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Star Ruler Update Released

Product Update - Valve

Oct 21, 2010

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.

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