Star Ruler 2 is a massive scale 4X/RTS set in space. Select from one of seven races – or craft your own – to explore dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of systems in a galaxy of your choosing. Expand across unique and varied planets and ultimately exterminate – or subjugate - any who stand in your way either in offline singleplayer or up to 28 player multiplayer.

Build vast armies; construct Ringworlds and Stellar Forges; conduct war by other means through diplomacy; design and test new ships, new tactics, and new strategies before a real shot is ever fired. A galaxy of possibilities and danger awaits you - do you have the bearing to confront it?

Patch 2.0.2 (07 December 2016)

• Fix The First's Lab building consuming more Ore than it said in the description. It now correctly consumes 0.5 Ore/s (was 2 Ore/s).
• Fix Carpet Bomb description strings not being localizable.
• Increase cooldown of Skip Drive ability to 45 (was 20).
• Skip Drive and Ion Cannon artifacts equipped to ships now only grant 1 use per artifact, rather than a permanent ability.
• Buff Skip Drive and Ion Cannon subsystem stats so they require less space on the ship to be useful.
• Add bindable hotkeys for Open Planet Management, Open Support Management and Deploy Defense Reserve.
• Fix flagships with only Flak Batteries counting as civilian ships (Flak now counts towards DPS and strength).
• Fix Pulse Bolt range incorrectly scaling with ship blueprint size instead of actual ship physical radius.
• Choosing Sublight now replaces FTL Generation technologies on the research grid with Thrust improvements.
• Fix an issue that could grant bugged amounts of influence when failing to purchase designs with influence costs.
• Fix Museums and other unremovable buildings getting stuck in an incomplete state if canceled from the construction queue before completion.
• Fix AI fleets rarely getting stuck in an FTL charge-up loop.
• Fix Moon Bases adding their 2 max population immediately when they start construction, instead of when the construction finishes.
• Fix "Fill From" toggle on Outposts not correctly allowing fleets to automatically refill support ships from it.
• Fix Conflicts in race traits not correctly displaying as conflicting in the race customization menu.

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Patch 2.0.0 (28 April 2016)

Graphics

• Added a number of new post processing graphics options, including Bloom, Godrays and Chromatic Aberration.
• Many many more improvements to shaders and and lighting to improve graphics quality
• The visual surface of planets is now actually rendered to match the biome tile grid from the planet overlay. City lights will automatically appear where buildings are!

AI

• The AI has received numerous improvements to how it plays the game. Please report any bugs you find in its new behavior!
• You can now determine whether an AI is aggressive, passive and biased against humans separately from difficulty.
• You can now set the particular ways an AI cheats and how much it cheats at them

UI

• The open tabs, quickbars, and camera location are now saved and restored when you load a game.
• Improved the planet requirement UI on the bottom left of the planet overlay.
• Added a Replace tool to the ship designer that replaces the subsystem you click on the design with the type of subsystem you have selected while keeping the same size.

Races & FTLs

• Mechanoid population above 1 now provides 2 labor, but population above the maximum no longer provides any.
• Tweaked the income values of mechanoid planets over population so they don't jump up and down as much.
• Fling Beacons now cost FTL energy to construct and have a small FTL upkeep.
• Tweaked the cost and duration of opening slipstreams based on the size of the generator.

Notable Fixes

• Fixed exploit for exporting labor more than once.
• Fixed exploit with Frugal trait where planets could be Level 2 without any tier 1 resources.