Lord of Rigel - Roundup #2
Hello Lords of Rigel,
It has been another week of Early Access and we continue to receive great feedback and make headway on getting the game in a more polished stated with fewer bugs and more quality-of-life features being implemented.
This week we closed over 40 tickets including some bug fixes as well as a complete refactor of ground combat. This system should be much more accurate and will now also display militia units. With LoR, ground units are represented with light and heavy hovertanks. But based on feedback we’re working with our 3d artist to develop some unique assets for militia units which will be released in a later EA stage.
Additionally, we have been working through build queue to revise the code to make it faster, fix a number of bugs being reported, and adding some quality of life improvements that should make it easier to adjust your queue and get more/accurate data.
Colony view also has some improvements coming this week as we add a new header to more clearly display the colony name and add arrows to each side of colony view to let players move between colonies within Colony view. A sneak peek of this new functionality is below. There will also be improvements to terraforming coming that will provide improved reliability but also display terraforming data over the planet icon in the Colony view and Empire menu widgets. Players will be able to more easily see when planet climates are improving or worsening.
We have also heard from players that more ship data is needed. We are working on a screen displays ship designs and will allow players to better understand their fleet’s composition or which ships are being built in build queue. A few other things players can expect sooner than later is a refactor of orbital bombardment which should improve functionality and CPU usage as well as an updated ship designer, improved auto design behavior, and ship retrofitting.
As for long term goals, the Elder Races and diplomatic victories are further out on the horizon as we continue work on quality of life improvements. We know that custom species and even larger galaxies have been commonly requested features and they’re further down the road as we want to focus on QOL and balance of the core game.
Again we want to thank everyone for the continued support and feedback. We have been listening and talking with all of you to make a better Lord of Rigel and we hope you enjoy the features and bug fixes that are coming!
It has been another week of Early Access and we continue to receive great feedback and make headway on getting the game in a more polished stated with fewer bugs and more quality-of-life features being implemented.
This week we closed over 40 tickets including some bug fixes as well as a complete refactor of ground combat. This system should be much more accurate and will now also display militia units. With LoR, ground units are represented with light and heavy hovertanks. But based on feedback we’re working with our 3d artist to develop some unique assets for militia units which will be released in a later EA stage.
Additionally, we have been working through build queue to revise the code to make it faster, fix a number of bugs being reported, and adding some quality of life improvements that should make it easier to adjust your queue and get more/accurate data.
Colony view also has some improvements coming this week as we add a new header to more clearly display the colony name and add arrows to each side of colony view to let players move between colonies within Colony view. A sneak peek of this new functionality is below. There will also be improvements to terraforming coming that will provide improved reliability but also display terraforming data over the planet icon in the Colony view and Empire menu widgets. Players will be able to more easily see when planet climates are improving or worsening.
We have also heard from players that more ship data is needed. We are working on a screen displays ship designs and will allow players to better understand their fleet’s composition or which ships are being built in build queue. A few other things players can expect sooner than later is a refactor of orbital bombardment which should improve functionality and CPU usage as well as an updated ship designer, improved auto design behavior, and ship retrofitting.
As for long term goals, the Elder Races and diplomatic victories are further out on the horizon as we continue work on quality of life improvements. We know that custom species and even larger galaxies have been commonly requested features and they’re further down the road as we want to focus on QOL and balance of the core game.
Again we want to thank everyone for the continued support and feedback. We have been listening and talking with all of you to make a better Lord of Rigel and we hope you enjoy the features and bug fixes that are coming!