Imagine Earth News

[h3]Greetings, dear Worldbuilders![/h3]

We hope you started the new year safe and sound and are fit for the challenges it brings, because it will definitely not be boring. The Corona virus keeps the world in suspense and mankind has its trouble to organize itself sensibly against it. After that, the even more colossal challenge of climate change is just waiting to be targeted again. But also in the virtual world, in Imagine Earth, new challenges await you in the new year.



[h2]Official high score league 2022 opened[/h2]
[h3]Quarter and full year leaderboards[/h3]

Effective immediately, we have unlocked the official 2022 league. In addition, we would like to celebrate the official top 10 annual winners of the 2021 league. We sincerely congratulate all the participants for enrolling in the Imagine Earth's internal leaderboards forever.

[h2]The Greatest Terraformers of 2021[/h2]

[h3]1st place - Franci0 - 1,457,784
2nd place - KiBou - 1,400,492
3rd place - Wingyl - 1,393,397
4th place - craig.akitt - 933,881
5th place - Critical Floof - 913,485
6th place - Artiss - 863,621
7th place - Roderick - 663,128
8th place - RainbowDesign - 532,542
9th place - missladykayura - 473,274
10th place - martin - 457,000[/h3]



So in 2022, you'll be competing with other planet managers not only for overall victory in weekly high scores, but also for the lead in quarterly seasons and the overall year-round victory. By the way, we'll be playing the weekly missions ourselves for testing purposes, so you'll have the pleasure of competing against the developers themselves, look for Martin and Jooki in the highscore. If that's not a special challenge.

[h3]Rating optimization[/h3]

We have also adjusted the rating of the game rounds. It remains exciting, you still can't save and load, but you don't have to reach the first place in the competition anymore and the achieved colony rating will be entered into the highscore, so it's worth the work in any case. Of course you can repeat the challenge the whole week to optimize your score by ceiling, have fun!

[h3]Colony Rating[/h3]



We have given the calculation of the value of your global space colony a new balancing. If you sell all your shares, you will no longer end up with a high score of zero, the impact has been reduced to 50%. The quality of life in your colony plays a bigger role, its impact has been increased from 12.5 to 20%.

[h3]Asteroids, moons and blatant lens flare effects[/h3]



Graphically, Imagine Earth has also stepped up its game again in this release. There are a lot of visual effects to admire. Moons and meteors orbit your worlds and cast gigantic shadows, in broad daylight they darken the landscape.
When you zoom in very close to the planet, the perspective rotates so you're not always looking at the action from above. Also, the atmosphere on the horizon becomes dense and blurry.

[h3]Grafik-Optionen[/h3]


You can now set exactly a target frame rate to better define how much gameplay will hit you on the graphics card.

[h3]Automated mining processes[/h3]

The harvesting drones of the warehouses now start mining valuable resources fully automatically. You now have to disable this instead of activating it individually as before. Simply convenient, we think. This way the warehouses fill up by themselves with valuable resources, which are urgently needed for the production of important equipment.

[h3]Landing zone locked[/h3]



In the future, you won't be able to accidentally park your landing capsule right next to another civilization, creating a non-competitive launch position for both parties.

[h3]Fishing grounds and oil wells[/h3]

So far, procedurally generated planets, have almost no fishing grounds and oil wells. Sea grass has a higher positive impact on fishing and it has also become more productive in principle. Thus, in the future, the sea will be of higher strategic importance as a place of expansion and a source of food.



[h3]UI and control improvements[/h3]

• Fields where the temperatures are just too hot to grow food well are no longer shown as particularly fertile.
  
• The display of your cities, top right, is no longer packed with loud icons for bad moods. That was just confusing.
  
• Tooltips and info in the sales and manufacturing panel no longer overlay the menus, but are displayed outside.
  
• We reduced the planetary view in menus and overview also reduced the superfluously large distance to which the planet is zoomed out.
  
• When opening panels like the one for planetary overview or research, the planet in the background is no longer zoomed out.
  
• Font size on various buttons in the game optimized.
  
• Tower is upgraded again when you level it up.
  
• Nitro pumpkin seeds are now also offered by the trader.
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Game pauses in menus decently again - For example, you could just wait in the win dialog until you lost again.
  
• Intro skipping can be defined in the config file again.
  
• UI-Flickr glitch in hyperspace between galaxies is fixed.
  
• The nice melting of the snow when you turn on the thermo-generator is back.
  
• In the Biron faction, some of the dialogs in the voice output are no longer mixed up. It makes more sense to talk to them now ;D
  

[h3]Hey Space Cowboys,[/h3]

It's been a few weeks since we last updated anything. Time for a sign of life from the Imagine Earth Universe.

[h3]Weekly Challenge - New Game Mode[/h3]



In this brand new mode, you will receive a new mission every Monday. This colonization mission has the highest priority and must be completed by Sunday. The objective is to obtain the sole management license for a planet in a competitive process. It is advisable to familiarize yourself with the planet's conditions and opponents beforehand by checking the info panel. Loading or saving is not possible in the global competition. Measure yourself against other colonists in weekly high scores and quarterly or yearly seasons.

[h3]Beat the developers 2021[/h3]



Quarterly or annual seasons officially start at the turn of the year. But you can still win the title for 2021 by successfully completing the last 5 missions, and Martin and I will also play the weekly challenge. Let's see who comes out on top in the leaderboard!
Of course we have more ideas, soon the weekly missions will get five objectives to gain additional victory points and we want to generate certain events that will make the gameplay more varied and fun. We also rely on your experience and feedback to figure out what could make this competition more exciting for everyone.

[h3]New storage system[/h3]



It's only a small button, but it's strategically important! Now, in the warehouse panel, with another click on the "Automatically purchase" button, you can not only have the quantity purchased for which warehouse space has been reserved. With automatically fill, resources are purchased until all storage space is full. This makes scenarios possible where the supply of the population with a resource is completely controlled by the purchase. This is a possible strategy to save the construction of a lot of infrastructure.

[h3]New mountains the world needs[/h3]



We have added a new set of big and small mountains that will be used on planets with the Frozen, Swamp and Barren themes to provide even more visual variety in our universe. I don't really need any further words, just have a look.

[h3]Ambient Sound System Worldwide[/h3]



Our world sounds system is finally finished. Now you can hear the birds chirping in the forest or the traffic in cities when you run your camera over them. Enjoy the chirping of crickets in the desert and the whistling of the wind in mountains or the gentle roar of the sea. It's not entirely new but there were about half the ambient sounds in the game and the volume control, now lets the sound come in smoothly and overlap well.

[h3]AI factions more sensitive to climate change[/h3]



Balancing - AI behavior in case of Global Warming is adjusted, factions are now also more sensitive to climate change. AI also now mines rocks only when there are no valuable resources left.

[h3]Control optimization [/h3].

You can now prioritize resource mining even when the reservoir is full and redirect your drone to it.

[h3]Item display[/h3]



The number of available items is now displayed in the inventory in a decidedly snappier way.

[h3]Steam Awards nomination[/h3]

Hey, why don't you nominate Image Earth for the Labor of Love Award? After seven years in Early Access, you'd think it would do our little two man team some good ;)



[h3]Fixed Now[/h3]

• Editor - Planets that are opened in the editor will now start with the correct amount of tech licenses.
  
• Editor - Forests that get under water when terraforming, i.e. lowering terrain, finally die completely and disappear. Previously, tree stumps were still visible, and removing them from entire continents is simply annoying.
  
• Editor - The saved but not loaded settings for selected factions and more.
  
• UI - The exchange of upgrades is no longer done via the building list, this functionally clashed with the option to activate all upgrades at once.
  
• UI - New subtitles in all menu screens, so you always know which game mode you are in.
  [UI - The order of the factions in the score panel in the bottom right corner of the screen changes on the fly during the game.
  
• Sound - Too many repeated warnings when attacked by Xrathul and pirates, for example.
  [UI - The highscore screen has been extensively reworked.
  
• Graphics - The normal textures of the fossil fields is corrected, never looked nicer.
  
• Graphics - The main menu now fades in from black when flying towards the planet at the beginning.
  
• Graphic - In the meantime all planets had rings like Saturn.
  
• Graphics - In cutscenes the camera perspective is no longer distorted.
  
• UI - The slider for how much fossil resources are distributed on a planet is functional again.
  
• UI - The buttons in the game error dialog now work reliably again.
  
• UI - Game over message and completion screen still made it possible to interact with some ingame menus even though the game was over and lost.
  
• Bugs - So far there was a phenomenon of unordered factions appearing on the planet, more than you defined at the beginning of the game round.
  
• UI - 4 display bugs fixed.
  
• UI - The population counter in the planet info panel works again.
  
• Error fixed - NodeInstance.FindNode ArrayTypeMismatchException
  
• Error fixed - PlanetGraphics.UpdateUnitIcons NullReferenceException
  

Warm regards, Jens & Martin



Get the original Imagine Earth soundtrack and help plant trees in the real world!


Still have questions or suggestions? Join our Discord community for exclusive news!

On Halloween, meteors and asteroids crashing down on your colony from orbit will be the least of your worries! With tremendous force and destructive power, unknown flying objects from space descend on your global cities, but they also contain precious resources worth exploiting...

Equip your towers with defensive lasers or energy shields to protect your colonists from disaster and defend your facilities and homes. But watch carefully if they hit something important, or if you can bring them down to exploit them.

So it's the same game as usually with asteroids. When you open a space rift to hurl some at your facilities of competing space corporations, you often also give them valuable gifts in the form of the minerals and metals they contain.

[h3]Dear civilization managers and do-gooders, [/h3]

Martin and I just wanted to quickly let you know today that EGX kicked off in London today and Serious Bros are happily on board. Of course, the show has a juicy event page with fat discounts for spanking new games on Steam. You can find a banner for the sale on Imagine Earth's page. Also available all weekend, the official free demo for the game and a

[h3]40% discount on Imagine Earth - Planetary Colonization.[/h3]




Treat yourselves to this, ideal for a no-obligation taster of the colony management business and immediately move up with the biggest discount the game has ever been available at.

I'll be there live and we've got a nice spot right next to the entrance, so I'll be standing around and willing to answer all your questions and take your suggestions. Come by! Cheers, Jens

As you can see, my cell phone cam is broken, otherwise I could have taken some fancier photos for you.




[h3]Get The Free Imagine Earth Demo - Playable the whole weekend.[/h3]

But it's also about the games so check out what the EGX has to offer in terms of interesting news and hits, this one I think is even more focused on small, original indie games.

And of course that's why our Green Planet Bundle is also reduced. Where you get the original soundtrack to the game and the extra revenue is put into planting new trees in the real world.





Join our Discord Community for exclusive news and access to preview versions of future updates!


Get the Original Soundtrack of Imagine Earth and help planting trees in the real world!