Star Ruler Update Released

Updates to Star Ruler have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Fixes:

• Civil acts were not affecting labor rate.
• Use tool orders were ignoring the hull's orbit targets setting.
• Floating point errors were accumulating into the ships damage stat, leading to repair tools continuously firing.
• Victory message is no longer displayed when you start a game with no AIs.
• Explosion effects would sometimes randomly appear in the system when you started a game.
• When selecting a color for your empire the window would sometimes get stuck dragging.
• Fixed crashes on saving/loading dock and retrofit orders.
• Map-specified tags in the new game menu were not being displayed in the scroll box.
• Fleet names are now saved and loaded.
• The Phased Energy Beam was too cheap, and did far too little damage.
• Combat effects were broken in the legacy 1014 mod.
• Fleets could add other fleets as members, causing various issues.
• The camera position is now saved and restored on load.
• Servers/clients could lose connections if they took too long during the loading stage.
• Planet ticks (which handled the economy) were not using a managed tick rate, causing slower production than intended.
• Planets will be correctly lost when population reaches 0.
• Stealth Hulls were applying their effects after armor.
• Homeworlds now hijack the orbits of existing planets if possible, fixing planets orbiting through each other in non-tiny galaxies.
• Minor script exception in multi-rack mounts.
• Autosave was triggering every 15 seconds instead of 15 minutes.
• AIs were not checking systems generated after their home system for expansion, leading to randomly stalled AIs.Targeting sensors that were smaller than the connected weapon could actually reduce range.

Changed:

• The windows in the top bar can now be toggled with F1-F6.
• The movement solution has been further optimized.
• Improved system locking to make the game perform more consistently, and faster overall.
• Updated French, Polish and German translations.
• New designs default to not orbiting targets now.
• Saving a design with the same name as an existing one now marks the new design as an updated version of the old one instead of displaying an error.
• Updated the tutorial.
• Beam weapons now also have a random component in their firing delay.
• Pirate raids now become less frequent at lower difficulties.Updated Russian translation.

Balance Changes:

• Reduced improvement rate of stealth hulls. Capped their effectiveness at 95%.
• Cargo bays and Ammo storage now scales to a higher storage.Fuel Cells now scale in the same way as cargo bays.

Additions:

• Maps can now define options for an advanced window in their xml files, they can control the size and columns of their advanced window.
• Option to turn off galaxy gas display.
• The Options and new game windows can now be localized.
• Ships without engines (i.e. stations) now orbit the planets that created them.
• Added basic interface to choose empire settings when a game starts.
• Added range rings - hold alt to show the range of the selected and/or hovered object.
• Arrrr! Pirates will now periodically raid systems with lots of resources but no defenses.
• The names of the default, AI and pirate ships can now be localized.
• Autosaves and quicksaves are now rotated, you can specify how many saves to keep. The ones with the higher numbers will be older.
• The planet window's queue tab now displays the total cost of the current queue.
• Added proper ship set support.
• "Defend Position" stance, ships will engage targets but return to their original position afterwards.
• "Update All" button in blueprints list that immediately updates all designs to the latest tech level.
• Remnants now roam uncolonized systems and attack all ships within them. Their amount and frequency depends on the difficulty.
• A basic victory condition (destroy every planet owned by another player).
• Subsystems in the damage report window now display their current level.
• Entry in the right-click menu to select all ships in a system with the same blueprint as the one you clicked on.
• Stations can now be retrofitted at the planet they are orbiting. It will cost 20% more than usual (up to 60% of the cost of building a new one) to represent the cost of moving it down and launching it back up again.Added localized versions of various graphical buttons for French and German.