Thats right, they have an ability that greatly increases planet's FIDS which will overpower any other faction.

Even if the title sound very clickbaity, I have to opine and agree.

It's not overpowered, it's freaking in-sa-ne.

Let's take a level 12 hero (when it's unlocked if I remember correctly) living on a 4 planet system with 28 population (I was thinking of vodyani system when I'm writing this, a 7pop * 4 planet system isn't unrealistic by the early mid-game when that ability would unlock).

The closest ability i could find with that ammount of impact was the guardian +80% industry, (for 2 points mind you), that'll grant on a 1k industry system 800 industry, real good right ?

The vodyani hero if he's senator (not unrealistic especially for vodyani players starting hero), will grant 28*(4+1 because senator)*12(level) = 1440industry, 1440food, 1440dust, 1440 science, 1440 influence (yuuuuup), to the system. 7200 fidsi.

What about later in the game at level 20 ? 2400 for each unit for 12000 fidsi.

I tried finding a tier 4 ability that good in racial tree, most tree i would find even endless tree don't have a tier 4 fidsi enhancer. Best I could find was a 4 industry / food / influence a pop (no per level) for unfallen and eusocial. and some other bonus are like "40 science + 40 per anomaly/cold planet" that's like on a 4 planet system with ideally 1 anomaly per system, a grand total of 200 science, hurray. 

Bottom line, it's broken.

Suggestion on how to fix it : remove the level modifier (it's still insanely good, but only insane because it's a fidsi modifier not a single resource), maybe make it 1 fidsi a pop and remove the senate bonus.

They stated is a bug because didn't changed the per hero level multiplier.

At current state is a game-breaking skill, no less.

Seems balance isn't a priority at all because they didn't fixed it on the latest patch.

no wonder when i play on normal it looks ridiculusly easy with the vodyani.

The games file actually has two versions of the ability one which is fidsi x pop x hero level which works but is completely unbalanced and another which is a fidsi percentage bonus which is superceded by the aforementioned version.

I got the percentage bonus to work, fully tested by changing things a bit.  Replace the hero skill105 entry with this in:  SimulationDescriptors[HeroSkill]

<!--HeroSkill105-->
<SimulationDescriptor Name="HeroSkill105_FIDSI_PerHeroLevel_3" Type="HeroSkill">
<Modifier TargetProperty="PlanetHeroFIDSIPercent"Operation="Addition"Value="0.20"Path="./ClassColonizedStarSystem/ClassColonizedPlanet"/>
</SimulationDescriptor>
<SimulationDescriptor Name="HeroSkillSenator105_FIDSI_PerHeroLevel_3" Type="HeroSkillSenator">
<Modifier TargetProperty="PlanetHeroFIDSIPercent"Operation="Addition"Value="0.05"Path="../ClassEmpire/ClassColonizedStarSystem/ClassColonizedPlanet" />-->
</SimulationDescriptor>

It's no where near as good/broken but still gives hundreds sometimes thousands of extra fidsi and might be what Amplitude intended???

why would amplitude promote in-balance, that's op.

I can name a similar skill, from the Riftborn, +4/+8 on 1st/2nd rank respectivly per hero level per pop to science i'm nearly certain i've seen variants on that for other heroes.

The problem isn;t the fact tha it's flat per pop per hero level bonus. It's that it's a bonus of that type empire wide on senate and that on the system level it's a massive +4 of each resource, thats theoreticlly the equivlent of +20 to a single resource, it's several times too good. Myself i've modded it down to a flat +4 per pop on the senate level and +1 per hero pevel pr pop on the system level. That should keep it relevant in systems without a lot of any one resource coming in without being utterly obcene overall.

Hi,

Hero skills have been balanced and should be available to you soon, either in the balance mod or in the upcoming patch!

Cheers,