Star Ruler is a 4X/RTS Hybrid on a grand scale. Mod everything, design anything; play what you want, how you want, when you want. In production since 2008 and working to a Summer release next year, Star Ruler endeavors to be a milestone in 4X/RTS history... now hosted here at SWR Productions

Features:

• Enormous, detailed, galaxies. Up to 1000 systems each with their own stars, planets, moons, and asteroid belts.
• Six distinct paths to victory. Combat, Espionage, Diplomatic, Research, Economic, and Exploration paths give players a choice of gameplay styles.
• Design your own ships and give them one of many premade hulls, or mod in your own.

Mod the game in every way:

• Create skins for the UI, or scripts to dictate its behavior.
• Add new elements to the gameplay, either new items to place on ships, or entirely new mechanics not in the original game.
• Share your creations with others through the in-game content manager.
• Take your battles online. Massive fights in a massive universe; support for up to eight players. Save the whole game when dawn breaks and boot it back up at dusk; it isn't over until you say it is!
• That's no moon. With an entire galaxy's worth of resources at your fingertips, why let it go to waste on simple starfighters? Build massive Dyson Spheres,
• Black Hole manipulators, and Star Cannons to crush your foe's dreams of conquest. Strap huge engines, shields, and guns on to your worlds and transform your homeworlds from a resource to be held or taken into a deadly adversary.
• Truly freeform camera. Players have an option of a standard camera, as if attached to a pole, or a completely free camera - see the game from any direction you require with ease.
• And much more for you to discover!

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Feel free to ask questions, make comments or even make suggestions in their newly established forum here!

Looking forward to your progress.

Congratulations, Planet Rulers guys. Hope to see some very good stuff soon...maybe as a Happy Christmas Day present

We're doing our best to make it happen. I can't find a good recording software that doesn't leave watermarks and works at a decent rate and framesize that is also free/opensource so it may be a little while.

I don't think there is one sadly.

Good thing to have Star Ruler a place here in the forums.

Hey congratulations on getting hosted!

Hope everything goes well for you's and your Project in the Future.

- E.V.E.

I'm wishing you the best of luck for this amazingly ambitious project.

Congratulations

The work the Star Ruler team put into this must be enormous.
Keep up the good work.

You are very ambitious and what I have seen so far looks pretty well. Good luck with the project.

nice game ! comrade i wish you luck



sorry for the newb statement but whats a 4x/rts

4x stands for explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate, in other words a very broad game which is not limited to combat but also contains things like exploration and trade.

Games like X3: Reunion are a good example of space based 4X strategy games. But a game like Civilization is similar too.

I'm not much into Space RTS and exploration kinda stuff, but from comments it looks like something EPIC which i should try out . Congratz

I understand why your indie game was accepted here, because this game is easy to mod just as it is easy to create things in SPORE.

Want.

I personally love Space-based RTSes, but there hasn't been one in a while that's both accessible, epic-in-scale and fun at the same time. Hopefully this will satiate my hungry for such things.

Also, congrats on getting hosted here, I will certainly be keeping an eye on this project.