Hello Stellaris Community!

The Stellaris Team, and our partners at Republic of Gamers, are proud to announce the theme of this year's Mod Jam:
Legendary Leaders!



Modders will have until January 9th (feature-complete submissions are due January 4th + 5 days of polish/bugfixing) to create:​

• One (1) Legendary Leader
  
• Two (2) or more flavor events that occur after the leader has been hired
  
• One (1) or more events that lead to the option to recruit the Legendary Leader
  
• One (1) or more unique Solar System Initializer(s) where the event(s) to recruit the Legendary Leader begin
  
• One (1) scripted_effect that will spawn your legendary leader's solar_system_initializer (to be fired from solar_system scope)

The full and official rules are available on the Official Stellaris Discord. Haven't signed up yet? Sign ups will be open until 5 PM CET on December 14th! Not a modder? Subscribe to #MODJAM2024 on the Steam workshop and get the new content as soon as it's available!

This year our modders will be competing for some fantastic prizes from our partners at Republic of Gamers:

• 1st Place: ROG Strix G17 (2023) G713 Laptop*
  
• 2nd Place: ROG Delta S Wireless Headset*
  
• 3rd Place: ROG Spatha X Wireless Mouse*
  
• 4th - 10th Place: Stellaris branded Wallet and Keychain

* Exact specifications may vary depending on winning modder’s region

The winner will be determined by the result of a Community Vote, which will start on January 11th, 2024 at 5 PM CET and finish 5 PM CET on February 11th, 2024. You can read the full terms and conditions here.

Thanks to everyone who's signed up so far, and best of luck to our modders!

by Eladrin

Hi everyone,

The 3.10.3 "Pyxis" update has been released. This release focused primarily on stability, and the contents are identical to the Open Beta that was released on Tuesday.

Improvements

• Now ‘New Entries’ notification on the outliner tabs is cleared, even when switching between tabs using keyboard shortcuts.
  
• Ulastar is now an advisor
  
• Vas the Gilded is now an ambassador

Balance

• Pre-FTLs in Federation's End now have their technological progress frozen

Bugfixes

• Fixed a number of event or paragon leaders not being generated with the correct traits
  
• Fixed envoys passively gaining XP
  
• Fixed missing subtitle for Scout trait
  
• Pre-FTL Empires will now have a fully functional council when they ascend to the stars.
  
• Released Vassals will now have a fully functional council when released.

Stability

• Fix crash on startup for Linux (including Steam Deck).
  
• Fix crash related to modifiers of recently destroyed empires updating
  
• Fixed crash when surveying a planet that was just removed from the map

UI

• Removed some empty space in the topbar

Modding

• Added moddable_conditions_custom_tooltip parameter to civics modification statement to allow displaying a custom requirement key when no condition has been specified
  
• Fixed civics modifications statements not always (not) allowing the correct civic changes
  
• Improved error logging to know which federation perk is invalid

We currently have plans for another update this cycle with some more fixes, including an AI fix to encourage them to recruit an appropriate number of scientists. As with the last few, we plan on putting it on the stellaris_test branch on Tuesday, for release later on in the week.
Tentatively scheduled for next Friday, we plan on putting up a longer open beta over the holidays that seeks to collect feedback regarding some potential balance changes to ship production, upkeep, and research in general.

Stellaris has undergone a significant amount of power creep over the years, and the speed at which we're able to burn through the entire technology tree is much higher than is healthy for the game. Due to the large number of stacking research speed modifiers, repeatable technologies are reached far too early in the game. Another power creep issue mentioned by many players, it's also become trivial to stack large numbers of ship build cost and ship upkeep reduction modifiers.

The Holiday Open Beta will be a feature branch that contains the following changes, which may or may not go into 3.11 (or 3.12, or any release at all for that matter). Similar to how we handled Industrial Districts several years ago, we're intentionally keeping these separated from core 3.11 development, isolating this in a parallel track.

We’ll have a feedback form set up to collect your thoughts, and the Open Beta will run until the middle of January.

• Research Speed Bonuses now usually come with increased Researcher Upkeep.
  • By changing these to throughput bonuses (cost + production), a technology focused empire will require more Consumer Goods or other resources depending on who they use to research. This puts a partial economic break on runaway technology.
• Reduction in most Research Speed bonus modifiers.
  
• The +20% research field technologies have been turned into "Breakthrough" technologies that gate progress to the next tier of research.
  • Whether it be the transistor, the theory of relativity, or faster-than-light travel, occasionally there are technologies that redefine a field of science.
    
    • The intent of these breakthrough technologies is to slow down the front-runners a little bit, while still letting the slower empires get pulled along.
  • Once a theory has been proven, it's easier for others to replicate those learnings.
    
  • Breakthrough technologies start off more difficult than regular technologies but have a variant of tech spread - the more nations you have at least low Technological intel on who have already discovered them, the cheaper they are to research (even down to instant research once the theory is commonplace). This tech spread varies based on galaxy size.
    
    • Enigmatic Engineering prevents this tech spread.
  • Breakthrough technologies have animated borders to stand out.
• Reduced Output of Researcher Jobs:
  • Researchers and their gestalt equivalents now produce 3 of each research instead of 4
    
  • Head Researchers now produce 4 of each research instead of 6
    
  • The effectiveness of Ministry of Science has been halved
    
  • Astral Researchers now produce 5 physics and 1 of each other research instead of 5 physics and 2 of the other researches.
    
  • All other researchers, such as Necromancers, have been left alone for now
• The Technology curve has been changed from 1000 × 2^n to 500 × (2^n + 3^n), making the difference between an early and late-game tech more distinct.
  
• Replaced or removed most sources of Ship Cost and Upkeep reductions from the game.
  • Military Buildup Agenda now improves ship build speed and reduces claim costs. (It still reduces War Exhaustion on completion.)
    
  • Naval Procurement Officer councilor now improves ship build speed.
    
  • Crusader Spirit civic now improves ship build speed.
    
  • Psionic Supremacy (Eater of Worlds) finisher no longer reduces ship build costs.
    
  • Vyctor's Improved Fleet Logistics trait now reduces ship build costs by 10% instead of 20%.
    
  • Progress Oriented modifier no longer reduces ship build costs.
    
  • Match tradition in the Enmity tree bonus to ship build costs reduced to 5% instead of 10%.
    
  • Master Shipwrights tradition in the Supremacy tree no longer reduces ship build costs.
    
  • Chosen of the Eater of Worlds ship build cost reduction reduced to 5% from 15%, and no longer modifies ship upkeep.
    
  • Military Pioneer trait now reduces starbase upgrade costs instead of ship build costs.
    
  • Shipwright trait no longer reduces ship build costs.
    
  • Reduced penalty the Irenic trait applies to ship build costs.
    
  • Sanctum of the Eater ship upkeep reduction reduced from 10% to 5%.
    
  • Mark of the Instrument ship component no longer reduces ship upkeep.
    
  • Grand Fleet ambition now increases power projection instead of reducing ship upkeep.
    
  • Fleet Supremacy edict no longer reduces ship upkeep.
    
  • Corporate Crusader Spirit now reduces ship upkeep by 5% instead of 10%.
    
  • Bulwark ship upkeep reductions reduced by 50%.
    
  • Logistic Understanding, Armada Logistician, and Gunboat Diplomat traits now reduces ship upkeep while docked​

Over the holiday period, we will be running another Mod Jam. This year’s theme will be revealed on December 12th, and sign ups will close on December 14th. The Community team will be posting weekly Mod Jam updates in place of our weekly Dev Diaries, so you can still get your weekly Stellaris fix.

We’ve currently scheduled the Mod Jam mod to release on January 11th! If you’re interested in participating, you can get more details and sign up here. You can also subscribe to the Mod Jam mod here, and get it as soon as it releases.

Hello Stellaris Community!

We’re proud to announce that signups for #MODJAM2024 are now open! This year our partners at Republic of Gamers are back, with some amazing prizes!




Modders will get four weeks to make… something. We don’t tell them what they’re making until the start of the working time and modders are not allowed to use any content they’ve previously published. At the end of the working time, we’ll put everything together in a package and release it. Interested in helping test the Mod Jam mod as we get closer to release? Join us on the Stellaris Official Discord!

Then the Community gets to vote on which something you like the best. At the end of the voting period, the top 10 modders by Community vote then get prizes from our sponsors and merch from the PDS Green Coffers!


This year we’ve paired up again with Republic of Gamers to deliver some great prizes to our winning Modders:

1st Place: ROG Strix G17 (2023) G713 Laptop*
2nd Place: ROG Delta S Wireless Headset*
3rd Place: ROG Spatha X Wireless Mouse*
4th - 10th Place: Stellaris branded Wallet and Keychain

* Exact specifications may vary depending on winning modder’s region


We’ll reveal the theme on Tuesday, December 12th. Keep an eye out over the Holiday period, because the Mod Jam will be taking over the weekly Dev Diaries starting December 21st, and we’ll be using them to keep you updated on what exactly the Modders are up to as the event progresses, so stay tuned!


Our current timeline has #MODJAM2024 releasing on January 11, 2024, so you don’t have to wait too long! Subscribe to #MODJAM2024 on the Steam Workshop now, and get it as soon as it releases!


Hey, that’s my line. You can sign up to participate here! And be sure to read the Terms and Conditions!

Hello!

As has been the tradition these past few weeks, we've pushed an update to the Steam Open Beta with our next release, containing the 3.10.3 patch that has been sent on to certification for release later this week.

This week's update focus was primarily on stability.

3.10.3 "Pyxis" Beta Patch Notes
[expand type=details]
Improvements
Now ‘New Entries’ notification on the outliner tabs is cleared, even when switching between tabs using keyboard shortcuts.
Ulastar is now an advisor
Vas the Gilded is now an ambassador

Balance
Pre-FTLs in Federation's End now have their technological progress frozen

Bugfixes
Fixed a number of event or paragon leaders not being generated with the correct traits
Fixed envoys passively gaining XP
Fixed missing subtitle for Scout trait
Pre-FTL Empires will now have a fully functional council when they ascend to the stars.
Released Vassals will now have a fully functional council when released.

Stability
Fix crash on startup for Linux (including steam deck).
Fix crash related to modifiers of recently destroyed empires updating
Fixed crash when surveying a planet that was just removed from the map

UI
Removed some empty space in the topbar

Modding
Added moddable_conditions_custom_tooltip parameter to civics modification statement to allow displaying a custom requirement key when no condition has been specified
Fixed civics modifications statements not always (not) allowing the correct civic changes
Improved error logging to know which federation perk is invalid
[/expand]

We expect one more release next week to add localization for the various fixes during the 3.10 patch cycle and for a few more balance and bugfixes, but with this we feel that 3.10 has reached a generally stable point. If you run into any issues, please let us know in the Bug Reports forum.

by Eladrin

Hi all!

With another busy week of bugfixing, the 3.10.2 "Pyxis" patch is now live on all platforms. So far, 689,121 Astral Rifts have been explored by you.

This release contains a fix to a common MacOS crash, fixes to ship build costs being applied, and adds full customization to the outliner tabs.

To those of you that read Monday's post about the Beta, some of this isn't news to you so you can skip to the end where I'll talk about the planned 3.10.3 and 3.10.4. The released patch is identical to the 3.10.2 Open Beta.

Features

• Added custom tab functionality to the outliner

Balance

• Paragon leader Nasuz Demetor is now reclassed as Scholar and only has one Destiny trait (Vibrant Storyteller)
  
• Payback Origin: the "Declining Healthcare" modifier acquired during the "Out Of Warranty" event chain is now automatically removed after 5 years
  
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait can now be gained by all leader classes
  
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Architectural Interest trait can now be gained by both officials and scientists
  
• The Army Veteran trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
  
• The Army Veteran trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Enlister trait has been moved from officials to commanders and now gives soldiers to the governed planet (tier 1) and sector (tier 2)
  
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personalty of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait can now be gained by all leader classes
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait is less likely to be rolled if the leader's empire has the Environmentalist civic
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait now requires a blocker removal tech to be researched
  
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
  
• The Kaleidoscope now has a chance of appearing anytime after midgame starts, instead of always appearing at the start of midgame
  
• The Mining, Farming and Generator focus traits have moved from officials to commanders
  
• The Planetary Analyst destiny trait can now be gained by both commanders and scientists
  
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
  
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Righteous trait can now be gained by both commanders and officials
  
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
  
• The Unifier trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Xeno-Mediator destiny trait can now be gained by all classes

Bugfixes

• Astral Rifts now appear as not leading to anywhere when the player's astral rift pool is empty
  
• Blocked commanders for end-game crisis factions having non-admiral traits
  
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
  
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
  
• Corrected some trait names
  
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
  
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
  
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their levelled versions
  
• Fixed a visible trigger check in the first contact description for Amoebas and Crystalline Entities
  
• Fixed all leaders in imperial empires using the regnal namelists instead of only the ruler and heir
  
• Fixed an error in the "Out of Warranty" event chain that occasionally left you stuck with a permanent "Declining Healthcare" modifier
  
• Fixed Ancient Rampart not applying its modifiers correctly
  
• Fixed astral rifts exploration UI getting locked when all narratives had been explored
  
• Fixed dimensional dump astral rift sometimes creating a leader with no name
  
• Fixed Dimensional Shrine not being buildable in Terminal Egress system
  
• Fixed discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
  
• Fixed heirs being able to have planar theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
  
• Fixed leader age staying frozen after leaving an Astral Rift
  
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II's sector modifier
  
• Fixed outliner sometimes opening the astral rift view on the wrong rift when clicking on a ship exploring an astral rift
  
• Fixed reformating regulatory node agenda for machine empires
  
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
  
• Fixed ship build cost modifiers not being applied
  
• Fixed starting gestalt nodes not benefiting from initial leader level modifiers
  
• Fixed the Numistic Administration species trait
  
• Fixed the right-click menu not appearing for archaeology sites
  
• Fixed some modifiers with a multiplier not being applied
  
• Fixed the Surveyor relic trying to fire an effect on a habitat orbital when none exists
  
• The Ancient Ramparts Starbase Module now mentions what modifiers it has to Defense Platforms
  
• The astral rifts now correctly check for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
  
• The empire created by the Animator of Clay now correctly spawns their council
  
• The Factory Focus trait is no longer blocked for gestalts, but instead checks that they have a use for consumer goods instead (ie it is valid for Rogue Servitors)
  
• The Sensor Array Power Surge event can no longer target Astral Scars, planets with deposits or planets that have a habitat orbital
  
• Updated science nexus events to check for renowned and legendary paragon scientists

Stability

• Mac crash fix (one of threads run out of the stack mem by alloca in a loop)
  
• Workaround for rare crash when rendering empire borders

Performance

• Fixed performance issues caused by outliner notification.

AI

• When adding council positions, AI will prioritize Head of Research, Minister of Defense and Minister of State if it doesn't have them

Modding

• Added @anti_synergy_weight_mult scripted variable for leader trait weights
  
• Added ai_priority to councilor type
  
• Added background_planet scope for leaders
  
• Added has_blocker_removal_tech scripted trigger
  
• Added Ship Class modifiers for armor and shield hardening, `shipclass_<class>_armor_hardening_add` and `shipclass_<class>_shield_hardening_add`
  
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE

This release does not yet have fixes for two Linux issues, but we have workarounds for two of them:

• If you are crashing on startup, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.
  
• If you are crashing while hosting a multiplayer game on Ubuntu 20.04, switching to Cross Platform multiplayer appears to resolve the issue. It is also not present on Ubuntu 22.04.

Players have also reported issues with certain event leaders missing traits and envoys convincing themselves they're real people, these will be fixed in 3.10.3.


In 3.10.2, we've added the ability to fully customize your Outliner tabs. In your Outliner Options, there is now a toggle for Custom Outliner Tab, which will let you select any elements you wish to show on that particular tab. This should allow you to set up your tabs however you desire, including putting everything on a single tab or duplicating the same information across different tabs if you wish. (For example, if you want a "Peace" and "War" tab, with different information or sorting.)






We're continuing to focus on stability and bugfixing for the next few weeks.

3.10.3 is planned for next week, and we plan on continuing the pattern of releasing the build early as an Open Beta while it's undergoing certification.

3.10.4 is expected the week after that, and will include translated localization for the various changes made in the first three patches. (As well as further bugfixing as needed.)


The 3.11 "Eridanus" update in 2024Q1 will focus on stability, AI, and balance.

We're planning on running a balance related Open Beta over the holidays to collect feedback regarding some experiments around Research.

by Eladrin

Hello!

We've just released an update to the Stellaris Test branch on Steam, containing the 3.10.2 patch that is currently in certification for release later this week. Of particular note, this release includes a fix to a common MacOS crash (that also turned out to be affecting other operating systems, just not quite as consistently) and full Outliner customization.

Features

• Added custom tab functionality to the outliner

Balance

• Paragon leader Nasuz Demetor is now reclassed as Scholar and only has one Destiny trait (Vibrant Storyteller)
  
• Payback Origin: the "Declining Healthcare" modifier acquired during the "Out Of Warranty" event chain is now automatically removed after 5 years
  
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait can now be gained by all leader classes
  
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Architectural Interest trait can now be gained by both officials and scientists
  
• The Army Veteran trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
  
• The Army Veteran trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Enlister trait has been moved from officials to commanders and now gives soldiers to the governed planet (tier 1) and sector (tier 2)
  
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personalty of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait can now be gained by all leader classes
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait is less likely to be rolled if the leader's empire has the Environmentalist civic
  
• The Environmental Engineering trait now requires a blocker removal tech to be researched
  
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
  
• The Kaleidoscope now has a chance of appearing anytime after midgame starts, instead of always appearing at the start of midgame
  
• The Mining, Farming and Generator focus traits have moved from officials to commanders
  
• The Planetary Analyst destiny trait can now be gained by both commanders and scientists
  
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
  
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Righteous trait can now be gained by both commanders and officials
  
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
  
• The Unifier trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
  
• The Xeno-Mediator destiny trait can now be gained by all classes

Bugfixes

• Astral Rifts now appear as not leading to anywhere when the player's astral rift pool is empty
  
• Blocked commanders for end-game crisis factions having non-admiral traits
  
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
  
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
  
• Corrected some trait names
  
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
  
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
  
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their levelled versions
  
• Fixed a visible trigger check in the first contact description for Amoebas and Crystalline Entities
  
• Fixed all leaders in imperial empires using the regnal namelists instead of only the ruler and heir
  
• Fixed an error in the "Out of Warranty" event chain that occasionally left you stuck with a permanent "Declining Healthcare" modifier
  
• Fixed Ancient Rampart not applying its modifiers correctly
  
• Fixed astral rifts exploration UI getting locked when all narratives had been explored
  
• Fixed dimensional dump astral rift sometimes creating a leader with no name
  
• Fixed Dimensional Shrine not being buildable in Terminal Egress system
  
• Fixed discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
  
• Fixed heirs being able to have planar theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
  
• Fixed leader age staying frozen after leaving an Astral Rift
  
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II's sector modifier
  
• Fixed outliner sometimes opening the astral rift view on the wrong rift when clicking on a ship exploring an astral rift
  
• Fixed reformating regulatory node agenda for machine empires
  
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
  
• Fixed ship build cost modifiers not being applied
  
• Fixed starting gestalt nodes not benefiting from initial leader level modifiers
  
• Fixed the Numistic Administration species trait
  
• Fixed the right-click menu not appearing for archaeology sites
  
• Fixed some modifiers with a multiplier not being applied
  
• Fixed the Surveyor relic trying to fire an effect on a habitat orbital when none exists
  
• The Ancient Ramparts Starbase Module now mentions what modifiers it has to Defense Platforms
  
• The astral rifts now correctly check for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
  
• The empire created by the Animator of Clay now correctly spawns their council
  
• The Factory Focus trait is no longer blocked for gestalts, but instead checks that they have a use for consumer goods instead (ie it is valid for Rogue Servitors)
  
• The Sensor Array Power Surge event can no longer target Astral Scars, planets with deposits or planets that have a habitat orbital
  
• Updated science nexus events to check for renowned and legendary paragon scientists

Stability

• Mac crash fix (one of threads run out of the stack mem by alloca in a loop)
  
• Workaround for rare crash when rendering empire borders

Performance

• Fixed performance issues caused by outliner notification.

AI

• When adding council positions, AI will prioritize Head of Research, Minister of Defense and Minister of State if it doesn't have them

Modding

• Added @anti_synergy_weight_mult scripted variable for leader trait weights
  
• Added ai_priority to councilor type
  
• Added background_planet scope for leaders
  
• Added has_blocker_removal_tech scripted trigger
  
• Added Ship Class modifiers for armor and shield hardening, `shipclass_<class>_armor_hardening_add` and `shipclass_<class>_shield_hardening_add`
  
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE

​

This release does not yet have fixes for two Linux issues, but we have workarounds for two of them:

• If you are crashing on startup, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.
  
• If you are crashing while hosting a multiplayer game on Ubuntu 20.04, switching to Cross Platform multiplayer appears to resolve the issue. It is also not present on Ubuntu 22.04.

In 3.10.2, we've added the ability to fully customize your Outliner tabs. In your Outliner Options, there is now a toggle for Custom Outliner Tab, which will let you select any elements you wish to show on that particular tab. This should allow you to set up your tabs however you desire, including putting everything on a single tab or duplicating the same information across different tabs if you wish. (For example, if you want a "Peace" and "War" tab, with different information or sorting.)

Hi everyone!

We have just released the 3.10.1 "Pyxis" update! This update is identical to the Steam Open Beta that we put up earlier this week, and includes a number of fixes as well as hotkeys for the Tabbed Outliner.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Stellaris Community for their patience and bug reports. Without your help we would not have been able to address so many issues so quickly. Please keep on providing your bug reports and feedback.

We are currently still investigating and fixing a number of other issues, and this will not be the last update to 3.10, including issues on MacOS, more bugfixes, and adding full customization to the Outliner.

Please find the patch notes below:

[expand type=details]
Improvements

• Added Ctrl+A/D shortcuts to cycle through outliner tabs. Also added Ctrl+Q/W/E/R to switch to specific tabs. Added tooltips for them. These tooltips are currently in English regardless of language setting
  
• Clarified tooltip headers for governor traits.

Balance

• AI empires generated as part of the Common Ground and Hegemony origins now start with an additional Official to be assigned to the Federation
  
• Blocked empire rulers and imperial heirs from getting the Planar Theorist trait
  
• Commissioner subclass now increases stability from soldiers instead of providing additional soldier jobs
  
• Decreased the chance for leaders to get common governor traits if they do not have a governor subclass or are not governing
  
• Decreased the chance of leaders gaining job providing traits
  
• Detail-Oriented has been updated to be a Destiny trait for Scholars, instead of a Veteran trait
  
• Explorer subclass now has +1 Sensor Range
  
• Halved the effects of the Politician trait
  
• Having a Commander govern a planet or sector now provides soldier jobs
  
• Increased the chances of the Prospector trait to fire.
  
• Oppressive Autocracy now has the colony shelter building replace a colonist job with an enforcer job
  
• Policies that increase leader starting level now greatly increase leader hiring cost and upkeep cost.
  
• Rebalanced traits that affect research output from jobs while governing
  
• Reduced the magnitude of most governor modifiers.
  
• Removed the "can only get Council traits" restriction on rulers in Democracies, Oligarchies and MegaCorps. (For modders, this is using the is_autocracy scripted trigger)
  
• Replaced Champions of the Empire +1 Initial Leader Level with +1 Additional Trait
  
• Resources from Psionic Pops modifier now applies to latent psionic species.
  
• Reworked Driven Educator to instead provide +25% Leader XP gain
  
• Slightly decreased the bonuses from Custom AI Assistant and Sapient AI Assistant traits
  
• Slightly decreased the penalties from the Neurosis trait
  
• Soldier jobs now produce a small amount of base stability.
  
• Traits that give homeworld jobs now require leaders to be at least level 2
  
• You can no longer sell exceptional materials (astral threads and minor artifacts) to the AI.

Bugfixes

• "The Seal" situation is aborted if you attack [ISPOILER]the formless[/ispoiler]
  
• Added missing descriptions for multiple ship component categories (reactor, auras, combat computers)
  
• Added missing node xp modifiers to the Astral Planes civics for gestalt empires.
  
• AI empires with the Fruitful Partnership origin will stop opening seed pods on Holy Words only to get obliterated by angry fallen empires
  
• All types of priest jobs (e.g. high priests, numistic priests) now benefit from the additional trade value from the Dimensional Enterprise council position.
  
• Blocked Entrepreneur (Ambassador) trait for gestalt empires, fanatic purifiers, inward perfectionists and criminal syndicates
  
• Blocked the Charmer and Research Exchange traits for genocidal empires and inwards perfectionists
  
• Clarified that the First Contact civics give an increased chance to draw FTL travel technologies (English only)
  
• Corrected all versions of Sovereign Guardianship to have 150% Empire Size from systems
  
• Corrected draw weights for a number of leader traits
  
• Empires can no longer spawn with multiple ministers of defense under some cases, such as being The Chosen.
  
• Empires created via status quo peace deals will now correctly generate their council.
  
• Explicitly blocked trading of gestalt nodes (instead of them being implicitly blocked)
  
• Fixed 2 zroni digsites pointing to a deprecated title.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to enact the "Dayside Farm" decision multiple times on a single planet.
  
• Fixed a case where the "Abandoned Star Platform" anomaly would leave the system's primary star without a deposit
  
• Fixed a case where the "Ion Trail" event would occasionally pick the same system it spawned in for the follow-up event
  
• Fixed a large number of planetary features that were providing incorrect bonuses due to changes with Mastery of Nature
  
• Fixed a typo in the event text for the "Blinding Grief" event
  
• Fixed calculations for determining trade values gained from slaves
  
• Fixed commanders wearing the wrong uniform on planetary assignments.
  
• Fixed crystal rift situations checking for the wrong amount of resources to validate approaches
  
• Fixed Crystal Sphere stolen events not using the correct texts and picture
  
• Fixed Crystal Sphere stolen events triggering when the crystal sphere situations are no longer active
  
• Fixed Dark Consortium displaying flag information in tooltip instead of the standard loc key for this situation
  
• Fixed Dark Consortium not locking the civic when being played from start
  
• Fixed Dark Matter Breakthrough agenda always stating it will locks the civic, even if it already is
  
• Fixed descriptions for Artisan Drones showing in district tooltips when none were present
  
• Fixed Eager Explorers giving two +50% chances to draw Improved Structural Integrity
  
• Fixed Efficient Staffing III applying the incorrect modifiers, leading to no sector modifiers.
  
• Fixed habitat and archaeology lab technologies missing increased chance to be drawn from being rare technologies
  
• Fixed hostile fleets being capable of crossing dimensional locks
  
• Fixed Imperial Heirs sometimes spawning with the incorrect initial level for their class.
  
• Fixed issue with concepts being offset for all languages using TTF (fonts)
  
• Fixed missing AI weights for some council positions
  
• Fixed missing localisation for Clone Army Commander traits
  
• Fixed outdated tooltips in diplomacy with Trader Enclaves
  
• Fixed some empires, such as Common Ground federation members or MSI, starting with duplicated council positions.
  
• Fixed some triggered modifiers from leader traits not being applied.
  
• Fixed starbases not inheriting modifiers from their country
  
• Fixed strange wormhole breaking existing wormhole in the same system if any when spawning
  
• Fixed that culled/reformatted nodes would not have a level 1 trait.
  
• Fixed that culling/reformatting the Regulatory Node would not create a new one.
  
• Fixed the "Dissolved" astral rift event leaving a ship stuck in an endless MIA loop
  
• Fixed the Archivist trait giving scientists additional levels
  
• Fixed the sector modifier for Ruthless Developer
  
• Fixed Tree of Life and Lithoid Crater deposits not providing all of their bonuses
  
• Fixed Urbanist trait displaying it was tier 1 and for any class when it is not a tiered trait and only for the Official
  
• For players without Galactic Paragons, Officials should no longer roll GalCom traits if you are not a member of the GalCom or Federation traits if you are not a member of a Federation
  
• Galactic Community Delegates now correctly multiply their diplomatic weight bonus by their level, instead of their level squared.
  
• If your capital is in the Formless home system, The Vacuum Flower relic now correctly grants you Astral Threads
  
• Made the first option in Black Hole Instability requiring Astral Threads instead of rewarding them
  
• Only leaders eligible for a specific council position should show up as potential recruits.
  
• Pre-Sapient pops no longer help you upgrade your capital buildings earlier.
  
• Prospector trait should no longer fire twice for Volatile Motes
  
• Removed Artisan Drone jobs from ringworld industrial segment if it is not set to factory designation.
  
• Removed reference to Imperial Heirs not having unity upkeep.
  
• Repaired Shattered Ringworlds now use the correct graphics
  
• Scrapping the warship in the "Adrift" event now correctly awards you Alloys instead of Minerals
  
• Scrapping the warship in the "Warship Destroyed" event now correctly awards you Alloys instead of Minerals
  
• Stopped certain events from accidentally adding anomalies or terraforming Astral Scars
  
• The Excavator trait no longer erroneously requires the Rift Sphere technology
  
• The formless don't talk to you lightly anymore if you become hostile
  
• The Geology Expert, Manufacturer, and Observer traits no longer state that they are Scientist traits
  
• The leader trait "Trader II" now correctly applies its effect to the whole sector
  
• The Manifesti's Head in the Clouds demand now checks for scientists on the council correctly
  
• The Mass Extinction Event Chain should work properly again.
  
• The plasmic species trait now has a slave cost of 2500 energy credits.
  
• The Scout trait no longer states it applies to military fleets for scientists
  
• The Tyznn Tithe trait is no longer possible to acquire by levelling up.
  
• The UNE will no longer spawn a third human empire to hang out with them for no reason.
  
• The Void Dweller initializing effects will no longer generate habitable worlds with no deposits.
  
• Updated the upgraded version of the Assembler trait to use the correct modifiers
  
• Vassalizing [ISPOILER]the formless[/ispoiler] will now transfer their system to them if you happen to own it.
  
• Vibrant Storyteller is correctly marked as a Destiny trait for Scholars, not Explorers
  
• When loading a save, update some modifiers that previously weren't updated.
  
• You can now use the Astral Jump Astral Action if you have Psionic Jump Drives or Subspace Drives.
  
• [ISPOILER]zadigal[/ispoiler] is now correctly fired if you declare war with [ISPOILER]the Formless[/ispoiler] on their recruitment day

AI

• Fixed AI assigning leaders to Galcom when it shouldn't be possible.

Stability

• Fix for crash when running unlock_council_slots effect.

UI

• Added text to system debug tooltip to separate the different lists of modifiers.
  
• Anomaly view "Research Time" label is hidden when the research time is hidden.
  
• Changed Change Scientist hotkey in Situation Log anomaly view to G.
  
• DLC list is now shown in the Cooperative game setup.
  
• Fixed empire creation UI remaining visible while ACB is open.
  
• Fixed layout of "no scientists" text in anomaly view.
  
• Fixed portrait frame appearing to the left of the anomaly UI if you have no science ships with scientists.
  
• Fixed portrait tooltip in anomaly view incorrectly saying that you can right-click to remove the leader.
  
• In the anomaly window, if you get a valid scientist while no scientist is selected, that scientist is automatically selected.
  
• In the anomaly window, the Change Scientist button is disabled if there is no valid scientist available.
  
• Updated the leader ethics tooltip to mention planetary and sector governor ethics attraction
  
• Fixed leader XP bar showing the wrong tooltip

Modding

• Added a init_effect field to spawn_natural_wormhole effect
  
• Added additional documentation to 00_base_classes.txt
  
• Moved events action.504 and .505 to event leader.200 and .201
  
• Removed initial_effect_custom_loc from agendas. The initial effect's tooltip is now directly built from the initial effect
  
• The link_wormholes effect can now be used on the bypass scope

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We want to thank you again for your patience, and thank you for playing Stellaris!

by Eladrin

Greetings!

Stellaris 3.10.0 “Pyxis” and the Astral Planes Narrative Expansion released last Thursday, and it’s been a bit of a bumpy ride, so I moved this week’s dev diary a bit earlier than usual.



Due to an error we made in metadata, many players were unable to verify ownership of the DLC at launch. We pushed a quick hotfix, which resolved these issues for some players, while also introducing a different ownership issue through a checksum error, which prevented other people from being able to properly explore the expansion. We finally managed to fix all of these problems midday on Friday. I want to thank everyone who provided bug reports and helped us diagnose the dlc ownership issues, we wouldn’t have been able to resolve them so quickly without your help.

I’m terribly sorry for the poor launch.

We’ve just put a beta branch up on Steam containing the 3.10.1 release, which is currently planned to be deployed to live on Thursday. This release includes a number of bugfixes, as well as hotkeys for the Tabbed Outliner. Let us know what you think.


The hotkeys are CTRL+A/D for switching to the previous/next tab and CTRL+Q/W/E/R for switching to a tab directly (much like Z/X/C/V switches between tabs in other UIs, such as the planetary view).


Improvements

• Added Ctrl+A/D shortcuts to cycle through outliner tabs. Also added Ctrl+Q/W/E/R to switch to specific tabs. Added tooltips for them. These tooltips are currently in English regardless of language setting
  
• Clarified tooltip headers for governor traits.

Balance

• AI empires generated as part of the Common Ground and Hegemony origins now start with an additional Official to be assigned to the Federation
  
• Blocked empire rulers and imperial heirs from getting the Planar Theorist trait
  
• Commissioner subclass now increases stability from soldiers instead of providing additional soldier jobs
  
• Decreased the chance for leaders to get common governor traits if they do not have a governor subclass or are not governing
  
• Decreased the chance of leaders gaining job providing traits
  
• Detail-Oriented has been updated to be a Destiny trait for Scholars, instead of a Veteran trait
  
• Explorer subclass now has +1 Sensor Range
  
• Halved the effects of the Politician trait
  
• Having a Commander govern a planet or sector now provides soldier jobs
  
• Increased the chances of the Prospector trait to fire.
  
• Oppressive Autocracy now has the colony shelter building replace a colonist job with an enforcer job
  
• Policies that increase leader starting level now greatly increase leader hiring cost and upkeep cost.
  
• Rebalanced traits that affect research output from jobs while governing
  
• Reduced the magnitude of most governor modifiers.
  
• Removed the "can only get Council traits" restriction on rulers in Democracies, Oligarchies and MegaCorps. (For modders, this is using the is_autocracy scripted trigger)
  
• Replaced Champions of the Empire +1 Initial Leader Level with +1 Additional Trait
  
• Resources from Psionic Pops modifier now applies to latent psionic species.
  
• Reworked Driven Educator to instead provide +25% Leader XP gain
  
• Slightly decreased the bonuses from Custom AI Assistant and Sapient AI Assistant traits
  
• Slightly decreased the penalties from the Neurosis trait
  
• Soldier jobs now produce a small amount of base stability.
  
• Traits that give homeworld jobs now require leaders to be at least level 2
  
• You can no longer sell exceptional materials (astral threads and minor artifacts) to the AI.

Bugfixes

• "The Seal" situation is aborted if you attack the formless
  
• Added missing descriptions for multiple ship component categories (reactor, auras, combat computers)
  
• Added missing node xp modifiers to the Astral Planes civics for gestalt empires.
  
• AI empires with the Fruitful Partnership origin will stop opening seed pods on Holy Words only to get obliterated by angry fallen empires
  
• All types of priest jobs (e.g. high priests, numistic priests) now benefit from the additional trade value from the Dimensional Enterprise council position.
  
• Blocked Entrepreneur (Ambassador) trait for gestalt empires, fanatic purifiers, inward perfectionists and criminal syndicates
  
• Blocked the Charmer and Research Exchange traits for genocidal empires and inwards perfectionists
  
• Clarified that the First Contact civics give an increased chance to draw FTL travel technologies (English only)
  
• Corrected all versions of Sovereign Guardianship to have 150% Empire Size from systems
  
• Corrected draw weights for a number of leader traits
  
• Empires can no longer spawn with multiple ministers of defense under some cases, such as being The Chosen.
  
• Empires created via status quo peace deals will now correctly generate their council.
  
• Explicitly blocked trading of gestalt nodes (instead of them being implicitly blocked)
  
• Fixed 2 zroni digsites pointing to a deprecated title.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to enact the "Dayside Farm" decision multiple times on a single planet.
  
• Fixed a case where the "Abandoned Star Platform" anomaly would leave the system's primary star without a deposit
  
• Fixed a case where the "Ion Trail" event would occasionally pick the same system it spawned in for the follow-up event
  
• Fixed a large number of planetary features that were providing incorrect bonuses due to changes with Mastery of Nature
  
• Fixed a typo in the event text for the "Blinding Grief" event
  
• Fixed calculations for determining trade values gained from slaves
  
• Fixed commanders wearing the wrong uniform on planetary assignments.
  
• Fixed crystal rift situations checking for the wrong amount of resources to validate approaches
  
• Fixed Crystal Sphere stolen events not using the correct texts and picture
  
• Fixed Crystal Sphere stolen events triggering when the crystal sphere situations are no longer active
  
• Fixed Dark Consortium displaying flag information in tooltip instead of the standard loc key for this situation
  
• Fixed Dark Consortium not locking the civic when being played from start
  
• Fixed Dark Matter Breakthrough agenda always stating it will locks the civic, even if it already is
  
• Fixed descriptions for Artisan Drones showing in district tooltips when none were present
  
• Fixed Eager Explorers giving two +50% chances to draw Improved Structural Integrity
  
• Fixed Efficient Staffing III applying the incorrect modifiers, leading to no sector modifiers.
  
• Fixed habitat and archaeology lab technologies missing increased chance to be drawn from being rare technologies
  
• Fixed hostile fleets being capable of crossing dimensional locks
  
• Fixed Imperial Heirs sometimes spawning with the incorrect initial level for their class.
  
• Fixed issue with concepts being offset for all languages using TTF (fonts)
  
• Fixed missing AI weights for some council positions
  
• Fixed missing localisation for Clone Army Commander traits
  
• Fixed outdated tooltips in diplomacy with Trader Enclaves
  
• Fixed some empires, such as Common Ground federation members or MSI, starting with duplicated council positions.
  
• Fixed some triggered modifiers from leader traits not being applied.
  
• Fixed starbases not inheriting modifiers from their country
  
• Fixed strange wormhole breaking existing wormhole in the same system if any when spawning
  
• Fixed that culled/reformatted nodes would not have a level 1 trait.
  
• Fixed that culling/reformatting the Regulatory Node would not create a new one.
  
• Fixed the "Dissolved" astral rift event leaving a ship stuck in an endless MIA loop
  
• Fixed the Archivist trait giving scientists additional levels
  
• Fixed the sector modifier for Ruthless Developer
  
• Fixed Tree of Life and Lithoid Crater deposits not providing all of their bonuses
  
• Fixed Urbanist trait displaying it was tier 1 and for any class when it is not a tiered trait and only for the Official
  
• For players without Galactic Paragons, Officials should no longer roll GalCom traits if you are not a member of the GalCom or Federation traits if you are not a member of a Federation
  
• Galactic Community Delegates now correctly multiply their diplomatic weight bonus by their level, instead of their level squared.
  
• If your capital is in the Formless home system, The Vacuum Flower relic now correctly grants you Astral Threads
  
• Made the first option in Black Hole Instability requiring Astral Threads instead of rewarding them
  
• Only leaders eligible for a specific council position should show up as potential recruits.
  
• Pre-Sapient pops no longer help you upgrade your capital buildings earlier.
  
• Prospector trait should no longer fire twice for Volatile Motes
  
• Removed Artisan Drone jobs from ringworld industrial segment if it is not set to factory designation.
  
• Removed reference to Imperial Heirs not having unity upkeep.
  
• Repaired Shattered Ringworlds now use the correct graphics
  
• Scrapping the warship in the "Adrift" event now correctly awards you Alloys instead of Minerals
  
• Scrapping the warship in the "Warship Destroyed" event now correctly awards you Alloys instead of Minerals
  
• Stopped certain events from accidentally adding anomalies or terraforming Astral Scars
  
• The Excavator trait no longer erroneously requires the Rift Sphere technology
  
• The formless don't talk to you lightly anymore if you become hostile
  
• The Geology Expert, Manufacturer, and Observer traits no longer state that they are Scientist traits
  
• The leader trait "Trader II" now correctly applies its effect to the whole sector
  
• The Manifesti's Head in the Clouds demand now checks for scientists on the council correctly
  
• The Mass Extinction Event Chain should work properly again.
  
• The plasmic species trait now has a slave cost of 2500 energy credits.
  
• The Scout trait no longer states it applies to military fleets for scientists
  
• The Tyznn Tithe trait is no longer possible to acquire by levelling up.
  
• The UNE will no longer spawn a third human empire to hang out with them for no reason.
  
• The Void Dweller initializing effects will no longer generate habitable worlds with no deposits.
  
• Updated the upgraded version of the Assembler trait to use the correct modifiers
  
• Vassalizing the formless will now transfer their system to them if you happen to own it.
  
• Vibrant Storyteller is correctly marked as a Destiny trait for Scholars, not Explorers
  
• When loading a save, update some modifiers that previously weren't updated.
  
• You can now use the Astral Jump Astral Action if you have Psionic Jump Drives or Subspace Drives.
  
• zadigal is now correctly fired if you declare war with the formless on their recruitment day

AI

• Fixed AI assigning leaders to Galcom when it shouldn't be possible.

Stability

• Fix for crash when running unlock_council_slots effect.

UI

• Added text to system debug tooltip to separate the different lists of modifiers.
  
• Anomaly view "Research Time" label is hidden when the research time is hidden.
  
• Changed Change Scientist hotkey in Situation Log anomaly view to G.
  
• DLC list is now shown in the Cooperative game setup.
  
• Fixed empire creation UI remaining visible while ACB is open.
  
• Fixed layout of "no scientists" text in anomaly view.
  
• Fixed portrait frame appearing to the left of the anomaly UI if you have no science ships with scientists.
  
• Fixed portrait tooltip in anomaly view incorrectly saying that you can right-click to remove the leader.
  
• In the anomaly window, if you get a valid scientist while no scientist is selected, that scientist is automatically selected.
  
• In the anomaly window, the Change Scientist button is disabled if there is no valid scientist available.
  
• Updated the leader ethics tooltip to mention planetary and sector governor ethics attraction
  
• Fixed leader XP bar showing the wrong tooltip

Modding

• Added a init_effect field to spawn_natural_wormhole effect
  
• Added additional documentation to 00_base_classes.txt
  
• Moved events action.504 and .505 to event leader.200 and .201
  
• Removed initial_effect_custom_loc from agendas. The initial effect's tooltip is now directly built from the initial effect
  
• The link_wormholes effect can now be used on the bypass scope

Please note that the 3.10.1 "Pyxis" Open Beta is an optional beta patch. You have to manually opt in to access it.
Go to your Steam library, right click on Stellaris -> Properties -> betas tab -> select "stellaris_test - 3.10.1 Open Beta" branch.

Some notes for Linux users that are encountering crashes - we have potential workarounds for two of them:

• If you are crashing on startup, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.
  
• If you are crashing while hosting a multiplayer game on Ubuntu 20.04, switching to Cross Platform multiplayer appears to resolve the issue. It is also not present on Ubuntu 22.04.

At this time we are still tracking down Mac stability issues.

3.10.2 is already in progress, in which we are continuing to hunt down stability problems (especially for Linux and Mac users), fixing more bugs, and adding more customization to the Tabbed Outliner.

Outliner Customization

WIP Mockup of what we’re planning. Might not exactly end up looking like this.

In the last Dev Diary, we said we’d provide a form so you can submit events that you think should have subtitles added to them.

{LINK REMOVED}Here's a link to a form where you can suggest events for review.

Thanks for your assistance!

We’re going to continue watching your bug reports and feedback, fixing things, and working on 3.10.2, so you can enjoy the new content the way it was meant to be.

Thanks for playing Stellaris!

Astral Planes is discounted 10% until November 27th.

Hello Stellaris Community,

Shortly after the release of Astral Planes yesterday, we began receiving reports of players being unable to verify ownership of the new DLC. These reports began as a sporadic issue that gradually worsened as the time passed since release. About an hour after release, the Dev Team identified a configuration issue with the Astral Planes DLC and put together a new build that we believed would resolve this issue for players.

Unfortunately, while this build resolved the DLC Ownership issue for the vast majority of players, there were some players that this fix did not work for, with a higher proportion of those players being Linux and MacOS users. The Stellaris team has spent today digging into the DLC Ownership issue, and working on potential solutions.

We believe that we have now found the root cause of the DLC Ownership issue - a mismatch between the DLC checksum as reported by the DLC and as calculated by the game, and we have come up with a fix that should work for all players. This fix is live now, and should resolve these issues as far as we can reproduce internally.

If after installing this latest update, you still continue to experience issues with verifying DLC Ownership:

• (Windows) Run Steam as an Administrator - exit Steam, right-click the Steam shortcut and click “Run as Administrator”
  
• Verify Game Files - In Steam, right-click Stellaris, Properties, Local Files, and Verify Local Files

If none of these things resolve your issues, please let us know in the comments below or on the Stellaris Bug Report forums.

We would like to thank everyone who took the time to leave their feedback and share their experience with DLC Verification, and those who took the time to try some of the more... unorthodox suggestions and workarounds that have been going around the community over the last 24 hours.

From everyone on the Stellaris Team, we would like to apologize to our players for the inconvenience with the Astral Planes release.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2534090/Stellaris_Astral_Planes/


Take a step into the unknown with Astral Planes, navigating an array of wonders and dangers alike. Travel through Rifts in space and time for a glimpse of strange, new realities. What will you discover, in a universe beyond limits?

Astral Planes includes:

• Core Mechanics
  
  • Astral Scars
    
  • New Site Type: Astral Rift
    
  • New Resource: Astral Thread
    
  • Astral Harvesting - Technology to harvest Astral Threads
    
  • Rift Sphere - Technology to explore Astral Rifts Rifts
    
  • "Rift in Space" Situation - Unlocks Rift Sphere tech.
    
  • Random Stage 2 Rift Situation Events
• 30+ Rift Sites - each site contains branching narratives, featuring multiple potential endings and a chance at powerful new rewards
  
• 8 New Relics
  
• Astral Actions
  • 10 New Astral Actions
    
  • 4 Additional Astral Actions that will swap depending on research (requires Overlord)
• The Formless
  
• 1 Origin - Riftworld Origin
  
• 4 Civics
  
  • Hyperspace Speciality
    
  • Dimensional Worship
    
  • Dark Consortium
    
  • Sovereign Guardianship
• New Sounds, Music and Visual Effects
  
  • 3 New Music Tracks from Andreas Waldetoft
    
  • 70+ New Event Pictures
    
  • 80+ New Sound Effects

* Some content may require DLC sold separately


Before you jump into the game, check out the latest from our Custodian Development team: the 3.10 “Pyxis” Custodian Update! Here is a link to the full patch notes.

If you experience bugs or other issues on 3.10 “Pyxis”, on a new save, without mods, please take the time to fill out a report on the bug report forums!

3.10 “Pyxis” brings with it a consolidation of Leader Classes, vastly improving leader’s usefulness, and addressing some community concerns with regards to the Leader Cap introduced with 3.8 “Gemini”, as well as introducing a new Council Legitimacy Mechanic, further updates on the Additional Content Browser, and improving the Outliner by introducing tabs to help you manage your late-game Empires.

As we mentioned at the 3.9 “Caelum” release, we softened up the leader cap, as many in the Community were finding it too restrictive to gameplay. At the time, we mentioned this was a temporary solution while we worked on a more comprehensive leader rework.

Enter, the Leader Consolidation

With leaders becoming more important to your empire following the 3.8 ‘Gemini’ release alongside Galactic Paragons, there were some rough edges leftover and experiences that could be better.

Taking into account our internal vision of how leaders should work, and combining it with feedback we’ve gathered from the Community during the time since the 3.8 “Gemini” released, we have put together a system of leaders that we feel will address many concerns, and eliminate or lessen the rough edges and bad experiences.

The Leader Consolidation reduces the number of Leader Classes from four to three:
Commanders - are the military-focused leaders in your empire. These leaders can lead fleets, armies, be governors or sit on your Empire Council.
Officials - are the Administrative class of leaders, and focus on governing your empire’s planets, maintaining relationships with Federations and the Galactic Community, or can further focus your Empire Council to either diplomacy or internal production
Scientists - focus on developing your empire’s knowledge of the universe, exploration, and discovery, or can govern planets in your Empire (replacing the Assist Research functionality)

Each leader can now gain one of four Veterancy Subclasses, allowing you to specialize your leaders even further:

Commanders

• Admiral - Focuses on Fleets and general naval combat
  
• General - Focuses on taking planets and assaulting static defenses - Armies, Planetary Bombardment, Ground Combat, and attacking defensive structures such as Starbases are the General’s forte
  
• Commissioner - Focuses on Planetary Governance (Martial Law)
  
• Strategist - Focuses on the Council, especially the Minister of Defense position

Official

• Delegate - Focuses on Federations and the Galactic Community
  
• Industrialist - Focuses on Planetary Governance (Industry and Development)
  
• Ambassador - Council Focus (Diplomacy, Espionage, and First Contact), especially suited for the new Minister of State position
  
• Advisor - Council Focus (Economy)

Scientist

• Explorer - Focuses on Surveying and Exploration
  
• Academic - Focuses on Archaeology and Anomalies
  
• Analyst - Focuses on Planetary Governance (Assist Research)
  
• Statistician - Focuses on the Council, especially the Minister of Science position

To make leveling up feel more rewarding for those of you who do not own Galactic Paragons, traits chosen upon leveling up will now be weighted towards the job your leaders are currently performing.

Changes to the Leader Capacity

In 3.10 “Pyxis”, each Leader class has its own leader capacity, and exceeding that capacity for one Leader type will only affect that leader class.

The effects of being over capacity have been changed as well: being double your Leader Capacity will now result in unity upkeep for that leader class increasing by 100%, and XP gain for that leader class dropping by around 47%.

Planetary and Sector Governance

As some of you may have noticed from above, all three Leader Classes can now govern your Empire’s worlds. Each Leader class has certain inherent bonuses to governing planets that scale with their Leader level, in addition to the bonuses provided by choosing the planetary governor-styled Veterancy Subclass:

Governing Effects (effects increase with Leader Level):
Commanders:

• Ruler and Specialist Pop output: -5%
  
• Worker and Slave Pop output: +5%
  
• Crime: -2
  
• Empire Size from Pops: -2%
  
• Stability from Soldiers: +2

Officials:

• Basic, Advanced and Strategic Resources from Jobs: +5%
  
• Empire Size from Pops: -2%

Scientists:

• Physics, Society and Engineering Research from Jobs: +5%
  
• Empire Size from Pops: -2%

These effects apply to the planet the leader is ruling, and if that planet is the sector capital, will apply half their effects to the planets in the sector. Throughout the game, we’ve gone and ensured that the majority of governor-related traits and leader effects apply at full strength to the planet they are governing and at half strength to all other planets in the same sector, if they are governing the sector capital.

Planetary governors will always supersede the sector governor, if one exists. Thus you might have an Industrialist overseeing your core sector and assign a Commissioner to a planet where that pesky Criminal Syndicate has set up shop in order to drive down crime.

As mentioned earlier, each leader class also has a veteran subclass dedicated to governance, which is required to gain governor veteran traits. Many of the traits from the Industrialist (Governor), Pioneer (Governor), Protector (General), and Analyst (Scientist) have been distributed throughout the various governing subclasses during the rework.

Minister of State

The Minister of State, a new Empire Council Position available to the base-game, increases the effectiveness of your Empire’s Envoys. Owners of Galactic Paragons will now be able to use the Reorganize Council Agenda to reassign all Council positions (with the exception of the Ruler), but replacing the starting Council Positions will come with a cost.

• Minister of Defense: -25% Naval Capacity
  
• Minister of State: -25% Diplomatic Weight
  
• Head of Research: -25% Research Speed

Certain Civics (currently Inwards Perfection and Fanatic Purifiers) block access to the Minister of State position and will instead start with their Civic Council Position unlocked.

Council Legitimacy

Back in 3.8 we added Council Legitimacy. Although it had no mechanical effects, it was a good step to represent the degree to which factions in your empire approve of how the empire is run, the council, empire policies and so on. In 3.10, having high Council Legitimacy will give a bonus to Council Agenda Speed (capping at +25% at 100% Legitimacy) and having low Council Legitimacy will give a penalty to Council Agenda Speed (capping at -50% at 0% Legitimacy). For modders, these values are determined by defines.

Since Council Legitimacy is a weighted sum of the approval of each faction multiplied by their support in the empire, this means that empires with relatively few factions (each of which have high approval) should manage to pass Agendas more quickly.

Galactic Diplomacy

Officials can now be assigned as Federation Representatives and Galactic Community Emissaries instead of Envoys. An Official assigned to one of these positions gives the same effects as a number of Envoys equal to their level did back before 3.10. Thus, your envoys are now freed to improve or harm relations with other empires or build spy networks in them.

For Officials that are assigned to either the GalCom or your Federation, there is now a veteran subclass (Delegate) and a variety of veteran traits that can be used in these assignments.

Is that all?

Over the course of the Leader Consolidation, we’ve rebalanced the majority of civics that were leader related or themed. As part of this, we've also changed effects that previously made it too easy to support a near-infinite number of vassals. While reworking leader classes and traits, we’ve also gone through and rebalanced leader adjacent tradition trees and ascension perks. There are some great changes in there, and we hope you have fun discovering the new things you can do!

Outliner Improvements​

Another bit of feedback we’ve gotten a lot is that the outliner has gotten cumbersome over the years. While we’ve added some ability to customize it in past releases, in 3.10.0 we’re adding Outliner Tabs.

In this first version of the tabbed outliner, we have four tabs: Government, Ships, Politics, and Structures. These tabs will appear in the outliner once they’re relevant.

Notification bubbles can be activated on the tabs to let you know if there’s something of interest on them. Green ones are for non-urgent things like “a planet got colonized and has been added to the Government tab”, while red ones are a call to action, like “your science ship has no scientist”.

We look forward to seeing your feedback on this first version of the outliner rework!

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