Alpha 0.5.0

ASTROPOLITICA - ALPHA 0.5.0

6/17/20

• More Detailed Generation
  • Planets now have double the number of characteristics, each playing their own role in determining the habitability of the planet.
  • Star systems now have an age in millions of years, based on the real-life lifespans of each type of star.
  • One can now specify the seed of the galaxy being generated.
• Refined UI
  
  • Most text is now handled by JujuAdam's "Scribble" text engine, which allows higher performance and more advanced effects.
  • Replaced the old inspector UI with newer, shinier, and sleeker versions, all of which is faster.
  • Replaced much of the clunky button interface on the generation menu with elegant sliders.
  • Game speed is now changed through an in-game slider, rather than number key.
  • Right-clicking an owned system will now open the system's country, instead of the system itself.
  • There is now SFX for many buttons in the game.
• Notable Fixes/Changes:
  
  • Countries should now struggle far less with upkeep and colonization, starting to launch ships in a matter of months, not years
  • Colony ships no longer move strangely(weird turns and vibrating intensely over their destination instead of landing), and should be less taxing on performance, utilizing more optimized movement code.
  • Resprited the Colony Ship to be more like an actual ship than a blank triangle.
  • Rewrote much of the galactic generation sequence, making it a bit less buggy, faster, and easier to modify.
  • Locked access to the Discrete Tools menu until it is actually ready to be used again.
  • General optimizations.
• Other:
  • Added an additional music track by Ross Bugden: "Interstellar"
  • Added splash texts to the main menu.
  • Added a credits.txt file.
  • Began implementing vanity names for countries.