Lord of Rigel News

Greetings Lords of Rigel! For the Autumn Sale Lord of Rigel is 25% off. To give a brief overview of the updates since release in August, in addition to improvements to performance and stability and fixes for issues reported by the community there have been numerous quality of life improvements, new content, and balance adjustments.

[h2]Quality of Life:[/h2]

• Measurement Tool
  
• Pan to planet in Planets and Empire Menus
  
• Self Destruct Timer in Tactical
  
• Warp Out Timer in Tactical
  
• Renaming Fleets
  
• Delete design option in ship designer pulldown menu
  
• Weapon designer with DPS, damage types, cooldown, and range data
  
• Council vote results added to event ticker
  

[h2]New Content:[/h2]

• Breaching Pods
  
• Continuum Emitter torpedo special
  
• Two new leaders
  

[h2]Balance:[/h2]

• Adaptive scanners added as a priority system to missile and torpedo AI designs
  
• AI one turn delay for colonization if fleet or mixed occupation present
  
• High-G gravity species penalties for low-G planets.
  

[h2]On the Horizon:[/h2]
Later in winter a council decree system is planned to be implemented. This applies to games with the Galactic Council and will provide an opportunity to vote on sanctions and bonuses based on species ranking. As council decrees will lower galactic tension (the doomsday clock) it may make sense even in the lead to allow these sanctions to be in place. We'll also continue to provide updates in the form of new leaders and some new technologies.

Your continued feedback and support has been critical, and your save files and issue reports helpful for improving stability and performance.

Minor galaxy load optimization for some systems.

Ticket #2087 Fix for rare case of missing planets menu items
Ticket #2088 Critical- Fix for rare case of end turn stall with over queued colony bases
Ticket #2089 Content- New Leader

Greetings Lords of Rigel! This week has some minor bug fixes and two requested quality of life adjustments.

[h2]Measurement Tool[/h2]
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.

[h2]Planets Menu Improvements[/h2]
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

[h2]What to Expect Next[/h2]
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.

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.