Hello all, We're proud to release the 3.9.3 "Caelum" Patch promised for mid-October. This patch brings with it a balance pass on subjugation and diplomatic acceptance in-general, as well as other balance changes, bug fixes, UI, AI and modding improvements. Please find the patch notes below. #################################################################################### VERSION 3.9.3 ######################### ############################################################ Balance

• AI Empires are more likely to seek a federation if their rivals have federated.
• Federations (except for Hegemonies) now default to not permitting subject members.
• Having less than 50 Trust with an empire imposes a -100 Acceptance to them becoming your subject or overlord.
• Hydroponics Designation on habitats now swaps all jobs on the housing districts for farmers.
• Increased the importance of being more powerful than your vassal for loyalty purposes.
• Insulting someone decreases their Trust of you by 5.
• Rebalanced requirements for diplomatic treaties to require trust.
• Reduced how excited subjects get about things like shared sensors.
• Reduced the effect differing war philosophies has on federation acceptance.
• Removed the ability to trade favors.
• Replaced all +10% Districts on Habitats from technologies and traditions with +1 District on Habitats
• Replaced the upgrade habitat decisions with checks for habitat capital level instead.
• The Intimidation menace perk now allows you to ignore diplomatic requirements for proposing subjugation.
• The Pharma State civic now provides +1 Medical Worker job to capital buildings.
• The Unity from Rivals from the Animosity Diplomatic Stance has been reduced to 10 per rival.
• Trade Designation on habitats now has the housing district swap a clerk for a trader.

• Research, Energy and Mining District capacity on habitat complexes now have their own planetary features to clearly show the number of districts, current number of orbitals and maximum number of orbitals.
• The Crisis event chain will now use their bespoke event chain icon.

• Added is_scope_valid checks for anchorages.
• Fix to hiring events not being dismissed for other players in coop
• Fixed concept tooltips for starbase components.
• Fixed issue with nested tooltips and mouse tendency being incorrect when using UI scaling
• Fixed issue with some portraits being blurry on lower graphics settings due to mip levels being skipped. Disabled the functionality for portraits and related textures.
• Fixed the Node Culling gateway leading to an unlocalized string.
• Fixed Tiyanki occasionally not spawning correctly at the start of a Fruitful Partnership playthrough
• Massive Crater got its 25% pop growth back
• Restoring the Payback habitat when your homeworld is a moon now grants a minor orbital instead of a major orbital.
• Rewrote math for calculate tendency between mouse and nested tooltip window. This should fix issue with tooltips below and above mouse cursor behaving somewhat differently.
• Stopped interactions allowing multiple gaia-seeder buildings on a planet.
• The bonus provided by Eclipse from Enmity now correctly grants a 2% modifier instead of a 20% modifier.
• Updated the Eclipse tradition tooltip
• Updated the massive crater concept tooltip to accurately display the actual deposit.

• Certain AI personalities (Federation Builders, Spiritual Seekers, Migrating Flocks, and Peaceful Traders) are now 25x more likely to select Diplomacy traditions.
• The AI will no longer request to be subjugated by empires that are equivalent or weaker than them.
• The AI will no longer request to become the subject or overlord of another empire unless they have 50 Trust with the other party.

• The ship viewer's zoom speed is now scaled to the ship's size.
• Tooltips to select agendas now show the estimated time to launch the agenda, based off of your current agenda progress rate
• Trust between nations is now visible in the main diplomatic screen.
• When switching ships in the ship viewer, the zoom distance will now be preserved relative to the ship's size.

• Added documentation for concepts.
• Added support for more object types in concept tooltips.
• Fixed gridbox left and top padding not working.
• Some objects' auto-generated tooltips can now be shown as concept tooltips.
• Support building concept tooltips without valid scope.
• Calling non existing events should no longer crash the game.

Please note that save file compatibility between versions is not guaranteed.