Steam News10 August 20242y ago

New Stars DevLog #24 | Empire Presets, New Wiki, and more...

It's been a while since the last dev log. Here are some recent developments for New Stars, with emphasis on empire customization. Empire Presets Many games have a feature where you can save customizations.

In this update8

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Full New Stars update

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What changed

1 fix8 additions1 change0 removals

Gameplay
Balance
Fixes
Server
Performance

addedIt's been a while since the last dev log. Here are some recent developments for New Stars, with emphasis on empire customization.

addedEmpire PresetsMany games have a feature where you can save customizations. New Stars now has this!

addedEmpire PresetsSix new default empire presets have also been added. Also, empire presets have a 5% chance to spawn in the galaxy, unless you toggle their ability to spawn by clicking the alien icon.

fixedEmpire PresetsThe six default presets cannot be deleted since they have plot armour, and may also be changed later. In addition to improving empire customization, some bugs have been fixed that caused empire customizations to be lost when navigating the main menu.

addedNew Stars WikiThis is a work in progress, and content is gradually being added. Note that 100% uptime cannot be guaranteed, since it is locally hosted, and as of writing, the server has a restart schedule of every 12 hours. You can check uptime graphs at newstars.statuspage.io .

addedChangelogThe changelog has been moved to wiki.newstarsgame.com/changelog , where new update changes will be listed.

New Stars changes

addedIt's been a while since the last dev log. Here are some recent developments for New Stars, with emphasis on empire customization.

addedMany games have a feature where you can save customizations. New Stars now has this!

addedSix new default empire presets have also been added. Also, empire presets have a 5% chance to spawn in the galaxy, unless you toggle their ability to spawn by clicking the alien icon.

fixedThe six default presets cannot be deleted since they have plot armour, and may also be changed later. In addition to improving empire customization, some bugs have been fixed that caused empire customizations to be lost when navigating the main menu.

addedThis is a work in progress, and content is gradually being added. Note that 100% uptime cannot be guaranteed, since it is locally hosted, and as of writing, the server has a restart schedule of every 12 hours. You can check uptime graphs at newstars.statuspage.io .

It's been a while since the last dev log. Here are some recent developments for New Stars, with emphasis on empire customization.

Empire Presets

Many games have a feature where you can save customizations. New Stars now has this!

Six new default empire presets have also been added. Also, empire presets have a 5% chance to spawn in the galaxy, unless you toggle their ability to spawn by clicking the alien icon.

The six default presets cannot be deleted since they have plot armour, and may also be changed later. In addition to improving empire customization, some bugs have been fixed that caused empire customizations to be lost when navigating the main menu.

New Stars Wiki

I am excited to announce the an official wiki has been launched at wiki.newstarsgame.com. Players have suggested this before, and its implementation is underway.

This is a work in progress, and content is gradually being added. Note that 100% uptime cannot be guaranteed, since it is locally hosted, and as of writing, the server has a restart schedule of every 12 hours. You can check uptime graphs at newstars.statuspage.io.

Changelog

The changelog has been moved to wiki.newstarsgame.com/changelog, where new update changes will be listed.

New Worlds

The 'New Worlds' demo is complete and is available on newstarsgame.com/new_worlds.

Note: New Worlds is not a separate game, but a simple demo/prototype of a new colony system. I am not likely to integrate this colony building system to the game since there is already too much to do, although it has been around for 4 months now and has been released since the last post.