V2.13

V 2.13 Update

Overview

Hello,

We are very pleased with the reception Crusade has received so far! Glad you like it!

We have also received a ton of feedback and, unfortunately, cases where the data from the base game crept into Crusade.

Note: The ludicrous maps sizes and tech tree updates available in the opt-in are NOT in this release. We'll include those in an upcoming update. Opt-in save games NOT compatible with the live version.

AI updates

• Deciding "ships to build" moved into the planning phase so that it can better keep track of its ship inventory
• If Minor races get ahold of a ship (like constructors via ideology) they now will do something with them [hat tip: GalCiv Discord https://discord.gg/JN2XH6A)
• AI less inclined to build war support vessels
• Only expansive civilizations will try the colony rush strategy now. [hattip: GalCiv forums]
• AI players that are at war with everyone won't bother to build freighters [hat tip: GalCiv Discord team: https://discord.gg/JN2XH6A)
• Fixed a bug that was introduced in GalCiv 1.9 to improve multiplayer where credit transfers are sent as a message. This caused the AI to not be properly charged for rushing ships.
• AI prioritizes getting resources for its starbases over economic ones early game.
• Better Spy handling
• Broad, overall improvements to AI for dealing with player threats, creating bigger fleets, etc.
• AI will not try to recruit various citizen types until much later in the game
• AI does more evaluation on its economic status when determining whether to train a citizen as an Entrepreneur
• Trade: The AI does not add any more offers if the offering party doesn't have the credits/resources to back it up.
• Increased odds of AI building transports, training generals.
• AI builds resource improvements better

Hull Changes

• Tiny Hulls:
  • Cost reduced from 11 to 10
  • Logistics reduced from 2 to 1

• Small:
  • Logistics reduced from 3 to 2

• Medium:
  • Cost increased from 56 to 60

• Large:
  • Cost increased from 128 to 150
  • Logistics increased from 7 to 10

• Huge:
  • Cost increased from 432 to 500
  • Logistics increased from 10 to 12

• Starbase: HP reduced from 100 to 50

Balance

• Took away the Leader's +1 to raw production on every planet [hattip: GalCiv Forums]
• Hull Reinforcement ship module HP boost reduced from 20 to 5 [Stop Brad's cheese tactics]
• Scavenger Mission moved from Colonial Engineering tech to Interstellar Survey [hattip: GalCiv forums]
• Military Academy cost reduced from 200 to 75
• Xenophobic race ability now provides 100% boost to social and research on a planet but a 75% penalty to ship production.
• Synthetics granted trade techs
• Wealthy ability provides +1 to raw production on every world in addition to the money it provides
• Starbase cultural forum influence increased from 0.5 to 2
• Starbase Information Hub increased from 1 to 4 influence per turn
• Starbase Interstellar change influence increased from 1.5 to 6 influence per turn
• Starbase interstellar embassy increased from 2 to 8 influence per turn
• Central Bank improvement now doubles colony wealth and increases +1 gold per turn for each level
• Market Center provides 5% more of a wealth bonus per level (up from 1%)
• Other wealth based improvements now match market center bonus levels.
• Reduced improvement maintenance.
• Galactic wonders now generally provided an improvement bonus.
• Sneaky no longer gives you a spy turn 1, gives you espionage tech
• Drengin forced to be Merciless (they have an image to uphold)
• Commander now increases the logistics cap of a specific fleet
• Mo money from missions
• Recruit citizen project and similar ones are given a secondary type to allow the AI to better identify them
• Conqueror Ability provides +1 to shipyard construction and a 100% to legion quality. No longer gives invasion tech.
• First level Xeno farm is allowed for aquatic factions again.
• The Research Institute improvement now gives 7.5% bonus, not 75%

Performance

• AI calculates its stats during its own threaded turn rather than in a single update all players thread
• Lots of late game performance improvements (hat tip: ZINGO! https://discord.gg/JN2XH6A)
• Influence calculations moved to a background thread to keep the game from getting "jerky" on large maps late game.
• Diplomacy updates now handled as a threaded job.

Visuals

• Cosmetic texture updates
• Invasion screen prettier
• Improved alignment for tooltips
• Removed duplicate ability names in the Civ. Builder
• Reduced administration alert priority to Medium (from High) to reduce spam.
• Polish pass on colony ship animations
• Remove redundant screen title on the Multiplayer setup screen.
• Fix missing tooltip description on the Worker Recall Production. 
• Trades no longer (incorrectly) display have negative credits
• Improved FOW Border for both appearance and perf.
• Updated several screens from the old style to Crusade Style.
• Fixed mislabeled Resource names
• Fixed bad alignment for ideology Tooltip stats.
• Updated credits tooltip in resource bar to be more informative
• Torians and Arceans factions don't show twice If you own Crusades, but not Mercenaries.
• Changed tooltip for starbase upgrading to be more clear.
• Fix the Constructor tool tip to be accurate.
• Fixed the Quick Research Window to avoid text overlapping 
• Sylne UP portrait is no longer squashed
• Implementation for minor player text tooltips.
• Added a strategic icon for the Mission ships
• Updated text for various techs.
• Several improvements now have improved icons
• Fixed small break in between the tech tree entries on Normal and Medium UI sizes

GOG

Lots of GOG prep stuff for GOG Galaxy

Flavor

Lots of new insults

Bugs

• Changed tooltip for starbase upgrading to be more clear.
• Crash fixes
• Upgrading a Transport no longer consume legions
• Deleting a ship design template from the main menu ship designer no longer kills the game
• Fixed the discrepancy between the net income tooltip and the govern stats.
• Fix a crash that occurs when Steamworks is installing mods at the same time as the user is in the custom civilization builder.
• Particles are now get properly cleaned up after battles.  This was leading to late game lag after several battles.
• The first upload for ship style sets will no longer give an error.
• Upgrading ships to the same type will no longer kill admins/legions.
• Legions are not longer lost when upgrading to a new transport
• Logistics cap is now on a per-fleet basis instead of on-the-player so we can increase it for the commanders. 
• Now when you place a legion, you see the particles for the legion show up immediately.
• When you add or remove legions, you see the particles change to indicate a smaller or larger swarm
• Fixed a problem with Information Warfare that would heavily favor the invader. 
• Fix for AI simulated invasions (for choosing tactics) not taking into account force surrenders and planet killers
• Several stuck turns fixes
• Fixed error where the AI was still ignoring resource costs in improvements
• Added sanity checks where the AI tries to pick a improvement even if it didn't have an improvement to queue
• More crash fixes
• Resource Bar Arrows no longer Scroll in the wrong direction
• AI can no longer sneak invisible techs from the trade window which were throwing off the overall evaluation.
• Added tooltips to the Invasion Viewer window
• Updated "Word on the Street" graphics
• Fix for the workshop race condition crash between validation and updating workshop UI.
• Updated planet graphics
• Fixed problems with growing the Yor population.
• Fix for deleting factions with ship style sets for subbed workshop items (it wasn't removing all the files so it was complaining for a set you can't use because it should have been deleted)
• Fixed issue where super long ship names were clipping to two lines in the fleet details window callouts. 
• Clicking the "Lost Unit" notification will now take the player to the Unit Manager -> Transfer screen and select the last lost unit in the list.
• You can no longer steal spies from dead civilizations. 
• Spies placed on buildings no longer disappear when loading a save game. 
• Added tooltips to the Advantage Values in the Invasion Viewer window
• Some lopsided Invasions were incorrectly being previewed as being "evenly matched.
• First pass at re-balancing campaigns.  
• Mecenaries: Ysengard's tooltip now properly reflects its ability.
• Lost Treasures: Food improvements are now working correctly

Multiplayer

• AI is now properly charged for rushing ships. 
• Using Steam invite will no longer crash the game.
• Continued work to reduce the amount of data going back between players so we can have custom designed races in. (almost there)
• Faster game start up

Other Resources

v2.13 Forum Post