Horatio Cravers splicing bonus a year ago

Some years ago the Horatio (Gene Hunter) bonus for splicing Cravers was changed from a +5% stacking FIDS bonus per pop to being a flat non-scaling +5% FIDS bonus. i.e., a planet with 10 Horatio pops used to get a +50% total FIDS bonus, but would now get a +5% total FIDS bonus. I've finally dug around in the files to find the responsible code, and it seems to be the following lines in SimulationDescriptors[PopulationModifierTraits].xml:

<SimulationDescriptor Name="ClassPopulationAssimilatedPlanetDepletionFIDS" Type="ClassPopulationAssimilated">
<Modifier TargetProperty="BonusPopulationFIDSPercent" Operation="Addition" Value="0.05" Path="ClassPopulation"/>
<!--<Modifier TargetProperty="BonusPopulationFIDSPercent" Operation="Multiplication" Value="$(PopulationCount)" TooltipHidden="true"/>-->
</SimulationDescriptor>

... where the multiplicative part of the bonus was commented out. This change has been bugging me ever since it was made, because I just can't understand the logic behind it. I can understand an argument that it was too overpowered, but surely in its current form it's far too underpowered, being far worse than any other splicing bonus in the game. If it was never intended to be multiplicative, then 5% is just too low. Was this intended to be a bigger change that was left only half-implemented? Was it a mistake that was just never reverted? Why was it changed in the first place?

Horatio quest bug 3 years ago

Im playing a game with his high perfection Horatio but the chapter 2 of the main quest wich is to kill the fleet of Horatio Prime seems to be bugged. Ive kill one of the two and i cant seem to find the second one, ive look all around the map and there is no sign of it, no flashing point wandering around and no compass that i can click on it to try to find it. Is it possible an ennemy empire killed it making the main quest impossible to complete?  

Is Horatio human? 6 years ago

He looks human-ish, but is far too beautiful and flawless to be human.

How to join Horatio? 6 years ago

Horatio is essentially perfection. A being of such pure beauty, a being so unreasonably handsome, we should all be able to join and become Horatio. Yet we cannot, and that cannot stand!