Hello Lords of Rigel,
This has been a slow week for updates, but that is both good and bad. We released an update on Saturday and another on Sunday to address some immediate fixes that were needed. These changes should fix a number of issues players have been experiencing as well as making some incremental updates to the orbital bombardment system and ground combat stats. Players should be seeing changes in how stats are calculated – for instance ground combat bonus traits are no longer percentages, but positive/negative bonuses. This should make for an easier system to calculate consistently. Additionally, we added another quality-of-life request from players – the ability to move between owned systems from system view. Players should now see arrows at the top of their screen to move back and forth between different star systems.
While probably not noticeable to players, one change this week was a big change in code - moving our turn system towards being centralized in an Unreal Engine actor. This is the first step in a longer process of restructuring the turn system in the game and we believe this will provide fewer bugs, a better player experience through a centralized system to process all player UI interactions generated from a turn such as audience screens, research menu, etc. and we will be focusing on optimizing the code which should provide faster turns for players. Our goal is to get turn running as fast as we can. This will be especially important in larger and longer games where more data is running through turn.
This week we will continue to focus on bug fixes as they come in, quality of life improvements and an ongoing refactor of orbital combat/ground combat. We should be getting the defensive forces refactored and then transitioning that code to the invasion level for visuals to play through for the player.
Again, we encourage all of you to report your experience with the game both good and bad as well as provide feedback on hotfixes and quality of life improvements. Please let us know if there are specific technologies or systems not working or unclear which can help us focus on systems to work on.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback and we continue our journey through EA!
