Istrolid

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Released: May 6, 2016
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Last updated: 07 Sep 2026, 09:44 GMT

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12 Jun 2021Developer post
Istrolid Update 1.0.1 - Community Balance Council #2
We have run the Community balance council 2 and gotten a series of results guiding things ever so slightly towards a new and more mobile meta. Jump changes, heavy PD-able changes, and some minor tweaks are in this round. We look forward to seeing the effect on the current meta. P
We have run the Community balance council 2 and gotten a series of results guiding things ever so slightly towards a new and more mobile meta. Jump changes, heavy PD-able changes, and some minor tweaks are in this round. We look forward to seeing the effect on the current meta.
PD-able Adjustments
by Owlfeathers
These are a modest rework increasing the general quality of PD-able weaponry. The missile changes are somewhat contentious as high speed ‘Premium’ ships have few clear counters, but it should be within tolerances.
Missile

Reload Time 2.06 → 1.93 (6.5% faster Rof)
Projectile Speed 352 m/s → 304 m/s
Energy use 2860e → 2650e
Mass 30t → 20t
Torpedo

Range 1100m → 1250m
Energy use 1250e → 1100e
Health 10 → 15
Artillery

Range 1600m → 1700m
Phase Nerf
Inspired by blaze/nulitor
There has generally been a sentiment that phase bombs are slightly too good, but there have been mixed feelings on how to nerf it. This is a general minor nerf to damage and a slight normalization.
Phase Bomb

Damage 160 → 150
Reload Time 3.75 → 3.56 (5% faster RoF)
Weight 20T → 22T
Energy use 3600e→ 3500e
Jump Buff
by Owlfeathers
Jump changes seem to have been mostly in the right direction, but it seems a hair weak. The official proposal by Owl was requesting a sharper decrease to min distance, but because of the jump-delay currently present, min distance is only being reduced to 150 for now. This is a much larger buff than it seems at first, roughly improving the part by 50% for ships that just wanted a jump-turn.
Jump Drive

Jump Distance and Recharge Rate: +10%
Min Distance: 200m → 150m
Other Adjustments
Other minor changes are in, including a reduction to shield capacitor Tanks while buffing them for use with Heavy Shields, and a slight reduction to Flamethrower cost.
Shield Capacitor

Shield 8 → 9
Mass 5T→ 5.5T
Shield Recharge 1.2/sec → 0.65/sec
Energy Cost 16e/sec → 8e/sec
Flamethrower

Cost 5 → 3
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20 Apr 2021GamingOnLinux
Spaceship building 2D strategy Istrolid reaches the big 1.0
It's Free Game Tuesday! Today we have Istrolid, a free fleet-design strategy game from developer treeform that recently hit the big 1.0 release. Read the full article here:
10 Apr 2021Developer post
Istrolid 1.0.0 - Here we are!
The 1.0.0 It’s finally here: 1.0.0. I don’t know what I expected this would be, but here we are! When I was a kid I was captivated by computer games. I had no clue how computers worked. I created a paper box to be “the screen” and cut out stuff to move inside “the screen” with li
The 1.0.0
It’s finally here: 1.0.0. I don’t know what I expected this would be, but here we are!
When I was a kid I was captivated by computer games. I had no clue how computers worked. I created a paper box to be “the screen” and cut out stuff to move inside “the screen” with little handles. Istrolid started out as a game out of LEGO where one would build fleets of ships and have them fight. It's been quite a journey getting from there to this point. Learning programming to make games. Making 100s of other game prototypes. Going to college, getting a job programming. An entire lifetime has passed. Then finally I realized my dream. I released Istrolid. Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
At first I showed the alpha prototype to Saktoth, he convinced me to add part building mechanics to make this a more interesting game rather than “a regular RTS”. He brought RyMarq on board to help with the balancing of the game. This game would have been nowhere without Saktoth and RyMarq. Other members of the community Rio6, PurpleGhost, JWDE volunteer to add some features and provide bug fixes. Thank you very much!
It's been fun watching the community discover new ship types and new strategies. It’s been interesting to watch how the player base evolves over time. After the initial launch, Istrolid somehow managed to carve out a niche for itself. Some people have spent 1000s hours playing this game - this is amazing! This is only possible because of you - the istrolid players. I hope I can be there for you when you were there for me.
Balance Adjustments
We talked with the more experienced members of the community, and did some refinement off the first Community Balance Council Changes
Shaped Charge

100d → 90d Damage, 100m → 110m AoE, improved reliability
20t → 25t Mass
Shaped Charge has been in testing for the last week or two at a new 100 damage level. It\s proving slightly too strong with jump-nukes, and is being brought down a bit.
Jump Drive

12% More jump power
16% Faster recharge
Jump Changes have been overall positive, but slightly too extreme with the higher minimum range.
Autocannon

12 HP → 15 HP
Sidewinder

10 HP → 15 HP
+5 Range
-2.5% Energy Use
+5% Bullet Speed
Both weapons were a hair weak at the new 10$ price point, and have gone to 15HP to help compensate for the structural implications.
Sidewinder is very nearly where its stats want to be and got a broad set of very minor buffs.
AI Fixes
AI Recharging behaviors with carriers should be much better.
We went through a number of the older AIs, fixing up some broken behaviors and updating them a bit for the modern game. This will mostly affect the campaign, where many lesser used AIs dwell.

Alpha Striker
Beam Man
Fireshower
Liberty
Mastermind
Nayenne
Razorback
Battlestar
Bug fixes

Fixed AI rule bug where charging fighter would not follow carrier ships.
Fixed an issue where ships could go into a “special dimension”, disappear and shoot anywhere on the map.
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21 Mar 2021Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.51.5 - Community Balance Patch!
Community Balance Council We ran the ( reddit thread where you voted on the balance changes. We took the highest upvoted balance changes with slight tweaks and here they are: Ranged Group Rework by Owlfeathers (with influence from No-Personality 4982) These changes are a large re
Community Balance Council
We ran the [Community Balance Council](https://www.reddit.com/r/istrolid/comments/lxp3i3/community_balance_council_1/) reddit thread where you voted on the balance changes. We took the highest upvoted balance changes with slight tweaks and here they are:
Ranged Group Rework
by Owlfeathers (with influence from No-Personality 4982)
These changes are a large rework to the range increments of the current game. They improve range mods for low-range use, diminish them for high range use, and generally increase some of the nuance in the range game.
Generally speaking this is a broad normalization of range based effects. I look forward to seeing what options this opens up for classically ‘mid-range’ weapons.
Spinal Mount

Range +600m → +500m
Energy use +50% → +25%
Demispinal Mount:

Cost $5 → $7
Energy use +25% → +10%
Weight 10T → 15T
Micro 360 Mount:

Range penalty -34% → -25%
Targeting Subsystem:

Range +25% → +20%
Flat range N/A → +80m
Heavy Cloak Rework
by Zango
This one is going to be one of the larger changes to the game, despite only affecting one part. It represents a dramatic rebalance in what is viable cloaked and why. Light cloaked ships, especially Bombers that were only sometimes cloaked, they now have to pay a very real price in additional Weight to use the cloaking device.
Short-Range Cruisers, especially more armored ones, should now be able to sustainable be cloaked, nullifying ranged attacks.
There is some irony here that it comes at the same time as the range normalization, as this would indeed allow super-high range weaponry with less degeneracy, but I am sure it will find a powerful place enabling slower cloaked vessels that are still able to close on longer range targets.
Cloak

Weight 10T → 60T
‘Cloaking Power’ 165T → 420T
Jump Engine Rebalance
inspired by Owlfeathers
A special note to the Dreamlight proposal. It indeed scored higher in the voting, but neither jump change was tremendously popular, but Owl’s represented something that could be altered to deal with the Heavy Cloak changes and the Game Engine changes that are making low-range jump turn more difficult.
Jump Drive

Jump power 100% → 250%
Cost $25 → $50
Weight 6T → 15T
Min Jump Range 50 → 200
The proposed change got a moderate amount of votes, but was not wildly popular enough for us to break open the code to implement a possibly buggy change. Instead the proposal has been trimmed to its core aspects, weightier jump drive to diminish cheap bombs, implicitly lower energy cost, and a more concentrated jump strength.
There is some additional Jump Drive strength and a large increase to min jump range to help compensate for the very real problems with microing jump-turns on tiny jump circles. This was really never the point of Jump Drive, even if it was an interesting byproduct, and is not being protected now that it’s somewhat problematic.
Sidewinder Changes
by Blazeroflasher and Dreamlight
Two significant sidewinder buffs were proposed with near identical votes. To reconcile them and keep it reasonable, sidewinder was increased to 10$, along with autocannon (it seemed lonely).
Both weapons get a 20% DPS increase from the change, along with mass reductions. This should help make them both interesting fighter weapons and keep them
Autocannon and Sidewinder

5 → 10$
10t → 7.5t
Reload Time 6.00 → 5.00
Sidewinder Range 780 → 795
Tesla Changes
by Owlfeathers
Tesla change did not receive the most votes, but nerfs were brought up in a couple places.
We are therefore going with a somewhat reduced Tesla nerf, a sort of weighted-average of the Tesla changes.
Tesla

Tesla Damage from 13 → 11
Tesla Energy 1600 → 1375
Tesla Bounce Distance 540 → 400
Mount Cost Reduction:
by Zango and Kyuriam
200 Turret

Cost $15 → $12
270 Turret

Cost $27 → $21
There wasn't broad consensus on the specific changes, so the most mild reductions to these mounts was taken.
Ultralight armor Buff
by ProfessorUlf.
Ultralight Armor

HP 8 → 9
Galaxy Puzzles
In order to prepare player coming from galaxy single player we are adding new design challenges to some of the early missions:
Bug fixes

Fixed a bug with getting a new design in Galaxy Camping mode.
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06 Mar 2021Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.51.4 - Bug fixes before 1.0.0!
I would like to get some bug fixes out for you as we make our way to 1.0.0. Area Centering We are now going to do area-center instead of mass-center: This makes ships way more centered but it takes away this mass centering puzzle. It’s true some people did like, but mostly was a
I would like to get some bug fixes out for you as we make our way to 1.0.0.
Area Centering
We are now going to do area-center instead of mass-center:
This makes ships way more centered but it takes away this mass centering puzzle. It’s true some people did like, but mostly was a kind of chore that did not do much to balance anyways. It ended up not mattering that much after we made the weapon ranges in game longer and longer.
Units with Stasis Field will ram
Your ships with stasis fields will now ram targets when you order them with the F follow/focus order. This will make stasis equipped ships much easier and fun to use as they will just chase down their prey and kill it. Just like you designed them to!
Weapon Sounds
Artillery no longer sounds like it came from WW1. I made it sound more sci-fi. That arty sound always stood out to me as not fitting. I hope you like the new one.
I also made ship explosions to be deeper. You still get that same short explosion for fighters, but for bigger ships there are medium for medium HP ships and super deep explosion for high HP ships.
Ambient Sounds
I removed all of the annoying drones. I don’t know what I was thinking when I added them. They were pretty annoying. I added two new action tracks though and deleted that one annoying action track. Music has never been strong in Istrolid - I hope it just makes it a little bit better.
Who am I kidding, you have disalbed all music long ago!
Galaxy Update
The earlier tutorial levels did not prepare players sufficiently. We have added a design checklist, to guide players to better designs. We hope the new ship-building tutorials will better guide players to design sound and useful ships, highlighting the aspects that will be important to them as they grow and develop their fleet in the future.
Community Balance Council
We still have not made significant balance changes for 1.0.0. That is still ongoing please vote for your changes here: [Community Balance Council]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/istrolid/comments/lxp3i3/community_balance_council_1/). There is still time to vote for the changes you want to see!
Bug fixes

Fixed chat links not opening.
Fixed Escape doing odd things with full screen.
Fixed “Quit Game” button disappearing (you can never leave).
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04 Mar 2021Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.51.3 - 1.0.0 next!
I know, some of you had trouble running the game. This is mostly due to aging underlying technology called Electron. Well good news I have updated it to the newest version to enable the biggest compatibility for you across Windows, Mac, and Linux. Wow… so exciting… well not reall
28 Jan 2020Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.51.1
Fleet Tabs We are excited to introduce fleet tabs! Our fleets have been getting a little too full lately. With players having hundreds of ships its been getting pretty crowded. With fleet tabs you can organize your fleets in the way that works for you. Even more ships now! Rework
18 Jun 2019Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.50.3
Survival Mode Introducing survival mode: battle waves and waves of enemy ships as you try to stay alive and hold the control points. You can fight either single player or multiplayer. You can add any AI or AIs you would like to survive against. The waves increase in their number
Survival Mode
Introducing survival mode: battle waves and waves of enemy ships as you try to stay alive and hold the control points. You can fight either single player or multiplayer. You can add any AI or AIs you would like to survive against. The waves increase in their number and their ferocity, there is no end.
Better Fleet Screen
You can now drag and drop fleets. If you have a ton of ships in your fleet screen this will greatly help you sift and sort them.
Balances Changes
Some slight tweaks to a variety of weapons. Overall balance seems very good generally, Tesla is overperforming slightly, Artillery is a bit weak but coming into its new role, and Flamethrower and Sidewinder are having their weaknesses covered just a bit more. Overall this should open up more variety in weapon selection among the less used weapons.
Torpedo Shot Energy 1300 → 1250
Tesla Shot Energy 1500 → 1600
Artillery: Shot Energy Cost 4500 → 4100 and Mass 70 → 65
Flamethrower Range 350 → 360
Sidewinder base speed 272 → 304
Push/Pull Wave Push/Pull Effect 10% stronger
Demi-spinal was overperforming a bit on fighters, this is to help keep both demi-spinal and standard fighters as valid while minimizing the impact elsewhere.
Demispinal Health 5 → 2
2x1 (and 1x2) Reactors had a supposed niche, but failed to shine at it as a real choice. This will bump up their space-efficiency as a battery to be higher than, well, batteries and might make them a more real choice among heavy-fighter style craft. Incidentally it helps spamming 2x1 reactors be a bit more correct of a choice for newbies.
2x1 Reactors:Energy: 10k → 20k and Output: 400 → 250
Adv shield rarely saw use, this is a fairly significant buff that will hopefully help its role as light shielding.
Adv Shield Gen Energy Threshold 75% → 40%
Energy Transfer was fine, but was a hair weak for smaller carrier choices, this should help those very slightly.
Energy Transfer Health 0 → 10
AI Edits
Prevented wiggling while capturing command points.
Return to spawn charging command now causes the ship to wait at spawn until charged, preventing it from expending energy with conflicting commands.
Better prioritize resting in AI commands that require it, improving some interactions with commands like follow player orders.
Bug Fixes
Remove most offensive map colors from the game.
Fixed a bug where players could lag the game by editing their ships.
Fixed one of the Zyro AI’s broken commands.
Tweaked the formula that determines the distance ships use to follow such that they should more accurately stop one capable of shooting.
Improved performance on handling large ships.
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19 Jan 2019Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.49.2
In this patch we are simply tuning previous changes. Sidewinder and Artillery are being brought a bit more in line, Push/Pull wave as well were underperforming, and should be easier to justify damage or reload modding. Overall goals are a continuation of the previous, to ensure A
In this patch we are simply tuning previous changes. Sidewinder and Artillery are being brought a bit more in line, Push/Pull wave as well were underperforming, and should be easier to justify damage or reload modding. Overall goals are a continuation of the previous, to ensure Artillery is used in a balanced fleet, and to decrease the power of single-weapon spam.
Balance Changes

Artillery: Reload Time 6 → 5.5, Speed 104 → 112, Energy 5000 → 4500
Sidewinder: Range 740 → 780 Speed 256 → 272
Heavy Beam: Damage: 37 → 38 Energy 5200 → 5000
Push Wave: Range 750 → 775 Damage: 4 → 5
Pull Wave: Range 825 → 850
1x1 Reactor: Energy 1800 → 2000
Advanced Shied: Mass: 10 → 8
No Overkill: Cost: 5 → 1 Health: 5 → 4
Fixes

Jump Drive now uses Mass x 15 for both energy cost and indicator check. Functionally a balance change as well, though was intended long ago.
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12 Jan 2019Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.49.1
Artillery has long been a source of fairly swingy behaviors in the game. This is in large part because of its small, but technically AoE hit location. Rather than trying to minimize that, these changes seek to accept the area of effect, making artillery shots more rare and dramat
Artillery has long been a source of fairly swingy behaviors in the game. This is in large part because of its small, but technically AoE hit location. Rather than trying to minimize that, these changes seek to accept the area of effect, making artillery shots more rare and dramatic, therefore more dodgeable, but still very potentially powerful. PD and missiles are both rebalanced to reduce the impact on artillery from this change.
Additionally, shields and range are being changed to allow more long range spam as an option while also making it more counterable, increasing maximum range, reducing DPS at that range, and improving regeneration options.
Finally, components that are traditionally used on more expandable craft have had their price increased, as well as their health, in order to reduce the power of the most expendable versions, and increase the power of potentially re-usable options.
These three things form the core of this set of balance changes.
Balance Changes

Micro 360 Mount: Cost 10 → 15, Health 5 → 20
Demispinal Turret: Cost 8 → 7
Stasis Generator: Health 1 → 10, Mass 5 → 6
Heavy Shield Gen: Generation Rate 12 → 16
Adv Shield Gen: Generation Rate; 2.4 → 3.2
Shield Cap: Mass 8 → 10
Cloak Gen: Cost 20 → 25 Energy Use 440 → 400
Jump Engine: Cost: 15 → 20 Health 10 → 25
Fighter Thruster: Thrust 2080 → 2160
Weapons
Light PD: Reload Time 2.0 → 2.5 Energy Cost 1000 → 1100 Damage 16 → 20
Heavy PD: AoE: 6 → 12
Torpedo: Reload Time 3.0 → 3.25 Energy Cost 1200 → 1300 Damage 22 → 24
Missile: Reload Time 1.87 → 2.06 Damage 25 → 27
Artillery: Reload Time 3 → 6, Speed 192 → 104, Energy 2000 → 5000, Damage 60 → 120, AoE 75 → 220, Mass 100 → 70T, Leads from outside of Range
Sidewinder: Range 700 → 740 Energy Cost 1500 → 2000 Damage 34 → 35
Plasma: Reload Time: 3s → 3.25
Heavy Beam: Damage: 35 → 37
Emp: Range 610 → 620
Orb: Range 1300 → 1400. Min Range 400 → 450. Reload Time 3.81 → 4
Phase Bomb: Damage: 150 → 160
Flame: Energy Cost: 200 → 400. Burn Damage: 20 → 24
EMP Warhead: EMP Damage: 5000 → 4000. AoE 325 → 360
Targeting Mod: Range Boost 20 → 25%. Reload Reduce: 25 → 30%
Dampener: Cost 10 → 5. Energy Reduction 30 → 25%
Fixes

Fixed AI Rally Point Interaction
Fixed a bug where decals could effect ship size
Improved Safari compatibility
Fix the sound setting bug
Fix challenge best time not saving
Patched exploit where a player could disconnect other players
Fixed the issue where too many ships or projectiles on screen could cause things to flicker./
AI Updates

FireShower
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22 Jul 2018Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.48.3
Balance Changes Sidewinder Damage 30 -> 34 Orb range 1400m -> 1300m, minimum range is now 1/3rd of max range, instead of depending on speed (an overall increase) Tesla damage 10 -> 12, energy cost 1300e -> 1500e, energy drain removed Heavy Point Defense projectile spe
Balance Changes

Sidewinder Damage 30 -> 34
Orb range 1400m -> 1300m, minimum range is now 1/3rd of max range, instead of depending on speed (an overall increase)
Tesla damage 10 -> 12, energy cost 1300e -> 1500e, energy drain removed
Heavy Point Defense projectile speed 560m/s -> 880m/s, energy cost 4400e -> 4000e, reload time 3s -> 3.25s, radius 18m -> 5m
Overshoot of all projectiles except Sidewinder and Missile changed 50% -> 30%
Bug Fixes

Artillery/Phase target indicators better fit their AoE
Carriers now transfer to targets that have run completely out of energy
Unit names are now limited to 50 characters
AI will no longer have a chance of stalling when its targets are destroyed
AI DPS conditions are now evaluated correctly
Following an enemy ship will now get close enough to shoot even when that ship is running away
Game rooms will now change modes correctly
Weapons can no longer be placed between spinal mounts
Build queue numbers update faster
Ships can no longer be deleted if a player is in the fleet screen when a game starts
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03 Feb 2018Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.47.5
Visual Updates: New wide variant 2x1 Scout and Fighter thrusters for symmetrical fighters. Bulk Thrusters back to 1x2 visually. New decals and inner diagonal stripe. More statistics are displayed in the info pane for parts Artillery and Phase bombs have a new visual indicator Min
Visual Updates:

New wide variant 2x1 Scout and Fighter thrusters for symmetrical fighters.
Bulk Thrusters back to 1x2 visually.
New decals and inner diagonal stripe.
More statistics are displayed in the info pane for parts
Artillery and Phase bombs have a new visual indicator
Minimum range is now displayed as inward facing triangles.
Balances Changes:

Dampener from -25% to -30% Energy cost
Emp Warhead from 4000 to 5000 Energy Damage
Added ‘armed’ and ‘unarmed’ categories to relative AI commands
Fire damage is now displayed correctly in info pane
Fixes to AI facing
Fixes to orders.
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03 Feb 2018Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.47.5
Visual Updates: New wide variant 2x1 Scout and Fighter thrusters for symmetrical fighters. Bulk Thrusters back to 1x2 visually. New decals and inner diagonal stripe. More statistics are displayed in the info pane for parts Artillery and Phase bombs have a new visual indicator Min
Visual Updates:

New wide variant 2x1 Scout and Fighter thrusters for symmetrical fighters.
Bulk Thrusters back to 1x2 visually.
New decals and inner diagonal stripe.
More statistics are displayed in the info pane for parts
Artillery and Phase bombs have a new visual indicator
Minimum range is now displayed as inward facing triangles.
Balances Changes:

Dampener from -25% to -30% Energy cost
Emp Warhead from 4000 to 5000 Energy Damage
Added ‘armed’ and ‘unarmed’ categories to relative AI commands
Fire damage is now displayed correctly in info pane
Fixes to AI facing
Fixes to orders.
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26 Nov 2017Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.47.4 - AI Fixes
AI Fixes. Fixed AIs getting stuck somehow for no reason. Fixes issue in the AI editor, when moving rules up and down. Updated Mini Charger Kick AIs Upon Changing Game Mode. Previously AIs clogged up the player count, potentially locking a server if a player repeatedly added them
AI Fixes.

Fixed AIs getting stuck somehow for no reason.
Fixes issue in the AI editor, when moving rules up and down.
Updated Mini Charger
Kick AIs Upon Changing Game Mode. Previously AIs clogged up the player count, potentially locking a server if a player repeatedly added them and swapped modes. Now that they are kicked this is no longer possible.
New Shadow Parts (for DLC owners only)
Added curved and front amor heavyweight shadowed pieces.
Part Changes

180 Turret Mount, arc increased to 200, cost decreased from 18 to 15
Sidewinder tracks further, moves faster, and does 25% less damage.
Demispinal Turret Mount cost reduced from 10 to 8
Dampener Mod hp increased from 5 to 10
Heavy Flak hp increased from 5 to 10
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26 Nov 2017Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.47.4 - AI Fixes
AI Fixes. Fixed AIs getting stuck somehow for no reason. Fixes issue in the AI editor, when moving rules up and down. Updated Mini Charger Kick AIs Upon Changing Game Mode. Previously AIs clogged up the player count, potentially locking a server if a player repeatedly added them
AI Fixes.

Fixed AIs getting stuck somehow for no reason.
Fixes issue in the AI editor, when moving rules up and down.
Updated Mini Charger
Kick AIs Upon Changing Game Mode. Previously AIs clogged up the player count, potentially locking a server if a player repeatedly added them and swapped modes. Now that they are kicked this is no longer possible.
New Shadow Parts (for DLC owners only)
Added curved and front amor heavyweight shadowed pieces.
Part Changes

180 Turret Mount, arc increased to 200, cost decreased from 18 to 15
Sidewinder tracks further, moves faster, and does 25% less damage.
Demispinal Turret Mount cost reduced from 10 to 8
Dampener Mod hp increased from 5 to 10
Heavy Flak hp increased from 5 to 10
Original post
18 Nov 2017Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.46.9 - Part Updates
A bunch of visual, balance, AI and order giving fixes. Balance Changes Stasis Field: Price from 15 to 10 This should allow stasis to be more easily placed on fighters and other small craft without making a serious impact on their cost effectiveness. Spinal: -50 Range The base ran
A bunch of visual, balance, AI and order giving fixes.
Balance Changes
Stasis Field: Price from 15 to 10
This should allow stasis to be more easily placed on fighters and other small craft without making a serious impact on their cost effectiveness.
Spinal: -50 Range
The base range of spinal was quite strong, this should bring that power down a little while we think about the role of spinal versus rangemods in the long time.
Flamethrower: 1 normal dps to 2.
Flamethrower really only works as a niche anti-heavy weapon, a bit more base damage should help it kill units it would otherwise struggle to kill with it’s DoT, such as fighters, while not necessarily making it too strong in those cases.
Visual Updates
Thrusters have got an overhaul, typing together the visuals of the two variants of bulk and cruiser so they are more clearly the same thruster type.
Ultralight armour is now fully rotationally symetrical.
A range of other small tweaks and cleanups.
AIs updated to work with rebalanced parts:

FireShower
PushForce
Bunch of order giving fixes.

Stop, Self-D, Hold orders can no longer be shift-q'ed.
You can now Hold with the Z key and issue many orders, after you let go they all will be executed.
Follow Units renamed to Focus Fire/Follow (Many people did not realize that this command lets you focus fire on enemies)
Orders are no longer sent to all observers (they are private now).
Only the last order id is sent (which means a lot less network traffic from orders)
Order shift-q increased from 8 orders to 50.
Units during selection are sorted so that during line move they end up in the same place and don't switch positions.
Line move positions are now interpolated better, drawing line fast or slow produces the same line.
Orders no longer flicker when player issues orders and get them back from the server (player never gets them back now)
Design warnings are more descriptive
Design warnings now give instructions. For example: to add more wings if you cannot turn fast, to reduce weight if you are too slow, to reduce thrusters if they draw too much energy. This should help with player responses to these design problems.
Original post
18 Nov 2017Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.46.9 - Part Updates
A bunch of visual, balance, AI and order giving fixes. Balance Changes Stasis Field: Price from 15 to 10 This should allow stasis to be more easily placed on fighters and other small craft without making a serious impact on their cost effectiveness. Spinal: -50 Range The base ran
A bunch of visual, balance, AI and order giving fixes.
Balance Changes
Stasis Field: Price from 15 to 10
This should allow stasis to be more easily placed on fighters and other small craft without making a serious impact on their cost effectiveness.
Spinal: -50 Range
The base range of spinal was quite strong, this should bring that power down a little while we think about the role of spinal versus rangemods in the long time.
Flamethrower: 1 normal dps to 2.
Flamethrower really only works as a niche anti-heavy weapon, a bit more base damage should help it kill units it would otherwise struggle to kill with it’s DoT, such as fighters, while not necessarily making it too strong in those cases.
Visual Updates
Thrusters have got an overhaul, typing together the visuals of the two variants of bulk and cruiser so they are more clearly the same thruster type.
Ultralight armour is now fully rotationally symetrical.
A range of other small tweaks and cleanups.
AIs updated to work with rebalanced parts:

FireShower
PushForce
Bunch of order giving fixes.

Stop, Self-D, Hold orders can no longer be shift-q'ed.
You can now Hold with the Z key and issue many orders, after you let go they all will be executed.
Follow Units renamed to Focus Fire/Follow (Many people did not realize that this command lets you focus fire on enemies)
Orders are no longer sent to all observers (they are private now).
Only the last order id is sent (which means a lot less network traffic from orders)
Order shift-q increased from 8 orders to 50.
Units during selection are sorted so that during line move they end up in the same place and don't switch positions.
Line move positions are now interpolated better, drawing line fast or slow produces the same line.
Orders no longer flicker when player issues orders and get them back from the server (player never gets them back now)
Design warnings are more descriptive
Design warnings now give instructions. For example: to add more wings if you cannot turn fast, to reduce weight if you are too slow, to reduce thrusters if they draw too much energy. This should help with player responses to these design problems.
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19 Oct 2017Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.46.8 - Important bug fixes
Speed Coil down to +50% from +60% bonus Single speed coils were giving a lot of velocity, and less than 6x speed coil has quickly become common, so preserving the same extremes at 6 coils is less important. This also lowers the max velocities achievable with things like artillery
Speed Coil down to +50% from +60% bonus
Single speed coils were giving a lot of velocity, and less than 6x speed coil has quickly become common, so preserving the same extremes at 6 coils is less important. This also lowers the max velocities achievable with things like artillery stacks.
Waves now scale their power based on damage mods
With damage mods, you can now create a 'push/pull wave bomber',
previously wave push/pull was unaffected by damage mods.
Quickscore displays current money, rather than earned money
Quickscore now displays the current available cash on hand, rather than
the total earned over this game. This allows players to see if their
enemies are saving up for a surprise rush and be confident in taking the
last point and ending the game.
New effects and explosions
EMP warhead now has a zap effect so you can distinguish it from other warheads. Orb has a hit effect, and hit effects have been scaled up to be more visible.
Bug Fixes

Joining games no longer takes so long.
Sending more info than needed on game start.
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19 Oct 2017Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.46.8 - Important bug fixes
Speed Coil down to +50% from +60% bonus Single speed coils were giving a lot of velocity, and less than 6x speed coil has quickly become common, so preserving the same extremes at 6 coils is less important. This also lowers the max velocities achievable with things like artillery
Speed Coil down to +50% from +60% bonus
Single speed coils were giving a lot of velocity, and less than 6x speed coil has quickly become common, so preserving the same extremes at 6 coils is less important. This also lowers the max velocities achievable with things like artillery stacks.
Waves now scale their power based on damage mods
With damage mods, you can now create a 'push/pull wave bomber',
previously wave push/pull was unaffected by damage mods.
Quickscore displays current money, rather than earned money
Quickscore now displays the current available cash on hand, rather than
the total earned over this game. This allows players to see if their
enemies are saving up for a surprise rush and be confident in taking the
last point and ending the game.
New effects and explosions
EMP warhead now has a zap effect so you can distinguish it from other warheads. Orb has a hit effect, and hit effects have been scaled up to be more visible.
Bug Fixes

Joining games no longer takes so long.
Sending more info than needed on game start.
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14 Oct 2017Developer post
Istrolid Update 0.46.7
Dampener A weapon mod that reduces the speed of a projectile by 8% and the energy consumption by 25% Orb Launcher A light, long range projectile with an arming phase. Useful for bombardment against slow enemies. Able to strike heavily point-defended enemies, as it is not a missil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36TJ2mM63BM
Dampener
A weapon mod that reduces the speed of a projectile by 8% and the energy consumption by 25%
Orb Launcher
A light, long range projectile with an arming phase. Useful for bombardment against slow enemies. Able to strike heavily point-defended enemies, as it is not a missile.
Demispinal and Spinal Changes
A lighter spinal that gives +250m range, for $10 and 15T. Spinal now gives +500m range for $20 and 40T. Spinal range bonus now applies after the % bonus from weapon mods, reducing max ranges with range mods.
Emp Warhead
An EMP Warhead and nerfs to current explosive warhead
Speed Coils
Changed effect scale. Has linear increase. Increases speed by 60%.
Sidewinder
Now circles in place when it has no target, rather then flying off away from the enemy.
New Engine Sizes
Larger Bulk Thruster(47$), Small Cruiser Thruster (44$)
Bulk Thruster Nerf
Below 60 m/s, bulk speeds should generally be faster. Above, they and bulk turn speed should be slower.
AI

Now preserves hold position.
Can skip the rally point.
Evaluates the less range criteria correctly.
Micor Changed
Bugs fixed

Several order dropping bugs fixed
AI bubbles are not shown in single player
Units now turn if they have any non 360 arc
Spelling fixes
Can’t mute server
Fixed Surrender Spamming
Friend list is now ordered
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