Stellaris Dev Diary #34 - Clarke Patch

[AKicebear]

@Wiz Are there plans to add a more convenient way to colonize planets, and raise fleets?

For colonies, I'd prefer if I could either (or both):

• Click a potential colony, click colonize, and then select my available races at planets with stations. Queue's up and sends a ship.
• View a table of all potential colonies with key summaries, then click one to go to step 1.

For fleets:

• Design a fleet and then have the order filled from available spaceports ASAP.

 

[Chiron]

Some suggestions for Asimov I guess:

Vassals and Alliances: If an empire drags his alliance mates or his vassals into a war (offensive wars only) and then they lose the war badly is there a chance that they will break the alliance up in disgust, especially if the ally had positive relations with the war target.


Another UI suggestion, give us a ledger list of controlled planets and colonisable planets within our borders, along with a list of trade deals and the option to cancel them

 

[Mokael]

Buildings no longer surpress strategic resources in Clarke.

Yay! I can haz mah kittehs!!

 

[Persipnei]

The problem with this is that things like Fallen Empires, endgame crises etc are balanced against the current tech pace. It would be better as a mod than as an option because it requires reworking of those things to not mess hard with game balance.

Then could you tell me what values have to be changed to tinker with these dates? I ask because I created a double/half tech time mod, but didn't find variables about these.

 

[Ariphaos]

• Strike craft had their range substantially increased.

In my testing on this, a major problem strike craft have is that they are far too vulnerable to point defense. Fighters have no special ability to dodge it and bombers don't have much extra ability to take more hits. They need to be a bit tougher/more evasive and maybe be given a bit of slow-regen shielding.

 

[REDDQ]

Yeah this is my biggest problem with the game right now, allied AI refuse to fight their own wars. They declare war whenever they want, and then run over to hide in my own fleet like a kid that says they're gonna beat someone up and then runs and hides behind their big brother, expecting the big brother to do the fighting.

On top of that it doesn't respect distance either, sometimes crossing the entire galaxy to hide under my biggest fleet.

Yeah, federation I presume? I didn't try it out yet, and I am not gonna. Sounds horrible in every way. Half done mechanism with no way to influence it.

But it is also the problem when you play normally.

1. When you are attacked by an AI stacked fleets fail to damage your industrial potential properly.
2. When you are attacking dozens of friendly AIs tail your fleet, making it very difficult to get a fight (hostile AI goes NOPE).
3. Manoeuvring is a laugh, not everyone has the same propulsion, especially amusing when player use wormholes.
4. It looks ugly.
5. One of those things bothering CPU for no gain in terms of gameplay.


If I am suppose to be a war leader I should have some menu where I could tell: Fleet 1 > tail my fleet No2, Fleet 2 > patrol sector X, Fleet 3 > defend vassal Y, Fleet 4 > defend your homeland, Fleet 5 > independent offensive action etc.

 

[Foxhound2zero]

Has the issue with putting strategic resource buildings into sectors when the resource isn't in that sector been addressed? Sectors are basically unusable to me when I can never put a planet with a beth plant into a sector unless the beth happens to be produced in that same system. I understand the goal of not wanting sectors to build strategic resource buildings, but there has to be some consideration for buildings that already exist (especially for players like cKnoor who prefer to develop planets themselves and then put them in sectors rather than Wiz's method of letting the sector do the development).

I would also like to know about this. I've tested it myself by building a beth-stone power plant.

Works fine with both -out- of sector.
Works fine with Plant -in- but mining station -out- of a sector
Doesn't work with Plant -out- and mining station -in- a sector
Doesn't work with Plant -in- and mining station -in- seperate sectors.
Works fine with both -in- the same sector

Some resources are all okay to attach to the same sector e.g only building Beth-stone power plants in sectors that have the stone nearby -but- when it gets to terraforming planets I usually have to keep the resource stations out of a sector and single the planet out for the duration of the terraforming; before putting the planet back in a sector. Which of course plays havok especially when the resource system can have colonised planets in them too.

I will paitently await the full patch notes.

Oh! I have to point out too that the launcher's link to 1.0.3 patch note picture in the news points to the 1.0.2 patch notes.

 

[Scallat]

Yes, under all circumstances.

WOOHOO!

 

[Ariphaos]

Then could you tell me what values have to be changed to tinker with these dates? I ask because I created a double/half tech time mod, but didn't find variables about these.

The scourge is in game_start.txt

They have a 10% chance of showing up after 120 years, etc.

You can block psi jump drives and jump drives from being researched at all before a certain date.

Likewise, you will be making the droid, sentient AI and synth techs more expensive as-is, though you could increase them further.

 

[hinkledolph]

What about the the bug with name lists where having a sequential_name will prevent random_name from appearing?

This effects all stations, fleets, and armies.

 

[REDDQ]

Ah, about that one.

The problem with this is that things like Fallen Empires, endgame crises etc are balanced against the current tech pace. It would be better as a mod than as an option because it requires reworking of those things to not mess hard with game balance.

Fallen Empires and endgame crises could be much stronger. At present they seem to lose steam very quickly.

 

[Cossack8559]

Were any changes made to vassals and allies following your fleet even when they declare war? Did we get a "attach to fleet" button?

Everything sounds great and i can't wait for the patch.

 

[WhaleOne]

Oh Paradox. Much love. Mwah.

 

[ctolm]

I'm not sure if this has been asked but has anything been done to improve the fleet management/fleet building UI? Options like build fleet or add to fleet from EUIV would be very helpful. Reorganising fleets is also a bit of a nightmare. Ships don't seem to be grouped by class so it's difficult to quickly move all the ships of one type. The split in half function seems to have a mind of it's own too. I had 8 new battleships and wanted to put 4 each into my two fleets but when I split them I got 3 and 5. Improvements here would add real quality of life value.

 

[Natural Hazard]

Recommended new save start? Or should this integrate well with existing saves? (if i'm still playing my current save after release)

 

[Akka le Vil]

What do you mean by changes to sector system, exactly? There's various fixes, but no overhaul is planned for either Clarke or Asimov.

It's nice to see all the fixes, but I really hope to see Sectors and War Goals completely revamped - they are really broken/half-implemented features as of now, and won't become interesting purely through simple fixes.

Considering the HUGE importance of sectors in the game, and just how hated they are, I'd say they are of a critical importance to overhaul ASAP. Please don't delay this to the next year.

 

[Arsonide]

@Wiz : Does the sector AI now take advantage of more nuanced species traits, for example, preferring to have multiple races for xenophiles, or one race for xenophobes, or requiring a certain amount of slaves for decadent species?

 

[sabasNL]

Paradox, could you please add ticking warscores? It's my single biggest issue with warfare.

 

[Warchild421]

does the military focus for the sector ai now work ( do they make stations)

They make stations for me, but they have to have everything else taken care of first it seems.

 

[NatasDog]

I really wish one of the UI changes would have been to allow players to requisition colony ships directly from uncolonized planets using the nearest spaceport.