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Our latest patch is now live and ready for download.

Please find the patch notes below.

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STELLARIS 3.8.3 PATCH NOTES
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• It is now possible to rename council positions by clicking on council position name in the council view.
• Added additional event chains to Under One Rule.
• Under One Rule now will take into account if the ruler was bad or good towards citizens.
• Added a checkbox to toggle automatic expansion of a sector in the sector editor
• Made the three different “Terraforming Candidate Discovered” events turn into messages if you have already found one before.
• The pre-sapients that worship the Beholder now have the Psionic trait.
• The Beholder’s Psi-Inoculation process is now a pair of decisions to toggle it on and off, instead of a decision to be enacted for each pop you want to become psionic.
• The Animator of Clay has blessed the corroded one.
• Imperial Heirs will now be more likely to adopt the class of the current ruler if you have the Philosopher King civic.
• Imperial heirs will now have their chosen class weighted by civics and traditions that give bonuses to specific leader classes.
• Added the Reorganize Council agenda, which allows reselection of unlocked council positions without the need to reform the government.
• Beholder now has a recruitment event, and Azaryn’s recruitment event has a couple more options
• Added a checkbox in the army tab of the planet view to control if a planet is used via the sector army builder or not
• Added scroll wheel speed settings
• Leaders in the leader pool that start with a negative trait, now correctly gets one less additional negative trait during their lifespan.
• For players without Galactic Paragons, leaders will more often get traits that match if they’re assigned as councilors or not.
• Increased the age span of new leaders, but weighted towards the middle. Initial Leaders will now also be roughly the same age as pool leaders.
• The edict fund is now shown in the council view.
• Imperial empires can now crown a Chosen One to be the Divine Sovereign if the Chosen One is the current ruler or heir.

• Legendary leaders do not count towards Leader Capacity.
• The Eager trait now has an additional effect: these leaders will not contribute towards Leader Capacity until they reach level 4. Assigned some event spawned leaders the Eager (II) trait.
• Admirals that command fleets hired from marauders no longer count towards your leader cap.
• XP Penalties for going over leader capacity have been reduced. The LEADER_CAPACITY_XP_SCALE define has been added for modders to be able to easily adjust this number.
• Military fleets led by an Admiral can now explore unsurveyed hyperlanes. (This does not permit Admirals to survey planets, anomalies, or wormholes.)
• Admirals no longer give Fleet Command Limit based off of their level.
• Researching Galactic Administration now removes the cooldown for government reform, this was previously only done if you obtained it via Statecraft traditions.
• Rebalanced many traditions and ascension Perks.
• Opener for Aptitude traditions now gives +1 trait, moved from the Finisher. This is retroactively applied to leaders that have been hired or are in your leader pool.
• The Empire Needs You now gives -25% Leader Hire Cost instead of +1 Leader Capacity.
• Specialist Training now gives +25% Leader XP Gain.
• Psychological Profiling now gives -25% Leader Upkeep Cost in addition to -1 Max Negative Traits.
• Healthcare Program now gives +20 Leader Lifespan instead of +10 Leader Lifespan.
• Aptitude Finisher now gives +1 Leader Capacity and +1 Leader Trait Pick options instead of +1 trait.
• Science Division now gives -10% Scientist Cost and Upkeep instead of +20% Scientist XP Gain.
• Polytechnic Education now gives +10% Leader XP gain instead of +20%.
• Colonial Viceroys now gives -10% Governor Cost and Upkeep instead of +20% Governor XP Gain.
• War Games now gives -10% Admiral Cost and Upkeep instead of +20% Admiral XP Gain.
• Mind and Body now gives +10 Leader Lifespan instead of +20 Leader Lifespan.
• Finisher effect for Statecraft now grants Galactic Administration as a research option with 25% progress instead of giving the tech for tree.
• Resistance is Frugal now also gives -10% General Cost and Upkeep.
• Imperial Prerogative now gives +2 Leader Capacity in addition to its existing effects.
• Transcendent Learning Prerogative now gives +2 Leader Capacity, +1 Leader Pool Size and +33% Leader XP gain.
• Aptitude Tradition “Champions of the Empire” now gives bonus per Leaders’ levels. Effect is now a flat -2 Empire Size per Governor level, and 0.5% Exp per Scientist level (and 2 Naval capacity per Admiral/General level)
• Guardian trait maximum effect is now +33% Defense Platform Damage and Hull Points.
• Frontier Spirit trait maximum effects changed to -10% Colony Ship Cost and +50% Colonization Speed and +1 starting pop for colonies.
• Cyborg generals now increase planetary combat width.
• Reduced passive experience gain by 30% for Progenitor Hive leaders from level 1-6 and 50% for Progenitor Hive leaders between 7-10.
• Gray Eminence destiny trait now reduces the effects of empire size, instead of reducing empire size directly. Updated Aturion Efficiency to match Gray Eminence.
• Now imperial rulers do not lose imperial heir trait, so they don’t become worse when they take over the country.
• Lowered the spawn chance for the legendary paragon Keides by 75%.
• Autocannons are no longer valued at three times their intended military power.
• Now criminals are also unhappy when under oppressive autocracy civic
• Kai-Sha’s “Expanded Contact Network” event will now upgrade her Shady Contacts trait if she already has it. And gives intel on other empires if it has already been maxed out.
• Replaced -20% Empire Size reduction for Aturion Efficiency trait with -10% Empire Size Penalty.
• Leader traits that have base resource production now produce the market equivalent of 8 energy/month for tier 1 and 24 energy/month for tier.
• Aggressor admiral sub-class now gives +7.5% weapon damage.
• Artillerist II trait now gives +7.5% tracking.
• Fortifier trait now scales between -5% Starbase upgrade cost and -5% Defense platform cost at tier 1 to -10% Starbase upgrade cost, -10% Defense platform cost, +5% Starbase hullpoints and +5% Defense platform hullpoints at tier 3.
• Armada Logistician trait ship upkeep maximum reduction is now -10%.
• Military Pioneer trait maximum effects are now +20% Ship Build Speed and -10% Ship Build Cost.
• Guerilla Tactician now gives a flat 10 Evasion instead of a +50% Evasion multiplier.
• Architect of War now gives -10% Military Ship Cost.
• Charisma trait now has a maximum Edict Upkeep reduction of -10%
• Removed -5% Military Ship Cost from the Strategist sub-class
• Geological Consultant trait maximum effect reduced to 9 months of unity per blocker removed.
• Retired Fleet Officer trait maximum effects reduced to +20% Ship Build Speed and -10% Ship Build Cost.
• Agrarian Upbringing trait now checks for country_uses_food = yes instead of being biological.
• Shipwright maximum effects reduced to +10% Ship Build Speed and -10% Ship Build Cost.
• Frontier Spirit maximum effects reduced to -10% Colony Ship Cost and +45% Colonization Speed.
• Architectural Sense maximum effects reduced to -10% Buildings and Districts Cost, -5% Buildings and District Upkeep, +25% Planetary Build Speed.
• Experimenter trait now gives a maxium of 2×Leader Level Research Points per month.
• Explorer trait maximum effects reduced to -10% Science Ship Cost and +25% Anomaly Research Speed.
• Expansionist maximum effects reduced to -10% Outpost Alloy and Influence Cost.
• Great Researcher trait now gives 5×Leader Level Research Points per month.
• Taskmaster trait XP reduced from 600 to 500. In return it now has soldiers produce 2/2/2 Energy/Minerals/Food (for countries that use food) or 3/3 Energy/Minerals (for countries that don’t)

• Under One Rule now changes to Imperial Authority when transitioning to Galactic Emperor or Psionic Sovereign.
• Intellectual Espionage trait now takes into account all researcher category jobs on the planet.
• Fixed an issue where the Expanded Hive Warren would get deleted if there was no remaining unupgraded Hive Warrens on the planet
• Updated all researcher jobs to check for Academic Recruiter.
• Increased the army upkeep from Disorder II trait.
• Chainbreaker trait now requires Egalitarian ethics.
• Honored Warmaster trait now requires Xenophile ethics.
• Commented out cut prospecting decision.
• Kidnapper trait now checks that the general’s owner allows slavery instead of checking their ethics.
• Taskmaster trait no longer gives an undocumented +5% Building Speed per soldier job.
• Now you can’t terraform with Azaryn without launching her special ability.
• The Death of a Great Leader event should no longer fire when you send a leader off to the Keepers of Knowledge.
• Cloaked Ships will no longer block starbases from being rebuilt.
• Moved gestalt nodes further apart from each other in the council view so that trait picking doesn’t get blocked when they have a lot of traits.
• The planet visuals should now update properly when planets change class
• Fixed an issue where traits given via event options would not correctly display triggered effects
• The ambience sound effect played in the council view is now properly affected by the ambience volume slider
• Fixed an issue where leaders that changed empires would retain their council position in their old empire
• Updated all researcher jobs to check for leader_trait_academia_recruiter
• Fixed a bug where modding the species appearance would not apply to the ruler
• leader_trait_industrial_espionage now takes into account all researcher category jobs on the planet.
• The Scholarium Investigator leader trait now gives +25% Assist Research Efficiency instead of failing to give 10% Research Speed as a non-council trait.
• Fixed a COOP bug where it was possible for several players to unlock council positions at the same time resulting in duplicates
• If there is a wormhole in the capital system, then the Keides wormhole will spawn in a random neighboring system 1-2 jumps away
• Cordyceptic Stargazers now correctly spawn with an amoeba fleet again.
• Fixed Eager Explorer empires spawning with an extra scientist.
• Slaves are now properly set under dystopian living standard
• Any Gestalt empire generated after game start (e.g. from machine uprising) should now correctly get their Gestalt council nodes.
• Hyperdrive technologies no longer show duplicated icons.
• Fixed issues where starbase modifiers would apply to defensive platforms when they shouldn’t
• Fixed an issue where pre FTL empires spawned from the necrophage origin would spawn in orbit of their planet
• Fixed a bug where ships would sometimes stop following its target when they entered a hyperlane
• Zroni Relic will now add 1 level to the leader, but won’t choose trait on random it will be up to player to chose the trait.
• Fixed notification map ping staying visible for some time after dismissing the notification.
• Fixed a bug where some traits would not properly localize their names when their modifiers are part of tooltips
• Fixed a bug where the Insightful trait tooltip would duplicate headers for its effects
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to unassign envoys from their current task
• Fixed Resilient trait to properly adjust for synths. Did the same for destiny trait which was giving leader life span
• Crusader Spirit Opinion Modifier: Now it gives -80 opinion towards everyone of different ethic and +20 to the same ethic empires
• Fixed issues with the fleet manager where the buttons to increase and decrease the number of ships would not work correctly when using shift or ctrl modifiers
• Rogue Scientist event chain shouldn’t trigger for Governors assigned as Head of Science.
• Updated some trigger loc from “No of …” to “Number of …” to be more consistent with the rest of the game.
• Fixed Tooltip for Paranoid Leader Trait
• Fixed title case for anomaly.3141 “The Depths of Alien Life”
• The event that allows you to pick a Chosen One no longer says “three individuals” are capable of absorbing such power and proceeds to list four names.
• Events that give the Chosen traits now check that the leader in question is psionic.
• Fixed an issue where you could reinforce a fleet when the template was not filled with the correct ships even though the fleet was filled on command limit
• Fixed the spawn chance modifier of the anomaly The Orb, as it could not spawn before.
• Beholder planetfall error message now states that an empty building slot is required.
• Fixed icon for brainslug species trait again.
• You can no longer psi-inoculate hive-minded pops or those being purged.
• Fallen empire capital planets should now have the correct planetary designation.
• You can no longer create subjects from sectors if the primary species would be an infertile clone army species.
• Marauder admirals can no longer serve on the council or be manually fired.
• Fixed some edges where a ruler could be chosen by a shroud entity but not awarded the trait.
• Added scripted loc for GetDefenseForceOrArmada and GetGDFOrArmada
• Updated Cybernetic Advantage agenda so it doesn’t display placeholder art.
• Regular empires no longer have machine or hive-mind leaders in their external leader pools and vice versa.
• Cloned Organs/Self-Preservation Protocols now correctly has the same effects as Mind and Body.
• Fixed incorrect modifiers on the adoption effect of Synthetic traditions.
• Fixed MP lobby chat messages and scroll bar spilling outside the chat box.
• Fixed most tooltips in the game browser not working.
• Fixed Plantoids Species Pack DLC not showing up in MP lobby DLC list
• Fixed misalignment of the DLC icons in the multiplayer lobby
• Fixed icon lists sometimes becoming vertical when they should be horizontal
• Fixed coop presence icons not always showing their tooltip.
• The Interstellar Recruitment Office tooltip now specifies why you can’t build it if you already have one in your empire.
• The sentinels archaeology site will now put Azaryn back on her own ship when she returns.
• Fixed a bug where some mercenary fleets would not have an admiral assigned to them
• Mercenary Admirals now get Mercenary Warrior Trait and 2 admiral traits to represent their level
• Mercenary Enclaves should no longer steal their admirals which they just rented out

• AI will now wait until it has at least 5 planets and 25 years before choosing a specialization designation for its homeworld
• Fixed an issue where AI would be unable to build any buildings if they desired to build the Ancient Refinery but did not have access to any minor artifacts

• Fixed a number of Out of Sync errors.
• Increased performance in the leader view
• Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when a scientist was elected ruler while performing science ship orders
• Fixed a rare, but persistent crash when an empire was destroyed
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes happen if there were issues opening or writing log files
• Fixed crash in MP lobby when you confirm disbanding a coop group if the player list changed while the confirmation popup was open.
• Disabled tooltips in the loading screen to avoid crashes related to focus loss.

• Re-enabled tooltips while the game has no focus as hiding them caused issues for screen readers.
• Added tooltips for the join/leave coop empire button in the MP lobby when you can’t click it.
• Added a tooltip for the coop checkbox in the MP lobby when you can’t change it due to being ready.
• Use different titles for the multiplayer and coop game browsers.
• The multiplayer game browser now has a column that shows whether a game allows coop.
• Fixed an issue where the active agendas list would sometimes duplicate elements
• Added a new version of the main coop presence view to the topbar for resolutions with width >= 1600
• Auto-confirm disbanding a coop group in the MP lobby if all other players leave the group.
• Modifiers that affect leader experience gain will now be indented under a “Experience Gain Rate:” header
• Added confirmation prompt when selecting a country during hotjoining
• Lysator Syng’s hire tooltip now shows that hiring him will give you 3 pirate ships as well.
• Show decimals for power projection breakdown in naval cap tooltip

• Added set_random_$CLASS$_background_effect script effects, to assign a random background class to a leader. $CLASS$ can be replaced with admiral, general, governor, or scientist.
• Added support for custom_tooltip_with_modifiers for council positions.
• Updated documentation for council positions to include new script support. See 01_test_councilor.txt for an example of a council position not linked to civics.
• Added script effect “unlock_council_selection = yes” to force validation of council positions and allow the player to reselect their council positions.
• Fixed the ethics OverLappingElementsBox not reloading properly
• Fixed the spacing parameter not working for vertical OverlappingElementBoxTypes
• Added new “empire_size_add” modifier, which flatly increases or decreases the Empire size.
• Council position unlock screen will now show council positions which are available by scope check but don’t require any civics
• Added console command “debug_trait_weights”, which enables logging of some of the trait random roll weights.
• Added military_power_multiplier to weapon components, which allows manual adjustment of combat power assessment for intangibles that are otherwise difficult to automate.
• Use 2 decimals for army upkeep in army view

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If you experience crashing or other issues, first disable all mods and start a new save. If the issue persists, please report it on the Bug Report forums.