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…
DetailsRelease 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…
DetailsRelease 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…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one contains a few quality-of-life improvements from prolific community-member BadgerBadger, and two features that range from the minor to the major depending on how you play: 1) UI Scaling New slider on the settings menu, defaults to 1 and you can bring it down from there if you’ve got a very…
DetailsRelease notes here! I never expected something like “A Settings Menu” to take a whole week, but here we are. And in retrospect it makes a degree of sense: this is just a huge chunk of engine that we hadn’t written yet. The settings themselves were all there and working, but we had to: 1)…
DetailsRelease notes here! This is basically completely about the build menu being more usable, and tooltips being more useful and legible. They still need a background to really be fully legible, but we got a lot of the other things with them. The unity ui is still… a learning process, sometimes. This time around, I…
DetailsRelease notes here! I’m now back from traveling, and so is Keith, so that’s nice to be back to normal on that front. This new build includes a ton of backlog work that Blue and Cinth have done over the last couple of months that I’m only now getting integrated into the game proper —…
DetailsRelease notes here! Although, frankly for the details on “The Nanocaust,” you need to click through to the forum link where community member BadgerBadger explains his work. This is the first player-created special faction, and it’s something we’re building into the game as an option for anyone to use without having to do a special separate…
DetailsRelease notes here! They are short and overall not that exciting, unfortunately. That said, if you’re modding the GUI, it’s a pretty titanic shift in terms of what you’ll find in there now. So what’s up? Basically over the last months we’ve learned a lot about what functions we do and do not need in…
DetailsFinally past getting all the non-stretch-goal content in (the units are defined and in the game and basically behave as they should, anyway), so now onto actually making things fun The release notes are here. The key quality-of-life improvements, in no particular order, are: – You can now choose to start with the first planet…
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