Sublight Empire Hack 1.7

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Description

Einstein's theory of relativity states that nothing is faster than light. This also applies to this game.
Information is radio signals propagating at the speed of light. These radio signals transmit your commands and the events you receive.
Spaceships move at a fraction of the speed of light. So it takes years for a command or a spaceship to reach its destination. When a battle takes place, you won't know about it until years later.

Apart from this, it is a classic 4X game.
In the beginning you rule a single star system and you are exploring and colonizing the surrounding systems.
Later on you will meet your opponents and you will have to defend and conquer colonies.

To win the game, you must conquer 2/3 of all stars.

Version history

1.7

2022-10-03

- mark tile with events with an "!"
- mark tile with an yellow instead of red "?" when a probe is on its way
- fill half of tile with player colors when a colony ship is on its way
- route lines for commands and ships can be turned off
- events about enemy ships can be filtered
- changed trading formula
- better balanced maps

1.6.1

2022-03-30

Version 1.6 was released with misconfigured variables. This version corrects that.

1.6

2022-03-28

- fix: It was no longer possible to give up the game
- fix: NaN (Not a number) was displayed for "Debt Scrap"
- fix: In iOS 15 the playback with the Web Audio API does not work anymore if you return to the app after a short time (less than 1 minute) in the lock screen
- New disasters
- Spectral types have effect on trade
- Culture ships only increase the speed level when the system has maximum happiness
- Spectral types have effect on trade
- Send colony ships to already colonized system
- Send colony ships to the same destination
- Show arriving fleets and commands in the star info
- Maximum population is now visible on the map
- Landscape mode and adjustments for iPads

1.5

2021-08-29

- happiness, disasters, culture ships
- show researched speed levels on map
- show population on map
- all spectral type now have the same count of speed levels
- changed regeneration formula
- autoscrap takes time
- autoscrap needs free population
- throne ship moves with at least 1/10c
- throne ship builds up less debt with each trip
- icon has now a pure black background instead of #222
- improved help

1.4

2020-05-16

- Improved display of the selected hex field
- Highlight routes of selected fleets and commands

1.3

2020-01-26

- Modal dialogs have a lighter style.
- Rule change
: If a ship reaches a colony that has no free population but a probe, the probe will be scrapped instead of the arriving ship.
- Spaceships are no longer highlighted if they were launched from the selected star. But arriving ship are still highlighted.

1.2

2019-09-25

- game menu and how-to-play are no longer modal dialogs
- ai: rate fast trading ships higher
- auto-scrap abolished, it doesn't bring much and is complicated to explain
- help improved
- fix: the names "Trading Ship" and "Battleship" were reversed

1.1

2019-08-02

- map generator creates better balanced maps
- improved move info
- fix: if the map is uncovered, too many messages where displayed
- use own click sound instead of the system sound

1.0

2019-01-27