JYWLuca8269 at 13:02, 30 July 2020

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			<h1 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> V 1.9 Update </h1>

	=~~= V 1.9 Update ==~~		<h2 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Optimization </h2>

	~~===~~ Optimization ~~===~~

	*Memory: introduced new texture compression for planetary and ship textures to greatly reduce memory usage and dramatically improve startup times.		*Memory: introduced new texture compression for planetary and ship textures to greatly reduce memory usage and dramatically improve startup times.
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	*Multithreaded the texture loading at the start of game to improve performance.		*Multithreaded the texture loading at the start of game to improve performance.

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

	*AI builds scout ships later in the game to keep exploring very large galaxies		*AI builds scout ships later in the game to keep exploring very large galaxies
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	*Auto Surveying Survey Ships will now survey extra anomalies if the ship has extra movement points.		*Auto Surveying Survey Ships will now survey extra anomalies if the ship has extra movement points.

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

	*Made low level factories cheaper, provide smaller bonuses.		*Made low level factories cheaper, provide smaller bonuses.
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	*Cargo hull logistics increased from 5 to 6.		*Cargo hull logistics increased from 5 to 6.

	=== Improvements/Bugs Fixes ~~===~~		<h2 style="background-color: #000000; color: #e3a726; padding: 2px 6px;"> Improvements/Bugs Fixes </h2>

	*Stuck Turn fix involving battle system in multiplayer		*Stuck Turn fix involving battle system in multiplayer
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	*Fixed a crash related to the AI defying the UP.		*Fixed a crash related to the AI defying the UP.

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

	*Reverted the Insane maps back to their 1.8 size.		*Reverted the Insane maps back to their 1.8 size.
	*Replaced some texture changes that were causing trouble on some DX10 machines. This will most notably address the selection ring problem.		*Replaced some texture changes that were causing trouble on some DX10 machines. This will most notably address the selection ring problem.
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	*Reverted the "Large" and bigger maps back to their 1.8 size.		*Reverted the "Large" and bigger maps back to their 1.8 size.

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

	[https://forums.galciv3.com/480906/page/1 V1.9 Forum Post]		[https://forums.galciv3.com/480906/page/1 V1.9 Forum Post]

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

JYWLuca8269: Updated.

2020-04-21T17:34:26Z

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	*Fixed a crash related to the AI defying the UP.		*Fixed a crash related to the AI defying the UP.

	=== Other Resources ===		== Hot Patch ==
			*Reverted the Insane maps back to their 1.8 size.
			*Replaced some texture changes that were causing trouble on some DX10 machines. This will most notably address the selection ring problem.
			*Re-compressed some ship textures for better visual appearance.
			*Reduced max zoom out on larger maps to fix an issue with background stars clipping though FOW.
			*Reverted the "Large" and bigger maps back to their 1.8 size.

			== Other Resources ==

	[https://forums.galciv3.com/480906/page/1 V1.9 Forum Post]		[https://forums.galciv3.com/480906/page/1 V1.9 Forum Post]

			[[Category:Updates]]

JYWLuca8269: Created page.

2017-12-17T07:55:40Z

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== V 1.9 Update ==

=== Optimization ===

*Memory: introduced new texture compression for planetary and ship textures to greatly reduce memory usage and dramatically improve startup times.
*Removed legacy stopwatch code from the sound system
*Moved old profiling junk
*Reduced CPU usage of the particles and main graphics threads
*Removed redundant debug output
*Multithreaded the texture loading at the start of game to improve performance.

=== AI ===

*AI builds scout ships later in the game to keep exploring very large galaxies
*Dramatically reduced AI >normal economic bonuses (no longer needs them)
*Re-designed the way the AI expands into the galaxy with colony ships so that its expansion no longer stalls on large maps
*Dramatically reduced the amount of time an AI will interact with a player if they are not within ship range
*AI doesn't try to bribe other players to go to war unless they and the other players have a decent military already
*AI will no longer give tech gifts to players with a different ideology (i.e. no more Drengin giving you tech if you're a nice person)
*AI now scales the number of similar ship projects based on number of colonies rather than a flat number
*AI pumps up colony ship production priority if there are a lot of nice planets laying around
*AI pumps out fewer Constructors in general
*Re-designed the way the AI determines which planets should get a shipyard to be more (way more) intelligent
*Updated AI's handling of adjacency bonuses to be more intelligent
*AI values planet quality more when picking planets to colonize 
*AI somewhat more heuristic on tech research
*AI somewhat quicker to war
*Auto Surveying Survey Ships will now survey extra anomalies if the ship has extra movement points.

=== Balance ===

*Made low level factories cheaper, provide smaller bonuses.
*Reduced the size of maps while keeping the same number of objects, effectively increasing the galactic density.
*Increased the zoom distance. 
*Lowered diplomacy bonus of the Diplomacy Techs.
*Diplomacy tech effect to Diplomacy ability increased from 0.5 to 1
*Influence MinToClaim increased from 0.33 to 8
*Influence Radius root reduced from 3.25 (^0.325) to square root (^0.5)
*Eliminated the Influence Bell Curve target divisor.
*Influence fall off is increased from -0.3 to –10
*Capital Influence per turn increased from 1.5 to 3
*Colony Influence per turn reduced from 2 to 1
*Removed the faction ability bonus from the Diplomatic Office
*Removed all faction ability bonuses from starbase modules
*AI is much MUCH smarter about detecting cultural flipping strategies
*AI is much better about detecting fast alliance strategies
*Colonies now instantly update when you rush build to show the effect of the new building.
*Adjusted tech cost to increase per tech age
*New capstone technologies that can be researched repeatedly for galaxy wide bonuses
*Minor races will now establish trade routes.
*Tweaked influence such that growth is now slower in general, but influence improvements and modules are now much more powerful.
*Increased starbase spacing by to 3, from 2, until we get the new Administration cost stat implemented.
*Adjusted intensity on several strategic map icons and the grid.
*Starbase minimum distance reduced from 5 to 3 tiles.
*AI tends to focus more on tech (generally) than previously.
*AI will build survey ships late ingame.
*AI provided with a much wider variety of ship designs to choose from with the various strategies.
*AI weights units much more closely than previously in order to not make one virtually impossible to build.
*Opposing culture diplomatic penalty reduced from 1.25 to 1.1 if AI is benevolent.
*Opposing culture diplomatic penalty increased from 1.25 to 2 if AI is merciless.
*Opposing culture diplomatic penalty increased from 1.25 to 2 if AI is cruel.
*Close to victory diplomatic penalties increased from 1 to 5.
*Ripe for conquest diplomacy penalty reduced from 0.75 to 0.1 if AI is benevolent.
*Ripe for conquest diplomacy penalty increased from 0.75 to 1.25 if AI is aggressive.
*Minimum planet class to be a manufacturing world reduced from 7 to 4.
*Max number of colony ships the AI will construct at once increased from 2 to 3.
*Max slider focus reduced from 95% to 75% (to deal with coercion penalty).
*Coercion forgiveness eliminated (there is always some coercion if you move off from center).
*Maximum coercion reduced from 50% to 35%.
*Colony Capital production points reduced from 5 to 1.
*CivilizationCapital production points reduced from 5 to 1.
*Influence Radius root increased from 1.75 to 4 (i.e. influence ZOC will start out much much smaller now).
*Tech inflation penalty significantly reduced.
*Penalty for switching a constructor to a colony ship increased from 50% to 75% (yea, you know who you are).
*Pirates moved further away from starting location.
*Increased the variance for the various settings (minors, pirates, etc.).
*Modified the governor script to provide a bit more flexibility based on planet bonuses when building improvements.
*Colony capital maintenance eliminated.
*Colony capital hub provides a 2 (was 1) level bonus to adjacent buildings if they are population or manufacturing or research.
*Civ capital hub provides a 3 level bonus (was 1).
*Reduced maint. slightly on research buildings.
*Rare habitable planets decreased from 30% to 25%.
*Nebula and black holes and anomalies made much less common on all settings.
*Occasional planet frequency amount doubled from 1X to 2X.
*Common stars modifier increased from 0.9 to 1.
*Common planet frequency amount increased from 0.75X to 3X (this also fixes a bug where common was less than occasional).
*Abundant stars increased from 1X to 1.5X.
*Planet Frequency increased from 0.25X to 3.5X (also fixes bug).
*Tiny map base objects increased from 32 to 120 (i.e. tiny maps will be a lot more filled).
*Small map base object count increased from 64 to 150.
*Medium map Base object count increased from 110 to 200.
*Large map base object count increased from 155 to 300 (i.e. over twice as many stars/planets/etc. in a particular size).
*Huge map base object count increased from 250 to 350.
*INSANE map object count INCREASED from 1200 to 1400!
*Sensor cost components reduced slightly.
*Cargo module cost reduced from 27 to 10 (cheaper colony ships -- but remember, planets now rely more on population for their production).
*Tiny hull cost reduced from 11 to 10.
*Small hull cost reduced from 25 to 20.
*Medium hull HP increased from 100 to 120.
*Large hull cost increased from 128 to 300.
*Large hull HP increased from 250 to 600.
*Large hull storage increased from 100 to 120.
*Large hull logistics cost increased from 7 to 10.
*Huge hull cost increased from 432 to 500.
*Huge hull HP increased from 500 to 800.
*Huge hull storage increased from 250 to 300.
*Huge hull logistics increased from 10 to 16.
*Cargo hull cost reduced from 42 to 24.
*Cargo hull HP reduced from 10 to 1.
*Cargo hull logistics increased from 5 to 6.

=== Improvements/Bugs Fixes ===

*Stuck Turn fix involving battle system in multiplayer
*Increase the opacity of the alpha on the un-owned grid
*Escape key now prompts the user if they are designing a ship, instead of instantly leaving the view.
*Added an option skip the upgrade notification on the starbases window.
*Fix some bad prerequisites some hidden minor race tech tree.
*Fix bad tech description for Technological Outreach tech, in the Torian Tech Tree.
*Added check in Galactic Events that prevent random crashes with event that pops up twice. 
*Fix bad prerequisite for Xeno Geology in the Arcean techtree.
*Fix bad prerequisite for Drengin Manufacturing Stimulus.
*Fixed a major late-game memory leak
*Removed normal map corrections and Lean Maps from game as they didn't look good and were taking up too much space.
*Fixed false positive on culture flipping penalty in diplomacy window
*Fixed bad normal map for merc textures.
*Fixed issue in Krynn tech tree causing the Coordination Temple to be hidden.
*Fixed some issues that were causing some of the techs at end of the tree to have the wrong cost calculated.
*Fix text wrapping on starbase window
*Fix for capstone alerts showing up for non-local player and for tech victory alerts showing up for non-tech victory items
*When vram is maxed out, the game will no longer generate a massive log file. 
*Increased the halo size on non-colonized planets 
*Added author fields for maps, factions and ships.
*Starbases will now notify the you that they need to be upgraded after being initially built. 
*Fixed double counting of trade routes for AI diplomacy purposes.
*Fixed late game crashes related to textures on large maps.
*Fixed an infrequent crash on loading large maps.
*Fixed bug that could cause the AI to see tiles in the opposite map position of where they were exploring.
*Fixed a bug that could cause the AI to reduce the priority weighting on colony ship production based on the # of targetable planets.
*If a player faction is set to random in the prefs.inifile, the quick-start tooltip will no longer display an invalid faction.
*Fixed an issue where if you changed the planetary spending wheel, the displayed. manufacturing time for improvements wasn't being updated at the same time.
*Clicking available projects tabs no longer resets the improvement cursor.
*Add ESC to close Ship Designer and Diplomacy screens.
*Starbases no longer incorrectly show the upgrade option when none avail.
*Fixed a crash related to the AI defying the UP.

=== Other Resources ===

[https://forums.galciv3.com/480906/page/1 V1.9 Forum Post]

V1.9 - Revision history

JYWLuca8269 at 13:02, 30 July 2020

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JYWLuca8269: Created page.