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Stellaris Dev Diary #241 - Unity Open Beta and the Dev Clash

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Hi everyone!

We’re two weeks into the Stellaris Dev Clash, which is being played on the Stellaris 3.3 “Libra” Unity Open Beta branch.

Since we initially put it up, there have been over 216,000 games played in the Open Beta, and we’ve gathered fantastic amounts of feedback from the community - some of which was taken into account during the first update to the Open Beta, and more adjustments will be coming before the actual 3.3 release.

The first update included the following changes:
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  • Unity Ambitions and Campaigns now function like Toggled Edicts and last until canceled with upkeep rather than costs.
  • Planetary ascension now also reduces the effects of empire sprawl from that planet

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  • Empire Sprawl has no effects (except for edict costs) under 100 rather than 50.
  • Removed Machine Intelligence increased size penalties, replaced with -15% size from pops and +50% size from colonies.
  • Megastructures no longer have a unity upkeep.
  • Increased Unity production of Bio-Trophies from 1 to 3.
  • Reduced the costs of higher tier edicts and campaigns.
  • Leaders have a base cost of 100 unity and cost 50 additional unity for every owned leader, this value starts increasing once you own more than 6 leaders.
  • Reverted Citizen Service, it now provides unity just like it used to.
  • Distinguished Admiralty now gain +2 starting level to their Admirals and Generals.
  • Zombies are now less likely to seek jobs that produce resources.
  • Servile pops should no longer retain the trait if they become zombies.
  • Spiritualists are no longer allowed to take Byzantine Bureaucracy since they don't have Bureaucrats.
  • Trade value is now affected by AI difficulty bonus. This will make non hive mind empires more competitive on higher difficulty settings compared to hive mind AI empires.

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  • AI can now create more specialized planets by switching place of buildings on two different planets with each other
  • AI is now much more likely to pick cheaper research options when all else equals
  • AI will now favor the trade policy which generates consumer goods over the default wealth creation policy
  • Fixed a bug where the AI would sometimes try to replace one lost science ship with an excessively high number thereof.
  • Fixed an issue where repeatable tech were getting an extra chance to be researched as if they were rare techs
  • Fixed several issues where AI would get stuck and not build any modules or upgrade any starbases when there were open module slots which were unable to be filled according to the AI's starbase template
  • Improved AI construction ship behaviour, construction ships will now prioritize tasks that are close to them and avoid going to another system that already has a construction ship in it. Heavily increased priority of building starbases in systems with planets.
  • Reduces AI willingness to take a lot of planets with very low habitability

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  • Added a textbox for Cost in Edicts UI. Also rearranged neighboring elements to align better.
  • Added column for upkeep (entry as well as sort button) in Leader recruitment UI.
  • Hid Empire Sprawl impact from top of Edicts UI. Put Edict Fund in its place to keep neat alignment.
  • Improved legibility of approximate job output indicators on districts and buildings, and made those on buildings also show country modifiers
  • Optimized elements for leader upkeep and age to fit localization better and avoid UI overlaps.
  • Technologies which let you clear blockers now give a tooltip which says how many such blockers are on your colonies

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  • Ascension Tiers on planets are set to 0 whenever a planet changes owner
  • Bio-Trophies now cost Unity to resettle instead of Influence.
  • Fixed modifiers for Police State civic
  • "Synths Scuttle Starbase" now refers to the starbase orbiting a star, rather than a planet.
  • Fixes to grammar and punctuation.
  • Added a missing line break in the Take Point button's tooltip
  • Added missing description for "Precognitive Interface" and "Psi Jump Drive" components in the Technology menu
  • Added missing description for "The Sentinels" planetary feature.
  • Added missing galaxy settings tooltips to the galaxy creation screen, both in Multiplayer and in single player.
  • Added missing header in the description of "Omega Theory" technology
  • Added missing header in tooltip description of "Defense Platform" and "Habitat".
  • Added missing information about required DLC for the corporate authority
  • Rogue Servitors now have access to the correct Unity producing buildings.
  • Clarified the tooltip for automatic development for when you had it turned on or not
  • Deluging primitives now removes the observation outpost
  • Fixed "Tebri" and "Tebiron" (prescripted empire planet and system names) being untranslated in Chinese
  • Fixed Criminal Heritage Galactic Emperors
  • Fixed Curators retelling the wrong info when asking again about the Scavenger's origins
  • Fixed Memorialists seeing that some techs unlocked buildings they could not build
  • Fixed Planetary Unification tech description overflowing the box
  • Fixed Sociocultural History tech showing it unlocked the Bounty Sacrifice twice
  • Fixed a Galcom resolution tooltip saying that the empire was already supporting the resolution when in fact it was meant to say it was already opposing it
  • Fixed a bug where you could end up with multiple Zroni homeworld systems
  • Fixed a bunch of issues in various federation law acceptance tooltips (several had missing or hard to interpret and ugly information)
  • Fixed a missing species name in event The Dragon has Landed
  • Fixed an issue where scientists would only get expertise traits based on the fields they were not actively working on
  • Fixed an unlocalised tooltip in non-English versions of the game when hovering over a megastructure's effects
  • Fixed incorrect description of traits "Inspired Researcher" and "Inspired Surveyor"
  • Fixed leader sorting by cost in the leader view sorting by energy instead of unity
  • Fixed some spacing issues in the localisation of the fire event effect in foreign languages
  • Fixed species modification planetary trait list sometimes overflowing
  • Fixed the tooltip of Integrated Preservation tradition
  • Fixed the tooltip of Open Border policies sometimes helpfully telling you that your country was default (in a way that isn't translated to other languages)
  • Fixed various living standards incorrectly providing unity instead of a happiness penalty for unemployed pops.
  • Fixed wrong color of font used in the Alien Box event in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Fixing missing line break for the alert about Necrophyte Shortages in Chinese
  • Life-Seeded Permanent Employment Megacorps will no longer all be zombies.
  • Posthumous Employment Centers can now be seen even if you can't build them yet.
  • Revolts in systems with enclave stations will no longer be granted ownership of the enclave station (it will remain in the hands of the enclave)
  • Sacrifices now have a unity cost.
  • The Caravaneers will no longer turn Gestalt Rulers psionic.
  • The Materialist faction is now happy that you discovered the secrets of the precursors even if those precursors are the Baol or the Zroni.
  • The project for reanimating Hrozgar now uses the correct art.
  • Void Dwellers no longer start with a broken Posthumous Employment Center.
  • Zombies can no longer colonize planets.

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  • Added error logging for when a window uses a scroll bar but does not have a background
  • Enabled the use of the "distance" trigger in script maths (e.g. export_trigger_value_to_variable)
  • Fixed a tooltip crash from firing a nonexistent event
  • Renamed election cost modifier country_election_influence_cost_mult to country_election_cost_mult to not reference influence, as it now costs unity.
  • You can now use script values in ships' empire_limit

Some additional changes and fixes that we've made based on the Open Beta and will be in the release to live include:
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  • Edicts can now have a cooldown before they can be manually disabled, but are now cancelled if an empire can not sustain the upkeep.
  • AI Megacorps should spawn half as often as before now.
  • Leaders now only stay in the active pool for 1 year, hire them quickly before they leave!
  • Telepaths now give +5% planetary output and get bonuses from planet administrator modifiers
  • Empire Size effects on edicts, campaigns, and ambitions now directly affect the base costs of these, so bonuses like Spiritualist ethic's cost reductions now reduce costs and upkeep by the full percentages.
  • Increased Spiritualist discounts on edict cost and upkeep to -10%/-20% from -5%/-10%. Cutthroat Politics now grants -20% edict upkeep.
  • Reduced campaign costs and ambitions costs significantly, re-added Edict Cost Reduction to spiritualists for Unity Ambitions and Sacrifices
  • Removed the penalty to trade value from low habitability due to it not working properly with pops that were of a species other than the empire founding species

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  • AI will no longer instantly buy ever single slave pop on the slave market.
  • AI empires are now more likely to pick the mind over matter ascension perk when available
  • AI empires are now much more likely to finish their ascension path
  • AI will no longer destroy superfluous buildings and districts during a temporary occupation of a planet.
  • Added AI budgeting for habitats
  • Fixed Lithoid Tree of Life food building and destruction loop
  • Fixed an issue where the AI would not budget to use ship boost edicts
  • Life Seeded AIs now always want the World Shaper ascension perk
  • Updated AI tradition tree selection to align better with the current state of the game
  • The Ship Auto Designer will no longer add a nanite repair system module when the empire does not have access to nanites

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  • Clicking the fleet size icon in the top bar now opens the fleet manager

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  • Fixed a crash that would occur if a timed modifier element in the expansion planner was hovered after the modifier expired

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  • Fixed Shared Burdens not providing unity for unemployed pops
  • Reduced Unity gained from the Trade League trade policy.
  • Scientists assigned to research can now gain new traits.
  • Colony designations that increase unity from Administrator jobs now have weighting for spiritualist, hive and machine empires.
  • Tidied up the tooltips for various civics
  • Rogue Servitors can now upgrade their Simulation Centers
  • Blocked ascension tier upgrade on unowned planets
  • Chronicle Drones now care about photosynthesis
  • Citizen Service Soldiers now produce their unity.
  • Do not resume a save if the required dlcs are not available
  • Edicts are now cancelled if an empire can not sustain the upkeep. Activating an edict now requires one months upkeep cost worth of stockpiled resources.
  • Enhanced the memory of Memorialist Hive Minds (they can now correctly build the special Memorialist buildings)
  • Fixed Defense Grid Supercomputer not immediately applying its effect upon construction
  • Fixed a bug where system wide auras sometimes persisted after leaving a system
  • Fixed an issue where a ghost Unbidden Portal would continue spawning ships
  • Fixed clicking top bar influence icon opening the edicts view
  • Fixed expired timed modifiers being visible in the expansion planner
  • Fixed it being possible to get unlocalised "Greetings!" in other languages when you opened diplomatic interactions with other empires for the first time
  • Fixed it being possible to upgrade the ascension tier of planets not owned by the player
  • Fixed looping checkbox clicked audio in the Apply Species Template view
  • Fixed missing localization for PLANET_ASCENSION_TIER_EFFECT_DESC in the tooltip for planetary designation
  • Fixed order of Galaxy Size options in galaxy setup not being ordered based on the number of stars
  • Fixed reinforcements not arriving to the target fleet and instead showing up at the station when an evasive path was needed in order to get to the target fleet
  • Fixed reinforcements not using evasive path
  • Fixed some building requirements
  • Fixed some faction demands
  • Fixed trade UI showing negative values for Collection Range and Protection Range under some circumstances
  • Fixed unlocalised text "UNKOWN_ORDERS" in a certain tooltip in the fleet interface
  • From Beta: Chronicle Drone and Death Chronicles now have the same production.
  • From Beta: Chronicle Drones are now Administrators
  • Great Khan will no longer turn hostile towards their own satrapies
  • Masters Writing of War and Politics now also cost unity.
  • Nanite repair system will no longer be picked by the ship auto design if you do not have nanite income
  • Removed references to edicts and factions from influence tooltip
  • Station modifier applying on building/module construction
  • Taking "The Flesh is Weak" no longer makes your species lose its gender presets
  • The description for the Imperial Navigation System no longer speaks of the Community of old
  • The tooltips giving estimated job upkeep and production are now better at dealing with stuff like rogue servitors (where it would previously estimate based on an organic pop which could not work the job, sometimes giving the tooltip a food upkeep instead of a minerals one)
  • Updated tutorial screens and tooltips according to the Unity system rework.
  • Updated various job weights
  • You cannot drag and drop ships in someone else's fleet anymore

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  • Added resource_revenue_compare and resource_expenses_compare triggers
  • Fixed station_modifier and triggered station modifiers on starbase modules or buildings, not immediately applying their effects upon construction
  • You can now again specify that a leader made with clone_leader is an event leader (or immortal)

Thank you for all of the suggestions, opinions, bug reports, constructive criticism, and observations. While the feedback threads have closed, you can still play on the Open Beta branch. To opt-in to the Steam open beta branch, right-click Stellaris, click Properties, Beta tab, and choose “Stellaris_test” from the drop-down.

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Nearly a hundred years have passed and war has broken out across the galaxy as ten teams desperately struggle to keep up with Normal Speed. (Have we mentioned that there have been performance improvements in 3.3?)

The Dev Clash teams were revealed here, and you can view the first two sessions here:
Session 1 - The Act
Session 2 - The Heart

Join us for Session 3 (and beyond) every Monday at 1500 CET (UTC + 1) on http://twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive!

We’ve gathered statements from the Empires:

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Having heard that there were a bunch of cyborgs nearby, Heavy Metal, Inc. Party Fleets™ completed a complementary grand tour through the periphery of QA Core space to bring the noise to the local Jira-Goblins. We made a quick pilgrimage over to the black hole they had (because it's cool!), then on the way home ended up doing an impromptu encore tour (with a surprise stop at their homeworld!) when they asked for more.

Pour one out for our little Groupies. They wanted to be free, but the pyrotechnics show near the Dashboard seem to have given the QA Core a taste of the party life, and people say they're planning on a bash so huge it'll blow up the galaxy.

Metal.

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Qua|ity Assur@nc£ C0re §t@tus:
> Intr0duct|on of Me7al(tm) to Jirα-G0b|ins
> Prιmary Qu4|ity Assur@nc£ algorithms corRupt£d
> Reboot to firmware engaged
> Restoring from Backup
> Backup not found...
> Attempting repair of primary algorithms
> Repair Completed Failed Successfully
> ®u¦7is_ A§su®anc£ C0re boot sequence engaged
> Crisis Assurance Core θn|in3

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We are pleased that you can join us for our latest earnings call. Profits are steadily climbing with the acquisition of new Platypi Doughnuts, and we are making progress on forming the Great Galactic Torus. As you no doubt remember, our projected profits for completing the Great Torus is enough to purchase the three closest galaxies, which would allow us to spread the beauty and bounty of our Doughnuts throughout the universe.

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We remind all of our organic friends to remain in their safety cocoon at all times. (If you do not have a safety cocoon, you will be provided with one shortly.)

Thanks to Witch_Streamer for the image.​

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We in the Horticulturist Commonality are very pleased with how things are starting to look in our own garden now, never before have we seen so much immense beauty outside of our home Protea. We are also overjoyed that we have found new fluttering friends that share our passion for gardening! Together with the Rhopalocerans of the Great Cocoon, our gardening projects will reach a much larger scale through the newly established Gardeners of the Galaxy. We hope that we will find the rest of the civilizations in the galaxy to be just as cooperative with letting us tend to their planets. After all, who would wish for anything but perfection and beauty?

However, it has been difficult getting through to our neighbors, the Church of Gainz, as they seem to refuse our envoys' attempts of diplomacy. We will look into other ways to tend to the planets that they have within their borders. We have also heard unpleasant things about the Human Game Developers and the Quality Assurance Core, that we will need to look closer into. Whether you are biological beings or machines, we seek to eventually open everyone's eyes to the beautiful potential of the galaxy.

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Blessed are the gains, when one may reap the rewards of physical labour and enjoy the rewards afterwards! Though they (power-)walk a different path from us: we of the Strict Observance of Our Lady Trappistine are grateful to have found new friends in our neighbours, the Church of Gainz. So too do we wish the Doughnut Corporation well — may your quest for the divine torus be a peaceful and nourishing one.

It has been especially pleasing to see our produce so warmly received at the other end of the galaxy: eat, drink and be merry, Human Game Developers! As it is written upon our scripture-ledgers, so shall it be: all who dwell within this galaxy shall be enriched by Our Lady's offerings. We work, that the future of our galaxy may be safely assured through acts of divine merriment and gluttonous joy. [Bing, bing!]

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Peaceful nations of the galaxy, you might have seen we've conquered a bunch of systems despite our declared peaceful politics. You see, we are pacifists by our nature, and this is why we started to PANIC when our federation decided to start a war and we made a lot of hurried actions.

Now, when there is a huge not-that-friendly looking federation has formed just next to us we are NOT PANICKING AT ALL and would like to apologize for any hostilities in the past. Also, our beautiful ocean worlds are very machine-friendly and will not cause any corrosion to their metal housings!

Let's make some high-quality friendships now and forever.

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The most beautiful aspect of Humanity is what we can accomplish together. With the recent creation of the United Human Game Developers Federation we, The Humans, will together with the ASU and the QA Core strive to create the most perfected Product on the market for all Humans to enjoy. We welcome all Customers to witness as we enter the Galaxy into a new era of prosperity, peace and safety.

All customers that preorders our new product will receive an invitation to enjoy our beta program on our newly repaired Ringworld Segment “Also Also Earth”. Here all Humans can enjoy the perfected experience brought to you by us, The Human Game Developers.

By Humans, For Humans.

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The Church of Gainz was suddenly and deliberately attacked by a neighboring nation with which we've been in peace with. Although tensions had been rising, the aggression of our neighbor truly shows the vileness and unhinged hostility that they are capable of. This will be remembered as a day of infamy, one to be recorded in the annals of the Swolephin people, and not soon forgotten.

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The Rhopalocerans have discovered their true calling: gardening. As members of the Gardeners of the Galaxy alongside the delightful Horticulturist Commonality, we adhere to a simple motto: all planets will be rendered beautiful. Unfortunately, it seems like some planets will have to be pruned... alongside the mechanical infestation that inhabits them.


Will The Groupies be avenged? Are the QA Core going to succeed in "clearing the bug database"? Can the Human Game Developers be stopped? Can the vision of the Great Torus be fulfilled?

So, who are you rooting for? And why is it Heavy Metal, Inc.?

See you next week!
 
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From Eladrin:​

fourteenfour said:​

Is there a new feedback thread for 3.3.1 to separate it from the fun of 3.3.0?
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Not specifically, since the 3.3.1 changes aren't up on the open beta branch. If everything goes well, those changes will be going live together with 3.3 when it releases.

orochi2k said:
We still don't have the release date of the release date of the public release of 3.3.x
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Correct, we haven't given a release date announcement more specific than "February". So "soon". (Edit: Barring unforeseen circumstances.)

From Enfield_PDX:

We're not done with the unity rework, we anticipate and have planned to have to tweak things contiuinely going forward (Post launch I am expecting at the very least to adjust numbers for balance reasons) We've just hit what we can manage in the time we have left. :)

The Open beta was a great success but only a single digit percentage of the total players participated. so we'd be foolish not to give ourselves some room to maneuever once it hits the mainstream playerbase.

What to do about Influence is also being discussed, but the rework is only one part of a much grander scheme.​

DeanTheDull said:

does 'can not sustain upkeep' mean a monthly negative, or a total balance?
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Running entirely out of your Unity (or other resource) stockpile and going into an actual deficit.

DeanTheDull said:
Something I'm not clear on is if the leader cost will go down as you lose leaders and go below 6, or if it just goes up.
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Leader costs are based on the number of leaders you currently have in your empire. It goes up and down as the number of leaders does. (There's just a minimum cost below a certain point.)

AntiMachiavel said:
Hopefully "AI Megacorps should spawn half as often as before now" applies when playing a Megacorp too?
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Yes.

Archael90 said:
Even tho unity change should became a buff for spiritualists it changes nothing since their unity output is the same as regular empires
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One of the 3.3.1 changes has significant effect, where they now get their entire bonuses to Unity Cost and Upkeep reductions.

GnoSIS said:

I see how you try to push spiritualist, but to what effect? Them having better science than materialists, due to unity and sprawl? I think this doesn't make much sense both as a game mechanic and from an RP perspective...
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The Empire Size effects on costs don't scale to the point that this is likely to occur.

Spiritualists have some advantages with Unity generation and the use of Edicts, and should be able to gain their Traditions and Ascension Perks at a better rate than the Materialists.

Ludaire said:
I'm curious whether you're planning to make this standard going forward if this kind of open beta feedback time will be reserved for bigger changes like the unity/influence change.
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The Open Beta was extremely useful to gather information and feedback, and adjust things a bit within limits. I have a positive impression of the experience overall, and will push for more in the future if there are similar proposals that we want more data on than we can reasonably gather internally.

Ludaire said:
Did you also fix the issue where Rogue Servitors didn't have access to the Alpha Hub and start with an Uplink Node?

Also, there's an issue where bio trophies aren't getting several important output modifiers because of how they're categorized. Mainly the capital productivity boosts and empire capital designation. Plus they don't get any of the unity boosts administrators get, making things like the unity designation nearly worthless for Rogue Servitors.
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Yes to the Uplink Node part. They shouldn't have the Alpha Hub as they don't have Administrators.

We switched the capital designation bonus to affect all production, which should also affect Bio-Trophies. Bio-Trophies remain as their own unique non-administrator category.

I'll make a note for a review of the different edicts, designations, and techs available to the Servitors.

Catnight08 said:

Wait..... does that mean, RS are supposed to have access to the normal unity building? Cause everyone here points out that they are demolishing those because they are not supposed to be able to build them.
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They should have access to the "monument" equivalent that grants Unity based on APs and boosts planet-wide Unity production, and should be able to upgrade it fully. We briefly had it backwards.

From Enfield_PDX:

Nebbie Zebbie said:​

I find the closing of the feedback period, then this dev diary having little information on changes being made in major mechanics, rather worrying. Spiritualists getting a little buff and edict fund improvements are nice, but it looks like with the 3.3.1 changes, things will still be fundamentally broken, and there's a lot unanswered about the approach being taken for many other problems from the beta.
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Harkinian's Dinner said:
Disappointing to see that the beta feedback only led to limited, numbers-based changes. The takeaway from the beta response should have been "the Planetary Ascenssion system needs more time in the oven altogether", considering everyone agrees it's completely flavorless, uninteresting and adds needless micro.
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I feel like this is a Failure on our part to communicate the intent of the beta and how it works with the custodians release schedule + our future plans for Stellaris.

In short, the Beta was intended to gather feedback to see if the rework was viable, if it achieved our aims for the game (I would detail them but that's more of an Eldarin thing). As of 3.3.1 while not perfect, we are of the belief that it does improve the state of the game but this does not mean we are done improving it!

However, to build the foundations of Stellaris' future we need to maintain our release cadence of reliable updates from the Custodian team. I understand the fear of Asecnsion Tiers staying as they are forever for example, we've had times in the past where there have been big gaps between patches.

But that's not how things work now, That does not mean don't critique or let us know what is or isn't working for you. That helps us keep track of what we should be focusing on, but it does mean keeping the new state of Stellaris in mind.

Hope that makes sense.

From Eladrin:

Troyen said:​

Yeah, it seems apparent the Stellaris team has switched more to a service-style iteration method, with a ~3-4 month deployment cadence. What doesn't get fully finished in time for one patch can be refined and adjusted in the next, with continuous improvement in the game over time. This means on the one hand, we'll sometimes get systems that feel unpolished (e.g. planetary ascension), but on the other hand, we get more predictable and regular releases so we won't have to wait a largely unknown time or until a major dlc to see further changes.

My guess is 3.4 is thus tentatively targeted for late-May/early-June, though with Swedish holidays around then, I'm not sure if they'll bump it until after their break.
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I'd say this is pretty accurate. One of the best parts of the Custodian cadence is knowing that we'll have an update approximately once every three months.

From MonzUn:

DeanTheDull said:​

Something I'm not clear on is if the leader cost will go down as you lose leaders and go below 6, or if it just goes up.
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As far as I know, it stays at 100 until you go over the starting leader amount and from there on, the cost is relative to how many leaders you currently have.

AntiMachiavel said:
Good stuff!

Hopefully "AI Megacorps should spawn half as often as before now" applies when playing a Megacorp too? IIRC the chance of spawning AI Megacorps was increased for that case. Rationale being to make the game more interesting, practice being that among gestalts, megacorps and purifiers it was hard to find an AI empire that could accept a branch office.
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It applies always.

As far as I'm aware, there was never any bias when the player was a Megacorp (apart from the player itself not affecting the randomization).
I personally believe it's that players are more aware of the amount of Megacorps in the galaxy when they themselves are a megacorp.

Their spawn rate was quite high overall though and I think this was a side effect rather than random weight balancing issues.

Jman5 said:
Hey, pretty important issue I just noticed. A lot of enforcer jobs for the AI are remaining unfilled even when a planet is in complete chaos from high crime.
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Bug reports should go into the bug reports forum, or they are likely to be missed by QA :)
That being said, are you on the latest beta?
I have a vague memory of a colleague fixing this one already.

Jman5 said:
Yeah, sorry I'll report it officially. Yes, I'm on the latest public beta, no mods.

It seems to be mostly fixed, but it's still happening with some empires. A handful of empires will start off with their Enforcer job unfilled and they will just keep it that way forever it seems. Even as more enforcer jobs become available they don't seem to fill. I saw this happening to my own empire, a few times, but that may have been in an earlier beta.

If you want to try reproducing it, just start a game with max empires so you get a big sample size, observe the game, and just check each empire's capital world. There will likely be 3 or 4 doing this.

Honestly I have no idea what is causing this. I couldn't find any sort of pattern.
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Ah, yeah then we're probably both right :)
Best to make a bug report to show this off. Make sure to get a save game in there and point to a planet where this is happening.
You could also point out that it's been claimed to be fixed, but that the fix only seem partial.
Thanks!
 
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Intel level is too low.
We still don't have the release date of the release date of the public release of 3.3.x
The envoy we sent to earth to build spy networks must be spending too much time watching Dev Clash and forgot to do their job. :)
 
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fourteenfour said:
Is there a new feedback thread for 3.3.1 to separate it from the fun of 3.3.0?
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Not specifically, since the 3.3.1 changes aren't up on the open beta branch. If everything goes well, those changes will be going live together with 3.3 when it releases.

orochi2k said:
We still don't have the release date of the release date of the public release of 3.3.x
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Correct, we haven't given a release date announcement more specific than "February". So "soon". (Edit: Barring unforeseen circumstances.)
 
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I like the changes.

I'm still hoping for bugged Raider Fleets of Marauders to be finally fixed though. (They get stuck indefinitely once FTL Inhibitors start showing up and then the entire "Raid Empire" feature becomes unusable for the rest of the game).
 
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If I can have one more suggestion:

Please give us (or change some of the already existing "+max level for leaders") technology/tradition/edict that will allow us to hire leader with higher base level. So I won't have to employ a lvl 1 scientist/governor 150 years into the game, because previous one died of old age, and instead hire a lvl 3 scientist/governor for example.
 
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orochi2k said:
Intel level is too low.
We still don't have the release date of the release date of the public release of 3.3.x
The envoy we sent to earth to build spy networks must be spending too much time watching Dev Clash and forgot to do their job. :)
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"Perhaps bribery would be more effective?" -800 energy

;)
 
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I'm a little disappointed in this Dev Diary. For the last two weeks, I've been hoping you'd give us something on further content changes beyond the Open Beta - ideally something on the Buffing the Backlog for Nemesis & Necroids (I think it was Necroids?) which you've promised, or - equally as good as that - on the Situations/Disasters system which we now haven't had anything on since November. Previously you strongly implied that we'd get the first of those in 3.3, but we have nothing to go on. I SINCERELY hope you've not shoved those features to 3.4. That'll be a very painful wait for us...

Dev Diaries are at their best when they come with content previews. They're the real gems, and the BtB & Sits/Dis teasers are shiny gems indeed. Please cover some of the Buffing the Backlog plans and more on the Situations/Disasters system soon.

At the very least you could have given us a 3.3 release date today. I don't see how doing so would hurt.

Anyway, I don't want to be entirely negative here, I will say that I like the mentioned changes you're going to catch for 3.3.1.

Also, it seems that the bug wherein you have to pay an upfront Unity cost to activate an Edict, AND you have to pay an upfront Unity cost to de-activate that same Edict, hasn't been caught up in your 3.3.1 Bugfix list. Please tell me you'll address that one in 3.3 proper.
 
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I'm a little bit sad that Planetary Ascension tiers aren't being buffed more, or Planetary Designations aren't being reworked to make them a bit more useful in this context.

But overall, all the changes you've made are really great, so thanks for all your hard work and I'm really looking forward to playing the final 3.3.
 
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The Custodian project and all these awesome changes have been really getting the game back into shape and more fun to play (big props to the AI programmers). It's making me impatient for new content like an expansion.... :)

Great work, the pdx Stellaris team have been nailing it!

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Also, one wish I have for planetary ascension, is maybe a bit more fanfare (like fireworks and confetti) when you push the button ;)
 
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Mastikator said:
Hells yes! Love it
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Is this the AI nerfing itself to give the player a chance to win the 'race' to buy them all first? Perhaps the 'race' shouldn't exist and it should be some kind of bidding/auction system instead.

Let actual demand set the price instead of having the winner be the player who can click the fastest. Are we playing a strategy game or a first person shooter?
 
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Bleibt es jetzt bei den Änderungen die in der Open Beta getestet wurden? Einheit, Planetarer Aufstieg und Verwaltungs limit/Ausbreitung?
Wenn ja, dann bin ich fertig mit Stellaris.
Durch diese Veränderungen wird einem sehr viel Spielspaß, Freiheit, und Immersion weggenommen.
Zudem sind diese Änderungen sehr unlogisch.
Wieso muss man ein gutes Spiel kaputt machen?

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Do you stick with the changes that were tested in the open beta? Unity, Planetary Ascension and Management Limit/Spread?
If so, then I'm done with Stellaris.
These changes take away a lot of fun, freedom, and immersion.
In addition, these changes are very illogical.
Why do you have to break a good game?
 
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It would be nice if there were more uses for Influence. I love the new system but as soon as you leave early game it just gathers without actual uses. Unless you want to micromanage every aspect of the Galactic community.

Maybe an influence fueled edict that would increase Unity?
 
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We're not done with the unity rework, we anticipate and have planned to have to tweak things contiuinely going forward (Post launch I am expecting at the very least to adjust numbers for balance reasons) We've just hit what we can manage in the time we have left. :)

The Open beta was a great success but only a single digit percentage of the total players participated. so we'd be foolish not to give ourselves some room to maneuever once it hits the mainstream playerbase.


What to do about Influence is also being discussed, but the rework is only one part of a much grander scheme.
 
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Cymsdale said:
Is this the AI nerfing itself to give the player a chance to win the 'race' to buy them all first? Perhaps the 'race' shouldn't exist and it should be some kind of bidding/auction system instead.

Let actual demand set the price instead of having the winner be the player who can click the fastest. Are we playing a strategy game or a first person shooter?
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If by "nerf" you mean "play more like a human" then I'm for it to be honest.
 
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Looking forward to this going live. I wonder if you all could sneak in some espionage bug fixes I reported.

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Panzerslothen said:
I'm a little disappointed in this Dev Diary. For the last two weeks, I've been hoping you'd give us something on further content changes beyond the Open Beta - ideally something on the Buffing the Backlog for Nemesis & Necroids (I think it was Necroids?) which you've promised, or - equally as good as that - on the Situations/Disasters system which we now haven't had anything on since November. Previously you strongly implied that we'd get the first of those in 3.3, but we have nothing to go on. I SINCERELY hope you've not shoved those features to 3.4. That'll be a very painful wait for us...
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It seemed pretty clear to me from DD #234 that was post-3.3 content. Situations is marked "although work has started very recently", the DD was posted at the end of November prior to the winter holidays (i.e. month of downtime), and system changes like that have traditionally taken on the order of 6-9 months (the Unity rework was hinted back around 3.1's release). Similarly with the Necroids/Nemesis buffing: "we have no concrete plans yet".

The two things that were promised for 3.3 are AI improvements and the Unity rework, both of which will be in the patch.
 
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