I really like the new planetary management/pop system, much more interesting to specialise your planets now, and it’s also great that pop growth now isn’t proportional to the number of planets you have… It’s a major shame about the lack of optimisation and the bugs, though. My biggest hope for this update was a performance boost so fingers crossed they’re still gonna deliver on that!

Also, I’ve seen a lot of UI complaints, especially around the planetary management. It definitely had issues on launch but I’ve not found it unplayably bad like some others? Definitely could display more info but not disastrously bad

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    I just started after briefly touching the game 5-7 years ago, and I much prefer the current planet management system to the tiles before. Still need to wrap my head around the district and building systems, but way more initially intuitive

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    I knew they were releasing way too early for the amount of changes they were making. held off on playing it for now, they gotta patch the shit out of it.

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    I was having fun but I just had to stop for performance problems

    The UI has some problems inside the planet menu, but its not horrible.

    Prioriticing and limiting jobs is tedious, thats the worst thing for me.

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    Well I’m definitely not feeling any performance improvements tbh. Also I feel like auto planet management is damn near useless now, it doesn’t seem to want to build new stuff at a reasonable rate. I like the overall changes to planet management, much less annoying micro management.

    EDIT: Also I’m glad they revamped trading and piracy, horribly annoying mechanics in the past.

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    damn they did another major update didn’t they?

    i have been meaning to do a new run since I built my new PC and see if it can handle a slightly bigger galaxy/slightly more empires into the late game

    but now I’m going to wait at least 6 mos

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    I plan to play 4.0 for a while, but right now I’m still waiting for patches (there are two more planned just this week). I was gonna wait two weeks, but I don’t think I can hold out that long, so I will probably play Stellaris this upcoming weekend.