Lord of Rigel News

Hello Lords of Rigel,

Here we are in 2023! Before we jump into what to expect in the next few weeks of 2023, let's talk about 2022. It has been a big year for Lord of Rigel. For those of you who have followed us from the beginning, you know that this has been a long journey started by two gamers who enjoyed Master of Orion 2 growing up. We have learned a lot about game development and here we are with a product in Early Access. Below is an image that shows the first main menu of Lord of Rigel in Unity engine.



Our Early Access journey has been a bumpy one and we appreciate the support and great conversations from all of you as we continue to refine and improve LoR. Since our Early Access launch in October, we have released 25 patches and closed 342 tickets. Many systems in the game have been refactored including research, ground combat, orbital bombardment, build queue, random events, auto-resolve, and parts of ship designer.

The last few weeks of 2022 were quiet on the patch front, but we have been busy working on numerous fixes to player bugs and refactoring several main game systems, including game settings and hotkeys. We intend to have a patch ready later this week that will let players enjoy these updates.

In terms of what to expect in the more immediate future, we want to finish up the refactoring of ship designer and then begin focusing on AI diplomacy as well as the tutorial. Our goal is to improve the player experience in the first hour of gameplay and to have a new and greatly improved demo.

After this, we will continue down to our prior focus list of refactoring turn and basic economy code, as well as implementing some quality of life features requested by players. This will most certainly push back our next EA release date, but we believe getting these core systems improved will give us a better foundation to continue to add additional planned features and adjust other systems in the game based on player feedback.

As always, we really appreciate the feedback and support from all of you. Until next time!

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Hello Lords of Rigel,

Happy holidays to everyone and we hope you all are enjoying or will be enjoying some time to rest and relax with family and friends as we approach the new year. This past week saw a hotfix focused on bug fixes and another that fixed a bug that we missed in development/testing. Thanks to the users that quickly reported this, we were able to fix it and get an update on Steam within a couple hours. We have several fixes that should be coming before this update is released or shortly after. We are continuing to work down the ticket queue and focus on bugs. The goal is to clear things up enough so that as we focus on extensive refactors or core systems, we have the ticket queue in a manageable state. Our upcoming hotfix should address random event frequency, buying production, tooltips, research filtering for EA techs, and a variety of other bugs.



We have had another lively week in the forums with lots of great conversation around ideas for research. Users seem to have conflicting views on whether a great research system is more randomized, unknown or well-known and queueable. We would like to hear from more users about this as this is something for us to think about and plan for upcoming EA releases. One thing that users can be expecting in Lord of Rigel’s future is a quest system. While it may not be there on full release day, it is something that should come not long after. We believe, as many of you do, that this will add depth to the game and as developers, we want to make sure that we do something different and more meaningful than we have seen in the past.

This coming week we will be focusing our efforts around continuing to refactor ship designer and the automated design system. Once this is completed, we will start to look more at getting the turn/economy system refactored and optimized. We believe that many of the issues users are experiencing are stemming from order of operations issues between different parts of turn that are being processed.

We'll be taking a short break from these roundups for the holiday season, but we'll be back in 2023 with more news!

As always, we really appreciate the feedback and support from all of you. Until next time!

Ticket #1330 Colony population not increasing fix