I searched the wiki for what you stated but couldn't find that entry.

Its a very simple game when you play a bit longer and connect with the economical concept behind it. Fact is that it has a unique economical system not seen in other games which might be confusing for beginning players. But if you play the short tutorial you should be fine. Also gameplay is quite slow so you don't need the TBS system and you can always pause it if you are not sure about something.

The thing I mentioned is here, under "Budget Cycles":
http://wiki.starruler2.com/Economy

Ah, ok. Yeah, its virtually impossible to get very far in to debt so its not really an issue. The only time this could happen is if you colonise too many planets at once and they are level 0 which means they make you loose money until you upgrade them. That is -80k per planet.

Aha. Hm, has this changed with some patch, or why does the wiki say this?
Oh, by the way: Nice to see a developer here. :-)

honest answer is no because the new dlc changes the game play so much

Star Ruler 2 is a lot of fun. Great quality of life improvements over typical space 4x (don't need to build factories, etc on every world, on worlds with high defense ships are automatically generated).

Really worth a look. This DLC is the first thing I've bought full price on GOG. Looking forward to trying the new races!

Dlc patch,
Patched game play changes the dynamic between ships and support class vessels. A pre-patch BRICK ship just loading up on massive support fleets is a viable option but post-patch puts more reliance on the actual ships making small frigate (aka victory class) building strategies a strong early to mid game empire.

imo this makes the game better

Bugs so far;
Only the fact that they didn’t remove titan hull correctly… so you can still import a design with it but it can’t be unlocked | removed from the design once you import it… in effect making the entire ship design un-usable.

Why would they remove titan hull? It's still right there in the research tree. In the expansion tree, it's straight down from the central node.

I just tested importing the Titan hull design into a game where I don't have it unlocked yet. While it's true that you can't remove titan hull, I could apply and remove another hull type (eg, destroyer) to reset the selection. The result was... not nice. The grid sizes are so different that more than half of the hexes were gone, Not to mention that Titan hull allows for 512-hex ships, while normally you can have only 128-hex ships. You'd have to completely rebuild the ship anyway.

If you still want to use the Titan hull ship as a base for another, non-Titan design, you can use the Designs Sandbox. Everything is unlocked there.

Hey Firgof, where should I report bugs? GOG subforum for SR2, Steam discussions or somewhere else? I'll post it here for the time being.

When you build museums (the ones from Zeitgeist), the tooltip says they can't be removed once finished. The problem is, they can't be removed even if you cancel the build before it's done, which permanently renders those tiles unusable. Can't resume the canceled museum, either. It just sits there, transparent and unfinished.

To reproduce: during appropriate Zeitgeist, start building a museum, immediately cancel it by clicking the red x on the build list. I canceled it at 0%.


Anyways, some minor annoyances aside, I wanted to thank you for a wonderful game and expansion. I think this expansion is the first thing on GOG and Steam combined that I bought for full price (my budget is very limited, so I live by the discounts :) ). I'll probably also buy it on Steam once it goes on a big enough sale, just for Workshop integration, since most mods don't offer alternative downloads :(
I hope you'll get enough sales to continue development. Good luck!

I haven't been able to find any reference anywhere of anyone successfully porting Star Ruler 2 with Wineskin. A pity they stopped developing the native Mac version - I've been interested in this game since the initial release. But I've gotten to the point where I've completely stopped buying games which don't have a native Mac version -- Bootcamp and the various Wine variations are not good solutions, and simply not worth the time and aggravation they add to a game.

Still, this one was a surprise to me - If they can do a Linux version of a game, it's pretty easy to do Mac (actually quite a bit easier, and requiring much less tech support...) -- my guess is their development team had Linux experience and no Mac experience, so they simply didn't bother with it.