Open Beta: New Planets & More

Hello everyone. Today I am releasing some more changes to the experimental branch.

Main Features

• New Planets

• Jump Points for Every Star System

• Balance Changes

• AI improvements

• Peasant Mobs

• Bugfixes

New Worlds

Some new planets have been created, and are distributed around the now significantly larger star cluster. The systems with new content are: 40 Eridani, Tau Ceti, and Sirius B.

Cool Planet: Tau Ceti 1

A low density temperate gas giant with a highly oxygen/water rich atmosphere, making it an unorthodox, but very viable candidate for colonization. It will have some moons as well but I havent gotten to that yet.

Warm Planet: 40 Eridani A-1

A hot desert world with a thick atmosphere. It may once have hosted a biosphere in the distant past

Temperate Planet: Venus

Venus can now be terraformed using a similar, but more difficult and expensive, version of the same process used to terraform Mars.

Balance Changes

• Technology/Unity cost reduced to 0.5x by default

• Certain faction loyalty bonuses flattened

• Bankruptcy now makes factions angry for 20 years, in addition to other debuffs

• Rebellions which fail to materialize now also make factions angry

• Logistics Capacity Removed, replaced with Admin Efficiency where applicable

• Urbanization replaced by Infrastructure, which is expensive but has little upkeep, and is limited by technology

• Warp Drive Tech 2 now enables interstellar transportation of non space units

• Warp Drive 2 is now small enough to be put on any space ship

• New "Irregular" Unit type that is absolute garbage but also only costs manpower

• AI likes building spaceships more

• AI likes building air and strategic units more, but only major powers

• Manpower modifiers from characters flattened greatly

• Manpower recovery reduced by 66%

• Recruitment buildings (Port, Aerodrome, Spaceport, Barracks) generally cheaper, but limited by technology

• All disloyal factions will now give unrest

• Unrest generally more dangerous

New/Improved Edicts

• Edicts now use admin efficiency

• Added a few new edicts

• New edict macro builder which allows you to mass edict in your country and filter by admin efficiency