0.16.1 Optimization & Bugfix Update

Hello everyone. Today I have some optimization related things to release. I wanted to hold off a little longer to finish character updates but there have been reports of very bad performance and I think I have the solution for the most part taken care of. This is especially important for AMD graphics card users.

Changelog

• General performance improvements

• Night lights on colonized planets

• Planetary map shaders simplified and optimized significantly

• New bad character traits

• New really good character traits

• 1% of characters will generate as "great people" and get very high stats and other big bonuses

• You can now pay stability to recruit characters

• CPU optimizations for backend logic

• Fixed crash bug with AI returning territories to itself

• Workshop Items can now include .json files which modify game content

• Changed workshop item creation workflow

• Protectorates now give unrest reduction but also reduce assimilation

NOTE

I have recently updated Engine versions for the project. This means there are a bunch of small incongruities I may have not found yet, so if anything looks out of place let me know.