It's been a while since the last dev log. Here are some recent developments for New Stars, with emphasis on empire customization.
Empire Presets
Many games have a feature where you can save customizations. New Stars now has this!
Six new default empire presets have also been added. Also, empire presets have a 5% chance to spawn in the galaxy, unless you toggle their ability to spawn by clicking the alien icon.
The six default presets cannot be deleted since they have plot armour, and may also be changed later. In addition to improving empire customization, some bugs have been fixed that caused empire customizations to be lost when navigating the main menu.
New Stars Wiki
I am excited to announce the an official wiki has been launched at wiki.newstarsgame.com. Players have suggested this before, and its implementation is underway.
This is a work in progress, and content is gradually being added. Note that 100% uptime cannot be guaranteed, since it is locally hosted, and as of writing, the server has a restart schedule of every 12 hours. You can check uptime graphs at newstars.statuspage.io.
Changelog
The changelog has been moved to wiki.newstarsgame.com/changelog, where new update changes will be listed.
New Worlds
The 'New Worlds' demo is complete and is available on newstarsgame.com/new_worlds.
Note: New Worlds is not a separate game, but a simple demo/prototype of a new colony system. I am not likely to integrate this colony building system to the game since there is already too much to do, although it has been around for 4 months now and has been released since the last post.
Other Changes
Other changes include galaxy visual improvements, optimizations and bug fixes.
Galaxy Visual Improvements
Customize the galaxy visual from main menu.
Adaptive Hyperlane Colours
Hyperlanes better match with galaxy colours. This only changes the blue and gold galaxy hyperlane colours.
Stay tuned for more updates...
Feel free to comment your suggestions below.
🪵 View the Changelog: newstarsgame.com/changelog.
📖 Read the Wiki: wiki.newstarsgame.com.
⭐ Wishlist New Stars to support development.
This page is intended to be a development preview, which may not reflect the final state of the game.