Spacecraft Ops
Taking command of a spacecraft is a daunting task for a newbie. Several unobvious steps are needed.

When an avatar boards a new spacecraft a short tutorial lesson starts. It gives a brief set of instructions on how to take command of a spacecraft and how to command it.

Wormhole Name Unknown
Spacecraft can now go through unexplored wormholes with no human aboard. This results in wormholes called "Unknown".

These are the naming steps when a spacecraft goes through an unnamed wormhole.
1. If a human captain is found, the wormhole is named after them, using their wormhole sequence number.
2. If no captain is found, a human officer is found. The wormhole is named after them, using their wormhole sequence number.
3. If no human captain or officer is found, the wormhole is named after the ship, using the ship's wormhole sequence number.

Wormhole sequence number? What's that? That is the number of times an avatar or spacecraft has been credited with exploring an unexplored wormhole.

Fast Solar System Survey
NPCs take a huge amount of time to perform a solar system survey scan. Because of that there is an unobvious way for an avatar to make the survey happen instantly if they do it themself.

NPCs calculate the amount of time it might take to get every planet in sensor range and record the information. This time is reduced as rank increases. That might be somewhat realistic but it doesn't reconcile with the avatar's ability to perform the survey instantly.

NPCs were changed to calculate the amount of time differently. It is still based on their rank but the longest time at the lowest rank is only 12 seconds now.

A button was added to the sensor station that performs the solar system survey scan, without having to select anything on the screen.

Position Report Frequency
Spacecraft post position reports every 10 minutes. This is the information the star map uses to show the location and status of spacecraft. Can this time be reduced?

Spacecraft now post their position reports once per minute.

NPC Walks in Lava
During a story segment, an NPC departs the scene by walking off. This is always on an inferno world and the poor guy almost always ends up walking into a sea of lava, which is deadly.

NPCs now watch where they step. They will stop moving if they encounter lava or supercooled liquid.

Suffocating ParcX Guy
The Del Rey station said I had a ParcX package waiting. As soon as I got aboard, the ParcX guy showed up, dropped the package, and suffocated and died before I could get the station door closed. I tried this several times and it was a challenge to get the door closed fast enough to keep him alive. On one attempt, his body fell in the doorway and it was impossible to close the door without picking him up first.

ParcX guy now wears an EV suit if he is in an unbreathable atmosphere.

Comm Message Image
When I double-click a comm message with an attached image, the dialog that shows the image is pretty lame.

The image dialog now uses a different widget for displaying the image. It allows for pan and zoom. It also shows a caption under the picture when the story script calls for one.

Service Vehicle
Rocket training says I can press K to get my vehicle serviced. Most of the time this seems to do nothing.

Service request in a vehicle now provides a lot more feedback.

Lots of new players have been getting confused by the game not functioning properly in fullscreen mode (Most likely because they assume it'd work properly, because most other games have no issues with it)

It's probably best if the buttons and shortcuts to enter fullscreen mode are hidden and/or disabled until it's able to be fixed, because currently it's only caused confusion and problems

Made this a new thread because I feel like it's an important temporary solution until the work is able to be done to fix the fullscreen

Capitol Window
The capitol window doesn't update when building construction finishes.

Capitol window now keeps itself in sync with the city buildings. This works well enough that the Refresh button was removed.

A nice improvement is that when the currently selected building construction is completed, the window tabs change appropriately. Previously you had to click a different building then click back to the one you wanted, which was a nuisance.

Mount Turns Fast
I grabbed a mount from one of my farms. It was fast and had fantastic stamina. Unfortunately I couldn't control the thing. Even the slightest tap on the turn button caused it to spin mostly around.

Mount turn speed is based on its own turn rate. This is sometimes too fast. That turn rate is now limited to a specific maximum when mounted.

Targoss Inaudible
I had not heard from Targoss for awhile. I found him stuck against a farm building. I could see his lips move but I could not hear him.

When story characters speak audibly, they now perform a test to see if your avatar can hear them, for any of many reasons. If the avatar cannot hear them speak, then the audible message is transmitted on the Hail channel instead, at Solar System range.

Targoss Deleted
Targoss got stuck against a farm building. I tried to save him by bulldozing the farm. Targoss also got deleted.

When bulldozing buildings, story characters are now rescued and placed where the building was removed.

Avatar Creation Haircut and Shave
When creating an avatar, I can choose their haircut and shave. These settings do not carry through to the avatar that is created.

Fixed.

Avatar Creation Snafu
Created an avatar. Returned to the avatar selection page. Deleted the new avatar. When creating a new avatar, the Enter game button was grey until I fiddled with the scenario selection combo box.

Fixed button enable/disable states when returning to avatar selection page.

Crew Orders
I switch to a different avatar while my ship was traveling through some wormholes. When I switched back, my crew was waiting to go through the wormhole until I got back.

The online game imposed restrictions on what an npc crew was allowed to do when no officer or avatar were aboard. All such restrictions were removed. The crew will now carry out their current order, without regard to who is aboard.

Wormhole Exploration
When a ship goes through a wormhole, the captain of the ship is credited with the exploration, regardless if they are on line. Previously, the captain had to be on line.

Story Indigenous Snafu
The Eden story started before the presence of indigenous life was established.

Fixed.

Citizens Block Takeoff
Citizens clustered around my spacecraft prevent it from taking off.

Citizens no longer spawn near you when you are standing in any kind of parking space.

This is not a perfect fix but it will reduce the crowds at the airport.

Persistent Sounds
I created a new avatar. Targoss arrived. I returned to the avatar selection page while standing near Targoss and I could still hear his torch at the avatar selection page.

Fixed a bug in the current item sound cleanup for npcs.

Hail Bug
My ship was parked near a wormhole to my home system. I was next to it in a different ship. On the Crew channel, I ordered my ship to go through the wormhole. After it went through, I heard the hail from the other system's space station. The message said it originated in my system, which had no developments of any kind.

Fixed a bug in the routing of hail range messages.

Crew Follow Bug
My ship went through a wormhole. A different ship that I was aboard had a standing order to follow my ship. The ship I was aboard did not follow my ship through the wormhole.

Fixed a bug in the navigator's logic when following another ship through a wormhole.

Story Start Delay
Upon completion of the Rocket Training story, the Undertow story starts abruptly without delay. It should give me a minute to collect my thoughts.

A new story chapter will not start within one minute of a previous story chapter ending, for any reason, including being dropped.

HTTPS SSL Certificate
We are still waiting. Network Solutions shows the certificate has been approved, pending delivery.

This inexplicable delay resulted in my previous certificate expiring before the new one was issued. That pissed me off and I canceled the order for the new certificate.

This time I will wait.

Background: This was posted in another thread and it needed to be moved here. 

Scope: This suggestion takes place during/after NPC empires and shows an example of what could be fun with game events, NPC dialog, a diplomacy system, as well as a trade dialog system based on empire relations.  

Context: The original tread this was posted in covered using the spawned asteroid in the new empire that uses that scenario as a game event with NPC empires.  

I just completed the Stowaway start scenario. It took me three tries to successfully commandeer the spacecraft.

I wrote a wiki page for the scenario, with a basic guide.
See: http://www.hazeron.com/wiki/index.php/Stowaway

I figured I would share some feedback and issues about the scenario.

Issues

The first issue I found was lack of pistol ammunition. You need more than the one spare magazines you start with. I went to the troop quarters with the hope of finding more pistol ammunition, but the room didn't have the barracks cargo access. I also found that there is no room with cargo access on the ship, the few medical supplies in the cargo hold is inaccessible to the player also.

Second issue, while I was in the troop quarters, all the crew of the ship suddenly came to attack me. I assume the troop quarters are closer to the bridge and they could detect me there? I had no issue when finishing off the spare crewman in the crew quarters. Some sort of alarm about a detected intruder might be helpful here, even if it is just a message on the intercom comm channel.

The spacecraft has no food. This is even worse if the player is a herbivore.

Constant early game inventory issue. Carcasses are large, and new players won't understand this at all.

Feedback

I would suggest the new players at least starts with a Knapsack, so they can carry a little more. That way they could start with a few more items to help them, such as another pistol ammunition and maybe some food. Could also have them start with a piece of paper that gives a tiny story or some hints on what to do.

Fix the spacecraft blueprint. The troop quarters should have barracks cargo access, or make a tiny armory room next to it. A small room to access the medical supplies would be nice too. Access to the whole cargo hold could be nice too, but if it is easily accessible it would make this scenario a little too easy maybe.

Currently the intercom is very under used in general, everything is usually said on the crew channel. Crew and troops currently only announce encountering an enemy on the crew channel. For pirates it might be more fun if they did this on the intercom channel. Knowing when and how much of the crew is coming for you would be very helpful in understanding what is happening.

The scenario can be fun, but a lot of it is about luck. If you fail, it basically just starts you off on a habitable world with nothing special similar to The Savage State scenario.

Not an urgent matter, but imo, it would be cool if these would return at some point:

In the old city system you could load citizens and crew with vehicles like a space transport and SUV etc (possibly beause you could contact the city/buildings in trade channel without needing a spaceship)
From Wayback Machine, 2014 SoH game manual (Communication):
"Load Passengers
Offers empty stateroom berths or vehicle seats to passengers looking for transport. Loads Passengers while aboard a spacecraft. You must be an officer of the ship. Loads Passengers into a vehicle that has empty seats. Transmit on the Trade channel to initiate contact with a city."

- This allowed for Citizen players (non-goverment members) to make money by ferrying passengers to the moon with a spacetransport or even between two cities on your starter planet, with a helicopter/sailboat.
- Additionaly doing construction labour would net you some cash (I think maybe because of the reward system?). The emperor could also set rewards for exploration, founding cities and other things.
-The missions I already mentioned in another thread.


Why u ask, when we can take millions from the bank?

Well, when playing as a citizen character, instead of emperor, this allowed you to basically have this Freelancer/Elite experience, where u start small and then work towards a larger (private) ship, in the Hazeron universe. I started one such character today and noticed you can't really do alot anymore. Yes you can take a loan of 50k, but that allows you to only buy 2 ships currently available in the Workshop.( I could ofc design new ones). The only mission you get is "ship needs captain, take control of this huge ship without having any credentials whatsoever for free", which feels like cheating.


Also I noticed that my citizen character could buy things from a Retail Shop at a habitable planet, but not from a Retail Shop at the moon. (not sure if bug?)

Alot of this neat little details that existed before seem to not have been transferred to the new system. Yes ofc emperors don't need those, but it's sandbox and giving yourself a challenge without infinite money is fun (without using a free empire ship). You could basically create the world with your emperor(s), set up trade routes, passenger ferries, partols, ... . Then play around as a citizen/stateless trader, taxi, miner, bounty hunter, pirate & do missions in that universe you created.


Dunno if I'm the only one, but I think it would be nice to have this back in the long term.

So yeah, title, Asteroid didn't spawn.

Deantwo mentioned that you need to be online / have the game running 8 hours or so before the event, when the Asteroid is supposed to spawn.

This is still unreasonable and a bug.

On the "Window" tab of the game settings, you can set the UI buttons to Tiny/Small/Medium/Large

I noticed most of the buttons' native size is "Tiny", so when the option is set to anything above tiny, they become blurry and look bad. I'm guessing the interpolation method being used for the scaling is either bicubic or bilinear, which "smooths" out the image, making a lot of the buttons look outright bad at larger sizes

It may be better to use nearest neighbour interpolation, if Qt (or whatever is doing the scaling) supports that, because it preserves the crisp details

I tested this with one of the Construction window buttons, I took its "Tiny" size, upscaled it by 200% using NN scaling and it came out perfectly:

Achievements
Steam achievements don't seem to work correctly. Some show strange progress bars going to huge numbers. Some players may have achievements that were incorrectly granted during development and they are stuck with them.

Steam provides for the tracking of stats and the granting of achievements. Achievements can be defined as being driven by certain stats. I can't seem to figure out how this automated connection is supposed to be defined or how it works. So I abandoned the automated connections in favor of managing the dependencies between stats and achievements myself. Here is the result.

Achievements are reconciled against stats when you start the app. This only reconciles those achievements that depend on stats, which is anything that depends on how many times you did something. Some achievements are granted when an action is performed; those achievements are not altered when reconciling.

If something still doesn't look right with your Steam achievements after the app reconciles them, you can go to the Account page of the Bio window. There you will find two new buttons to reset your Steam stats and to reset your Steam achievements. These can thoroughly remove your stats and achievements so be careful. There are tooltips and dialog boxes of text explaining the details and warning of the consequences.

Service Panels
Service panels have an ugly graphic that incorporates English language text. Shame shame.

Service panels now use a nicer texture for the panel that includes a picture of the system represented but no text.

Story In Preview
I was previewing a blueprint in the designer when a story started to tell me about the advantages of colonizing my current world.

Stories no longer start while you are in a designer.

Construction of Quarry
Construction window should say something about why the Quarry by Haxus design only mines stone.

A note was added to the Construction window when building a Mine if the selected blueprint has no shop.

Similarly, a note was added to the Construction window when building a Bank to explain the effect of having a shop or not having a shop.

Blueprints Needed
There is no blueprint for a logging camp, design studio, or treatment plant.

There are now simple blueprints for a Logging Camp, a Design Studio, and a Treatment Plant.

Hazeron Web Site HTTPS
I have jumped through all the various hoops at Network Solutions to get a new SSL certificate for Hazeron.com. Status shows everything has been approved, pending delivery. It has said that for three days. 

Patience will win the day here. We must now wait.

Designer Confusion
While creating a Design Studio in the designer, it told me I needed auditorium space. I added an auditorium. Then it said my design was not useful for any purpose. It knew I was making a Design Studio. It should have told me I needed an office.

Fixed.

No Trees at Logging Camp
I designed the new Logging Camp building to have some trees on the site. Trees did not appear there when the blueprint was built in the environment.

Fixed a bug that prevented trees and shrubs in a blueprint from appearing on a site that did not alter the terrain at all.

I read something about earlier there beeing a bug that inferno planets had cryozine.

Apparently the fix didn't completely work.

I have an Inferno Gas giant that is supposed to have Ioplasma and no Cryozine, as per the System Survey.

In the Refinery I can select the Cryozine Process as a workshop, but it can't actually run.

The Iosplama Process is available from the selection in the Build Menu before placing the building, but is not actually selectable in the refinery (and is not present after building it, with ioplasma preselected from the build menu).