History VideoGame / StarRuler

* AbusivePrecursors: Remnants. It's unknown how they were like before, but nowadays the artificially intelligent remnants of their vast fleet attack anything in sight.

** CripplingSpecialization: Don't do jack against physical things like armour or hull.

''Star Ruler'' is a 3D real time 4X title from indie developers [[http://starruler.blind-mind.com/ Blind Mind Studios]].
The game focuses on annihilating every other empire in the galaxy.

Research has a massive focus in ''Star Ruler'' - you unlock subsystems by researching its specific upgrade (i.e. researching Energy Weapons will help unlock lasers). However, when a subsystem is first researched, it's usually weak - you need to continue to research in that field to make it more powerful. Eventually, you research how to build {{Ringworld Planet}}s, [[StarKilling blow up stars]] in an instant, [[BeyondTheImpossible build ships larger than the galaxy]], and make ships that can carry itself inside its own cargo bay.

* ClownCarBase: The usual result of high-level Spatial Dynamics research. See above entry under TheBattlestar.

Research has a massive focus in ''Star Ruler'' - you unlock subsystems by researching its specific upgrade (i.e. researching Energy Weapons will help unlock lasers). However, when a subsystem is first researched, it's usually weak - you need to continue to research in that field to make it more powerful. Eventually, you research how to build {{Ringworld Planet}}s, [[StarKilling blow up stars]] in an instant, [[BeyondTheImpossible build ships large than the galaxy]], and make ships that can carry itself inside its own cargo bay.

* {{Artistic License Astronomy}}: The orbits of planets do not affect each other, nor will ships. It's possible to have a station the size of Betelgeuse orbiting a planet not much bigger than Earth. Likely for the best, though - otherwise, planets would be shot out of the galaxy by players warping their ships everywhere.

* {{Antimatter}}: It has has the advantage of needing almost no fuel storage, and having very efficient yet extremely powerful thrusters and weapons, but requires Antimatter generators, which are expensive and ''extremely'' fragile. Ships with antimatter tend to explode violently when their armor is breached.

* BottomlessMagazines: Averted with kinetics; when designing your starships you must take into account how long they can fire with the ammo stocks they have on board and add more ammo caches if they do not pack enough. Or you could design dedicated ammo colliers and send them with your expeditionary forces, but best hope the enemy doesn't [[ShootTheMedicFirst shoot them first...]] Energy weapons on the other hand have no ammo requirements.

* {{AbusivePrecursors}}: Remnants. It's unknown how they were like before, but nowadays the artificially intelligent remnants of their vast fleet attack anything in sight.

* {{ArtisticLicense Astronomy}}: The orbits of planets do not affect each other, nor will ships. It's possible to have a station the size of Betelgeuse orbiting a planet not much bigger than Earth. Likely for the best, though - otherwise, planets would be shot out of the galaxy by players warping their ships everywhere.

* StandardSciFiFleet: Everything present larger than an escape pod. Fighters, bombers, corvettes, frigates, haulers, tanks, battleships, carriers, BattleStars, MotherShips, ships the size of the galaxy...

* BiggerIsBetter: Used and averted.

* {{Antimatter}}: It has has the advantage of needing almost fuel storage, and having very efficient yet extremely powerful thrusters and weapons, but requires Antimatter generators, which are expensive and ''extremely'' fragile. Ships with antimatter tend to explode violently when their armor is breached.

* {{Antimatter}}: Added in the ''Galactic Armory'' mod. Antimatter has the advantage of needing almost fuel storage, and having very efficient yet extremely powerful thrusters and weapons, but they require Antimatter generators, which are expensive and ''extremely'' fragile. Ships with antimatter tend to explode violently when their armor is breached.

* BottomlessMagazines: Averted; when designing your starships you must take into account how long they can fire with the ammo stocks they have on board and add more ammo caches if they do not pack enough. Or you could design dedicated ammo colliers and send them with your expeditionary forces, but best hope the enemy doesn't [[ShootTheMedicFirst shoot them first...]]

* BoardingParty: Boarding pods can be used to take over enemy ships. It's very effect to swarm enemy mega-ships with [[ZergRush thousands of boarding ships]]

* A Million is a Statistic: Large ships have crews of over a thousand. The megaships that the player can build can have crews of ''millions''. Planetary assaults with smaller (aka not planet killing sized death machines) ships result in millions (or billions, in the case of high level cities) being slaughtered indiscriminately by orbital bombardment.

* AMillionisaStatistic: Large ships have crews of over a thousand. The megaships that the player can build can have crews of ''millions''. Planetary assaults with smaller (aka not planet killing sized death machines) ships result in millions (or billions, in the case of high level cities) being slaughtered indiscriminately by orbital bombardment.