Update v1.4.21:

Fixes:
Reduced occurrence of desync on multiplayer games
Gameplay effect tooltips should no longer disappear
Systems should no longer become mutinous while affected by the Joy Initiative hero skill.
Players no longer randomly lose allied status with minor factions
Vodyani no longer lose “brainwashed” status with minor factions when eliminating other Vodyani empires
Vodyani “Core Vessels” law no longer lowers food output when it was already negative
The “Engine Masking” reward of the “What’s This?” UC quest now functions properly
Hero ships can no longer use Boarding Defense modules
Basryxo “Bountiful Byproducts” effect is now applied correctly and will no longer lower your Industry
The “Munchie Madness” Quest will no longer ask the player to reach a negative amount of Food
Depleted planets now correctly display the malus for being depleted
Text will no longer overflow in the Event Notification of “Smoking Gun – Part 1”
Fixed certain "per phase" ship modules not applying their effect in the final phase


Balancing:
Combat
Universal Aerodynamic (Era 4) now grants +3 Command Points
Autonomous construction (Era 2) now grants +1 Command Point per unlocked Hull Type
Added Command Point bonuses to Era Unlocks of the Military Quadrant
Fleet accelerator modules can only be equipped on hero ships.
Increased the strategic/luxury cost of the fleet accelerator modules from 3 to 6
Repair Module Repair After Battle and Repair After Phase values reduced
Shield Module and Flotilla Shield Module Energy Defense and Shield Capacity values increased
Hull Plating Module Projectile Defense and Health Bonus values increased

Governments and Laws
Federation's over colonization threshold now increases only with heroes that represent the political parties currently in the senate.
Democracy now grants 10% law upkeep and activation cost reduction per law enacted instead of 5%
Added a one-time cost to activate laws in addition to the upkeep
Saints & Sinners now gives +20 Approval on all Systems and an additional +20 Approval on Systems with governors

Dust Production and Inflation
Inflation now affects upkeep at a reduced value scaled based on the number of empires you are currently at war with

Influence Production
Culture Center influence percentage bonus reduced (20% -> 15%), +40 per system level unmodified
Body Language Institute influence percentage bonus reduced (+10% -> 5%)
Introduced 2 Influence per pop upkeep for Trade Agreements and Science Agreement
Increased Science Treaty per turn growth rate (5 -> 10) and maximum science gain (450 -> 750)
Treaties that have an upkeep cost will get cancelled if the user is not able to maintain the upkeep (just like laws)

Hissho
FIDSI malus from Resource Recoverers now applies on ALL systems and not only main system.
The Hissho ground battle outcome Occupy now takes 15 Keii
The Hissho ground battle outcome Subdue gives no keii
The Hissho ground battle outcome Raze now gives 5 Keii
Added a one-time Keii cost to most peaceful treaties

Behemoths
Adjusted cost of firing Obliterator shots
Obliterators can only be fired if you are at war with the target
Added Adamantian and Antimatter cost to Obliterator shots
Increased cost of Obliterator shots
Doubled cooldown time of Obliterators
Added an empire-wide malus of -20% Influence and -40 approval for 4 turns to firing obliterators
Increased economic bonuses of the Citadel (+10% Industry and Science -> 20% Food, Industry, Science, and +10% Influence)
Economic bonuses of the Citadel now display in the research tooltip
Decreased Behemoth C3 Center cost multiplier (x2.0 -> x1.5)
Added a confirmation prompt with a preview of upkeep changes when queuing Behemoth C3 Centers

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Update v1.4.13:
Fixed bug in the tutorial system that would freeze the user interface

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Update v1.4.12:
ADDITIONS [MUCK AND MAKERS ADD-ON]
New Minor Faction: Basryxo
New Population Quest "Munchie Madness" for the Basryxo
New Basryxo Hero Fore Sagazh Jabble

ADDITIONS [PENUMBRA]
Trace status and speed are now displayed in the tooltips of trace operations


FIXES [ALL VERSION]
Fixed Menu Screen always showing the Umbral Choir scene
Increased Food output of Vodyani Cathedral of All Worldy Affairs (Colony Base equivalent) to prevent starvation on Endless game speed
Rebalanced the industry cost of most ship modules introduced after the Vaulters DLC
Fixed Diplomatic Pressure not resetting when you joined a war as part of an alliance
Removed invisible Probe Module on the Hissho Explorer

FIXES [PENUMBRA]
Players can no longer win Supremacy by placing Sanctuaries on destroyed home systems
The System Politics Tutorial no longer triggers on Sanctuaries
Improved trajectories for Umbral Choir Fighters and Bombers

FIXES [CELESTIAL WORLDS]
Chapter 5 “Trust in Authority” will no longer ask the player to reach a negative value of influence generation

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Update v1.4.9:

[IMPROVE]
Added feedback of Hacking speed in the Hacking banner, as a value of points/turn:
Added feedback of the required hacking points on every nodes.
Added feedback of the operation speed on each operation (on tooltip and nodes).
Feedback Tracing speed in the Hacking banner, as a value of points/turn.
Changed the way accelerator works:
Effects are added to entire route when the program is activated (node reached).
Effects are applied instantly.
Added an effect to the "Lockdown" defensive program:
Slow down trace by 25% on the concerned operation, with a cap at 75%.
The slow only happens once the trace has reached the defensive program.
Reworked the Sanctuary Link side panel in Umbral Choir System View: population growth link and ships spawn have been separated.
Reworked Invisibility feedbacks on fleet labels.
Added faction difficulty indicators to be played as and to play against:
Added an icon on the leader portrait to show the difficulty to play.
Added the difficulty to play against in the tooltip of the opponent.
Added Ctrl+F shortcut to focus the search field on the Research Screen.

[BALANCE]
Removed the UC Empire Improvement granting more Approval per Sanctuary to prevent them from over-colonizing too much.
Added a faction trait to limit the UC overcolonization (stronger Approval malus, Bandwidth malus).
Forbade combo of Biophobic Trait and Umbral Choir affinity gameplay.
Fixed the reveal of Sanctuaries through hacking. When tracing an operation it will reveal only the source Sanctuary (if it's one). When an Umbral Choir hacks a system, it will reveal all Sanctuaries on that system.
The UC system is no longer subject to influence modifiers when it is hidden. When it is seen, it is only affected by Unfallen vines.
Marketplace prices will now increase if there is little stock of the resource.

[AI]
Fixed an issue occuring when an empire dies
AIs now know how to cancel their hacking operations when the target is a detached / moving Ark
AIs now use their processing power more efficiently
Changed the way the AIs use the accelerator program, for more frequent use
UC AIs will not give out their position anymore by placing unnecessary defensive programs
AIs will now avoid reacting to outpost colonization when their nearby systems are invisible

[FIX]
Made Umbral choir population collection bonuses available for custom factions.
Forbade Umbral Choir custom factions from picking "Extended Consortium" trait (+1 Maximum Trade Companies).
The Umbral Choir home system location can no longer be revealed by owning the Trade Clearing Bureau or to factions owning the Academy.
Fixed custom UC faction using Sophons visuals only having access to the Sophon's special Mega consultancy building. It will now have access to the UC one.
Fixed the duration of the transmigration beacon penalty being too high; it will now be capped at 15 turns max in normal speed.
Added a Vodyani version of the Interstellar Wind Shields technology (grants 2 new Vodyani-specific System Improvements).
Made sure "Core Cracker" unlocks were hidden if the "Enable super weapons" setting was set to false.
Made sure the Hissho questline is playable even when the superweapons are not allowed.
Fixed the "Obliterator Shield" improvement sometimes showing as an unlock even when "Enable superweapons" was disabled.
“Purge" Ground Battle outcome on Minor Factions does now properly inform the player that he will gain the faction's trait upon using this outcome.
Made sure the Deed "Studier of Worlds" takes the sanctuaries into account.
Prevented the Sowers population quest from targeting a Crescent.
Corrected the Hissho objective of the Sowers Population Quest (they won’t be asked to terraform terran planets anymore).
Fixed some discrepancies in some custom faction trait cost.
The tooltip for the total Keii for the Hissho faction now correctly mentions the reduction in Keii for Sleeper reintegration.
Fix the fighter-bombers not taking into account the cloaking.
Fixed base manpower value not being updated after researching improved hull for sophons small attackers.
Fixed the extra slot received from the Adaptive Colonies tech being positioned partly off screen with the alternative skins enabled.
Fixed Keyword look up in the technology screen. You can now use it to search for DLCs technologies.
Allowed operation trace even when the tracing empire don't see the target node.
Fixed heroes sometimes costing 0 on the marketplace.
Made sure Graviton Research is affected by the cost reduction offered by Behemoth modules while orbiting a special node.
Fixed the cap to the research cost reduction from the behemoth modules (now properly capped at -90% cost).
Fixed political impact of some science related star system improvements.
Restricted Dust Bonanza and School of Geniuses to being built on systems with negative or reduced anomalies.
Fixed Curiosity technologies being sometimes tradable by the AI.
Capped inflation to x99 max to minimize some exploits.
Fixed Kalmat visual in the ground battle.
Removed upkeep from the "Analytical Engine" as it is a Dust providing improvement.
Fixed erroneous tooltip that made it look like the cooperation protocol of the UC gave +0.2 hacking speed instead of +20%.
Changed the effect of the "Capitalist Frenzy" System Improvement from the Lumeris chapter 4 objective 4. It now has a unique effect.
Fixed Hacking / Tracing related captions showing in Scan View - Side Panel while having DLC 3 Content disabled.
Fixed incorrect cost in tooltip of Anti-Sleeper actions.
Fixed an error where hacking programs where cancelled twice.
Killed Umbral Shadow population is no longer missing its icon in the Migration Report notification.

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Update v1.4.6:

[Accessibility]
Added icon in the Scan view legend to illustrate the different hacking routes and traces
Added the fact (in tooltip) that all defensive programs remove detected backdoors on the node they're placed on
Added a Notification for when Minor And Pirate get access to Hacking
Reworked “Hostile Trace Detected!” notification
Added tooltip to sleeper count element in the hacking banner
When a hacking operation and its trace finish at the same time, the operation will always have priority and the trace will be cancelled
Pre-allocated Program Icons now Blink
Improved the tooltip of the "Piggyback" offensive program
Tooltip now displays click instruction for Hacking Op Cancellation Allocation
Changed failure message when trying to hack Vaulters' special node
Show the possible colonizable planet on system label, even if colonized by another major empire, to better reflect the ability of UC to install sanctuaries on almost any system.
Formated “Overcloaker” module tooltip for clarity

[Balancing]
Increased cost of specialization for Obliterator
Increased cost of Obliterator shot when not loaded
Added vision bonuses on Citadel specialization and Obliterator Shield system improvement
Tweaked United Empire faction quest chapter 1 part 2 Industrialist objective value
Added bonuses in hacking (very light speed bonus and Bandwidth) for higher difficulty AIs

[Perfs]
Reduced end turn framerate drops by highly reducing the time spent in the influence refresh and visibility refresh algorithms

[FIX]
Increased Vodyani base food output so that they won't start with -1 food in endless speed
Users can now properly use keyboard shortcuts to navigate the galaxy map after successfully placing a sanctuary on a neutral system
Made sure the deed asking for multiple trade companies doesn't appear when there's an UC in the game
Hacking a system with another UC sanctuaries will reveal them
Fixed Core Cracker modules not being correctly forbidden by the "Enable super weapon" setting
Systems which are under Blackout effect can no longer launch hacks, and a tooltips feedbacks why
When an offensive programs is on two operations, it will automatically be cancelled if the operation that triggered it finishes before the next one reaches it
Made sure custom factions with the "In the Sahdows" affinity can not take the following traits:
"Fervent Colonists" and "Apathetic Colonists"
"Resilient" (Free Obliterator Shield on home system) as it is useless to them
"Involuntary Nomads" (Argosy)
"Guardians"
All Minor Faction Population traits
Made sure the custom faction trait "Xenolinguistics" that provides said technology only appears once in the list
Fixed unoperational hacking speed boost from Umbral choir cooperation protocol
The UC can no longer impose a closed borders treaty, as it has no effect on the systems they control. Other factions can still use it against a UC player
Added a specific improvement for Umbral Choir affinity / Riftborn visual affinity so the faction can extend its population to Sanctuaries
Tooltip of "Purge" Ground Battle Outcome for Minor Faction systems now correctly states that the faction trait will be gained
Operation cancellation bandwidth cost cannot be increased by enemy or allied programs anymore
Forbid sending "stop hacking" contextual term when at war
Added Crescent-only anomalies. Prevented custom factions with UC gameplay from having any Anomaly starting modifier traits
Fixed situation where the game crashed because of diplomacy being way too harsh on performances.
Construction items are now properly displayed on monitors with native 1600x900 resolution and Custom Interface Size below 80
Made sure the Compression Singularity is consistent with the tooltips of other singularities
Fixed Cathedral of the Swarm displaying the wrong category in the tech tree
Removed weapons from available module list when designing a Horatio/Cravers/Riftborn colonizer
Fleet line elements don't flicker anymore whenever a fleet performs an action
The Riftborn Explorer module slot obtained from Adaptive Colonies technology was not properly positioned in Ship Design Screen while Redshifted skin enabled
Corrected the political impact of the "Immaterial Connection" improvement; also made sure it couldn't be built until the player gets a sanctuary on a gas planet
Orbital stations of the Umbral Choir are now displayed around planet to reflect the level of population
Assimilated Illo, Kalmat and Harmony minor civilizations will now be shown in the conquest counter
Removed Colonizer module unlocks from the tech tree when playing a faction without colonizer
Removed useless colonizer ship design when creating custom faction with UC gameplay and any other visual affinity
Enemy Best System Indicator in scan view no longer informs the player about hacking outcomes while having the DLC 3 Content disabled
Umbral Choir players are no longer unable to move population units from Sanctuaries to planets containing outposts
Corrected a variable for the UC faction quest chapter 4B
Fixing Achievement “Thank god they use USB too” to only rewarding it when hacking major home systems
Fixed Striker module effect not being functional
Disabled animated hero portraits in academy screen if you have over 5 heroes in order to lessen the performance impact of hero cards when you have a lot of heroes
Moved the "Turns" legend of System Info graph in System Overview scan view to avoid overlap with the end turn button
Fixed an issue when trying to place a sleeper on a vodiany system
Corrected an Endless Day quest: no more skippable assert when playing with too many players compared to the map size
The "Enable Hacking Outcome timer" is no longer available for the player while having DLC 3 Content disabled
Made the quest "Your Bag, Please" take the diplomatic status into account
The notification for pacific conversion is no longer triggered for Umbral Choir
Fixed UC having some ground battle strategies effect not applying for Sanctuaries
Fixed some glitch in the portrait of Imane (pilgrim hero)
Changed System level improvements for UC and Vodyani to remove mention of unlocking space port - Part1
Fleet Expedition action on Systems with only curiosities which need Curiosity Power higher by at least 2 Levels than the player's current power will now display the proper failure message
The tooltips for the Crescent expansion (and other terraformation) unlocks in the Technology screen no longer falsely inform the user they are planetary specializations
Fixing an issue when a Sanctuary is destroyed and is a ship spawn point
Added a political event for population slot SSI (not considered as "approval" improvements anymore)
Sleepers are now destroyed when they failed to be transferred to a planet from an automated delivery
The Sanctuary Management screen "link destination" button is now properly grayed out when having no functionality while the sanctuary is invaded
Prohibited "Force Immigration" for UC Empires
Removed outdated scan view caption info and added Hacking info
Fixed confusing or debug response notification messages generated after/during contextual diplomatic exchanges
Made sure the military Deed asking the player to destroy 4 planets doesn't trigger when super-weapons are disabled
Made sure the sophon quest curiosities could not be researched before the relevant quest is triggered
Prohibited the placement of sanctuary on a planet if there is already one from another empire regardless of visibility
Sleepers are no longer revealed on security breach (the first system of a trace).
Fixed "Immaterial connection" effect not showing in the empire science tooltip despite being correctly applied
Fixed some Sleeper detection actions being available when Penumbra content was disabled
The infinite improvements which converts Industry will now be also consuming the Industry generated by Sanctuaries
Populations on the spaceport are now destroyed when the system is lost. This fixes numerous issues with undead pops and Sleepers in lost systems' spaceport.

[AI]
UC AIs will now seek to use further beacons if possible
UC AIs will now seek to place more beacons in order to gain the nodes' bonuses
UC AIs will now seek to place backdoors on pirate systems
UC AIs will avoid firing on their sanctuaries if possible
AIs will now seek to push max population improvement
AIs are now less likely to chose hacking routes on which there are consecutive enemy colonies
AIs will focus their influence on one minor at a time
AIs can now use the new ground battle tactics on sanctuaries

[AI][FIX]
Fixed an issue where AIs would not explore other constellations than their own
Fixed an issue when determining if a fleet could attack another
Fixed an issue during the operation need computation
Fixed an issue preventing laws from being pushed
Fixed an issue when selecting a hacking outcome
Fixed an issue where Arks could not properly attach themselves

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Update v1.4.3:

Minor factions and Pirates now start using hacking action (offensive and defensive) at a later point in the game. This is linked to game speed and leaves them a little more vulnerable at the start of the game
The hacking/tracing speed for Minor factions & Pirates is now tied to their difficulty settings
Offensive hacking programs placed on a system are no longer cancel if the corresponding hacking/ operation has not yet reached its designated target
Fixed some faulty localization keys that didn't help by displaying in the wrong language

WARNING: Old saves may not be compatible with this version of the game, and will not appear in the load save dialog.