Greetings everyone,

We have another patch ready for you, bringing a number of bug fixes, balance adjustments, performance optimizations, and stability improvements.

Our work continues for all of the above and more.

Please find the patch notes below:

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Stellaris 4.0.4 Patch
Balance

• The default Eternal Vigilance policy will now only spawn defensive platforms in orbit of upgraded starbases

Amenities Updates:

• Logistics drones now produce additional amenities if Instinctive Synchronization is taken
• Luxury Housing, Drone Storage, and Hive Warrens grant 1500 housing and 2500 amenities.
• Paradise Domes, Upgraded Drone Storage, and Expanded Warrens grant 3000 housing and 5000 amenities.
• Communal Housing grants 2000 housing and 3000 amenities.
• Utopian Communal Housing grants 4000 housing and 6000 amenities.
• 100 Entertainers now give 1250 Amenities instead of 1000.
• The Entertainment Forum is again an upgrade to the Holo-Theaters, and grants 400 Entertainer jobs.
• Reverted many of the leader changes:
• Leaders once again gain traits at every level.
• The number of trait picks per level has been set back to 2 by default.
• Low level traits that were merged and buffed remain so.
• It automates: [list]
• Automation buildings upkeep now only scales their upkeep with districts they automate: 8/10 for rural districts, 10/12 for city districts - buildings no longer factor into its upkeep.
• Automation tooltip now mentions the scaling upkeep
• Automation buildings are now associated with Assembly Patterns and Construction Templates technologies
• It automates...even for hives.

[*] Gestalt Machine Empires can now turn off Migration Controls.
[*] Maintenance Drones now auto-migrate like the Denizens that they are.[/list]
Bugfix

• Fixed space fauna cost values
• Fixed various checks for Offspring Drones that were broken
• Fixed the Permanent Employment civic
• Fixed the planetary supercomputer not having the same modifiers as the research institute
• Fixed the Logistics Hub going missing from the game
• Fixed a broken modifier on the Hive Confluence building
• Fixed telepaths not gaining correct modifiers
• The Clone Army starting event no longer fires twice
• Commercial specialisations now accept all urban buildings
• Fixed BioGenesis not unlocking the crisis tab if you do not own either The Machine Age or Nemesis
• Neglected bio-trophies should now show on the planet UI and have a happiness penalty
• Fixed planetary deposit researcher interactions with gestalt empires
• Maintenance drones now count as better than slaves for assorted checks
• Starting the game as a Nascent Stage Life Seeded empire will no longer leave you with only presapients and immediately game over.
• The opinion penalty for purging pops have been reduced by 100
• The amount of Menace gained from purging pops has been reduced by a factor of 100
• Fixed the Splinter Hive Holding being 100 times more effective than it should have been
• The Coral Portrait now has access to rooted instead of the platypus.
• AI Megacorps will no longer be dirty cheaters that ignore the branch office building limit
• Debris is no longer incorrectly displayed as coming from our own empire.
• Scripted species can now inherit their parent species rights instead of getting default rights
• The Logistics Ceiling setting has been reset to default for everyone since it changed in 4.0
• You may no longer use Fallen empire technology to mine for minerals in the mantle of ringworlds

UI

• The Build District icon is now more clearly labelled.
• Made some adjustments to the Planet UI to hopefully make it clearer when you can build District Specializations.
• The Build Queue will now automatically start opened in the Surface or Management tabs of the Planet View if there is something in the Queue.
• Clearing a blocker will open the Build Queue if it is closed.
• Fixed the diplomatic window showing the city elements based on the ship set instead of the selected city set.
• Fixed some modifiers from jobs being unlocalized in tooltips.
• Fixed being able to disable event messages if their default settings haven't changed.
• The pop totals in the job strata tooltip are now consistent with the strata UI.
• Fixed missing information in tooltips for why you can't upgrade buildings.

Stability

• Added more safeguards around ship graphical culture to avoid a crash
• Fix CTD happening when hovering over some leader traits in the selection UI
• Fix CTD related to districts getting deleted while a specialization was in the build queue
• Fixed crash on startup when generating modifiers (Thanks for helping us find this, More Events Mod!)
• Fixed issue with script killing pops assigned to a job may CTD
• Fixed CTD in colonization view due to invalid deposit entry
• Fixes CTD in planets and sector view due to species
• Performance
• Multiple AI performance optimizations
• Reduced memory footprint in growth calculations
• Threaded and cached procreate calculation on pop groups to improve performance
• Reduce calculations done for planet economy

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We hope that your experience is improving with each of these iterations, there are more to come.

Talk to you again soon.