Post by monkeyx on Oct 20, 2012 7:21:06 GMT
Throne of the Stars: Newsletter 1st Chronum 50th Year
Thank You
I'd like to thank everyone for taking the time to test the game over the alpha development stage. Your feedback has been really helpful and will lead to a better game. Please keep it coming!
Fresh Starts
If you would like to start afresh with a new house, I'd be happy to cease your old house and let you form a new house. Just send an email to gm@thronestars.com letting me know that's what you'd like to do and once your old house ceases to exist, you will be prompted to form a new house when you next login to the site.
Ground Combat
This week sees the introduction of the ground combat system. Now armies may attack each other or attempt to capture an estate. If you've been itching to make your Baron an Earl, this is now possible by capturing the sole estate of the ancient house title holder and then claiming the vacant role of Earl. Read more here.
Capturing Starships
An offshoot of the ground combat system, it is now possible to capture starships with marines onboard your own ship. To do so, your ship has to be faster than the target ship. Unlike normal space combat, you do not need to be at war to capture another house's ship. However, you will give them a cassus belli. In the future, an Emperor may pass a law which would declare capturing ships outside of war piracy (giving everyone a cassus belli on your house) but for now the Empire is a lawless place. So you only have one house (and their allies or liege) to worry about. Read more here.
Other changes you may have missed
Competition
The Imperial Merchants Guild is offering a free Guildsman starship along with the services of a Guild certified Captain, to any House that has a proven track record of promoting trade amongst the Twelve Worlds.
To claim your prize, simply email gm@thronestars.com with details of at least three market buys on three different worlds. News log clipping will suffice as proof.
Once again, thanks for taking the time to test the game.
Cheers,
Throne of the Stars GM
Thank You
I'd like to thank everyone for taking the time to test the game over the alpha development stage. Your feedback has been really helpful and will lead to a better game. Please keep it coming!
Fresh Starts
If you would like to start afresh with a new house, I'd be happy to cease your old house and let you form a new house. Just send an email to gm@thronestars.com letting me know that's what you'd like to do and once your old house ceases to exist, you will be prompted to form a new house when you next login to the site.
Ground Combat
This week sees the introduction of the ground combat system. Now armies may attack each other or attempt to capture an estate. If you've been itching to make your Baron an Earl, this is now possible by capturing the sole estate of the ancient house title holder and then claiming the vacant role of Earl. Read more here.
Capturing Starships
An offshoot of the ground combat system, it is now possible to capture starships with marines onboard your own ship. To do so, your ship has to be faster than the target ship. Unlike normal space combat, you do not need to be at war to capture another house's ship. However, you will give them a cassus belli. In the future, an Emperor may pass a law which would declare capturing ships outside of war piracy (giving everyone a cassus belli on your house) but for now the Empire is a lawless place. So you only have one house (and their allies or liege) to worry about. Read more here.
Other changes you may have missed
- Skill Training has been revised so when your characters changes roles you don't lose all training conducted thus far on a skill you can no longer train. This means your Captain or Lord can go to that social event and resume their training of Navigation or Management when they return. You can now also see the progress made to the next skill rank.
- Break Betrothal: You may now break an engagement but your House will suffer a loss of honour and piety of 1/10th of the other house's.
- Move orders up / down in the character's pending order queue
- Announcements page (births, coming of age, marriages, deaths)
- Residents at an estate shown
- Some helpful hints on starting skills when signing up
- Upcoming Social Events tab
- Improved production tab on Estates to show total mass and raw materials
- Descriptions for all orders and databank tooltips for items and buildings
- Optional message to be sent with diplomatic offers, demands for justice, marriage proposals.
- Refit: New order to quickly install missing sections on a starship
- Unload Cargo: If no item specified, unload everything but troops
- Tips added to various screens
- Startups get initial resources based on their home estate
- Plus lots and lots of bug fixes.
Competition
The Imperial Merchants Guild is offering a free Guildsman starship along with the services of a Guild certified Captain, to any House that has a proven track record of promoting trade amongst the Twelve Worlds.
To claim your prize, simply email gm@thronestars.com with details of at least three market buys on three different worlds. News log clipping will suffice as proof.
Once again, thanks for taking the time to test the game.
Cheers,
Throne of the Stars GM