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[Deadmeat1471]

Star Ruling!

Bello III, Home of the Bay12 empire. Military outpost 31 is floating about full of ammo and fuel.

We have word that two alien races have declared war on us, we do not have a navy, this is bad.
The Yervil, Yantiz and Dustrup have come to the conclusion we are pure evil and must be destroyed.


I see an incoming fleet. This is bad.



Large transport freighters transport goods to the capital from our 3 colonies in the system, the capital is in dire need of advanced materials but the labour force from the planets 3 shipyards makes is a great asset.
The shipyards are currently building 2 capital ships and a bunch of fighters, to defend the system from any alien invasions!
Our researchers are fiddling about in white coats, not quite knowing what does what yet.

[forsaken1111]

Those drydocks and such will be a great asset when they actually stay in orbit of the planets. 

[Deadmeat1471]

Indeed, and people dont blame the graphics on the game, Its my fault! my laptop cant handle much! but i will up the graphics for the next pics, as very low is below even my lowely laptops capabilities.

[Orb]

Wow, this makes me really want to buy it.


Curious, what is the filesize?

[Deadmeat1471]

Pretty small i think about 200mb

[Leonon]

The Yervil, Yantiz and Dustrup have come to the conclusion we are pure evil and must be destroyed.

What did you do to make them so pissed off?

[Deadmeat1471]

Built a shipyard, I guess they are Unionist aliens and didnt want competition in the shipbuilding industry

[Deadmeat1471]

An enemy Dreadnaught is intercepted going through our system.

And blown to smitherines by our growing fleet!

[Firgof Umbra]

[Fixed] Unowned objects can now be fired upon by any empire.
[Fixed] Zooming out from an object disobeyed max zoom distances.
[Fixed] The names of the Propulsion and Gravitics were too long for some zoom distances in the research window.
[Fixed] Ships would not take fuel from planets if there would be too little fuel remaining on the planet.
[Fixed] Settings in the new game menu would get "stuck" with their previous values if untouched.
[Fixed] Solar panels now are able to hold Charge. This fixes a problem where solar panels alone would result in a disabled ship despite there being no warnings.
[Fixed] Multi-Racks will now level with Ship Systems, rather than staying at level 1.
[Fixed] Some error handling code for saves had been erroneously left disabled.
[Fixed] Fixed some minor errors in the tutorial.
[Fixed] Mining Laser power consumption scaled with level.
[Fixed] Changing camera sensitivity would have no impact until restarting the game.
[Fixed] Some packets were using too strict a reliability, which could slow down connections.
[Fixed] Some unused data was left in objects. It has been removed, reducing memory usage slightly.
[Fixed] Players can no longer join into the "Pirates" empire.
[Fixed] The Time text overlapped the top bar buttons if the window was resized during loading.
[Fixed] AI Settings were shown wrong after loading a layout.
[Changed] Rebalanced all weapons' firing rates. Overall, damage should be reduced late game, and all weapons should produce similar damage rates.
[Changed] Ship rotation should be far, far faster for larger ships, and mildly faster for smaller ships. Further, ships beyond scale 3600 will turn no slower.
[Changed] All sub systems gain 5% of their base health per level, if they weren't already increasing health per level.
[Changed] All weapons now get longer-ranged with scale.
[Changed] Armor can now be scaled for finer control, and to avoid spamming copies of armor.
[Changed] Coolant System effectiveness scales to 2x with level, rather than becoming progressively more insane.
[Changed] Star explosion effects no longer have a long delay before playing.
[Changed] There is now a minimum zoom in distance for tiny objects, preventing issues of the camera getting locked in place.
[Added] In AI Settings, the min/max level is shown as a numerical % beside the bar.
[Added] Added a button to the blueprints list to toggle the obsolete state on a blueprint.
[Added] Planet queues can now be controlled in multiplayer.
[Added] Planet governors can now be toggled in multiplayer.
[Added] Added lots of new pages to the tutorial covering many requested areas.
[Added] Added additional hint information to various weapons.
[Added] Added a drop-down box to the options menu to change resolution.
[Added] Added "Flight Time" stat to the layout editor. Shows how long the ship can run with its fuel use/capacity.

It's not a final list just yet, but this is what is looking like is going to be included in the next patch.  We may add a few more things to that list before the patch ships, depending on how things go tomorrow.

[Poltifar]

I'm still a bit confused about some stuff... Is there a way to choose what ship model your empire is using? Or even the actual name/color of the empire? Or is it all random?

[Firgof Umbra]

It's all randomized at the moment but editing and setting them will be exposed shortly along with a much more robust new game interface/lobby system.

[Empty]

Bah. Annoying camera control.

I don't want to have to get a degree in lateral movement just so I can send some scout ships around...

[Poltifar]

Bah. Annoying camera control.

I don't want to have to get a degree in lateral movement just so I can send some scout ships around...

I read in the forum that pressing 'x' gives an explore order, ordering selected ships to go to unexplored systems. I didnt try it yet, but if it works, you could build a ton of tiny fast scouts and 'x' them all at once to scatter them in all the galaxy.

[forsaken1111]

It does work.

[Poltifar]

Perfect, so just shift-doubleclick the generic tiny scout ship in the planet production screen a dozen times and 'x' them all and you'll have intel about far more than enough systems for quite some time.