Stellaris Dev Diary #139 - 2.2.x post-launch patch

[henzington]

Robot growth needs some improvement as well. It is far too slow on new colonies

 

[IIWBIIMars]

Thank you or listening to the community, that´s always encouraging to hear.

Please fix the games issues before adding new content, there is loads to do.

But I am sure a fixed 2.2 will be the best iteration of Stellaris to date.

Best regards to the Paradox team.

 

[Kakotheres]

New interface looks great! Praise the great UX gods.

Thank you for continuing to increment and improve Stellaris. I, too, am looking forward to a great 2019.

 

[Olterin]

Thank you for this rough outline of what to expect from the 2.2.x support - though, does "pop growth" include also looking into how machine empires grow and how synthetically-ascended empires grow?

 

[Seelensturm]

I'd like to see an auto-prioritization of enforcer and amenity focused jobs. If there is a crime or amenity issue, free slots should have a high priority, but a low one if demands are filled. Surplus amenities add very little compared to a worked 'real job' and extra crime fighting does actually nothing. It is annoying to adjust this manually.

 

[Everstill]

Please, make Dev Diaries to talk about what you guys are working on to fix on that particular week.

Because there is A LOT to fix on this version.

 

[Nornjen]

Can you still see your individual POP portraits working on the different jobs, if you drop down the stratas?
This looks very very spread-sheety atm.

 

[riadach]

I prefer to see the species portrait beside the job though. Is that just me?

 

[Xiandrus]

I hope we still get to see the pop on thier tiles.
But I like this view already, before it said nothing until expanded.

 

[Juboboman]

I think there has to be some place where you can actually see your physical pops on your planet. It really makes them feel "real" rather than just a box or numbers or something.

 

[Elimdur]

@grekulf I know the devs have already been made aware of the district definition issue and subsequent problems for intermod compatibility. It is a huge pain having to deal with countless compatibility patches all the time, while an official solution would be rather simple.

A detailed description of the problem in the spoiler:

Spoiler: Problem & Solution

Standard districts (city,energy,mineral,farm) are defined in a way that requires any mod which adds planet classes that should use special districts to overwrite the vanilla files, because planet classes that should not use the standard districts have to be excluded in the district triggers. Two mods each adding such a change will conflict with each other.

The solution would be rather simple.
Adding a new planet attribute (example: uses_standard_districts = yes/no) which is then checked in the district trigger would solve the issue. Edge cases like the ringworld (uses partly standard partly special districts) can still be easily enabled stating the planet class.
Mods which would want to add such edge cases could just add district clones in order to not have to overwrite vanilla files then.

TL/DR Add planet class attribute to check for district usage rather than planet class.

Is it also planned to adress this soon?

Edit: I'll add a more detailed post about this issue with my solution applied to all relevant files in the suggestion forum later today. I hope, you do not mind, if I ping you there.

 

[Everstill]

Another important thing:

Add a Planetary Feature to "auto-migrate" unemployed POPS to other planets. Separate the 2 decisions to Robots/Organics.

 

[grekulf]

You can fold out the strata to get a view of the portraits and details, like before

 

[Juboboman]

You can fold out the strata to get a view of the portraits and details, like before

Perfect!

 

[Everstill]

I think there has to be some place where you can actually see your physical pops on your planet. It really makes them feel "real" rather than just a box or numbers or something.

I'm pretty sure it works just like now.

When you click to expand the Tab, the POPS will appear.

 

[Mcwynne]

That new UI looks great!

Edit: Question already answered.

 

[Onkel_Bums]

Thanks for the update. Will there be a possibility to see which species are occupying which jobs? <- Edit: this was already answered, Thanks!
Further:
I still strongly recommend that there should be growth slots per species (as it is already with robots) and species should grow in parallel, according to their habitabilty and traits, as well as "success" in filling jobs.

And, unemployment numbers should not be red, if they don't cause any negative net effect, like under utopian abundance (generating science and unity)

 

[Everstill]

You can fold out the strata to get a view of the portraits and details, like before

Can we get some better icons? Things like the Crime events share the same placeholder icons.

It's strange how the patch have awesome icons for everything like the planetary features, but still have outdated Buildings icons and events having placeholders.

 

[Dunaedine]

An "Export robots" decision could be an idea for Machine/Machinist Empire. It would act as an immigration but with total stop of the assembling on the planet and a great boost for the assembling of the others planet. And this would probably reduce the micro-management.