the Fear of the Dark Admiral trait
  
• Fixed the Accelerated Time Astral Planes Modifier having a description for a title.
  
• Removed a redundant tooltip from the Synthetic Evolution event
  
• Ruler clothing selection in the empire designer is now respected
  
• Some planet modifiers that were getting incorrectly applied twice should now only be applied once.
  
• Updated the All Crisis Strength tooltip to accurately state that it doubles the strength of each subsequent crisis.
  
• Your ice miners will no longer make your Mercenaries homeless if they happened to have built their base above an ice asteroid.
  

• AI Empires will now be more willing to hire leaders for their science ships as long as they believe they can afford the Unity upkeep.
  

• Fixed XP not being shown in XP bar tooltip for gestalt rulers and councilors.
  

• collapsable_leader_container should now calculate the correct height no matter the amount of horizontal slots.
  
• Fixed lock_country scope change incorrectly stating that the output scope was a bypass, when it is actually a country
  

• Replaced basic research technologies such as Quantum Theory with Breakthrough Technologies. Breakthrough Technologies will only appear once you have researched enough techs of your current tier and are required to research to reach the next tier.
  
• Breakthrough Technologies become easier to research based on the number of other empires you have low Tech intel on that have already researched them.
  
• Enigmatic Engineering blocks your Breakthrough Technologies from spreading.
  
• Events that give progress towards random technologies can grant progress towards Breakthrough Technologies, but will not give as much as they would a regular technology.
  

• Technology and Tradition costs are now distinct sliders in galaxy setup.
  
• Added notification message when new pop settles in zeya (Gaia planet in azilash)
  

• Adjustments made to the Galactic Doorstep origin:
  
• Added Gateway Cost and Megastructure Build Speed modifiers to the Galactic Doorstep origin.
  
• Galactic Doorstep event chain now directly rewards the Gateway Activation technology and gives far more progress on the Gateway Construction technology
  
• Increased the effects of Empire Size on Technology to match its effect on Traditions.
  
• Rebalanced research speed modifiers. Most sources of Research Speed now have a corresponding increase in Researcher job upkeep
  
• Removed or adjusted many sources of Ship Cost and Upkeep reductions from the game.
  
• Military Buildup Agenda now improves ship build speed and reduces claim costs. (It still reduces War Exhaustion on completion.)
  
• Naval Procurement Officer councilor now improves ship build speed.
  
• Crusader Spirit civic now improves ship build speed.
  
• Psionic Supremacy (Eater of Worlds) finisher no longer reduces ship build costs.
  
• Vyctor's Improved Fleet Logistics trait now reduces ship build costs by 10% instead of 20%.
  
• Progress Oriented modifier no longer reduces ship build costs.
  
• Match tradition in the Enmity tree bonus to ship build costs reduced to 5% instead of 10%.
  
• Master Shipwrights tradition in the Supremacy tree no longer reduces ship build costs.
  
• Military Pioneer trait now reduces starbase upgrade costs instead of ship build costs.
  
• Shipwright trait no longer reduces ship build costs.
  
• Reduced penalty the Irenic trait applies to ship build costs.
  
• Sanctum of the Eater ship upkeep reduction reduced from 10% to 5%.
  
• Mark of the Instrument ship component no longer reduces ship upkeep.
  
• Grand Fleet ambition now increases power projection instead of reducing ship upkeep.
  
• Fleet Supremacy edict no longer reduces ship upkeep.
  
• Corporate Crusader Spirit now reduces ship upkeep by 5% instead of 10%.
  
• Bulwark ship upkeep reductions reduced by 50%.
  
• Logistic Understanding, Armada Logistician, and Gunboat Diplomat traits now reduces ship upkeep while docked.
  
• Increased technology costs, especially those of higher tier technologies.
  
• The Technology curve has been changed from 1000 2^n to 500 (2^n + 3^n), making the difference between an early and late-game tech more distinct.
  
• Reduced output of researcher jobs
  
• Researchers and their gestalt equivalents now produce 3 of each research instead of 4
  
• Head Researchers now produce 4 of each research instead of 6
  
• The effectiveness of Ministry of Science has been halved
  
• Astral Researchers now produce 5 physics and 1 of each other research instead of 5 physics and 2 of the other researches.
  
• Knights of the Toxic God balancing:
  
  
  
  • Slightly reduced the research output for Knight and Lord Commander jobs
    
  • Refactored how the output scaling for Knights from Squires functions, these now behave as normal additive modifiers instead of multiplicative modifiers
    
  • Knights now correctly inherit production modifiers from researchers and administrators
    
  • Slightly reduced the unity and research output for Knight and Lord Commander jobs
    
  • Knight output modifiers now only apply to resources, like other job output modifiers
    
  • The Fortress Habitat Designation for Knights no longer provides +1 Defensive Army per pop on the habitat, instead each Squire job provides +1 Defensive Army
    
  • Squires now increase the resource output of Knights by 2.5% not 2% per Squire.
    
  • The Luminous Blades modifier from the Knight's Quest now removes the alloy upkeep of knights and gives +25% Army damage instead of an empire-wide +1.5% alloy production modifier per knight
    
  
  
• Delegate GalCom focus traits now have a small chance to give favors.
  
• Reworked and rebalanced the Erudite, Cyborg, Synthetic, Psionic, Chosen One, and Chosen of X traits to include new leader assignments.
  

• Repairing The Black Crown should no longer fire generic gateway repaired events.
  

• Added `last_resolution_category_changed` trigger
  

Hello Stellaris Community!

The Stellaris Team, and our partners at Republic of Gamers, are proud to announce the theme of this year's Mod Jam:
Legendary Leaders!



Modders will have until January 9th (feature-complete submissions are due January 4th + 5 days of polish/bugfixing) to create:

• One (1) Legendary Leader
  
• Two (2) or more flavor events that occur after the leader has been hired
  
• One (1) or more events that lead to the option to recruit the Legendary Leader
  
• One (1) or more unique Solar System Initializer(s) where the event(s) to recruit the Legendary Leader begin
  
• One (1) scripted_effect that will spawn your legendary leader's solar_system_initializer (to be fired from solar_system scope)
  

• 1st Place: ROG Strix G17 (2023) G713 Laptop*
  
• 2nd Place: ROG Delta S Wireless Headset*
  
• 3rd Place: ROG Spatha X Wireless Mouse*
  
• 4th - 10th Place: Stellaris branded Wallet and Keychain
  

by Eladrin

Hi everyone,

The 3.10.3 "Pyxis" update has been released. This release focused primarily on stability, and the contents are identical to the Open Beta that was released on Tuesday.

[h3]3.10.3 "Pyxis" Patch Notes[/h3]
Improvements

• Now New Entries notification on the outliner tabs is cleared, even when switching between tabs using keyboard shortcuts.
  
• Ulastar is now an advisor
  
• Vas the Gilded is now an ambassador
  

• Pre-FTLs in Federation's End now have their technological progress frozen
  

• Fixed a number of event or paragon leaders not being generated with the correct traits
  
• Fixed envoys passively gaining XP
  
• Fixed missing subtitle for Scout trait
  
• Pre-FTL Empires will now have a fully functional council when they ascend to the stars.
  
• Released Vassals will now have a fully functional council when released.
  

• Fix crash on startup for Linux (including Steam Deck).
  
• Fix crash related to modifiers of recently destroyed empires updating
  
• Fixed crash when surveying a planet that was just removed from the map
  

• Removed some empty space in the topbar
  

• Added moddable_conditions_custom_tooltip parameter to civics modification statement to allow displaying a custom requirement key when no condition has been specified
  
• Fixed civics modifications statements not always (not) allowing the correct civic changes
  
• Improved error logging to know which federation perk is invalid
  

• Research Speed Bonuses now usually come with increased Researcher Upkeep.
  
  
  • By changing these to throughput bonuses (cost + production), a technology focused empire will require more Consumer Goods or other resources depending on who they use to research. This puts a partial economic break on runaway technology.
  
  
• Reduction in most Research Speed bonus modifiers.
  
• The +20% research field technologies have been turned into "Breakthrough" technologies that gate progress to the next tier of research.
  
  
  • Whether it be the transistor, the theory of relativity, or faster-than-light travel, occasionally there are technologies that redefine a field of science.
    
    
    
    • The intent of these breakthrough technologies is to slow down the front-runners a little bit, while still letting the slower empires get pulled along.
      
    
    
  • Once a theory has been proven, it's easier for others to replicate those learnings.
    
  • Breakthrough technologies start off more difficult than regular technologies but have a variant of tech spread - the more nations you have at least low Technological intel on who have already discovered them, the cheaper they are to research (even down to instant research once the theory is commonplace). This tech spread varies based on galaxy size.
    
    
    
    • Enigmatic Engineering prevents this tech spread.
      
    
    
  • Breakthrough technologies have animated borders to stand out.
  
  
• Reduced Output of Researcher Jobs:
  
  
  • Researchers and their gestalt equivalents now produce 3 of each research instead of 4
    
  • Head Researchers now produce 4 of each research instead of 6
    
  • The effectiveness of Ministry of Science has been halved
    
  • Astral Researchers now produce 5 physics and 1 of each other research instead of 5 physics and 2 of the other researches.
    
  • All other researchers, such as Necromancers, have been left alone for now
  
  
• The Technology curve has been changed from 1000 2^n to 500 (2^n + 3^n), making the difference between an early and late-game tech more distinct.
  
• Replaced or removed most sources of Ship Cost and Upkeep reductions from the game.
  
  
  • Military Buildup Agenda now improves ship build speed and reduces claim costs. (It still reduces War Exhaustion on completion.)
    
  • Naval Procurement Officer councilor now improves ship build speed.
    
  • Crusader Spirit civic now improves ship build speed.
    
  • Psionic Supremacy (Eater of Worlds) finisher no longer reduces ship build costs.
    
  • Vyctor's Improved Fleet Logistics trait now reduces ship build costs by 10% instead of 20%.
    
  • Progress Oriented modifier no longer reduces ship build costs.
    
  • Match tradition in the Enmity tree bonus to ship build costs reduced to 5% instead of 10%.
    
  • Master Shipwrights tradition in the Supremacy tree no longer reduces ship build costs.
    
  • Chosen of the Eater of Worlds ship build cost reduction reduced to 5% from 15%, and no longer modifies ship upkeep.
    
  • Military Pioneer trait now reduces starbase upgrade costs instead of ship build costs.
    
  • Shipwright trait no longer reduces ship build costs.
    
  • Reduced penalty the Irenic trait applies to ship build costs.
    
  • Sanctum of the Eater ship upkeep reduction reduced from 10% to 5%.
    
  • Mark of the Instrument ship component no longer reduces ship upkeep.
    
  • Grand Fleet ambition now increases power projection instead of reducing ship upkeep.
    
  • Fleet Supremacy edict no longer reduces ship upkeep.
    
  • Corporate Crusader Spirit now reduces ship upkeep by 5% instead of 10%.
    
  • Bulwark ship upkeep reductions reduced by 50%.
    
  • Logistic Understanding, Armada Logistician, and Gunboat Diplomat traits now reduces ship upkeep while docked

Hello Stellaris Community!

Were proud to announce that signups for #MODJAM2024 are now open! This year our partners at Republic of Gamers are back, with some amazing prizes!



[h3]What is a Mod Jam?[/h3]

Modders will get four weeks to make something. We dont tell them what theyre making until the start of the working time and modders are not allowed to use any content theyve previously published. At the end of the working time, well put everything together in a package and release it. Interested in helping test the Mod Jam mod as we get closer to release? Join us on the Stellaris Official Discord!

Then the Community gets to vote on which something you like the best. At the end of the voting period, the top 10 modders by Community vote then get prizes from our sponsors and merch from the PDS Green Coffers!

[h3]Prizes, you say?[/h3]

This year weve paired up again with Republic of Gamers to deliver some great prizes to our winning Modders:

1st Place: ROG Strix G17 (2023) G713 Laptop*
2nd Place: ROG Delta S Wireless Headset*
3rd Place: ROG Spatha X Wireless Mouse*
4th - 10th Place: Stellaris branded Wallet and Keychain

* Exact specifications may vary depending on winning modders region

[h3]Well, tell us the theme![/h3]

Well reveal the theme on Tuesday, December 12th. Keep an eye out over the Holiday period, because the Mod Jam will be taking over the weekly Dev Diaries starting December 21st, and well be using them to keep you updated on what exactly the Modders are up to as the event progresses, so stay tuned!

[h3]Let me have it now![/h3]

Our current timeline has #MODJAM2024 releasing on January 11, 2024, so you dont have to wait too long! Subscribe to #MODJAM2024 on the Steam Workshop now, and get it as soon as it releases!

[h3]Sign up today![/h3]

Hey, thats my line. You can sign up to participate here! And be sure to read the Terms and Conditions!

Hello!

As has been the tradition these past few weeks, we've pushed an update to the Steam Open Beta with our next release, containing the 3.10.3 patch that has been sent on to certification for release later this week.

This week's update focus was primarily on stability.

3.10.3 "Pyxis" Beta Patch Notes
[expand type=details]
Improvements
Now New Entries notification on the outliner tabs is cleared, even when switching between tabs using keyboard shortcuts.
Ulastar is now an advisor
Vas the Gilded is now an ambassador

Balance
Pre-FTLs in Federation's End now have their technological progress frozen

Bugfixes
Fixed a number of event or paragon leaders not being generated with the correct traits
Fixed envoys passively gaining XP
Fixed missing subtitle for Scout trait
Pre-FTL Empires will now have a fully functional council when they ascend to the stars.
Released Vassals will now have a fully functional council when released.

Stability
Fix crash on startup for Linux (including steam deck).
Fix crash related to modifiers of recently destroyed empires updating
Fixed crash when surveying a planet that was just removed from the map

UI
Removed some empty space in the topbar

Modding
Added moddable_conditions_custom_tooltip parameter to civics modification statement to allow displaying a custom requirement key when no condition has been specified
Fixed civics modifications statements not always (not) allowing the correct civic changes
Improved error logging to know which federation perk is invalid
[/expand]

We expect one more release next week to add localization for the various fixes during the 3.10 patch cycle and for a few more balance and bugfixes, but with this we feel that 3.10 has reached a generally stable point. If you run into any issues, please let us know in the Bug Reports forum.

[h3]Please note that the 3.10.3 "Pyxis" Open Beta is an optional beta patch. You have to manually opt in to access it.

Go to your Steam library, right click on Stellaris -> Properties -> betas tab -> select "stellaris_test - 3.10.3 Open Beta" branch.[/h3]

by Eladrin

Hi all!

With another busy week of bugfixing, the 3.10.2 "Pyxis" patch is now live on all platforms. So far, 689,121 Astral Rifts have been explored by you.

This release contains a fix to a common MacOS crash, fixes to ship build costs being applied, and adds full customization to the outliner tabs.

To those of you that read Monday's post about the Beta, some of this isn't news to you so you can skip to the end where I'll talk about the planned 3.10.3 and 3.10.4. The released patch is identical to the 3.10.2 Open Beta.

[h3]3.10.2 PYXIS PATCH NOTES[/h3]
Features

• Added custom tab functionality to the outliner
  

• Paragon leader Nasuz Demetor is now reclassed as Scholar and only has one Destiny trait (Vibrant Storyteller)
  
• Payback Origin: the "Declining Healthcare" modifier acquired during the "Out Of Warranty" event chain is now automatically removed after 5 years
  
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait can now be gained by all leader classes
  
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Architectural Interest trait can now be gained by both officials and scientists
  
• The Army Veteran trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
  
• The Army Veteran trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Enlister trait has been moved from officials to commanders and now gives soldiers to the governed planet (tier 1) and sector (tier 2)
  
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personalty of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait can now be gained by all leader classes
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait is less likely to be rolled if the leader's empire has the Environmentalist civic
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait now requires a blocker removal tech to be researched
  
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
  
• The Kaleidoscope now has a chance of appearing anytime after midgame starts, instead of always appearing at the start of midgame
  
• The Mining, Farming and Generator focus traits have moved from officials to commanders
  
• The Planetary Analyst destiny trait can now be gained by both commanders and scientists
  
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
  
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Righteous trait can now be gained by both commanders and officials
  
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
  
• The Unifier trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Xeno-Mediator destiny trait can now be gained by all classes
  

• Astral Rifts now appear as not leading to anywhere when the player's astral rift pool is empty
  
• Blocked commanders for end-game crisis factions having non-admiral traits
  
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
  
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
  
• Corrected some trait names
  
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
  
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
  
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their levelled versions
  
• Fixed a visible trigger check in the first contact description for Amoebas and Crystalline Entities
  
• Fixed all leaders in imperial empires using the regnal namelists instead of only the ruler and heir
  
• Fixed an error in the "Out of Warranty" event chain that occasionally left you stuck with a permanent "Declining Healthcare" modifier
  
• Fixed Ancient Rampart not applying its modifiers correctly
  
• Fixed astral rifts exploration UI getting locked when all narratives had been explored
  
• Fixed dimensional dump astral rift sometimes creating a leader with no name
  
• Fixed Dimensional Shrine not being buildable in Terminal Egress system
  
• Fixed discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
  
• Fixed heirs being able to have planar theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
  
• Fixed leader age staying frozen after leaving an Astral Rift
  
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II's sector modifier
  
• Fixed outliner sometimes opening the astral rift view on the wrong rift when clicking on a ship exploring an astral rift
  
• Fixed reformating regulatory node agenda for machine empires
  
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
  
• Fixed ship build cost modifiers not being applied
  
• Fixed starting gestalt nodes not benefiting from initial leader level modifiers
  
• Fixed the Numistic Administration species trait
  
• Fixed the right-click menu not appearing for archaeology sites
  
• Fixed some modifiers with a multiplier not being applied
  
• Fixed the Surveyor relic trying to fire an effect on a habitat orbital when none exists
  
• The Ancient Ramparts Starbase Module now mentions what modifiers it has to Defense Platforms
  
• The astral rifts now correctly check for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
  
• The empire created by the Animator of Clay now correctly spawns their council
  
• The Factory Focus trait is no longer blocked for gestalts, but instead checks that they have a use for consumer goods instead (ie it is valid for Rogue Servitors)
  
• The Sensor Array Power Surge event can no longer target Astral Scars, planets with deposits or planets that have a habitat orbital
  
• Updated science nexus events to check for renowned and legendary paragon scientists
  

• Mac crash fix (one of threads run out of the stack mem by alloca in a loop)
  
• Workaround for rare crash when rendering empire borders
  

• Fixed performance issues caused by outliner notification.
  

• When adding council positions, AI will prioritize Head of Research, Minister of Defense and Minister of State if it doesn't have them
  

• Added @anti_synergy_weight_mult scripted variable for leader trait weights
  
• Added ai_priority to councilor type
  
• Added background_planet scope for leaders
  
• Added has_blocker_removal_tech scripted trigger
  
• Added Ship Class modifiers for armor and shield hardening, `shipclass__armor_hardening_add` and `shipclass__shield_hardening_add`
  
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE
  

• If you are crashing on startup, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.
  
• If you are crashing while hosting a multiplayer game on Ubuntu 20.04, switching to Cross Platform multiplayer appears to resolve the issue. It is also not present on Ubuntu 22.04.
  

by Eladrin

Hello!

We've just released an update to the Stellaris Test branch on Steam, containing the 3.10.2 patch that is currently in certification for release later this week. Of particular note, this release includes a fix to a common MacOS crash (that also turned out to be affecting other operating systems, just not quite as consistently) and full Outliner customization.

[h3]3.10.2 PYXIS BETA PATCH NOTES[/h3]
Features

• Added custom tab functionality to the outliner
  

• Paragon leader Nasuz Demetor is now reclassed as Scholar and only has one Destiny trait (Vibrant Storyteller)
  
• Payback Origin: the "Declining Healthcare" modifier acquired during the "Out Of Warranty" event chain is now automatically removed after 5 years
  
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait can now be gained by all leader classes
  
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Architectural Interest trait can now be gained by both officials and scientists
  
• The Army Veteran trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
  
• The Army Veteran trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Enlister trait has been moved from officials to commanders and now gives soldiers to the governed planet (tier 1) and sector (tier 2)
  
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personalty of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait can now be gained by all leader classes
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait is less likely to be rolled if the leader's empire has the Environmentalist civic
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait now requires a blocker removal tech to be researched
  
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
  
• The Kaleidoscope now has a chance of appearing anytime after midgame starts, instead of always appearing at the start of midgame
  
• The Mining, Farming and Generator focus traits have moved from officials to commanders
  
• The Planetary Analyst destiny trait can now be gained by both commanders and scientists
  
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
  
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Righteous trait can now be gained by both commanders and officials
  
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
  
• The Unifier trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Xeno-Mediator destiny trait can now be gained by all classes
  

• Astral Rifts now appear as not leading to anywhere when the player's astral rift pool is empty
  
• Blocked commanders for end-game crisis factions having non-admiral traits
  
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
  
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
  
• Corrected some trait names
  
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
  
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
  
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their levelled versions
  
• Fixed a visible trigger check in the first contact description for Amoebas and Crystalline Entities
  
• Fixed all leaders in imperial empires using the regnal namelists instead of only the ruler and heir
  
• Fixed an error in the "Out of Warranty" event chain that occasionally left you stuck with a permanent "Declining Healthcare" modifier
  
• Fixed Ancient Rampart not applying its modifiers correctly
  
• Fixed astral rifts exploration UI getting locked when all narratives had been explored
  
• Fixed dimensional dump astral rift sometimes creating a leader with no name
  
• Fixed Dimensional Shrine not being buildable in Terminal Egress system
  
• Fixed discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
  
• Fixed heirs being able to have planar theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
  
• Fixed leader age staying frozen after leaving an Astral Rift
  
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II's sector modifier
  
• Fixed outliner sometimes opening the astral rift view on the wrong rift when clicking on a ship exploring an astral rift
  
• Fixed reformating regulatory node agenda for machine empires
  
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
  
• Fixed ship build cost modifiers not being applied
  
• Fixed starting gestalt nodes not benefiting from initial leader level modifiers
  
• Fixed the Numistic Administration species trait
  
• Fixed the right-click menu not appearing for archaeology sites
  
• Fixed some modifiers with a multiplier not being applied
  
• Fixed the Surveyor relic trying to fire an effect on a habitat orbital when none exists
  
• The Ancient Ramparts Starbase Module now mentions what modifiers it has to Defense Platforms
  
• The astral rifts now correctly check for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
  
• The empire created by the Animator of Clay now correctly spawns their council
  
• The Factory Focus trait is no longer blocked for gestalts, but instead checks that they have a use for consumer goods instead (ie it is valid for Rogue Servitors)
  
• The Sensor Array Power Surge event can no longer target Astral Scars, planets with deposits or planets that have a habitat orbital
  
• Updated science nexus events to check for renowned and legendary paragon scientists
  

• Mac crash fix (one of threads run out of the stack mem by alloca in a loop)
  
• Workaround for rare crash when rendering empire borders
  

• Fixed performance issues caused by outliner notification.
  

• When adding council positions, AI will prioritize Head of Research, Minister of Defense and Minister of State if it doesn't have them
  

• Added @anti_synergy_weight_mult scripted variable for leader trait weights
  
• Added ai_priority to councilor type
  
• Added background_planet scope for leaders
  
• Added has_blocker_removal_tech scripted trigger
  
• Added Ship Class modifiers for armor and shield hardening, `shipclass__armor_hardening_add` and `shipclass__shield_hardening_add`
  
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE
  

• If you are crashing on startup, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.
  
• If you are crashing while hosting a multiplayer game on Ubuntu 20.04, switching to Cross Platform multiplayer appears to resolve the issue. It is also not present on Ubuntu 22.04.
  

Hi everyone!

We have just released the 3.10.1 "Pyxis" update! This update is identical to the Steam Open Beta that we put up earlier this week, and includes a number of fixes as well as hotkeys for the Tabbed Outliner.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Stellaris Community for their patience and bug reports. Without your help we would not have been able to address so many issues so quickly. Please keep on providing your bug reports and feedback.

We are currently still investigating and fixing a number of other issues, and this will not be the last update to 3.10, including issues on MacOS, more bugfixes, and adding full customization to the Outliner.

Please find the patch notes below:

[h3]3.10.1 Pyxis Patch Notes[/h3]
[expand type=details]
Improvements

• Added Ctrl+A/D shortcuts to cycle through outliner tabs. Also added Ctrl+Q/W/E/R to switch to specific tabs. Added tooltips for them. These tooltips are currently in English regardless of language setting
  
• Clarified tooltip headers for governor traits.
  

• AI empires generated as part of the Common Ground and Hegemony origins now start with an additional Official to be assigned to the Federation
  
• Blocked empire rulers and imperial heirs from getting the Planar Theorist trait
  
• Commissioner subclass now increases stability from soldiers instead of providing additional soldier jobs
  
• Decreased the chance for leaders to get common governor traits if they do not have a governor subclass or are not governing
  
• Decreased the chance of leaders gaining job providing traits
  
• Detail-Oriented has been updated to be a Destiny trait for Scholars, instead of a Veteran trait
  
• Explorer subclass now has +1 Sensor Range
  
• Halved the effects of the Politician trait
  
• Having a Commander govern a planet or sector now provides soldier jobs
  
• Increased the chances of the Prospector trait to fire.
  
• Oppressive Autocracy now has the colony shelter building replace a colonist job with an enforcer job
  
• Policies that increase leader starting level now greatly increase leader hiring cost and upkeep cost.
  
• Rebalanced traits that affect research output from jobs while governing
  
• Reduced the magnitude of most governor modifiers.
  
• Removed the "can only get Council traits" restriction on rulers in Democracies, Oligarchies and MegaCorps. (For modders, this is using the is_autocracy scripted trigger)
  
• Replaced Champions of the Empire +1 Initial Leader Level with +1 Additional Trait
  
• Resources from Psionic Pops modifier now applies to latent psionic species.
  
• Reworked Driven Educator to instead provide +25% Leader XP gain
  
• Slightly decreased the bonuses from Custom AI Assistant and Sapient AI Assistant traits
  
• Slightly decreased the penalties from the Neurosis trait
  
• Soldier jobs now produce a small amount of base stability.
  
• Traits that give homeworld jobs now require leaders to be at least level 2
  
• You can no longer sell exceptional materials (astral threads and minor artifacts) to the AI.
  

• "The Seal" situation is aborted if you attack [ISPOILER]the formless[/ISPOILER]
  
• Added missing descriptions for multiple ship component categories (reactor, auras, combat computers)
  
• Added missing node xp modifiers to the Astral Planes civics for gestalt empires.
  
• AI empires with the Fruitful Partnership origin will stop opening seed pods on Holy Words only to get obliterated by angry fallen empires
  
• All types of priest jobs (e.g. high priests, numistic priests) now benefit from the additional trade value from the Dimensional Enterprise council position.
  
• Blocked Entrepreneur (Ambassador) trait for gestalt empires, fanatic purifiers, inward perfectionists and criminal syndicates
  
• Blocked the Charmer and Research Exchange traits for genocidal empires and inwards perfectionists
  
• Clarified that the First Contact civics give an increased chance to draw FTL travel technologies (English only)
  
• Corrected all versions of Sovereign Guardianship to have 150% Empire Size from systems
  
• Corrected draw weights for a number of leader traits
  
• Empires can no longer spawn with multiple ministers of defense under some cases, such as being The Chosen.
  
• Empires created via status quo peace deals will now correctly generate their council.
  
• Explicitly blocked trading of gestalt nodes (instead of them being implicitly blocked)
  
• Fixed 2 zroni digsites pointing to a deprecated title.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to enact the "Dayside Farm" decision multiple times on a single planet.
  
• Fixed a case where the "Abandoned Star Platform" anomaly would leave the system's primary star without a deposit
  
• Fixed a case where the "Ion Trail" event would occasionally pick the same system it spawned in for the follow-up event
  
• Fixed a large number of planetary features that were providing incorrect bonuses due to changes with Mastery of Nature
  
• Fixed a typo in the event text for the "Blinding Grief" event
  
• Fixed calculations for determining trade values gained from slaves
  
• Fixed commanders wearing the wrong uniform on planetary assignments.
  
• Fixed crystal rift situations checking for the wrong amount of resources to validate approaches
  
• Fixed Crystal Sphere stolen events not using the correct texts and picture
  
• Fixed Crystal Sphere stolen events triggering when the crystal sphere situations are no longer active
  
• Fixed Dark Consortium displaying flag information in tooltip instead of the standard loc key for this situation
  
• Fixed Dark Consortium not locking the civic when being played from start
  
• Fixed Dark Matter Breakthrough agenda always stating it will locks the civic, even if it already is
  
• Fixed descriptions for Artisan Drones showing in district tooltips when none were present
  
• Fixed Eager Explorers giving two +50% chances to draw Improved Structural Integrity
  
• Fixed Efficient Staffing III applying the incorrect modifiers, leading to no sector modifiers.
  
• Fixed habitat and archaeology lab technologies missing increased chance to be drawn from being rare technologies
  
• Fixed hostile fleets being capable of crossing dimensional locks
  
• Fixed Imperial Heirs sometimes spawning with the incorrect initial level for their class.
  
• Fixed issue with concepts being offset for all languages using TTF (fonts)
  
• Fixed missing AI weights for some council positions
  
• Fixed missing localisation for Clone Army Commander traits
  
• Fixed outdated tooltips in diplomacy with Trader Enclaves
  
• Fixed some empires, such as Common Ground federation members or MSI, starting with duplicated council positions.
  
• Fixed some triggered modifiers from leader traits not being applied.
  
• Fixed starbases not inheriting modifiers from their country
  
• Fixed strange wormhole breaking existing wormhole in the same system if any when spawning
  
• Fixed that culled/reformatted nodes would not have a level 1 trait.
  
• Fixed that culling/reformatting the Regulatory Node would not create a new one.
  
• Fixed the "Dissolved" astral rift event leaving a ship stuck in an endless MIA loop
  
• Fixed the Archivist trait giving scientists additional levels
  
• Fixed the sector modifier for Ruthless Developer
  
• Fixed Tree of Life and Lithoid Crater deposits not providing all of their bonuses
  
• Fixed Urbanist trait displaying it was tier 1 and for any class when it is not a tiered trait and only for the Official
  
• For players without Galactic Paragons, Officials should no longer roll GalCom traits if you are not a member of the GalCom or Federation traits if you are not a member of a Federation
  
• Galactic Community Delegates now correctly multiply their diplomatic weight bonus by their level, instead of their level squared.
  
• If your capital is in the Formless home system, The Vacuum Flower relic now correctly grants you Astral Threads
  
• Made the first option in Black Hole Instability requiring Astral Threads instead of rewarding them
  
• Only leaders eligible for a specific council position should show up as potential recruits.
  
• Pre-Sapient pops no longer help you upgrade your capital buildings earlier.
  
• Prospector trait should no longer fire twice for Volatile Motes
  
• Removed Artisan Drone jobs from ringworld industrial segment if it is not set to factory designation.
  
• Removed reference to Imperial Heirs not having unity upkeep.
  
• Repaired Shattered Ringworlds now use the correct graphics
  
• Scrapping the warship in the "Adrift" event now correctly awards you Alloys instead of Minerals
  
• Scrapping the warship in the "Warship Destroyed" event now correctly awards you Alloys instead of Minerals
  
• Stopped certain events from accidentally adding anomalies or terraforming Astral Scars
  
• The Excavator trait no longer erroneously requires the Rift Sphere technology
  
• The formless don't talk to you lightly anymore if you become hostile
  
• The Geology Expert, Manufacturer, and Observer traits no longer state that they are Scientist traits
  
• The leader trait "Trader II" now correctly applies its effect to the whole sector
  
• The Manifesti's Head in the Clouds demand now checks for scientists on the council correctly
  
• The Mass Extinction Event Chain should work properly again.
  
• The plasmic species trait now has a slave cost of 2500 energy credits.
  
• The Scout trait no longer states it applies to military fleets for scientists
  
• The Tyznn Tithe trait is no longer possible to acquire by levelling up.
  
• The UNE will no longer spawn a third human empire to hang out with them for no reason.
  
• The Void Dweller initializing effects will no longer generate habitable worlds with no deposits.
  
• Updated the upgraded version of the Assembler trait to use the correct modifiers
  
• Vassalizing [ISPOILER]the formless[/ISPOILER] will now transfer their system to them if you happen to own it.
  
• Vibrant Storyteller is correctly marked as a Destiny trait for Scholars, not Explorers
  
• When loading a save, update some modifiers that previously weren't updated.
  
• You can now use the Astral Jump Astral Action if you have Psionic Jump Drives or Subspace Drives.
  
• [ISPOILER]zadigal[/ISPOILER] is now correctly fired if you declare war with [ISPOILER]the Formless[/ISPOILER] on their recruitment day
  

• Fixed AI assigning leaders to Galcom when it shouldn't be possible.
  

• Fix for crash when running unlock_council_slots effect.
  

• Added text to system debug tooltip to separate the different lists of modifiers.
  
• Anomaly view "Research Time" label is hidden when the research time is hidden.
  
• Changed Change Scientist hotkey in Situation Log anomaly view to G.
  
• DLC list is now shown in the Cooperative game setup.
  
• Fixed empire creation UI remaining visible while ACB is open.
  
• Fixed layout of "no scientists" text in anomaly view.
  
• Fixed portrait frame appearing to the left of the anomaly UI if you have no science ships with scientists.
  
• Fixed portrait tooltip in anomaly view incorrectly saying that you can right-click to remove the leader.
  
• In the anomaly window, if you get a valid scientist while no scientist is selected, that scientist is automatically selected.
  
• In the anomaly window, the Change Scientist button is disabled if there is no valid scientist available.
  
• Updated the leader ethics tooltip to mention planetary and sector governor ethics attraction
  
• Fixed leader XP bar showing the wrong tooltip
  

• Added a init_effect field to spawn_natural_wormhole effect
  
• Added additional documentation to 00_base_classes.txt
  
• Moved events action.504 and .505 to event leader.200 and .201
  
• Removed initial_effect_custom_loc from agendas. The initial effect's tooltip is now directly built from the initial effect
  
• The link_wormholes effect can now be used on the bypass scope
  

by Eladrin

Greetings!

Stellaris 3.10.0 Pyxis and the Astral Planes Narrative Expansion released last Thursday, and its been a bit of a bumpy ride, so I moved this weeks dev diary a bit earlier than usual.

[previewyoutube=Ec9udnCVPlw;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]

Due to an error we made in metadata, many players were unable to verify ownership of the DLC at launch. We pushed a quick hotfix, which resolved these issues for some players, while also introducing a different ownership issue through a checksum error, which prevented other people from being able to properly explore the expansion. We finally managed to fix all of these problems midday on Friday. I want to thank everyone who provided bug reports and helped us diagnose the dlc ownership issues, we wouldnt have been able to resolve them so quickly without your help.

Im terribly sorry for the poor launch.

Weve just put a beta branch up on Steam containing the 3.10.1 release, which is currently planned to be deployed to live on Thursday. This release includes a number of bugfixes, as well as hotkeys for the Tabbed Outliner. Let us know what you think.


The hotkeys are CTRL+A/D for switching to the previous/next tab and CTRL+Q/W/E/R for switching to a tab directly (much like Z/X/C/V switches between tabs in other UIs, such as the planetary view).

[h3]3.10.1 PYXIS BETA PATCH NOTES[/h3]

Improvements

• Added Ctrl+A/D shortcuts to cycle through outliner tabs. Also added Ctrl+Q/W/E/R to switch to specific tabs. Added tooltips for them. These tooltips are currently in English regardless of language setting
  
• Clarified tooltip headers for governor traits.
  

• AI empires generated as part of the Common Ground and Hegemony origins now start with an additional Official to be assigned to the Federation
  
• Blocked empire rulers and imperial heirs from getting the Planar Theorist trait
  
• Commissioner subclass now increases stability from soldiers instead of providing additional soldier jobs
  
• Decreased the chance for leaders to get common governor traits if they do not have a governor subclass or are not governing
  
• Decreased the chance of leaders gaining job providing traits
  
• Detail-Oriented has been updated to be a Destiny trait for Scholars, instead of a Veteran trait
  
• Explorer subclass now has +1 Sensor Range
  
• Halved the effects of the Politician trait
  
• Having a Commander govern a planet or sector now provides soldier jobs
  
• Increased the chances of the Prospector trait to fire.
  
• Oppressive Autocracy now has the colony shelter building replace a colonist job with an enforcer job
  
• Policies that increase leader starting level now greatly increase leader hiring cost and upkeep cost.
  
• Rebalanced traits that affect research output from jobs while governing
  
• Reduced the magnitude of most governor modifiers.
  
• Removed the "can only get Council traits" restriction on rulers in Democracies, Oligarchies and MegaCorps. (For modders, this is using the is_autocracy scripted trigger)
  
• Replaced Champions of the Empire +1 Initial Leader Level with +1 Additional Trait
  
• Resources from Psionic Pops modifier now applies to latent psionic species.
  
• Reworked Driven Educator to instead provide +25% Leader XP gain
  
• Slightly decreased the bonuses from Custom AI Assistant and Sapient AI Assistant traits
  
• Slightly decreased the penalties from the Neurosis trait
  
• Soldier jobs now produce a small amount of base stability.
  
• Traits that give homeworld jobs now require leaders to be at least level 2
  
• You can no longer sell exceptional materials (astral threads and minor artifacts) to the AI.
  

• "The Seal" situation is aborted if you attack the formless
  
• Added missing descriptions for multiple ship component categories (reactor, auras, combat computers)
  
• Added missing node xp modifiers to the Astral Planes civics for gestalt empires.
  
• AI empires with the Fruitful Partnership origin will stop opening seed pods on Holy Words only to get obliterated by angry fallen empires
  
• All types of priest jobs (e.g. high priests, numistic priests) now benefit from the additional trade value from the Dimensional Enterprise council position.
  
• Blocked Entrepreneur (Ambassador) trait for gestalt empires, fanatic purifiers, inward perfectionists and criminal syndicates
  
• Blocked the Charmer and Research Exchange traits for genocidal empires and inwards perfectionists
  
• Clarified that the First Contact civics give an increased chance to draw FTL travel technologies (English only)
  
• Corrected all versions of Sovereign Guardianship to have 150% Empire Size from systems
  
• Corrected draw weights for a number of leader traits
  
• Empires can no longer spawn with multiple ministers of defense under some cases, such as being The Chosen.
  
• Empires created via status quo peace deals will now correctly generate their council.
  
• Explicitly blocked trading of gestalt nodes (instead of them being implicitly blocked)
  
• Fixed 2 zroni digsites pointing to a deprecated title.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to enact the "Dayside Farm" decision multiple times on a single planet.
  
• Fixed a case where the "Abandoned Star Platform" anomaly would leave the system's primary star without a deposit
  
• Fixed a case where the "Ion Trail" event would occasionally pick the same system it spawned in for the follow-up event
  
• Fixed a large number of planetary features that were providing incorrect bonuses due to changes with Mastery of Nature
  
• Fixed a typo in the event text for the "Blinding Grief" event
  
• Fixed calculations for determining trade values gained from slaves
  
• Fixed commanders wearing the wrong uniform on planetary assignments.
  
• Fixed crystal rift situations checking for the wrong amount of resources to validate approaches
  
• Fixed Crystal Sphere stolen events not using the correct texts and picture
  
• Fixed Crystal Sphere stolen events triggering when the crystal sphere situations are no longer active
  
• Fixed Dark Consortium displaying flag information in tooltip instead of the standard loc key for this situation
  
• Fixed Dark Consortium not locking the civic when being played from start
  
• Fixed Dark Matter Breakthrough agenda always stating it will locks the civic, even if it already is
  
• Fixed descriptions for Artisan Drones showing in district tooltips when none were present
  
• Fixed Eager Explorers giving two +50% chances to draw Improved Structural Integrity
  
• Fixed Efficient Staffing III applying the incorrect modifiers, leading to no sector modifiers.
  
• Fixed habitat and archaeology lab technologies missing increased chance to be drawn from being rare technologies
  
• Fixed hostile fleets being capable of crossing dimensional locks
  
• Fixed Imperial Heirs sometimes spawning with the incorrect initial level for their class.
  
• Fixed issue with concepts being offset for all languages using TTF (fonts)
  
• Fixed missing AI weights for some council positions
  
• Fixed missing localisation for Clone Army Commander traits
  
• Fixed outdated tooltips in diplomacy with Trader Enclaves
  
• Fixed some empires, such as Common Ground federation members or MSI, starting with duplicated council positions.
  
• Fixed some triggered modifiers from leader traits not being applied.
  
• Fixed starbases not inheriting modifiers from their country
  
• Fixed strange wormhole breaking existing wormhole in the same system if any when spawning
  
• Fixed that culled/reformatted nodes would not have a level 1 trait.
  
• Fixed that culling/reformatting the Regulatory Node would not create a new one.
  
• Fixed the "Dissolved" astral rift event leaving a ship stuck in an endless MIA loop
  
• Fixed the Archivist trait giving scientists additional levels
  
• Fixed the sector modifier for Ruthless Developer
  
• Fixed Tree of Life and Lithoid Crater deposits not providing all of their bonuses
  
• Fixed Urbanist trait displaying it was tier 1 and for any class when it is not a tiered trait and only for the Official
  
• For players without Galactic Paragons, Officials should no longer roll GalCom traits if you are not a member of the GalCom or Federation traits if you are not a member of a Federation
  
• Galactic Community Delegates now correctly multiply their diplomatic weight bonus by their level, instead of their level squared.
  
• If your capital is in the Formless home system, The Vacuum Flower relic now correctly grants you Astral Threads
  
• Made the first option in Black Hole Instability requiring Astral Threads instead of rewarding them
  
• Only leaders eligible for a specific council position should show up as potential recruits.
  
• Pre-Sapient pops no longer help you upgrade your capital buildings earlier.
  
• Prospector trait should no longer fire twice for Volatile Motes
  
• Removed Artisan Drone jobs from ringworld industrial segment if it is not set to factory designation.
  
• Removed reference to Imperial Heirs not having unity upkeep.
  
• Repaired Shattered Ringworlds now use the correct graphics
  
• Scrapping the warship in the "Adrift" event now correctly awards you Alloys instead of Minerals
  
• Scrapping the warship in the "Warship Destroyed" event now correctly awards you Alloys instead of Minerals
  
• Stopped certain events from accidentally adding anomalies or terraforming Astral Scars
  
• The Excavator trait no longer erroneously requires the Rift Sphere technology
  
• The formless don't talk to you lightly anymore if you become hostile
  
• The Geology Expert, Manufacturer, and Observer traits no longer state that they are Scientist traits
  
• The leader trait "Trader II" now correctly applies its effect to the whole sector
  
• The Manifesti's Head in the Clouds demand now checks for scientists on the council correctly
  
• The Mass Extinction Event Chain should work properly again.
  
• The plasmic species trait now has a slave cost of 2500 energy credits.
  
• The Scout trait no longer states it applies to military fleets for scientists
  
• The Tyznn Tithe trait is no longer possible to acquire by levelling up.
  
• The UNE will no longer spawn a third human empire to hang out with them for no reason.
  
• The Void Dweller initializing effects will no longer generate habitable worlds with no deposits.
  
• Updated the upgraded version of the Assembler trait to use the correct modifiers
  
• Vassalizing the formless will now transfer their system to them if you happen to own it.
  
• Vibrant Storyteller is correctly marked as a Destiny trait for Scholars, not Explorers
  
• When loading a save, update some modifiers that previously weren't updated.
  
• You can now use the Astral Jump Astral Action if you have Psionic Jump Drives or Subspace Drives.
  
• zadigal is now correctly fired if you declare war with the formless on their recruitment day

• Fixed AI assigning leaders to Galcom when it shouldn't be possible.

• Fix for crash when running unlock_council_slots effect.

• Added text to system debug tooltip to separate the different lists of modifiers.
  
• Anomaly view "Research Time" label is hidden when the research time is hidden.
  
• Changed Change Scientist hotkey in Situation Log anomaly view to G.
  
• DLC list is now shown in the Cooperative game setup.
  
• Fixed empire creation UI remaining visible while ACB is open.
  
• Fixed layout of "no scientists" text in anomaly view.
  
• Fixed portrait frame appearing to the left of the anomaly UI if you have no science ships with scientists.
  
• Fixed portrait tooltip in anomaly view incorrectly saying that you can right-click to remove the leader.
  
• In the anomaly window, if you get a valid scientist while no scientist is selected, that scientist is automatically selected.
  
• In the anomaly window, the Change Scientist button is disabled if there is no valid scientist available.
  
• Updated the leader ethics tooltip to mention planetary and sector governor ethics attraction
  
• Fixed leader XP bar showing the wrong tooltip
  

• Added a init_effect field to spawn_natural_wormhole effect
  
• Added additional documentation to 00_base_classes.txt
  
• Moved events action.504 and .505 to event leader.200 and .201
  
• Removed initial_effect_custom_loc from agendas. The initial effect's tooltip is now directly built from the initial effect
  
• The link_wormholes effect can now be used on the bypass scope
  

• If you are crashing on startup, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.
  
• If you are crashing while hosting a multiplayer game on Ubuntu 20.04, switching to Cross Platform multiplayer appears to resolve the issue. It is also not present on Ubuntu 22.04.

Hello Stellaris Community,

Shortly after the release of Astral Planes yesterday, we began receiving reports of players being unable to verify ownership of the new DLC. These reports began as a sporadic issue that gradually worsened as the time passed since release. About an hour after release, the Dev Team identified a configuration issue with the Astral Planes DLC and put together a new build that we believed would resolve this issue for players.

Unfortunately, while this build resolved the DLC Ownership issue for the vast majority of players, there were some players that this fix did not work for, with a higher proportion of those players being Linux and MacOS users. The Stellaris team has spent today digging into the DLC Ownership issue, and working on potential solutions.

We believe that we have now found the root cause of the DLC Ownership issue - a mismatch between the DLC checksum as reported by the DLC and as calculated by the game, and we have come up with a fix that should work for all players. This fix is live now, and should resolve these issues as far as we can reproduce internally.

If after installing this latest update, you still continue to experience issues with verifying DLC Ownership:

• (Windows) Run Steam as an Administrator - exit Steam, right-click the Steam shortcut and click Run as Administrator
  
• Verify Game Files - In Steam, right-click Stellaris, Properties, Local Files, and Verify Local Files
  

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2534090/Stellaris_Astral_Planes/

[h2]Astral Planes is available now![/h2]

Take a step into the unknown with Astral Planes, navigating an array of wonders and dangers alike. Travel through Rifts in space and time for a glimpse of strange, new realities. What will you discover, in a universe beyond limits?

Astral Planes includes:

• Core Mechanics
  
  • Astral Scars
    
  • New Site Type: Astral Rift
    
  • New Resource: Astral Thread
    
  • Astral Harvesting - Technology to harvest Astral Threads
    
  • Rift Sphere - Technology to explore Astral Rifts Rifts
    
  • "Rift in Space" Situation - Unlocks Rift Sphere tech.
    
  • Random Stage 2 Rift Situation Events
  
  
• 30+ Rift Sites - each site contains branching narratives, featuring multiple potential endings and a chance at powerful new rewards
  
• 8 New Relics
  
• Astral Actions
  • 10 New Astral Actions
    
  • 4 Additional Astral Actions that will swap depending on research (requires Overlord)
  
  
• The Formless
  
• 1 Origin - Riftworld Origin
  
• 4 Civics
  
  • Hyperspace Speciality
    
  • Dimensional Worship
    
  • Dark Consortium
    
  • Sovereign Guardianship
    
• New Sounds, Music and Visual Effects
  
  • 3 New Music Tracks from Andreas Waldetoft
    
  • 70+ New Event Pictures
    
  • 80+ New Sound Effects

• Admiral - Focuses on Fleets and general naval combat
  
• General - Focuses on taking planets and assaulting static defenses - Armies, Planetary Bombardment, Ground Combat, and attacking defensive structures such as Starbases are the Generals forte
  
• Commissioner - Focuses on Planetary Governance (Martial Law)
  
• Strategist - Focuses on the Council, especially the Minister of Defense position

• Delegate - Focuses on Federations and the Galactic Community
  
• Industrialist - Focuses on Planetary Governance (Industry and Development)
  
• Ambassador - Council Focus (Diplomacy, Espionage, and First Contact), especially suited for the new Minister of State position
  
• Advisor - Council Focus (Economy)

• Explorer - Focuses on Surveying and Exploration
  
• Academic - Focuses on Archaeology and Anomalies
  
• Analyst - Focuses on Planetary Governance (Assist Research)
  
• Statistician - Focuses on the Council, especially the Minister of Science position

• Ruler and Specialist Pop output: -5%
  
• Worker and Slave Pop output: +5%
  
• Crime: -2
  
• Empire Size from Pops: -2%
  
• Stability from Soldiers: +2

• Basic, Advanced and Strategic Resources from Jobs: +5%
  
• Empire Size from Pops: -2%

• Physics, Society and Engineering Research from Jobs: +5%
  
• Empire Size from Pops: -2%

• Minister of Defense: -25% Naval Capacity
  
• Minister of State: -25% Diplomatic Weight
  
• Head of Research: -25% Research Speed

by Eladrin

Hello everyone!

Astral Planes and the Stellaris 3.10.0 "Pyxis" update are releasing this Thursday, November 16th. Today we've got the preliminary changelogs for your enjoyment.

The Astral Planes Narrative Expansion is available for pre-purchase now, with a 10% discount until November 27th.

[h3]Astral Planes Narrative Expansion Features[/h3]
Our largest story based release yet, Astral Planes focuses on mid to late game exploration content with over 30 Astral Rifts with widely branching storylines. Unlike the relative safety of Archaeology sites, the Rifts you explore will lead to completely different realms of existence, where fundamentals that were certain at home may not always be true.

• Added Astral Scars and Rifts
  
  
  
  • Added 30+ Rift Sites
    
    
    
    • Each site contains branching narratives, featuring multiple potential endings and a chance at powerful new rewards
      
    
    
  • Added Astral Thread Resource
    
  • Added Astral Harvesting and Rift Sphere Technologies
    
  • Added Rift in Space Situation and random Rift Situations.
    
  
  
• Added 8 New Relics
  
• Added 10 Astral Actions, plus 4 additional Astral Actions if you have the Overlord expansion
  
• Added Riftworld Origin
  
• Added 4 New Civics
  
  
  
  • Hyperspace Specialty
    
  • Dimensional Worship
    
  • Dark Consortium
    
  • Sovereign Guardianship
    
  
  
• Added 3 New Music Tracks from Andreas Waldetoft
  
• 70+ New Event Pictures
  
• 80+ New Sound Effects
  
• the formless...
  

• Leader Consolidation - see Dev Diary 322 for more details.
  
  
  
  • Admirals and Generals have been merged into the Commander, the Military leader class.
    
  • Governors and some Envoy functions have been merged into Officials, the Administrative leader class.
    
    
    
    • Officials are now assigned to represent your empire in each of the Galactic Community (or Imperium) and your Federation rather than assigning multiple Envoys.
      
    • Envoys still represent your Empire's overall diplomatic bandwidth, and handle First Contact, Improving and Harming Relations, and Espionage.
      
    
    
  • Scientists remain the third, Scientific leader class.
    
  • All leader classes can now govern planets and sectors.
    
    
    
    • Military governors apply Martial Law to a planet or sector, which increases worker and slave output at the cost of specialist and ruler output, adds soldiers to the planet or sector, and causes soldiers to increase stability.
      
    • Administrative governors increase general material resource extraction and industrial productivity.
      
    • Scientific governors increase research output on the planet or sector. This replaces the old Assist Research Scientist action, which has been removed.
      
    • Most governor traits now include apply to a lesser extent to the rest of the sector, unless a local planetary governor is overriding them.
      
    
    
  • Added the Minister of State for most non-gestalt empires. (Some civics, such as Fanatic Purifiers or Inwards Perfection, remove this position.)
    
  • The Minister of Defense, Research, and State council positions are no longer locked for players with Galactic Paragons, and can be replaced with other council positions when you reorganize your council, though at a cost.
    
    
    
    • No Minister of Defense: -25% Naval Capacity
      
    • No Minister of State: -25% Diplomatic Weight
      
    • No Head of Research: -25% Research Speed
      
    
    
  • A balance pass has been made on all leader traits and subclasses. Many have changed significantly, and the overall power level has generally been decreased.
    
    
    
    • Traits chosen when levelling up will now be biased towards the leader's current position, whether or not you have Galactic Paragons. (i.e., A Scientist that is governing a planet will be more likely to receive leader traits related to planet governance.)
      
    
    
  • The classes of all event leaders and paragons, as well as leader themed civics, technologies, and traditions, have been reviewed and adjusted.
    
  
  
• Council Legitimacy now gives bonuses or penalties to council agenda speed.
  
• Replaced the Recommended Content window with a more full-featured Additional Content Browser.
  
  
  
  • The Additional Content Browser increases the clarity and transparency of what various DLCs contain, by letting you preview things like Origins, Civics with full tooltips that include nested concepts, animated Portraits, and Shipsets. It is our hope that this will help you make more informed decisions about DLC purchases. (The Additional Content Browser will only be available on some storefronts, and will not update information without an active internet connection.)
    
  
  
• Added Tabbed Outliner.
  
  
  
  • Information is now split across Government, Ships, Politics, and Structures tabs, which will appear as they become relevant to your empire.
    
  
  

• Many event chains now include event chain titles in the event window.
  
• Added three new planet modifiers: Abundant Geothermal Activity, Subterranean Wildlife, Rich Microflora
  
• Added four planetary decisions to be able to remove some negative modifiers without having to terraform the planet: Remove Bleak Planet, Add Dayside Farm, Remove Hazardous Weather, Remove Dangerous Wildlife
  
• A toast message will now appear when a truce expires.
  
• Clarified tooltips of modifiers that increased leader cap
  
• Expanded on the Zroni dig site descriptions.
  
• A notification will now be sent when yoour fleets are unexpectedly forced to decloak
  
• You can now change the destination of a Leviathan Parade Situation at the cost of some unity.
  

• Administrative Leaders can no longer serve as the Head of Research.
  
• Archaeo-Engineers AP now gives +1 Scientist Capacity
  
• Aristocratic Elite no longer has +20% Governor XP gain, but instead gives a 20% chance for leaders to have a bonus positive and a bonus negative trait.
  
• Autonomous Drones and Sovereign Circuits now provide +1 Leader Trait Options
  
• Belligerent Diplomatic Stance now grants -1 External Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Blocked Inwards Perfectionists and Fanatic Purifiers from having a Minister of State.
  
• Centralised Command society tech increased to Tier 3
  
• Changed leader recruitment cost to be a quadratic equation instead of exponential
  
• Cooperative Diplomatic Stance now grants +1 External Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Corporate Authority and Corporate Dominion Civic now grant +1 External Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Council Legitimacy now directly modifies base council agenda speed, at 0% Legitimacy base agenda speed is 50%, at 50% Legitimacy it is 100%, at 100% Legitimacy it is 125%. Empires without Council Legitimacy are treated as if they have 50% Legitimacy for this.
  
• Decreased the leader XP gain from the Luminary Bloodline trait.
  
• Democratic Authority now grants +1 Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Dictatorial Authority now grants +25% Ruler XP and -1 Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Empires can now support three leaders of each class without using leader capacity. Generic leader capacity has been removed.
  
• Eternal Vigilance now gives +1 Commander Capacity
  
• Factions are now more upset if their ethic is not represented on the council or by the empire ruler.
  
• Galactic Force Projection now gives +1 Commander Capacity, +2 Max Influence from Power Projection, increases Naval Capacity by 100 and Fleet Command Limit by 50
  
• Gestalt rulers no longer count towards leader capacity
  
• Heroic Past, Precision Cogs, Pooled Knowledge and Factory Overclocking all now provide +1 Commander, +1 Official and +1 Scientist Capacity.
  
• Imperial Authority now grants -1 Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Imperial Cult now grants additional priest jobs to the ruler's homeworld scaling with their level.
  
• Imperial Prerogative now gives +2 Official Capacity
  
• Improvements to Mastery of Nature, planet modifier now gives +50% resource districts
  
• Increased Leadership Conditioning reward to 3,000 XP
  
• Isolationist Diplomatic Stance now grants -2 External Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Leader Enhancement policies now increase the starting level of leaders instead of increasing Leader XP gain.
  
• Leader starting age has once again been increased
  
• Leaders now have a slightly higher chance to start at a higher level.
  
• Learning campaign edicts leader xp gain have been reduced
  
• Mercantile Diplomatic Stance now grants +1 External Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Naval Tradition federation perk now gives +1 Initial Admiral Level instead of +10% Admiral XP gain.
  
• Nerve Stapled now gives -100% leader XP gain, if you somehow generate leaders from species with this trait.
  
• Not having a Head of Research (or gestalt equivalent) will impose a -25% penalty to research speed
  
• Not having a Minister of Defense imposes a -25% penalty to Naval Capacity.
  
• Not having a Minister of State (or gestalt equivalent) will impose a -25% penalty to diplomatic weight.
  
• Opener effect for Synthetics now reduces robot upkeep and robot assembly cost
  
• Philospher King now only provides +5 Effective Ruler Level
  
• Players can now build multiple Quantum Catapults.
  
• Pompous Purists Civic now grants -1 External Leader Pool Size in addition to existing effects
  
• Pops now have ethics attraction towards the ethics of the local planetary governor
  
• Rebalanced a number of species traits that affected leader XP gain.
  
• Rebalanced Aptitude Traditions and Leadership Conditioning
  
• Rebalanced Feudal Society and Franchising Civics and Shared Destiny AP
  
• Rebalanced Statecraft traditions
  
• Rebalanced the Auto-Curating Vault, Vault of Acquisitions, Alpha Hub and Citadel of Faith
  
• Reduced XP gain from Transcendent Learning
  
• Removed leader pool increase from Transcendent Learning
  
• Removed Leader Pool size modifiers from ethics
  
• Removed leader upkeep modifiers from Embodied Dynamism and Collective Self techs
  
• Removed the -10% leader hire and upkeep cost from traditions that only applied to a single leader class.
  
• Replaced the +1 Leader Capacity from Oppressive Autocracy with +1 Commander Capacity
  
• Reworked the Research Institute, Planetary Supercomputer and Military Academy buildings
  
• Slightly increased time needed to survey a system.
  
• Specialist subjects now get +1 capacity of the relevant leader type instead of +20% XP gain for that subject type.
  
• Species traits that give bonuses or maluses to leader xp gain are now multiples of 10% not 25%.
  
• Technocracy now gives Expertise traits additional effects for scientists when governing planets/sectors.
  
• The effects of the Ruthless Competition council position now matches Memory Vaults
  
• The Khanate Successor origin now boosts military leaders
  
• The Lord High Admiral council position now gives increased naval capacity instead of increased commander xp gain
  
• The Minister of Defense and Head of Research are no longer mandatory council positions.
  
• The Minister of State can be removed by Reorganise Council Agenda.
  
• The Opinion lost with the Trader Enclaves for canceling a trade deal now scales with size of the deal.
  
• The traditions that previously gave -10% leader hire and upkeep costs for a given class (e.g. Science Division) now also increases the leader capacity for leaders of that class
  
• Aptitude Tradition adoption now gives Initial Leader Skill: +1 instead of +1 starting trait to leaders.
  
• Discovery, Domination, and Supremacy Traditions now increase initial skill level for leaders instead of decreasing upkeep and hire cost.
  
• Transcendent Learning leader XP gain modifier reduced to +25%
  
• Transcendent Learning now gives +2 Scientist Capacity
  
• Universal Transactions now gives +1 Official Capacity and +20% Commercial Pact Efficiency
  
• Updated five existing planet modifiers: Weak Magnetic Field, Strong Magnetic Field, Asteroid Belt, Natural Beauty, Bleak Planet
  
• You can only find one promising officer every two years.
  

• Blocked special event leaders from having backgrounds and homeworlds. Warform was not hanging around with the Romans.
  
• Fix a case where the leader UI would remain on screen when exiting to main menu
  
• Fix councilor position triggers related to authority not being evaluated correctly in galaxy creation
  
• Fix diplo weight tooltip when affected by a resolution category weight modifier
  
• Fix gestalt leader backgrounds not clearing other leaders' BGs
  
• Fix scripted fleet order buttons having incomplete tooltips (e.g. Azaryn's terraforming special action)
  
• Fixed Alien Box event changing getsalt councilor nodes portrait
  
• Fixed bypasses mapicons always being placed in second position if there is an upgraded starbase in the system, hiding the icon below
  
• Fixed crash when checking if an invalid system is in sensor range
  
• Fixed Cultist event chain not having any target to pick planet from if the fleet that attacked was destroyed in the meantime
  
• Fixed gestalt nodes not having a starting trait
  
• Fixed leaders with a preset design using the wrong portrait when their species changes without its portrait changing.
  
• Fixed misaligned buttons and inconsistent tooltips in the Planet View
  
• Fixed num_owned_relics trigger not displaying its dynamic values in tooltip
  
• Fixed num_researched_techs_of_tier tooltip not displaying the technology tier
  
• Fixed random rulers never being generated with origin-locked traits.
  
• Fixed situation target tooltip not being completely localized
  
• Fixed Starbases receiving ship modifiers twice
  
• Fixed the "pick trait" button for recruitable leaders
  
• Fixed the Inevitable Assimilation tradition for DAs saying you need to adopt Cybernetic traditions twice.
  
• Fixed UOR ruler not benefiting from other initial skill modifiers.
  
• Fixed UOR setting ruler level to 4 instead of giving +3 initial levels.
  
• Leaders excluded from the upkeep cost now correctly produce resources
  
• Set the base value for percent_of_leader_lifespan to match the leader lifespan define value.
  
• Subjects now support their Overlords resolutions in the Galactic Community correctly
  
• The Escape key no longer closes any event windows.
  
• The first event option for the event Dysfunctional Council now informs you that the leader will be dismissed.
  
• The Xenophobic Fallen Empire will once again be able to get real mad at you if you border them.
  
• Worker Coops can no longer be Xenophobic
  
• You will no longer be able to avoid being synthetically ascended by being an assault army in space.
  

• The AI will no longer build habitats if they have an uncolonised habitat.
  
• The AI will prefer building habitats in systems with upgraded starbases unless they have the Void Dweller origin or the Voidborn AP.
  

• Added game rule for possible_precalc = can_fill_precursor_job
  
• Added define TRIGGERED_MODIFIER_UPDATE_DELAY, which lets us spread out calculations of triggered modifiers
  
• Fixed a case where country modifiers would continually recalculate every day
  

• Added new backgrounds for assembly and organic assembly.
  
• Added the ability to add an element to the event window specifying the event chain this event is part of
  
• Archaeological Sites and Astral Rifts mapicons are now colored depending on their exploration state
  
• Changed the leader cap indicator in the top bar to only display envoys.
  
• Fixed fleet command limit multipliers not appearing in tooltip if they add up to +100%.
  
• Improve and Harm Relations monthly values are now shown to two decimal places.
  
• Improved the tooltips for Agenda Progress.
  
• removed the notification for leader pool renova
  
• The leader list now shows the cap for each class
  
• The tooltip for Agenda Progress now shows modifiers to monthly agenda progress.
  
• Update the Main Flag button to show the name of the empire (and debug info if you're using Debug view)
  
• Added a subtitle to all longer event chains.
  
• Added Event Chain Subtitles for the five original precursors.