Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for December 20th, 2022, and the last update for year 2022. The scouting command for the Admiral is fully operational. There has also been some clean up and UI notification updates.
Artistic Update
Up to this point, messages between the AIs or even notifications while being produced when a new research is completed or when a ship is produced, mostly went unnoticed. Now, they show up as objectives or notifications, and non-critical messages (such as notifications of something completed) will auto-delete themselves after a short period of time. Requests from the AIs will now show up as Objectives to be completed, and will remain until they are completed.
Quality of Life
The above is the pathing of multiple scouts all completely generated from the Admiral AI being told to do the scouting for you. These ever expanding series of patrol paths will keep an eye on their area of the planet to see what might cross their paths. By searching, new nodes, cities, and other events await. This is only the first implementation of what the Admiral AIs will be able to do for the player and the enemy.
To be clear, the larger glowing parts are cities, so it shows the scope of how much ground is being covered. Because of this, the enemies are about to be pushed back out of immediate attack range soon (after the Admiral updates for attack cities are done). At which point you and your enemies will have to find each other first.
Short-term RoadMap
The holidays are upon us, which means people go on vacations. While there will be some updates in the next few weeks, there won't be much. Some of the icons are being updated, and I'm hoping a graphical update will happen but I wouldn't expect too much work to be done in the next two weeks over the holidays.
That's all for this update, stay tuned for more news next time! If you'd like to give Rank: Warmaster a try for yourself, pick up a copy on Steam and begin your conquest of Mars!
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