NOVA v0.21.0

What's New

Replay — watch the war so far

A new Replay button beside the map (a play triangle) plays your whole game back through the star map: drag the timeline to any moment and watch stars change hands, fleets fly their old routes, and jump gates appear the instant they were built.
Pick a pace — the entire war "in 30s" up to "in 5m" — or pause and scrub freely. The close button returns you to the live game.
It's your replay: history plays back exactly as you saw it at the time, fog of war and all. It's at its best when a game ends — run the full war in a minute and see how it was won.

Every star tells its story

Select any star and its panel now includes a History section — that world's past as you witnessed it: captures, battles, bombs, and probes, each stamped with how long ago it happened.
History honours the fog of war: events you had no way to see aren't in it.

The Layers panel — see force strength as weather

The new Layers button beside the map paints ship strength as a soft glowing cloud — brightest where forces are strongest, fading with distance, like a weather radar for the war.
Switch My ships and Attacking ships clouds on independently, and flip Labels off for the cleanest big-picture view. Ships in flight glow too, so you can watch force flow across the map.
The glow is honest: it's scaled against the strongest commander's total force, so splitting a fleet across nearby stars never makes your cloud dim or jump.

A map that's easier to handle

Stars, fleet markers, probes, bombs, and gate glyphs now grow as you zoom in — and never shrink below their normal size zoomed out, so the map stays readable at any distance.
With a star or fleet selected, the + / - buttons zoom centred on it — tap a star, tap + twice, and you've dived straight onto it.
Where objects overlap — a fleet passing over a star — tapping the same spot again now cycles to the next object in the pile instead of selecting the same one.

Try NOVA sharpened

Your practice opponent now actually fights back: the Sentinel moves ships every cycle instead of sitting still.
The tutorial counter now counts the steps you've completed, not the step you're on.

Quality of war

Several production cycles in a row now collapse into a single news line instead of stacking up in your feed.
Spy-probe and nova-bomb targeting previews now refuse an out-of-range shot up front, exactly the way the game itself would.
Creating a game that can't be created now tells you why instead of silently doing nothing, and the game-length button in the new-game wizard works properly again.