Steam News19 September 20223y ago

Alpha Update 21 & 22

Hello Builders! I had a longer weekend this week and decided to make big changes that were long overdue. New ship trails I wanted to add trail to the spaceships since a long time.

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Hello Builders!

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addedNew ship trailsI wanted to add trail to the spaceships since a long time. I have very good childhood memories of the space ship trails in the original Homeworld.

addedScore and score victoryThis also enable a new type of victory if your score is very high.

addedAdditional minor changesAdded an "auto resolve" button for station invasion. Clicking it will skip all animation and player decision during combat

changedAdditional minor changesGates are now two times larger on the belt map

changedAdditional minor changesStation auto trade transactions are now logged in the log file. We will need to see them on the interface at one point

changedAdditional minor changesThe tooltip on the date now display the turn number

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addedI wanted to add trail to the spaceships since a long time. I have very good childhood memories of the space ship trails in the original Homeworld.

addedThis also enable a new type of victory if your score is very high.

addedAdded an "auto resolve" button for station invasion. Clicking it will skip all animation and player decision during combat

changedGates are now two times larger on the belt map

changedStation auto trade transactions are now logged in the log file. We will need to see them on the interface at one point

I had a longer weekend this week and decided to make big changes that were long overdue.

New ship trails

I wanted to add trail to the spaceships since a long time. I have very good childhood memories of the space ship trails in the original Homeworld.

I took the time to create a first version.

The Tutorial is out, long live the Academy

As you know, I had a lot of problem on stream and online to make a good tutorial. I hated the one we had before and was reluctant to come back to it.

With your help, we tried to fix it so much, simplify the verbose texts, but it was still not good. So, I decided to re-start from zero.

Presenting the Academy: a list of very short lessons that explain the basics of the game. Currently about half of all the lesson are ready to be played.

I really need feedback on this part!

Gate Screen Redesign

I redesigned the Gate screen to make it a bit more pleasing.

Score and score victory

This was long due, the game now calculate 5 different scores for the player.. The scores are saved every turn and allow you to keep track of your progress towards victory. They will be used in the future to rank player vs AI.

This also enable a new type of victory if your score is very high.

Additional minor changes

Added an "auto resolve" button for station invasion. Clicking it will skip all animation and player decision during combat
Gates are now two times larger on the belt map
Station auto trade transactions are now logged in the log file. We will need to see them on the interface at one point
The tooltip on the date now display the turn number
On Invasion: asteroids around captured station properly change owner
The notification when a citizen died of starvation now says who died
Home world & Stationadded a scroll bar if there is too much citizen at the entrance
Better shield visual
prevent Outliner to leave the screen on resize
minors fixes

And don't forget, I need you! Let me know if you have any feedback on the game so far! Comment greatly help!

The best place to get in touch and chat with the community is on discord: https://discord.gg/eqxF58uqjC

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