Amazingly, despite the huge amount of code surgery for the big performance update that was update 55, I have yet to get a single report of a regression from that one. I feel very fortunate for that. There are a couple of other unrelated things that I did want to get tweaks out for, though.
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Hotfix 31 Changelog
General Updates
- Beta Goal Previews: Various goals and contemplations that are out of scope for 1.0 are now hidden even on the beta branch. They were showing up in a way that clutters things. I'll add these back when I get to them.
- Tier 3 Goal Requirements: In order to start any Tier 3 goal, you must now be in chapter four. That means that you have to have completed some sort of Tier 2 goal -- any one of them, not any specific one, and in any timeline, not the timeline you're in right now. In many cases, this will mean that someone may need to leave their first timeline and do something else before they can return and do Peace After Brutality or Cybercratic City-State in particular, as those are the two that will be most visible. The key thing is that it shows you these contemplations, but notes that you can't do them until chapter 4+, so that you basically have a good hint that you can do more things and then come back.
- Immediate Networking: Network Expansion is now unlocked during the initial construction project, rather than after it, just in case people are in a spot where they can't build enough, especially with a stealth start.
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