Captain's Log: Enhanced Interface & System Stability!

Captain’s Log: Enhanced Interface & System Stability!

Hello, Commanders!

In this major update, our focus has been on refining your command experience with a host of visual upgrades, UI tweaks, and crucial bug fixes. We want managing your empire to be more intuitive and rewarding than ever. Here’s what’s new!

Visual Guides & Gameplay Feedback

• New Colonization Guide System: To help you know what your next step is, a glowing guidance circle now highlights the next colonizable planet. It turns yellow to let you know you’re missing something (like a Colony Ship) and becomes green when you’re ready for action!

• Enhanced Visual Feedback: Your planets, asteroids, and the Space Station now get a subtle outline when hovered, and a new pulsing selection circle makes it clearer which planet you’re interacting with, unifying the visual experience.

• New Discovery System in the Inventory: To add a touch of exploration, resources you haven’t found yet will now appear as “Undiscovered” with a question mark icon. Get out there and explore to reveal them all!

• Bigger, Smarter Planet Names: Planet names in the info cards are now much larger and easier to read! They will also cleverly resize to fit if you give your new worlds a particularly long or creative name.

• Improved Readability: Floating resource numbers from mining now have a crisp outline, making them stand out against the beautiful chaos of space.

Quality of Life UI Improvements

• Icons & Visual Clarity:

  • We’ve fixed the missing upgrade icons on the planet panel. Now you can see exactly what you’re improving!

  • The “Assign Manager” button now features a gear icon and a proper visual style, making its function much clearer.

  • The “Energy Received” stat is now correctly displayed in the Planet Details view, helping you better plan your power management across the system.

• Smarter Panels:

  • Upgrade, Downgrade, and Assign Manager buttons now have proper visual styles for when you hover over or click them. No more jarring changes—just smooth, responsive feedback.

  • The ingredient list on recipe cards now uses colors to show if you have the required materials, making production planning a breeze.

Controls & System Stability

• Enhanced Mobile Navigation: Thinking of our mobile commanders, we’ve implemented swipe-to-scroll on more panels, like the manager selection and the active jobs list.

• Improved Touch Controls: We’ve adjusted the position of the UI for moving the space station, ensuring it appears well above your finger on touch screens.

• Unobstructed Asteroid Mining: Fixed a frustrating issue where asteroids couldn’t be clicked when passing over planet info cards. Click with confidence!

• Reinforced Stability: Fixed a critical bug that could cause a crash if the game was closed during a colonization mission. Your progress is now safer than ever!

We hope these updates make your empire-managing experience smoother and more enjoyable.

Happy mining, and see you next time