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We are currently working on the base game of the Epic edition.  This will come out at GalCiv IV 2.2 next month.

To make it easy for future updates to it, we are going to be bringing the code-base up to the Supernova edition. So in essence, GalCiv IV 2.2 base game on Epic will be the same as Supernova except for the new content (and things like AlienGPT).

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Just some tweaks we put in this weekend that should show up for the next beta release:

• Hostile civ spawn events (Snathi, etc.) will no longer occur to civs with the Pacifist trait.
• Research district base benefit increased from 3% to 5%
• Manufacturing district base benefit increased from 3% to 5%
• Life Support module added for ship design, increases range by +8.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the AI to stupidly declare war without much of a military simply because they were pissed off.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the AI to end transports with insufficient escorts
• Updated the planet window and unit list to fix problems with accessing data and citizens on the screen. Improved the layout and fonts.
• Disease related events blocked from triggering if the player is a synthetic civ).
• Endcap Technologies: These are technologies that are unlocked if you get the corresponding endcap cultural progression trait. They are very expensive so that researching them is only viable late game.
• Post-Sentience tech now increases citizen diligence by 0.2 per turn
• Technological singularity now creases the research on the CAPITAL WORLD by 1% every turn. (this is very powerful for tall empires)
• Consensus end cap tech now provides the player a +0.1 diplomacy buff per turn until everyone loves you.
• Dream of Utopia end cap tech now results with the capital world of the civ generating +5 more influence per turn every turn. Note that this is a very expensive end game tech.
• Glorious legacy end cap technology results on every planet generating an additional 5% more influence per turn. Again, these are techs that requires completing a cultural progression tree category and then researching the extremely expensive tech.
• Coordinated travel end cap technology results in every ship getting +0.1 more moves per turn every turn (max of 100 additional moves per turn).
• Individual Divinity end cap technology results in all citizens getting a +0.1 buff to every stat every turn.
• Cultural Influence tech restore to Synthetic races so that galactic challenges will work (hat tip: Manhattan)
• New Tech: Interstellar Cartography. Increases moves cap by +1. Requires Starbase Modules tech to research.
• Exotic Agriculture requires the Farmer species trait
• Anomaly detection now provides +1 to moves
• Ship maint decrease when ships in orbit removed
• Ships that start their turn in friendly territory now get a 50% buff to their moves that turn.
• Base ship movement reduced from 3 to 2 now that ships get a 50% buff in friendly territory.
• Capital Mainframe research bonus increased from 20% to 25%
• Supply Depot requires Xeno Industrialization now
• Altarian focus changed from Pacifism to Egalitarianism.
• Cultural Progression trait changes:
• Sovereign Identity gives all planets a 20% buff to planetary resistance (to culture flipping)

Cheers!

Our localization teams are hard at work across the world.   And the community has done some great work too.

However it is clear that we are not going to get all 185,000 words fully translated in time for release.  It takes about 60 days for the linguists we work with to edit and translate.

That said, we are fairly far along.   Stay tuned!

When utilizing Stardock's AlienGPT, one might naturally ponder the question: which animals are the most sought-after choices for building a civilization around? Well, here's the answer.

Nearly 40% of users opt for cats, followed by foxes, fish, dogs, snakes, and more.

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Lots of cool stuff going in this weekend.

Lots of new planetary improvements

New executive orders

Let's go over it.

In no particular order..

• Drath homeworld gets a backdrop

• Removed references to empires in flavor text, replaced with civilizations.

New Executive Orders:

• Mitosis

• Swarm

• Planetary Clairvoyance

New updated Planetary Improvements:

• Colonial Generator now called Planetary Generator. Can be built on homeworld.

Unique improvements for Ammonia based species:

• Network Nexus

• Irradiated Foundry

• Contagion Source

• Golgi

• Amoebic Incubator

• Knowledge Melding Hub

Unique improvements for insectroid (consuming) species:

• Work Instruction Chamber

• Cerebral Chamber

• Harmonious Antennae

• Hatchery

• Work Hive

• Mother Hive

Planetary Improvement Updates

• Many improvements are no longer available to insectoids or Amoebas.

• Updated graphics for Planetary Generator and Industrial Center

• Civilization capital no longer auto-placed. 

• Resource income from planetary mines (like Thulium mines) greatly increased at level 2 and 3.

• Level up bonus for districts generally reduced from 2% to 1%.

• Possibility Engine icon replaced and cost increased while research bonus reduced from 100% to 50% (yea this was seriously OP)

Leader Backstory changes:

• Ammonia (Amoebas) get their own backstories

• Insectoids (like Festron) get their own backstories

• Synthetic (like Yor) get their own backstories

• Amoebas no longer have ridiculous backstories like arranged marriages

• Insectoids (like Festron) no longer get ridiculous backstories like missing twin

• Silicon based civs no longer get ridiculous backstories like wanting to be a chef

New late game flavor text for asking for peace and such.

• AI speech to you changes more based on the current status of the galaxy.

Cultural Progression Tree:

• Approval boost from Eureka is temporary and reduced to 5%.

• Sovereign Identity stat buff reduced from 200% to 50%.

• Big Brother stat buff removed.

• Big Brother diligence buff set to 100%.

• Legacy citizen stat buffs removed

• Legacy provides a 200% buff to resolve

• Utopia citizen stat buffs removed

• Utopia buffs Social stat by 200%

• Singularity trait stat buffs removed

• Singularity trait doubles Intelligence of citizens

• Sanctuary trait buffs reduced from 300% (4X) to 25%

• Terror Star trait buffs removed. (just unlocks the Terror Star tech to research)

• Hive Miind buff reduced like the Sanctuary ones.

Technologies:

• Synthetic Species get their own technologies

• Aggressive civs get their own technologies

• Ammonia (like Cosmic Contaminate) get their own technologies

• Greedy civs get their own technologies

• Radiated civs get their own technologies

Ship Components

• Sensor ranges for high end sensors reduced slightly

Word on the street:

• Different species now get different word on the street summaries on their planets.

Star names:

• Took out some goofy star names (hat tip: Astasia)

Research costs

• Tech Inflation multplier further increased from 2.5% to 5%

• Specific tech tree research cost now given a slight exponential growth (^1.02 power).

Map Generation:

• Slightly more stars on occasional and abundant and common settings

• Planet balancing for more satisfying starts.

Planets and Stars:

• Festron home world planet class increased from 20 to 24, Resources on it reduced

• Contaminate home star system now comes with 3 high quality planets since everyone else is gonna hate them.

Policies:

• Festron and Contaminate civs (and similar) blocked from various policies

Balance

• Balance pass on the conversion between citizen stats and their output.

• Workers no longer provide research benefits.

• Ammonia based species base stats reduced because they basically amoebas. They make it up in quantity.

• Various events that don't make any sense for a particular species not blocked. (The Yor do not mutate)

AI

• The Fleet Commander AI will not counter the Primary Strategic AI’s order to leave for battle against a distant foe if it doesn’t believe its fleet is ready. (stop sending out tiny fleets!)

• Balance pass on AI shipyard manufacturing priorities.

Various Bug fixes:

• Lots of small bug fixes

• Fixed bug where trading screen wouldn’t recognize you already have the tech

• Fixed bug where techs wouldn’t always show what they unlock

Mooorre:

• Distance between star systems reduced from 4 to 3 to speed up relative movement.
• Rebalanced star count settings (now that they're working as designed)
• Fusion Power Plant tech cost increased from 50 to 100
• Life Support tech AI priority greatly increased
• Tiny map size increased from 36 to 48 tiles radius.
• Reduced the turtling the AI does when it's not at war
• Fixed the buggy Siege ship behaivor
• AI is much more likely to target their primary enemy units
• Further reduce AI nagging for stuff
• AI less likely to construct siege ships
• Balance pass on AI research choices
• Fixed map geneator bug that was resulting in inconsistent star quantities (note this may increase map generation time some)

and lastly

• Pacing pass on tech speeds to make it more consistent on different map sizes.

Greetings!

We are coming to the finish line for GalCiv IV: Supernova!

Our once reasonable scope has, of course, exploded over the Summer as we got our hands into making this the best space 4X game we've ever made!

The next major BETA update, 1.90 will be focusing on making the game more appealing to a much wider group of people.

Galactapedia

This feature is expected to expand significantly in the coming weeks. We're excited about its potential and are hopeful to integrate capabilities allowing modders to add their own entries.

Modding

Speaking of modders...

We are gearing up to unveil the GalCiv Workshop. It will start by supporting uploads of civs and ships.

Design your ship, hit a button, and upload. The same goes for your custom civilizations. Moreover, in various places, you'll have the option to pick from a range of ships. In beta 1.9, we're interested in your feedback on where additional integration points could be located.

Stay tuned for updates on code modding!

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