The first version of Diplomacy is now available. I put this off for quite a while and wanted to have it in before expanding the game further. Basic war declarations, friendly and non aggression pacts can be signed. AI empires no longer attack when relations are neutral, though combat can still occur between neutral empires, war must be declared beforehand or is declared automatically when sendi…
This weekend update introduces a Tutorial mission. The previous release had an enemy empire AI issue, where at some point it switched into IRG spam mode. The issue has been fixed and the game AI expands normally, clears fauna, and attempts to conquer player systems. There is one AI limitation, it will not try to conquer player Administrative Nodes, only player systems that are in its Administra…
I completely forgot about Windows HiDPI scaling, and as a result the game had issues rendering on Windows machines with scaling enabled, I apologize for the inconvenience. The game now has an option to enable this setting, and will also try to detect scaling automatically and enable the HiDPI option.
Mandate of Galactic Empires Early Access is now live! This version ships with many improvements over the demo, like a quest system (with only one quest for now) and an expanded, and experimental opponent AI, the AI will play close to optimal, but not strategically yet, and there may be unforeseen issues. What's coming in the next week or so: a tutorial mission and an in-game hint system. If you…
Fixed and issue with Windowed mode on Windows where top window bar was not visible.
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