Hey everyone! I believe ESG 1.6 is compatible with the newest patch that just dropped, feel free to leave any bug reports here.

The population traits that are based on anomalies (eg. the pulsos +5 science on planets with anomalies) are currently broken and don't work at all.

Yes i did for my major faction. Or the settings exclude major faction? (Custom Faction as United Empire affinity)

Have you reached 20 pops in a faction? It should appear in the list

No, i mean it's turned on. But i can't see the laws inside senate/laws screen.

it's a setting in the lobby when you're creating a game

Which law? I can't find them. (Turn: 90)

If you turn "Collection Bonus Laws" setting off, they are just passive effects, no laws needed. If the setting is on then you need to enact the law for the effect

How does "Collection Bonus Laws" work? I played the ESG lot but, didn't realized that i need to enact law to get those pop bonuses.

Do i need to eanct laws for bonuses to work?

Some of the special coordinator module bonuses will apply fleet-wide but others are flotilla-specific

Having one coordinator is fine for whole armada fleet (30+ CP) (Put it on the middle lane as ai use that lane %70) if i remember correctly the vanilla game had same bonuses for both tier or the vice-versa effect on tiers. If it's intentional then it's fine. I just simply couldn't recall that the bonuses were like that before.

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The small ships are protectors/defenders, so have a higher % defense bonus. The medium is the coordinator which has value separate from defending (primarily unique modules that only they can access, such as the lock-on). The medium one is more like "support" than pure tank.

We replaced it with the planet size slider, in our server poll beforehand we had 0 responses of people saying they used the galaxy age slider.

Just curious, and also i guess wondering if i can change it in a file anywhere, why did 'age of galaxy; setting get removed?

UE small defender ship has %20 defense bonus while medium size defender ship has %10 defense bonus (from modules). Isn't it supposed to be other way around as we seen for attacker ships (%10 to %20 respectively) is this intended? Why i should build medium defender? Its cost 3cp and has inferior bonus? Thanks

They're pretty good they're just not exciting, they just have a lot of passive stuff, great ships, great skill tree, and a lot of cool bonus stuff from their quest

Is it just me or does Sophons still need a buff? I feel like they still aren't as good as everyone else.

@Shardey are you in an alliance? Some victory types like science and economy scale up with alliance size, if you are in one then that means your ally will have to research some of the techs as well. If you have all four researched and leave the alliance you should win on the spot

Adjusted the weights. Now the AI is kicking my ass ._.

K, thanks. Will have another look at it.

We'll include it in an official update, but there should be a file called ModuleDefinitions[Coilgun].xml, the AI gains in there are overturned

@Captain Cobbs: Ninakoru mentioned a XML where the weapon weights for the AI are defined. Could I just reduce the weight value to 0 for e.g. coilguns, or is it more complicated than that? Looking for the XML right now, but never done any ES 2 modding and not sure what it is called.

LOL okay it might not be scaling properly, I'll look into it

Is the Science victory condition borked somehow? It demands that I research 6 techs of the Endless, but there are only 4 in the whole tech tree. I researched it all but that wasn't enough to win a science victory. Hard difficulty, if that matters.

@AresOfThrace Oops, I'll let nina know, maybe we messed up the AI values or something.

@IlliaJ Late response, but you should post those on the Github Issues, after I finish the ES2 Patch I'll be working on ESG again and going through that whole list.

@Lumin Can you post your diagnostics for me please? What are your game settings, sometimes the balanced galaxy generation can do that

@Zombieslayer1444 whoops, I'll add that to the list

@cigarking Yes, I wasn't involved with those changes but I believe so

@ivivaj Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean

Gave it a try. Really impressive AI, only problem is it uses coilguns* on it's ships almost exclusively when playing with ESG.

Alright, thanks. WIll give that a try.

@ AresOfThrace Try downloading ENFER reloaded, while singleplayer isn't our main target audience, the AI should be excluded from the diplomatic changes.

Is anybody esle having issues with the AI being totally brainded with this mod? I mean, even worse than vanilla? I had cases where they said "We are going to declare war on you!" but then never followed up with an actual declaration (Guess they couldn't afford it), but still sent invader ships to "attack" my planets (which were then stuck in orbit doing nothing until I kille dthem).

1) I think that Sheredyn population should add Empire Manpower instead of Garrison. They are an (even more) Aggressively Militarist development of United Empire, so a defensive donus seems redundant. Should probably be just +3 Manpower (weakest Manpower trait) as Imperials/Mezari only add +1 Industrly/Science.

2) In Custom Faction Traits, Hissho Population is displayed in a different way from every other population (specifically, it only shows "+1 Hissho on home planet" whereas others show population's Politics, Yields and description).

hey i have this issue where the game is stuck on "launching game" whenever i try to make a new game, the settings dont matter, i dont have any mods installed, i have all the dlcs on except the hacking one

Noticed that with the minor factions growth law, it seems Guardians figure out how to grow.

Question...was the Advanced Node Analyser intended to never be able to generate Orichalcox or Quadrinix? In vanilla you can do this, depnding on the node you orbit.

Noticed a small localization error. Not sure which one is real and isnt, but the "devoted" trait shows 30% max when in the empire view and 15% max when in the planet view. Which one is correct?

hi, i just started a new game as horatio and activating esg laws on a new game reverts faction specific ecologist laws (all hands dictum, power to the people) to their non faction specific version. not using any other mods. deactivating esg laws and starting a new game makes those laws faction specific.

support is appreciated! thanks for the mod

@Khalid V Zhane Something like that would be ideal, but the modding system isn't open enough to let us make changes like that unfortunately :(

@WOLF1028 Glad it's working! If you still want to use endless moons load it before ESG and everything should work fine

Not for a money-farming exploit, but to emphasize competition in the market and make it an additional battlefield. Not a harmless shop.

A suggestion 🤔 maybe make it so that when buying/selling resources on the market, the price doesn’t spike within that same transaction in such an extreme way. Perhaps the change could be reduced with a cap, and the price increase/decrease would only be applied after the transaction is complete, or on the following turn. Basically to allow for better 'market manipulation': buying low, selling high, etc. Maybe cap the amount of resources per transaction. Once you hit the limit, you’d have to make another transaction — and in that next one, the price would already be updated.

I figured out it was endless moons. It prevented all the resources from appearing.

Are you using any other mods? Can you send me your diagnostics?

Keep getting stalled at loading screen when in a fight.. not sure if its this mod? I've tried all my others.

@bretons If you're interested in providing a save I'm happy to investigate, however, during my last few tests I haven't encountered this so it might just be something on your end.

@redirishlord I appreciate it! Sorry for the late response, but I'm glad you're enjoying the mod

@WOLF1028 I believe the game will cap you on certain galaxy sizes, something outside of the mod's control. I'd recommend making sure you aren't playing on a Balanced galaxy size and have balanced galaxy generation disabled, if the map is too small sometimes the game can't create a "region" for the luxury resource to spawn in.

@Khalid V. Zhane Hmm, I'll double check thanks for pointing that out

Hi. The changelog says Lunabarxes has been changed to an Ecologist, but it still shows up as a Pacifist to me.

Someone said this mod allows you to select ALL luxury nodes, but when I set it to all; it still only give me the standard amount for the map. I've tried different size maps, but I only get all common luxuries and only 4 of each uncommon and rare. I test this with Shift+f2, but maybe the luxury still spawns on a planet?

How do I get ALL luxuries? I'd rather have more rare and uncommon than all of the common.

@ Capt Cobbs: Thanks for your excellent work & the tip re- balanced maps, using the reg maps I get fully resourced galaxies.
* I load Endless Moons b4 ESG and Mdel's ESG+ collection after.

@ the whole ESG team: Grateful thanks for this, even for single player fans this is a great overhaul. I'm extra thankful for;
Galaxy Generation: full featured & stable choices.
Traits: you've included the best/most available & balanced it well.

Tip for single player: Big Bros & Poacher traits pair nicely with Eternal War, just be sure to answer all the discovery pop-ups at start & make all those first contacts. The tribute will start flowing like you're Rome :~)

Has anyone noticed the AI only uses beam weapons? Even in the pre-battle screen it states some ships are using kinetic weapons until you view the kinetic/energy weapon balance. Then it show the enemy only uses beam weapons

@Leo & @x05 Disable balanced galaxy generation in the galaxy settings, then set the galaxy size to something that doesn't say (balanced)

@slimer91 There's a lot of new lines that need to be translated, you're welcome to friend me either here or on discord @captaincobbs and I can help explain what needs to be done in greater detail.

@Girakul Yes, I am working on a series of bugfixes for amplitude right now.

Is another ES2 update actually coming?

Also seeing no Strategic Resources on planets besides starting ones, using mod console to reveal everything

Hi. I could do translation into Russian. I hope there are lines that need to be translated. Or do I just need to check old Russian files with new English?