History VideoGame / StarRuler

** EM defenses work similarly, except that it is possible to have two separate layers of EM defenses, resulting in enemy targeting computers having a very small chance of hitting, without the ammo expense of Point defenses. Naturally EM defenses dont stop fighters, or MacrossMissileMassacre very effectively.

* WarIsGlorious: The Aggressor AI goes to war to further the glory if their clan.

* FasterThanLightTravel: Several flavors. Players can now assemble [[PortalNetwork jump gates]] (previously, only Remnants possessed gates) which must be flown to their destination, then stopped before being linked up, which will then provide instantaneous travel between gates. The "Fling" drive, can catapult a ship extreme distances for little energy, but can only be mounted on stations - in essence, you ''fire your ships at their destination'' like a railgun - once a ship reaches its destination, it has to rely on standard thrusters for movement or its return journey. [[SubspaceOrHyperspace Hyperdrives]] function much like the warp drive in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' - it's faster than slowboating with thrusters, but not instantaneous like a jump drive, and consumes energy as the ship moves through hyperspace. "Slipstream" drives allow one ship to project a FTL field like that of a hyperdrive, with the addition that it can be shared between ships in a fleet, allowing for a big ship to project a FTL field around itself to warp itself and its escorts towards their destination.

Ship-to-ship combat is [[GlassCannon fast and brutal, with ships annihilating each other often in just a few salvos]] - sped up by the fact that weapons [[SubsystemDamage damage ship subsystems]], and many subsystems are also [[MadeOfExplodium explosive, such as ammunition or anti-matter]]. Entire fleets can wipe each other out in mere minutes, so positioning your ships to prevent mass losses is necessary when fighting equal forces.

* MinMaxing: At game-start you can choose traits for your faction through the juggling of points.

** Large ships tend to spend huge amounts of fuel chasing down small, unarmed scout ships.

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, [[SerialEscalation build ships larger than the galaxy]], and make ships that can [[ClownCarBase carry itself inside its own cargo bay]].

* TheBattlestar: Ships can mount any combination of weapons and ship bays. With Quantum Space Compressors, you can have {{Clown Car Base}}s. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rjwZPRnv08 Behold.]]

* ClownCarBase: The usual result of high-level Spatial Dynamics research. See above entry under TheBattlestar. Even without it you can build ships or stations bigger than the constructor used.

[[DesignItYourselfEquipment Ships are designed by the players]], who place different subsystems (such as engines, armor, guns, or support equipment) inside a [[http://i.imgur.com/00go7.jpg circular "blueprint"]], which has a max subsystem size limit [[note]]such as a limiting you to a combined total of 15 subsystems, if you make each subsystem a scale of 1.00[[/note]].

The game's economy is simple at first glance, but very nuanced. Ships require Metal [[note]] processed from ore[[/note]], Advanced Parts [[note]] processed from electronics and metal[[/note]], Electronics [[note]] made from metal[[/note]], and Labor [[note]] what is used to actually build stuff, generated by the population[[/note]] to be built, but planets, and your race as a whole may have modifiers on each stat. Food is necessary to keep your population from starving, and they want goods and luxury goods otherwise they'll produce less - unless you just enslave them. Unlike other games, ships, stations, and planetary facilities have no "build time" - if you have enough resources stored at the build point, you can build anything virtually instantly. If you don't have enough resources, the planet (or mobile shipyard) has to pull the resources from your Galactic Bank, the empire-wide resource depository.

[[DesignItYourselfEquipment Ships are designed by the players]], who place different subsystems (such as engines, armor, guns, or support equipment) inside a [[http://i.imgur.com/00go7.jpg circular "blueprint"]], which has a max subsystem size limit [[hottip:*:such as a limiting you to a combined total of 15 subsystems, if you make each subsystem a scale of 1.00]].

The game's economy is simple at first glance, but very nuanced. Ships require Metal [[hottip:*: processed from ore]], Advanced Parts [[hottip:*: processed from electronics and metal]], Electronics [[hottip:*: made from metal]], and Labor [[hottip:*: what is used to actually build stuff, generated by the population]] to be built, but planets, and your race as a whole may have modifiers on each stat. Food is necessary to keep your population from starving, and they want goods and luxury goods otherwise they'll produce less - unless you just enslave them. Unlike other games, ships, stations, and planetary facilities have no "build time" - if you have enough resources stored at the build point, you can build anything virtually instantly. If you don't have enough resources, the planet (or mobile shipyard) has to pull the resources from your Galactic Bank, the empire-wide resource depository.

!! ''Star Ruler 2'' provides examples of:
* TheDogBitesBack: The Influence system in ''[=SR2=]'' allows losing empires to use diplomacy against their aggressor. The more evil and [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] a player or AI is against an enemy, such as [[ApocalypseHow glassing their planets]] or slaughtering all their civilians, the more influence the victim gains against them.
* FasterThanLightTravel: Several flavors. Players can now assemble [[PortalNetwork jump gates]] (previously, only Remnants possessed gates) which must be flown to their destination, then stopped before being linked up, which will then provide instantaneous travel between gates. The "Fling" drive, can catapult a ship extreme distances for little energy, but can only be mounted on stations - in essence, you ''fire your ships at their destination'' like a railgun - once a ship reaches its destination, it has to rely on standard thrusters for movement or its return journey. [[SubspaceOrHyperspace Hyperdrives]] function much like the warp drive in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' - it's faster than slowboating with thrusters, but not instantaneous like a jump drive, and consumes energy as the ship moves through hyperspace. "Slipstream" drives allow one ship to project a FTL field like that of a hyperdrive, with the addition that it can be shared between ships in a fleet, allowing for a big ship to project a FTL field around itself to warp itself and its escorts towards their destination.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: Hyperdrives allow a ship to move at phenomenal velocity, much faster than standard thrusters, but consume energy as the ship moves.

[[http://starruler2.com/ A sequel has been announced]], set for release in 2014. Early access on STEAM is set for late 2013. Among a host of new features, micromanagement of planets will be less painful, ship movement will be smarter, combat will be deeper, and the [=AIs=] will be better at diplomacy. Additional info and some Q&A can be found on a [[Videogame/GarrysMod Facepunch]] thread by one of the game's creators [[http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1295093 here]]

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!! Galactic Armory adds or changes the following examples:

[[http://starruler2.com/ A sequel has been announced]], set for release in 2014. Early access on STEAM is set for late 2013. Among a host of new features, micromanagement of planets will be less painful, ship movement will be smarter, combat will be deeper, and the [=AIs=] will be better at diplomacy.

* ShoutOut: The Inhibitor AI is a major shoutout to AlastairReynolds' ''RevelationSpace'' series - they have the same name, both want to extinguish any life they find, and both rely on physics-bending weaponry. The backstory even says they took on this "mission" from contact with a race called the "wolves" - another name for the Inhibitors in ''Revelation Space''.

Ship-to-ship combat is [[GlassCannon fast and brutal, with ships annihilating each other often in just a few salvos]] - sped up by the fact that weapons damage ship subsystems, and many subsystems are also [[MadeOfExplodium explosive, such as ammunition or anti-matter]]. Entire fleets can wipe each other out in mere minutes, so positioning your ships to prevent mass losses is necessary when fighting equal forces.

* MisaimedRealism: The game enforces newtonian motion (no SpaceFriction), and ships move around realistically, but they can easily exceed the speed of light by simply accelerating long enough.

* ApocalypseHow: Planetary assaults with big enough ships will cause the planet itself to break apart. You can then go blow up the ''star'' that the planet orbits.

* PlanetSpaceship: Beyond around size ~1000, ships will start to become larger than the planets that built them. There is effectively no limit to max size, allowing players to [[UnnecessarilyLargeVessel build a ship larger than the galaxy]] so long as they have sufficient resources.

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Planets and [[AsteroidMining asteroids]] have a limited supply of Ore, which is refined into metal, the basic building part. Metal is then turned into Electronics (two metal turns into one electronic) which is the intermediate building part. Advanced Parts requires two metal and one electronic, and is used in the more advanced and complicated ship parts. Food (produced in farms) keeps your population from starving. Goods keep your population from becoming unhappy (which slows down production), while Luxuries make them happy (speeds up production). Labor is generated by cities and shipyards, and is used in the production of ships, stations, and buildings.

* GhostShip: Crew death, loss of power, or running out of fuel will cause a ship to go derelict, and drift until it's destroyed by the game several minutes later. Derelict ships can be salvaged and reclaimed if it's only the crew that died - doing so on an enemy ship will also allow you to steal the design and build it yourself.

* ProudWarriorRace: The Knight AI isn't warmongering, but they enjoy combat and typically do not use "unfair" weapons like superlasers or space-time bending weapons. Knights are generally the most balanced faction in terms of economy, military, research, and overall ship design. The Aggressor AI als

* BarbarianTribe: The Aggressor AI focuses entirely on war - research be damned.

The game's economy is simple at first glance, but very nuianced. Ships require Metal [[hottip:*: processed from ore]], Advanced Parts [[hottip:*: processed from electronics and metal]], Electronics [[hottip:*: made from metal]], and Labor [[hottip:*: what is used to actually build stuff, generated by the population]] to be built, but planets, and your race as a whole may have modifiers on each stat. Food is necessary to keep your population from starving, and they want goods and luxury goods otherwise they'll produce less - unless you just enslave them. Unlike other games, ships, stations, and planetary facilities have no "build time" - if you have enough resources stored at the build point, you can build anything virtually instantly. If you don't have enough resources, the planet (or mobile shipyard) has to pull the resources from your Galactic Bank, the empire-wide resource depository.

The game's economy is simple at first glance, but very nuianced. Ships require Metal [[hottip:*: processed from ore]], Advanced Parts [[hottip:*: processed from electronics and metal), Electronics [[hottip:*: made from metal]], and Labor [[hottip:*: what is used to actually build stuff, generated by the population]] to be built, but planets, and your race as a whole may have modifiers on each stat. Food is necessary to keep your population from starving, and they want goods and luxury goods otherwise they'll produce less - unless you just enslave them. Unlike other games, ships, stations, and planetary facilities have no "build time" - if you have enough resources stored at the build point, you can build anything virtually instantly. If you don't have enough resources, the planet (or mobile shipyard) has to pull the resources from your Galactic Bank, the empire-wide resource depository.

* UnitsNotToScale: Units are to scale with each other, but not celestial objects (planets, asteroids, stars). A size 2500 station is several times the size of a planet, but will have a crew around ~200,000, whereas a planet will have a population of about a ~100,000,000 at low levels. This is present to ensure that your ships are actually visible at a decent zoom level.