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Imperium 1.0.1.16: Plain Sight

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Thank you for every review, forum post and Discord message since launch. We read all of them. This update is built from what you asked for, suggested and reported, and more is on the way.

From your feedback

Territorial victory now depends on galaxy size: own 90% of all systems in a Small galaxy, 80% in Medium, or 70% in Large and Epic. The bar stays the same all game.
Galactic Senate votes follow population: 1 population is 1 vote, and winning takes 55% of all votes. A notice arrives 10 years before each vote.
An enemy invader lands the year after it enters orbit, and the orbit warning stops the year so you can respond.
An enemy ship at war with you stops at the edge of your sensors the year it crosses in, so you can meet it before it reaches orbit.
Orbitals, ship modules, cards and icons are drawn smoothly at small sizes. They used to look grainy.
Ship status text above a ship stays readable when you zoom out.
Power Surge (Solarin) doubles the power of every Solarin ship for 10 years each time you use it. It used to stay on for the rest of the game.
AI empires build up faster: their colonies build Factories earlier, put idle workers to work and terraform the land they have left.

New top-right panel

A new panel in the top right of the galaxy and system views shows your crest and ability charge, and switches home tags, anomaly tags, the sensor view and factions on and off.
Clicking the ability block opens your ability window. A charged ability shows a full bar reading READY, and a passive one reads PASSIVE ABILITY.
A faction you turn off dims in the faction menu. Its colonies show a blue-grey ring, its system names turn white, its lanes lose their colour and its home tag hides.
Anomalies you have found and not yet scanned show a tag on the galaxy map.
This panel replaces the Opponents panel. Star names use one size. The sector and sensor readout is one block in the top left of the screen.

AI

AI colonies build four Factories before a Mega Factory, and their first Factories before embassies and docks. The AI capital builds its Laboratory early.
AI colonies put idle workers into Factories instead of waiting on ship builds.
AI colonies with nowhere left to build terraform their black land, and colonies that need a lot of terraforming build more industry first.
AI colonies lay Transport Tubes across black land to reach open land beyond it.
AI colonies drop queued builds that would take more than 30 years, and AI empires research toward planet projects when their colonies have nothing left to build.
AI empires queue fewer colony ships and more warships, and build freighters from Gravcraft on.
The AI settles contested and border planets less eagerly, and still takes them when they are the best left.
AI fleets keep advancing when a ship falls behind or retreats, and close in when they come under fire.
AI fleets stay and fight when they are clearly stronger. An outranged AI fleet leaves when it can't close the gap and is losing hull.
AI scouts visit the borders of empires they dislike, look around, then go home.
The AI uses Power Surge when enemy warships are near its colonies or fleets.

Galactic Senate and diplomacy

Asking an empire to sign the Charter gets only their signature.
Warmongers and Defensemongers sign the Charter only when asked, and Defensemongers weigh how much they like you. Chaosmongers sign on their own while in the top 3 for population. Peacekeepers accept when asked and often sign on their own.
Punitive Peace is now called Surrender Terms.
Diplomatic spending on an empire ends the year it is wiped out.
Treaty and war notifications are shorter.

Combat

STANDBY is now WAIT. WAIT and AUTO can be turned off or swapped while they run.
END YEAR waits while any of your ships can still Burst or fire, Halted ones too. Press WAIT when you're done.
A banner shows when you seize the initiative back from the enemy. Clicks wait while it is on screen.
A partial invasion updates the planet's defence numbers straight away.
Hover the Shield row on the ship panel to see your active shields and their total strength.
BATTLES IN PROGRESS shows right after you load a save.

Controls

Esc closes any open window, then leaves a colony, then clears your selection, then opens the pause menu.
Right click on the ground around a colony stays in the colony view. Esc or SYS leave it.
The time bar buttons and zoom move between screens.
When the colony screen stops time for a new idle colonist or a finished building, the card saying so shows.
Ship Designer: module tooltips on the grid show while you build a design.
A Colony Base that can't go on the tile you picked says why in a dialog.

Systems and ships

You can rename a system where you have a colony, from the edit icon beside its name in the system view. Planets you haven't renamed take the new name.
A ship your sensors identify as it enters a starlane keeps its owner's colour and name on that lane.
High fleet surveillance shows ships on starlanes in their owner's colour, and its card says where they are headed.
Rival colonies show their planet name on the hover label and in the system panel.
Orbit alerts appear only for ships that are still in orbit.
A system's Warden tag appears as soon as your ships detect the Warden or it fires on them.
The planet panel shows prosperity, research and industry to one decimal.
The cargo panel names Artificer Corps, and a planet's industry lists them on their own line.
Ships leaving a planet stop clear of it, and ships sent to scan a site stop clear of its debris.
Kxk Spatial Purge moves a ship only through lanes it can use.

Anomalies

New games have more anomalies, and every kind appears at every tier, so your first find can be a Ruined Station or a Spatial Anomaly.
New games: one anomaly near each homeworld needs a Picket Array. Every other anomaly needs a Sentry Array or better.
Anomalies pay more: sleepers wake 2-5 population, distant charts reveal 2-6 systems and more in bigger galaxies, and salvaged industry gives 10-70 per colony by tier.
Distant charts are old data: owners appear once you see the system.
Derelicts are mostly warships, with a rare very late-game design.
Anomaly cards name the scanner they need, such as Scanner required: Sentry Array or better.

Economy and new games

Free Trade: each treaty gives up to 5% prosperity, growing with the two empires' prosperity. Treaties add together, with no limit.
New games: homeworlds prefer systems with two or more lanes.
Tutorial: the first cards say that time starts paused, that you start with two free population, and that a Space Yard needs research first.

Settings

New setting: choose what turns are called. Settings, Interface, Time unit: Year, Month, Week, Day or Cycle.

Modding

New in Modder Tools: make your own species. The Species Editor sets its name, colours, art, personality and an ability borrowed from any species, and the Ship Importer brings in your own ship models. Share them on the Steam Workshop.
The Modding Guide has a new Custom Species section.
Mod editor: Government Add New makes a Government building, any orbital can be a battery or a shield, scanners show their charting and detection fields, and a modded Observatory works.
Numbers typed in the mod editors save without pressing Enter.

Keep the reports and ideas coming on the forums and on Discord. If you're enjoying Imperium, a Steam review really helps.

Imperium

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Turn 835 ish on Medium with Normal Difficulty. My comments/input (27 hours with game and Demo)

2) I did that Switch Civ thing. Of the other CIVS, only has 2 combat ships with a combined power of ~75. The others are all colony ships. My Fleet combat power is 322, and I am not even pushing for lots of ships. This was prior to the update, so maybe that changed. 3) I am obliterating the AI in all Colony stats: # of Colonies, Research, etc.. 4) No one has built any embassies or Diplo of any kind. 5) Thus far I have only had one battle and it was a Warden. As I am figuring out a lot about the game -...

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gmsh1964

29 minutes ago

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Imperium 1.0.1.4: Fine Print

Nov 6

Performance

Years pass up to 30% faster in big late-game galaxies.
Moving the galaxy map camera is much smoother in big late-game galaxies.
Shorter AI stutters during late-game turns.

Galaxy setup (new games)

New Sectors galaxies use fewer, larger sectors when there are few empires. Empires start further apart and no sector is left empty.
Homeworlds start with 2 free workers.
The Imperial Dome takes its sector bonus from blue and green tiles.

Display

With more than one display, Settings lets you pick which one the game uses.
Windowed mode keeps the title bar on screen, so the window can always be dragged.
Mac: a saved Windowed setting now opens in a window, and changing it no longer crashes the game.

Combat and AI

STANDBY and AUTO finish straight away when an enemy is docked in a system where your colony has a Repulsor Tower. They could hang for minutes.
An AI empire being paid protection stops massing fleets against the empire paying it.

Colonies

Colonies with a governor build and grow quietly: finished buildings and new population go to the log, with no popup or pause.
The colony screen pauses for new population only when nothing in the queue needs colonists.
Build cards show the full sector bonus on the Research Center, Imperial Dome and Mega City.
Output tooltips list their rows in the order the game adds them. The false -0.5 research line is gone, and Free Trade shows its full share.

Interface and Codex

The friendliness tally reads Ships in their space.
The Opponents panel keeps its ON and OFF settings in your save.
The save list shows each save's file name, so a renamed save reads as you named it.
Item Editor: Max per planet is a number. The Great Dock shows 3.
The Codex says the first 2 population cost no prosperity.
The Codex asteroid table lists the red or blue sectors a rock rolls.

Thanks to everyone reporting issues on the forums and on Discord. If you're enjoying Imperium, a Steam review really helps.

Imperium

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Imperium 1.0.1.3: Stay a While

Nov 4

A small fix for a bug that cost a player 45 minutes of progress. Your saves still load, and both changes apply to games in progress.

F10 keeps you in your game. It used to return to the main menu without saving or asking. Quit to Main Menu in the pause menu is the way out, and it asks first.
Gas giants read Gas Giant, with no size in front.

Thank you for all the reports. Keep them coming!

Imperium

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146 people found this review helpful
4 people found this review funny

Not Recommended

10.5 hrs on record

Posted: November 5

This is a clone of the 1995 game Ascendancy by Logic Factory.
Made with AI.
The art is AI, the programming is AI. The clunky UI is definitely put together by AI.
It could have been something, but it stinks of AI filth.
If you're nostalgic for Ascendancy, and you have a lot of money, playing it for a few hours may be fun.
Its like the backrooms version of Ascendancy.

srmacpherson

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9 people found this review helpful

Not Recommended

4.2 hrs on record

Posted: November 10

It's got that annoying "You lose or have to fight everyone because senate" system in it. As well as the AI playing prarie dog with invasions. They warp in turn 1, get shot once, leave.

Also a bug? I think? My ships weren't regenerating power even after the fight ended. But the enemy, in the one time I managed to pursue him, regenerated 75 power in one turn.

LilyanaKabal

972 products in account

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12 people found this review helpful

Recommended

21.6 hrs on record

Posted: November 6

A brilliant classic (Ascendancy), re-released with a fresh new look and enhanced with new concepts and improved gameplay. Just like the original, it’s instantly addictive: just one more round… and half the night is gone.

Even though AI has been used, the result is a far cry from ‘AI Slob’: the AI has been used as a tool, not as a substitute for the developers. It’s clear that the team has put a lot of attention to detail into the game and continues to do so. They listen to player feedback and release patches promptly.

The mod-friendliness should ensure plenty of variety.

Only the soundtrack doesn’t quite measure up to the iconic original, though it’s still very well done.

spitfire_ch

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End of Tech tree?

Does the Tech tree end with Strobe Emitters - Deflector Lattices-Habitat Engineering-Voidfare Doctrine?

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gmsh1964

57 minutes ago

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Question on Freighter ship

I built out two Mega factory, put them on a Freighter, and travelled to a new colony. I DEPLOYed the Factory, it was only added to the build que. I assumed it would appear because I had built it before I placed it in the freighter. Am I missing something? Similar question with Quarters - I had two on this same Freighter and I DEPLOYed them onto the colony. Not sure I noticed anything. It may have worked, but not sure. Assuming it worked, did the pops enter the pool of the new colony or is there som...

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gmsh1964

59 minutes ago

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Solarin Ability - POWER SURGE

Can someone explain what it means - it says "effects are permanent until used again?" Thank you

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gmsh1964

1 hour ago

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Am I missing something?

Is it not possible to build a structure on the planet and a ship in my shipyard at the same time? If so, that is a huge oversight. Otherwise, I just started playing the demo and am seeing a lot of potential.

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