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JYWLuca8269 at 14:11, 30 July 2020

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2020-04-21T17:36:42Z

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	=== Other Resources ===		== Other Resources ==

	[https://forums.galciv3.com/470717/page/1/ V1.3 Forum Post]		[https://forums.galciv3.com/470717/page/1/ V1.3 Forum Post]

			[[Category:Updates]]

JYWLuca8269 at 12:04, 17 December 2017

2017-12-17T12:04:17Z

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	**Governors build Colony Improvements for you. To choose a Governor, first research "Interstellar Governance".  Then choose a Colony and press the "Manage" button.  A list of available Governors appears on the right-hand side of the window.		**Governors build Colony Improvements for you. To choose a Governor, first research "Interstellar Governance".  Then choose a Colony and press the "Manage" button.  A list of available Governors appears on the right-hand side of the window.
	**You may remove a Governor and take back control of a Colony at any time.		**You may remove a Governor and take back control of a Colony at any time.


	*The Colony Window now allows you to sort the Colonies based on Name, Manufacturing, Research, Wealth, Population, Influence, and Approval.		*The Colony Window now allows you to sort the Colonies based on Name, Manufacturing, Research, Wealth, Population, Influence, and Approval.

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2017-12-17T12:03:48Z

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== V 1.3 Update ==

=== Overview ===

We are addressing issues with micromanagement of your growing empire. Here are some of the improvements we're providing:

*Planetary Governors Choose Governors to rule planets in your place, freeing you focus on grander strategic goals. These Governors decide what Planetary Improvements to build.

*Improved Ship and Fleet management We've introduced numerous UI enhancements to help manage large numbers of ships and fleets in your empire.

*Improved Ship Destination Interface  A newly redesigned Ship Destination Interface will help you organize the movement of large fleets across the galaxy.

=== Full Patch Notes ===

==== Visual / Audio Improvements ====

*Added new background music track
*Added new news robot animations
*Added orbit and follow cameras to the Battle Viewer

==== Micromanagement Improvements ====

*Governors
**Governors build Colony Improvements for you. To choose a Governor, first research "Interstellar Governance".  Then choose a Colony and press the "Manage" button.  A list of available Governors appears on the right-hand side of the window.
**You may remove a Governor and take back control of a Colony at any time.  

*The Colony Window now allows you to sort the Colonies based on Name, Manufacturing, Research, Wealth, Population, Influence, and Approval.
*Ships are now grouped into Fleets under the "Ships" tab instead of being listed out individually.  You can expand the Fleets to inspect individual ships within each Fleet stack.
*Added a "Fleets" category to the Governs > Commands window.  This allows you to redirect large groups of ships all at once.
*Redesigned the Ship Destination window to add tabs for each destination type and included a minimap.  
*Shipyard and Starbases now have their own tabs to Main Game Window

==== Balance ====

*Lowered the cost of larger hulls slightly
*Fleets are more likely to dogpile on desirable targets.
*Fleets will be less timid when picking targets.
*Added a Game Settings option to disable the AI surrendering.
*AI should build more Economic Starbases
*Increased turn lifetime of strategies that were 5 turns to 10 turns
*Eliminated the free stuff bonuses gifted AI was receiving due to improved overall AI improvements
*Removed the free techs and free ideology points from Genius AI due to improved AI behavior generally
*Made Incredible difficulty level get more goodies for those who want to be punished
*Made Godlike AI difficulty get more goodies to punish the crazies
*AI only updates tax policy fully when a new AI strategy is chosen (instead of every turn)
*AI is more likely to use colony ships to explore unknown stars in the hopes of finding a planet
*AI gradually adjusts its spending ratios per turn rather than trying to do it all in one turn to give time for other civilization-wide measures to have a chance.
*Fixed bug that caused the AI to min and max its spending every other turn under certain AI strategies
*AI puts more effort into keeping its people happier
*AI does better dealing with ship maintenance and its effect on its economy
*Planet project production is now capped at 100% now.
*Changed all Planetary Projects to 5% from 10%
*Removed Ultra Transformer improvement.
*Remove all techs that give adjacency bonuses.

==== Bug Fixes ====

*Fixed bug that caused the graphs to appear corrupted
*Fixed broken progress bars for shipyards in colony screen
*Fixed missing ship image and ship name in the upgrade window.
*Game checks to see if Steam is online before allowing the user to register.
*AI will now pursue more specialized/expensive techs than rather than always going for the cheaper tech.
*If the network connection is slow, the game will no longer crash when trying to access the Hall of Fame.
*Fix to a bug where AI would sometimes see a planet that was outside its vision if it was close enough to another planet
*Fix to a bug (LONG overflow) that could cause the AI to not expand as quickly as it should
*Fixed bug that caused the AI to sometimes zero out its research when it felt economically weak
*The Colony Manufacturing and Influence sort buttons now sort the colony lists correctly
*Increased turn lifetime of strategies from 5 turns to 10 turns
*Adding fix to the slider code where the sliders would sometimes go negative.
*Improved general stability of games with large numbers of AI players
*Fixed a crash when assigning teams in games with a large number of AI opponents
*Fixed a crash when checking and unchecking the "add random opponents" repeatedly.
*Fixed a crash that would happen if you deleted a custom race and then immediately started a new game.
*Fixed a crash for restoring multiplayer games
*Resources at the top of the screen are no longer being trimmed
*The tech tree specialization nodes were using the wrong square background.  
*Addressed a UI problem where some drop down lists were appearing behind buttons
*Fixed minor text layout problem with Starbase Context Window
*Fixed a number overflow problem with improvements with 0 manufacturing cost.
*Updated appearance icons for custom races.  Removed some duplicate entries and updated colors for others.
*Spaces are no longer allowed for save filenames where space was the only character.
*Removed the white streaks in the Iconian faction leader movie when choosing it as your custom faction foreground movie.
*Fixing a minor issue with the Terran colony and Terran constructor ships where hyperdrive modules weren't appearing on both sides
*Removed the yellow hex ring around the Approval Relic
*Planetary defending fleets with zero attack power are no longer invulnerable to attack.
*Set the default AI difficulties to Normal instead of Easy
*Mega Events are now disabled in the Campaign and the Tutorial.
*Tutorial and Campaign will no longer hang when loading if mods are enabled
*Added a diplomacy modifier that calls out other races as warmongers when they declare war too often.
*Changed the game so anyone with a transport can invade with conventional warfare if you don't have the tech yet.  This solves a problem where a player who unlocked the "Malevolent - Dangerous " Ideology, received a transport, but couldn't use it to invade a planet because they hadn't researched the invasion tech.
*When fleets merge they now attempt to take on whatever move directive is currently issued from the incoming fleet.
*If an AI leader is busy with another player, it won't make a trade offer to a second player.
*Fixed Fog of War bug where objects in a row that goes from visible to exposed were not hidden.
*Added a Browse button to the Custom Faction Choose Picture Screen that will open an Explorer window directly to the location for copying images.
*Map Editor: fixed problems with the preview thumbnails
*Map Editor:  Do longer allow players to set a "recommended players" count of more than 100 when saving their map
*Loading a custom map screen now displays the selected map's size.
*Fixed a crash that occurred when the map editor tried to access DLC ships.
*Fixed a problem with that would cause planet icon tooltips to break and show invalid data
*Fixed a couple game-within-game lobby crashes
*Fix an issue where "Unlikable" trait causes you to actually be liked.
*Address a problem with uploading custom factions to Steam.
*Fixed a crash when moving a fleet into shipyard at the end of turn

=== Other Resources ===

[https://forums.galciv3.com/470717/page/1/ V1.3 Forum Post]

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			<h1 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> V 1.3 Update </h1>

	=~~= V 1.3 Update ==~~		<h2 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Overview </h2>

	~~===~~ Overview ~~===~~

	We are addressing issues with micromanagement of your growing empire. Here are some of the improvements we're providing:		We are addressing issues with micromanagement of your growing empire. Here are some of the improvements we're providing:

	*Planetary Governors~~ ~~Choose Governors to rule planets in your place, freeing you focus on grander strategic goals. These Governors decide what Planetary Improvements to build.		*Planetary Governors. Choose Governors to rule planets in your place, freeing you focus on grander strategic goals. These Governors decide what Planetary Improvements to build.

	*Improved Ship and Fleet management~~ ~~We've introduced numerous UI enhancements to help manage large numbers of ships and fleets in your empire.		*Improved Ship and Fleet management. We've introduced numerous UI enhancements to help manage large numbers of ships and fleets in your empire.

	*Improved Ship Destination Interface~~  ~~A newly redesigned Ship Destination Interface will help you organize the movement of large fleets across the galaxy.		*Improved Ship Destination Interface. A newly redesigned Ship Destination Interface will help you organize the movement of large fleets across the galaxy.

	=== Full Patch Notes ~~===~~		<h2 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Full Patch Notes </h2>

	=~~===~~ Visual / Audio Improvements ~~====~~		<h3 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Visual / Audio Improvements </h3>

	*Added new background music track		*Added new background music track
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	*Added orbit and follow cameras to the Battle Viewer		*Added orbit and follow cameras to the Battle Viewer

	=~~===~~ Micromanagement Improvements ~~====~~		<h3 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Micromanagement Improvements </h3>

	*Governors		*Governors
	**Governors build Colony Improvements for you. To choose a Governor, first research "Interstellar Governance". ~~ ~~Then choose a Colony and press the "Manage" button. ~~ ~~A list of available Governors appears on the right-hand side of the window.		**Governors build Colony Improvements for you. To choose a Governor, first research "Interstellar Governance". Then choose a Colony and press the "Manage" button. A list of available Governors appears on the right-hand side of the window.
	**You may remove a Governor and take back control of a Colony at any time. ~~ ~~		**You may remove a Governor and take back control of a Colony at any time.

	*The Colony Window now allows you to sort the Colonies based on Name, Manufacturing, Research, Wealth, Population, Influence, and Approval.		*The Colony Window now allows you to sort the Colonies based on Name, Manufacturing, Research, Wealth, Population, Influence, and Approval.
	*Ships are now grouped into Fleets under the "Ships" tab instead of being listed out individually. ~~ ~~You can expand the Fleets to inspect individual ships within each Fleet stack.		*Ships are now grouped into Fleets under the "Ships" tab instead of being listed out individually. You can expand the Fleets to inspect individual ships within each Fleet stack.
	*Added a "Fleets" category to the Governs > Commands window. ~~ ~~This allows you to redirect large groups of ships all at once.		*Added a "Fleets" category to the Governs > Commands window. This allows you to redirect large groups of ships all at once.
	*Redesigned the Ship Destination window to add tabs for each destination type and included a minimap. ~~ ~~		*Redesigned the Ship Destination window to add tabs for each destination type and included a minimap.
	*Shipyard and Starbases now have their own tabs to Main Game Window		*Shipyard and Starbases now have their own tabs to Main Game Window

	=~~===~~ Balance ~~====~~		<h3 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Balance </h3>

	*Lowered the cost of larger hulls slightly		*Lowered the cost of larger hulls slightly
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	*Remove all techs that give adjacency bonuses.		*Remove all techs that give adjacency bonuses.

	=~~===~~ Bug Fixes ~~====~~		<h3 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Bug Fixes </h3>

	*Fixed bug that caused the graphs to appear corrupted		*Fixed bug that caused the graphs to appear corrupted
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	*Fixed a crash for restoring multiplayer games		*Fixed a crash for restoring multiplayer games
	*Resources at the top of the screen are no longer being trimmed		*Resources at the top of the screen are no longer being trimmed
	*The tech tree specialization nodes were using the wrong square background. ~~ ~~		*The tech tree specialization nodes were using the wrong square background.
	*Addressed a UI problem where some drop down lists were appearing behind buttons		*Addressed a UI problem where some drop down lists were appearing behind buttons
	*Fixed minor text layout problem with Starbase Context Window		*Fixed minor text layout problem with Starbase Context Window
	*Fixed a number overflow problem with improvements with 0 manufacturing cost.		*Fixed a number overflow problem with improvements with 0 manufacturing cost.
	*Updated appearance icons for custom races. ~~ ~~Removed some duplicate entries and updated colors for others.		*Updated appearance icons for custom races. Removed some duplicate entries and updated colors for others.
	*Spaces are no longer allowed for save filenames where space was the only character.		*Spaces are no longer allowed for save filenames where space was the only character.
	*Removed the white streaks in the Iconian faction leader movie when choosing it as your custom faction foreground movie.		*Removed the white streaks in the Iconian faction leader movie when choosing it as your custom faction foreground movie.
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	*Tutorial and Campaign will no longer hang when loading if mods are enabled		*Tutorial and Campaign will no longer hang when loading if mods are enabled
	*Added a diplomacy modifier that calls out other races as warmongers when they declare war too often.		*Added a diplomacy modifier that calls out other races as warmongers when they declare war too often.
	*Changed the game so anyone with a transport can invade with conventional warfare if you don't have the tech yet. ~~ ~~This solves a problem where a player who unlocked the "Malevolent - Dangerous " Ideology, received a transport, but couldn't use it to invade a planet because they hadn't researched the invasion tech.		*Changed the game so anyone with a transport can invade with conventional warfare if you don't have the tech yet. This solves a problem where a player who unlocked the "Malevolent - Dangerous " Ideology, received a transport, but couldn't use it to invade a planet because they hadn't researched the invasion tech.
	*When fleets merge they now attempt to take on whatever move directive is currently issued from the incoming fleet.		*When fleets merge they now attempt to take on whatever move directive is currently issued from the incoming fleet.
	*If an AI leader is busy with another player, it won't make a trade offer to a second player.		*If an AI leader is busy with another player, it won't make a trade offer to a second player.
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	*Added a Browse button to the Custom Faction Choose Picture Screen that will open an Explorer window directly to the location for copying images.		*Added a Browse button to the Custom Faction Choose Picture Screen that will open an Explorer window directly to the location for copying images.
	*Map Editor: fixed problems with the preview thumbnails		*Map Editor: fixed problems with the preview thumbnails
	*Map Editor: ~~ ~~Do longer allow players to set a "recommended players" count of more than 100 when saving their map		*Map Editor: Do longer allow players to set a "recommended players" count of more than 100 when saving their map
	*Loading a custom map screen now displays the selected map's size.		*Loading a custom map screen now displays the selected map's size.
	*Fixed a crash that occurred when the map editor tried to access DLC ships.		*Fixed a crash that occurred when the map editor tried to access DLC ships.
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	*Fixed a crash when moving a fleet into shipyard at the end of turn		*Fixed a crash when moving a fleet into shipyard at the end of turn

	== Other Resources ==		<h1 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Other Resources </h1>

	[https://forums.galciv3.com/470717/page/1/ V1.3 Forum Post]		[https://forums.galciv3.com/470717/page/1/ V1.3 Forum Post]

	[[Category:Updates]]		[[Category:Updates]]