[2020] Stellaris Dev Diary #165 - Ready for 2020!

: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page [url=https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/281990/announcements/detail/2977376900604273208]here[/url].

Hello everyone!

We’re finally back at the office and we’re very excited to be back working on Federations! We will be continuing to focus on AI and stability, while also polishing our features. As a couple of examples of something we are working on right now; we are looking at the economic AI as well as making more unique behaviors for the end game crisis AI. As we continue polishing we’ll also be making improvements here and there.

To share some polish progress, as one example, we’ve added a new slavery type called Indentured Assets, which will be a part of the Utopia (as its a part of the expanded species rights). We wanted to have a slavery type that works better for your more dystopian and evolved empires, which has a greater need for many specialists.


While slaves only have 25% political power of free pops, indentured assets will retain 75%.

As promised before vacations, we will be doing a number of Q&A sessions related to different topics. The first Q&A will be about the Federation Rework and you can already post your questions in our forum thread here[forum.paradoxplaza.com]. We will be answering some of your questions next week, on Jan 23rd.

Future topics:

• Jan 23rd: Federation rework Q&A
  
• Jan 30th: Galactic Community Q&A
  
• TBA: Diplomacy Q&A
  
• TBA: Origins Q&A
  
• TBA: Mega shipyard & juggernaut Q&A

The reason why we cannot release an exact schedule right now is because there might be dev diaries related to other topics between the Q&A ones. The thread for collecting your questions will always be posted one week in advance.

We are looking forward to answering your questions and showing off more of Federations during the coming weeks!