Spacecraft Repair Quality
The inability to repair a spacecraft with lower Q components presents a frustrating roadblock. I had a note to rework this.

Spacecraft can now be repaired using any Q of components.

• A system's module Q is reduced to the lowest Q component that is installed into it.
  
• The UI to request repairs has a control to set the minimum Q components desired.
  
• The UI to request repairs shows the relevant module and its Q next to each system.
  
• When repairing a system by hand, the best Q parts are pulled from the hold first. If no parts are found there, the best Q parts are pulled from your gear.
  
• Repair mission order now has options for choosing the minimum quality of parts the officer should use when carrying out the order.
  • System Module Quality repairs each system one by one, using the current module Q of that system as the min Q for parts. This is the default.
    
  • Spacecraft Manufacture Quality repairs all damage using the manufacture quality of the ship as the min Q.
    
  • Specified Minimum Quality uses a min Q set in the mission order.
    
• This change eliminates an exploit where high Q components are removed from a system and replace using low Q component, ad infinitum.
  

• Parts that are not available at the minimum Q requested.
  
• Parts that are in short supply at the minimum Q requested.
  
• Parts that are not available at all.
  
• Parts that are available in sufficient quantities if minimum Q was lower.
  

• Craters destroy the pavement on the entire road segment. It becomes a dirt road.
  
• Road segments are not destroyed so building connections are not affected.
  
• Building structures can be left partially or totally floating in space, making them vulnerable to attack.
  
• New roads and buildings can be built in craters.
  
• A road reduced to dirt by bombing can be restored by paving it. The paved road will fix the crater deformation.
  

When attempting to enter the minimum quality to produce items at on the labor menu, the number appears for a short time before being reset to what it used to be. This behavior has been consistent over a few days while everything else works, so I don't think it's just latency or something similar.

Edit: attempting to change this number seems to result in limbo.

I find the way money works in Hazeron slightly confusing. If you want to load lots of electronic parts onto your ship and transport them, you have to pay for them. If you want to load them onto imaginary ships and ship them via broker, you don't. If you want to put metal in your cargo, you have to pay for it. If you want to use metal to build your cargo bay, you don't. I've had some very rough thoughts on how to improve things.

Mortius recently suggested increasing ship material costs, to scale with new cities. Without judging that question yet, I wonder if the best ships could be made more valuable and sought-after by eliminating the government's 100% discount, in all cases where it exists. No more statism, no more governmental highway robbery! Those millions of materials, even at the current shipbuilding costs, are worth a vast amount of money. 

Changes would work like this. Existing shipments and perhaps old-style cities should just be exempted, otherwise it gets too complicated to rebalance your shipments etc.

• Each city has State Resources. This is a special area on the city report, and a value true or false for every individual commodity. A State Resource is any commodity which has arrived by broker or been given to the city by a Fleet ship. Fleet ships can no longer sell directly to the citizen account, unless they are donating things (say, stone for a new city)
  
• Broker Shipments Cost Cash. When you send materials via broker, the government account pays for them.When they arrive, they enter the State Resources. This eliminates a weird situation where you can essentially steal vast quantities of things you'd ordinarily have to pay for, hide them away in a government warehouse and remove them permanently from civilian circulation without ever having to pay a penny; juts by sending them somewhere else. Governments cannot usually do this without some kind of compulsory purchase order, which still costs money.
  
• Civilians pay for State Resources. When a commodity is fetched from the State Resources, the civilian bank account pays for it at market price. The government is thus remunerated for moving materials, just as a merchant is: only if they are needed. If you ship electronics to a computer factory, you won't lose money. If you ship them to a warehouse where you hold them against emergencies, it costs you to do so. Certain resources can be made available free, to help you jump start a colony or let it fetch food and air even when it is bankrupt. You can control this from some tab, which might give you same sort of options the "sell" tab does now (e.g., required minimum price).
  
• State to State Shipments are free. Self-explanatory. You don't have to pay to ship something you already own, since it's out of circulation. Brokers attempt to fetch shipments from State Resources before buying things from elsewhere.
  
• Cities have reserve levels in the government account. A city can be set a reserve level of cash. It doesn't ship this cash to its sector or empire capital, but holds it back to pay for shipments and other necessities - the flat "send on half your cash" is abolished. At midnight, if the account is below its reserve, the Empire Capital Bank attempts to refill it, so money flows down as well as up. Thus, the reserve level should be enough to pay for one day's expenses. You need the "can set reserve account level" authority to control this, which the Emperor may wish to withhold from local governors, managing the budget centrally. This system is more flexible than the flat half we have now, and gives the central government more control over the provinces.
  
• Ship parts are bought. For repairs and construction on Fleet ships, the government account pays for things used by shipyards. It's never been entirely clear why this has been free in the past. If the parts are fetched from State Resources, they are already paid for and you don't have to pay twice.
  
• Ships and military bases have a maintenance cost. This is a flat cost, deducted from the government account. Ships can be assigned a parent city, like avatars. Instead of the confusing old "hail to pay wages" system, the cost is just added to the city's periodic budget. When a ship or base is unpaid, the officer releases the con, base buildings begin to decay. They go back to normal when payment resumes (with arrears or not?). Ships could pay their own costs to keep running in emergencies - and you can still complete orders manually.
  
• Colony Cost: Cities have a maintenance cost, depending on their population, to represent the salaries of administrators, roadworks, repairs, local government work in general. This cost is quite steep for small populations, since setting up a city and connecting its services is expensive. It flattens off a lot at higher populations, when economies of scale become viable. When the cost is not met, citizens begin to leave and decay sits in. Empires with only one system/planet (whatever) are exempt (?). Together with the account reserve, this allows Emperors to control how powerful their subordinates can grow - unless ambitious border governors want to engage in covert smuggling on the side (Foundation stuff!), or are permitted free enterprise in a more liberal empire. 
  

A ladder placed at an angle to the direction of gravity does not work as expected. You climb parallel to the gravity, not the ladder. This makes a ladder leaned against something, or a crawling tube, impossible.

I mentioned this in an update thread but I think the thread became obsolete before it was noticed. I include a file demonstrating the problem.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k6qEhZ...ZR6ZJc_iWR

I am unable to bulldoze a crater that is under a graded area.

Same apply to roads under a graded area.

The preferred order of bulldozing would:
Crater > Building > Road > Grading/Landscaping > Biodome/whatever

But another way of selecting the desired building/road/whatever to bulldoze when they overlap would be nice.
It was suggested once that maybe the mousewheel or arrow keys could be used to switch between things under the cursor.

The player avatar doesn't re-fetch tools from city/connected city inventory once it has used up its durability, but citizen construction worker pops do.

Airport repair shop seem to report that there are no parts available for repairs, even though the city reports huge stockpiles of parts for sale.

When manually running a manufacturing line at a factory it seems to add service jobs to the worker pool, this causes it to exceed the number of workshops assigned to the manufacturing line.

So if not enough materials were fetched, the next tick that citizens attempt to run it, the fetched materials might exceed the needed amount.

This is not a major issue, but it is very confusing and can be annoying when dealing with resources that are in short supply.

anyone please call chicago police and tell them my soon-to-be girlfriend is in trouble. they block all my phones and i cant do anything. i cant even reach the police. PLEASE HELP

dean you have done this before, please help me this one last single time i dont fucking care what you think about me but please call them.

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