Diplomacy Gameplay

"We've reworked the way faction relations work. In addition to the relation points, there are now 4 distinct states, that you can slip in and out of, and that majorly define how AI factions interact with you. For example, AI ships will no longer always start attacking on sight when relations are bad; you need to be at war with a faction for that to happen. We also reworked faction traits and how they impact gameplay." Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.

Neutral

Initial state for all newly met factions on the map
Very similar to the previous relations range -40000 to 60000
Normal interaction with stations and ships of the other faction

... except for a few privileges where you must be allied with the faction

When relations are good enough (~95000, depending on faction traits), you can start negotiating an alliance
When relations turn too bad, the faction may declare War, but ...

In order for War to be declared from 'Neutral' you must commit an act of war (destroying, raiding, boarding a ship)
War won't be declared for minor issues like smuggling

War

"This is when they just shoot you, no discussion."

The only state where AI ships always attack on sight
Normal interaction with ships and stations is not possible
Can be negotiated to Ceasefire
No radio chatter

Ceasefire

"A ceasefire is a fragile pact where players can show their good intentions, and that they actually want to stop the war and improve relations."

Similar to Neutral
Some station and ship interaction is possible
When relations turn good enough (-30000 or above) 'Ceasefire' automatically changes to 'Neutral'
Committing an act of war by the player (no matter the relations) will terminate the Ceasefire and War will break out again
During a Ceasefire, when relations reach -100000 (worst possible), War will break out again

Allies

"Gain access to the best equipment of your ally. Players have less reputation loss, there are reputation loss caps and players call in merchants or reinforcements from your ally."

50% less reputation loss with allied factions
"Soft caps" of losing reputation: No dropping below 90000 or 80000 with a single loss

Example: When at 96k (96000) relation points, and you "accidentally" destroy your allies' ship, you'd lose about 40k reputation. Instead it's halved to 20k and you won't drop to 76k, but to the 90k cap. After that, you can drop lower again.

Boarding or raiding an allied ship is always considered an intentional act of war and will terminate the alliance immediately
No smuggling controls by allied AI ships
Access to 'Exotic' and better equipment of your ally
Access to 2 new items:

Item that lets you call in equipment merchants of your ally, who sell equipment and valuable artifacts
Item that lets you call in combat reinforcements from your ally

Gameplay

"Tons and tons of small changes and adjustments: Reworked traits and their impacts, new targeter shapes and colors depending on War, Ceasefire, or standings, and so on."

Players can pay tribute to a faction to improve relations
Reworked traits of factions

Fewer traits with more impact on gameplay
Traits now influence the amount of repuation gained or lost, depending on what happened

Reduced relation point descriptions from 8 to 5 (Hostile, Bad, Neutral, Good, Excellent)
Reworked color scheme of relation statuses
Added new target indicators for 'War', 'Ceasefire' and 'Allies'
Implemented means to negotiate with AI factions

Players can now make money/resource offers in a specific range
Counterpart has a patience level that drops the more often a player makes an offer they don't like
Tribute, Ceasefire or Alliance is accepted when the offer is good enough
Once patience runs out, the player has to wait for some time until he can negotiate again

Relations can't be improved/worsended beyond a certain point with some kinds of interaction

A few examples:
Equipment trade won't improve relations beyond 75000
Using services of a faction (refinery, shipyard) won't improve relations beyond 45000
Smuggling won't worsen relations below -75000
Doing missions or helping via events (pirate attacks) will always improve relations
Destroying ships, raiding etc. will always worsen relations

Once relations drop below -80000, reconstruction sites are terminated
When a player is set to his home sector and his starting allies are at war with him, relations with them are set to "Ceasefire" and some money is taken from the player
Added mean radio chatter when in the territory of a faction that doesn't like you

Balancing

"Adjusted railgun damage, which was a little excessive sometimes, especially considering that railguns aren't projectiles but hitscan. Still does more damage the more blocks you hit, but in a more balanced manner."

Railgun base damage is now spread evenly over the first 4 hit blocks, then has a falloff of 20% per additionally hit block
More allies per faction will be spawned for wormhole guardian fight
Increased spawn region of AI and Swoks

Galaxy

"In order for the diplomacy changes to matter, we reduced the number of different factions. The galaxy map no longer looks like patchwork. This will not break existing saves! No new factions are introduced, and the changes will only affect newly generated sectors."

Reduced the amount of factions on the map
Factions now have much bigger territories
Increased reach of gates to better connect to far away sectors and avoid cut-off "islands" of factions
A player's relation to newly met AI factions can't be worse than -20k if he's no more than 150 sectors away from his home sector

Depends on difficulty, -20k for 'Normal' and easier, disabled at 'Difficult' and harder
Dev Comment: "We saw that, with bigger faction territories, there comes a high probability to start next to a faction that immediately hates the player and that has an extremely large territory they may have to traverse. Since that can prove very frustrating (esp. for new players), we've eliminated this possibility."

Diplomacy UI

"The diplomacy tabs for player and alliance got a complete overhaul! Aside from now being implemented in lua (modders rejoice!), they received a visual rework and will give you a lot more important information about your fellow space-dwelling factions. You can now see details about their traits and what they do, in addition to negotiation possibilities."

Complete rework of the diplomacy UI
Added sorting of factions by distance to the player's current location (ie. nearby factions are at the top of the list)
Added buttons for negotiating Ceasefire or Alliance, or for paying tribute to improve relations
Added detailed description of a faction's traits and how they affect gameplay

Client

"So this one is both hilarious and embarrassing: Since the Kickstarter Demo there was a bug in the background generation of the game, which, for some reason, was never discovered. We've fixed it and backgrounds finally look the way there were supposed to, with way more tiny stars! Apart from that we added some long-awaited smaller improvements to the building mode."

Massively improved space background quality

More background stars
While at it we also improved the quality for lower-res backgrounds (no more super ugly backgrounds at lower quality)

Improved tooltips
Added new radio chatter lines
Added more obvious radio chatter hints for players on how to meet Swoks and the AI
Reworked cargo transport license tooltip
Ship size is now shown in Building Mode
Block size of current block is now shown in Build Mode
Main menu: Renamed "Quit" to "Exit Game"

Misc

Improved behavior of ships flying too far away for players to hit them and staying at that distance
Several performance improvements for calculation of gate connections
Improved start sector creation, players are now guaranteed to be inside territory of another faction
Shots & torpedoes fired by player-owned, AI-controlled ships are now marked as such, plus intended target faction

Those shots now vanish when they hit an AI faction that the shot wasn't meant for, to avoid unwanted relation changes
In short: In order for your AI-controlled turrets, fighters or ships to damage ships / worsen standings with another faction, they must attack them on purpose, not hit them by accident

Player notification about gate usage now shows name of ship
"No money to pay crew" message now contains ship name
Turrets can now be placed over multiple blocks as long as they touch them

Scripting API

"Most important changes are: You can now add windows to the Hud and Alliance Tab, and you get full access to the player's known galaxy map."

Added a SectorView class
Exposed functionality to access known sectors of Player and Alliance on the map
Added a Relation class
Added more relations-related functionality to Player, Alliance and Faction
Relation loss for destroying other ships moved to lua from core engine
Added a getPresentFactions() function to Sector
Added AllianceTab as a scriptable UI
Added Hud as a scriptable UI
Extended Tooltip class
Implemented separate tooltip creation for Vanilla- and UsableInventoryItem
Implemented a replace function for faction names in tooltips

A construct like ${faction:54} will be replaced by the (localized) name of faction with index 54

Added a 'homeSectorUnknown' property for factions that don't really have a home sector (Xsotan, pirates, etc)
Added a SectorChangeType enum, which is passed as a parameter on the server when a player changes sectors
Mails are now localized
Added more functionality to various UI elements
Added a 'alwaysAtWar' property for AI factions
Renamed "isAI" property of Owner to "isAIFaction" for better consistency with the faction property
Fixed main.lua scripts not having access to everything they need in their initialize() function
Moved data/scripts/player/encyclopedia to data/scripts/player/ui/encyclopedia

Bugfixes

"What's an update without bugfixes? We've fixed quite a few bugs again. Thanks for reporting and keep it up, guys! UBR = User Bug Report."

[UBR] Fixed several instances of story-encounters where relations would be permanently worsened even though they shouldn't be
Fixed an issue where abandoning a mission sometimes didn't really terminate it
Fixed several issues where interactions could happen with stations even though they shouldn't, relation-wise
[UBR] Fixed a crash when downgrading torpedo shafts
Fixed an issue where server time counter didn't work due to floating point inaccuracy
[UBR] Fixed some broken translations in shop UI
[UBR] Fixed some factories giving the player money for upgrading
[UBR] Fixed cloning and academy not working while no players are in the sector
[UBR] Fixed an issue with ai ships adding jobs at a refinery
Forgetful AI: Fixed an issue where special friends or enemies of AI ships wouldn't be remembered over game shutdowns
[UBR] Fixed an issue where the orderchain didn't terminate mining/salvaging correctly and got stuck on that order
[UBR] Fixed several crashes caused by community translations

[ 2019-08-15 15:03:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Avorion
Boxelware

Developer

Boxelware

Publisher

2020-03-09

Release

Indie Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop

Combat

Equip your ship with chainguns, lasers and other weaponry to take on your enemies and enjoy the sight of completely destructible ships breaking at the exact points where you hit them. Defend your allies from pirates, hunt down enemies for coin or even participate in wars between entire factions. Build hangars and command squads of fighters in your battles or destroy enemy freighters to steal their cargo.

Explore

Fly through beautiful nebulas and dense asteroid fields in search of hidden treasures and meet the many factions that populate and control their portion of the galaxy. Each faction has its own characteristics, such as peaceful, intelligent or aggressive, and has its own ship styles, meaning their ships and stations have a distinct look.

Explore the galaxy at your own pace to find valuable goods in old ship wreckages, undiscovered asteroid fields rich of resources, unchartered asteroids which you can claim for yourself, or clues as to what happened during the event a few hundred years back.

Build Your Fleet

There are no limits to ship size or complexity besides your resources. You're not bound to the standard voxel style and while building an awesome ship in Avorion you won't get lost in lots and lots of micro-management. You can focus on building a great looking ship, without having too much trouble to make it work. But make sure you still keep an eye on your ship’s maneuverability or energy requirements. Adjust your ships perfectly to their operational purpose by building light and agile or heavily armored ships.

Build specialized transport ships with lots of cargo space or heavily armored battleships with strong shields. Collect loot from defeated foes which you can use to upgrade your ship: New turrets, resources, trading goods or system upgrades. Install system upgrades that allow more weapons, ease asteroid mining or trading systems which detect trading routes over multiple sectors.

And why build only one ship? Hire captains to fly your ships for you, manage your crews, weapons, hangars and fighters and build your own fleet of space ships!

Trade

Extend your ship with a cargo bay, find profitable deals and haul over a hundred trading goods through the galaxy to make a profit and buy your way up the food chain: Build up a trading corporation and extend your influence in the galaxy by founding asteroid mines and factories that attract NPC traders who will buy and sell their goods at your establishments.

Co-op Multiplayer

You don't have to fight the galaxy alone! Avorion features co-op multiplayer, so team up with your friends to build stations together and destroy pirates and enemy factions! Work together to extend your influence in the galaxy and build your own empire. Or, you know, blow them apart in large PvP battles. It's a sandbox, you can do whatever you want.

In Avorion you choose your personal playstyle. Haul cargo, find profitable trading routes and found factories. Or maybe you're sick of being the good guy? Build your own battleship, equip it with powerful weaponry and blow away your enemies. Be the aggressor that starts wars with entire factions, raid freighters, smuggle illegal goods and scavenge old wreckages. Find your way to the center of a galaxy that gets more hostile, but also more rewarding the closer you get to its core.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Processor: Intel i5 @ 3.0 GHz or AMD equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 550 or equivalent (full OpenGL 3.0 support required)Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Middle mouse button. mouse wheel required. No Internet connection required for Singleplayer.
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Processor: Intel i7 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD equivalentMemory: 6 GB RAM
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia Geforce 1050 / Radeon RX 460Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Middle mouse button. mouse wheel required. No Internet connection required for Singleplayer.

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