Weekend at Frogboy's Sept 2023

Lots of cool stuff going in this weekend.

Lots of new planetary improvements

New executive orders

Let's go over it.

In no particular order..

• Drath homeworld gets a backdrop

• Removed references to empires in flavor text, replaced with civilizations.

New Executive Orders:

• Mitosis

• Swarm

• Planetary Clairvoyance

New updated Planetary Improvements:

• Colonial Generator now called Planetary Generator. Can be built on homeworld.

Unique improvements for Ammonia based species:

• Network Nexus

• Irradiated Foundry

• Contagion Source

• Golgi

• Amoebic Incubator

• Knowledge Melding Hub

Unique improvements for insectroid (consuming) species:

• Work Instruction Chamber

• Cerebral Chamber

• Harmonious Antennae

• Hatchery

• Work Hive

• Mother Hive

Planetary Improvement Updates

• Many improvements are no longer available to insectoids or Amoebas.

• Updated graphics for Planetary Generator and Industrial Center

• Civilization capital no longer auto-placed. 

• Resource income from planetary mines (like Thulium mines) greatly increased at level 2 and 3.

• Level up bonus for districts generally reduced from 2% to 1%.

• Possibility Engine icon replaced and cost increased while research bonus reduced from 100% to 50% (yea this was seriously OP)

Leader Backstory changes:

• Ammonia (Amoebas) get their own backstories

• Insectoids (like Festron) get their own backstories

• Synthetic (like Yor) get their own backstories

• Amoebas no longer have ridiculous backstories like arranged marriages

• Insectoids (like Festron) no longer get ridiculous backstories like missing twin

• Silicon based civs no longer get ridiculous backstories like wanting to be a chef

New late game flavor text for asking for peace and such.

• AI speech to you changes more based on the current status of the galaxy.

Cultural Progression Tree:

• Approval boost from Eureka is temporary and reduced to 5%.

• Sovereign Identity stat buff reduced from 200% to 50%.

• Big Brother stat buff removed.

• Big Brother diligence buff set to 100%.

• Legacy citizen stat buffs removed

• Legacy provides a 200% buff to resolve

• Utopia citizen stat buffs removed

• Utopia buffs Social stat by 200%

• Singularity trait stat buffs removed

• Singularity trait doubles Intelligence of citizens

• Sanctuary trait buffs reduced from 300% (4X) to 25%

• Terror Star trait buffs removed. (just unlocks the Terror Star tech to research)

• Hive Miind buff reduced like the Sanctuary ones.

Technologies:

• Synthetic Species get their own technologies

• Aggressive civs get their own technologies

• Ammonia (like Cosmic Contaminate) get their own technologies

• Greedy civs get their own technologies

• Radiated civs get their own technologies

Ship Components

• Sensor ranges for high end sensors reduced slightly

Word on the street:

• Different species now get different word on the street summaries on their planets.

Star names:

• Took out some goofy star names (hat tip: Astasia)

Research costs

• Tech Inflation multplier further increased from 2.5% to 5%

• Specific tech tree research cost now given a slight exponential growth (^1.02 power).

Map Generation:

• Slightly more stars on occasional and abundant and common settings

• Planet balancing for more satisfying starts.

Planets and Stars:

• Festron home world planet class increased from 20 to 24, Resources on it reduced

• Contaminate home star system now comes with 3 high quality planets since everyone else is gonna hate them.

Policies:

• Festron and Contaminate civs (and similar) blocked from various policies

Balance

• Balance pass on the conversion between citizen stats and their output.

• Workers no longer provide research benefits.

• Ammonia based species base stats reduced because they basically amoebas. They make it up in quantity.

• Various events that don't make any sense for a particular species not blocked. (The Yor do not mutate)

AI

• The Fleet Commander AI will not counter the Primary Strategic AI’s order to leave for battle against a distant foe if it doesn’t believe its fleet is ready. (stop sending out tiny fleets!)

• Balance pass on AI shipyard manufacturing priorities.

Various Bug fixes:

• Lots of small bug fixes

• Fixed bug where trading screen wouldn’t recognize you already have the tech

• Fixed bug where techs wouldn’t always show what they unlock

Mooorre:

• Distance between star systems reduced from 4 to 3 to speed up relative movement.
• Rebalanced star count settings (now that they're working as designed)
• Fusion Power Plant tech cost increased from 50 to 100
• Life Support tech AI priority greatly increased
• Tiny map size increased from 36 to 48 tiles radius.
• Reduced the turtling the AI does when it's not at war
• Fixed the buggy Siege ship behaivor
• AI is much more likely to target their primary enemy units
• Further reduce AI nagging for stuff
• AI less likely to construct siege ships
• Balance pass on AI research choices
• Fixed map geneator bug that was resulting in inconsistent star quantities (note this may increase map generation time some)

and lastly

• Pacing pass on tech speeds to make it more consistent on different map sizes.