Greetings Lords of Rigel!
This past week has included a number of optimizations and fixes for community reported bugs. This has included at least one critical fix with colony bases and a range of UI display fixes for incorrect not not displayed data under certain conditions (temporal anomalies).
The plan over December is to continue to work on community reported issues and continue on optimizations. There will also be some data structure changes to allow for council decree support.
New Leader- Gemini the Master Cloner
Gemini started as a science experiment for long term human colonization and expansion, but became a researcher in his own right expanding on cloning technologies. He and a Rigelan leader are both available in the leader pools of new games.
Council Decrees
The planned winter feature addition, council decrees, will be voted on between council leader votes. Decrees apply penalties to a faction ranked highest with a particular resource, but bonuses for all other factions. Active decrees also reduce the Doomsday Clock, so even if you are a lead faction you may want to take temporary economic hit.
Mechanically, this continues the meddling of the elder races to "level" the playing field to advance their own agendas. Expect this in early 2025.