Galactic Civilizations III - Beta 6 patch 1 changelog

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–RELEASED 05/04/2015–


Galactic Civilizations III Beta 6.1 is now available! This update includes the interactive tutorial as well as many polish points, with UI tweaks like new hotkeys, balance adjustments, and bug fixes.

 

Features

Added Edge Scrolling

Added hotkeys for Guard, sentry, survey and explore

Added interactive tutorial scenario

 

Fixes

Fixed multiplayer desync issues

Fixed an issue in multiplayer where the last person to choose if they wanted a quick battle or to view the battle decided the outcome for both players (now each gets their own results)

Fixed an issue which could cause a fleet to become unselected after battles and through other fleet changes

Fixed an issue where you wouldn't be able to buy all the techs when you have a bunch of research (like starting the game with the Intuitive trait)

Fixed crashes that could happen when someone defies the UP

Fixed a MP issue where all players saw the Pick resolution window instead of just the UP president

Fixed an issue where the skybox from the last battle would flash flash before a battle was started

Fixed an issue making missiles appear to miss (they were actually hittign, but they were going to where the target ship was when they fired, not where it was when they got there)

Fixed a crash that happened after invasion because a ship was ejected outside of the normal time that ship was allowed to move (on another players turn)

Fixed a crash from to many vertices in influence lines on insane sized maps

Fixed an issue where the game could crash during invasion if the depending planet had 0 population

Fixed a crash caused by the game trying to place a shipyard outside of the playable area (if the planet was really close to the edge of the map)

Fixed an issue causing the AI to make a trade offer ever turn in MP

You will no longer be notified of an foreign ship in your territory if its under fog of war

Diplomatic agreements are now canceled if one of the players dies

Fixed an issue causing the icons ont he colony screen to be messed up

Fixed an issues causing "New Player Race" to show up as a faction in the game

Fixed the Krynn logo

Fixed a bug in the starbase screen and pre-invasion screen did not display properly when bloom option was turned off. (running the low performance settings)

Fixed an issue with ship thumbnails in the Ship Designer with a Custom Race.

Fixed more typos

Fixed the issue with the Thalan Targeting assist in the Technology Tree.

Fixed missing Icons on Xeno Archeology.

Fixed icons for starbase modules.

Fixed missing stat icons

Fixed the Organized trait

Fixed 2 hung game bugs

Fixed an issue causing mp game turns to take to long

Fixed an issue causing the game to hang during invasions

Fixed an issue where double clicking a stationed ship in the ship list causes a crash

Fix masking issue in Diplomacy Report Window

Fixed Yor Quantum Miniaturization (Max optimized Synthetic population is now 60 per planet)

Fixed "No Flavor Text Found" if you talked to someone on your team before you had researched universal translator

Fixed bug where the ship designer landing wnd cleared the view and selection info and everything if you clicked on an entry in the inventory list of a selected ship 

 

Balance

Previously star bases influence only extended to their area of effect, now they are influence generators just like a planet

Resistance now modifies how much outside culture effects you. So if your planet has 50% resistance then only 50% of the outside culture will be compared to your planets culture for determining if your planet begins to rebel or flip.

Increased trade resources

Change Courageous Race Trait to Resistance from planetary defense

Added resistance option to Militarization specialization

Modified several improvements to modify Resistance

Removed ship size modifiers for tactical speed (this way small ships dont rush forward and die on their own, lfeets tend to stick together better)

Moved front ranks of battle formation closer to the battle

Took hyper drives off the default freighter blueprint

Flavor text changes

Minor AI tweaks

Switched colonization events from influence to influence per turn

Significant rebalance to anything that provides influence

Lower ambient on all planets to 0.05

Tweaks to the bloom speculator intensity

Reduced the amount of techs required to get into the final tech age

Lowered cost of shipyards from 250 to 150

 

AI

Added the ability to have flavor text based on personality types. That way when you create custom factions their language can be based on the personality to assigned to them when they are played by the AI.

AI will prefer to colonize planets that are not in someone else's borders

Fixing exploit where you can trade an AI your planet and rob them blind,then culture flip the planet back

The AI wont want to buy a planet that can be culture flipped easily

The AI wont want to do credits per turn treaty that will put them severely in debt

AI interacts with players slightly more often

AI players not in range of the player that have relations with the player will now occasionally initiate contact

Changed how aggressively the AI pursues constructors and starbase expansion, especially on lower difficulty levels

Reduced some of the AI bonuses on higher difficulty levels

The AI will contact the player more often

AI will correctly draft nearby units as defenders if a planet is under threat from transports and send them to defend

Escorted fleets will attack and invade planets in a single turn

AI values trade goods higher

AI values different ship classes differently in trade negotaitions

 

UI

Removed the "Beta - For testing porpoises only" watermark from everywhere

Lots of new sound effects

Lots of new icons

Lots of tweak ins on planet textures and lighting

You can now see all ships in a fleet in the fleet view window

Defeat music added

Conquest music added

Alliance victory music added

Turn limit music added

Lots of additional ambient music added

18 Music themes (war and peace) for talking to various aliens (about an hour of music) added.

9 declare war music themes added

AI players not in range of the player that have relations with the player will now occasionally initiate contact

There is a default music theme for minor races

Main game window no longer resets music when it's hidden which resulted in ambient music always restarting when you came back from a full screen window (hence you only heard the first few seconds of each song in all likelihood)

Game now restores your tax slider positions when coming out of debt mode.

Improvement tooltips say if the improvement is colony, player or galaxy unique

Ship components now list the manufacturing cost they add to the ship

Planetary defense is always visible in the planet window

Added the Faction name to the front of fleet names

Added the release loading splash screen

Removed Beta popup from the start of the game

Enabled the "Leaderboards" button on the main menu

Clean up starbase Window and entries

Minor UI update to the tutorial window

Adjusted bloom levels in some of the ship combinations (if you put the painted iconian material on terran style ships the ships glowed)

Make text in Trade route list entry single line to avoid weird warping

After the opponents have been chosen for a new game, goes through and finds duplicate map colors, and assigns a new map color and appearance def from the list of those not being used yet so that the race is distinguishable

Hooked up hotkeys for Construct Starbase and Construct Shipyard in the fleet and ship context wnds

 

Performance

Locators no longer store their name as a string, they use a UINT16 value to specify a "type" (saves lots of memory)

Locator transform data has been reduced from 16 floats to 7 floats, 3 for translation, and 4 for rotation quaternion (saves even more memory)

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

opt in tomorrow?

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Depends on QA. But yes the plan is to switch Beta 6 public tomorrow and Beta 6 patch 1 opt-in.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Fixed an issue where you wouldn't be able to buy all the techs when you have a bunch of research (like starting the game with the Intuitive trait)

Does this happen to include the issue of loading a saved game with unspent research points such as saving on turn 1 with the Intuitive trait(they seem to vanish in this case)?

 edit: just in case it might help here is a save game(beta 6 opt in) with the default Thalans who have the Intuitive Trait

https://www.dropbox.com/s/abksore6cpg1wx1/test.GC3Sav?dl=0

The free research points are no longer available on load. I know this is very low priority, just making sure it is known.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Moogle65535, reply 3

Fixed an issue where you wouldn't be able to buy all the techs when you have a bunch of research (like starting the game with the Intuitive trait)

Does this happen to include the issue of loading a saved game with unspent research points such as saving on turn 1 with the Intuitive trait(they seem to vanish in this case)?

 
End of Moogle65535's quote

 

does this also mean if i potentially produce enough RP to earn say 3 techs in one turn i would get 3?

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting androshalforc, reply 4
does this also mean if i potentially produce enough RP to earn say 3 techs in one turn i would get 3?

End of androshalforc's quote

I suppose, we have never seen that happen. Its more likely to be from an ideological unlock that gives you a bunch of research or the Thalans special ability.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

that conflict didn't even occur to me if they intend to have rollover but limit 1 tech per turn, most likely will be harder to resolve Intuitive and Ideological free research on save since it would have to be differentiated from rollover points

 

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

will the banner at the top of this page get updated for beta 6?

 

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Derek, reply 5

I suppose, we have never seen that happen.
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Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Added hotkeys for Guard, sentry, survey and explore

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I love you.

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top


Balance
Previously star bases influence only extended to their area of effect, now they are influence generators just like a planet
Resistance now modifies how much outside culture effects you. So if your planet has 50% resistance then only 50% of the outside culture will be compared to your planets culture for determining if your planet begins to rebel or flip.
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does this fix the influence issues mentioned in this thread?

https://forums.galciv3.com/464051/page/1/

 

Reply #11 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Any news regarding the ridiculous influence 1 turn win by the Iridium?

 

edit: erm, ya what the guy just said before me :P

Reply #12 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Icrushthee, reply 11

Any news regarding the ridiculous influence 1 turn win by the Iridium?

 

edit: erm, ya what the guy just said before me :P
End of Icrushthee's quote

I do have to apologise for slightly confusing you (and a few other people) - the first save redviper37 shared, it was the Iridium that controlled the planet. The issue that concerned influence, however, had to do with successful invasions - the faction that controlled that planet was the one that was winning, not just the Iridium. The Krynn conquered it, making it even more powerful, and then the Iridium took it back, which gave it enough influence to cover the entire map. Me saying it was Iridium influence was because I only had time to look at the first save, and just gave my initial thoughs.

 

Anyway - Beta 6 was hotfixed for this issue, so it is (or should be) already fixed :)

Reply #13 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Edge scrolling. Hurray, finally!

Reply #14 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

6.1 opt-in is live. :)

Reply #15 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Nice!

Reply #16 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Sorry for the newb question. It is "opt in" ready now, and available for download Monday. What is the difference? What does "opt in" actually mean?

Thanks

Reply #17 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

WPKelly, go into steam library, right click on GCIII go to Options. 

 

Go to the Betas tab and select the drop down options..'Opt In' ..

 

You will get the above listed patch right now...

Reply #18 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You will no longer be notified of an foreign ship in your territory if its under fog of war


I've never bee notified of a ship in my territory ever. I assume something else is meant besides a pop up window or...?

 

And where is this tax slider? I haven't seen one in game. Or is that the 'wealth' part of the circle in the govern screen for galaxies/planets?

Reply #19 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I didn't see the "black screen on invasion" bug listed but I will see if there is any change.

 

Reply #20 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I really like the idea of tieing in resistance to stopping culture flips. Makes sense, and gives me another way to hold up against influence.

 

We will see if the numbers are balanced of course, but I like the concept. And edge scrolling, woo hoo!

Reply #21 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

There is a noti

Quoting TheBirthdayParty, reply 18

You will no longer be notified of an foreign ship in your territory if its under fog of war


I've never bee notified of a ship in my territory ever. I assume something else is meant besides a pop up window or...?

 

And where is this tax slider? I haven't seen one in game. Or is that the 'wealth' part of the circle in the govern screen for galaxies/planets?
End of TheBirthdayParty's quote

 

There is a Notifications tab along with the Planets/Ships/Starbases tab on  the main UI its all the way to the right.

 

The Tax slider is under the Govern(Economy) section its the Pie "chart" type thing you can move around to tell the computer where to put more money towards.

Reply #22 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Birthday,

 

When you 'go into negative spending' the game stops all production of building/ships and all research and resets GLoBAL output to full economy. What this means is all planets are put on 100% economy until you get back into positive numbers. What used to happen is it would Stay that way after you fixed your debt. Now it will go back to each individual planet as it as before. Much better now. 

 

On the right side of the screen you have a tab on the far right, it gave notifications which was pretty cool. It let you know if there were 'foreign' ships in your area of influence. If you actually click on the notification and then click 'go to' it would take you to the offending ships. Many times they were invis as they were in fog of war. 

Reply #23 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

"When you 'go into negative spending' the game stops all production of building/ships and all research and resets GLoBAL output to full economy. What this means is all planets are put on 100% economy until you get back into positive numbers. What used to happen is it would Stay that way after you fixed your debt. Now it will go back to each individual planet as it as before. Much better now. "


I love you stardock. That said, I was far more afraid of going broke singlehandedly for this reason. Going through production of 50+ planets is far worse punishment than losing a turn!

Reply #24 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Larsenex, reply 22

Birthday,

 

When you 'go into negative spending' the game stops all production of building/ships and all research and resets GLoBAL output to full economy. What this means is all planets are put on 100% economy until you get back into positive numbers. What used to happen is it would Stay that way after you fixed your debt. Now it will go back to each individual planet as it as before. Much better now. 

 

On the right side of the screen you have a tab on the far right, it gave notifications which was pretty cool. It let you know if there were 'foreign' ships in your area of influence. If you actually click on the notification and then click 'go to' it would take you to the offending ships. Many times they were invis as they were in fog of war. 
End of Larsenex's quote

 

Thanks. Sounds annoying, granted I haven't used it yet. There are always ships in my territory so i'm assuming it will just be tons of notifications every turn.

Reply #25 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Maybe important notifications like attacks or intruders in yor region should show a popup? (Maybe with disable option?)