AIs will no longer terraform while under crisis attack.Fixed AI stopping colonization in some cases if it gained a high-habitability species without colonization rights.Fixed unbidden AI sometimes freezing up when other ED factions spawned.Fixed a bug where the AI would overprioritize food when food stockpile was not full.Fixed some issues with sector AI not properly prioritizing tile resources when told to.Empires that have outlawed robotic workers before any Warning Signs events occur will no longer experience Warning Signs or Machine Uprisings.Warning Signs (and Machine Uprisings) can no longer occur before 50 in-game years have passed.Increased likelihood of several unique Shroud events granting special boons to fire.Increased the likelihood of High and Medium probability reward options in Shroud events.Reduced consumer goods cost of Chemical Bliss, Utopian Abundance and Social Welfare.Reduced the effect of Admiral skill level on ship fire rate from 5% to 3% & changed general modifier to not overflow interface.Added some armor penetration to Scourge weapons.Planets now only start repairing at full speed 60 days after bombardment ends.Fixed Flak being strictly better than regular Point-Defense rather than a tracking vs damage trade-off.Reduced fleet power calc for very powerful ships, as exponential effects would cause it to get much larger than the ship's actual combat ability.Doubled the chance of getting the ''Hotfix'' Warning Signs event.Pops are now assimilated much faster, on a per-planet basis rather than per-species basis.Driven Assimilators can now derive Assault and Defense Armies from Cyborg Pops.Assimilators can now research most Genetics techs.Buffed Devouring Swarm, Purifiers and Exterminators.Driven Assimilators can now allow Cyborgs to procreate (they do not need food to grow).Successfully assimilating a Pop as a Driven Assimilator now generates one month's worth of Unity and Society Research.Cost of 'Blocking the Ghost Signal' project now calculated based on number of owned Pops.200 years must pass in-game before a Crisis can occur, up from 150.Buffed Machine Worlds to 25% robot production output.Buffed Processing Hub and Hive Node buildings to produce Unity.It is now possible to spawn 5 fallen empires in a Huge galaxy if you have Synthetic Dawn.

Reduced the rate of Contingency reinforcment fleets somewhat.Contingency ships now use energy lances instead of Arc Emitters.Changed the shape of ring galaxies to have a thicker ring, fixes many generation bugs (such as Fallen Empires not appearing) associated with them.Increased the distance at which empires are forced apart in random setups.Patch 1.8.2 was released on with the checksum 135b.

Stellaris codex 1.8