Colony Ship Tech deprecated (deleted) in Banks v1.5

[Havoc Squad]

Is there any forum regulars here that are brave enough to admit they got completed confused and clobbered early in Banks v1.5 for their first Banks/Utopia playthrough because of colony ship tech not present?

It took me forever to figure out that colony ship tech was deprecated in Banks. This caused me to be way behind on colonization.

I don't remember seeing that disclosed in the patch notes.

By the time I found out the issue, I got humiliated by a 2.2k fleet against my 500 and ended that disaster of a playthrough.

The second playthrough (normal, ironman mode) is still in progress and going reasonably well.

 

[Summercat]

No. It was commonly known that it was a starting tech now.

 

[henzington]

It was stated multiple times in stream and mentioned in the patch notes. If you missed it you could have found it by looking at your spaceport when you build a second science ship or checking what techs you have on the tech screen.

 

[Cagliostro]

Yeah, it was mentioned a bunch of times.

 

[Nocare]

Not everyone watches streams, I actively avoid streams, the official banks 1.5 patch notes doesn't say it and none of the dev diaries did as far as I can remember. It took me a bit to notice but once I actually needed to build some ships other than my first science vessel I noticed it and was perfectly ok.

 

[Jerev]

I heard it I guess in the streams but nearly forgot about it. When I started the game and the new worlds tech wasn't there I checked researched techs and my spaceport.

 

[Risa]

The change is mentioned in patch notes.

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# Balance
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# Important
* New Worlds Protocol is now a starting technology

 

[Havoc Squad]

Well, in my defense I at least scanned the release notes once before starting to play Banks. and did a Ctrl F (Find search) for "colony" before I posted a thread. *edit*.

Yes, I did see it missing at the beginning in the tech tree.

I thought new worlds (colonization tech) might have been made harder to get to in the very early game.

 

[Angelic_Daemon]

The change is mentioned in patch notes.

Well, in my defense I at least scanned the release notes once and did a Ctrl F (Find search) for "colony" before starting to play Banks.

I'm not certain I can recall any of the tech's actual names. Case and Point Terra Sculpting for world shaper.

But yeah it was mentioned numerous times.

 

[CocoCincinnati]

Always read the patch notes. Then read them again because you always miss something the first time. Or at least I do.

 

[Angelic_Daemon]

Always read the patch notes. Then read them again because you always miss something the first time. Or at least I do.

And then read AsaTJ's translation.

 

[Ferrumius]

Well in my first game I noticed the colonization tech missing from the society research at the beginning of the game and it hinted me that something has changed.

 

[Grubnessul]

Well, it was a surprise.