V3.95

V 3.95 Update

Gameplay

• New game option: On Surrender, transfer all planets. Defaults to OFF
• New game option: No FOW in your territory. Defaults to ON
• "Ascension Victory" no longers requires you to control a majority of the crystals.
• Common and Abundant asteroid frequency increased.
• When a planet gets colonized or a shipyard gets made and it sees if there is a shipyard nearby that would be in the green zone (no penalty), planet automatically becomes a sponsor.
• Eliminated the map size limitations on map sizes as long as you have at least 8GB of memory.
• "Nanite Transmitter" now has limited uses.
• "Nano Fabricator" now gives 100 manufacturing overflow.
• "Nano Fabricator" now gives a +10% Max Manufacturing bonus to the planet.
• Dodge value on high-end thrusters reduced by 3%.
• Tactical battle maximum final dodge increased from 10% to 20% (i.e. a ship always has a 20% chance to hit you).
• Base relationship penalty for approaching ascension is -2 instead of -1
• Ascension close to victory threshold lowered from 66% to 50% as there tends to be a feedback loop on accumulating points.
• Space Rockets moved from default to Militaration tech
• Retribution: Civilization capital max population increased from 8 to 10
• Race Trait changes
  • Base Game:
    • Reduced the effect of the "Popular" race trait
  • Crusade and up
    • Research techs for Drengin no longer have maint cost.
  • All:
    • Port of call is one per player instead of one per planet to align with Retribution balance
    • Productive1 trait now provides 20% instead of 10% social production boost
    • Production2 trait now provides 10% instead of 5%
    • Clever1 now provides 15% research boost instead of 10%
    • Influential1 trait now does 40% influence boost instead of 15%
    • Influential2 trait now does 15% influence boost instead of 10%
    • Economical1 now provides 15% gross income boost instead of 10%
    • Handy1 now reduces Colony Maintenace by 50% instead of 20%
    • Handy2 now reduces Colony Maintenace by 30% instead of 15%
    • Popular1 tourism per planet boost reduced from 2% to 0.4% (it's still pretty huge)
    • Popular2 tourism boost reduced from 1% to 0.2%
    • Traders1 trade boost increased from 20% to 40%
    • Traders2 trade boost increased from 10% to 15%
    • Brutal1 increases soldiering from 20% to 50% now
    • Brutal2 increases soldiering from 10% to 30%
    • Courageous1 trait now boosts resistance from 20% to 50%
    • Courageous2 trait boosted from 10% to 30%
    • SharpEyed1 increases ship accuracy from 20% to 30%
    • Sharpeyed2 increases ship accuracy from 10% to 20%
    • Agile1 increases jamming (dodge) from 20% to 30%
    • Agile2 increases jamming (doge) from 10% to 20%
    • Observant1 increases sensors from 25% to 50%
    • Observant2 increases sensor range from 15% to 30%

Interface

• Moved the "planet build queue" over to give the improvement list more room.
• Moved "Word on the Street" window to the Govern screen.
• Tourism on a planet displays decimals if it falls below 1%.
• The game now provides feedback when you can't select a tech because of an "Age" restriction

Bugs

• Fixed a rare bug that prevented planets and ships from spawning in the campaigns
• Fix typos. Hat tip our discord fans for their help
• Ambient music no longer plays during the victory movie.

Other Resources

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