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Iceberg Interactive and Amplitude Studios release the free add-on\/patch for Endless Space, “Rise of the Automatons”, today on Steam. Amplitude\u00a0plans<\/a> to release two more of these free add-ons till the end of 2012, before they start to work on the announced<\/a> expansion pack.<\/p>\n According to the publisher the most important features of this\u00a0free add-on #1<\/strong> are:<\/p>\n Amplitude’s full release note can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Regarding “improved AI”<\/strong> the full notes include: better building of star system improvements;\u00a0tax rate management improvements; \u00a0better handling of alliance requests and improved formula for trading a technology with the AI.<\/p>\n Concerning the “diplomacy upgrade”<\/strong> Amplitude added: a tendency panel that shows how an ally AI is likely to respond to a treaty you offer to someone outside the alliance. When you offer someone outside the alliance a treaty, your allies may decide to accept the treaty of leave the alliance.<\/p>\n There are also “balancing improvements”<\/strong>, namely: a change on the upkeep formula; deflectors efficiency reduced; hull HP increased; tonnage and repair modules cost increased; length of Cooperation Agreements reduced and AI bonuses reduced to balance the difficulty.<\/p>\n See the changes in the following screenshots supplied by Amplitude Studios (the text on the bottom of each image explains the change).<\/p>\n ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n Apparently, your current game saves will not be compatible with this new version to come out today. So, make sure to stop Steam’s auto-update feature if you plan to finish your current game :)<\/p>\n According to Amplitude’s update plan<\/a>, the free add-on #2\u00a0<\/strong>content\u00a0will be defined through\u00a0Games2Gether<\/a>\u00a0at the end of October 2012. The\u00a0free add-on #3<\/strong>\u00a0content voting will start after that.\u00a0All three free ad-ons \u201cwill be released until December of this year (2012)\u201d said<\/a> Amplitude.<\/p>\n For more information on this turn-based space 4X game checkout our Endless Space\u00a0review<\/a> and the\u00a0AAR<\/a>\u00a0“Playing the Amoeba”. Information on where to buy can be found on our game’s list page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iceberg Interactive and Amplitude Studios have just released the first of the three free add-ons, or patches, planned for Endless Space till the end of 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[216,74],"tags":[86,852,851,1244,863,278,215,117,30,918],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-patches","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-4x-game","tag-amplitude-studios","tag-endless-space","tag-endless-space-free-add-ons","tag-iceberg-interactive","tag-mac","tag-patch","tag-pc-game","tag-space-strategy-game","tag-steam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n