Zero Sum Games · Iceberg Interactive
Come check out this cool story about 4x games that PC Gamer has done. A meaty chat.
Come check out this cool story about 4x games that PC Gamer has done. A meaty chat.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/25/interview-endless-space-and-stardrive-developers-talk-about-4x-design/
Come check out this cool story about 4x games that PC Gamer has done. A meaty chat.
Come check out this cool story about 4x games that PC Gamer has done. A meaty chat.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/25/interview-endless-space-and-stardrive-developers-talk-about-4x-design/
Here is a video log update of our development progress on StarDrive 2!
Here is a video log update of our development progress on StarDrive 2!
http://youtu.be/xz0OI-K-Oak
Here is a video log update of our development progress on StarDrive 2!
Here is a video log update of our development progress on StarDrive 2!
http://youtu.be/xz0OI-K-Oak
Here is the changelog for the 1.15 patch. I think many players will appreciate both the fixes and the additions, and it also holds some good stuff for modders. Fixed an issue with the Fletchette cannon and other dual-purpose Anti-Ship/PD weapons not damaging ships as they should.
Here is the changelog for the 1.15 patch. I think many players will appreciate both the fixes and the additions, and it also holds some good stuff for modders.
You only need production now. I think this was causing a great deal of confusion about the economy, as players would see their income decreasing and have no feedback as why. What is happening is that your governors are spending your cash. Well, no more. Both the AI and the player will benefit from this change so it should be balance-neutral. In fact, I expect the AI will become more dangerous.
Here is the changelog for the 1.15 patch. I think many players will appreciate both the fixes and the additions, and it also holds some good stuff for modders. Fixed an issue with the Fletchette cannon and other dual-purpose Anti-Ship/PD weapons not damaging ships as they should.
Here is the changelog for the 1.15 patch. I think many players will appreciate both the fixes and the additions, and it also holds some good stuff for modders.
You only need production now. I think this was causing a great deal of confusion about the economy, as players would see their income decreasing and have no feedback as why. What is happening is that your governors are spending your cash. Well, no more. Both the AI and the player will benefit from this change so it should be balance-neutral. In fact, I expect the AI will become more dangerous.
This latest patch does a lot of tinkering under the hood of StarDrive. You should see substantially better performance memory-wise and in the late game. You should also see much better play out of the AI due to economic tweaks. Their Core Strategic AI remains unchanged - it shoul
This latest patch does a lot of tinkering under the hood of StarDrive. You should see substantially better performance memory-wise and in the late game. You should also see much better play out of the AI due to economic tweaks. Their Core Strategic AI remains unchanged - it should be quite tricky as is. But now their Economic AI is much better, which means they will have more ships and better ships to fight you with. I took a long look at what type of things players were doing to get good economies and also at where the AI was making dumb economic choices. Let me know how your conquest goes!
Added fairly major memory optimizations. Possibly eliminated OOM errors. Please let me know your results
Added the Kulrathi Titan
Added Vulfar Titan
Changed the peace treaty notification icon to a dove icon
Double clicking a planet will no longer explore it automatically
Ships with ordnance fabricators will no longer be the target of resupply shuttles
EMP Torpedoes now actually do EMP Damage!
Added an indicator on the planet list screen for systems that have a known enemy presence
The cancel colonize order button on the planet list will properly abort the mission of a colony ship en route
Fixed an error where Cybernetic governors were not considering the effects of the tax rate in deciding how to set their production labor allocations, which could lead to poor results and starvation.
The Cybernetic AI will no longer colonize planets which have less than 1.0 richness
The Cybernetic governor will build biospheres on the best planets
Core World governors will now build biospheres automatically if they determine that it is beneficial to do so
Added new Core / Research world governor behavior which will adjust production and research percentages to try and make a profit when running at a deficit
Drastically changes the weight the AI gives to making capital ships (want them to build lots more)
Reduced the number of freighters and passenger transports the AI wants to build
The AI will be smarter about building up its fleet so as to keep its economy running smoothly
The AI will now be more aggressive about scouting
Governors will be more careful about building shipyards unless they can be properly supported financially
All governors will be more careful to only begin construction projects when they believe they can afford the maintenance
The AI will build projectors only if they can very comfortable afford them
Changed a Core World governor rule that would have them switch to research if their production stores get full. Won't do that anymore because it affects their taxes
Changed the way ship maintenance works. Maintenance is now a fixed amount depending on ship class.
Fixed an error where the Ship Scrapping logic would collide with the Auto Explore logic to have stuttery-looking AI scout ships
Fixed an error where expeditionary fleets could run out of ammo and fail to rearm
This latest patch does a lot of tinkering under the hood of StarDrive. You should see substantially better performance memory-wise and in the late game. You should also see much better play out of the AI due to economic tweaks. Their Core Strategic AI remains unchanged - it shoul
This latest patch does a lot of tinkering under the hood of StarDrive. You should see substantially better performance memory-wise and in the late game. You should also see much better play out of the AI due to economic tweaks. Their Core Strategic AI remains unchanged - it should be quite tricky as is. But now their Economic AI is much better, which means they will have more ships and better ships to fight you with. I took a long look at what type of things players were doing to get good economies and also at where the AI was making dumb economic choices. Let me know how your conquest goes!
Added fairly major memory optimizations. Possibly eliminated OOM errors. Please let me know your results
Added the Kulrathi Titan
Added Vulfar Titan
Changed the peace treaty notification icon to a dove icon
Double clicking a planet will no longer explore it automatically
Ships with ordnance fabricators will no longer be the target of resupply shuttles
EMP Torpedoes now actually do EMP Damage!
Added an indicator on the planet list screen for systems that have a known enemy presence
The cancel colonize order button on the planet list will properly abort the mission of a colony ship en route
Fixed an error where Cybernetic governors were not considering the effects of the tax rate in deciding how to set their production labor allocations, which could lead to poor results and starvation.
The Cybernetic AI will no longer colonize planets which have less than 1.0 richness
The Cybernetic governor will build biospheres on the best planets
Core World governors will now build biospheres automatically if they determine that it is beneficial to do so
Added new Core / Research world governor behavior which will adjust production and research percentages to try and make a profit when running at a deficit
Drastically changes the weight the AI gives to making capital ships (want them to build lots more)
Reduced the number of freighters and passenger transports the AI wants to build
The AI will be smarter about building up its fleet so as to keep its economy running smoothly
The AI will now be more aggressive about scouting
Governors will be more careful about building shipyards unless they can be properly supported financially
All governors will be more careful to only begin construction projects when they believe they can afford the maintenance
The AI will build projectors only if they can very comfortable afford them
Changed a Core World governor rule that would have them switch to research if their production stores get full. Won't do that anymore because it affects their taxes
Changed the way ship maintenance works. Maintenance is now a fixed amount depending on ship class.
Fixed an error where the Ship Scrapping logic would collide with the Auto Explore logic to have stuttery-looking AI scout ships
Fixed an error where expeditionary fleets could run out of ammo and fail to rearm
Greetings people of Earth. We have seen some confusion floating around the internet about the state of StarDrive - rumors that StarDrive is a dead or abandoned game. To help clear that up, we wanted to make a post here to confirm that StarDrive is, in fact, a feature complete and
Greetings people of Earth.
We have seen some confusion floating around the internet about the state of StarDrive - rumors that StarDrive is a dead or abandoned game. To help clear that up, we wanted to make a post here to confirm that StarDrive is, in fact, a feature complete and comprehensive 4x game that receives regular updates.
If you want to follow our development progress, then you can join us over at the official stardrivegame.com forums. You can also view all of the patch notes for each version in the Patch Notes forum, found here:
http://stardrivegame.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9
Thanks for your continued support! Have fun conquering the galaxy.
Greetings people of Earth. We have seen some confusion floating around the internet about the state of StarDrive - rumors that StarDrive is a dead or abandoned game. To help clear that up, we wanted to make a post here to confirm that StarDrive is, in fact, a feature complete and
Greetings people of Earth.
We have seen some confusion floating around the internet about the state of StarDrive - rumors that StarDrive is a dead or abandoned game. To help clear that up, we wanted to make a post here to confirm that StarDrive is, in fact, a feature complete and comprehensive 4x game that receives regular updates.
If you want to follow our development progress, then you can join us over at the official stardrivegame.com forums. You can also view all of the patch notes for each version in the Patch Notes forum, found here:
http://stardrivegame.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9
Thanks for your continued support! Have fun conquering the galaxy.
Fixed Heavy Siphon beam to have the buff from last patch Ships with supply bays will no longer resupply other ships with supply bays Shamelessly stole ThomasGideon's arc art Fixed a font issue with Arial 20 bold being way too large and screwing some spacing up Changed arcs and sh
Modding
Fixed Heavy Siphon beam to have the buff from last patch Ships with supply bays will no longer resupply other ships with supply bays Shamelessly stole ThomasGideon's arc art Fixed a font issue with Arial 20 bold being way too large and screwing some spacing up Changed arcs and sh
Modding
1.11 Added Russian language support Changed a number of fonts around to support russian characters; let me know if you see any oddities Fixed repair drones, which were accidentally disabled in 1.10 while trying to fix repair drones. Recursive failure/ Fixed bug where ships being
1.11 Added Russian language support Changed a number of fonts around to support russian characters; let me know if you see any oddities Fixed repair drones, which were accidentally disabled in 1.10 while trying to fix repair drones. Recursive failure/ Fixed bug where ships being
Hi everyone. I have pushed out two small patches yesterday / today. Combined patch notes to 1.10: Fixed the bug where loading a mod would not load your modded ships StarDrive will now remember what mod you have loaded between plays Fixed a crash referencing the Agent Operations l
Hi everyone. I have pushed out two small patches yesterday / today. Combined patch notes to 1.10:
Hi everyone. I have pushed out two small patches yesterday / today. Combined patch notes to 1.10: Fixed the bug where loading a mod would not load your modded ships StarDrive will now remember what mod you have loaded between plays Fixed a crash referencing the Agent Operations l
Hi everyone. I have pushed out two small patches yesterday / today. Combined patch notes to 1.10:
Hi folks. I pushed a small patch out with some stability fixes and a few balance changes. Fixed a potential crash related to a multi-threading race condition. Changed the way StarDrive looks for your config file; attempting to fix errors where SD says "Can't find file Windows/Sys
Hi folks. I pushed a small patch out with some stability fixes and a few balance changes.
Hi folks. I pushed a small patch out with some stability fixes and a few balance changes. Fixed a potential crash related to a multi-threading race condition. Changed the way StarDrive looks for your config file; attempting to fix errors where SD says "Can't find file Windows/Sys
Hi folks. I pushed a small patch out with some stability fixes and a few balance changes.
After a very successful Steam beta period, the hugely anticipated indie production “StarDrive” will go live on Steam later today. StarDrive, developed by Zero Sum Games and published by Iceberg Interactive, is being hailed by critics as the new benchmark in the ‘4x space strategy
After a very successful Steam beta period, the hugely anticipated indie production “StarDrive” will go live on Steam later today. StarDrive, developed by Zero Sum Games and published by Iceberg Interactive, is being hailed by critics as the new benchmark in the ‘4x space strategy’ genre, with strong emphasis on ship design and combat, and exceeds all expectations a player might have for a 4x strategy game (even pausing to make it turn-based).
“Creating StarDrive has been an incredible journey for me. I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to this project and to the community who has supported it so well. The release of StarDrive does not mark the end of development. Rather, it marks a new beginning. StarDrive is a living product and we intend to support and expand this game for many years to come. Have fun!”
After a very successful Steam beta period, the hugely anticipated indie production “StarDrive” will go live on Steam later today. StarDrive, developed by Zero Sum Games and published by Iceberg Interactive, is being hailed by critics as the new benchmark in the ‘4x space strategy
After a very successful Steam beta period, the hugely anticipated indie production “StarDrive” will go live on Steam later today. StarDrive, developed by Zero Sum Games and published by Iceberg Interactive, is being hailed by critics as the new benchmark in the ‘4x space strategy’ genre, with strong emphasis on ship design and combat, and exceeds all expectations a player might have for a 4x strategy game (even pausing to make it turn-based).
“Creating StarDrive has been an incredible journey for me. I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to this project and to the community who has supported it so well. The release of StarDrive does not mark the end of development. Rather, it marks a new beginning. StarDrive is a living product and we intend to support and expand this game for many years to come. Have fun!”