The Giant Update

Build 0006 is ready for the private alpha. If you're part of it, please read the important information at the bottom of this page.

This is a massive update, I've estimated that writing a full patch note would take me about two full days of work, which just isn’t worth it.

Instead, I'll highlight a few key changes:

• Complete rework of the economy/production line simulation and lot of AI (build order, investment behaviour) work plus a complete overhaul of the UI.

• Overhauled the trade node simulation.

• Full scenario system (with a new playable scenario)

• Doctrine/RoE system for spaceship/AI

• UI/UX rework: numerous tweaks including ship navigation, camera controls, keybindings, RTS-style selection, Time-on-Target orders, queued orders, improved interactions, new interface windows, and much much more.

• Space combat rework: expanded weapons, reworked all ships, modules, and weapon stats; added many special behaviours; implemented sensor-based missile detection; improved the complex damage model; overhauled planetary bombardment mechanics; added nuclear blast effects (both in space and on the ground), and more.

• Some graphical enhancements: improved gas and dust clouds, orbital bombardment effects, and more.

• Reworked historical simulation

• Reworked colonization mechanics

• Improved atmospheric simulation and accretion model of planetary bodies

• Massive improvements to AI and overall performance

• Better performance, improved code maintainability, and reduced code volume

• Production-level Lua support, expanded moddability, and broader localization

• Countless bug fixes

• Numerous tweaks and small feature additions

When starting the prologue : read your in-game mail.

There is a small performance drop (game hangs for 250-500ms) every day passing -> sorry about that, it Will be easily fixed: it is the lua (daily) script methods being recompiled each time instead of being cached virtually during call.

WARNING : SAVE/LOAD IS DISABLED FOR THIS BUILD

Save/load is currently transitioning to a fully native, serializable data structure (currently 90% of game entities follow this strict structure). Once complete, this will ensure long-term stability and allow future expansions without introducing bugs or extra development overhead.

WARNING : MAIN SCENARIO IS DISABLED

The main game mode is currently disabled to focus development on smaller scenarios, which are used to iterate and test focused gameplay slices more efficiently.