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Ocean Day Sale

[h2]WDC World Ocean Day Charity Sale [/h2]
We are excited to announce that we are supporting WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Ocean Day!

The WDC World Ocean Day Sale starts today and runs until 12th June, 10am PDT 2025, and you can save a fin-tastic 60% off Imagine Earth. We will also donate 20% of our net profits to WDC to support their conservation work.*

[h2]Who are WDC?[/h2]
WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation are the leading global charity dedicated to the protection of whales and dolphins.
Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear, pollution, captivity and hunting and whaling. They bring together, and work hand-in-hand with, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins.
Their mission is to reverse the global decline of whale and dolphin populations by creating safe seas for these majestic beings. And their vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

[h2]What is ghost gear?[/h2]
Ghost gear is fishing gear that has been lost or abandoned at sea. It’s a deadly menace to whales, dolphins and other marine life.
When a whale or dolphin gets tangled in it, it can kill them in the most horrific way, by preventing them from getting to the surface to breathe. Or they can carry it for days, weeks or even months suffering a slow and painful death as it cuts into their skin, restricts their movement and hampers their ability to hunt and feed.
But it’s difficult and expensive for fishers and other ocean users to dispose of gear they find at sea, or even to responsibly get rid of their own gear at the end of its life.
Did you know that about 1/3 of marine litter found in European seas is discarded fishing gear? That's estimated to be over 11,000 tonnes entering the sea each year!
It is a massive problem and so WDC are working on some innovative solutions. 

[h2]How your support will help this year[/h2]
By purchasing games from this year’s World Ocean Day sale, you will help WDC continue their global conservation work, as well as their ghost gear removal project, funding 10 missions for divers to remove lethal entanglement hazards to marine life (and scuba divers) from reefs, seabed and shipwrecks in UK seas.
Whales and dolphins are awe-inspiring, intelligent beings. The ocean produces more oxygen and absorbs more carbon than all of Earth's forests combined, and whales help it flourish. Yet 300,000 whales die in fishing gear every year.
If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here: https://whales.org/
Keep up to date with all the awesome gaming activities WDC does by signing up to their mailing list here: https://games.whales.org/#newsletter
And you can find many other amazing games in the sale here: https://bit.ly/WODSale25

[h2]Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC! [/h2]
*20% of our net revenue from this sale (after Steam platform fees) will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. WDC is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705).

1.20 AI Balancing Round

Good news everyone,

again it's fascinating how much you can balance, improve and fix in such a long game development journey, isn't it? At least for us ;D

Warm regards, Jens & Martin.
P.S.: Please support Imagine Earth Project with a review here on Steam!

[h2]Improvements[/h2]
  • Keep current zoom level when jumping to city
  • City extensions of Galaxies DLC now available in free play and competition game modes
  • Annoying car beeping sounds in cities removed
  • Clarified how satellite hubs are charged
  • Improved visibility of Icons in functions ring
  • Rounos: Rounosians don't accept donations anymore before Leen is there
  • Territory takeover reparations consider building value now
  • Construction tasks assigned to a plot with rocks or a forest can be canceled


[h2]Balancing[/h2]
  • Fixed side effects of the city extensions of the Galaxies DLC that were randomly blocking the AI from building climate positive upgrades.
  • The AI will more likely work sustainable when the player does so.
  • Fixed another problem were the AI planting forests and using seed bombs could block it from building climate positive upgrades.


[h2]Fixes[/h2]
  • Forest shows wrong examine message
  • AI is failing to give up after take over by Assimilator and having native camp
  • Ruins graphic error when teared down in water
  • Ideon map shows wrong natives on Bora
  • Bora: Other factions sometimes don't land
  • Bora: Pyramid taken by other faction
  • Bora: Leen finds no field to land

Update 1.19 Patch 4

  • Genesis Seed Campaign of Galaxies DLC no longer has a fixed time limit per planet
  • Destructing city district no longer requires all people to find a new home. We will probably come back to this in a dedicated game mode
  • Added 120, 144 and 240 fixed refresh rate options
  • Research the trade price bonus now also reduces rates at native camps and midras miners
  • Fixed error related to population moved from one to another district
  • Fixed food and goods consumption not properly counting districts with special states like riots or relocating
  • Fixed crash related to cannon defense of your city

Update 1.19 Patch 2

Fixes the following problems:
  • Error when hovering the “Typo” icon in the MessagePanel in the galaxy
  • Bug when selecting the last entry in the list of expansions for city centers
  • Occasional error when selecting the faction for a new game
  • Occasional error when displaying city center expansions
  • Camera rotation via keyboard blocked after jumping to a field

Galaxies DLC out now!

Good news everyone! The Galaxies DLC has just been released and you can start colonizing entire galaxies in Imagine Earth right away! Thank you for your endurance and support over the years! The DLC delivers many new features that round out the game in every way. Please let us know what you think of the new features and game modes and support our work with a review if you can!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3365760/Imagine_Earth__Galaxies/

It took us a little longer to bring Imagine Earth to Switch, Playstation and Xbox last year, so we can now serving this great DLC on all platforms. We've continuously improved the main game, so if any of you played it when it was last released, you might be surprised at how it plays now. One more thing, we have another DLC in the pipeline, we'll keep going! But now to the fresh, brand new features...

[h2]Endless Game[/h2]



You can choose to colonize whole new galaxies totally freely in the endless game mode. Inhabitable Planets will be discovered after some time and can be entered with a new landing permit..

[h2]Game Mode[/h2]



In this campaign style game mode, we colonize entire galaxies and coordinate our progress on a central space station. The corporations compete to establish thriving colonies on several planets.

[h2]Colonization of whole Galaxies[/h2]



The corporation that has earned the most victory points at the end of the pioneer phase is announced as main administrator of the galaxy.

[h2]The Space Station[/h2]



You get a space station. It serves as our headquarters and central hub for your planetary colonies. It also enables interplanetary research and licensing of technology and allows you to unlock extensions for your city centers. Here you can also trade at a much better rate than in your colonies.

[h2]Orbital Lift[/h2]



With this new high-tech construct you can move your resources and items quickly and free of charge between the colonies and your headquarters space station and thus also ensure exchange between the planets.

[h2]Extensions[/h2]



Extensions provide special abilities for your city centers. You can install a maximum of 3 of them per city center. You can install them directly in your landing capsules right here or install them in your city centers later, which comes at additional costs.

[h2]Story Campaign[/h2]



There is also a four-planet Story Campaign centered around the Genesis Seed Initiative, starring our new USN Advisor Ixas.

[h2]Space Capsule Delivery[/h2]



Your City Center capsules can now pack items from your space station. You can redefine the extensions to be installed before landing.

If you like Imagine Earth, please support us with a review on Steam and tell others! Thank you and see you next month!

Martin & Jens

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3365760/Imagine_Earth__Galaxies/