Lord of Rigel- Year Two Anniversary

Greetings Lords of Rigel! This year has had the release of additional "free LC" including new technologies, leaders, and monster specific weapons. The most recent update added an in-game codex with in-universe information that unlocks as you explore and is persistent between games. Advanced game starts also provide a wide range of options including "Lived in Galaxy" where factions start at different tech levels.

Community feedback has also been important, and many of the quality of life improvements and balance adjustments such as autopause in tactical, skip to system view, and bombers adding to orbital bombardment are all based on your feedback.

To break down some of the major updates this year:

Quality of Life Improvements:

• Treaty and relation indicator added to audience menu

• All research checkbox added to skirmish, unlocks elder and monster weapons

• Purchase undo

• Autopause option in tactical

• Skip system view option (goes to your most populated colony)

• Pan to homeworld in diplomacy menu

• Renaming species in evolutionary mutation menu

• Bombers contribute to bomb count in bombardment menu

• Breaching pods have a small chance to capture technology

• Additional tooltips in ship designer

• DPS and damage type breakdown tooltip in weapon designer

• Sidebar shows largest ship in fleet

• Alternate fleet icon option in settings

• Start tactical from top-down option in settings

Content:

• Codex (Over 90 entries)

• Advanced game starts (Post-Warp, Advanced, Lived in Galaxy)

• Doomsday clock pressure option

• Chaos mode (no turn limits for random events)

• Black Hole Generator special weapon

• Tholon detonator tech

• New custom faction logos

• New leaders

• Assassination leader skill

• Special space monster weapons and acquisition of tech chance on monster defeat (Positron Flux, Magnetar, Spatial Torpedoes, Quantum Torpedoes, Coilgun, Phaser)

• Dysonspheres and Ringworlds added as skirmish options

• Randomized star color and background in skirmish maps

Balance:

• increased population assigned to focus in farming, industry, and research focus modes

• Adjustments for population focus for single population planets.

• Improved AI ship designs

Performance improvements:

• Load times

• Turn processing

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If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration: