V3.1

V 3.1 Update

AI Improvements

• Synthetic races are better at killing you
• Synthetic life forms will not longer try to build farms. Instead, they'll destroy the arable tiles to make room for something more useful to them.
• Crusade: AI better at gaining citizens at higher difficulty levels.

Balance

• Fertile tiles are more common.
• Crusade:
  • Prolific ability population growth reduced from 0.2 to 0.1 (otherwise it was basically tripling initial population growth).
  • Aururus Arberetum provides a % growth benefit instead of a flat so that a given player (such as an AI player) doesn't gain a disproportionate advantage from having one.
• Mercenaries: Avatar mercenary antimatter cost increased from 1 to 5.
• Intrigue: Changed the "Destroyed Planets" crisis outcomes to be only "mostly destroyed."

Interface

• Custom Colors: Design your own color palettes for custom factions, ships, the UI and maps..
• Population growth now shows 2 significant digits.
• Added a button on the title window to force sync the mods. Use this if you have subbed/unsubbed to ships or civs outside of the game and that content isn't showing up correctly.
• Crusade: Shows your leader instead of the news robot on the Citizen screen.

Bugs

• Fixed a few MP crashes
• Typo fixes: For extreme colonize, it is Barren, not Desert planet types.
• Base Game only: AI will not try to research Crusade specific techs.
• Mercenaries: AI no longer tries to "mine" the Bazaar

Other Resources

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