Key Features
Updated the Yor Ship Design visuals (old Ship Designs are still available as "Classic Yor")
Polished many artifacts effects and game events for balance, consistency, and fun.
The Shipyard and Starbase screens have had their fixed backgrounds removed and now display the galaxy behind the UI from their location in space.
Updated Starbase Screen so that the Module, Targets, and Effects have been reconfigured to be cleaner and easier to parse.
The Planet Management screen has a more consistent, less cluttered layout.
Updated the Civ Policy Screen and Main Dock to streamline the UX of Rally Points, Tax Rate, Trade Routes, and Fleet Commands.
AI
Fixed an issue where the AI was not upgrading Starbases and building orbitals on planets.
Art
Updated Tech Icons.
Core
DLC no longer requires active online access.
Fixed a stuck turn caused by a lost unit.
Fixed a problem with Colony Ships and Transports that prevented them from reaching their destination.
Gameplay
Artifacts
Updated text to better match their effects.
“Echoing Heartstone” effects now appear in the tooltip.
“Broadcast Culture” now appears in the tooltip.
“Neural Link” now awards EXP.
“Chaos Beacon” now adds Crime.
“Prototype Warhead” has been debuffed to match Alt-weapon type equivalents.
“Tactical Thruster Upgrade Module” was changed from +1 to +25%.
“Enemy Destabilizer Module” now adds Crime.
“Modify Planet” is now Colony specific.
Balance
Manufacture Population (Yor) cost reduced from 120 to 50.
Recruiting Station Colony Growth reduced from 20 to 5 (hat-tip DraveR).
Citizen Threshold Mult changed from 1.5 to 1.2 (hat-tip DraveR).
Prisoners now apply the proper bonuses.
Updated several Operation Abilities to give multiplier bonuses instead of flat.
Executive Orders
Re-formatted text and updated effect descriptions
Fixed Mitosis constantly spawning Containment Citizen and not player species to work with Custom irradiated species.
“Illicit Deals” - now gives the correct Crime Effect.
“Exploit Population:” Balanace adjustments:
Reduced +200% to +150%.
Added 15 Turns of -10% Approval.
Raised Control Cost from 20 to 30.
Events
Updated many events for balance and bug fixing.
Fixed effects that were mis-scoped or mistargeted.
Corrected inaccurate descriptions/tooltips.
"Precursor Food Processing Discovery" no longer has duplicated options.
Fixed a misspelled tooltip text key for the "Ancient Library Satellite" event.
The "New Generation" event now provides the Scientist Citizen when you are playing as Arcean.
Factions
Festron shouldn't be able to murder and replace citizens who don't have a food cost.
Baratak's "Convert Dead Plant" artifact power now converts dead planets.
Improvements
"Enforcer Den" -- rewrote the tooltip to include income and research bonuses as well as Enforcer trait specifics.
"Freemind Center" – Ship Maintenance now scales with Resolve.
"Stellar Forge" can no longer be built on a Capital World.
"Tower of Endless Night" can no longer be destroyed and rebuilt multiple times.
Fixed plural endings on single-use Wonders.
Updated Improvement descriptions to better match their effects
Leader Traits
“Dreadful Melody Leader” -- “Diplomatic Trade Offer” reduced from 0.9 to -0.1.
“Nemesis Legacy Leader” -- “Diplomatic Trade Offer” reduced from 0.75 to -0.25.
Traits with Control effects now give flat bonuses instead of per-turn bonuses.
Reworked Leader/Citizen Traits text to reflect their effects more clearly.
Standardized Influence Growth across Citizen Traits.
Policies
"Look the other way" – now only gives +10% Crime.
"Toxin Spreading" – removes the Diplomacy effect.
Ships
Removed debug Nanite ship designs that weren't intended to be released.
Laser Beam – Lowered Attack to 1.
Particle Beam: Raised Mass from 5 to 6
Particle Beam: Raised Manufacturing Cost from 5 to 7.
Fixed "Thug bomber's" tooltip.
Fixed issues with the Altarian Corvette and Frigates that caused them to sometimes disappear in the Ship Designer.
Updated the Probe description.
Updated Yor Ship designs.
Older Pre-existing Yor Ship are still included as "Classic Yor" ships.
Ship Component
“Shield Generator” shield strength reduced from 10 to 8.
“Barrier Field” shield strength increased from 8 to 10 (swapped the Generator and Barrier to match the Tech Tree progression).
Species
Phamysth: Intelligence increased by +2
Phamysth: Raised Expectations from +10 to +15.
Added Phenotype tooltip to explain better explain their abilities and stats.
Tech
Eliminated deprecated Techs from appearing in the Tech Tree and Search Bar.
Starship Refits now has an adequately scoped Movement effect.
Political Capital now gives Diplomatic Capital.
Interstellar Investments now gives Diplomatic Capital.
Interstellar Markets now gives Diplomatic Capital.
Colonial Capital Refit now adds the missing population effect.
Fix some tech categories never getting picked for discount.
Civs with the Cartographer's ability can get the Acquisitions tech.
Text
Updated Tech Descriptions.
Fixed French ship class names.
Starbase descriptions updated.
Removed unused Starbase descriptions.
Corrected some language regarding the Influence of Egalitarianism.
Added New Species Types to Galactapedia.
Cleaned up Ship design descriptions.
Cleaned up Policy descriptions.
Iconian Players no longer receive Yor conversation responses.
UI
Civ Policy Screen
Changed the preset Tax Rates to a Tax Rate slider, allowing players to fine-tune and find a balance between income and approval for their civilization.
Removed the Trade Route Breakdown and Fleet Wide Command buttons.
Fleets Details Screen
Updated the look and feel of the Fleet and Ship details screen.
Multiplayer
Replaced the label text “Biology” with “Phenotype” in the "Opponent Tooltip."
The Diplomacy tooltip is no longer blank for human players
The Shipyard Context Window now properly displays a “Manage” button
Planet Screen
Much of the information and content of the Planet Management screen has been collected into a unified location in the Content Window making for a more consistent, less cluttered layout.
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Replaced the label text “Biology” with “Phenotype” in the "Opponent Tooltip."
The Diplomacy tooltip is no longer blank for human players
Rally Points
Updated the Rally Point window to fix clipping issues and match the updated style.
Added a Rally Point button between the Galactapedia and Strategic View Settings buttons.
Added a default “P” Rally Point Hotkey.
Shipyard and Starbase
The new Shipyard and Starbase screens display each design inside the actual Shipyard from its location in space.
The display of each Module, Target, and Effect has been reconfigured to be cleaner and easier to parse.
Players can cycle between Starbases.
Starbase Context Window updated with added decommission Starbase functionality.
The Shipyard Context Window now properly displays a “Manage” button
Misc
Added a visual marker to enemies in your territory.
Moved the “Trade Route Breakdowns” to the “Trade Route” button on the hot bar
Moved the “Fleet Wide Commands” to the “Automation” button on the hot bar
Reduced the map’s Vignette opacity
The Fleet tooltip now displays maintenance as a rounded float rather than reducing it to an integer.
Fixed the left scroll button not working on Trade Route subentries.
Tech entries no longer turn grey GWG.
Prevent situations where the citizen promotion UI would get stuck beneath the planet window and above the research complete popup.
Closed an exploit with the Galactic Bazaar.