What changed in Stellaris in 2018

Buy and sell labor on an industrial scale, with options to set them free or keep them as livestock.

Includes Matter Decompressor, Mega-Art Installation, Interstellar Assembly, and Strategic Coordination Center.

Step into the role as the leader of a Megacorporation and rule the galaxy through your business acumen.

Increase population density of core worlds to create a planet-spanning megacity.

Chief Executive Officers can conduct business on a galaxy-wide scale with new civics and Branch Offices.

Nomadic traders who offer bargains and surprises when visiting their home systems.

New perks to keep your economy competitive in a cutthroat galaxy.

The MegaCorp expansion introduces new gameplay features allowing players to manage their own MegaCorp.

Stellaris: MegaCorp will be releasing on December 6th, 2018.

A new Slave Market feature has been added to MegaCorp, allowing easier transfer of slaves between empires once the Galactic Market is founded.

The price of slaves on the market is set at 500 ± cost affected by traits, with certain traits increasing or decreasing the price.

Unity Ambitions has been made a free feature to ensure Unity remains useful.

New mandates have been added and existing ones reworked for democratic empires, focusing on resource gathering and income.

The Caravaneers are space-based traders who send out fleets across the galaxy to offer players great deals.

Players can visit the caravaneer base to exchange Energy Credits for CaravanCoinz and participate in games of chance or buy loot boxes.

The fleets include Racket Industrial Enterprise, the Numistic Order, and the Vengralian Trium, each offering specialized deals.

Four new Megastructures: Matter Decompressor, Strategic Coordination Center, Mega Art Installation, and Interstellar Assembly.

New city planet feature allowing players to create Ecumenopolises by unlocking an Ascension Perk and filling planets with City Districts.

Megastructures now cost alloys to build instead of minerals to fit the new economy.

MegaCorps can construct Branch Offices on other empires' planets to generate income based on trade value.

A civic that transforms MegaCorps into MegaChurches, boosting spiritualist ethics attraction and economic benefits.

A new civic that turns MegaCorps into criminal syndicates, allowing them to establish Branch Offices without permission.

Subsidiaries are a new subject type for MegaCorps, allowing them to maintain diplomatic independence while paying tribute.

MegaCorps have a higher administrative cap but suffer greater penalties for exceeding it.

MegaCorporations are a new type of empire with a Corporate authority focused on trade and energy credits.

Players can create planet-spanning megacities on Ecumenopolis.

Ability to buy and sell labor on an industrial scale.

New structures like Matter Decompressor and Mega-Art Installation for enhanced capabilities.

Nomadic traders who offer bargains and surprises in the galaxy.

Introducing a revolutionary new way to conduct business on a galactic scale with new features and mechanics.

Additional perks to keep the economy competitive in the galaxy.

New civics for MegaCorp CEOs to conduct business galaxy-wide and build Branch Offices on planets.

Added technologies that increase efficiency for space-based resource extraction.

New technology allowing planets to be designated as Penal Colonies, increasing crime but boosting immigration pull.

New technology allowing planets to be designated as Resort Worlds, enhancing amenities for other colonies.

Introduction of Raw Resource and Advanced Resource Technologies to streamline resource management.

Prosperity Traditions now focus on improving planets and enhancing specialists.

Domination Traditions shifted from vassals to reducing crime and improving workers, slaves, rulers, and governors.

Discovery Traditions are themed around research and space exploration.

Supremacy Traditions emphasize larger fleets and stronger starbases.

Harmony Traditions are centered around sustainability, amenities, and stability.

Diplomacy Traditions focus on federations, the galactic market, and trade.

Expansion Traditions now focus on faster colonization, larger populations, and a bigger empire.

Buildings become Ruined if the required Pops for operation are no longer met.

The Decisions system will be fully moddable for community enhancements.

Devastation increases from 0 to 100, impacting planet operations and requiring resources to clear.

Bombardment now causes Devastation, affecting housing, amenities, trade value, and pop growth.

Decisions replace the old Planetary Edicts, allowing for more complex actions on planets.

Introduced observer mode with numerous observer-only events to track galaxy happenings.

Introduced a player map mode displaying player names instead of empire names, greying out AI empires.

Corrected a bug where nanites would terraform stars instead of suitable planets.

Added a filter checkbox for non-player controlled empires in galaxy/contacts view.

Removed restrictions on making claims when possessing a Colossus.

Resolved an issue where the number of fleets in orbit was capped, affecting movement orders.

Properly reset the retrofit list to rebuild correctly when switching ship designs.

Enabled scripting for the size and distances of orbital ship stacks around planets.

Fixed advanced start AI empires lacking additional colonies at game start.

Access to earlier versions of PDS games will now require a Steam password and linking of accounts due to GDPR compliance.

Addressed multiple issues that could lead to out-of-sync problems in multiplayer.

Added '-observe' command line argument to start directly in observer mode.

Implemented a new multiplayer system allowing cross-play across all supported platforms.

Added extensive empire information to the hotjoin menu.

Addressed numerous missing text strings in the game.

Resolved an out-of-sync issue related to ship design upgrades.

Trade Value is a new value for non-Gestalt empires representing civilian and private-sector economies, generated by Pops and certain jobs.

Piracy accumulates along trade routes, affecting Trade Value transfer; players can use Starbases and fleets for protection.

Trade Value can be exploited for resources if collected by upgraded Starbases and sent to the capital system.

Trade Routes connect Starbases to the capital for the transfer of collected Trade Value, with player control over routing.

Detailed steps provided for linking Steam and Paradox accounts to access codes for previous game versions.

Instructions on how to switch to older game versions using codes retrieved from Paradox Plaza.

Marauders are nomadic FTL societies that raid and extort tribute from settled empires.

Marauders are a new type of non-playable empire introduced in the Apocalypse expansion.

Marauders are always hostile to regular empires but will not attack unless provoked.