Stardust Exile News

This update introduces the single-player skirmish mode. Now you can generate other galaxies with different sizes, densities, star systems and opponents. Research/Tech Tree, Planetary Outposts and Pirates can be enabled or disabled as desired.



Pre-defined modes include:

• End Exile: Make your way to the Solar System and end your exile.
  
• Quick Match: A small game of conquest with 4 factions and a small limit of ships.
  
• Galactic War: A proper war. Wins the empire with the most stored resources after the time limit reached.
  
• Simulation: Watch empires rise and fall. No playable faction.
  

Or create your own scenario with any of the victory conditions or none.


v0.10.0 Changelog:
- Add Skirmish mode
- Enable data compression for large messages from the server
- Improve main menu
- Increase ships limit to 500. Change steps from 128|256|384 to 100|200|300|400|500
- Logs default From/To is now All
- Fix ships trajectories sometimes remaining visible after the ship stopped
- Fix energy production rates higher than the value displayed
- Small fixes to translations

v0.9.0
- Allow to configure rally point of Shipyards and Market Terminals
- Add black hole at the center of the galaxy
- Improve system creation time for systems with many ships
- Improve precision of galaxy map mouse clicks, camera icon position and ships distribution cells
- Improve control borders player names looks
- Fix displayed production rates not updating immediately after a storage ship enters a new system
- Fix production rates not updating when a storage ship or shipyard is bought from the market

New update adds NPC Pirates with corresponding bounties for each pirate faction.


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On the galaxy view it is now possible to see the distribution of ships throughout the galaxy.


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Systems under player control now display a border delimiting their territory with an indicator of which systems are protected by disruptors and which are not.


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Market orders have also been expanded to be automatically generated in other systems besides the Solar System.

v0.8.0 changelog:
- Allow to see the distribution of ships throughout the galaxy
- Add Pirates
- Add systems control borders
- Expand automatic market orders generation to more systems
- Fix visual problems with trajectories, trails, gauss shot and dyson laser on systems far away from the solar system
- Show correct planets max resources output based on the player current completed harvest research
- Fix objectives reverting to previous state for some players
- Fix planets and systems text not updating with correct materials production immediately after an outpost is constructed or upgraded
- Fix stars and planets names not being fully displayed when a lot of wide characters are used
- Fix formatting problem in planets temperature field when it is negative
- Fix sell orders table title being removed after the data was received
- Fix price scale formatting problem in market historical prices graph
- Fix Alliances and Bounties dialogs being outside of view after the window is resized
- Fix incorrect sort on the ship specific columns in the markets dialog
- Fix missing system coordinates in logs of type Transaction

New update adds planetary outposts. They increase the production of materials and can be expanded at additional cost to increase the production further. Their construction is optional, but allow to reduce the number of collector needed and systems occupied. Each collector creates one outpost and maintains it. If it is destroyed or leaves the planet the outpost is destroyed too.



Additionally this update will be the first of a long-overdue game rebalance:
- Storage ships base capacities will be increased. Materials storage increases to 8.4M, Gas Tanker to 3.8M and Energy Accumulator to 10.8M. The Shipyard storage capacities are reduced to 2.1M materials, 0.95M gas and 2.7M energy.
- Reduce resources production rates by 50% on average. The same reduction applies to ships construction cost, research cost and the initial amount of resources after a New Game.



v0.7.0 changelog:
- Add Planetary Outposts
- Add indicator of capacity for extraction ships to stars, planets and asteroid belts
- Improve planets, stars and background nebula texture generation performance
- Paginate Market Historical prices graph
- Increase Storage ship base capacity. Materials storage increases to 8.4M, Gas Tanker capacity to 3.8M and Energy Accumulator capacity to 10.8M. Reduce Shipyard storage base capacities to 2.1M materials, 0.95M gas and 2.7M energy
- Reduce resources production rates by 50% on average. The same reduction applies to ships construction cost, research cost and the initial amount of resources after a New Game
- Fix ships leaving the market terminal being placed in another system
- Fix visual problem in the My Orders section of the Markets dialog when there are many pending orders
- Fix incorrect selected ship section on Create Ship Class dialog when the most recent ship class has less than 3 sections

New update adds Alliances and Bounties to Stardust Exile.



Alliances allow ships to not open fire on other alliance members. Systems can now be safely shared between multiple players. It also disables the disruptors effect between alliance members to allow faster travel.
Bounties allow to earn credits by destroying ships. The amount earned for each ship is proportional to the cost in resources of that ship.
This update also adds a new option to the markets that allow to fulfill ships orders directly from the markets dialog. It automatically picks the closest ships to the selected terminal that matches the selected criteria. It is no longer necessary to create individual sell orders for each ship.

v0.6.0 Changelog:
- Add Bounties
- Add Alliances
- Allow Civilization dialog to sort systems by each resource production or by distance to the Sun
- Allow to fulfill an order to buy ships directly from the markets dialog by automatically picking the closest ships to the selected terminal
- Price and quantity fields values will no longer be changed during typing, instead they will be marked as invalid if their content is not recognized
- Open the order details dialog with the same asset type that is currently selected in the Markets dialog
- Improve Research dialog background
- Fix to not allow to fulfill a market order with a terminal too far away by changing the selected terminal in the order details dialog
- Fix empty max distance dropdown on orders limited to the solar system