Our first expansion, Star Ruler 2: Wake of the Heralds, is now officially out on steam! Purchase it for $9,99 from the steam store page.
Along with the release of the expansion, the base game has received an update to version 2.0.0 containing a number of fixes and improvements. You can read about some of the main changes to the game below: Graphics

• Added a number of new post processing graphics options, including Bloom, Godrays and Chromatic Aberration.
• Many many more improvements to shaders and and lighting to improve graphics quality
• The visual surface of planets is now actually rendered to match the biome tile grid from the planet overlay. City lights will automatically appear where buildings are!

• The AI has received numerous improvements to how it plays the game. Please report any bugs you find in its new behavior!
• You can now determine whether an AI is aggressive, passive and biased against humans separately from difficulty.
• You can now set the particular ways an AI cheats and how much it cheats at them.

• The open tabs, quickbars, and camera location are now saved and restored when you load a game.
• Improved the planet requirement UI on the bottom left of the planet overlay.
• Added a Replace tool to the ship designer that replaces the subsystem you click on the design with the type of subsystem you have selected while keeping the same size.

• Mechanoid population above 1 now provides 2 labor, but population above the maximum no longer provides any.
• Tweaked the income values of mechanoid planets over population so they don't jump up and down as much.
• Fling Beacons now cost FTL energy to construct and have a small FTL upkeep.
• Tweaked the cost and duration of opening slipstreams based on the size of the generator.

• Fixed exploit for exporting labor more than once.
• Fixed exploit with Frugal trait where planets could be Level 2 without any tier 1 resources.

Our first expansion, Star Ruler 2: Wake of the Heralds, is now officially out on steam! Purchase it for $9,99 from the steam store page.
Along with the release of the expansion, the base game has received an update to version 2.0.0 containing a number of fixes and improvements. You can read about some of the main changes to the game below: Graphics

• Added a number of new post processing graphics options, including Bloom, Godrays and Chromatic Aberration.
• Many many more improvements to shaders and and lighting to improve graphics quality
• The visual surface of planets is now actually rendered to match the biome tile grid from the planet overlay. City lights will automatically appear where buildings are!

• The AI has received numerous improvements to how it plays the game. Please report any bugs you find in its new behavior!
• You can now determine whether an AI is aggressive, passive and biased against humans separately from difficulty.
• You can now set the particular ways an AI cheats and how much it cheats at them.

• The open tabs, quickbars, and camera location are now saved and restored when you load a game.
• Improved the planet requirement UI on the bottom left of the planet overlay.
• Added a Replace tool to the ship designer that replaces the subsystem you click on the design with the type of subsystem you have selected while keeping the same size.

• Mechanoid population above 1 now provides 2 labor, but population above the maximum no longer provides any.
• Tweaked the income values of mechanoid planets over population so they don't jump up and down as much.
• Fling Beacons now cost FTL energy to construct and have a small FTL upkeep.
• Tweaked the cost and duration of opening slipstreams based on the size of the generator.

• Fixed exploit for exporting labor more than once.
• Fixed exploit with Frugal trait where planets could be Level 2 without any tier 1 resources.