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[Sirus]

Anyone know how to get shields on space stations? I just finished a bit of a nasty war with the same dudes I fought last time, and every orbital platform they had was shielded. Even the mining and research stations!

My torpedo boat swarms were killing them faster than my main battle fleet since they could just punch straight through their defenses.

[PanH]

Anyone know how to get shields on space stations? I just finished a bit of a nasty war with the same dudes I fought last time, and every orbital platform they had was shielded. Even the mining and research stations!

My torpedo boat swarms were killing them faster than my main battle fleet since they could just punch straight through their defenses.

You can edit stations model in the ship designor. You need to retrofit them afterwards but it's doable. I'll have to try next time.

[Teneb]

Pardon me for not copying and pasting this one, but new dev diary[url] is just achievements.

[Ultimuh]

Pardon me for not copying and pasting this one, but new dev diary[url] is just achievements.

How long do you think it will take, before anyone on these forums gains this particular achievement?

Suffer not the Alien: As a xenophobic empire, purge all other sentient species in the galaxy.

[Sirus]

Smallest galaxy, only one AI empire on start, no advanced or Fallen, clustered starts so they appear near you...

If you create a custom empire with a very weak species and have it set to spawn during new game setup, you should be able to find and purge them quite easily. With them out of the way you'd just need to hunt down and destroy all pre-FTL species.

[Flying Dice]

Pardon me for not copying and pasting this one, but new dev diary[url] is just achievements.

To compensate, they did push a hotfix the same day they announced those.

[IronyOwl]

Spoiler: Hotfix Notes (click to show/hide)

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######################## HOTFIX 1.3.2 ########################
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# Balance
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#General
* Particle Lance damage increased from 74-213 to 144-273
* Tachyon Lance damage increased from 85-232 to 169-331
* Arc Emitter damage increased from 1-170 to 1-184
* Focused Arc Emitter damage increased from 1-190 to 1-221
* Mega Cannon damage increased from 111-249 to 92-300
* Giga Cannon damage increased from 133-265 to 121-350
* Shield Capacitors now increase shield regeneration by +50% instead of a fixed +15.0

# Guardians
* Infinity Machine rewards are now distributed more even-handedly
* Now possible to get the best result for helping Infinity Machine regardless of ethos

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# AI
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#War
* Federation AI is now better at picking wargoals for non-conqueror federations, will focus on retaking planets and liberating larger countries

#Sector
* Fixed some more cases of Sector AI removing +happiness buildings from planets
* Fixed a budgeting issue that was causing sectors to sometimes not build buildings when space construction was toggled on

#Diplomacy
* Fixed an issue where AI would guarantee and then almost immediately revoke their guarantee towards a nation they are protective of
* Fixed an issue where the 'Wary' and 'Receptive' attitudes would sometimes not be used
* AIs that are in Federations are now more likely to stay neutral during the War in Heaven
* Slowed down AI requests for federation membership/association status to cut down on message spam

#Misc
* Fixed a bug where AI would not rebuild depleted navies while at war because it prioritized armies first
* Fixed a bug where AI was not budgeting for buildings and colonies in some circumstances in early game

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# Bugfixes
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* Fixed a bug where the first federation member would leave, if any player tried to leave a federation, instead of the player leaving
* Fixed auto-generated ship designs getting wrong combat computers
* Ships and weapon components targeting logic now correctly accounts for evasion
* Fixed armor absorbing too much damage if the ship also had shields left
* Pops working on guardian buildings no longer appear unemployed
* No longer possible to guarantee an empire while at war with them
* Fixed missing localisation key FEDERATION_ACCEPTANCE_FACTOR
* Fixed a bug where the Non-Aligned League winning the War in Heaven could result in endless event spam
* Enclave governments now get a new ruler when the first one dies
* Non-playable countries can no longer win the game
* Fixed an issue where Awakened Empire subjects would not join the War in Heaven if they became a subject before it started
* Fixed a case where declared wars would become invalid due to attackers' subjects guaranteeing the target
* Fixed an issue where some Awakened Empires would have their 'crisis fighter' AI kick in during a War in Heaven
* Fixed some cases where Diplomatic Incident events were firing inappropriately
* Infinity Machine interaction events should no longer fire if the Infinity Machine has been destroyed
* Fixed Enigmatic Fortress event chain not reacting appropriately when special projects time out
* Fixed Drake Egg Incubation project not timing out properly
* Fixed Infinity Machine destruction event triggering after destroying non-Infinity Machine fleets in some circumstances
* Fixed Terraforming achievement not working
* Fixed Continental, Savanna and Alpine worlds not being used for primitive civs
* Fixed CTD that could happen when building tooltip for relative power in the diplomacy screen
* Fixed rare CTD that could happen when changing policies
* Fixed rare CTD related to anomalies
* Fixed CTD when completing a certain Special Project

Notably:

I found that fielding ships with no shields at all to just lead to absurd losses. Not really sure why that is but that's been my experience.

* Fixed armor absorbing too much damage if the ship also had shields left

Mystery solved!

[umiman]

Heh, there we go.

Good catch IronyOwl.

[Sirus]

Agh, so many bad starts today. Whether its hostile Fallen Empires spawning on my doorstep, or getting cut off from expansion by clustered empires (even when I turn clustered starts off...), or not having any systems in my initial zone of control, or being surrounded by space monsters and/or Guardians. In my most recent attempt, I didn't get a single habitable world to spawn closer than the next galactic spiral arm over.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Anyone else play with only hyperlanes???

[Sirus]

That's what I've been trying to do most of the day >.>

Even got a mod which makes it so that non-empire ships (wandering monsters, crisis enemies, etc) use the hyperlines as well.

[umiman]

Anyone else play with only hyperlanes???

Yeah.

In fact that's how all my games are set up. While I generally like imbalance in my grand strategy games, this one just makes things confusing and weird for me. And I like how hyperlanes make it so there's actually some semblance of defensive lines.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Yay! I love that there's a bunch of natural choke points and stuff, it makes warfare a little more interesting for me, because you can have just border conflicts that are forever consigned to the frontiers of two nations or have an enemy battle fleet loose in your interior playing a game of cat and mouse maneuver warfare with you as it tries to reach your valuable targets.

[Rolan7]

Space Empires IV has a mode I like where there are no hyperlanes, so no FTL travel, until empires reach the midgame tech to start creating them.  The AI... isn't great at it, though I did have a pleasantly horrible surprise where I opened the initial lane into a VERY militaristic solar empire, who had spent their time researching more "tactical" than strategic technologies

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Space Empires IV has a mode I like where there are no hyperlanes, so no FTL travel, until empires reach the midgame tech to start creating them.  The AI... isn't great at it, though I did have a pleasantly horrible surprise where I opened the initial lane into a VERY militaristic solar empire, who had spent their time researching more "tactical" than strategic technologies

That sounds a lot like Aurora in some respects! I think that discovered hyperlanes would actually be an awesome additional to Stellaris.

Speaking of which, I'm desperately waiting for the Star Wars mod to update its map and ship packs :C