Hello everyone, and a huge thank you for your support throughout this time! Im excited to announce that Ive released the full gameplay of the game! After a few weeks of testing and fixes, Ill press the full release button on Steam once the new screenshots and trailers are ready. In the meantime, you can enjoy this update! Id love it if you could share your thoughts in the game reviewsyour feedback will be a huge support for the project before the full launch! You can play older versions of the game by switching to the beta branch in the application settings, for example, to version 0.9.7. This MASSIVE update brings you a brand-new gaming experience!

• A final mission with rocket launches;
• A map six times larger with a new game design;
• Enemy camps;
• New resources, resource limits;
• Resources now need to be transported from all corners of the map;
• New buildings;
• Outposts;
• Improved balance;
• Enhanced environmental design;
• Optimization improvements;
• Build multiple colonies at once, set up outposts for resource collection, capture enemy camps, and establish supply routes!

Launching the Space Station

The final mission has been added! Completing it will bring a sense of achievement as you finish the map. Your goal is to develop a high-tech colony and launch three shuttles carrying components for an orbital station! These launches will require rare resources. Completing a single map up to this final stage will take 3-5 hours.
After completing all missions, you can continue playing in free mode.

New Map Design

All maps have been completely reworked! They are now significantly larger and designed to encourage the creation of multiple colonies and outposts. Youll need to set up logistics routes between them and use faster ships to deliver resources directly to your base.

New maps:

Great River A continent divided by several wide river channels. Islands Numerous small islands requiring a complex logistics network. Icy Ridges Colonies and logistics must be built between narrow mountain passes. Canyons A mix of plateaus and valleys, offering strategic choices for colony placement.

Improved Terrain and Performance

Shaders for terrain rendering and resource overlays have been rewritten, improving visual quality. FPS boost by 15%! Maps now feature multiple biomes and unique visual designs in some locations.

New Resources and Buildings

Dont worryI havent just stretched the game! Instead, Ive expanded the number of resources, buildings, and mechanics. Old production chains have also been improved and refined.
New extractable resources:

• Natural gas
• Nuclear materials

New ship-mined resources:

• Silicon
• Platinum
• Gold
• Copper

New crafted resources:

• Hydrogen
• Carbon
• Electronics
• Superconductors

New factories:

• Gas extractor
• Nuclear extractor
• Hydrogen factory
• Electronics factory
• Superconductors factory

Resource Limits and Outposts

Each resource deposit now has a finite reserve that gradually replenishes, preventing players from stationing multiple high-level mining ships in a single spot. You'll have to search for new deposits!
Outposts increase the total resources available in a deposit, boosting extraction rates. Each deposit can have up to two outposts of one type:

• Geological Survey Outpost
• Mining Outpost

The resource display on the map has been improved, now showing limits and replenishment rates for deposits.

Oblivion Camps

Enemy camps now appear on maps with different threat levels and Oblivion ships that regenerate over time. Waves of enemy ships will now launch from these camps, meaning attacks will come from multiple directions. Clearing a camp raises the Oblivion threat level in the region, increasing the number and strength of enemy ships.
Rewards for Destroying Enemy Ships Destroying enemy ships now grants random rewards based on their power and attributes, including:

• Ship parts of various types
• Money
• Research points
• 4x increased rewards for clearing enemy camps

Shipyards and Shipbuilding Reworked

There are now three shipyard levels instead of two. Each new shipyard level unlocks more ship blueprints, but these require higher-quality parts, now divided into three types:

• Standard parts (Basic ships Shipyard Level 1)
• Special parts (Advanced ships Shipyard Level 2)
• Nuclear parts (Top-tier ships Shipyard Level 3)

The shipyard interface has been redesigned:

• Compact part lists
• Researching new parts is now available directly from the shipyard UI
• Improved Research Tree
• The ship research branch has been moved to the shipyard UI.
• Shipyards and part factories have been moved to the main tech tree.

New Heavy Warship

Tempest The largest ship available. It lacks a cargo hold but has:

• High durability
• 3 upgrade slots
• 6 weapon slots

Multi-Ship Selection

You can now select multiple ships by dragging a selection box or holding Shift to issue a single command to multiple ships at once.

Peaceful Mode

Based on player requests, you can now disable enemy ship spawns, enemy camps, and economic incidents when creating a game. This is perfect for those who want a peaceful gameplay experience. However, in hard mode, enemy ships now deal twice as much damage, making them a real threat!

New Localizations

• Korean
• Italian
• Swedish

Other Improvements

• Water purifier redesigned;
• Polymer factory redesigned;
• Tier 2 polymer factory removed;
• New model for the transport hub;
• New small and medium parts factory models;
• New universal shipyard model, unlocking new part sets as corresponding factories are built;
• Medical lab model updated;
• Steel and titanium factories redesigned;
• Drone factory model optimized.
• Firewall model optimized.
• Targeting system fixed, preventing duplicate pact objectives
• Trade route suggestions refined
• Quest system backend improved
• Tutorial can now be closed with an X button
• Ultrawide (21:9) resolution support added
• Resource calculations sped up
• UI overflow issue fixed for players with more than 24 ships

I hope you enjoy this update! It was a lot of hard work to bring the game to its current stage, and Im really exhausted, but Im also very happy with the game! Your support means a lot to methank you for being here all this time!

[ 2025-03-04 15:52:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! In this update, Ive added a Colony Overview and production limits, along with a dozen fixes and improvements!

Colony Overview

I received a lot of feedback requesting a colony overview, and now its finally here in this patch! The overview is generated from buildings connected to the Storage Network, so if you have two bases, youll see reports for each one separately. It includes details such as:

• Colony storage with production limits
• Energy networks
• Engineers overview, including average values and resource consumption
• Income, research progress, and spare parts production

Production Limits

In the colony overview, you can now set a resource limit for specific storage facilities. Each cycle, every factory checks whether the resource limit has been reached. If the limit is exceeded, the factory skips the cycle, freeing up engineers to work elsewhere.

Engineer Improvements

• Improved engineer profilesstats are now clearer and more intuitive.
• Morale recovery algorithms have been optimizedonce morale reaches the max limit, resources are no longer wasted.
• Fixed bugs in game logic and production multipliers that caused excessive resource production in buildings with multiple engineers.
• Increased motivation decay for engineers from 0.65 per rank to 1 per rank (on medium difficulty). Now, keeping engineers motivated is more challenging!
• Balanced and added display of consumed resources in units.
• Optimized internal algorithms for better performance.

Combat System Updates

• Decreased the interval between enemy waves.
• Accelerated the arrival of the first enemy wave.
• Increased weapon costs at the shipyard.

Other Gameplay Improvements

• Removed free containersthis mechanic disrupted storage logic, so now destroyed ships will consume resources instead.
• Economy update interval set to 9 seconds (3 sec in x3 speed). Previously, I increased it from 6 to 12 seconds, but in practice, it felt too slow.
• Multi-placement for blueprintsyou can now place multiple buildings at once. Exit construction mode using right-click, Esc, or clicking the menu again.
• Tech tree progression rebalanced for a smoother development curve.
• Water factory construction costs adjustedit now requires aluminum and ore instead of steel, as the previous cost made it significantly less viable than the basic factory.
• Fixed research order for the large Shipyard.

Bug Fixes

• Added a network availability check for buildings after generators are destroyed.
• Fixed a bug where the oil generators fuel consumption per cycle was missing from its description.
• Correct display of resource production in the built buildings' card.

Whats Next?

Ill be testing the game for critical bugs over the next few days. If nothing major comes up, Ill start working on update 0.10.0! Its expected to take 3-4 weeks, as it will introduce new resources, buildings, and larger maps. Ill keep you postedsee you soon!

[ 2025-02-03 07:28:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! While the Steam strategy festival was underway, featuring Oasis Mission, I was hard at work developing this major update!

It consists of three parts:

• Combat system improvements
• General gameplay improvements
• Engine, graphics, and performance enhancements

I apologize for not being able to respond to everyone in the discussions yet. I really wanted to release this patch, as it significantly improves the game's feel, especially in combat.

Combat System

Ship Control

• Added missile range display.
• Holding the right mouse button allows you to set the ship's desired rotation, displaying the missile range if applicable.
• Ships now automatically turn toward their target to increase missile hit chances.

Projectile Improvements

• Added smoke effects for projectiles.
• Projectiles will now fire if an enemy is within the damage area.
• New destruction animation for buildings.
• New destruction animation for ships.

New animation of projectiles

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Other Combat System Enhancements

• Increased the number of enemy waves by 20% and accelerated the arrival of initial waves. In existing games, previously generated waves (those shown in the timeline at the top) will retain the old timer, while new waves will generate faster.
• Clicking on an enemy ship makes your ship turn toward and attack it.
• Clicking on a friendly ship orders it to be repaired (if a repair module is available).
• Clicking on a friendly structure orders it to be repaired (if a repair module is available).

General Gameplay Improvements

Adaptive Events

Now, events depend on the state of your colony. Only events that impact the colonys economy will occur. Additionally, the cost of a positive resolution now depends on the event's economic impact.

Other Gameplay Enhancements

• Fixed Mouse Pan getting stuck after interacting with a ship.
• Improved sound design for scene objects.
• Enhanced ship engine animations and sounds.
• A blackout now pauses ship activity without resetting all tasks. The ship resumes operations once protection is restored.
• Fixed incorrect ship destruction during resource gathering or construction.
• Proper destruction of residencesnow engineers CORRECTLY (haha) die and STOP WORKING AFTER DEATH (haha) in factories.

Engine Improvements

Rendering Speed and Performance Boosts

• Reduced freezes by 90%.
• Improved rendering responsiveness.
• Reduced rendering latency.
• Smoother animations.
• Eliminated freezes when selecting a building location.
• Added LODs for terrain, reducing polygon count when zooming out or rendering shadows outside the main field of view.
• Replaced the landscape shader with a more universal projection shader, supporting more decorative variations in the future.
• Increased GPU performance.
• Fixed various rendering artifacts.
• Improved terrain loading, modification, and rendering performance.
• Enhanced shadow rendering quality by increasing the VRAM buffer size.
• Fixed incorrect terrain deformations at landscape chunk junctions.
• Landscape collision calculations are now 15 times faster.

Instance Scene Composer

• Enabled multithreading for the 3D scene instance composer.
• Optimized and accelerated the instance composer.

I hope you enjoy the update and encounter minimal bugs! Either way, Ill be actively monitoring feedback and promptly fixing any issues, as well as reviewing the errors you reported this week. Thank you all so much for your support!

[ 2025-01-28 18:20:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! I want to share my plans for the upcoming updates! First of all, I can see that the last three updates have made the game much more intuitive, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive! Im incredibly happy and grateful for that! I really liked the storage connection systemit makes developing a large base much more enjoyable and simplifies resource management since everything is drawn from a unified network.

Many of the future improvements are based on your feedback!

0.10.0

Map Size Increase and New Resources

I plan to add new large maps in 0.10.0 and new resources. The idea is that the increased map size will encourage players to establish a second colony, which will require setting up a resource exchange system. Resource deposits will be distributed in a way that allows the first colony to function independently for about 1-2 in-game hours. After that, players will hit a resource shortage necessary for progression and will have to venture out to find and extract them. These maps will be 4-5 times larger than the current ones, meaning resources will be located at significant distances. This is where trade routes and cargo ships will become truly essential! Additionally, I plan to introduce a maximum extraction limit per area or source to encourage players to establish new mining outposts.

0.9.6-0.9.7

Direct Ship Control

Im working on adding manual control over a ships altitude and rotation using the mouse. This will be especially useful in combat since missile ballistics depend on height and ship orientation.

Damage Area Visualization

For combat ships, I plan to introduce a radial damage zone that will display the approximate trajectory of different missile types. For example: - Heavy missiles fly almost in a straight line. - Light missiles can curve up to 300 degrees.

Click-to-Target Commands

Clicking on an enemy ship will make your ship turn towards it and fire missiles if possible. Clicking on a friendly ship will activate repair modules if available. And so on.

Projectile Behavior Improvements

Right now, weapons fire regardless of whether the shot is likely to hit. I plan to implement a simple targeting system so ships only fire when theres a reasonable chance of hitting the target. Additionally, I plan to improve missile animations, add smoke trails, and make explosions and ship destruction more epic.

Colony Overview

From player feedback, I noticed that many would like an overview of production and engineer status in the colony. I plan to add this feature.

Resource Production Limits

Ill add a resource production limit setting for storage networks to prevent overproduction of any single resource.

Routes Optimization

I also plan to improve trade routes so that ships seek return cargo when traveling between two bases.

Performance Enhancements

Depending on your PCs power, you may experience frame drops due to CPU delays in adjacent threads. This is especially noticeable on the Steam Deck, where frame tearing occurs almost constantly when moving the camera. I want to find a way to fix this.

Resource Display Improvements

Theres currently some confusion in how resources are displayed on the map. I plan to refine this. And many More Small Improvements! I will do my best to implement all of these enhancements by February-March 2025.

[ 2025-01-24 15:29:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Water and oil sources are no longer divided into deep and shallow types

This was confusing for many players. At the same time, in future patches, I plan to add a new underground resource, which will bring more variety to the economy. Additionally, a cap on maximum extraction per area will be introduced to encourage the construction of new extraction camps in 0.9.8.

Fixes

• Fixed points in Research Goals.
• Fixed resource purchasing when the balance is negative.
• Fixed an issue where the first trade ship would not arrive.
• Fixed a bug with empty engineer slots being displayed.
• Added scrolling to the routes and trade routes menu.
• Fixed misaligned text in the building menu header.
• Other minor fixes.

[ 2025-01-19 11:54:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Trading ships now correctly trade with the Storage Network.

[ 2025-01-16 13:00:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! In this update, Ive significantly reworked the storage system, work areas, and made several other improvements. I believe this update has made the game more intuitive and much less confusing! A huge thanks to everyone for your feedback and suggestions, which greatly helped in designing this update!

Storages Network:

When constructing storage buildings, their work area (130 meters) will be displayed. Storages within this radius can be linked into a single network once both buildings are fully constructed and connected.
After linking, a special connector storage is built between the two. Note: There must be no other buildings between the linked storages to establish the connection. A unified storage network sums up the total capacity and resources of all connected storages. This means that buildings connected to the network wont need to figure out which specific storage to pull resources from or where to place finished products.

Building Work Area Improvements:

In previous versions, players had separate work areas for "Storages" and "Engineers", which overlapped with "Power" and "Resources" areas. This created excessive visual clutter, making it difficult to understand what was going on. Now, all buildings have one large work area (700 meters) within which they can connect and interact with other buildings. The work area is outlined with a thick border, preventing it from visually conflicting with other zones.

Ship Behavior with Storages Network:

When transporting resources, ships will automatically head to the nearest storage in the network or to a specific one if you manually choose it. By expanding your storage network with new connection nodes, you can reduce traffic jams caused by ships queuing up at storages!

Other Fixes and Improvements:

• Fixed bugs that likely caused game freezes during building construction for mission tasks. Other bugs that could cause crashes were also fixed.
• Fixed several performance leaks.
• Fixed an issue where the color of a newly built ship wouldnt apply to its icon in the UI.
• Fixed incorrect ship icons displaying in route lists.
• Improved the contrast of highlighted elements.
• Improved responsiveness when selecting buildings.
• Fixed a bug where the building's work area would lag behind the buildings movement during construction.
• Fixed the progress display for ore extraction objectives.

Enjoy the update, and keep the feedback coming!

[ 2025-01-15 20:29:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello! In this update, I focused on enhancing the AI and behavioral patterns of ships, improving the user interface, fixing performance issues, and implementing improvements based on your feedback!

Storage System Rework Announcement

The storage system has received the most critical feedback so far. Its clear that it needs significant adjustments. I've gathered all your suggestions, and Ill start working on the storage mechanics overhaul in the next patch!

Major Fixes for Memory and CPU Leaks

There were serious memory and CPU leaks caused by the animation and time interpolation library I use. In the new version of this library, expired functions werent being properly cleared, leading to unnecessary code execution. Fixing this issue has significantly improved performance during the late stages of the game.

Ships AI Improvements:

• Improved behavior patterns for construction ships they now take resources in bulk, with optimized algorithms for efficiency.
• Fixed an issue with the repair module ships behavior pattern.
• Enhanced task search and task memory algorithms for ships.
• Fixed issues where ships would switch between tasks or become confused.
• Fixed bugs where ships became idle without performing any tasks.
• Fixed a bug where ships took control away from the player and didnt move to the designated point.
• Fixed an issue where construction ships wouldnt unload into storage or only used a portion of the storage compartments for required resources.
• Optimized AI algorithms for better performance.
• Improved responsiveness of ships to tasks and player commands.
• Mining, delivery, and construction abilities can now be manually activated when directing a ship to a specific target.

Economic Adjustments:

• Extended the economic cycle interval from 6 to 12 seconds (or 4 seconds at x3 speed) to reduce information overload for players.
• Improved the economic cycle timer to ensure consistent production values between cycles without decimal deviations.

UI Improvements:

• Added and improved tooltips in the route interface, with various bug fixes.
• Grouped ships by color in the bottom menu for better visual clarity.
• Color selection for future buildings and ships is now saved across sessions.
• Ship and building colors will persist after saving and loading the game.
• Various small UI improvements and bug fixes.
• Fixed an issue where players would get confused when trying to purchase blueprints if the interface rounded their balance up to a higher value than they actually had.
• Improved the ship upgrade experience now, the ship editing interface opens immediately, without needing to wait for the ship to move to the shipyard.

Many of these changes were directly influenced by player feedback, and more improvements are planned for upcoming patches. Thank you for your support and feedback!

[ 2025-01-08 10:46:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! In this update, Ive made many improvements, including some based on your feedback!

Game Time, Performance:

• Added an algorithm that limits economy updates and animation calculations to no more than 90 times per second. This helps reduce CPU and RAM usage for players with over 90 FPS.
• Improved game time interpolation to smooth out animations and calculations during occasional freezes, if they occur.
• Fixed bugs where the displayed game speed was incorrect or didn't update properly.

Game Menu and Settings (Esc):

• Added the ability to change settings during gameplay.
• Added a camera reset option in the menu.
• Added a mouse sensitivity setting.
• Added a keyboard control sensitivity setting.
• Vertical sync (VSync) is now enabled by default, with an option to toggle it on or off.

Pacts and Objectives:

• Fixed objective behavior objectives now shuffle automatically after a selection is made.
• Fixed an issue where the objective order would randomly change when the objective selection window was opened.

Other Improvements:

• Improved translation quality.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the game from launching when Steam was disabled.
• Slightly improved task rotation and task quality.

Thank you all for your support and feedback! Keep sharing your thoughts!

[ 2025-01-05 20:59:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello! Happy New Year!

In this patch, Ive refined and optimized the graphics and interface.

Improved Procedural Rock Generation

Rocks now feature a more detailed and appealing texture, giving them a more dynamic appearance.

Enhanced Shadows & Lighting Across All Settings

Shadows are now smoother and more precise, with improved accuracy and better contrast in lighting.

Interface Optimization

Interactive and pop-up interface elements now have smoother and more optimized animations.

Other Improvements:

• Camera position is now saved when saving and loading the game.
• Performance improved by ~5%.
• Enhanced anti-aliasing quality.

Today, I will start going through your feedback that has accumulated over the holidays!

[ 2025-01-02 09:45:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your support and feedback! Im incredibly grateful to you all! In this patch, Ive improved the shaders and post-processing, as well as polished the most noticeable issues in the game and fixed various bugs.

Post-Processing Shader

Ive optimized the anti-aliasing shader, and now theres a slight blur effect on distant objects along with a subtle glow for bright areas. Ive written a highly efficient algorithm, so this doesnt increase the GPU load.

Engine Animation

Now ships generate smoke emissions, with their intensity varying depending on the ship's rotation and movement. Thanks to good optimization, this requires relatively little GPU power, despite the increased number of fire and smoke simulations.

Gameplay Improvements:

• Added a step-by-step guide for creating a new game.
• In the tech tree, research points for blueprints are highlighted in red if there arent enough points to unlock the technology or pact.
• Fixed duplication of combat ship missions.
• Increased storage capacities for trade ships: - 600 1000, - 1200 2000, - 1800 3000.
• Added an additional notification when demolishing a building.

Fixes:

• Corrected text and translations in the objectives and pacts windows.
• Corrected text and translations in the landing hub.
• Added extra tooltips about engineers in buildings.
• Synced building and ship names in quests.
• Fixed typos.
• Fixed numerical overflows in balance fields and active objective displays.

[ 2024-12-27 20:15:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

I feel awkward asking you for this, especially since you already invest so much and do so much for the project. However, I really need your objective reviews on the game's page, as there are currently many old reviews from versions 0.6.00.8.0 that wont even be updated because those users requested refunds. On top of that, the game is getting reviews from people who leave negative feedback on every game, even iconic ones. What do they even expect? This is completely ruining the games Steam page, and I cant do anything to fix it. So, I would be immensely grateful if you could write a small review!

[ 2024-12-22 17:21:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! I'm thrilled to share this fantastic update! In it, I managed to finalize most of the planned mechanics, and their implementation is as close to ideal as possible! For example, I prototyped the trade mechanic about eight times over two years, but now it's finally perfect! Interestingly, your feedback in discussions about routes played a huge role. Essentially, I just created routes with other factions! It's simple yet brilliant, and, most importantly, easy for players to understand, as visually, these are almost two identical mechanics.

Foreword and Gratitude

Right now, the game looks better than ever! I can hardly believe I developed it alone, inspired by your feedback! Without your input, the game would have turned out very differently, so I want you to appreciate the value of your contributions! I see that some things still need polishingnew maps, ships, and modules need to be addedbut the main pool and core mechanics are ready. Perhaps I could also add area-based active abilities.

Strategic Pacts

These are essentially powerful laws and decrees that affect the entire colony. Some pacts provide temporary improvements, while others offer permanent benefits. Certain pacts have negative effects to balance them out. Their key strength lies in how they subtly allow you to control the pace and gameplay, crafting your own story and game modes. At the same time, they add a role-playing element to managing your colony!

Strategic Objectives

These are goals presented to you at random for you to choose from. They allow you to take on situational tasks that bring additional rewards, enhancing variety and immersion.

Routes

A much-requested feature by many players! You can now configure routes between storage facilities and set conditions for resource transportation. Amusingly, I implemented it almost exactly as you described in the discussions! Ships make transport decisions based on the settings you provide!

Trade

I used the route pattern to create a trade system with other colonies. Essentially, its a similar system to routes, but it involves ships from the outside world, with your trade partner located off-map.
You can purchase trade routes and configure them to maximize profitsor even become a trade company yourself, earning by reselling resources!

Events

I replaced pop-up notifications with Events. Initially, its still a pop-up, but now it requires opening, and sometimes you can make situational decisions based on your economy. Events will occur in a different order in every playthrough, ensuring unique challenges and opportunities for adaptation each time.

Engineer Departures

Engineers now leave the colony in a controlled manner, and you can even bribe them to stay! Every 15 minutes (approximately two in-game months), they decide whether to leave or remain. The lower the morale level (starting from 30), the higher the chance they'll leave. When they decide to go, youll encounter an Event that gives you one last chance to convince them to stay.

New Wave and Hacking System

These systems have been improved to make them more predictable and to allow interaction with other systems, like pacts or events. The core mechanics remain the same, but the design and technical implementation have been enhanced, making them suitable for longer gameplay sessions.

Ship Memory

Ships now remember where theyve been sent before and can recall objects. For instance, theyll associate themselves with a specific storage for loading items or a specific mining site for ore. Target icons have also been added to action buttons, making it clearer what and where a ship will perform its task.

Other Improvements

• Save system enhancements
• Interface optimizations
• Improved sound design
• Fixed interface bugs
• Fixed a rare issue where models would flicker

I hope you encounter as few bugs as possible, but if you do come across anything, please report it in the discussions!

[ 2024-12-19 18:30:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

In this update, Ive finally completed the integration and testing of the Steam Overlay for Windows and GeForce Experience. I hope this will help grow the games community and encourage sharing screenshots on Steam!

Improved Ship HUD Display

- Added health and energy indicators for enemy ships. - Enhanced visual grouping of HUD interface elements for ships.

Camera and Fog Improvements

- Removed camera angle restrictions; maximum view distance increased by 25%. - Enhanced fog rendering formula, with new fog lighting adding extra depth to the image and improving overall visibility.

Fixes and Improvements:

- Fixed a save game error that occurred if there was an unfinished water or oil extractor in the game. - Corrected overlapping issues with some windows. - Fixed an error in the help section. - Fixed color correction on the map boundary with the background.

[ 2024-11-25 19:40:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your support, and a special thanks to StellarWolf for your incredible involvement in testing! Im excited to announce the start of development on Patch 0.9.0! In this update, Ive taken into account players feedback and issues, and Ive come up with ways to make the game even better. It will follow Patch 0.8.5, which will focus on fixing existing bugs. The goal of this update is to make the gameplay more personal and unique! Shape the story to fit your own style!

Strategic Pacts and Objectives

Inspired by tabletop games and recent strategies like Dune and Against the Storm, Ive developed the mechanics of Pacts and Objectives. These are powerful abilities that can dramatically change the course of the game! Pacts, objectives, and their slots will be unlockable through the abilities tree. A pact slot will require a LONG cooldown but deliver a POWERFUL effect, which can be either passive or active. An objective slot will require specific conditions to activate and recharge. For example, you can drastically reduce the threat of ship attacks, but at the cost of bonuses to your economy, factories, engineers, or research speed!

Economic Events and Engineer Resignations

Currently, economic events and engineer resignations often happen in the background, with little player involvement. In the new version, I plan to give players more control and options. Each event will come with multiple crisis management decisions. Youll also gain an overview of colonists planning to leave and be able to persuade them to stay by offering counter-proposals.

Money and Global/Orbital Abilities

Engineers will generate income through taxes. This money can be spent on orbital strikes, support ships, supplies, summoning trade ships, and more.

I cant wait to share this update with you in December!

I hope it all comes together just as I imagine!

[ 2024-11-23 14:15:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

This update introduces a detailed help center for the captain, with descriptions of the core game mechanics. A critical save game issue has also been fixed.

[ 2024-11-18 15:40:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Landscape Optimization

Increased game loading speed and reduced memory usage by optimizing all landscape operations.

Fixed Ship Collisions

Ships now have priority based on their tonnage. If ship tonnages are identical, the ship with the higher internal ID is prioritized.

Ship Hull Information

A short summary of the ship hull is now displayed in the technology tree.

Other Improvements:

- Fixed an issue with repainting newly created ships and color reset after exiting the shipyard. - Fixed the disappearance of ship rolling animations upon exiting the game and loading a level. - Added a loader after saving the game.

[ 2024-11-09 14:28:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

This update significantly reduces VRAM and RAM usage, resulting in improved rendering speed responsiveness. It also fixes some loading issues with certain textures and objects.

Difficulty and Intensity Adjustments

In new games, the intervals before the first wave of hacks and enemies, as well as between waves at all difficulty levels, have been increased by 30%. This adjustment makes it easier for players to manage time and eases the early game experience on lower difficulty levels.

Playlist Intensity

The playlist is now divided into three groups: low, medium, and high intensity, with tracks selected based on in-game events to match the atmosphere.

Energy Network

The logic of the power networks has been fixed. Now, battery charge can reach 100% if energy generation is sufficient to cover the last cycle's operational costs of the factories.

New Ship Ability - Cargo Drop

Drop the ship's cargo into a container to clear the overloaded compartment. This is useful in case the compartment is blocked due to unnecessary resources piling up early in the game.

Other Changes

- The base radius of industrial ships has been slightly increased to avoid issues in hard-to-reach areas. - Building construction is canceled when the construction menu is closed. - Improved sound design for some UI elements.

[ 2024-11-05 13:07:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

In this update, Ive added combat mechanics with resistance to the machine uprising and completely reworked the colonist system! Additionally, I've introduced the option to choose a backstory, which unlocks certain blueprints available in later stages of the game.

Oblivion Network Uprising

Once launched on a quantum supercomputer, a certain neural network instantly surpassed all known learning curves and managed to gain control over all known security protocols. Bits in quantum processors can be in a state of superposition, representing both 0 and 1 simultaneously, which enabled the AI to achieve an instant and human-uncontrolled rate of learning and spread across the network. You will need to protect your fleet and colonies using the Firewall network to prevent losing control and withstand waves of machines led by the Oblivion network that has rebelled against humanity.

Firewall

Oblivion enslaves the systems of your ships and buildings. Build antennas, radars, servers, and stations to protect your colonys territory, but keep in mind that Oblivion constantly increases its power and finds new ways to attack.

Oblivion Attacks

Oblivion sends enslaved ships to your colony. Youll need to assemble your combat fleet to resist these attacks.

Economic Crises

Global crises and cataclysms now trigger specific events that impact your colony and the motivation of your engineers. During these moments, your economy will face a true test of endurance.

Reworked Colonist System

• Engineers now have their own backstory and morale level, which can be replenished by consuming water, various supplies, and medicine.
• Engineers arrive at special hubs, from where they need to be assigned to residences.
• Likewise, engineers may choose to leave the colony via a transport hub and refuse to work. Your ships will need to transport them to the hub, otherwise, unemployed engineers will consume resources.
• Engineers lose morale while working and return to the residence when it reaches 0.
• If an engineer has to work without rest, the chance of them leaving the colony increases proportionally.

Backstory Selection

When starting a game, you can now choose your governing backstory, as well as the difficulty level of economic crises and resistance against Oblivion.

1 Map - 1 Game

A tough decision was made to disable map transitions within a single session, to focus on a cohesive gameplay experience within one map and deepen the game mechanics.

Other Improvements

Dynamic Quests Tasks are now issued dynamically, based on the state and pace of your colonys development. New Generator Generates energy from oil. Repair Module For repairing ships and buildings, but it cannot repair itself. Improved Material Loading Fixed some stuttering during material and shader loading. The game and map loading algorithms have been improved. UI Design The main menu, quests, ship, item, and building cards have been redesigned. Minor improvements have also been made to other elements. Map Design New resource spots have been added, and the environment and lighting design have been improved.

[ 2024-10-22 08:57:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Energy Network

• Buildings that generate energy are now connected into a unified energy network.
• A new building, "Energy Distributor," has been added, featuring a large energy reserve and area of effect.
• The radius of generators has been significantly reduced.

Short notifications

They inform and guide the player about important events.

Ship collisions

Now ships push each other when crossing paths.

Other changes:

• Added an error message if the game doesn't have access to the save folder;
• Fixed an issue where unfinished buildings would disappear after loading;
• Ships now remember a mine if you manually send them there;
• Added a list with descriptions of abilities in the shipyard;
• Added information about energy consumption to the module descriptions.

[ 2024-09-20 12:29:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

In this update, I have improved ship automation and fixed gameplay and technical issues that players encountered. The goal of this update is to enhance the player experience and address issues that disrupt the player's flow.

New Ability: "Auto-logistic"

Ships with the "Auto-logistic" ability enabled will monitor the needs of buildings and automatically transport resources to the nearest storage. This opens up automation possibilities if you have two or more bases.

Automation of Resource Collection for Construction

Now, ships with the construction ability enabled will independently locate the required resources in storage and follow them.

Improved Technology Tree

The technology tree is now vertical and more user-friendly, and it has been divided into two sections: "Ships" and "Colony."

Improved Camera Behavior

Camera shaking has been fixed. The zoom strength is no longer limited, with only protection remaining to prevent the camera from going underground.

UX: Improved Logic for Opening and Closing Windows

Now, the cursor for an open window of an active ship or building always resets when you select another object or construct a new building.

UX: Fixed Interface Layer Order

Now, 3D windows do not overlap fixed elements on the player's screen.

UX: Task Icons and Building Descriptions Displayed

To compensate for misunderstandings in cases where task descriptions and building names differ.

Other Improvements:

• Automatic ship abilities when loading the game;
• Fixed UI errors when switching between maps;
• Corrected icons in some places;
• Improved interface and interaction with the shipyard;
• Improved translations in some areas;
• Fixed some save game errors.

[ 2024-09-16 16:17:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you so much, CookieDGarp! You had such a heartfelt stream despite the issues you encountered during the game!) Ive noted down all the problems and will be working on fixing the bugs and improving the gameplay experience! And of course, look forward to a big update for the game next month! [previewyoutube=CaaVS0ZxQhg;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2024-09-14 14:00:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Rotation of the building on the 'Z' and 'X' keyboard keys has been added. Settings now include render shadow resolution quality control:

• Low - 1024 * 4 (artifacts may appear, requires minimal memory)
• Medium - 1024 * 6 (default)
• High - 1024 * 8 (soft yet precise shadows, recommended)
• Ultra - 1024 * 10 (sharp and most accurate shadows, requires a lot of memory)

Tooltips have been added to items in the shipyard. Some 3D models of ships have been optimized and corresponding LODs have been added. Fixed a bug where the natural environment was duplicated if you loaded without closing the game.

[ 2024-09-12 13:20:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

In this patch, Ive implemented gameplay improvements I previously discussed, all of which won't require a save wipe. Additionally, Ive made significant strides in optimizing shaders and the UI. Thank you so much for your ideas! Ill be responding to all comments and suggestions over the next day or two.

Photorealistic Soft Lighting

Inspired by the Cyberpunk 2077 Photorealistic mod, Ive developed a similar lighting version optimized for RTS. Im still maintaining the minimum standard of 60 FPS on an RTX 4060 at 4K resolution.

Automatic Engineer Assignment

Engineers are now automatically assigned to available slots upon arrival or when a new factory is built.

Ship AI Improvements

- Added a new behavior model, "Shipping," which automatically delivers resources to the nearest warehouse, such as offloading ore after mining. The warehouses effective range for factories has been doubled to reduce early-game inconvenience. - Fixed bugs that caused ships to stop executing tasks.

Screen UI Notifications Removed

With the gameplay overhaul, screen notifications have become unnecessary. Issues such as "Overloaded Ship," "No Resources," or unassigned engineers are now resolved through automation, expanded warehouse range, and the new "Shipping" ability for ships. The size of the red beams above buildings has been increased to draw more attention precisely where needed.

Environment

- Improved environment on the very first map, adding birds and fish. - Enhanced the balance between environmental sounds and music. - Reduced the propagation distance of object sounds by 15%.

UI Optimization: 800% Reduction in CPU Load

Eliminated the background process tracking library in favor of manual management.

Hitbox and Ship Route Optimization

Optimized hitbox analysis and ship pathfinding, reducing CPU load by 20-30 times and improving movement trajectories.

Rendering Optimization

Reduced GPU load by 25% and improved frame rendering request flow on the CPU side, reducing the number of missed frames.

Z-Fighting Resolved

Completely resolved Z-Fighting issues using a logarithmic buffer, which previously caused textures to overlap incorrectly.

Game Loading Improvements

Reduced required RAM and CPU tasks, speeding up game loading times.

Other Changes:

- Increased wind generator range by 50%. - All generators now produce 50% more energy. - Fixed an issue where the ship icon didnt change when swapping hulls.

[ 2024-09-08 13:57:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you very much for your feedback, support, and responses! Recently, the game received the necessary number of reviews for the recommendation system, and I am incredibly grateful to you! In this review, I want to share general feedback from players and ideas that will improve the game:

Too Many Notifications with Warnings

The overly noticeable design of notifications in the UI disrupts the game flow. Additionally, there can be an overwhelming number of notifications. I've found a few solutions to this problem:

Automatic Assignment of Engineers

Is it really necessary for the player to manually assign each engineer? It seems that automatically assigning engineers could eliminate the unnecessary "Engineer Not Assigned" notification.

Insufficient Resources and Overfilled Cargo Holds

Some factories require resources on a regular basis, while overfilled ships simply stop mining ore. Clearly, mining ships should automatically deliver resources to the appropriate warehouse. This would eliminate two types of notifications: "Overfilled Cargo Hold" and the recurring "Insufficient Resources."

Low Ship Energy

It might be better to reduce the ship's efficiency in a more immersive way, without special notifications. Perhaps add some indicators on the ship that attract attention, such as red lights.

Resource Logistics and Ship AI

I want to place more emphasis on logistics and resource transportation, creating a situation where the player establishes "logistics routes" for the ships. To achieve this, the ship AI will need to be improved so that the player can set resource transportation patterns for them.

Bugs with Ship AI

Currently, there are unfortunate situations where ships lose their tasks and remain idle, which will be fixed.

Conclusion

Before the next major update, I want to address these issues and release several improvements to the graphics and engine. As early as next month, I plan to start implementing combat encounters, which will bring new depth to the existing mechanics!

[ 2024-09-06 15:33:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Two new maps have been added to the game, "Island" and "Frozen Steppes". On these maps, you can encounter two new tree assets and a new bush asset. These maps are designed for the late game when you have access to a wide range of technologies.

[ 2024-08-31 09:53:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Im thrilled to announce the release of our most significant update yet: Version 0.7.0! This update brings a comprehensive overhaul to all game systems, introducing new features, improvements, and refinements to enhance your gaming experience! Of course, such a major update needs to be released with a new game trailer featuring the updated key mechanics! You can watch it on the games page or on YouTube: [previewyoutube=HQ4k2dP5drk;full][/previewyoutube]

Updates:

• Improved save and load system:
  • Progress is now saved for each map, allowing you to develop multiple colonies simultaneously
  • Moving between maps is now transition within the game
• Photo mode
• Interface and UX Improvements:
  • Complete redesign of the games interface for a more intuitive user experience.
  • Refactoring of the editor and its areas to streamline design and editing processes.
  • New click-action with the right mouse button on objects, making interactions quicker and easier.
  • In-game display of the technology tree with a redesigned layout for better visibility and navigation.
• Shipbuilding and Resource Management:
  • Introducing the Shipyard where you can now build new ships, utilizing quantum cores as a primary resource.
  • Expansion of shipyard levels and blueprints to support the construction of advanced vessels.
  • Removed unnecessary game item storage from corporations and cargo ships, streamlining inventory management.
  • New universal laser tool and updated ship-to-ship transfer system for more efficient resource handling.
• Missions and Quests:
  • Enhanced mission selection and ship customization, ensuring smooth transitions between tasks.
  • Reworked quest system with blueprint quests and mission-specific saves, providing a more focused and rewarding gameplay experience.
• Mining and Construction Overhaul:
  • Infinite mining introduced, with a rework of mining mechanics and clearer resource identification.
  • Construction system rework, including notifications for insufficient resources and energy block refactoring.
  • New models for ore and aluminum mining shafts, alongside small and medium factories for parts, medical supplies, bots, and special uniforms.
• Additional Features:
  • Steam Cloud integration for seamless progress saving across devices.
  • New global map presented as octagons with screenshots for a visually engaging navigation experience.
  • Enhanced photo mode, sound effects for building interactions, and color grading with LUTs for a more immersive visual experience.

This update marks a major step forward in the evolution of our game, providing you with new tools, systems, and challenges to conquer. I excited to see how youll leverage these upgrades to build, explore, and dominate the universe! Update your game now and dive into the massive changes brought by Version 0.7.0!

[ 2024-08-26 18:04:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

This update enhances nearly all game systems and addresses all issues players encountered in the previous version! The update will require a save wipe as almost everything in the game has changed.

New Building Types:

• Shipyard - Allows you to create and upgrade ships.
• Ship Parts Factory - Produces parts for the shipyard.
• Science Center - Produces points for the technology tree.

New Technology Tree:

The shipyard and the creation of new ships. After unlocking equipment in the technology tree, you'll be able to install it in the workshop.

Revised Mechanics and Improved Design:

And more updates that I'll share when the update is released!

[ 2024-08-13 07:32:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

An extensive improvement has been made to the game engine "Instance & Audio Compositor." This is a compositor for 3D scenes and audio environments operating in an independent CPU thread. This significantly reduced latency and load on the main process, making the visuals smoother and increasing FPS. Audio assets have been added for buildings, the rustling of leaves, and laser sounds when the camera zooms in.

Other improvements:

• Optimized camera movement, reducing CPU load.
• Display of cargo contents in the cargo hold above the ship.
• Optimized ship rendering.
• Added highlight for the ship under the cursor.
• Improved display of building action areas. Now circles do not overlap but merge into one zone. The rendering pipeline for areas has been optimized.
• Fixed a bug where selecting ships and buildings did not work in the first few seconds.
• Removed erroneous requirement for building on groundwater for the "Plant food factory."
• Reduced stuttering due to rendering pipeline optimization.
• Added a button to the game menu: Exit to Desktop.

The next update will likely be 0.7.0 and will touch many aspects of gameplay, including the complete overhaul of the following:

• Complete overhaul of mining.
• Complete overhaul of ship modifications.
• Complete overhaul of research.
• Overhaul of maps and missions.
• This will lead to a save wipe.

[ 2024-08-04 08:17:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

This patch is dedicated to improving gameplay control!

New Features:

• Tactical Pause: You can pause the game and continue giving orders.
• Game Speed: The "~", "1", "2", and "3" keys adjust the game speed.
• Resources changes: After collecting and using resources, a small notification now appears above the warehouse indicating the net changes. If 10 units of a resource are added and 5 units are used, +5 will be displayed. These notifications can be disabled near the new building selection menu.
• Internal economic algorithms have been improved, increasing the accuracy of calculations and their optimization.
• The camera now moves in the corresponding direction when you hover over the edges of the screen.

UI copywriting has been revised in some places. Thank you for your support and feedback!

[ 2024-07-27 07:58:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

The building interface is now displayed in 3D, integrated with the buildings, and this has been achieved without any loss in performance! This significantly enhances the gaming experience by:

• Improving the player's understanding of which building they are interacting with.
• Reducing the number of clicks and windows when interacting with buildings.
• Allowing the UI size to be adjusted using the overall map zoom.
• Providing better immersion in the gameplay.
• Freeing up a large area of the screen on the right.

Additionally, interactions between ships and buildings have been improved, as well as the quality of UI elements related to buildings.

Other new features and improvements include:

• The ability to disable factories.
• Training notifications have been moved to the right side of the screen.
• Viewing information about placed building blueprints.
• Canceling the construction of placed building blueprints.

Fixes:

• Clicking on an unfinished building blueprint now displays the required resources.
• Translation improvements.
• Fixed an issue with upgrading ships and items.
• Fixed a bug where building blueprint projections were rendered outside the camera's view.
• Reduced frame rendering delay by optimizing the rendering pipeline for the CPU.

A roadmap has also been added to the game and will be duplicated on the Steam page!

[ 2024-07-24 06:40:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Continuing to enhance game performance and work on feedback!

Improvements:

• Enhanced camera control responsiveness with the keyboard.
• Improved landscape rendering performance when moving the camera.
• Reduced video memory requirements by 300 MB.
• Decreased CPU load.
• Improved laser rendering quality and performance.
• Special cursor for ship movement.
• Display of action areas for built warehouses and generators when selected.
• Pause when opening full-screen windows.
• ESC handling to close windows such as Upgrade, Tutorial, Building menu, Trade, Selected ship, Ship Equipment.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where right-click wasn't registered.
• Minor UI fixes.

Thank you for your support!

[ 2024-07-18 07:57:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

The first patch for Oasis Mission based on your feedback! Thank you so much for your engagement! I am immensely grateful for your support and sincere interest!

New Features:

• Tutorial teaching the basic game mechanics and controls!
• Improved camera control with arrow keys and WASD.
• Zoom in and out using R(+) / F(-) keys.
• Eye-catching link for quick ship-to-storage exchange display.
• Indication of insufficient resources during building construction.
• Added notification when the ship is overloaded.
• Added notification when the ship is out of power.

Performance:

• Zero-copy - increased speed of memory exchange between CPU and GPU.
• Native GPU Memory - enhanced memory performance.
• CPU performance increased by ~40% when rendering the landscape while moving the camera.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed industrial expedition issue where task completion wasn't credited.
• Fixed construction error when two ships build nearby.
• Correct display of building names.
• Corporation balance check when purchasing new ships.
• Fixed display of the resource volume occupied in storage.
• The quality of copywriting and translations has been slightly improved.

I will be grateful for your reviews and feedback!

[ 2024-07-13 16:14:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! Unfortunately, preparing the build for early access and polishing the mechanics took more time than I expected, so the game's release is delayed for a while. I am working hard to ensure the game is of high quality at launch and have taken this time to refine the gameplay and engine. I apologize for the delay in the game's release! Best regards, Lunar Pug Studio (Alexander)

[ 2024-05-29 15:46:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

Significantly shortened and improved the description of the game's atmosphere and basic mechanics. Now the game page gives a better understanding of the fun and challenges the player will face!

[ 2024-02-08 11:59:01 CET ] [ Original post ]