Community Update- Measurement Tool and Quality of Life Improvements
Greetings Lords of Rigel! This week has some minor bug fixes and two requested quality of life adjustments.
Measurement Tool
First is a measurement tool for the galaxy menu. By pressing F9 by default, this toggles on or off a measurement tool to determine distances between stars in parsecs.
Image 1. New Measurement Tool
If you are having issues with the measurement tool, check the common issues thread and how to reset keybindings. Some players returning to LoR may have issues with older keybinding .inis and save files.
Planets Menu Improvements
Second is a requested pan to system in planets menu button, to go with the event ticker and empire menu pan options. If you're in system view this will load that location in the galaxy.
Image 2. Pan to system in Planets Menu
What to Expect Next
As we enter into the holiday sales season expect more minor optimizations, QOL improvements, and some content updates over the holidays,
The council decree system mentioned as a content update will be coming later in the Winter. Council decrees adding economic bonuses and sanctions based on the rankings of species in the mid and late games while reducing the doomsday clock.
Release 1.02 Hotfix #3
Change Log:
Ticket #2075 QOL- Measurement tool in galaxy map Ticket #2085 QOL- Pan to star in planets menu Ticket #2086 Fix for rare case of fleet combat going to bombardment if bombing isn't completed
Default key for measurement tool is F9. Click on a star and a destination for measurement information under the cursor.
Release 1.02 Hotfix #2
Changelog:
Fix for rare case of build queue issues with captured planets Fix for rare cases of housing not applying when there is food production for non-lithovores and mechanoids Fix for rare case of reversed after combat report
Note- Build queues may need to be cleared for fixes to apply to existing games
Community Update- Release 1.02
Greetings Lords of Rigel! These past two weeks have included a new leader in the game and some community quality of life improvements and bug fixes.
This Update This last update includes a new technology, breaching pods.
Breaching pods fall as a type of strikecraft and deploy raiding crews that deal damage that penetrates shield and armor with breaching charges that do damage equivalent to your best available bomb with ground combat bonuses applied. They are slow and able to be intercepted by point defense. But they provide a new tool for ground combat focused species.
Image 1. Breaching Pods in the Tech Tree
Image 2. Breaching Pods in Action
Other adjustments include gravity penalties applying to High-G species on Low-G planets, including in ground combat.
What's Next? In the immediate future you'll see more leaders and fixes to community reported issues. Over the winter council decrees and a measuring tool when a fleet is not selected are planned features and quality of life improvements.
Release 1.02 Hotfix #1
Ticket #2084 Fix for cases of merged species treaty broken messages Ticket #2083 Balance- High-G gravity species penalties for low-G planets.
Release 1.02
Changelog:
Ticket #2067 QOL- Add council vote results to event ticker Ticket #2079 Content- Breaching pods Ticket #2081 Display fix for hired leader starting ranks Ticket #2082 Critical- Fix for cases of mixed carrier wings not launching
November Community Update
Greetings Lords of Rigel! The past weeks had a few bug fixes and quality of life improvements based on community feedback:
Critical- Case of planet specials not applying to empire
QOL- Transporters disable all blockading
Spatial compression field fix
Content- New leader
New Leader: Asag the Arcturan Warmaster
Asag led the forces of the Arcturan Confederation during the last great war. Now they offer their services to your Empire. Will they repeat the mistakes of the past?
What to expect next:
A new technology and an additional leader are the planned immediate content.
Based on some feedback from more advanced players, ideas are being tossed around for a Council decree system in galactic council games, which could add voted upon bonuses and and penalties based on species ranking. Decrees would potentially also reduce the doomsday clock in games with elder species. This mechanic would be a major update for later in the winter.
Release 1.01 Hotfix #7
Ticket #2080 Critical- Case of planet specials not applying to empire
Release 1.01 Hotfix #6
Change Log:
Ticket #2076 QOL- Transporters disable all blockading Ticket #2077 Spatial compression field fix Ticket #2078 Content- New leader
Lord of Rigel: October Update
Greetings Lords of Rigel!
The 1.01 updates continue and over the past few weeks several requested features have been added including:
Self Destruct Timer in Tactical- A 5 second abortable destruct timer.
Warp Out Timer in Tactical- Warp out times reduce with better drive technologies.
Pan to star in Empire menu
Renaming player fleets in the Fleet Movement menu (click on fleet name to rename)
ETA display for non-player fleets in sensor detection
There's also been some performance tweaks to blockades and changing colony focus to better optimize empire data changes, While this may not help systems struggling to play the mid to late game, others should be a visible improvement.
More of your requested quality of life features will be implemented over the coming weeks.
