Thank you for tuning in to your regular broadcast of Star Ruler 2 development progress. This week we have some expansion balance improvements and the beginnings of new content to mess around with. Interested in Multiplayer? Join our Dev-astation multiplayer game tomorrow!

2 New Maps!

Treaties and Surrender

Station Hulls

Rebalancing and Expansion

Full Changelog

• Added a simple formation.
• Added basic cooperation treaties/alliances. Will be expanded on in the future.
• Corkscrew Galaxy map.
• Clusters map.
• Empires can now be assigned to teams on the new game screen.
• "Station" hull that can be placed like an orbital.
• Added achievements for beating different difficulties of AI.
• Players may now subjugate or demand the surrender of another player.

• Player home systems are guaranteed to have at least a food, a water, a level 1 and a level 2 resource spread over their neighbouring systems.
• Planets now have drastically reduced extra income from planet levels higher than their native resource's level. This makes sending a water to a food planet no longer net ridiculous amounts of money.
• Planets being captured can no longer use or project any of their defense.
• UI Zooming has more steps.
• Redid how the network handles object updates to be much faster for the host computer.
• Planets now require a minimum amount of population in order to sustain a level. (ie, planets must have 2 population to be level 1, 6 population to be level 2)
• Overhauled Orbitals content.
• Reworked weapons to have a wider variety of viable weapons systems.
• Improved support ship movement logic to handle a wider variety of fleet compositions.
• Orbitals placed in planet gravity wells now orbit the planet.

• Map generation no longer generates almost exclusively food and water near player homeworlds.
• Capturing planets when low on supply ended up costing far more supply than indicated.
• Machines with an intel gpu and a nvidia gpu should now automatically select the nvidia gpu.
• Enhance could be used on Intelligence cards, but did nothing (now can't be used).
• Null pointer exception after using a planet buster.
• Statuses caused by systems (Name System) stayed after the object left the system.
• Various issues related to renaming designs.
• Popups could be clicked while under other UI elements.
• Can no longer build ships with 0 command.
• Multiplayer server list would sometimes permanently fail to load.
• Weapons other than beams were not consistently firing.

• Massively reduce flagship maintenance cost.
• Roughly doubled flagship weapon damage.
• Very small support ship weapons have severely reduced range.