Galactic Civilizations III v3.7 (Released 5/14)

Hi Pshaw!

• I'm sure glad you put the Morale back in the Planet list.
• I still don't see the planetary auto-upgrade option to change its default behavior. That one really annoys me. I just want a little toggle switch in the Settings to be able to have it default to On or Off when I set up a game.

Thank you for all the hard work your SD team is putting into this game!! It's great fun!! 

Richard

Why is Prometheus Stone still disabled in the game if Kiln Of Worlds Artifact lvl 3 requires it?  Either remove that level from Kiln of Worlds (I don't prefer), change it's requirement or re-enable Prometheus Stone by enabling fix that I posted in the discord chat.  However, it's still not traded on the market with my fix so that must be something else, but at least it would be back in the game so one could get Kiln Of Worlds lvl 3.

This would make sense being all other Artifacts have a level 3 that can be obtained. (without modding)

Seilore, 

That change is already in.  It was accidentally dropped from the notes.  

If I may ask, has the negative tourism bug been fixed since 3.6 (no mention in the patch notes)? I'd like to know if Unpopular are safe to play again.

I believe we hot-patched that fix but I'm not seeing the problem in my local build so it should definitely be fixed with the optin.  You would need a new game to get the fix.  

I'm disappointed that synthetics still don't have access to Extreme Colonization in 3.7 build.

Thank you!

It seems that the bug is already fixed, indeed; thank you!

Not complaining about this (I was and am a proponent of nerfing tourism), but just trying to figure things out so I can adjust strategy appropriately.  I'm playing a custom raced with popularity stats at their lowest (-3% tourism).  I've now built every tourism improvement but the Rest. of Eternity and still have zero tourism income.  I noticed I wasn't getting any tourism income early in the game after building Paxton's Emporium and not getting the usual boost.  That was not "normal" but I thought (correctly I believe) that further adjustments to tourism income had been made.  But now that I've built sufficient tourism improvements to overcome the three percent penalty I expect I should be making some tourism income.  Am I mistaken?  Has tourism income been further adjusted so that a grossly "unpopular" race simply cannot make tourism income no matter how many tourism improvements are built?  If so, I'll stop building them.  Or is this not intentional and something isn't working right?  Any input from Stardock on this issue would be appreciated.

I happened to perform a few tests on tourism today, and in one game with Tourism set to unpopular (-1) I was able to overcome the penalty on my home planet with the help of buildings. However, for some reason no tourism income showed until two rounds had passed!

I know that the controlled tiles are calculated at the end of the round and therefore anything affecting these doesn't show until the next round, and I suspect the same is true for tourism, since it directly relates to the controlled parsecs. Maybe that causes the additional delay.

P.S.: using GC3Crusade 3.6

Okay, I figured out the tourism "issue" in 3.7 Retribution I noted above.  One must have more than three tourism buildings on one planet (because each tourism building accounts for a 1% increase in tourism) to overcome the -3% penalty.  Because tourism is calculated on a per planet basis each planet must generate at least more than 3% tourism for that planet to generate any tourism income.  This effectively means that for a race with the unpopular trait set to -3% (like mine) one has to pretty much concentrate all of the tourism buildings on one planet in order to get any tourism income.  Again, I'm not complaining-in fact I think this is interesting because it creates real consequences for maxing out the unpopular trait and I think that one should have to suffer real consequences for making that choice.  Now that I've figured this out, however, I'll adjust my strategy accordingly. 

Yes, you are correct.  If you are using a faction that is deeply unpopular (via triats), you have to put a lot of effort before folks will come to visit you -- sure, we're super rude and smelly, but at least we have cool things to see!  

So...space France?

Can we go please check if synthetics can colonize all worlds I am away from the game but I was hoping for this to be fixed upon my return. Extreme colonization has been missing for some time.

FTFY

The tech is STILL missing months after release.  I modded it in myself but I shouldn't have to. 

This will be fixed before 3.7 goes live.

Thank you.

Opt-in updated 5/2:

• Yor Manufacturing: Increased manufacturing bonus
• Yor Manufacturing: Level one adjacency value is now a multiplier (for consistency with subsequent upgrades).
• Synthetics can properly colonize extreme worlds.
• Tweaked the leader-game-intro screen and economy summary
• Ship designs that use components removed in Retribution can now be loaded again in Retribution. The old deprecated components are simply ignored.
• Extreme world colony" mercenary ships can now actually colonize extreme worlds if Crusade is installed.  

Note: you'll need to start a new game to see most of these changes.

I started a new game and Extreme Colonization is now available for the robot overlords. 

You have changed the requirement for a Silicon Race to build a City from Durantium to Promethion, however, it still says Durantium when you look at Race Type Silicon Based for any Silicon based Faction.

If you play any Silicon based Faction and you create a Colony Ship, you can colonize a Frozen world without any ability or research.  Basically, the Slyne can colonize the frozen planet in their system game turn one if they had a Colony Ship.  I was not sure if this was intended, but, if it is then it should be part of the Silicon description.  If this is the case would the only value for a Silicon Faction to take the Adaptable trait would be to immediately get Aquatic and Barren worlds?  Personally, I could see Silicon based Factions being able to colonize Barren worlds, but not really Aquatic or Frozen.  This ability gives the starting worlds for the Slyne a huge advantage since they basically get a size 11 and a size 9 worlds very quickly which total 20, when the total should add up to 16 like other home worlds combos.

Lastly, it seems to me that even though Silicon bases cannot build a farm, why should they be able to take advantage of fertile lands?  What I mean by take advantage is that they can use the "food" they have to build a Colonization Center, which seems really odd.  I say, take away this building from their options and give them the ability to colonize Barren worlds.  Also, the Onyx should probably start with at least one Promethion around them instead of Durantium all the time.

Updates 5/10

• Capped how much a diplomacy modifier can affect relations based on game turn. This should greatly reduce AI erratic diplomatic behavior.
• Modified pacing options so that slow really slows things down.
• Retribution: Choosing a distant destination on a map with Hyperlanes no longer slows the game down.
• Retribution: Clarified the effect of Hyperlane bonuses in the tech tree and tooltips.  Also address spurious decimal points reported here: https://forums.galciv3.com/494346/page/1/#3745994.
• Retribution: Eliminated maint from first level research and manufacturing buildings.
• Retribution: Culture techs also give a diplomacy skill bonus.
• Lost Treasures: Manufacturing wonders now give the proper adjacency bonuses

v3.7 is now live! Thanks everyone for their feedback.

So will the AI build Legions in his non-Homeworld planets ?