Very small issue, but black holes use the icon for regular stars in the New Mission window:

I know it's now considered as a common bug to leave / enter in a planet gravity and finish like this:



I don't know if someone already saw it, but each time it happened to me, I got tp away with a fixed distance; actually a well known number:




Haxus, maybe it is due to an unsigned -> signed int cast ?
Anyway, negative distances aren't a thing. It should be checked and if a negative distance is detected, then you can add traces to show where the problem is.

The Quarry blueprint (and others with no workshops) are confusing players.


I suggest changing it so that the mouseover literally say this.
Something like showing: "Blueprint has no workshops. Can only mine stone." when placing it at a location that has resources that aren't stone.

Alternatively, make the Quarry a literal separate building type.
And add another default Mine blueprint so people aren't as confused.

Is it possible Haxus to not physically render the ship entering and transitioning star systems as ships warp at higher speeds? 

I ask this because still as I travel across the game I get constant crash to desktops when warping for 6 hours and this got me thinking.

Would it be easier and less resource intensive to just place the ship in a temporary empty system, have it be stationary but play the warp effect to make it seem like your moving while running down the ETA counter to simulate travel? Have the galactic positioning still update as you travel for obvious reasons, allowing to drop out of warp still appropriately. When the ETA counter runs down then just teleport the ship to the transition point? If you drop out of warp early just teleport to the galactic coordinates?

This might even allow for more exotic forms of travel in the future and allow for scalability in the future of travel speeds.

Thought I'd make a separate thread about this, instead of constantly derailing update posts about this

Ever since the SSL certificate for the website expired, it's been causing browsers to throw ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR when they try to visit https://hazeron.com/. Haxus mentioned he doesn't need to renew the certificate given the site handles no sensitive data, so it should be possible to redirect the HTTPS URL to the regular HTTP one in Apache, something like this should work in the config, with the SSL part of the config disabled of course:

If I remember correctly, you could get missions from other player's cities (in 2014-2015), where they would ask you to deliver some good that they lacked, or pharmaceuticals against a disease or even go kill some pirates (or pirate station don't remember) that would spawn in that (or another?) system.


They appeared I think under F8 missions? or was it from trade channel?

Don't remember exactly how it worked, but could we perhaps now get such missions from our own cities?

- bring/mine raw resources and/or fill shortages of other goods (incuding food, weapons, air) that colony or pick up and bring it to another colony.
- defend against impending pirate attack against the city
- destroy pirates threatening trade vessels around a specific planet/system
- bounty hunting
- transport civilians
- fight diseases
- rescue stranded or injured pilot/civilians
- salvage/tow a destroyed ship
- refuel a stranded ship
- bring spare parts to repair an incapacitated ship
- capture/destroy pirate station
- capture/destroy pirate village/city

Idk about the repair/refuel ship missions though, because it would require artifcially spawning in ship of your own faction. It could be neutral ships (but then the question is where did they come from? What empire are they from?)

Since it's singleplayer now, I guess we could do with more character slots.

This way you could have multple characters in different empires to create your own stories with wars, alliances and adventures?

Ofcourse for a potential multiplayer this would have to remain limited.

My ship is currently crewed, all other orders work, and it's in orbit of my homeworld which has a station over a city. I give the order to "move to closest station", the officer tells the crew to do it, and then nothing happens, no ship movement at all
This also applies to the "Move to station" order where you manually select the station, absolutely no response, no errors reported by the officer or the crew

Here are a few last-minute bug fixes on the eve of the release. What could possibly go wrong?

Vehicle Entry
A lot of times when I enter a new motor bike at a vehicle factory I am launched into space or something. I exit the bike and I am back at the vehicle factory. If I kick the bike first, the problem does not occur.

Fixed.

Aircraft Factory Ghostly Rockets
When rockets spawn outside next to the aircraft factory, they are difficult to get into and don't act as obstacles.

Fixed.

Location Desync
People report being thrown across the galaxy when transitioning from one parent atom to another.

I took a shot at fixing this. It is extremely difficult to reproduce due to multiple threads involved. I can't be sure if the problem is fixed; time will tell.

Startup Avatar Rendering Background Broken
When choosing an avatar at the beginning, the background is white.

Fixed.

Citizen of the Galaxy City
When starting in the Citizen of the Galaxy scenario, you can now choose to start in a city instead of on a new empty homeworld.

I was only going to test today but there were a few little items I wanted to work on, if time permitted. Well, time seemed to be permitting these.

Gear Crash
I trapped a really rare crash the other day. Was flying along in a space rocket and the game crashed while painting the icon on the screen of my current item in hand.

This was a very difficult bug to find, involving a read/write lock. I'm not sure that I got it. We'll see. This one is a bit too esoteric to try to explain.

Avatar Image
I miss having a picture of my avatar on the bio page.

Restored the bio page image using a different kind of widget. It's the one used when picking an avatar at the beginning. It lets you pan, turn, and zoom. A tool tip says what to do.

Save Game Comment
I found myself wishing I could identify game saves with a comment.

When Save Game is pressed, a dialog requests a comment. This is optional.

Translation
A review of translation strings showed quite a few had crept in that needed translating to French.

I translated all remaining untranslated strings to French. I used an online English to French translator. Fingers are crossed that the result makes sense.