The AI just isn't smart enough to get along without a cheat. Plus by all indications, the AI design is terribly rigid.

I can confirm this. I even got it up to a 104 DPS with a lot of research. Also the Point defenses of all races are now upgraded to do around 40-46 DPS (and even more after researching weapons tech).

It seems like they made anti strike craft frigates and the hangar defense guns less effective at taking out larger ships though. They don't do a lot of damage against frigates and cruisers anymore. Like their DPS is devided by 0.33 when they shoot at those or something. It seems to make sense anyway

I think it is rather odd indeed that this wasn't mentioned in the change log, but I am 100% certain that te damage on these defensive structures is drastically increased.

First off, glad to see a hotfix out so soon...good work Stardock

I'm not seeing this...I looked at the entity files and the only difference I saw was a change in the max AM and AM restore rate...the hangars are still doing 30 damage on each bank per attack with a cooldown of 3 seconds (that makes for 30 x 4 = 120 damage and with the cooldown, 40 DPS)...

Now, autocannon technologies should also affect the hangar, but that's only a 30% increase at most...even with the Vasari pulse pact, you shouldn't be getting anything close to 80 DPS...

As for the damage tables I don't think they've been changed...all the values seem to be the same for ANTIVERYLIGHT (most of them are .5)...but, I could be wrong...

I didn't look at the files but in game is where I'm getting my info from.

Vasari Mutual Threat  is still tech level 4.  Bug or wrong of changelog  ?

You know, maybe the infocard is just finally taking into account that the hangar can fire at 2 targets per bank in each direction. This isn't a new change but its the only thing I could think of that would cause its DPS to double.

I am also getting a several second freeze when Diplomatic Missions are completed by myself, or that I have given out.

Secondly: You sure about those super weapons? I've got a 5 hour long game going vs 5 hard AI's and not a single one has built a super weapon yet. I even afk'd for like an hour at one point to give them time to catch up. Eventually I rolled into an enemy star where damned near every planet has a 15k hp star base... but not a single super weapon. Nor in the others. I made beachheads on each enemy star, and waited 30min. Still no super weapons. The super weapons are a lie.

Also, the AI seems to reject nearly all missions out of hand other than send envoy. They wont even attack their worst enemy's least defended planet if I pay them to do it... fail (even when I am their best friend and ally). Also, the AI still repeatedly tries to send you on missions to attack your best allies. If they are supposed to be checking various factors to judge the realism of getting the mission done - they fail at it.

I'm not sure why the diplomacy system is so... colic.

Edit: 100% absolutely sure that it's not the auto-save.

Suggestions and wish

- Pact can research individually.  Cause, each pacts have no relevance.

- Military pacts research require military lab instead of civic lab.  

- Envoy ability, pacts have more buff, and reduce reasearch costs.  Now I think that envoy ability, pacts's benefit <<  Cost.

- Pact can offer more than 3 factions. 

- Need more exciting pact. For exsample, new capitalship can build each faction.

- Add diplomacy to STATSTICS. Now no envoy build, no benefit (gold, metal and crystal) by envoy ability or pacts, and unkonown that someone had pacts.

srry my bad Eng.

Flex

This could be the case...so, would this also affect the solanus adjudicator which can target 5 things?  Or SBs?

1.  I'm guessing what he means is that you can research each pact technology individually ie. supply pact would simply require 8 labs, not all the preceding pact techs...since the supply pact is in no way logically tied to the other pacts (ex: siege technology isn't going to be needed to improve supply depot technology) I can see where he is coming from...however, I personally think this would just lead to beelining of the top tier pacts...not a fan of removing the lower pacts as tech requirements...

2.  Again, perhaps more realistic, but it would be bad for gameplay...

3.  Maybe...but weapon and economic technologies give pretty small bonuses, makes only sense that pacts and envoys would yield comparable bonuses...massive bonuses like pre v1.3 would just be OP (anima pact for Vasari, supply pact and mutual threat in general)....

4.  I'm guessing maybe pact be offered to more than one faction?  Like, you could offer your pacts to more than one faction?

As for superweapons, if you really want to see them you should stop playing on lower difficulties, those AI's simply will never accumulate the resource stockpile needed to build a superweapon...harder AI's will though since they get resource bonuses...

I have seen a hard AI build a novalith, so it's not like low level AIs won't build them...I just think harder AIs will increase the odds of them being built...

Also, make sure the AI actually has 8 of the appropriate lab...I just played a cruel AI last night, and found out it never built more than 4-5 of each lab, so even with infinite resources and programming to build superweapons, it never would have been able to...

Damn....good catch...another entity file issue...

Should be a positive value (like TEC's black market tech) instead of a negative value....

So now I have to ask the question...how many other pacts do this?  Do we seriously need to check every single pact to make sure it actually helps instead of making things worse???

I noticed that too...I thought the change log said they weren't supposed to target things with weapons (as in, not even capable of doing it) but clearly they are...