Open Realm of Stars 0.18.0Beta

New version of Open Realm of Stars is available.

This 0.18.0Beta version is more focusing on content. It adds two new space races Reborgians and Lithorians.

Reborgians are cyborg race which can synthesize other beings into their own race when conquering planets. They also gain some technology when conquering other realm's planets. They also get huge negative diplomatic bonuses. These probably work best when these are assigned as an ancient realm and in that case they are real threat.

Lithorians are metal eating creatures. They don't need to spend resources on food growing but some of the mined metals on planets are eating by population. This will actually give more production to planets, since no food production is required. Population growth is slower than other races, but it will start grown on starting planet since it has some metal production already.

Then there are new government types: Regime, Technocracy, Collective and Utopia. Regime is tyrant government without the heirs. Technocracy is a bit like democracy but more focused on research. This is very good choice for example Greyans. Collective is mining and mining focused government. Utopia government is peaceful government with lots of bonus for culture and food production. Also I changed some of the old governments so that each of them is some how unique now. Also Alliance government is now called Union. Reason for this was that Alliance could be misunderstood when two realms were making alliances.

Then there are limits how many times planets can be conquered during conquer screen and this depends on how fast attacking ships are in combat. Big planet with lot's of population might not be conquered any longer with single turn. Also regular weapons can cause suppression bonus for attacking forces or very rarely destroy buildings.

Leaders have flavor text which are now generated based on what leaders have done during the game play. Both Lithorian and Reborgian screen shot contains example of these flavor texts. Leaders can be also prison if they are caught during espionage mission.