Hello everyone,

Today we have a new Insider build update available for those that want to try the newest features early and help provide feedback.  This update improves game balance, adds a lot of new/higher resolution images for ship components, and fixes several important bugs. Please read below for details.  

How to opt-into a specific build:

On Steam:

• Select "Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova in your Steam Library list.
• Right-click and select Properties.
• Select the BETAS tab.
• From the dropdown, select the desired build and exit the dialog.
• Steam should pull down the changed files; if you ever want to go back, do the same as above but select
  default (or None).
  
  

On Epic For Insider Build:

To enable the patch, please do the following:

• Open the Epic Launcher
• Select "Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova - Insider's Edition"
• Install and play!

Epic does not currently support old version downloads.

Please note: The opt-in (Insider Build) is an early preview of the next update, and you might experience bugs or other issues.
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08/18/23 | v1.71 Changelog

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Events 

• Fixed a race condition that would sometimes crash during events that created new factions. 

Galaxy 

• Red giant stars no longer consume nearby planets and asteroids.

Graphics 

• Engine lighting update for battles and ships. 

Gameplay 

• Citizens on planets represent vast swaths of the population and now provide a flat (as opposed to a %) bonus to a given type. They thus become a source of key resources on their worlds rather than simply a modifier. 

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08/16/23 | v1.71 Changelog

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Audio

• Updated the intro music to be louder. 

Art

• A lot of new/higher resolution images for ship components, events.
• Added former gladiator icon.
• Egalitarianism now uses its own icon.
• Fixed other missing icons.

Core 

• Fixed a crash in the influence system.  
• Firing on a space monster trapped in a slip stream no longer crashes the universe.   

Events

• New early-game events.
• Min turns before an event reduced from 8 to 6 turns.
• Early game crisis events pushed up in probability.
• Crisis event cooldown max reduced from 16 turns to 12 turns.
• Various events that provide a temporary boost or penalty have had their turns of effect reduced from 50 turns to 25 turns.
• Fixed time traveler event.
• Disabled "Break away colony" 

Factions

• Re-cropped video to keep Luxar leader better centered and more predominant in the frame.
• Human undefended penalty reduced from 10% to 5%.
• Other species have more varied undefended penalties based on their lore.
• Yor no longer have an undefended penalty.

Gameplay

• AI is slightly less likely to build siege ships.
• Greatly increased leash length on monsters and pirates so that they'll actually attack stuff.
• Monsters and Pirates don't care if they have big fleets. They just wanna murder stuff.
• Ensure that the Player does not receive unlimited bonuses when loading into the game.
• Rush cost multiplier increased from 5 to 7.5.
• Aid economy cost increased from 75 to 150.
• Research mission cost increased from 80 to 200.
• Treasure hunt mission const increased from 100 to 250.
• Treasure hunting has a greater variance in the money it brings in.
• Faction power now counts for more on the prestige victory scoring algorithm.
• Begging for help response default increased in weight.
• Eminence and other techs now give a bonus to the player's diplomacy ability.
• Citizen professions now give 10% of their relevant attribute towards all types of production and now 20% (up from 10%) towards their specialty.
• Disloyal governors now result in a negative approval penalty.
• Starport cost increased from 25 to 75 

Galaxy

• Reduced star visual radius.
• Map generation is updated in general.
• Map generation re-design for distant starting positions so players are more evenly spread out across the galaxy.
• Players will now generally start further away from one another.
• Fixed bug that spawned asteroids too close to their star (prevented mining).
• Fixed a bug that caused long galaxy generation time 

Graphics 

• Starbase / Constructor area of effect line thickened 

Planets

• Population has a much more significant effect on production.
• The Colony Decay rate was reduced from 2% per tile to 1.5% per tile.
• Colony Decay now starts at 6 tiles away instead of 8.
• Core world base maintenance increased from 1 to 3.
• Tile bonus for determining tourism income reduced.

Planetary Improvements

• Union Center now gives proper adjacent bonuses.
• Heritage Center now increases tourism to its planet by 5% per level.
• Economic district cost reduced from 100 to 75.
• The economic district wealth generation per level increased from 3% to 4% per level.
• The governor's manner now increases colony income by 3% per level instead of 2%. 

 Ships

• Increased ship tactical speed/acceleration to look better in battle viewer.
• Starbase kinetic weapon cooldown reduced from 2 to 1.
• Starbase Missile Range increased from 1500 to 6000.

 Starbases

• Major Starbase defense buff.
• Starbase shield generators get a 10X buff to make Starbases more resilient late game.
• Only Mining Starbases can mine strategic resources.

Text

• Spelling fixes, formatting fixes.
• Removed extra line breaks for space savings.
• Renamed Galactic Mainframe to Planetary Mainframe.
• Removed the doubled line breaks in the text.   

UI

• Add requirements to policy tooltips.
• Customize Civilization: Ensure tooltips appear to the left of the control.
• Editing pass on leader backgrounds (made more succinct).
• Frowny face on citizen threshold reduced to 33% approval.
• Made hull size visual differentiation greater (visually).
• Adjusted font size to reduce the amount of text getting clipped due to inline images.
• Highlighted Start Mission text.
• The tooltip for explaining the details of an event choice is made much larger with larger text and a friendlier layout.
• Fixed display issue with ship class modules showing up in tooltip.