I jumped into a system, and thought for a moment that the planet generator had pooped out and put a planet inside a star:

Upon closer inspection, the planet was actually behind the star:


As can be seen in the first picture, the corona of the sun is being drawn behind the rings, when the rings are in fact behind the sun.

Currently, every time I want to finalize a design I have to move into position, disable the grid, hide things like hull voids and walk paths, remove my helmet, and disable the hud.  Then afterwards I have to remember to put my helmet back on, especially if I'm using a designer on a hostile world and entered the studio from outside.  (Oops.)

My proposal is to create a "Preview-Image Properties" window with options to define all of that stuff and save it with the design so that it can be applied automatically (and temporarily) during finalization. Settings should include the viewpoint (with a "save current view" option for defining it), checkboxes for stuff like the grid, skybox, ground, hud, and helmet, and a list of part categories that you want omitted.  The defaults should be such that most of the time we don't have to fiddle with anything but the viewpoint.  Saving the chosen settings on a per-design basis also means that re-finalizing something after making some quick edits takes zero extra steps unless you need to reposition the viewpoint due to rotating or reshaping the design.

This could even be bundled together under a "Preview Camera" object placed into the scene so that if we do a select-all and move or rotate everything, the viewpoint would get the same transform and not need manual adjustment.

Bounties on Web
It would be nice if bounties were shown on the avatar page on the web site.

The following information about bounties is now shown on the avatar web page.

• All current bounties.
  
• Number of bounties collected.
  
• Amount of cronos collected from bounties.
  
• Number of bounties collected on you.
  
• Amount of cronos collected from bounties on you.
  

• The head you drop when you die is tagged with your highest current bounty, if you have one.
  • Multiple heads can be tagged with the same bounty.
    
  • A head with a bounty shows that information on its item name and in its description.
    
• A head with a bounty is redeemed using the gear window.
  • If the bounty on the head is still active on the avatar, you will receive the money and a notification. The bounty is removed from the head.
    
  • If the bounty on the head is no longer active on the avatar, you receive notification but no money. The bounty is removed from the head.
    
  • If the avatar cannot be located, you receive no notification. The bounty is not removed from the head. You must try again later.
    
• You cannot redeem a bounty from your own head.
  

• Solar system contents in sectors generated after this update will no longer change when regenerated.
  
• Systems in sectors that currently exist could change one last time, if their sector gets regenerated.
  

• A new body pose was added to become receptive to mating; crouching no longer works.
  • You must be a naked adult creature to assume the mating pose.
    
  • Default binding is Shift+X.
    
  • The body lies on its back in the mating pose. Sorry dogs; its missionary or nothing.
    
  • Male or female sentient creatures can initiate the mating pose. Animals do not mate.
    
• Mount a receptive sentient to mate, using the E key.
  • Both participants must be fully grown adults.
    
  • They must be of opposite gender.
    
  • They must be naked.
    
  • They must be conscious and alive.
    
  • If the couple has compatible DNA and the female is not already pregnant, she is impregnated.
    
• To mate with crew or passengers, assume the mating pose and order them to mount you. You no longer have to undress them; they will undress while mating.
  
• To mate with NPCs in general, initiate a conversation by saying hello. Assume the mating pose and accept their response.
  

Saw some discussion on the Discord about there not being a lot of rooms types to fill a large spacecraft with. So I went about to make a small list of ideas and felt it was a good idea to share it here. You can all comment with your own ideas, but even more so if you have more rooms that actually serve a purpose as opposed to simply vanity rooms.

Purposeful rooms:

• bridge
  
• cabins/berths
  
• engineering
  
• medical bay
  
• transporter room
  
• spacecraft hangar
  
• ground vehicle hangar
  
• external door access
  

• commissary room
  
• observation deck
  
• military strategy meeting room (long map table)
  
• engine room (flashy warp core)
  
• captain's quarter/cabin
  
• trophy room
  
• barracks
  

It might be difficult to add, but some way to play sound clips from spacecraft would add some atmosphere to the game. Maybe this could be done in a similar way to picture frames?

When a ship is ordered to harvest while fuel is above a certain percent, they will often fire a shot or two even if there isn't enough hydrogen. This can lead to ships becoming stranded despite what should be perfectly sustainable orders.

Looking forwards to the Steam release, there will be more players in-game than there have been since the free-to-play era, possibly more. I would like to suggest improved permissions for new empire citizens to better promote cooperation and multi-player empires. I've been thinking about what it'd take for me to consider accepting players into the Weltreich empire, and I thought it'd be good to start creating a list.

Some key features that'd make a large difference:
-Limit starmap data to administrative domain. This would prevent sensitive intelligence from leaking out, sort of like varying levels of clearance in the US government.
-Allow the selection of an empire city to spawn at other than the empire capital. Similar to the above, and would allow a starter system to be created. This could be a huge help to new players once custom stories are added, and could contain small starter ships.
-Allow the creation of default permissions for new citizens. This would make things much easier on any top empire officials.
-Define systems/sectors a citizen can access and take possession of empire fleet spacecraft for personal use. This is related to the starter system idea.

I'll add more as I think of them, and discussion on this is encouraged!

When I use the character creator on the Mint, Ubuntu, or Debian build, the textures for all phylums but Amphibian and Glabrian are plain black (not loaded at all, I assume), and I get a bunch of the following error in the console:

In the character creator, changing the nose type doesn't update the preview model on its own.  The model stays the same until you change one of the other attributes.

This behavior is present on all Linux builds.  I haven't tried the non-Linux builds.

The link for the Debian build of the launcher points at ShoresOfHazeron64deb7.tar.gz instead of ShoresOfHazeron64deb8.tar.gz