https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/ Development news and updates for Cosmarchy, a real-time space strategy game. en-gb https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/diplomacy-and-intelligence/ https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/diplomacy-and-intelligence/ Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Relations you can read, treaties you write article by article, named envoys and spies, and other empires' numbers shown as estimates unless you know better. https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/faster-at-high-speed/ https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/faster-at-high-speed/ Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Speed 5 had got slow and jerky in a busy mid-game. A game year now runs in under half the time it took. https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/economy-of-people-wages-and-prices/ https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/economy-of-people-wages-and-prices/ Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT I rebuilt the economy from the ground up. Workers go where the pay is best, prices follow supply and demand on every world, there's no stockpile any more, and people buy what they can afford. https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/every-panel-redrawn/ https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/every-panel-redrawn/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT I redesigned nearly every screen in one style, and added an outliner, an alert bar, tooltips inside tooltips, new menus and a Spectate mode. https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/research-without-eras/ https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/research-without-eras/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT I took eras out. A technology can start once its parents are done, and the best ones are rarer and dearer. Also new are a Research panel, reports for finished techs, and great works with techs of their own. https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/worlds-that-make-sense/ https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/worlds-that-make-sense/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Temperatures and ice follow distance from the star, habitability depends on who's asking, and cities spread across worlds as their people grow, each people building its own way. https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/peoples-politics-and-laws/ https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/peoples-politics-and-laws/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Worlds now hold groups with their own culture, faith and class. Interest groups push for laws, laws pass in stages, restless worlds can break away, and there are 185 decisions to take. https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/galaxies-you-discover/ https://metonicstudios.com/cosmarchy/devlog/galaxies-you-discover/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fog of war, places on the map that change what happens there, crisp borders, and edge-on galaxies that look more like the real thing.