Star Ruler 2 r4506 - Steam Early Access

r4506:Added• Added incomplete support ship behaviors (mostly not functional yet, use at own risk).• Mono and Nylli can use "Colonize this" automation.• Mono can build FTL breeder reactor building.• Add Mining Laser, Cargo Storage, Ore Processor, Construction Bay and Liquid Armor subsystems.• Add Space Elevator building.• The AI now tells you how it feels about you on the diplomacy screen. Hover over the mask showing its mood to get a more detailed breakdown.• Add a keybind to tell a fleet to cancel all orders and stop moving.• Added various new models for different types of objects.• Add Coolant System, Payload Amplifier and Smoothed Mechanism weapon modifiers.• Add Artificial Planetoid, Star Forge and Vacuum Telescope megaconstructions.• Added incomplete support ship behaviors (mostly not functional yet, use at own risk).• Mono and Nylli can use "Colonize this" automation.• Mono can build FTL breeder reactor building.• Add Mining Laser, Cargo Storage, Ore Processor, Construction Bay and Liquid Armor subsystems.• Add Space Elevator building.• The AI now tells you how it feels about you on the diplomacy screen. Hover over the mask showing its mood to get a more detailed breakdown.• Add a keybind to tell a fleet to cancel all orders and stop moving.Changed• Gates are now designable stations.• Mono FTL cost for population transfer takes into account gates, tears and wormholes.• Cyllium now rotates a variable number of artifacts that expire.• FTL Crystals level 4 and 5 abilities are swapped.• Planet support capacity now depends on and increases with planet level.• Some asteroids now contain Ore that needs to be mined with mining lasers.• Destroying a Black Hole now causes much more widespread destruction.• Tractor beams now work when passing through wormholes, slipstream tears or gates.• Engine types and size now affect ship turn rate. If only using graviton engines, the ship does not need to turn to move.• Gates are now designable stations.• Mono FTL cost for population transfer takes into account gates, tears and wormholes.• Cyllium now rotates a variable number of artifacts that expire.• FTL Crystals level 4 and 5 abilities are swapped.• Planet support capacity now depends on and increases with planet level.• Asteroids now contain Ore that needs to be mined with mining lasers, instead of being traded resources.• Destroying a Black Hole now causes much more widespread destruction.• Tractor beams now work when passing through wormholes, slipstream tears or gates.Fixed• Mono can't transfer population while being annexed.• Mono can't transfer population while being annexed.

Star Ruler 2 is a massive scale 4X/RTS set in space. Explore dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of systems in a galaxy of your choosing, expand across its planets, exploit the resources you find, and ultimately exterminate any who stand in your way. The fate of your empire depends on your ability to master the economy, field a military, influence galactic politics, and learn what you can about the universe.
Galactic Economy
Colonize planets, each with one of dozens of resources, working in unison to create bustling centers of production. The resources you choose matter, and will guide your empire and its conflicts throughout the entire game.
Custom Ships
Design ships that fit your needs, strategies, and tactics using our new 'blueprint painting' approach to ship design. Quickly and intuitively lay out the armor, weapons, engines, and internals of your vessels.
Politics with Power
Diplomacy and influence gathering are reinvented as a core mechanic of the game, giving meaningful alternative options to players and serving as a platform of interaction both between players and AIs as well as humans in multiplayer. Harness your influence to annex territory, spy on enemies, aid allies, and more! You truly have the opportunity to affect the political landscape.
Intricate Research
Expand your knowledge through a grid of numerous technologies, big and small. Improve nearly every aspect of your empire.
Massive Scale
Running on our internally developed Starflare Engine, Star Ruler 2 is able to make full use of multi-core cpus, and runs on both 32 bit and 64 bit machines. The size of a galaxy is only limited by your hardware and ambitions!
Complete Moddability
You can modify the gameplay, graphics, interface, and virtually every other facet of the game through scripts and data files, giving unprecedented freedom to the modding community to implement any feature they want. Extensive documentation and guides for the modding system will be available on release.
Full Multiplayer
Star Ruler 2 features complete multiplayer support with up to 28 players and AIs in the same game.
Games above 8 players or in galaxies of several hundred systems may exceed the capacity of a typical home connection. Consider playing very large games on LAN.
Cross-Platform Support
Star Ruler 2 supports both Windows and Linux, with all game features supported fully on and between both operating systems.