Version 1.609 is a collection of refinements to the recent changes to the game. Orbital Bombardment by your flagship is something that is rebalanced the most. The stronger the defensive fleet forces are at a planet you are bombing, the more expensive your bombing is, and the less effective it is. This doesn’t stop you…
DetailsVersion 1.606 is an enormous balance to the Credit economy, as well as giving you newfound power to really effectively bomb your enemies from orbit. There’s a bunch of other great stuff, too, in the bugfix and clarity categories. Your options for dealing with rescued pilots are now a lot more obvious, for one. When…
DetailsThis one is another performance update, this time on the CPU and RAM sides. The munitions boosters were the big culprit here, but there are other more minor effects beyond that. UPDATE: 8.018 turned out to be necessary, because the prior version was giving the “spinning beachball of death” on OSX. Apologies for that —…
DetailsVersion 1.605 is refinement. The most impactful bit is how diseases affect death rates — expect some much more substantial shakeups from diseases from now on. There are also changes here that help to balance out the late game in Invasion and Betrayal mode, specifically making sure that neither players nor other races can go…
DetailsThis one is relatively small update with a couple of bugfixes. The main thing here is some fixes to flickering in the far zoom icon display that people were noticing in recent versions, as well as what is likely a performance improvement for most people on that front, too. Update: 8.017 is now out and…
DetailsThis week I went on the excellent Perceptive Podcast once again, which is always a pleasure. This time we discussed a variety of things: Open-ended development and how that differs from traditional linear game development. Why I think the new Curator system on Steam is the bee’s knees, and why I hope other stores do…
DetailsVersion 1.604 is yet more refinement. The big thing here is how races handling mining of resources, and new racial actions that they can take when they build up an excess of resources. The details of it are here, and it definitely adds a new element to the game. There are also a number of…
DetailsVersion 1.603 is refinement on a major scale, once again. First of all, there are a variety of miscellaneous bugfixes and balance tweaks. One cool new feature is to be able to make notes for yourself to come back to between sessions. Another big balance piece is that if races wind up hating each other…
DetailsVersion 1.601 is refinement on a number of fronts. Perhaps my favorite improvement is one that was suggested by jaxxa and which lets us see both the Basic and Detailed Info tabs at the same time on the solar map on screens that are 1440px or wider. This cuts down on a lot of clicking…
DetailsVersion 1.600 is gargantuan, and aptly named. This addresses a lot of the longest-standing balance/clarity requests for the base game… all at one time! This was kind of an all-or-nothing proposition, and it took a bit longer than I expected. Still, it’s done now, and I’m super proud of how it turned out. Science Revisions…
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