xREL.v3

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# 2.2 ‘Le Guin’ Free Features
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* Ether Drake Shrine/Monument has been converted to a special Planetary Deposit with the same effects as before
* Improved Nanite Transmutation description for tech/building
* Art Monument has now been revamped into a planetary Decision
* Hive minds will once again have unemployed drones rather than a Scavenger drone job
* Renamed Empire Size to Empire Sprawl, and renamed Administrative Cap to Administrative Capacity (previous wording did not make it clear enough that they are soft caps)

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# Balance
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* Reduced effectiveness of Bio-Reactor
* Increased cost of Unity buildings
* Reduced mineral cost of roboticist and fabricator jobs
* Increased base alloy job production from 2 to 3
* Resource stockpiles have by default been increased from 10000 to 15000. Default stockpile for Energy Credits increased to 50000
* Drone Campaign and Robot Campaign effects reduced from +20% to +10%
* Synthetic Evolution ascension perk now gives +10% robot output
* The chance of criminal Branch Offices getting shut down has been reduced slightly, and the cooldown between shutdown events has been reduced to 10 years
* At least one year with little or no crime must pass for a colony's criminal Branch Office to potentially get shut down (increased from one day)
* Different kinds of Unity buildings are now more consistent in how many Jobs they create
* Betharian Power Plant building now creates Jobs in addition to its flat Energy Credits output
* Bunker Bot's scrap value increased
* Massively reduced point defense weapon damage against armour
* Democratic Crusaders now also take a dim view of corporate authority
* Caravaneer home base will only be re-established if at least one Caravaneer fleet is still alive
* Rescaled the Consecrated World Worship modifier: it now goes higher, with smaller value increments between each step
* Shared burden Civic and Living standard allow pops to demote in social strata much more rapidly
* Ruined arcologies take longer to clear and cost more
* Reduced Gateway cost
* Increased rate at which admirals and ships get XP from suppressing pirates
* Science nerd faction is no longer jealous of the Successor Khanate
* Ship upgrade cost reduced by increasing the refund amount from older components, and upgrade time reduced
* Mega Art Installation restoration build time increased from 3600 to 4800
* Strategic Coordination Center restoration build time increased from 3600 to 4800
*Strategic Coordination Center effect on naval cap reduced from to 50/100/150, effect on starbase cap reduced from to 2/4/6, and effect on platform capacity reduced to 4/8/12
* Science Nexus effect on research output increased from 75/150/225 to 100/200/300, and increases research speed by 5%/10%/15%
* Science Nexus build time increased from 2400 to 3600, and alloy cost increased from 12500 to 15000 for all levels
* Proles know their roles, are less likely to be researchers
* Synthetic Evolution ascension perk now also reduces modify species cost by -50%
* Administrative Efficiency (repeatable) tech effect on Admin Cap increased from 10 to 15
* Mitigated some Machine Uprising issues slightly

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# UI
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* Building and District tooltips are now more informative in regards to what resources they use and produce from their jobs
* Fixed the missing "Megacorp" ownership icon in the MP lobby
* Added a warning when you try to colonize a very low habitability planet directly with a colony ship
* Piracy is now shown for non trading nations (if within their borders)
* Fixed the UI shattering hilariously if you clicked the population tab on an uncolonized planet
* Fixed Expansion Planner wrongly revealing rare deposits on unsurveyed worlds
* Fixed tooltip for Aristocratic Elite to show the building it unlocks
* Added a popup to tell player when resettlement will cause building destruction
* Adjusted the resource deficit notification to pop once you are down to 12 months' reserves
* Small tweaks to the Planets and Sectors screen
* Fixed tooltip wrongly stating planet had no rare planetary features if they were covered by a blocker
* Fixed overlapping GUI elements for Science Nexus Megastructure
* Updated production/upkeep GUI elements in Megastructure view
* Faction issues now display as red or green depending on if the demand is fulfilled rather than if the effect of the issue is positive, negative or neutral
* Fixed so that all decimals of amenities and trade value are shown in the UI

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# AI
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* Improved AI planet building priorities
* Improved AI market trading
* AI no longer bounces a single scientist around multiple ships, choking their exploration and growth
* AI now manages to correctly assess budget for building upgrades on planets
* Made sure AI is not blocked from building things that decreases budget deficits if deficit is too large, because you gotta have money to make money, champ
* Scriptable possibility to use parent economic category for AI budgeting. AI now has a single pool for energy upkeep for most things, making it much better at building up its empire
* AI is now budgeting some exotic resources to planet development, allowing them build upgrades and buildings that require them
* Made AI a bit less maniacal about stomping out every iota of crime to allow the criminal megacorp playstyle

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# Performance
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* Fixed performance drop in the resettlement view
* Fixed one source of lag on daily ticks
* Reduced needless daily job related calculations

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# Modding
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* Add num_uncleared_blockers trigger - checks the planet's total amount of uncleared blockers
* Renamed old "can_resettle_pop" game rule to "can_resettle_planet", Add a new "can_resettle_pop" game rule that works on Pop scope
* Added on_slave_sold_on_market on action

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# Bugfixes
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* Number of districts required to enact Arcology Project is no longer reduced by uncleared blockers
* Fixed overlapping UI elements in Megastructure view
* Authoritarian faction is now also OK with Academic Privilege and Robotic Servitors
* Tech drones and Technician jobs now correctly look for the Ingenious trait rather than Thrifty (which was changed to trade value)
* Starting on Earth as Life-Seeded now properly gives you a 25 size planet with rare deposits
* Fixed an OOS on hotjoin due to MIA ships reappearing in different places on server and client
* Fixed status quo peace not spawning new empires in ideology and vassalization wars
* Fixed ship alloy costs being truncated in the choose design window of the fleet designer
* Fixed first wave scourge invasion fleets being led by admirals using robot portraits for some bizarre reason
* Fixed massively out of date credits in the Chinese version, because Jamor is a human that exists in the universe apparently
* Fixed out of synch event related to special projects
* Added missing effects to the description of the Trium Caravaneer's atmospheric deodorizer deal
* Gateways will no longer spawn in directly adjacent systems on galaxy creation
* Fixes the issue of people not able to hot join a multiplayer when too many players are present
* Made tweaks to Galactic Market that should prevent an infinite profits exploit from flooding the market, then rebuying, you shameless tophat-wearing capitalist exploiters, you
* Fixed a graphical display bug with shielded worlds
* Fixed an incorrect modifier being applied by the "Alien Drag Racing" anomaly
* Improved the text truncation in longer planetary Decision descriptions, should avoid spillouts
* Reduced number of calls to CalcMaxEmployed done in DailyUpdate by up to 50%. Should improve performance
* Fixed literally unplayable grammar issue in the Horizon Signal event chain
* Fixed leader portraits being slightly off-center in level up windows
* Fixed OOS due to Leaders not being reregistered when changing class (Scientist to Empire Leader, etc)
* Fixed potential CTD when loading market and certain empires no longer exist, because all those empires will be lost, in time, like tears in rain
* Empire size modifier on leader cost and upkeep is now multiplied on the total and not added to the other mult modifiers
* Fixed OOS due to Galactic Market cache
* Fixed Master's Teaching: Warring States edict not affecting army upkeep as it should
* Fixed Gospel of the Masses civic not applying trade value bonus
* Fixed event spam when gaining access to the Galactic Market
* "Free at last" modifiers are now removed from the planet after it's reconquered (or conquered by anyone else)
* Prevented abandoned terraforming project or underground civilization events on an Ecumenopolis
* Added a check so that servitude robots cannot become criminals. We'll miss you, serial killer auto assembly claw.
* Khan, "berserker" and "invader" AI personalities should no longer get stuck considering targets they cannot reach
* Fixed empire size tooltip with literally unplayable missing % signs
* Fanatic Purifiers, Determined Exterminators, and Devouring Swarms now have a tooltip properly explaining why, as generally antisocial genocidal murderers, they are not welcome in the Galactic Market
* Fixed issue where the Marauder Horde was not dealt with properly if the Khan died of old age
* Reworked refugee pop effect script to eliminate faulty event spam
* Fixed a situation with total wars. If a player takes a planet that has the same name as a planet he already owns, a new sector would be created with that name, but with no planets in it
* Effects of "Survival of the Fittest" tradition now include a "%" character where needed
* Fixed broken tooltips for Gang Wars and Mob Rule events
* Fixed a bug where presapient pops on a planet would distort the necessary number of fully sapient pops required to unlock the next building slot
* Fixed some missing resource icons in various screens and tooltips
* Fixed robot pops being unable to resettle
* Fixed the Consecrated World Worship modifier disappearing when a certain combination of planets are consecrated
* Caravaneers should not join a colony before it is fully established
* Some moon-related events had their triggers improved after the startling realization that Habitats also count as moons. That's no moon...
* Fixed Aberrant and Vehement lacking starting anchor starbase rendering their portals indestructible
* Fanatic Materialist Fallen Empire is no longer wrongfully DLC-locked behind Synthetic Dawn
* Fixed broken text for Dark Matter deposits
* "Pollen Aphrodisiac" event chain is no longer available to Ecumenopolis worlds
* Fixed an event option tooltip relating to the Science Nexus reporting incorrect resource amounts
* Fixed Automated Colonization Units tradition not granting an extra pop on colonization for machine empires
* Fixed issue with the Artisan troupe dialogue windows not popping up
* Fixed crash when trying to reroute a trade route
* Totalitarian faction demands should be satisfied by either having a stratified living standard on everyone, or by purging/enslaving pops
* Fixed a crash when opening the megastructure build list with a Dyson Sphere you cannot afford at midnight on the Summer Solstice atop Barad-dûr
* Fixed text grey out function to actually grey out texticons instead of only cheekily putting "_grey" into the text
* Fixed a crash when tooltipping power in diplomacy view while not observing as a country
* Fixed duplicate Simplified Chinese ship design names
* Fixed a possible crash when showing event windows
* Fixed issue where system ownership change on actions were executed in a unsafe environment potentially causing CTDs and/or OOSs
* Fixed an OOS at game start when the client is playing in a different language than the host
* Fixed a crash related to extremely long trade routes
* Fixed CTD from trying to update invalid planets
* Fixed the Caravansary Home Station being indestructible after it is re-established, because that which has died once can die again
* Fixed a missing ship design name for the Caravansary starbase
* The Numistic pops sold by the Numistic Order will now have the same traits as their original owner but the ideal planet class of their buyer
* Fixed Vassalization Wars unhelpfully not creating Vassals
* Subsidiaries can now have branch offices and open branch offices in their overlord's territory. Commercial pact trading is also done automatically just as when in a federation when you're a subsidiary
* Merchants now properly produce Unity for empires with Merchant Guilds civic
* Fixed a number of Special Projects occasionally displaying unintended event images in the Situation Log
* Fixed some Governor traits that were wrongly empire-wide in their effect
* Hyperplanes are now correctly colored on OSX
* Drone Megastorage now correctly checks that you are a Machine empire
* No resettlement policy now actually means no resettlment
* Fixed Observation Posts producing no science
* Sector automation now includes hives and nexus
* Technologies for lvl 2 buildings no longer appear before you have the resources to build them
* Fixed the Numistic Order fleet having the wrong name
* Alleviated some issues with Caravaneer fleets getting "stuck", as their jump distance when escaping hostiles is now randomized
* Fixed an edge case where Consecrating a world would not result in a modifier, making the planet impossible to un-consecrate
* Fixed literally unplayable typo in Cyto-Revitalization Center tooltip
* Fixed Solid Liquidity faction issue stating the wrong amount of Energy Credits
* Private Prospectors civic effect description now shows the correct Administrative Cap increase