(08-01-2018, 02:08 PM)Haxus Wrote: Building Volume Indicator
The construction window now shows the current total building volume on the world and the world's building limit. This appears as a sort of progress control, with a growing strip of city buildings against a blue sky. At 90%, the sky turns yellow. At 99% the sky turns red. The tool tip shows the actual volume numbers.

It should be possible to finalize ships and buildings while in preview mode, so that there is some sort of backdrop to the screenshot of the design shown on the exchange.

so imagine that your last planet was captured and now you lead a resistance army on the ground against the overlords. the question is how will you produce shit if you cant place buildings anymore once they have placed a military base there?

this is not thought-through

haxus should think more in the micro-scale


in reality, a species would enact guerillia warfare to fight against their overtakers. you know, hide in hiddens spots and plan to retake their world.

maybe this should possible.

just an idea.

Professional vs Manufacturing Jobs
What is the difference between manufacturing, professional and service jobs?

The distinction between the job types now appears on a tool tip, the one that pops up when you hover over the homes/jobs text on the construction window. The text of that tip is...

Quote:Homes and jobs are determined by the building blueprint.

Many industries can incorporate homes in their design. Each home houses one citizen. Large homes are more favorable than small homes.

Manufacturing jobs are created by industries that make things. These employ the workers at the production lines that manufacture commodities. 

Professional jobs are created by industries that do not make things. These employ the essential workers that do the business of the industry, the ones who count for the industry.

Service jobs are non-essential jobs created by the industry, such as the office required at a factory. Service jobs are also created by optional facilities in the building blueprint, such as arenas, auditoriums, lounges, stores, transporters and vehicle launch|recovery systems.

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Road Drawing Angle Constraint
Road draw direction angle constraint is broken.

When fixing this I discovered the angle constraint control was never added to the new construction window at all. It is there now and it works when drawing roads and buildings.

Highlight Selected Building
When a building is selected in the list at a capitol or a military HQ, it would be nice if that building was highlighted in the scene.

Selected building at capitol and hq is now highlighted in the scene.

Building Volume Error
As I worked on a building model, converting wall faces into windows, the building volume changed unexpectedly, a lot.

Fixed an error when calculating building volume. This will have various effects on existing blueprints. Generally, those afflicted will now have more usable volume than previously. The added volume will likely become more commodity storage space.

Armor level is affected. That could make some designs invalid for use in environments for which they were previously valid.

Turret Limit
The number of turrets on a gun tower can be abused.

The number of turrets on a gun tower is now limited to six per tower.

Above/Below Lunar Sea Level Bug
I built a city in a crater on a moon. A building on the rim would not join the city.

Fixed a bug when preventing undersea buildings from joining above water cities. The errant code did not consider worlds with no water at all.

Cryo Travellers
I loaded a bunch of cryo travellers. The message said they were a mix of human, human, human and human.

Fixed error in cryo traveller boarding message.

Dozer Button Inconsistency
The bulldozer button on the capitol UI is nicely spaced away from the other buttons. On the military hq UI, the bulldozer button is packed tightly with the other buttons.

Fixed military hq UI so bulldozer button is spaced apart from the other buttons.

Sea Connections
I built a military base across the sea from my city. The city had a wharf. I built a military dock but no airport at the base. The dock should have imported construction materials but it didn't.

Fixed a bug when determining building sea connections. This bug affected all sea connections. It is likely they were all broken. They will be corrected when the servers restart.

Make Mesh
Some people requested a designer command to make a mesh from a selected object.

Make mesh command added to designer. It will convert most selected objects into a simple mesh.

ATC Coverage
New cities do not provide air traffic control coverage, to keep away pirates.

Airport radar and military radar now provide ATC coverage within their radar range. 

University Officer
I was unable to load an officer from a university using a fleet ship.

University now responds to requests from fleet ships to load their officer.

Status request now reports when an officer is available at the local university. It reports the officer deployed if that is the case. Company and fleet spacecraft can board officers from a university.

A habitable world only produces one officer. If the world has a university and a star fleet academy, each of them will report the same officer available or deployed.

Officer Trade
Officer would not trade cargo with a new style city.

Fixed an error when determining if a broker would trade certain commodities. The error affected buying and selling both individual commodities and categories of commodities. It also broke the order to hire an exterminator, when carried out by an NPC officer.

A clipboard history is a way of storing parts or groups of parts, such as a hallway or a whole assembly but conveniently accessible from a window.



It will use more memory, so there can be an option to limit how many clips you want to keep in your history, not counting favourites (the little star) which will stick around beyond the limit.

There can be a small display for how much data each would add to the design (uncompressed) and give you an idea of how much memory your clipboard history is using on your computer.

This might be an easy way to build interiors quickly, and alleviate some hurdles of the new designer. Pasting things from this would operate like the "Paste At" function.

The only challenges I see with implementing this is that people should be aware of their grid center when they copy something to their clipboard, and how you'd make the thumbnail.

I'm interested in what others would think of something like this, if they feel it may help create designs quicker and a bit more painlessly or not.

pls fix that civilians can block ships.
they randomly spawn below my ship and prevent a takeoff.

Currently, ships can only load up to 255 cryo-travelers in a single order. It'd be much faster, and make for much tidier missions, if they could load more than this amount at once, especially with the increased population limits in cities now.

Snow falls inside a spaceship hull if there is any open area without a room void filling it. Snow should probably be removed from inside hulls as well as inside rooms.

To replicate: Take a spaceship where a room void has a view to an empty hull area down into a gas giant. On the ocean surface where it is almost always snowing, snow will be falling through the ship.