I can't wait to try out the new expansion. Star ruler 2 is probably one of my favourite games.

Waiting for the DLC to hit GOG is painful. I hope it's out soon. I want to play it.

Thanks for the links :)
We all hope it will arrive here very soon ! :D

By the way, update 2.0.0 for base game is available with the in-game updater !
Here is a list of some of the main changes (found here) :

Graphics
- Added a number of new post processing graphics options, including Bloom, Godrays and Chromatic Aberration.
- Many many more improvements to shaders and and lighting to improve graphics quality
- The visual surface of planets is now actually rendered to match the biome tile grid from the planet overlay. City lights will automatically appear where buildings are!

AI
- The AI has received numerous improvements to how it plays the game. Please report any bugs you find in its new behavior!
- You can now determine whether an AI is aggressive, passive and biased against humans separately from difficulty.
- You can now set the particular ways an AI cheats and how much it cheats at them.

UI
- The open tabs, quickbars, and camera location are now saved and restored when you load a game.
- Improved the planet requirement UI on the bottom left of the planet overlay.
- Added a Replace tool to the ship designer that replaces the subsystem you click on the design with the type of subsystem you have selected while keeping the same size.

Races & FTLs
- Mechanoid population above 1 now provides 2 labor, but population above the maximum no longer provides any.
- Tweaked the income values of mechanoid planets over population so they don't jump up and down as much.
- Fling Beacons now cost FTL energy to construct and have a small FTL upkeep.
- Tweaked the cost and duration of opening slipstreams based on the size of the generator.

Notable Fixes
- Fixed exploit for exporting labor more than once.
- Fixed exploit with Frugal trait where planets could be Level 2 without any tier 1 resources.

The new v 2.0.0. game update is now available for download in game.

Changes list: http://steamcommunity.com/games/star-ruler-2/announcements/detail/603856211379985675

Edit: Hah, was just writing the same Splatsch :)

Ahah ;)
We had the same idea in the same time !
I couldn't let all Star Ruler 2 fans not know that the update was alive when I realized it was here :D

Yeah, just downloaded it about 10 minutes ago :)

Hopefully the dlc will be available tomorrow since devs delivered it to gog today.

Same :D

Aaaah, that's nice to hear :)
(Thanks for the info !)

Nice news.
Also managed to confirm that Star Ruler 2 runs on a surface pro 4 tablet.
Using medium graphic settings, no slowdowns detected so far.

i just wanted to ask, when is usually the time for you to put new stuff into the store? i never really payed attention to GOG release schedules, but waiting for this expansion is killing me, so it would be nice to know at what time of the day i should check for the release rather than checking every ten minutes ^^.
steam always releases at 19.00CET, is it the same for you guys, or do you have a different / no specific time?

Usually 15.00 CET or later. But sometimes they do it in the morning or middle of the night depending on publisher schedule.

Still no DLC? Sad panda here....