Release notes here! No one theme here, other than “make the game more fun to play” š Opening with some UI improvements from community member BadgerBadger, and moving on to some behavior changes from me to make waves behave in a more familiar fashion and to make your ships not fan out in a counter-productive…
Release notes here! This one started with more work on differentiating the planets. In the last release we made it so the AI’s controller on each planet can be in different places. Now we’ve gone the rest of the way with all of the code for determining the position and type of the AI’s defensive…
(Crossposted from kickstarter.) Chris and Keith here! Apologies for not having made any kickstarter updates sinceĀ June, good grief. Weāve had daily or weekly interactions and updates on ourĀ forums,Ā blog,Ā youtube dev diary, andĀ release notes pagesĀ for anyone who wanted the full firehose info dump, but thatās no excuse. Schedule Slippage – Overview Letās get to the toughest topic…
(Crossposted from kickstarter.) Chris and Keith here! Apologies for not having made any kickstarter updates sinceĀ June, good grief. Weāve had daily or weekly interactions and updates on ourĀ forums,Ā blog,Ā youtube dev diary, andĀ release notes pagesĀ for anyone who wanted the full firehose info dump, but thatās no excuse. Schedule Slippage – Overview Letās get to the toughest topic…
Release notes here! Lots of crazy going on lately, hence it being two weeks since the last release (sorry!) This time I focused on articulating some key “joints” in the skeleton of how the game comes together: – Wormhole placement now has much more variety, while maintaining the rule that you can tell which direction…
Chris here. Since we’re now moving into starting the custom Ark backer rewards work, it was suggested that we show the existing ship designs to players. This videoonly shows the ones that are currently “wired up AND uploaded,” which doesn’t include remotely everything that is complete just yet, but it’s a good start. More info…
Release notes here! The main player-facing changes here are the rebalancing of fuel and power. Fuel costs have been halved so that your fleet size is not almost always capped by Fuel, but sometimes by Science. Power costs themselves are unchanged, but spending science on power-consuming units now gives you a galaxy-wide +% boost to…
Release notes here! This one’s all about adding support for Formations. AIW Classic had limited support for this idea: you could set up your group of ships and use J+right-click to have them move to the target point while maintaining their position relative to one another. There was also a sticky-formation setting so that you…
Release notes here! The main new feature here is that selecting a control group is now “sticky” or “active”: if more units of that control group are produced, or arrive from a different planet, they’re automatically added to your selection. This allows you to continue to give a fleet movement orders without having to periodically…
Release notes here! This one is mostly about the new architecture to support “External Data” that modders can store with various parts of the gamestate. This is obviously useful for data you want to persist across saving and loading the game, but even during normal operation it’s nice to be able to store data directly…
