• AI control is now available in all combat modes, including conquest, multiplayer, and missions.
• Fixed bug where crew would get caught in a loop of alternating between manning sickbay and fetching wounded for the sickbay.
• Visiting bees or wasps with the same ship a second time no longer prevents the nest from launching its flyers.
• After an intercept, your fleet must now return to a port rather than being able to do another intercept immediately, to prevent players from repeatedly re-intercepting and fleeing from the same fleet.
• When fleeing from being intercepted, the game now informs you that you will lose your whole fleet.
• Waves in Per Fess heraldry layout are now displayed correctly.
• The game now knows the plural of "worm eye".
• Limping back now displays accurate travel time.
• Zoom in/out keys are now remappable.
• AI less likely to flood the player with low chance of success spy actions.
• AI less likely to diplomatically interact with non-adjacent empires.
• Cleaned up duplicate English translation keys.
• Fixed some minor/rare crashes and GUI problems.

Health is slowly improving. Work on Heroes and Villains proceeds. All is well.

[ 2023-04-16 16:01:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Design steampunk pixel airships out of functional modules and conquer the skies!

In the game, ships are viewed side-on, and their modules are operated by individual crew members. During combat, players give high-level commands to a small fleet, positioning their ships, ramming and boarding others. Ships and terrain are fully destructible: they can catch fire, explode, break apart, and fall. Players can also compete against one another in Internet and LAN matches.

The ships are highly detailed, teeming with sailors moving around at their individual tasks, like an ant farm or a cut-away drawing. The player's choices in ship layout are crucial, and an important part of the game is exploring the design space of different airships and their matching tactics.