Key Features 

• Heighten Gameplay Balance.  We have updated planetary improvements, colony features, ship components, and war conditions.   

• Updated Map Generation.   We enhanced Map Generation for star distances, higher planet frequency, and planet resources.  

• Quality of Life Improvements. We improved UI layouts, previous crashes, language errors, and cinematic cameras. 

v2.95 March 5th, 2025 Change Log 

• Fixed issue where ship style sets were not being used/selected and reverted to Legacy Terran Alliance ships styles 

v2.95 March 1st, 2025 Change Log 

Art 

• Yor color appearance and scheme were tweaked 

Battlefields 

• Updated Cinematic Cameras to stop clipping and have optimal battlefield positions 

Crashes 

• Fixed auto-exploring bug that could lead to stuck turns or crashes at the end of a turn  

• Fixed a crash that can occur when AI Civilizations request to trade 

Gameplay 

• Base ship hull sizes are now unlocked through the tech tree  

• Starbases are tougher and harder to kill 

• The "New Generation is Born" event no longer happens for Synthetic races 

• Military Starbases provide combat buffs by default to friendly units 

• Reduced the regulation buff from 20% wealth to 15% 

• If a Civilization has the Ancient Trait, they gain new Starbase Modules that buff Relics 

• Added an alternative Self-Repair Alloy option  

• Fixed a bug where trade routes did not give diplomatic capital 

• Increased Synthetic civilizations’ approval 

• Increased the Yor’s average intelligence from 1 to 2 

• AI players are more likely to communicate with Civilizations they dislike extorting money, tech, etc.  

Colonies 

• AI will optimize the specialization of citizens based on the strengths of their planet 

• AI will prioritize durational projects as a planet runs out of usable tiles 

• Earth loses 1 mineral, 1 tech and gains 2 influence 

• If a planet isn't capable of becoming a core world, it will no longer show what is on it 

• Fixed a bug where players cannot execute leaders 

• Increased Leader spawn rate 

• Citizens provide more influence per turn 

Improvements 

• Fixed a bug where improvements wouldn’t show up without a proper tooltip 

• Gave support for improvements to provide shipyards with production by adding durational projects 

• Fixed Quantum Processing Unit improvement being incorrectly marked as a Wealth improvement instead of a Research improvement 

Resources 

• Thulium is more common 

• Elerium is less common 

Ships 

• Improved quality of Scout search 

• Tiny Hull Ship maintenance increased from 0.25 to 0.50 

• Supply Modules now requires the Colonial Policies tech 

• HP-giving ship components now have 1 maintenance cost 

• Significant improvements to the auto Scout behavior to be smarter and faster at computing 

• Added Life Support Module to starting Flagship 

War 

• Removed the “Let's trade" text when a player is at war with another Civilization, especially a forever war 

• If a player is in a forever war, they will no longer be able to negotiate peace with that Civilization 

Localization 

• Removed italicization for Korean 

• Fixed German issues 

• Fixed Italian issues 

• Fixed Polish issues 

• Added localization support for the rendering options 

Map Generation 

• Tech costs will scale based on the map size 

• Slight increase in the rate of decay based on distance of asteroids and colonies 

• Star distances moved slightly further apart to make range more important 

• Increased the likelihood of trade resources on planets with special traits 

• Fixed the extreme planet slider  

• White dwarfs get more planets 

• Balance pass on planet frequency 

• Balance pass on planet types and their resource outputs to align more with the type of planet 

UI 

• Moved Missions tab up on the Main Menu 

• Fixed bug where techs displayed 0 months to research 

• Lengthen the Artifact UI  

• Fleet detail lines no longer intersect 

• Resources display which Civilization owns them 

• Fixed bug where N/A shows up for Ships after building Shipyards 

• Shipyard icons will show up based on combat rating 

• Changed “Save Ship Design” text to “Save New Class Design” 

• Cleaned up the citizen tooltips on planets 

Megastructures DLC   

AI 

• Enhanced AI’s ability to build Megastructures 

Megastructures 

Dyson Sphere 

• Energy Generation range increased from 15-25 to 20-40 

Improvements 

• Solar Farm Energy Generation increased from 1 to 5 

• Solar Farm Energy Generation per level increased from 0.25 to 1 

• Reduced all Gigamass Costs to 0 

• Increased Energy Consumption to improvements that previously had 1 and 2 Gigamass Cost 

Orbitals 

• Orbitals now use Energy  

• Orbital Embassy Durantium cost increased from 1 to 5 and is now a Civilization Achievement 

• Diplomatic Council Durantium cost increased from 3 to 5 and is now a Civilization Achievement 

• Gigamass Costs reduced to 0 

• Energy Costs increased to 5 

Stellar Gateway 

• Gigamass costs reduced from 30 to 10 

Stellar Nexus 

• Fixed bug where Nexuses used Energy while under construction 

• The Focus Generator Augment now buffs Citizens +10 in all stats and Workers +10 in Diligence 

• Stellar Nexus Gigamass Costs decreased from 50 to 30 

• Added new prerequisites for Stellar Nexus based off which Civilization is played 

  • Nexus Augments Available to All Civilizations 

    • Yellow Star: Focus Generator 

    • Purple Star: Subspace Lens 

    • Blue Star: Quantum Mirror 

    • Red Star: Orion's Eye 

• Below are Civilizations and what Nexus Augments are available to them 

  • Terrans  

    • Yellow Star: Celestial Garden 

    • Blue Star: Neoteric Spire 

  • Festron  

    • Red Star: Eclipse Engine 

    • Blue Star: Allegiance Engine 

  • Navigators  

    • Red Star: Acceleration Matrix 

    • Blue Star: Neoteric Spire 

  • Mimot  

    • Yellow Star: Celestial Cloud Cycler 

    • Blue Star: Allegiance Engine 

  • Xeloxi  

    • Purple Star: Megalithic Trade Center 

    • Red Star: Eclipse Engine 

  • Arceans  

    • Purple Star: Galactic Embassy 

    • Red Star: Defense Coordinator 

  • Drengin  

    • Yellow Star: Central System Auth. 

    • Red Star: Eclipse Engine 

  • Altarian  

    • Yellow Star: Celestial Garden 

    • Purple Star: Galactic Resort 

    • Blue Star: Allegiance Engine 

  • Yor  

    • Red Star: Defense Coordinator 

    • Blue Star: Cosmic Foundry 

    • Blue Star: Neoteric Spire 

  • Torian  

    • Yellow Star: Celestial Cloud Cycler 

    • Red Star: Defense Coordinator 

    • Blue Star: Allegiance Engine 

  • Manti  

    • Yellow Star: Celestial Cloud Cycler 

    • Red Star: Eclipse Engine 

    • Red Star: Acceleration Matrix 

  • Krynn  

    • Yellow Star: Celestial Garden 

    • Purple Star: Galactic Embassy 

  • Iconian  

    • Purple Star: Galactic Resort 

    • Red Star: Acceleration Matrix 

  • Drath  

    • Purple Star: Megalithic Trade Center 

    • Purple Star: Galactic Resort 

  • Corporate Sec.  

    • Purple Star: Megalithic Trade Center 

    • Purple Star: Galactic Resort 

  • Onyx  

    • Red Star: Defense Coordinator 

    • Blue Star: Cosmic Foundry 

  • Baratak  

    • Yellow Star: Celestial Cloud Cycler 

    • Yellow Star: Central System Auth. 

  • Resistance  

    • Yellow Star: Celestial Garden 

    • Red Star: Eclipse Engine 

  • Luxar  

    • Red Star: Acceleration Matrix 

    • Blue Star: Cosmic Foundry 

  • Contaminant  

    • Purple Star: Megalithic Trade Center 

    • Blue Star: Cosmic Foundry 

  • Intueri  

    • Purple Star: Galactic Resort 

    • Purple Star: Galactic Embassy 

  • Korath  

    • Yellow Star: Central System Auth. 

    • Blue Star: Cosmic Foundry 

  • Phalenoid  

    • Purple Star: Galactic Resort 

    • Blue Star: Allegiance Engine 

Stellar Nexus Augments 

• Stellar Nexus Augments now have their Gigamass Costs reduced to 0  

• Energy Costs Increased from 10,15,20 to 10,25,50  

• Augments renamed to include Star Color ("Yellow Star: Focus Generator")  

• Augment descriptions edited to include what colored stars Stellar Nexuses can be built around 

Ringworld 

• Energy Costs reduced to 0 

• Reduced tiles bonuses for all Ringworlds, giving them only 3 special tiles 

Ships 

• Harvester and Architect Ship Classes cannot be built in the ship designer until they are researched  

UI 

• Fixed issue where “Cannot Survey” message pops up when colonizing a Ringworld