[2023] [Dev Team] 3.8.2 Hotfix Patch Released

_Are said: Thank you for the bugfix !
Are you considering a future balance patch, notably on leader cap and penalties ?

Balance? Sure! Leader cap? Unlikely, whenever we make a long term positive change it can annoy quite a few people. But in this case, the Leader cap being pretty tight is just better design.

Lyserus said: That's an excuse, player-created preset empires is a feature, so any origins / civic should be playable by AI empires.

That's not an excuse, we get to decide how things work. Creating new AI Just for a challenging civic the AI will not use unless force spawned with it is not worth the effort.  

Foxosaur said: I believe the underlying point and general concern is that PDX may start on a slippery slope of selling content that the AI cannot use. Knowing that AI does not (cannot?) use the Paragons system is a second instance of it. If your demographic split of players show you that a good % play Single player then it seems quite fair for the community to expect a bit more openess and proactiveness about it, at least going forward, maybe even saying so on the DLC information.

I get the point but this is a non-issue. We make calls all the time about how the AI will interface with X and Y feature. From day 1 the AI doesn't get "Normal" anomalies, they get special AI specific ones that only grant a few resources so they don't "Steal" content from the player. Similar with Paragons now.

There's no slope. We're good.

Calvax said: If changes to the leader cap are completely off the table how do you feel about UI improvements? Having a big black silhouette on the majority of planets and fleet feels bad. It's like the game is telling you "you are lacking something here", when it seems the logic should be "don't expect to have anything here but you can for a bonus."

Our UI in general could use a lot of improvement. The open slot making folks feel like they need to fill it despite the leader cap has been a heated subject of discussion, I feel like we just don't have a solution for that just yet
UI improvements overall are a big focus for Stellaris now and in the future patches.