Developed by Blind Mind Studios from 2011-2017 and first launched in March 2015, Star Ruler 2 is a massive-scale 4X/RTS set in space. Explore dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of systems in a galaxy (or galaxies) of your choosing, expand across their planets, exploit the resources you find, and ultimately exterminate any who stand in your way. The fate of your empire depends on your ability to master the economy, field a military, influence galactic politics, and learn what you can about the universe.
Open Star Ruler is a community-led attempt to maintain and upgrade the original game with as little impact as possible upon its compatibility with the commercially distributed binaries from Steam and GOG.
This repository contains the OpenSR Modpack, the third branch of the OpenSR project and the successor to the SR2 Community Patch. Given the extreme moddability provided by the Starflare engine, most OpenSR changes can be packaged as a mod (in fact, the original game is itself virtually indistinct from a mod).
The use of the game's modding system to distribute such changes allows us to maximize compatibility with commercial versions of the game, to the point that we do not currently foresee a scenario where we shall have to break data compatibility with commercial clients.
This mod can be overridden and included as a resource by other mods, allowing them to inherit
the changes made by the Modpack.
The following line must be added to your modinfo.txt:
Derives From: OpenSR ModpackThe Modpack must not be enabled in the SR2 mod list when used in this way; the parent mod will enable it implicitly without user intervention. Files overridden by the parent mod have priority over those of the Modpack. This means that files overridden by both the parent mod and the OpenSR Modpack must be merged to keep functionalities from the Modpack.
It is strongly recommended that you observe certain standards when working on the Modpack, to make things easier for you, people reviewing your code, and people tracking down bugs or other changes:
Follow the instructions outlined in the OpenSR modder's guide, located at https://github.com/OpenSRProject/OpenStarRuler-Launchpad#modders-guide, to properly connect your MP repository to your game. (These instructions can, and should also be applied to other mods intended for distribution via the OpenSR Launchpad.)
When editing a file that previously existed in the base game, commit the original, unmodified file in a "clone commit", then commit your changes after that. This will make your changes easier to identify when looking through the commit history. (Obviously, images and other binary files are an exception...)
Pull requests not observing proper cloning protocols will be closed. While the changes contained in such PRs may be subsequently reproduced by a Modpack maintainer in a properly-formatted PR, the OpenSR team does not make any guarantee as to if or when this will take place.