Stars Beyond Reach Beta Phase 2 Release Notes

Version 0.871

(This isn't done yet, we're still working on it.)

• The in-game Recent Changes link has been updated to point to the new release notes page.

• The construction complexity added by forest and jungles is now vastly less.
  • Thanks to Misery for inspiring this change.

• The disease number on the top HUD now shows the highest infection count of any disease in your city, rather than the sum of all infection counts, to avoid confusion.
  • Thanks to nas1m and jerith for inspiring this change.

• Fixed a bug in the last version where diseases often couldn't cure at all.

• The disease tooltip now includes the number of cured and newly-infected of each disease since the last turn.
  • Thanks to Cinth for inspiring this change.

• Added columns to the city grid:
  • Number of saucers attacking this city
  • Number of saucers owned by this city
  • Total attack power of all air attackers
  • ditto ranged
  • ditto sea
  • ditto ground
  • Thanks to Hyfrydle for inspiring this change.

• Tweaked some sprite batching code to hopefully have a more happy medium between performance and RAM use. Honestly it's not a direct tradeoff, because actually the higher-RAM approach costs some performance in some other ways.
  • Thanks to Shrugging Khan for reporting.

• Now pressing escape or right-clicking while having both a build menu and a building-details window open at the same time will consistently close the details window, and not the build menu. Pressing again will then close the build menu.
  • Thanks to jerith and ptarth for suggesting.

• Now buildings are immune to understaffing damage for ~5 turns after their construction.
  • Thanks to jerith, Cinth, and ptarth for inspiring this change

• City Grid visibility:
  • Now if you haven't met a race, you don't see their city here.
  • Even if you can see a city here, by default you can only see the race icon, race name, and population.
    • But if you had a spy safehouse targeting that race at the end of your last turn, all the other info for that race will show.
  • Added a "Status" column that will show either "No Intel" or the race's attitude towards you (nothing shows for your own race) with a tooltip containing the race's leader's name and numeric attitude.

First Diplomatic Carnage

• Diplomacy is getting a complete makeover, and this is the first salvo in that.

• The entire concept of Trust has gone away. Attitude is enough.
  • Everything that previously used trust in some way now uses attitude.

• The entire concept of gathering intel as it used to exist is gone. That's going to work differently coming up.

• Getting other races to do certain things for you is now gone:
  • Reverse Wind (this was too powerful, sort of, and also too confusing when used).
  • Set Attack Bounty On Race (international incidents made this obsolete).
  • All of the stealing and spying stuff that other races would do for you (this was of super dubious value to begin with).

• You now always know who the leader of the other races are as soon as you meet them.

• The concept of thieves and stealing as it existed before is now gone.

Prior Beta Notes

It's unusual that we'd split a beta period into two sets of release notes, but what can we say -- the prior release notes had gotten to 36,000 words, and it was time to cut them off and start a new batch.

Stars Beyond Reach Beta Release Notes