Patch 3.9.X

Version history

Astral Planes

3.10 • 3.10.1 • 3.10.2

Galactic Paragons

3.9 • 3.9.2 • 3.9.3

3.8 • 3.8.2 • 3.8.3 • 3.8.4

First Contact

3.7 • 3.7.3 • 3.7.4

Overlord

3.6 • 3.6.1

3.5 • 3.5.2 • 3.5.3

3.4 • 3.4.3 • 3.4.4 • 3.4.5

Nemesis

3.3 • 3.3.2 • 3.3.3 • 3.3.4

3.2 • 3.2.1 • 3.2.2

3.1 • 3.1.2

3.0 • 3.0.1 • 3.0.2 • 3.0.3 • 3.0.4

Federations

2.8 • 2.8.1

2.7 • 2.7.2

2.6 • 2.6.1 • 2.6.2 • 2.6.3

Ancient Relics

2.5 • 2.5.1

2.4 • 2.4.1

2.3 • 2.3.1 • 2.3.2 • 2.3.3

MegaCorp

2.2.4 • 2.2.5 • 2.2.6 • 2.2.7

2.2 • 2.2.1 • 2.2.2 • 2.2.3

Distant Stars

2.1 • 2.1.1 • 2.1.2 • 2.1.3

Apocalypse

2.0 • 2.0.1 • 2.0.2 • 2.0.4 • 2.0.5

Synthetic Dawn

1.9 • 1.9.1

1.8 • 1.8.2 • 1.8.3

Utopia

1.6 • 1.6.1 • 1.6.2

1.5 • 1.5.1

Leviathans

1.4 • 1.4.1

1.3 • 1.3.1 • 1.3.2

Base version

1.2 • 1.2.1 • 1.2.2 • 1.2.3 • 1.2.4 • 1.2.5

1.1

1.0 • 1.0.1 • 1.0.2 • 1.0.3

Patch 3.9.X are all patches beginning with 3.9.

3.9

Main article: Patch 3.9

3.9.2

Patch 3.9.2 was released on 2023-09-26.

Balance

• Catalytic empires can now build bio-reactors.
• Pre-FTL empires now have reduced technological development before the mid-game year.

Bugfix

• Anomalies that reward Scientist Expertise traits now apply those traits to the Cognitive Node for gestalt empires.
• Blocked empires without the Scientific Method technology from constructing research districts.
• Federations End should no longer spawn empty habitats if the pre-FTL slider is set to 0
• Fix a CTD when loading a save containing an invalid species archetype
• Fix for wrong value for evasion in ship design.
• Fixed being able to build multiple gaia seeders on a single planet.
• Fixed Fallen Empires not triggering their monthly random events
• Fixed pre-ftl civilizations that naturally progressed to the Early Space Age being unable to become space faring.
• Fixed Secrets of the ... no longer granting Expertise traits.
• Fixed stage 4 gaia seeders being buildable, but immediately destroyed by non-Idyllic Bloom empires.
• Fixed the Colonial Remains deposits not spawning for the Remnants origin in some cases.
• Fixed the Patron achievement not firing.
• Fixed the Prethoryn getting stuck because their starting system contains an FTL inhibitor that prevents them from expanding
• Fixed the Surveyor not spawning resources in some cases.
• Gardening Drones will no longer have an unlocalized string.
• Habitat Central Complexes constructed around stars should now be placed further away, so they no longer clip into the star.
• Industrial designation is now only available on habitats for gestalt empires, if they use consumer goods.
• Merc enclaves now inherit their shipset from their creator.
• Paradisiacal Habitat modifiers in Ithome's Gate no longer use placeholder icons.
• Restored -25% penalty if the government doesn't have a head of research.
• Set a manual planet size for the Toxic God star asset, as it otherwise counts the large visual effects as part of the planet.
• The Crystal Splitter will now hopefully stop blowing up Fruitful Partnership colonies
• The spiritualist fallen empire will now wake up if you eat their holy worlds.
• The knights will no longer try to quest if you pacify their habitat.

Performance

• Removed MTTH from anomaly.6710, bane of ship events, horror of designers
• Removed MTTH from assorted fallen_empire_tasks events
• Removed MTTH from communications_spread.1 and communications_spread.3
• Removed MTTH from crime.1, crime.40 and crime.41, plus added pre-triggers to all crime-events
• Removed MTTH from fallen_empires.1, fallen_empires.3, fallen_empires.10, fallen_empires.11
• Removed MTTH from leviathans.660 and leviathans.662
• Removed MTTH from pop.1-13, madness that should have never existed
• Removed MTTH from random caravaneer events (cara.4000-4050)
• Removed MTTH from refugees.5, scourge of the game, destroyer of performance
• Removed MTTH from the Migrating Forests event chain (colony.1 to colony.12)
• Removed MTTH from the Orbital Debris event chain (colony.171 and colony.172)

UI

• Added new main menu gradient

Modding

• Added researchers_add.txt and archaeoengineers_add.txt inline scripts for buildings.
• Added chemist_add.txt, factory_add.txt, foundry_add.txt, refiner_add.txt and translucer_add.txt inline script for buildings.

3.9.3

Patch 3.9.3 was released on 2023-10-17.

Balance

• AI Empires are more likely to seek a federation if their rivals have federated.
• Federations (except for Hegemonies) now default to not permitting subject members.
• Having less than 50 Trust with an empire imposes a -100 Acceptance to them becoming your subject or overlord.
• Hydroponics Designation on habitats now swaps all jobs on the housing districts for farmers.
• Increased the importance of being more powerful than your vassal for loyalty purposes.
• Insulting someone decreases their Trust of you by 5.
• Rebalanced requirements for diplomatic treaties to require trust.
• Reduced how excited subjects get about things like shared sensors.
• Reduced the effect differing war philosophies has on federation acceptance.
• Removed the ability to trade favors.
• Replaced all +10% Districts on Habitats from technologies and traditions with +1 District on Habitats
• Replaced the upgrade habitat decisions with checks for habitat capital level instead.
• The Intimidation menace perk now allows you to ignore diplomatic requirements for proposing subjugation.
• The Pharma State civic now provides +1 Medical Worker job to capital buildings.
• The Unity from Rivals from the Animosity Diplomatic Stance has been reduced to 10 per rival.
• Trade Designation on habitats now has the housing district swap a clerk for a trader

Improvement

• Research, Energy and Mining District capacity on habitat complexes now have their own planetary features to clearly show the number of districts, current number of orbitals and maximum number of orbitals.
• The Crisis event chain will now use their bespoke event chain icon.

Bugfix

• Added is_scope_valid checks for anchorages.
• Fix to hiring events not being dismissed for other players in coop
• Fixed concept tooltips for starbase components.
• Fixed issue with nested tooltips and mouse tendency being incorrect when using UI scaling
• Fixed issue with some portraits being blurry on lower graphics settings due to mip levels being skipped. Disabled the functionality for portraits and related textures.
• Fixed the Node Culling gateway leading to an unlocalized string.
• Fixed Tiyanki occasionally not spawning correctly at the start of a Fruitful Partnership playthrough
• Massive Crater got its 25% pop growth back
• Restoring the Payback habitat when your homeworld is a moon now grants a minor orbital instead of a major orbital.
• Rewrote math for calculate tendency between mouse and nested tooltip window. This should fix issue with tooltips below and above mouse cursor behaving somewhat differently.
• Stopped interactions allowing multiple gaia-seeder buildings on a planet.
• The bonus provided by Eclipse from Enmity now correctly grants a 2% modifier instead of a 20% modifier.
• Updated the Eclipse tradition tooltip
• Updated the massive crater concept tooltip to accurately display the actual deposit.

AI

• Certain AI personalities (Federation Builders, Spiritual Seekers, Migrating Flocks, and Peaceful Traders) are now 25x more likely to select Diplomacy traditions.
• The AI will no longer request to be subjugated by empires that are equivalent or weaker than them.
• The AI will no longer request to become the subject or overlord of another empire unless they have 50 Trust with the other party.

UI

• The ship viewer's zoom speed is now scaled to the ship's size.
• Tooltips to select agendas now show the estimated time to launch the agenda, based off of your current agenda progress rate
• Trust between nations is now visible in the main diplomatic screen.
• When switching ships in the ship viewer, the zoom distance will now be preserved relative to the ship's size.

Modding

• Added documentation for concepts.
• Added support for more object types in concept tooltips.
• Fixed gridbox left and top padding not working.
• Some objects' auto-generated tooltips can now be shown as concept tooltips.
• Support building concept tooltips without valid scope.
• Calling non existing events should no longer crash the game.