Greetings Lords of Rigel, to give a brief update on what to expect in the next update later this month:

• Players can make diplomacy threats on expansion and spies
  
• Colonization and outposts from system view and planet view
  
• A reset option in the hall of fame
  
• Further AI balancing adjustments and minor bug fixes for issues reported by players

Image 1. Example of Colonize in System View

Image 2. Hall of Fame Reset Option

The leader system is also slowly but surely coming along with core integration into economic and other gameplay systems being the next major step.

Image 3. WIP of Hiring Leader UI

This patch: Bug fixes and UI quality of life

Bug fixes:
Fixes with this update include housing tooltips and housing now only applies bonuses if in the first build queue slot. An issue with multiple cancellations of fleet orders potentially causing fleets to teleport has also been fixed, It also includes more AI adjustments and end turn queued event adjustments.

Quality of Life:
We've also worked in some more requested quality of life features. Some new players were concerned about the checkboxes being unclear as they were a highlight color. Now checkboxes have a clear checked on and off icon in them.

Image 1. Updated checkboxes

A fleet select all button was also requested to make it easier to select or deselect fleets in order to issue orders to specific ships.

Image 2. Fleet select all button

Also requested was disabling certain spy mission types during Final War.

Next Update Feature: Additional Diplomacy Demands
A feature requested at the beginning of EA was adding more demand options. In LoR the AI can warn the player about expansion or if spies were caught. We wanted the AI to be more transparent to the player on why relations were degrading. So while those messages for the AI were to communicate their mood, the player didn't have the same options to warn the AI.

Two new options will be present- demanding to stop spies and demanding to stop expansion in your territory.

In both cases whether the AI will accept or be insulted depends on their personality type (or if they even have spies!). If accepted, they will stop those actions for a period of time but there's a chance based on personality for breaking it. This might mean some AIs will only honor not spying for a short period of time if caught.

image 3. New demand options

We are slowly but surely plugging away at the leader system, which is the last planned EA3 feature on the roadmap.

Please keep sending us saves, as they help us with AI balancing and resolving issues!