Galactic Civilizations III v3.95 Release Change Log

We are pleased to let you know about the exciting changes in v3.95 of Galactic Civilizations III.

This is a big one so stand back!

Gameplay

• New game option: On Surrender, transfer all planets. Defaults to OFF

• New game option: No FOW in your territory. Defaults to ON

• "Ascension Victory" no longers requires you to control a majority of the crystals.

• Common and Abundant asteroid frequency increased.

• When a planet gets colonized or a shipyard gets made and it sees if there is a shipyard nearby that would be in the green zone (no penalty), planet automatically becomes a sponsor.

• Eliminated the map size limitations on map sizes as long as you have at least 8GB of memory.

• "Nanite Transmitter" now has limited uses.

• "Nano Fabricator" now gives 100 manufacturing overflow.

• "Nano Fabricator" now gives a +10% Max Manufacturing bonus to the planet.

• Dodge value on high-end thrusters reduced by 3%.

• Tactical battle maximum final dodge increased from 10% to 20% (i.e. a ship always has a 20% chance to hit you).

• Base relationship penalty for approaching ascension is -2 instead of -1

• Ascension close to victory threshold lowered from 66% to 50% as there tends to be a feedback loop on accumulating points.

• Space Rockets moved from default to Militaration tech

• Retribution: Civilization capital max population increased from 8 to 10

• Race Trait changes

• Base Game:

• Reduced the effect of the "Popular" race trait

• Crusade and up

• Research techs for Drengin no longer have maint cost.

• All:

• Port of call is one per player instead of one per planet to align with Retribution balance

• Productive1 trait now provides 20% instead of 10% social production boost

• Production2 trait now provides 10% instead of 5%

• Clever1 now provides 15% research boost instead of 10%

• Influential1 trait now does 40% influence boost instead of 15%

• Influential2 trait now does 15% influence boost instead of 10%

• Economical1 now provides 15% gross income boost instead of 10%

• Handy1 now reduces Colony Maintenace by 50% instead of 20%

• Handy2 now reduces Colony Maintenace by 30% instead of 15%

• Popular1 tourism per planet boost reduced from 2% to 0.4% (it's still pretty huge)

• Popular2 tourism boost reduced from 1% to 0.2%

• Traders1 trade boost increased from 20% to 40%

• Traders2 trade boost increased from 10% to 15%

• Brutal1 increases soldiering from 20% to 50% now

• Brutal2 increases soldiering from 10% to 30%

• Courageous1 trait now boosts resistance from 20% to 50%

• Courageous2 trait boosted from 10% to 30%

• SharpEyed1 increases ship accuracy from 20% to 30%

• Sharpeyed2 increases ship accuracy from 10% to 20%

• Agile1 increases jamming (dodge) from 20% to 30%

• Agile2 increases jamming (doge) from 10% to 20%

• Observant1 increases sensors from 25% to 50%

• Observant2 increases sensor range from 15% to 30%

Interface

• Moved the "planet build queue" over to give the improvement list more room.

• Moved "Word on the Street" window to the Govern screen.

• Tourism on a planet displays decimals if it falls below 1%.

• The game now provides feedback when you can't select a tech because of an "Age" restriction

Bugs

• Fixed a rare bug that prevented planets and ships from spawning in the campaigns

• Fixed typos. Hat tip our discord fans for their help

• Ambient music no longer plays during the victory movie.