Rebellion is here! Finally, the Also department related audience events and advanced customization (audience frequency, era length, etc) upon game start.
- [feature] Rebellion finished. Rebellion will start when rebel readiness reach 100% (you can slow it down via various audience decisions). Then they take over some planets politically, afterwards they will spawn rebel squadrons (strength based on rebel power, which again can be reduced via various audience choices) and start attacking planets loyal to the Empire. If you fail to crush the rebels in a timely manner the prestige of Empire will start to fall and eventually the Empire will collapse.
- [feature] Department related audience events. There are two pools of events, good and bad. Competence of the department affects from which pool the next event will be drawn. At the moment there are few of such events, but the nice things is most of those are semi random, so some options will differ the next time you get the same event.
- [feature] Advanced customization option upon the game start. You can adjust audiences frequency, era length, rebels strength, etc.
- [feature] Races are chosen randomly upon game start.
- [feature] Diplomatic incident/success event changed to diplomatic opportunity event and it has semi random options.
- [feature] Tutorial audience event (TIPS), optionally available (options). At the moment it's disabled on default since it has very few tips. If you have ideas for tips, post those on the Steam group.
- [interface] Rebels details on the summary screen improved.
- [interface] Diplomacy event renamed to Ambassador (if ambassador summoned) to make it more distinctive from the diplomatic opportunity event.
- [interface] Cleanup of audience options description (more uniform).
- [interface] Numerous smaller beautifications.
Note: As with each such big balance changing update I'm not sure if I got the rebels power right. You can try to adjust it via Advanced customization setting, also you can edit data/balance.ini. Please post on our Steam group if you find rebels too strong/week or too rare/frequent.