Just a quick head's up that we have Ashes of the Singularity 3.3 now in QA.  We'll have more news on it shortly but it's a pretty massive balance update.

Please vote on this:   https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=http://www.strawpoll.me/13992658   Thanks!  

If all goes according to plan, most, if not all, Ashes players will have Escalation in the next few days. Why are we expanding the criteria? Simply put: While people like Ashes of the Singularity, the overwhelming message is that the community needs to be merged together. We originally planned to allow players to play MP against each other but as time has gone on, it has become increasingly apparent that this would have both technical and fairness issues (i.e. do Ashes players get strat...

Want to find other players to play with in Escalation? Download the Escalation Browser . When in your system tray, it will turn green if number of eligible players grows.  You can also chat with other players who hang out as well. Note: Steam must be running in order to use Escalation Browser or you will get a "SteamAPI failed to init" error.

Any of you interested in multiplayer (ranked) you can download and run this:   http://draginol.stardock.net/files/EscalationBrowser.zip   Basically, you run this and it goes into your system tray.  When there are ranked games available for you in your region, it will notify you.  Then, just load up Ashes and join the multiplayer queue. Future updates will let you launch and go right into the queue, this is an internal alpha. Do not distribute this link as...

The basics Ashes of the Singularity is a massive-scale, real-time-strategy game set in the future where individual beings command vast armies of machines to conquer entire worlds to add them to their empires. Concept Ashes of the Singularity was released first. It was designed to target both new players to the genre as well as veteran players. After release, however, veteran players provided a wealth of feedback that indicated they were looking for Ashes to evolve into a substantia...

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Hey guys. Wanted to get some feedback from you as to whether you think this would be a good idea or not. After Escalation ships, we are considering creating a multiplayer only edition of Ashes of the Singularity (Tournament).  You wouldn't be able to buy this version.  Instead, everyone who buys either Ashes of the Singularity or Escalation would get 8 keys to give out to people.  Those people could then download the Tournament edition. They'd only be able to play...

Stardock is setting up a number of Wiki pages:   http://wiki.elementalgame.com http://wiki.ashesofthesingularity.com http://wiki.offworldgame.com http://wiki.galciv.com http://wiki.starcontrol.com http://wiki.sinsofasolarempire.com   We're looking for volunteers to help flesh them out.  We can't promise payment but we will do our best to reward and thank active contributors.   Thanks!

Greetings! Season 2 has been delayed until the end of this month so that we can get in contact with the finalists.  That gives us a bit more time to get the observer mode feature in and prep for Season 2 balance changes.   Below, in no particular order, are some of the upcoming balance changes: T1 units are now slightly faster PHC Athena is somewhat slower PHC Brute squad size reduced from 6 to 5, firepower and HP on each unit substantially increased PHC Falcon Flak Ca...

[Not released yet]   HIGHLIGHTS Deluxe Campaign: All dialog now voiced, 3 new missions, 2 new cut-scenes, dialogs no longer modal New Units! Hall of Fame Lots of UI improvements Substantial AI improvements UI Health bars and more informative tool tips for unit within an Army in the Army unit panel Unit panels can be data driven such that new units can be added by modders and hooked into the UI Skirmish map sorting Select air hot key (F2) Add someone as a friend from...

Ok, so internally we've been playing on huge maps and another type of map size called massive. Huge maps are (I believe) 4X larger than Large.  Massive maps are 16X larger than the large maps.  We won't support Massive in Ashes 1 (you have to have 4GB of video memory to run them and at least 6 CPU cores). However, even on huge, yes, we are going to need a way to zoom out and see a strategic view of the map.   We aren't going to turn every individual unit into ...

* PHC Falcon AA armor increased from 8 to 16 * Substrate Nexus shield regen rate increased from 0.5 to 1 * Substrate Rengeerator shields increased from 760 to 800 * Substrate Regenerator cost reduced from 360 metal to 180 metal * Substrate Drone Hive shields vision decreased from 600m to 500m * Substrate Drone Hive metal cost increased from 210 to 310 * Substrate Mauler metal cost increased from 355 to 380 * Substrate Punisher max shields reduced from 900 to 800 * Substr...

Greetings!   This week's micro update is now live.     We like to do these little updates whenever there's an opening in QA for something small that is data only.   Avatar speed reduced from 250 m/s to 200 Nemesis logistics increased from 3 to 4 Zeus logisitcs increased from 3 to 4 Fury logistics incresed from 4 to 8 Hades HP increased from 1200 to 1250 Avenger rad cost increased from 24 to 39 Avenger logistics increased from 3 to 4 Dronehive metal cost ...

Greetings! In a few moments I"ll be previewing v1.01 http://www.twitch.tv/stardock