Greetings 4Xians! We've sent out another Star Ruler 2 update to be transmitted into space by wifi routers everywhere. Read about some of the highlights below, or scroll down for a full detailed changelog. Interested in Multiplayer? Join our Dev-astation Friday multiplayer game on european timezones, or check out our Saturday night brawl in more America-friendly timezones!

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Full Changelog

• Add some macro controls to support ship management, such as auto buying new or dead support ships until the fleet is full.
• Fleets will now pick up support ships from your nearby planets automatically to auto-fill up their capacity. Can be turned off.
• Object popup tooltips now show the flag of the empire that owns them in the background.
• Started work on new blueprint/subsystem sprite art.
• Some planets will now have a Planet Condition that modifies them or their resource in some way.
• Add Targeting Sensor subsystem modifier.
• First iteration of multiplayer match queue system, players can queue up for matches and automatically join other queued players.
• Ship information panel on the bottom left can be expanded to give a bigger view of the design.
• Replaced the empire flags with better versions.
• Changed Wiki tab to Community tab, which includes the wiki and where players can share their designs online.
• Dumbbell Galaxy map that can be configured to be perfectly mirrored on both sides.
• Several game and universe settings can now be changed from the new game menu.
• Add post-game stats and standings screen with graphs displaying the progress of the game.

• Lasers now have a limited firing arc.
• Weapons can no longer have their firing arcs shoot "through" the ship, but must be pointing outwards.
• Engine exhausts can now only be placed on hexes that have open space on either one of their backwards-facing edges.
• Supply Storage hexes destroyed in combat will now leak supplies over time.
• Losing ship power generation that you are using in combat reduces the ship's effectiveness.
• Destroyed Support Command hexes can end up making the fleet lose control of support ships.
• Ship designs no longer have preset hull shapes, but the model that is the closest approximation to the shape you draw is used.
• Slipstream exit points are now generated inaccurately within a radius of the target. The further away they're generated, the more the target inaccuracy.

• Fix perfectly circular territory borders showing up bugged.
• Fix previously scouted remnant fleets showing their health/supplies/etc even when out of vision.

• Halve station repair rate.
• Double station hitpoints.
• Increased ship efficiency (power cell, name flagship, etc) can no longer increase repair rate above 100%.
• Plate and Neutronium armor now have DR.
• All forms of armor now increase the health of all adjacent non-armor hexes by 1/6th of the armor hex's hp.
• Fleets with no supplies left are now at 25% of normal effectiveness (down from 50%).
• Weapon turrets now have their own innate DR to reduce incoming hits.
• Significantly increased the range of all weapons.
• Capitalism now only has a single Patrotic Surge, but it has one extra quality.
• Cost of using Fling FTL is now no longer dependent on distance, only ship/station size, and is cheaper.
• Larger slipstream generator ships are more expensive in various little ways.

• Improved Hard AI's expansion speed.
• Improved the AI's use of influence.
• AI can use anomalies in a basic way.
• Improved the AI's ability to wage war.
• The AI will scout out other galaxies, allowing them to interact in those galaxies.
• Gave the AI some more sensible rules for when to declare war.