Greetings Lords of Rigel! For the first content update in March a requested quality of life feature has been added- an empire outliner in galaxy view.
The outliner provides a list of your colonies, outposts, and fleets. You can pan to the system or fleet, enter planet view, and most importantly you can access the build queue.
The system and planet view sidebars have similarly been adjusted, allowing you to quickly edit the build queues of other occupied planets in either system or planet view.
While the outliner does provide a powerful new tool. the empire menu is still the best way to quickly filter through planets, change focus, and change build queueus.
Image 1. Galaxy view outliner
Image 2. Option to disable outliner in settings
Release 1.06- Galaxy Menu Outliner
Change Log: Ticket #2107 QOL - Galaxy view outliner
Release 1.05 Hotfix #5b
Change Log: Critical- Fix for rare case of softlock when diplomatic or spy messages transition to a GNN event when GNN was turned off in settings Reduced memory overhead Minor autoexplore performance optimization
Release 1.05 Hotfix #5- New Player Logos
Change Log: Content- New Faction Logos QOL- Added save process indicator for autosaves and main saving. Minor performance increase for autosaves
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Greetings Lords of Rigel! To celebrate six months since release and the community features and quality of life improvements added since release LoR is 25% off.
Since release Lord of Rigel has had additional features in the form of "Free LC" added including:
New Leaders
Additional Planet Resources
Additional Faction Logos
New Map Modes
New Technologies (Breaching Pods, Electron Flux, Continuum Emitter)
Galactic Council Decrees
In-Game Achievements Menu
New Map Mode
New Logo Options
Achievements Menu
Council Decrees
Electron Flux Cannons
Over the rest of the year additional "Free LC" is planned along with continued performance optimizations and AI improvements.
Release 1.05 Hotfix #3
QOL- Changed final expansion and exploration achievements to first council decree and final war for completionists with slow systems. Players who earned the prior achievements will receive the new ones automatically. Balance- Decoupled player initial spy mission attempt and success rolls Fix for cases when end turn indicator would not fade out at same time as other UIs when transitioning to planet view Critical- Tactical- Fix for rare case of combat not ending with starbase destruction Tactical- Fix for rare case of shift select not updating weapons and specials list Tactical- Fix for "traffic jam" situations with manual movement where movement appeared unresponsive
Release 1.05 Hotfix #2
QOL- Indicator for turn processing stages QOL- Tiny galaxy faction count tooltip now indicates you can't change faction count Critical- Fix for rare case of outpost ship UI appearing multiple times in a row if invalid outpost destinations had queued in player expansion Critical- Fix for a rare softlock case on scene reload for some systems
Release 1.05 Hotfix #1
Critical- Tutorial Fix for rare case of transitioning to system view during fleet movement tutorial could result in locking progress Critical/QOL- Tutorial tooltip on star systems when in Planets menu portion notes to use the planets menu to issue fleet orders (for situations where players may not realize how to progress that stage)
Lord of Rigel Release 1.05- Galactic Council Decrees
Release 1.05 and Let's Play!
Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.05 includes Galactic Council Decrees. This let's play continues the one from September, with a Katraxi game involving skirmishes with the Tulocks and votes on galactic council decrees.
Release 1.05- Galactic Council Decrees
Council Decrees are active in games with diplomatic victories, elder species, and the Doomsday Clock active. Decrees provide economic sanctions to the faction leading in an economic category (BCs, Food, Industry, Research) and bonuses to other factions. Decrees stay active until a Lord of Rigel is elected, or a new decree is passed or fails a vote. Active decrees also reduce the Doomsday Clock, lowering risk of the last great war breaking out.
This update also includes a community requested color checker in new game that will warn if your faction is too close to an existing one.
Image 1. A Council Decree vote
Image 2. Council Decree option in New Game
Image 3. Faction Color Checker in New Game
What's Next?
The plan moving forward is to focus on performance and AI optimizations. New leaders, events, some technologies, and resources are also still planned over the next six months. We appreciate your continued support of Lord of Rigel. For those who have appreciated the game, please like the game. As can be seen from the updates the past few months, constructive feedback has been helpful for quality of life improvements implemented into the game.
Change Log:
Ticket #2102 Council Decrees QOL- Votes to Win and Votes to Pass added to Galactic Council menus Balance- Increased beam weapon velocity in tactical, increases accuracy Balance- Increased galactic council abstention chance if votes are close to victory Balance- Council votes better influenced by AI personality goals Optimized player fleet combat order of operations Fix for rare case of income resetting as 0 when colonizing a new system Fix for missile weapon modification technology prerequisites Fix for faction colors on planetary defenses in tactical, improving indicator visibility
Release 1.04 Hotfix #10
Change Log:
Balance- Uncreative techs tied to galaxy seed QOL- Council vote countdown displayed in diplomacy menu Stardate increment syncs better with autoturn Autoexplore performance optimization AI expansion performance optimization Fix for rare case of non homeworld wormholes visible on initial galaxy generation fog of war
