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Name	Stellaris
Developer	Paradox Development Studio
Publisher	Paradox Interactive
Tags	Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer
Release	2016-05-09
GameBillet	33.97 / €
Steam	9,99€ 8,74£ 9,99$ / 75 %
News	509
Controls	Keyboard Mouse
Players online	12062
Steam Rating	Very Positive
Steam store	https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990
How long to Beat
Main Story	18 Hours
Main Story + Extras	27 Hours
Completionist	40 Hours
SteamSpy
Peak CCU Yesterday
Owners	2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 +/-
Players - Since release	+/-
Players - Last 2 weeks	+/-
Average playtime (forever)	5376
Average playtime (last 2 weeks)	385
Median playtime (forever)	2822
Median playtime (last 2 weeks)	450
Public Linux depots	Linux [153.28 M]
DLC	Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers eBook Stellaris: Plantoids Species Pack Stellaris: Leviathans Story Pack Stellaris: Utopia Stellaris: Nova Edition Upgrade Pack Stellaris: Galaxy Edition Upgrade Pack Stellaris: Anniversary Portraits Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Stellaris: Apocalypse Stellaris: Humanoids Species Pack Stellaris: Distant Stars Story Pack Stellaris: MegaCorp Stellaris: Ancient Relics Story Pack Stellaris: Lithoids Species Pack Stellaris: Federations Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack Stellaris: Nemesis Stellaris: Aquatics Species Pack Stellaris: Overlord Stellaris: Toxoids Species Pack

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Stellaris Dev Diary #314 - Pi in the Sky Ideas

by Eladrin

Hi everyone!

Its been exactly 100 dev diaries since we introduced the Custodian initiative alongside the Lem update. With that milestone met, and 314 being funny math number, I thought it would be a good time to review what the Custodians have accomplished, some of the process they use, and where we could go from here.

To review, the original idea behind the Custodians Initiative was to do some of the following:

Tweaking game balance
Adding new content to old DLC
Polishing existing content
Bug fixes
Performance improvements
AI improvements
Multiplayer stability
UI and quality-of-life improvements

[h3]So what have they accomplished so far?[/h3]
In my view, the Custodians have been a pretty solid success.

Weve done a few things:

I promised bad math jokes last week: Why did the Blorg cross the Mobius Strip? To get to the same side.

[h3]So how do the Custodians work?[/h3]

Ideally, a third of their tasks are dictated by my directives, a third are taken from community requests, and the remaining third are individual developer passion projects. In reality, these segments overlap quite a bit, since we all share many of the same desires.

Before each release, we hold a Custodian Pitch meeting, where everybody on the team can write up proposals, give a two minute presentation on what they want to do and why they want to do it, and then a brief but spirited discussion is held debating the merits of the pitch as well as highlighting any concerns or suggestions.

Photo from a recent Custodian Pitch Meeting

Accepted pitches go onto a team board, get prioritized, and eventually end up on the schedule. Unlike tasks slated for DLCs, Custodian tasks are intended to be able to slip to a later release if theyre deemed not ready to go live yet, and sometimes accepted pitches wait for a while before getting worked on. Rejected pitches sometimes resurface at a later date, revamped to resolve whatever problems the original pitch had.

Part of the Custodian Team Board

As you can see, far more things get pitched and approved than we can actually do, so prioritization is extremely important. More things will move into 3.10 and 3.11 over time.

The Development Oubliette off to the side is for things that we started working on, but had to pause for various reasons.

Following Overlord, we instituted a rule that expansion work cannot absolutely depend on Custodian work, since we intentionally want Custodian work to be able to slip to a different release if necessary - the Situations system came in a little hot and that had negative effects on some of the systems we planned on using them with.
[h3]So what are some of those notes?[/h3]
From the In Progress section under 3.9 Caelum, we have the Diplomacy and Trust changes that weve mentioned a few times. Well have a dev diary dedicated to this next week, since these have been accelerated to be included in the 3.9.3 release.

Two weeks from now well be providing more details on the Leader Consolidation that weve also talked about in the past. Currently these tasks are in the To Do and In Progress sections of 3.10 Pyxis, grouped by dark blue dashed lines that you can barely see in this image.

Other things on the board without planned release dates include a variety of possibilities. Some are larger scope tasks that involve a large number of Custodians, while others might be the type of thing that can be knocked out quickly.

A handful of them include:

Espionage enhancements

Make Espionage more impactful, but have systems in place to prevent dog-piling.

Continued work on concepts and nested tooltips

Provide information in a clearer way, avoiding walls of text.

Improve tutorials

Theyre really not good at introducing the concepts new players need to learn the game.

Improve the outliner

Make the Outliner easier to use during different phases of the game.

Do something with the Megastructures UI

As the number of large space constructions grows, it gets harder to find the ones you want to build.
Its also very confusing to have things that require Mega-Engineering alongside constructions that dont.

Continue after losing

Pop up the Select an Empire UI from Multiplayer if you lose a Single Player game, in case you want to continue your galaxys story, even if your first empires has ended.

Improve species modification

Address micromanagement and tedium in species modification.

Pop performance

Pops are one of the greatest sources of late game performance issues. Find ways to reduce their impact.

Ship performance

Ships (and fleets) are another performance issue to investigate.

Investigate number of habitable worlds (and rebalance if necessary)

As more scripted systems get added to the game, the habitable worlds slider becomes less accurate.

Make AI personalities matter more

Review the existing personalities, make them show up in AI weights more often, and differentiate them more.

[h3]Next week[/h3]
Having come full circle, next week will be about Diplomacy and Trust.

See you then!

[ 2023-09-21 13:00:45 CET ] [ Original post ]