Hello everyone! We're ready to announce that we're releasing 2.3.3 with a few extra fixes as a live build before going on vacations. Below you'll find the traditional patch notes, with the extra fixes since the beta in underlined text. We hope you enjoy the balances, tweaks and changes we introduced with this build! ################################################################# ######################### VERSION 2.3.3 ########################## ################################################################# ################### # Ancient Relics Story Pack Features ################### * A number of archaeology sites have been overhauled to give more interesting rewards for completion, with new techs, empire modifiers, and ethics-based outcomes ################### # General ################### * Updated localisation for all languages ################### # Balance ################### * Further changed Precursor system spawning to always connect to an owned system, if possible, to reduce them appearing in inaccessible places * More archaeological site events will grant minor artifacts * Zroni chain grants Psionic Theory tech option for non-gestalts * The Surveyor relic now has a chance to find multiple deposits during its activation time. It has also been reduced to a five year timer * Adjusted the rate at which Admirals gain XP when patrolling and when in combat * Daily patrolling XP is now based on the max piracy in a system rather than the current piracy * Disengaged ship now also give xp, they have their own define: LEADER_ADMIRAL_FLEET_COMBAT_SHIPS_DISENGAGED_CONVERSION * Zro is slightly more common * Marketplace of Ideas trade policy unity per trade value increased from 0.15 to 0.25 * Grand Herald site is less common. When the Grand Herald is found it may be damaged to some degree, if so there is a special project to restore it to full power * Finishing Arc Sites may yield Technology Research Options/Boosts * Lowered the chance of archaeology sites being discovered when planets are surveyed * Non-genocidal gestalt empires may now also seize the galatron from those who would withhold access to its glory ################### # UI ################### * Added MP DLC ownership icon for Ancient Relics * Fixed line break in Zro Deposits causing unnecessary truncation of text * Fixed displayed Army Recruitment time not including build speed modifiers * You should no longer be able to see the orders of the fleets of other empires * Fixed the resources going haywire in the trade view. Hopefully for the last time * Added a country modifier to remind you that you can safely colonize Holy worlds as the chosen of Zarqlan ################### # AI ################### * Fixed so that the AI uses their idle science ships to assist research rather than just drawing salaries and doing nothing like typical freeloading intelligentsia * AI empires will finish tradition trees before starting new ones * Changed AI weight for consecration decision, so that it's actually used * AI will now build city districts on planets if needed even if not many pops live there * AI no longer juggles leaders back and forth, and also makes sure there is always at least one leader assigned to a ship * Fixed the AI declaring war on empire they can't reach, or empires on the other side of the galaxy * AI no longer needlessly upgrades starbases if they still have unused module or building slots * Removed ostensibly arbitrary pop requirement for research buildings, also capped holo-theatres to one per planet * Increased alloy expansion budget to allow machine empires to do early expansion * AIs in federation have finally discovered ship types other than "corvette" * AI will no longer maniacally press the "build army" button in order to make armies building faster ################### # Modding ################### * add_anomaly effect now adds the anomaly to the scoped country instead of the first country to survey the planet * Added "min_jumps" and "max_jumps" parameters to the "spawn_system" command for better control of where and to what world spawned system appear * min_jump and max_jump now use -1 to be ignored, so that you can make systems that attach directly to your base system * Added `steal_relic = { target = TARGET_COUNTRY relic = ` effect * The `on_arrival_effect` is now properly called with a fleet scope * Replaced hard texture limit with hybridarray for people that have excessive amounts of textures due to mods * Added 'is_last_lost_relic' and 'is_last_received_relic'. Both trigger return true if the relice passed as a parameter is the last (lost/received) relic by the country from the scope country scope: is_last_lost_relic = / is_last_received_relic = ################### # Stability ################### * Fixed a freeze when editing trade routes from a system you stole * Fixed a crash when using mature galaxy in observer mode ################### # Bugfixes ################### * Colony automation now has a 3 day cooldown after a building completes in order for recently completed constructions to take effect * Increased weighting of favorited jobs so that they're properly prioritized * Made the logic for buy/selling slaves better. AI is now more likely to both buy and sell slaves, wrote someone in the 21st century * Fixed automation not working on planet capitals or new colonies if you don't change the designation * Conquered habitats will now convert districts that are not permitted by their new empire type * Fixed so that rogue servitor AI will no longer just build organic sanctuaries * All non-Exterminator Machine Intelligences should now be able to make Farming Colonies * In MP only the first player to discover the Baol or Zroni precursor will begin their chain. Others are free to discover different precursors * Fixed overflow issues in AI diplomacy due to relative strength calculations * The result of "Reverse-Engineer Minor Artifacts" is now properly randomized * Disabled map-ping for finished arch sites * Admiral XP is based on the total cost of ships instead of just minerals * Fix for all buildings swapping issues * Secrets of the Irassians will no longer sometimes give machine intelligences a tech they can't use * Changed so that arch sites and certain events use the correct GFX files * Fixed Growth species disappearing every other month in some cases * Ship build speed modifiers are no longer applied twice * Fixed Build Speed modifier being applied twice to buildings * Fixed some new Tutorial Lines not playing VO (VO for a bald eagle flying out of an explosion with a pistol grasped in its beak didn't arrive in time for today, alas) * The Caravaneers roam space once again instead of sitting in orbit ringing your doorbell for all eternity with an "offer you can't refuse" * Deficit modifiers are properly applied again * Master Builders no longer ever affects Habitat size * Rare resource tech will also be researchable if any planet you own contains an Industrial sector deposit * Primitives living on Ring Worlds will no longer build normal districts on them when invaded, enlightened, or if they naturally develop spaceflight, because inscrutably we have created a game where apparently such things are possible * Maintenance Drones again have a positive weight for the Emotion emulators trait * Fixed ships not going MIA when they can't return because they don't have access * Presapients can now be found again to be uplifted/exploited/devoured as your whim decrees * Upgraded buildings are no longer moved after ruined buildings * Fixes the rubricator system appearing without hyperlanes * Pop Growth is now based on the pop growing rather than the fastest growing species on the planet * Gateways and habitats can now built while other megastructures are being built * Fixed Habitats and Ring worlds getting modifiers meant for non artificial planets * Fixed planet view not changing image correctly after planet class change * Add modifier effects to planet class tooltip * Reduced the late game stutter * You can now steal relics when you're not in the galatron war, rather than only during the galatron war, though why you would steal any relic other than the Galatron is beyond me. The stellaris_test version is still there as 2.3.3 (checksum: 70ef), the only difference being it uses our experimental crossplay MP layer. Steam users need to be on stellaris_test to crossplay with GoG and Paradoxplaza. The stellaris_test version also has the "Legion" flag set as a thank you to people helping us test the mp layer. You can check the forums patch thread here. With this, and without further ado, we wish you all, on behalf on the Stellaris team and all of Paradox, a great summer, full of new fanatic friendships and platypi!