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Eladrin said:
Currently we believe that the state of gestalt amenities is in a pretty good place, as there are several options to satisfy them. We'll be keeping an eye on Logistics Drones though.

Regarding the patch cadence - I expect that we'll be patching twice a week until the release is in the state we want it at. On Tuesday, there were two additional hotfixes, because we're not going to leave a crash or performance issue that bad for multiple days. I don't think of it as a PR effort, I feel that fixing things as well and as quickly as we can is the right thing to do.

Speaking of which, I have preliminary notes for 4.0.10, currently expected to be released tomorrow. As with all of the previews I've been making for these, the final patch notes may differ, as things may be added or removed.

Stellaris 4.0.10 Patch​

Improvements​

  • Bloomed Biomass is now prioritized if unqueing a Building that costs Biomass on Gaia worlds.
  • Cleaned up Terraforming options for Wilderness empires if they did not start with that planet type to avoid the painful game loop of colonizing a terrible world so that you could then pay in energy to improve it.
  • Candidates that are not the primary species of an empire now have a reduced chance of being elected in Non-Xenophilic, and under the proper circumstances, non-Selective Kinship Empires.

Bugfix​

  • Augmentation Bazaars civic no longer claims to increase trade per cybernetic trait
  • Wilderness Empires will no longer be offered Gene Seed Purification
  • The final tier of the Gaia Seeder building will no longer be destroyed in Wilderness Empires
  • Wilderness Biomass is now more likely to gain the Bloomed trait
  • Democratic Transference will no longer be granting hundred times more efficiency than expected.
  • Biological Ship empires should now be able to grow Fledgling Dragons when playing the Here Be Dragons origin.
  • Fixed the Expand Planet Decision for Wilderness refunding the Biomass spent
  • Updated the "Weak" trait tooltip
  • Fixed outdated Overtuned Traits tooltips
  • Restored icons to the "Win a War" Focus Card
  • Total War Empires can now complete the "Win a War" Focus Card
  • Terravores will no longer be give the "Terraform 3 Worlds" Focus Task
  • Delicious and Felsic species traits now give +100% job efficiency to livestock jobs
  • Secrets of Inetian Traders' vanilla modifier now reduces trade fees.
  • Fixed the Mutagenic Spas descriptions because they weren't displaying the correct job swap.
  • Fixed Clear Design for space fauna duplicating components and not clearing anything.
  • Fix some incorrect text in civics tooltips during empire creation
  • Slaves and purged pop groups no longer listed as being demoted
  • Bio-trophies and some other jobs cannot be automated anymore, as funny as it was for the Rogue Servitors to be so sad at the empty domes and make animatronic trophies to care for.
  • Fix some modifiers missing from job production tooltips.
  • Fix to Tiyanki Graveyard animation
  • Xenophobes are once again prevented from giving Full Citizenship and Military Service to Xenos

Balance​

  • Augmentation Bazaars grant access to Augmentation Merchants which combine the benefits of Merchants and Executives in one
  • Hyperlane Breach Points and Hyperspace Slipstreams technologies now also increase the number of pops that can move each month due to Automatic Resettlement by +25%
  • Doubled the effect Transit Hubs have on Automatic Resettlement to +200%.

UI​

  • Significantly improved Pop Job's production tooltip and details panel
  • Buildings in the Planet UI do not escape their frames anymore.
  • Updated the size of the Districts backgrounds, so their sizes and their padding are evenly distributed.
  • Updated the District Cap Background size and also the district slots padding.
  • Added more padding and even margins for the Planet UI.
  • Updated the look of Planet Production and Planet Deficit section of the Planet UI.
  • When opening the leaders view, the Available Positions window will now always start closed.

Performance​

  • Reduce amount of pop groups by adding mechanic for merge smaller similar ones.
  • Calculate the planet upkeep/produce/profit during the monthly tick and use the cached amount for all the calculations

Stability​

  • Fix common OOS related to wrongly recalculated planet profit (again, for real this time)
  • Some changes that are an attempt to fix a RANDOM_COUNT OOS that we cannot reliably reproduce internally.
  • Fixed crash when opening leader level up message if there is no trait to pick.

Modding​

  • Add can_be_automated token for jobs that cannot be automated
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Looking forward to this, don’t suppose the issue (I raised) around planet view pop gfx causing big performance drops has been found?
 
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Doing the math, a transit hub + hyperdrive techs should increase the maximum emigration rate to 35 in today's build.

That should be plenty for any normal empire capital, though the pop growth formulas still need to be revisited to bring in outliers like Broken Shackles + Xeno-Compatibility, since I was able to get above that without even trying.
 
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Eladrin said:
Currently we believe that the state of gestalt amenities is in a pretty good place, as there are several options to satisfy them. We'll be keeping an eye on Logistics Drones though.

Regarding the patch cadence - I expect that we'll be patching twice a week until the release is in the state we want it at. On Tuesday, there were two additional hotfixes, because we're not going to leave a crash or performance issue that bad for multiple days. I don't think of it as a PR effort, I feel that fixing things as well and as quickly as we can is the right thing to do.

Speaking of which, I have preliminary notes for 4.0.10, currently expected to be released tomorrow. As with all of the previews I've been making for these, the final patch notes may differ, as things may be added or removed.
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I love the rapid release cicle!

feels much better then weeks on end without any updates! (And it is much closer to modern release/software development practices)

Keep up the good work!
 
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Falrinn said:
Doing the math, a transit hub + hyperdrive techs should increase the maximum emigration rate to 35 in today's build.

That should be plenty for any normal empire capital, though the pop growth formulas still need to be revisited to bring in outliers like Broken Shackles + Xeno-Compatibility, since I was able to get above that without even trying.
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Pass Greater than Ourselves for another 20 pops/month

But what could be useful would be a planetary decision, higher immigration at the cost of additional trade upkeep per pop
 
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Soranya said:
I love the rapid release cicle!

feels much better then weeks on end without any updates! (And it is much closer to modern release/software development practices)

Keep up the good work!
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Those modern software development practices you speak of are meant for certain kinds of websites, not for mission-critical software. Those still need to be tested and released in a relatively old-fashioned way.
While a video game may not seem mission-critical at first, breaking the game has higher consequences than rapidly rolling back some changes in a website.
 
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Eladrin said:
  • Hyperlane Breach Points and Hyperspace Slipstreams technologies now also increase the number of pops that can move each month due to Automatic Resettlement by +25%
  • Doubled the effect Transit Hubs have on Automatic Resettlement to +200%.
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*200%* Holy crap that's huge! It was already making a difference when trying to colonize new worlds, but this'll make it fantastic now!

But also a question: There was a cap for how many pops could auto-migrate each month?

Also here is hoping we'll get our pops-from-migration UI element back sometime (^ ^ )

Big props to the Paradox team, we are rooting for you!
 
Soranya said:
Sure, if you have the choice...

Staying in Beta (with the actual planned release build including new content) would have been better for sure.
Or call it early Access (to the DLC and the Patch) if you want.
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Paradox had the choice though.
 
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