Dear Steam!

I am just pushing a 4.10 version of Galimulator to open beta testing. The biggest news in this release is Steam Workshop support - this allows you to share your own maps and ships with the rest of the community, and of course download the work of others.

You can read more about making maps for Galimulator here:
http://blog.galimulator.com/8-modding/4-galimulator-map-making-in-4-9-and-onward
http://blog.galimulator.com/8-modding/2-maps

And a bit about ships here:
http://blog.galimulator.com/8-modding/3-modding-ships-in-galimulator

The workshop can be viewed here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/808100/workshop/
(or through the Steam client)

Using mods

If you visit the workshop page and subscribe to something there, it will be automatically downloaded and made available as soon as you start up the Galimulator beta. Disabling them is a bit more tricky though, you will have to unsubscribe and manually delete the files, it’s a beta after all …

Uploading mods

Once you’ve made the ship or map that you would like to share with the community, use the “Share a mod” button on the main screen - and you should be able to see your mod listed there. As a thumbnail, the game will use the latest screenshot taken - so make sure to grab one with the F12 key before submitting.

Then you will go through a couple of steps submitting it.

Once submitted, you can go into the workshop and change a bunch of stuff. It’s not possible to change the thumbnail though, so be careful to upload the right one …

Other fixes

There’s a bunch of other stuff too, like:

• Natives added to certain systems, will allow empires to constructs their ships
• A lot of cool new maps added
• Vassalization of empires (WIP)
• Highlighting of ship paths when selecting ships
• Blacklist empire specials
• New galaxy types: Solar system and Spaghetti
• Optional pathfinding improvements (fast during play but takes a long time to generate)
• Railgun weapon added
• Lots of bugs fixed and added

So dear community, try this stuff out and let me know either here or on Discord or by email or whatever if it works - and have fun!