It's been a long few weeks of back-end work and mechanics tweaks, but it's finally time for another Star Ruler 2 update. In addition to some preliminary updates to the research and ship design UI, there's a couple of new goodies to show off here. Scroll down for the full detailed changelog. Interested in Multiplayer? Join our Dev-astation Friday multiplayer game tomorrow!

Bulkheads

Engagement Behaviour Controls

Donations

Full Changelog

• Empires can now make donations to each other, similar to how offers in votes work.
• Placing an orbital shows the labor cost / ETA of building in that location.
• Vassal empires now have their master's color stippled into their territory borders.
• Added the ability to send pings to allies. Defaults to 'v.' Hold control to send an alternate ping, and shift to ping to everyone.
• Added achievements for scanning an anomaly, using an artifact, and terraforming a planet.
• Added controls for changing fleet engagement range and behaviour.
• Added a color picker for choosing empire colors.
• Added menu option to end the current game.
• Added simple descriptions about what each pressure does.
• Masters receive 10% of their Vassal's money, influence, energy and research generation rates (the Vassal does not lose this portion).
• Masters can establish a conquer edict to reward vassals for taking the target's planets, or killing their ships.
• Added some more variety in the types of pickups protected by remnant groups.
• Added the Bulkhead module. Can be equipped to a flagship subsystem to add 100% of its base HP, while doubling the cost.

• Reduce repair rate in combat to 25% of normal instead of 33%.
• Additional bridges no longer give extra repair, only secondary crew facility hexes do.
• Orbital scaffolding now starts at 1% of total hp, instead of 25%.
• More things, notably research, grant points.
• Fleets can now do some limited re-pathing when new gates/tears are created while en-route.
• Any ships you have selected when ordering a slipstream tear to be generated now move to the other end of the slipstream tear automatically, after it is created.
• Vassals add 20% of their total points to their master's point total.
• Added smaller speed steps near 1x.
• Stations cannot capture planets, but can still prevent capture.
• Auto-colonize orders execute in the order they were given.
• Teams go to war and make peace as a group.
• Food resource bonuses no longer transfer on native resource export.
• FTL Jammer orbital now only needs 0.15/s FTL upkeep (down from 0.25).
• Level 1 planets now only have up to 1 base pressure cap.
• Level 2+ planets now have increased population growth.
• Remove 'Enhance' card from Communism start.
• Improve object hover prioritization.
• Expand and improve the Tutorial's economy section.

• Fixed a bug in the mover code that was causing support ships to desync from their fleet formation, especially at high time acceleration.
• Fixed flagship acceleration being half of what it was intended to be.
• Completing construction of a station now does not fully heal it, but starts it at the scaffolding's hitpoints.
• In-game IRC chat would sometimes cut off the first letter of a message in the textbox.
• Planets not fully colonized could drop to 0 loyalty permanently if captured.
• Fixed a bug that could cause ships to fly far away from the galaxy.
• Fixed a few AI bugs related to wasting resources.
• Fixed a few fog of war leaks.
• Fixed empire military strengths being wrong after a load.
• The starting Fling Beacon should not cost maintenance.
• Fix being unable to fling stations.
• Fix being able to shift-queue fling orders that would work outside beacon range.
• Victory conditions now work in team games.
• Fixed some situations that prevented support ships from engaging in combat.
• Improved performance in loaded saves (only new saves).
• Fix a few situations where the tutorial could get stuck.

• The AI will import labor resources to improve its construction speed.
• Expanded the AI's influence capabilities.
• The AI better understands how teams work, and is able to work with allies somewhat.
• Slightly improved early AI colonization.
• Improved how the AI handles its fleets.
• Fixed AIs sometimes surrendering in situations they shouldn't be able to.
• Fix AI not being able to see pickups.
• The AI will now order support ships into the queue for new flagships.