Project AURA news & patch notes

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today with some re balance, fixes and updates. We have included also an update on the Russian language, as always thanks to Dorado for his last work!

Balance

• We have introduced a new random-factor for climate threats where, during some periods, they may or may not appear. (Instead of periodically “always” appearing). On low difficulty levels climate threats have also been delayed a bit more. • Probability to produce food in superior quality has been lowered for all dishes.

Bugs

• A new upgraded version for the interface management comes with this version. It should make the performance of the game improve a few FPSs. • We have corrected the typos reported by the community.

What is next?

To summarize it all, we are working in a new game project based on Project Aura where we are tweaking many aspects from the background story to playability. Our goal is to quit all the bad, leave the good and add new features like multiplayer, modding support in a totally new world context with pve/pvp. For this new project we are also moving from micro-management to management, involving: no org charts. no directors. no colonists stats/complex health. no building templates. No colony expansion (instead you can control new colonies/strategy posts). etc.... We will soon startup new site and forums to discuss features with players and, later on, the first game alpha version. As always, thanks for reading and your interest in Project Aura ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have updated the Russian language, done some tweaks on balance, and resolved a few bugs and typos reported. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

There is a new update on the Russian language. Special thanks to Dorado for his last update!!

Balance

• The amount of climate threats on low difficulty levels have been reduced. • Assembly Tunnels and Greenhouses will produce now more innovation points. • Too many colonists dying in your colony may bring “Desolation”, which is a social threat you must resolve in time or desertions will start happening in your colony. We have rebalanced the desolation threat so it will need a higher amount of dead colonists to be triggered. • Very bad reputation with a Corporation may trigger sabotages in your colony. These sabotages are less likely to happen now. • It is now possible to disable threats without the game auto-setting itself to low difficulty.

Bugs

• Corrected typos reported by the community. Thank you for your interest in Project Aura and your continued support. We keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have updated the Chinese language, done more tweaks on balance, and resolved a few issues reported by players. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

There is a major update on the Chinese language. Special thanks to Benny for his last update!!

Balance

• Special foods (those requiring superior quality ingredients to be cooked) have improved their stats bonuses:

• Hearty Rice
• Soils Feast
• Ginger Bread
• Corn Breaded Acorn
• Mind Pie
• Chicharron

• We have removed the affinity requirement for items in the market.

• Aluminum Ingot (Neo Industrial Corp)
• Reinforced Wiring (Cosmos Corp)
• Fertilizer (Eco Corp)

*Before this patch, some items were only available in the market if you picked the corresponding affinity. • We have removed the influence cost in the market for the next items:

• Prefab Module Beta
• Prefab Module Gamma
• Aluminum Ingot
• Iron Ingot
• Steel Ingot
• Titanium Ingot

Bugs

• Solved an issue preventing to build a second Corporation building on the same platform. • Residential buildings were displaying wrong information regarding their blueprint color. • Solved an issue with UNICODE fonts when displayed in multiline text widgets. • Corrected typos reported by the community. --- As always, thank you for your continued support. We keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have updated the Russian, German and Chinese languages, and resolved an issue with a few quests spawning too early:

Translations

There is a new update on German, Russian and Chinese languages. Special thanks to lord.herbo, Dorado and Benny for their latest updates!! *In the coming days, the German language will figure in the store front page as fully translated.

Bugs

• Quests to promote a Super Engineer in your colony and to develop a Core Technology to level 6 were spawning too early. Thank you for your interest in Project Aura and your continued support. We keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have updated the German and Chinese languages, done some tweaks on balance, and resolved a few typos found. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

There is a new update on German and Chinese languages. Special thanks to lord.herbo and Benny for their latest updates!! *Currently only the tutorials are available in Chinese language.

Balance

• Startup SC (Synthetic Coins) have been increased, specially for lower difficulties. • There are new items available at the market. • Fully filled maintenance/comfort toolkits will be craftable in the Workshops. • Flora and Vestige tracking work points have been increased to make more relevant their techs research. (testing feature) • It is possible to craft Core Invention Docs from your Corp Buildings with 1 Core Doc of its color + 5 Invention Docs. (Require Cosmos' Tech: Invention). • The probability to find Tin has been slightly increased from 4% to 6%. We agree with the community feedback about it being a potential bottleneck. • Botanic Gardens innovation production has been slightly increased.

Misc

• Panels having sub-panels will now remember state and position, hopefully saving you some clicks. • Hovering mouse on buildings node-connectors will show the required blueprint and its color. • Health scoring values (in the score panel) will be now rounded, so having your colonists average stats to 95 or higher will give you 10 points. Before you needed your colony’s average stats to be 100. • Audio volume for the NPC notifications has been slightly reduced. • Added new in-game-tips about technology and keyboard shortcuts. *In case you disabled your in-game tips, it is possible to re-enable them through the Options menu. • Resources guide has been update to the current patch.

Bugs

• Corrected typos reported by the community. As always, thank you for your continued support. We keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have updated the German and French languages, done some tweaks on research balance, and resolved a few typos found. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

There is a new update on German and French languages. Special thanks to lord.herbo and squall1903 for their latest updates!!

Balance

We have been following some of the videos uploaded by the community and listened to feedback and with this patch we have we have been tweaking the research system to limit the impact of the RNG has on research: • “Invention” (production available at the Corp buildings) will now cost 2 Core Docs (instead of 5) and will produce 1 Core Invention Doc (instead of 1 and a 50% to produce another). *Please note that you need the (conventional) Cosmos technology “Invention” in order to unlock this production. • “Document Analysis” is a production available in your Programming Labs and it lets you transform 4 colored docs (one of each color) into 1 Invention Doc. (Before there was a 60% chance to produce the Invention Doc, so you could lose all your colored docs for nothing if your bad luck was persistent). The Work points required has been reduced as well from 600 to 400. • The chance to produce Core Invention Docs while researching influence has been removed. (It was 5% previously).

Bugs

• Corrected typos reported by the community. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have updated the German and Russian languages, done some tweaks on research balance, and resolved a few bugs reported. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

There is a new update on German and Russian languages. Russian is fully translated now (excluding a few images containing text). Special thanks to Dorado!!

Balance

• The chance to produce invention docs while researching colored docs in the Labs and Corporate Buildings has been increased from 20 to 40%.

Bugs

• The Pumping Tower was sometimes “fishing” wrong-quest items. • Solved an issue with log error messages when changing message priority. • Corrected typos reported by the community. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have updated the German and Russian languages, done some tweaks on research balance, and resolved an issue related to DPI screen setup. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

There is a new update on German and Russian languages. Both languages are really close to be fully translated. We really thank those involved in the translation for such a great work!!

Balance

• We have halved the amount of colored Docs needed to produce Core Invention Docs in your Corporation buildings. • We have removed the RNG from the Deciphering Keys production. (...We are learning how much players hate RNG in games…)

Misc

• After the 1.1.2 patch, the application is DPI aware, this means, you won’t need to manually setup the exe to run properly in desktops with a DPI setup different than the default 100%. (we will continue testing this functionality) • Corrected typos reported by the community. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have updated the German and Russian languages and some minor issues have been solved. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

• There is a new update on German and Russian languages. *The Russian language has now updated also the achievements on Steam.

Misc

• The Resource Guide has been updated to the 1.1 version. • Larder auto refill happens now before the daily auto sell (if enabled). This will prioritize your food going to larder before than be sold if matching your auto sell criteria. • Some tweaks have been done to the Maintenance and Police drone animations.

Bugs

• Atmospheric Instability condition was triggered even with the climatic disasters disabled on game activation. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have focused on visuals improvement, optimizations and a new feature regarding player scoring. This is also a very special version for us, because we consider solved all the optimization issues we had during the launch of the 1.0 version the past month. But, please, continue reading for details:

Translations

We have to thank you one more time the Project Aura community for the great work on translations. Thanks to them, Project Aura is becoming accessible in new languages! • German and Russian languages are getting close to be fully translated!! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/1d2abf7b533818d52ce85c057b4653015bd7da91.jpg

Visuals

• Drones are now fully animated. • Buildings animations have been polished and improved. • Two new available suits for your colonists. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/bf13366d4c69b2c57cf74bf7a18f68f57cd1ed6f.jpg

Optimizations

• We have made a major work on optimizations and performance and we consider the previous issues, leading to crashes after few hours playing, are now totally (and finally) solved.

Interface

• We have added a Scoring panel, to check how well you are doing and stats on your colony's main indicators. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/38bc02bb99fe6ec45ea7f6e427af90b7b3864013.jpg • The Construction Panel buttons, where you select what building to build, have now a more colored version. This will make them more intuitive and easier to know the tech-tree each one belongs to.

Bugs

• Worm Cooking recipes can be now obtained through Seasoning Research in your labs. • We have reviewed and solved issues with quests not completing properly. • Solved a text encoding issue with Russian lang. • Maintenance and Comfort values were wrongly displayed after reloading a game. • Infra promotion was sometimes asking for the wrong profile to be promoted. • Under some circumstances, ships were resetting their productions when reloading a game.

Balancing

*This is a summary of the most important changes regarding balancing since the launch of the 1.0 version the last month: • Only the profiles from your affine Corporation will go on strike. In previous versions, any profile going over level 10 without promotion was able to go on strike. • To counter RNG –bad luck- on research, we added the new technology: Invention and new productions like Reverse Engineering. • The time to resolve threats has been extended. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/658d34ee9efcbf5d3a84833e5a49e98e5a58ad78.jpg Ships: • The effect of Omega cargo has been greatly improved. Bear in mind that cargo increases production that have fixed yield, and won’t affect production that is percentage or average based. • All Hangars have increased their Maintenance costs. • Risk of accident for the Alpha ship has been increased. • To counter RNG –bad luck- on precious metals extraction, we added the new technology: Rare metals. Entertainment: • The amount of vestiges required to improve your knowledge technology for Entertainment buildings has been greatly increased. • The extra morale obtained from Entertainment buildings for each different source has been halved (from +1 to +0.5). • Entertainment buildings morale bonus has been reduced on first tech levels. However, at max level it continues being the same. Others • Energy generator production has been increased for the low and med difficulty levels. • Solving the "Sources of Infection" threat with your maintenance drones by fast-clean (the fast task) will cost now 100 Comfort points instead of 100 Maintenance points. *Although we wanted to launch the version 1.1 together with the full manual of the game in PDF, it is taking longer than expected and we preferred not to delay the release of the 1.1 version. We continue working on the manual, so that it will soon be available. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have gone deep on optimizations and stability. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

The Russian language has been updated again with new content localized.

Optimizations

• We have made a major improvement on text generation which in previous patches leaded to crashes after few hours playing. Now this issue should be totally (and finally) solved.

Bugs

• Maintenance and Comfort values was wrongly displayed after reloading a game. • Solved a text encoding issue with Russian lang. • Intoxication threat was wrongly triggered under weird circumstances.

What is next?

We continue working on the 1.1 version. Please, check this link for more info. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have focused on bug solving and, based on community feedback, more threat balancing. We hope you enjoy it and, if you are interested in the details, please continue reading:

Bugs

• Queued productions paused because not enough energy, were losing the ongoing production input mats after restarting the production. • Infra promotion was sometimes asking for the wrong profile to be promoted. • Quests offered by colonists demanding tidal towers was sometimes wrongly triggered. • Under some circumstances, ships were resetting their productions when reloading a game. • We have solved the issues reported by players for the quests: Entertainment, Seed Restorer.

Balancing

• Solving Infiltration with your Police Drone task: “Track”, may not cause any casualty and, instead, the colonists will be sent back to work. • The time between Infra Promotion threat to spam has been extended. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we have gone deep on game balancing, optimzations and performance improvements. Please, continue reading for details:

Translations

The Russian language has been updated again with new content localized.

Optimizations

• We have made a major improvement on memory optimizations.

Balancing

Ships: • The effect of Omega cargo has been greatly improved. Bear in mind that cargo increases production that have fixed yield, and won’t affect production that is percentage or average based. • All Hangars have increased their Maintenance costs. • Risk of accident for the Alpha ship has been increased. • Atmospheric Instability periods will last a few days longer now. In order to help you identifying when they start, a message will be told to you by the AI each time they start. Entertainment: • Specialized Vestige Tracking techs become Core instead of Conventional. • The amount of vestiges required to improve your knowledge technology for Entertainment buildings has been doubled after their level 1 tech. • The extra morale obtained from Entertainment buildings for each different source has been halved (from +1 to +0.5). • Entertainment buildings morale bonus has been reduced on first tech levels. However, at max level it continues being the same. Others • Energy generator production has been increased for the low and med difficulty levels. • The amount obtained by Rare Metals Extraction production has been reduced. • Only the profiles from your own Corporation will now be susceptible to trigger the Infra promotion threat. • Solving the "Sources of Infection" threat with your maintenance drones by fast-clean (the fast task) will cost now 100 Comfort points instead of 100 Maintenance points.

Bugs

• After your Rescue drones rescuing someone in the outside, his/her pic wasn’t displayed correctly. • Other minor bugs and typos solved. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where we hope all the issues during the game launch are finally gone! We invite you to continue reading for details:

Translations

The Russian language has been updated and tutorials are now fully localized.

UI

• There is a new option available in the setup menu for low/high level of details. Where by default it is high, setting it in low won’t render decorative elements like the underwater roads, hub stations, transport gears. This may save a few FPS if you prefer to gain in fluency for low spec computers. · The quest bar progress that indicate the time left to be completed, will be now shown in red when it is close to expire.

Balancing

• Magenta Innovation points produced by ships has slightly lowered. • Affinity and your colonists' demand quests will now reward you also with some cash. • Demand quests by colonists will be a bit more frequent while going neutral. • Invention technology becomes a conventional technology (it was core before). With this technology, your Corporation Buildings can transform Core-Investigation Documents of their color into Core-Invention Docs. • Infra promotion, Demoralization and Infiltration threats lasts longer now to be resolved. • The daily morale waste in Ultra difficulty has been reduced from 5 to 4.

Optimizations

• The transport system in the colony (lights, packets being sent, mechanism spinning) has been optimized. • We found the log system was, under some circumstances, producing an fps drop and freeze.

Bugs

• There was an issue when clicking on items in the Log not being highlighted in the Inventory. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Project Aura 1.0.3 is now released. We have improved some aspects related to UI, in-game help and balance, but most of time has gone to optimizations. We invite you to continue reading for more details:

UI

• You can access Key Binding information by pressing F1 or, in the System Menu, click on the option Key Binding. • The Govern/threat panel is now more intuitive on how to assign resources to counteract your colony's threats. • A new shortcut is available to Autofill your Organization Chart by pressing: F. (Check the Key bindings for more info).

Miscel

To avoid issues, Quickload(F9) option is now disabled while doing the campaign or the tutorial.

Balancing

• There is a new Industrial technology available to track rare metals (silver, gold, platinum). It is still subject to rebalance. • Magenta Innovation points produced by ships has increased significantly. • The amount of Alfa Prefab obtained with the Construction Packing (the one you can choose on game start) has been increased from 1,000 to 1,200.

Optimizations

• We continue improving the game performance and memory issues hopefully should be gone already. As always, thanks for reading, and we keep listening for feedback ;)

Due to reports about Windows permissions producing issues with database and their popup messages... We have moved the place for your saved games from (MyDocs) folder to: Steam PA installation forder\SavesDir\Saves. With this fix, the game now works with Steam folder itself so there shouldn't be any more permissions issues. However, it won't read anymore from (MyDocs) folder. So if you had any saved file there, the game won't find your files if you don't manually move them to ProjectAura\SavesDir\Saves Thank you!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/75ef08fe7911b6267cd96df330f3aaf049c120ad.jpg Project Aura v1.0 has been launched marking the end of our Early Access development. But hey! This is not the end at all. We have plans to continue developing new features which you can see in detail in our just updated Roadmap. To all the players who have accompanied us during the Early Access stage, we thank you for the great support provided and because, without your help, we couldn’t have developed Project Aura. And for those who have not yet tried the game, we invite you to join us and get to know this new experience that we have created all together.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/c9c754179bb2920d718cadbe5e54da18801a8d13.jpg Greetings from Pixel Quality Games! From the development team, we have great news to give you and we inform you that the release of the finished version 1.0 will take place next Tuesday, April 17. Date from which, Project Aura will leave Early Access to finally go to the Released state, thus being officially launched. To all the players who have accompanied us during the Early Access stage, we thank you for the great support provided and because, without your help, we couldn’t have developed Project Aura. And for those who have not yet tried the game, we invite you to join us and get to know this new experience that we have created all together.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/c9c754179bb2920d718cadbe5e54da18801a8d13.jpg Greetings from Pixel Quality Games! From the development team, we have great news to give you and we inform you that the release of the finished version 1.0 will take place next Tuesday, April 17. Date from which, Project Aura will leave Early Access to finally go to the Released state, thus being officially launched. To all the players who have accompanied us during the Early Access stage, we thank you for the great support provided and because, without your help, we couldn’t have developed Project Aura. And for those who have not yet tried the game, we invite you to join us and get to know this new experience that we have created all together.

Greetings community! We are very happy to announce a new patch available for Project AURA and we invite you to read below for details:

Translations

In this patch we include the advances that the community has been doing for the languages: French. (75%) German. (50%) Russian. (20%)

Buildings

We have improved design for the buildings: • Tech labs • Infirmary • Water Desalination Plant They will show now better animations to easily know about their status.

Gameplay

• The sandbox mode includes now dynamic tips. You will be asked on each new game to have them active or inactive. If you disable the tips, you will be able to reenable them via options/game. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/0ae2bc915f80ed72135fec773fd75b785fbc0e17.jpg • Your colonists may demand new services, buildings, better food, etc… These optional quests will raise your colony's morale if succesfully completed. • All the Quests are now enabled. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/cff94d5b1e76ca02da18e9ae56abc809ac94881c.jpg

UI

• The new panel Govern/Residential Policies panel is now active and working. It will allow you to move in group your colonists to new residential buildings and setup their residential goals based in Rank. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/adb1001104da077e43f329b45610851a75467ac9.jpg • We have modified the search filters position for Building/Colonists and the Health panel, to make it more simple to understand. • Load/Save in-game panel now display more information about the saved games. • Pressing F2 while seeing the contextual info for production improvements (like food dishes) will place the required item for the improvement directly in the Resource Panel. • While there are active threats, the UI will add now a red-effect. • It is now accessible in-game, through a scheme, the info about relationships among Corporations. To check it: hover mouse on the information icon close to the leader portrait in the Govern/Relationship Panel. • Added QuickSave (F5) and QuickLoad (F9) key shortcuts. • Hovering mouse on buildings will now display information about their production status. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/118fdd3be2c3cafbc5fdbd214a3908c88a91d150.jpg • Clicking on a locked building in the construction panel now will open it, so it is possible to check info like construction mats required or blueprint used. • Default Contextual help background will now adjust to text width. • In the Building search panel, placing mouse over module count will show the modules built in it.

Balancing

• Disasters will be now more distanced in time but a bit more intense. • Residential buildings –to make it more intuitive- will produce now same morale than their colonist’s default Rank. So if a Junior consumes 1 morale, a hostel will produce 1 morale, and so on. • Residential buildings will now consume half of their morale produced in comfort. According to the wiki. • Residential buildings will now consume only comfort (in previous versions they were consuming also maintenance). • The maintenance and comfort generation by the colony has been decreased from 25 to 20 per level. • Alpha Hangar now consume 1 less maintenance points. • In the previous patch we introduced a boost to innovation for the first three days after the colony level up. The bonus (a multiplier) will now affect also your chance to generate Invention and Core-Invention docs. • The work points required to produce colored investigation docs have been doubled, on the other hand, The amount of colored Invention Docs required to produce a Core Doc of the same color has been reduced from 15 to 10. • The Core Invention docs needed to learn technologies has been greatly reduced. • There is a new production available in the programming labs to analyze docs with a 50% probability to produce Invention Docs. • There is a new production available in the Corps building to transformn an Invention Core Doc into any other colored Core Doc. • There is a new Cosmos-Technology (Invention) available to directly craft Core Invention Docs in your Corporation Buildings at a cost of 10 colored docs. • Cryptography technology is no longer a core technology and becomes a conventional one. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/59da278db5d63ea46cabe5d798bdc81a6d5dba33.jpg • Treatment Plant, Pumping Tower, Dome Grid and Zeppelin infra techs are no longer default techs and become core. • The cost to develop Influence of the same color than the Corp Building is now 2 Investigation Docs and not 1. The is now a 2% probability to produce a Core Invention doc in the process (there was no probability before). • Cosmos Corp now starts with 2 recyclers and 1 sanitarian instead of 3 recyclers. • The chance to find seeds sending your ships for “Flora” (any kind of seed) has been greatly reduced (from a 48% chance to find any to a 20%). • Affinity reputation benefit has been reduced from 1 point daily to 0.5 • We have made a bit more benevolent the Ships’ Risk Of Accident algorithm. But you may expect here a few new tweaks before release. • The Market sold prices have been halved. • The market level of supply will vary now depending on the difficulty level, where: Low difficulty level will bring more ítems available than in previous version. Mid and high will bring the same. At Ultra difficulty, only those ítems costing influence in the previous version will be available. • Healing pack contains now 100 Apple juice instead of 100 Orange Juice. • We have reduced the necesary gold to produce generator parts (amplifier q3 and accumultar q4) in favor of other metals like copper and tin. • The chance to produce food-dishes in superior quality has been greatly increased. • Ships’ radars production multiplier and risk of accident have been slightly reduced. • For each 10 units above the average hydration/nutrition/morale a -1 penalty will be applied. This way a colonist with 90 (-4) hydration will be harder to maintain at that level than another at 50.

Miscel

• The Resource Guide has been updated to the latest version. • When finishing all the tutorials, a message will invite you to do the campaign, as the next logical step for learning PA. • To speed it up, during the tutorials, Pressing ESC or Clicking on the tutorial panel will move to next step when you aren’t required to do any action. • During the campaign, the contextual info telling the player that clicking on the quest tracking will show detailed info and help to complete it is now displayed twice instead of just on start. Bugs • Colonists skills were not developing properly by experience. • Infinite production selector was wrongly getting disabled under some circumstances while opening new windows like item split. • SuperComputers may trigger an additional invention doc for buildings on same platform using a Reasearch Doc as input, however, they were triggering this also when the Research Doc was an output. • Energy Panel will now display in orange text the selected energy mode. *Note, by clicking on it you can set your own name for each energy mode. • Tutorials and Campaigns were –wrongly- doing auto-save. • The text shown from the tutorial 2 to 6, at the begining and the end of them, was the one from the tutorial 1. • Production lists were being wrongly ordered AZ.

What is next:

For the next weeks we will still add a few new features like a score panel, some tool to help managing the inventory and a new reward to the Diplomacy system. But mostly we will be listening to the feedback and focus on balancing and balancing, in order to prepare the final release. As always, thanks for your interest in Project Aura ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Greetings community! We are very happy to announce a new patch available for Project AURA and we invite you to read below for details:

Translations

In this patch we include the advances that the community has been doing for the languages: French. (75%) German. (50%) Russian. (20%)

Buildings

We have improved design for the buildings: • Tech labs • Infirmary • Water Desalination Plant They will show now better animations to easily know about their status.

Gameplay

• The sandbox mode includes now dynamic tips. You will be asked on each new game to have them active or inactive. If you disable the tips, you will be able to reenable them via options/game. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/0ae2bc915f80ed72135fec773fd75b785fbc0e17.jpg • Your colonists may demand new services, buildings, better food, etc… These optional quests will raise your colony's morale if succesfully completed. • All the Quests are now enabled. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/cff94d5b1e76ca02da18e9ae56abc809ac94881c.jpg

UI

• The new panel Govern/Residential Policies panel is now active and working. It will allow you to move in group your colonists to new residential buildings and setup their residential goals based in Rank. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/adb1001104da077e43f329b45610851a75467ac9.jpg • We have modified the search filters position for Building/Colonists and the Health panel, to make it more simple to understand. • Load/Save in-game panel now display more information about the saved games. • Pressing F2 while seeing the contextual info for production improvements (like food dishes) will place the required item for the improvement directly in the Resource Panel. • While there are active threats, the UI will add now a red-effect. • It is now accessible in-game, through a scheme, the info about relationships among Corporations. To check it: hover mouse on the information icon close to the leader portrait in the Govern/Relationship Panel. • Added QuickSave (F5) and QuickLoad (F9) key shortcuts. • Hovering mouse on buildings will now display information about their production status. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/118fdd3be2c3cafbc5fdbd214a3908c88a91d150.jpg • Clicking on a locked building in the construction panel now will open it, so it is possible to check info like construction mats required or blueprint used. • Default Contextual help background will now adjust to text width. • In the Building search panel, placing mouse over module count will show the modules built in it.

Balancing

• Disasters will be now more distanced in time but a bit more intense. • Residential buildings –to make it more intuitive- will produce now same morale than their colonist’s default Rank. So if a Junior consumes 1 morale, a hostel will produce 1 morale, and so on. • Residential buildings will now consume half of their morale produced in comfort. According to the wiki. • Residential buildings will now consume only comfort (in previous versions they were consuming also maintenance). • The maintenance and comfort generation by the colony has been decreased from 25 to 20 per level. • Alpha Hangar now consume 1 less maintenance points. • In the previous patch we introduced a boost to innovation for the first three days after the colony level up. The bonus (a multiplier) will now affect also your chance to generate Invention and Core-Invention docs. • The work points required to produce colored investigation docs have been doubled, on the other hand, The amount of colored Invention Docs required to produce a Core Doc of the same color has been reduced from 15 to 10. • The Core Invention docs needed to learn technologies has been greatly reduced. • There is a new production available in the programming labs to analyze docs with a 50% probability to produce Invention Docs. • There is a new production available in the Corps building to transformn an Invention Core Doc into any other colored Core Doc. • There is a new Cosmos-Technology (Invention) available to directly craft Core Invention Docs in your Corporation Buildings at a cost of 10 colored docs. • Cryptography technology is no longer a core technology and becomes a conventional one. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/59da278db5d63ea46cabe5d798bdc81a6d5dba33.jpg • Treatment Plant, Pumping Tower, Dome Grid and Zeppelin infra techs are no longer default techs and become core. • The cost to develop Influence of the same color than the Corp Building is now 2 Investigation Docs and not 1. The is now a 2% probability to produce a Core Invention doc in the process (there was no probability before). • Cosmos Corp now starts with 2 recyclers and 1 sanitarian instead of 3 recyclers. • The chance to find seeds sending your ships for “Flora” (any kind of seed) has been greatly reduced (from a 48% chance to find any to a 20%). • Affinity reputation benefit has been reduced from 1 point daily to 0.5 • We have made a bit more benevolent the Ships’ Risk Of Accident algorithm. But you may expect here a few new tweaks before release. • The Market sold prices have been halved. • The market level of supply will vary now depending on the difficulty level, where: Low difficulty level will bring more ítems available than in previous version. Mid and high will bring the same. At Ultra difficulty, only those ítems costing influence in the previous version will be available. • Healing pack contains now 100 Apple juice instead of 100 Orange Juice. • We have reduced the necesary gold to produce generator parts (amplifier q3 and accumultar q4) in favor of other metals like copper and tin. • The chance to produce food-dishes in superior quality has been greatly increased. • Ships’ radars production multiplier and risk of accident have been slightly reduced. • For each 10 units above the average hydration/nutrition/morale a -1 penalty will be applied. This way a colonist with 90 (-4) hydration will be harder to maintain at that level than another at 50.

Miscel

• The Resource Guide has been updated to the latest version. • When finishing all the tutorials, a message will invite you to do the campaign, as the next logical step for learning PA. • To speed it up, during the tutorials, Pressing ESC or Clicking on the tutorial panel will move to next step when you aren’t required to do any action. • During the campaign, the contextual info telling the player that clicking on the quest tracking will show detailed info and help to complete it is now displayed twice instead of just on start. Bugs • Colonists skills were not developing properly by experience. • Infinite production selector was wrongly getting disabled under some circumstances while opening new windows like item split. • SuperComputers may trigger an additional invention doc for buildings on same platform using a Reasearch Doc as input, however, they were triggering this also when the Research Doc was an output. • Energy Panel will now display in orange text the selected energy mode. *Note, by clicking on it you can set your own name for each energy mode. • Tutorials and Campaigns were –wrongly- doing auto-save. • The text shown from the tutorial 2 to 6, at the begining and the end of them, was the one from the tutorial 1. • Production lists were being wrongly ordered AZ.

What is next:

For the next weeks we will still add a few new features like a score panel, some tool to help managing the inventory and a new reward to the Diplomacy system. But mostly we will be listening to the feedback and focus on balancing and balancing, in order to prepare the final release. As always, thanks for your interest in Project Aura ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where its main feature is a first Campaign available which has been done with new players in mind. But there is much more! And without further delay we invite you to continue reading about the details for the 2.96.9 patch: http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/413ff7005050eee8a7fe6cd54dbe45da36e78759.jpg

Technologies

• New Eco core-technology available: "Empathy", with it, recruits will inherit your colony's average stats Hydration/Nutrition/Morale/Health when joining your colony. • There is a new technology available: "Market", which will allow you to open Corporation Markets. Previously markets were unlocked by "Diplomacy" tech. • New Inventory technology available: "Stocks", it will allow you to automatice productions by setting min and max stocks at your inventory and even auto-sell depending on market prices. *This is still a very beta feature. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/b394e3eb02047d0993ae60827b4027ea28b622b7.jpg

Rebalance

• The amount of water and seaweed obtained on game start have been halved. • We have reworked the ship accident algorithm to reduce its randomness. • Ship factories were producing only yellow innovation, now will produce magenta as well. • Specialized recycling productions will be now unlocked together with the corresponding tracking technology. E.g.: You will be able to recycle garbage with high content in steel once you get the tracking tech which allows you to mine with your ships that same kind of garbage. •Electronic Equipments are no longer required to build the Hub Stations for the inner platforms. *Hub Stations are required to be able to build on those platforms. • Crafting wiring requires copper scrap instead of copper ingots. • Beta and Gamma plastic processing required work points have been increased. • Electric Transformer require now less Electronic Equipments to be crafted but now they require also: Prefab Gamma. • Disassembling Gadget has been rebalanced to produce more Copper but the chance to find other metals like Tin, Platinum, etc. has been lowered. • "Medic" profile has been renamed to "Sanitarian". http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/8358d29abeb9d9f32f23e14c38e44869643c9206.jpg • Recover Organic Waste blueprint, the one used in residential buildings, has changed from Green to Blue and its ideal profile has changed from Recycler to Sanitarian. • Residential Buildings: Values have been modified for residential buildings: Hostel, Block, Apartment, Estate. Comfort consumption: 1, 1, 1, 1 Morale production: +1, +2, +3, +4 Capacity: 15, 12, 10, 8. • Stats average daily effect has been removed for hydration/nutrition/morale. UI • Building Search panel now works properly. • There is an extra option available to work with the market: Drag an item from the available items list to the purchase list to add it (or vice-versa). •Auto Fill option in the Org charts, will now fill the full chart instead of only the selected nodes. • In order to clarify queues behavior: Starting a production queue will set your initial production to what your queue points to, instead of what you would have selected in the production panel. Misc • Corporation Buildings design have been improved. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/9c198254b7fd6d40a7c2ae72d6da87641eb2f219.jpg • It is now possible for a building to start producing just after been built. *Previously it required to wait a cycle until being able to start producing. • Reduced game-loading launch time. • Optimized interface global responsiveness and performance. • Optimized platform rendering in the outside rings, this will earn a few FPS for big colonies. • Electro Refinery template size has changed. • Tutorial voices are all now back again. Bugs • Numbers in the Energy panel were sometimes incorrectly formatted. • Assembling and Disassembling blueprint audios were not playing. Translations • We are opening in the coming days a specific forum for translations with all instructions and help for the players willing to translate the game to their own languages. 2.96.9 Became finally a big patch with a lot of changes and tweaks affecting playability, and the good news are that we are getting close to the 1.0 release. For the next patch expect in-game quests, events, victory conditions and a lot of new Steam Achievements and numerous surprises we won't unveil for now. As always, we keep listening for feedback and thank you for your interest in Project Aura ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today where its main feature is a first Campaign available which has been done with new players in mind. But there is much more! And without further delay we invite you to continue reading about the details for the 2.96.9 patch: http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/413ff7005050eee8a7fe6cd54dbe45da36e78759.jpg

Technologies

• New Eco core-technology available: "Empathy", with it, recruits will inherit your colony's average stats Hydration/Nutrition/Morale/Health when joining your colony. • There is a new technology available: "Market", which will allow you to open Corporation Markets. Previously markets were unlocked by "Diplomacy" tech. • New Inventory technology available: "Stocks", it will allow you to automatice productions by setting min and max stocks at your inventory and even auto-sell depending on market prices. *This is still a very beta feature. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/b394e3eb02047d0993ae60827b4027ea28b622b7.jpg

Rebalance

• The amount of water and seaweed obtained on game start have been halved. • We have reworked the ship accident algorithm to reduce its randomness. • Ship factories were producing only yellow innovation, now will produce magenta as well. • Specialized recycling productions will be now unlocked together with the corresponding tracking technology. E.g.: You will be able to recycle garbage with high content in steel once you get the tracking tech which allows you to mine with your ships that same kind of garbage. •Electronic Equipments are no longer required to build the Hub Stations for the inner platforms. *Hub Stations are required to be able to build on those platforms. • Crafting wiring requires copper scrap instead of copper ingots. • Beta and Gamma plastic processing required work points have been increased. • Electric Transformer require now less Electronic Equipments to be crafted but now they require also: Prefab Gamma. • Disassembling Gadget has been rebalanced to produce more Copper but the chance to find other metals like Tin, Platinum, etc. has been lowered. • "Medic" profile has been renamed to "Sanitarian". http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/8358d29abeb9d9f32f23e14c38e44869643c9206.jpg • Recover Organic Waste blueprint, the one used in residential buildings, has changed from Green to Blue and its ideal profile has changed from Recycler to Sanitarian. • Residential Buildings: Values have been modified for residential buildings: Hostel, Block, Apartment, Estate. Comfort consumption: 1, 1, 1, 1 Morale production: +1, +2, +3, +4 Capacity: 15, 12, 10, 8. • Stats average daily effect has been removed for hydration/nutrition/morale. UI • Building Search panel now works properly. • There is an extra option available to work with the market: Drag an item from the available items list to the purchase list to add it (or vice-versa). •Auto Fill option in the Org charts, will now fill the full chart instead of only the selected nodes. • In order to clarify queues behavior: Starting a production queue will set your initial production to what your queue points to, instead of what you would have selected in the production panel. Misc • Corporation Buildings design have been improved. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/9c198254b7fd6d40a7c2ae72d6da87641eb2f219.jpg • It is now possible for a building to start producing just after been built. *Previously it required to wait a cycle until being able to start producing. • Reduced game-loading launch time. • Optimized interface global responsiveness and performance. • Optimized platform rendering in the outside rings, this will earn a few FPS for big colonies. • Electro Refinery template size has changed. • Tutorial voices are all now back again. Bugs • Numbers in the Energy panel were sometimes incorrectly formatted. • Assembling and Disassembling blueprint audios were not playing. Translations • We are opening in the coming days a specific forum for translations with all instructions and help for the players willing to translate the game to their own languages. 2.96.9 Became finally a big patch with a lot of changes and tweaks affecting playability, and the good news are that we are getting close to the 1.0 release. For the next patch expect in-game quests, events, victory conditions and a lot of new Steam Achievements and numerous surprises we won't unveil for now. As always, we keep listening for feedback and thank you for your interest in Project Aura ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today and it is all about game rebalance. This is only our first step in the process, so we keep waiting for your feedback and suggestions after trying it. So, without further delay, next are the details for the 2.96.2 patch: Please note you need to join the game's test branch to play this patch. You can find here instructions about how to access it.

Changes to market

We have made major changes to market in order to make it more interesting and to start to approach the survival factor: • The number of available items have been greatly reduced. • Your colony's starting money has been reduced, The final amount will depend on your difficulty level chosen. • Your colony's relationship with Corporations will determine the available items for sale at their respective markets. Very bad Relation <10: Will close its market for you. Bad Relation <40: You can't trade influence with them. Neutral Relation <75: Will sell you only the basic materials. Good Relation >75: Will sell you Corp's security boxes. Very good Relation >90: Will sell you Corp's core-security boxes. *The corporation you have affinity with, will sell you an additional object in the market. Check the wiki for more info: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Market#Available_Items

Changes to Diplomacy

Corporation buildings built in your colony will have a negative effect on your relations with their rival Corporation only if you have the rival's diplomacy tech developed E.g.: An Eco Corp building will sub 1 reputation point with the Neo Industrial Corp (Eco's rival) only if you have Neo Industrial's diplomacy tech developed. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/fd679330f096a87ec0ff244b54032cfbeb0e93dd.jpg Monuments become highest tier buildings and now they have only a positive effect on reputation. (+0.1 Reputation daily) Effect which you can increase by improving your relationship technology.

Colonists' compatible profiles

Any work position has an ideal profile to be developed with. This way, Farmer profile will be ideal to work in the Greenhouse; The Heavy Operators will be ideal for the Electro Refinery, etc. A worker in an ideal position earns a morale bonus daily but, on the other hand, if the place is inappropriate he will receive a morale penalty. However, there is also the compatible profile, where the colonist will receive neither bonus nor malus. The profile compatibility table has been updated to: Versatile: Compatible with any profile. Artisan: Operator. Recycler: Technician. Programmer: Researcher. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/2b09e6448653e3c0d23bc5ab3fafe815ef0118a0.jpg This way next profiles have no other compatible one but versatile: Director. Farmer. Medic. Pilot. Heavy Operator. * Note versatile profile can go in any position being always compatible. * For this patch we have updated again the Resource Scheme Guide, which now includes also information about the ideal profile for each work position.

Changes to construction materials

• We have reorganized buildings' tiers, with the goal to make the game play more fluent. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/0c87b33a26796ccd720ee2b339fa94b3a3cb3de7.jpg • The plastics quality required by buildings in Tier 1 has been reduced from plastic prefab modules (craftable in the Prefab Factory) to polymers (craftable in the Plastic Factory). • All the construction materials for buildings have increased their cost in ingots. *We will update wiki ASAP with detailed information about building tiers.

More Balancing

• Innovation points generation has been increased on first colony levels. • The experience required for junior colonists to level up has been increased. • Colonists recruiting price (SC) has been reduced, but its price will increase by a 50% for each colony level. Junior: 500 SC Senior: 2,500 SC Master: 5,000 SC Super Engineer: 10,000 SC *In the recruiting panel you can choose a profile to recruit or just go for the first available. Doing so, will bring to your colony a random profile reducing the default cost in SC by 1/2 and, in the case the recruit would cost influence, would turn it to white color. • Ideal profile for Plastics Factory is now: Operator instead of Heavy Operator.

Beta testing

• Attending to community feedback we have: Reduced by another half the energy required by shields. Reduced the duration of climate threats Restored Diplomacy technologies to previous values.

Other Changes

• Electrum is a new item alloyed in the Assembly Tunnel building and used to build the highest tier buildings which include a bit of "luxury" like the Estate residential and Corporate Monuments. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/d2c9c4e857cf95b8ed9ff286b44959dcf3a823fc.jpg • To use an item in your inventory now you just need to click on it. Previously it required the combination: Ctrl + Right-Click. • New shortcut to add all the available productions in a blueprint to its queue: Hold Shift key and click on "Add To Queue button". If you wish the opposite, Hold shift and click on the Remove production from queue button. • Stockpile and other packings available have been updated. Check the wiki for more info: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Packing • The initial value for colony's maintenance and comfort points is now 50 for every difficulty level. • Energy/Maintenance/Comfort estimation values for the next cycle are shown now in red when negative. • Available productions listed in Blueprint and Resource panels are now ordered by unlock/lock status and then alphabetically. • The Eco technology: Dome Setup is now a default tech instead of core-tech, so you can obtain it with simple invention docs instead of Core ones. *Check the wiki to know more about how your dome grid setup can help you to resist climatic disasters: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Shields#Dome_Grid_Setup

Bugs

• Shields were always fully protecting your dome, even when not receiving enough energy. From now on, the shield power assigned will be reduced in the same proportion than your dome is lacking energy. E.g.: If your energy is only covering your dome a 20% and you had assigned to a shield: 5 power points, your shield will be really covering only 1 point (a 20%). *Your dome protection is indicated in the Energy panel and should be always 100% :). • There was a bug with sabotages, where they were wrongly triggering under some weird circumstances. • Sea worm processing blueprints were displaying an error message on use. • Accidented Alpha Ships, when rescued by your drones, were returned to inventory in a wrong position. • Assembly Tunnel building was asking for Artisan profile instead of Heavy Operator. • Resolved issue where being outside the colony, the button to return to colony wasn't appearing in all cases. • Blueprint panel had a performance issue when being displayed with a queue set. • Resolved issue where buildings appeared misplaced in construction menu. (need to test further).

...What is next?

After this patch, we will keep testing the changes applied and listening to community. Meanwhile, we are going to update tutorials and focus in the ingame-assistants, to make it easy the approach to new players and help understand all the new features to the current ones. And we have already started quests! We are happy to see that, day by day, things are getting close to the release version! And, as always, we thank the community for the support on Project Aura development, its feedback and suggestions ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Greetings Community! We are bringing to you a new patch today and it is all about game rebalance. This is only our first step in the process, so we keep waiting for your feedback and suggestions after trying it. So, without further delay, next are the details for the 2.96.2 patch: Please note you need to join the game's test branch to play this patch. You can find here instructions about how to access it.

Changes to market

We have made major changes to market in order to make it more interesting and to start to approach the survival factor: • The number of available items have been greatly reduced. • Your colony's starting money has been reduced, The final amount will depend on your difficulty level chosen. • Your colony's relationship with Corporations will determine the available items for sale at their respective markets. Very bad Relation <10: Will close its market for you. Bad Relation <40: You can't trade influence with them. Neutral Relation <75: Will sell you only the basic materials. Good Relation >75: Will sell you Corp's security boxes. Very good Relation >90: Will sell you Corp's core-security boxes. *The corporation you have affinity with, will sell you an additional object in the market. Check the wiki for more info: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Market#Available_Items

Changes to Diplomacy

Corporation buildings built in your colony will have a negative effect on your relations with their rival Corporation only if you have the rival's diplomacy tech developed E.g.: An Eco Corp building will sub 1 reputation point with the Neo Industrial Corp (Eco's rival) only if you have Neo Industrial's diplomacy tech developed. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/fd679330f096a87ec0ff244b54032cfbeb0e93dd.jpg Monuments become highest tier buildings and now they have only a positive effect on reputation. (+0.1 Reputation daily) Effect which you can increase by improving your relationship technology.

Colonists' compatible profiles

Any work position has an ideal profile to be developed with. This way, Farmer profile will be ideal to work in the Greenhouse; The Heavy Operators will be ideal for the Electro Refinery, etc. A worker in an ideal position earns a morale bonus daily but, on the other hand, if the place is inappropriate he will receive a morale penalty. However, there is also the compatible profile, where the colonist will receive neither bonus nor malus. The profile compatibility table has been updated to: Versatile: Compatible with any profile. Artisan: Operator. Recycler: Technician. Programmer: Researcher. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/2b09e6448653e3c0d23bc5ab3fafe815ef0118a0.jpg This way next profiles have no other compatible one but versatile: Director. Farmer. Medic. Pilot. Heavy Operator. * Note versatile profile can go in any position being always compatible. * For this patch we have updated again the Resource Scheme Guide, which now includes also information about the ideal profile for each work position.

Changes to construction materials

• We have reorganized buildings' tiers, with the goal to make the game play more fluent. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/0c87b33a26796ccd720ee2b339fa94b3a3cb3de7.jpg • The plastics quality required by buildings in Tier 1 has been reduced from plastic prefab modules (craftable in the Prefab Factory) to polymers (craftable in the Plastic Factory). • All the construction materials for buildings have increased their cost in ingots. *We will update wiki ASAP with detailed information about building tiers.

More Balancing

• Innovation points generation has been increased on first colony levels. • The experience required for junior colonists to level up has been increased. • Colonists recruiting price (SC) has been reduced, but its price will increase by a 50% for each colony level. Junior: 500 SC Senior: 2,500 SC Master: 5,000 SC Super Engineer: 10,000 SC *In the recruiting panel you can choose a profile to recruit or just go for the first available. Doing so, will bring to your colony a random profile reducing the default cost in SC by 1/2 and, in the case the recruit would cost influence, would turn it to white color. • Ideal profile for Plastics Factory is now: Operator instead of Heavy Operator.

Beta testing

• Attending to community feedback we have: Reduced by another half the energy required by shields. Reduced the duration of climate threats Restored Diplomacy technologies to previous values.

Other Changes

• Electrum is a new item alloyed in the Assembly Tunnel building and used to build the highest tier buildings which include a bit of "luxury" like the Estate residential and Corporate Monuments. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/d2c9c4e857cf95b8ed9ff286b44959dcf3a823fc.jpg • To use an item in your inventory now you just need to click on it. Previously it required the combination: Ctrl + Right-Click. • New shortcut to add all the available productions in a blueprint to its queue: Hold Shift key and click on "Add To Queue button". If you wish the opposite, Hold shift and click on the Remove production from queue button. • Stockpile and other packings available have been updated. Check the wiki for more info: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Packing • The initial value for colony's maintenance and comfort points is now 50 for every difficulty level. • Energy/Maintenance/Comfort estimation values for the next cycle are shown now in red when negative. • Available productions listed in Blueprint and Resource panels are now ordered by unlock/lock status and then alphabetically. • The Eco technology: Dome Setup is now a default tech instead of core-tech, so you can obtain it with simple invention docs instead of Core ones. *Check the wiki to know more about how your dome grid setup can help you to resist climatic disasters: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Shields#Dome_Grid_Setup

Bugs

• Shields were always fully protecting your dome, even when not receiving enough energy. From now on, the shield power assigned will be reduced in the same proportion than your dome is lacking energy. E.g.: If your energy is only covering your dome a 20% and you had assigned to a shield: 5 power points, your shield will be really covering only 1 point (a 20%). *Your dome protection is indicated in the Energy panel and should be always 100% :). • There was a bug with sabotages, where they were wrongly triggering under some weird circumstances. • Sea worm processing blueprints were displaying an error message on use. • Accidented Alpha Ships, when rescued by your drones, were returned to inventory in a wrong position. • Assembly Tunnel building was asking for Artisan profile instead of Heavy Operator. • Resolved issue where being outside the colony, the button to return to colony wasn't appearing in all cases. • Blueprint panel had a performance issue when being displayed with a queue set. • Resolved issue where buildings appeared misplaced in construction menu. (need to test further).

...What is next?

After this patch, we will keep testing the changes applied and listening to community. Meanwhile, we are going to update tutorials and focus in the ingame-assistants, to make it easy the approach to new players and help understand all the new features to the current ones. And we have already started quests! We are happy to see that, day by day, things are getting close to the release version! And, as always, we thank the community for the support on Project Aura development, its feedback and suggestions ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Greetings community! We have just released 2.96.1 version. Next, you can find in detail all the new features and improvements the last patch brings: Please note you need to join the game's test branch to play this patch. You can find here instructions about how to access it.

Threat System

• The Threat System has been fully implemented and it brings new challenges and even situations where you may lose the control of your colony, but don't worry, you will be notified by your AI-Assistant with detailed information and tips on how to overcome each challenge. • We have grouped the threats into three categories which you will be able to enable or disable when starting a new game. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/7239b30f3307e155e935adcea6d6e72d230204d5.jpg The Victory Conditions to win the game are scheduled for next patch which will include also new Steam achievements.

Ship System

•The ship system has been reworked with special mention to the new: risk of accident, which you may take in count from now on for each one of your missions to the outside. The value of this probability -which will take in count things like the components setup attached to your ships- will depend on several factors:

Your chosen difficulty level: The harder the difficulty level, the higher the risk of accident. *If you choose the easiest difficulty level, the risk of accident will disappear.

Ship type: Being Alpha the fastest ship bringing resources to base but, on the other hand, the most vulnerable.

Ship Components attached: Shields will make your ships more resistant, etc.

The rank of the pilot: It will be less frequent to see a higher rank pilot to fail.

Your Navigation Technology: The more developed you have this technology from the Conservatives, the lower will be your risk of accident but, be ready to count with a good deal of Core Documents... More info: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Ships

Hangars Redesign

• All the hangar buildings have been redesigned and now count with new animations. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/ba6a98ed78e3f1b847fa0a42bc0ee462a2b8ddee.jpg

Colony levels

Colony capacity and the population required to level up have been reduced:

• A level 1 colony has a capacity of 30 colonists and you can level after reaching 1/3 pop of its capacity (10).
• A level 2 colony has a capacity of 60 colonists requiring 20 pop to level up.
• And so on...

*Remember that leveling up your colony will grant you benefits but, at the same time, your colonists demands (daily morale consumption) will increase.

Cooking System

• We have added two new modules for the kitchen, this way the cooking system becomes fully implemented. These modules are bringing two new food bases and plenty of recipes to produce the best quality food for your colony: Bakery: based in Sweet Base. Distillery: based in Fermentable. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/7611cd19c5e1eaeeb38b40c6809ae0691d8cc24f.jpg More info: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Crafting_Cooking

Colonists stats

• In previous versions, colonists were dying if any of their stats: hydration, nutrition, morale or health went to zero. Now it will be the case only for health and the rest of stats may trigger social events. • Health panel has been adapted to the new changes.

Reputation System

• It has been partially implemented where contracts and quests will arrive within next update: 2.97. • Influence is now traded through diplomacy, so wildcard influence item will no longer be available at the market. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/e8c9f2018af04941e4552bb329bed0c3abf82c52.jpg *Be careful to degrade too much your relations with a Corp, because they may interact with your colonists or use their diplomacy against you. More details: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Diplomacy

Dome

• Manufacture additives in the Chemical Plant to grant additional properties to your dome. • Setup your dome properties to make it resistant to some climate disasters, but, on the other hand, vulnerable to others. • Remember to activate your shields to protect your colony! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/1a0bbd2bdbb255bac4138290ea404e7b0418307b.jpg More details: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Shields

Maintenance & Comfort

The changes here had a great impact on the game mechanics. • Maintenance and Comfort points become global to your colony, instead of specific to your buildings. • We have added Workshops. A building category and, from now on, the new habitat for your technicians, which will help you managing your colony's Maintenance and Comfort points. • New Conservatives Infra: Zeppelin The zeppelin will daily transform 100 Comfort Items into 25 colony's Comfort Points. As all the infrastructure buildings, it will work autonomous, so you only need to worry about keeping a constant supply of Comfort Items to sustain your zeppelins production. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/9e7d4fca9cbfe07a6b55048f2574c8af3ccdf85d.jpg More details: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Maintenance%26Comfort

Interface

• We have restructured the main interface to show you all your colony's relevant info in a glance. • New panels to search colonists and buildings are now more intuitive. • Contextual help menus have a bigger background, allowing for more detailed info and sharper text characters. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/7081bca6ffac2843d97ccb9787bf1a061688bb07.jpg

Platforms Specialization

• When expanding your colony, you can decide the kind of platform specialization you are going for: maintenance, comfort or optimized for extra space for buildings.

Recruitment

• From now on you will be able to recruit colonists of any rank, as long as you have enough reputation with the Vital Reserve and influence of the appropriate color for the colonist's profile you want to recruit. E.g.: To recruit a farmer (Eco) you will need green influence, blue for a scientist (Cosmos), etc. • The required influence color to awake and promote director colonists has been changed from violet to white. *You may guess that recruiting super engineers will have very high diplomatic requirements. Our plans for later patches are to promote to Super Engineer through a challenging system based in opportunity. But we will tell you more about it in due case, on Steam forums.

Other Features

• Entertainment buildings no longer require a blueprint to work, and they will produce morale daily, depending the amount on your technology level. • The Tech Tree has suffered numerous changes to be adapted to the new version. • We have added a new item: Bronze Alloy, which is now the main required material for the construction of monuments and entertainment buildings. *You will need copper and tin ingots to produce this alloy in the Assembly Tunnel. • The Food Menu has been simplified and the option to refill larder is now more intuitive. 1. Indicate the number of days you want to keep your larder filled. 2. Click on Refill and the required food will be sent from your inventory to the larder, according to your colony's menu setup. *If you enable the AutoFill option, the larder will keep daily the food levels you specified. • Those Blueprints -like Vestige Extraction- where any of the produced items is unknown (indicated by a question mark icon), will display now info about your chance to find something. • Recycling (destroying) a building, will return its construction materials intact, as long as the building has never produced before. Otherwise you will get its construction materials equivalent in raw materials. ...This has been a really big update! And we are getting closer to the release version each day, however, there is still much work to do. During the next weeks, we will keep fine-tuning the new version, before jumping to the next patch which will improve the diplomacy system bringing quests and new challenges for your colony, updated tutorials, in-game help, assistants and much more. It all, inside a more immersive environment with numerous surprises we won't unveil for now. As always, thanks for the interest in Project Aura ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Greetings community! We have just released 2.96.1 version. Next, you can find in detail all the new features and improvements the last patch brings: Please note you need to join the game's test branch to play this patch. You can find here instructions about how to access it.

Threat System

• The Threat System has been fully implemented and it brings new challenges and even situations where you may lose the control of your colony, but don't worry, you will be notified by your AI-Assistant with detailed information and tips on how to overcome each challenge. • We have grouped the threats into three categories which you will be able to enable or disable when starting a new game. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/7239b30f3307e155e935adcea6d6e72d230204d5.jpg The Victory Conditions to win the game are scheduled for next patch which will include also new Steam achievements.

Ship System

•The ship system has been reworked with special mention to the new: risk of accident, which you may take in count from now on for each one of your missions to the outside. The value of this probability -which will take in count things like the components setup attached to your ships- will depend on several factors:

Your chosen difficulty level: The harder the difficulty level, the higher the risk of accident. *If you choose the easiest difficulty level, the risk of accident will disappear.

Ship type: Being Alpha the fastest ship bringing resources to base but, on the other hand, the most vulnerable.

Ship Components attached: Shields will make your ships more resistant, etc.

The rank of the pilot: It will be less frequent to see a higher rank pilot to fail.

Your Navigation Technology: The more developed you have this technology from the Conservatives, the lower will be your risk of accident but, be ready to count with a good deal of Core Documents... More info: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Ships

Hangars Redesign

• All the hangar buildings have been redesigned and now count with new animations. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/ba6a98ed78e3f1b847fa0a42bc0ee462a2b8ddee.jpg

Colony levels

Colony capacity and the population required to level up have been reduced:

• A level 1 colony has a capacity of 30 colonists and you can level after reaching 1/3 pop of its capacity (10).
• A level 2 colony has a capacity of 60 colonists requiring 20 pop to level up.
• And so on...

*Remember that leveling up your colony will grant you benefits but, at the same time, your colonists demands (daily morale consumption) will increase.

Cooking System

• We have added two new modules for the kitchen, this way the cooking system becomes fully implemented. These modules are bringing two new food bases and plenty of recipes to produce the best quality food for your colony: Bakery: based in Sweet Base. Distillery: based in Fermentable. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/7611cd19c5e1eaeeb38b40c6809ae0691d8cc24f.jpg More info: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Crafting_Cooking

Colonists stats

• In previous versions, colonists were dying if any of their stats: hydration, nutrition, morale or health went to zero. Now it will be the case only for health and the rest of stats may trigger social events. • Health panel has been adapted to the new changes.

Reputation System

• It has been partially implemented where contracts and quests will arrive within next update: 2.97. • Influence is now traded through diplomacy, so wildcard influence item will no longer be available at the market. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/e8c9f2018af04941e4552bb329bed0c3abf82c52.jpg *Be careful to degrade too much your relations with a Corp, because they may interact with your colonists or use their diplomacy against you. More details: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Diplomacy

Dome

• Manufacture additives in the Chemical Plant to grant additional properties to your dome. • Setup your dome properties to make it resistant to some climate disasters, but, on the other hand, vulnerable to others. • Remember to activate your shields to protect your colony! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/1a0bbd2bdbb255bac4138290ea404e7b0418307b.jpg More details: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Shields

Maintenance & Comfort

The changes here had a great impact on the game mechanics. • Maintenance and Comfort points become global to your colony, instead of specific to your buildings. • We have added Workshops. A building category and, from now on, the new habitat for your technicians, which will help you managing your colony's Maintenance and Comfort points. • New Conservatives Infra: Zeppelin The zeppelin will daily transform 100 Comfort Items into 25 colony's Comfort Points. As all the infrastructure buildings, it will work autonomous, so you only need to worry about keeping a constant supply of Comfort Items to sustain your zeppelins production. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/9e7d4fca9cbfe07a6b55048f2574c8af3ccdf85d.jpg More details: http://en-wiki.projectaura.com/Colony_Maintenance%26Comfort

Interface

• We have restructured the main interface to show you all your colony's relevant info in a glance. • New panels to search colonists and buildings are now more intuitive. • Contextual help menus have a bigger background, allowing for more detailed info and sharper text characters. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/7081bca6ffac2843d97ccb9787bf1a061688bb07.jpg

Platforms Specialization

• When expanding your colony, you can decide the kind of platform specialization you are going for: maintenance, comfort or optimized for extra space for buildings.

Recruitment

• From now on you will be able to recruit colonists of any rank, as long as you have enough reputation with the Vital Reserve and influence of the appropriate color for the colonist's profile you want to recruit. E.g.: To recruit a farmer (Eco) you will need green influence, blue for a scientist (Cosmos), etc. • The required influence color to awake and promote director colonists has been changed from violet to white. *You may guess that recruiting super engineers will have very high diplomatic requirements. Our plans for later patches are to promote to Super Engineer through a challenging system based in opportunity. But we will tell you more about it in due case, on Steam forums.

Other Features

• Entertainment buildings no longer require a blueprint to work, and they will produce morale daily, depending the amount on your technology level. • The Tech Tree has suffered numerous changes to be adapted to the new version. • We have added a new item: Bronze Alloy, which is now the main required material for the construction of monuments and entertainment buildings. *You will need copper and tin ingots to produce this alloy in the Assembly Tunnel. • The Food Menu has been simplified and the option to refill larder is now more intuitive. 1. Indicate the number of days you want to keep your larder filled. 2. Click on Refill and the required food will be sent from your inventory to the larder, according to your colony's menu setup. *If you enable the AutoFill option, the larder will keep daily the food levels you specified. • Those Blueprints -like Vestige Extraction- where any of the produced items is unknown (indicated by a question mark icon), will display now info about your chance to find something. • Recycling (destroying) a building, will return its construction materials intact, as long as the building has never produced before. Otherwise you will get its construction materials equivalent in raw materials. ...This has been a really big update! And we are getting closer to the release version each day, however, there is still much work to do. During the next weeks, we will keep fine-tuning the new version, before jumping to the next patch which will improve the diplomacy system bringing quests and new challenges for your colony, updated tutorials, in-game help, assistants and much more. It all, inside a more immersive environment with numerous surprises we won't unveil for now. As always, thanks for the interest in Project Aura ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Hello community! We are very happy to announce a new patch has been released for Project AURA and we invite you to read below for details:

Steam Cards

• We have enabled the steam cards feature. It includes a set of badges, 12 cards, 5 emoticons and backgrounds to obtain. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/89bc62725452805c4a5437ac064c660d012750f2.jpg

Colonists Recruitment

• We have reworked the way you interact with the Vital Reserve to obtain new colonists. With these changes we want to open new game strategies and make the colonist resource really valuable and something to care about :). http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/952438d3e67eb0386e27a4568c45085b8ba12e67.jpg You can check the wiki to obtain info about the new system. *This new feature, which is already linked to the incoming reputation system, will lead to a reset to "neutral" in the affinity you chose in previous games.

New items

• Acorn (fruit) and Sugarcane (cereal) are available, together with all their associated productions: cultivation, seed processing, etc. They may be specially interesting for dishes and drinks elaboration. • In the previous patch we added Cooking technology, it enables the preparation of dishes based in Seasoning, but this technology will unlock also a production in your labs: Research Seasoning, which will let you improve your recipes and learn new ones. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/a8c05907f1d836f7c56535ce37b10b2a13f64025.jpg

Resource Panel extended help

• Unlock/Upgrade your productions: Now it is possible to know how to unlock or upgrade your productions. When needed, a lock (or your tech level indicator) will be displayed, simply hover mouse on it to obtain the information. • Production amounts displayed:

For those productions where you may or may not success, the % chance will be displayed.

For those where the amount produced can vary, you will see Av. preceding the number, indicating the amount produced is the average.

For the standard-fixed productions, the produced amount is displayed as usual. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/54378d98a18d937705d932f7bc40768fd62384d8.jpg

Other Features

Immersion: We have added an audio effect when you go outside dome. A flashing button to return to colony will be displayed as well. Food variety bonus: Managing to provide your colony with higher food tiers will bring a special bonus, as described in the wiki. In the Food Panel, items bringing this bonus will appear remarked. Translations: We have temporarily reset all the translations, but tutorials, to English until we get them properly updated again. Hostel residential module has changed, increased its floor size. If you created a custom building template containing a hostel you may review it.

Bugs solved

• Solved an issue limiting by mistake the max number of Corp buildings to build. • Solved an issue with UI misplacing text. • Security boxes were not dropping properly. Your ships may find them in any of their assigned missions in the outside. • Resource Panel was not working properly when showing blueprints with upgradeable productions. • Other minor bugs resolved.

What is next:

The immediate next step is about playability! We are very happy to start focusing 100% in this area. For next patch the reputation system will be ready and, among other things, will change the way colonists are obtained for your colony. *Check our roadmap for more info. In parallel, we keep working in our "macro-patch", which will include a lot of new features like the quest system, challenges for your colony, new buildings, in-game help and assistants, etc. It all, inside a more immersive environment where your social policies, Corps and other external factors start to be relevant, together with numerous surprises we won't unveil for now. As always, thanks for the interest in Project Aura ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame

Hello community! We are very happy to announce a new patch has been released for Project AURA and we invite you to read below for details:

Steam Cards

• We have enabled the steam cards feature. It includes a set of badges, 12 cards, 5 emoticons and backgrounds to obtain. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/89bc62725452805c4a5437ac064c660d012750f2.jpg

Colonists Recruitment

• We have reworked the way you interact with the Vital Reserve to obtain new colonists. With these changes we want to open new game strategies and make the colonist resource really valuable and something to care about :). http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/952438d3e67eb0386e27a4568c45085b8ba12e67.jpg You can check the wiki to obtain info about the new system. *This new feature, which is already linked to the incoming reputation system, will lead to a reset to "neutral" in the affinity you chose in previous games.

New items

• Acorn (fruit) and Sugarcane (cereal) are available, together with all their associated productions: cultivation, seed processing, etc. They may be specially interesting for dishes and drinks elaboration. • In the previous patch we added Cooking technology, it enables the preparation of dishes based in Seasoning, but this technology will unlock also a production in your labs: Research Seasoning, which will let you improve your recipes and learn new ones. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/a8c05907f1d836f7c56535ce37b10b2a13f64025.jpg

Resource Panel extended help

• Unlock/Upgrade your productions: Now it is possible to know how to unlock or upgrade your productions. When needed, a lock (or your tech level indicator) will be displayed, simply hover mouse on it to obtain the information. • Production amounts displayed:

For those productions where you may or may not success, the % chance will be displayed.

For those where the amount produced can vary, you will see Av. preceding the number, indicating the amount produced is the average.

For the standard-fixed productions, the produced amount is displayed as usual. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7446439/54378d98a18d937705d932f7bc40768fd62384d8.jpg

Other Features

Immersion: We have added an audio effect when you go outside dome. A flashing button to return to colony will be displayed as well. Food variety bonus: Managing to provide your colony with higher food tiers will bring a special bonus, as described in the wiki. In the Food Panel, items bringing this bonus will appear remarked. Translations: We have temporarily reset all the translations, but tutorials, to English until we get them properly updated again. Hostel residential module has changed, increased its floor size. If you created a custom building template containing a hostel you may review it.

Bugs solved

• Solved an issue limiting by mistake the max number of Corp buildings to build. • Solved an issue with UI misplacing text. • Security boxes were not dropping properly. Your ships may find them in any of their assigned missions in the outside. • Resource Panel was not working properly when showing blueprints with upgradeable productions. • Other minor bugs resolved.

What is next:

The immediate next step is about playability! We are very happy to start focusing 100% in this area. For next patch the reputation system will be ready and, among other things, will change the way colonists are obtained for your colony. *Check our roadmap for more info. In parallel, we keep working in our "macro-patch", which will include a lot of new features like the quest system, challenges for your colony, new buildings, in-game help and assistants, etc. It all, inside a more immersive environment where your social policies, Corps and other external factors start to be relevant, together with numerous surprises we won't unveil for now. As always, thanks for the interest in Project Aura ;) -- Pixel Quality Games www.projectaura.com Twitter: @ProjectAuraGame Facebook: ProjectAuraGame