Hello will blowing spaceship doors with c4 come back soon? Been discussing with people on discord and I'd love to try to hijack a pirate ship but that requires either a transporter or blowing locked door with c4.. they said blowing up doors doesnt work anymore, cheers.. Im new player love this game it's legendary thanks Haxus sir <3

Was using a ship for a while without any issues but at some point ship (or character?) and UI started lagging hard. My second character appears to be unaffected.

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Pirate Encounter Frequency
It seems like pirates are pretty rare.

Pirate encounters should occur more often now.

Pirate Plunder Bug
Pirates showed up. I ordered my crew to stand down. The pirates parked in a nice line out in front of my ship but they never plundered my ship. They kept calling out to wait until they arrived.

Fixed several problems with this whole encounter.

Sensor Screen Bug
When the info pane is displayed for an object on the sensor screen, sometimes I can't scroll it back up to the topmost line.

Fixed obob (off by one bug).

Sensor Contact Long Lat
It would be nice if contacts on the sensor screen showed their longitude and latitude.

Sensor screen contacts now show their longitude and latitude on the info pane if the object is inside the atmosphere of a world.

Christen Ship Vehicles
After I christen my ship, its vehicles still identify themselves using the id only.

When a ship is christened, it now updates the mothership name info on all of its vehicles in the solar system.

TEU Containers
Deantwo suggested that exploding spacecraft should leave cargo containers behind.

When spacecraft explode their cargo is now disbursed in cargo containers. The algorithm for this insures that no ship will ever leave more than 100 containers behind when it explodes.

Access Containers
A TEU containers sitting on the ground begs for a way to access its contents.

A UI was added to access the contents of any container you are looking at. A Content button appears on the screen to do this.

TEU Containers on Sensors
TEU containers should show up on sensors.

Done.

TEU Containers on Helmet HUD Radar
TEU containers should show up on the radar display of my EV helmet.

Done.

Transport TEU Containers
Transporter should be able to beam up a TEU container.

Done. When beaming up a TEU container, the contents are placed directly into the hold. If the entire contents cannot fit, nothing happens. Messages report the various results.

When beaming to a TEU, nothing special happens. You just beam down somewhere near the container.

Salvage Order
A mission order is needed to salvage cargo from nearby TEUs.

Done. A Salvage Cargo order was added. Every TEU in range is collected one-by-one until no more will fit into the hold. Range is 500m. If the ship has a transporter, the range is the transporter range.

Messages report progress. This order is reported by the officer if there is one but the ship actually carries out the order; no officer or crew are required.

Pirate Crash
A crash happened when a pirate was encountered.

Fixed.

Pins at Site Vertices
Sites drawn in a building design respond to red glow at the vertices, to decide how much influence each vertex has on the terrain. This is impossible to see.

Added "pins" at the vertices that have a non-zero red glow. If a vertex has red glow, a cap is placed 1m above the vertex. A line is drawn from the vertex to the cap. The length of the line, from the vertex to the pin, is modulated by the amount of glow. A vertex with .75 red glow will have a line that is .75m tall, then there is .25m gap before the cap at 1m, to assist in visualizing the amount of red glow.

This revealed errors in the default coastal and agricultural sites. Those were fixed.

Buildings that used those sites were also fixed. This will not affect buildings that were already built.

Paths in Preview
There is a way in the code to show the paths in a design. Could this be useful in the designer preview?

Done, whether or not it is useful. Preview settings now has a check box to show the paths through the buildings or spacecraft.

Designer Repeat Command
It would be nice if there was an easy way to repeat the last command that was used in the designer.

Done. Esc key kills the current command. When there is no current command, Esc key now restarts the last command.

Designer Esc Key
Esc key in the designer kills all running commands. Could this step down by one command when they are stacked?

Done. For example, if you start drawing a mesh extrusion, then use the command to reposition the grid, the Esc key will kill only the grid movement command and fall back to where you were in the mesh extrusion command. Previously one hit on the Esc key would kill both commands.

Map Orbit Bug
Right-click menu on the world map shows two options to orbit low and no option to orbit high.

Fixed a copy constructor bug in the orbit at coordinates order.

Orbit Altitude on Every Order
The mission order UI shows the combo box to select orbit altitude on the options for every order, even those where it is not relevant.

Fixed control visibility bug.

2 players have reported that the game crashes when they try to load saves.

One of them reported in discord that for him it happens about 50-75% of time.

the other one reported it on Steam and attached a savefile:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2239520/d...469478782/

When attempting to renounce your citizenship with an empire, the avatar is stuck in a weird half part of the empire state.

Units still show as part of the same empire when aiming at them.

You can still see all the empire's Governance windows, but they are grayed out. The avatar doesn't appear on the Citizens tab's list anymore, but you can still see the list.

Could not create a new empire while in this with state.

Restarting the client did not help.

Please make "Cities and Bases"'s right click menu more usable. So far this screen is one of the few that stays open 24/7 for me.

Specific suggestions:
- Add 'travel to' options when not in the system as selected city. There should be no need to open any other screens to do something so basic as travel
- Add System survey report
- Add Land/Hover/Orbit options
- Add Transporter options

Example in the attachments.

Best regards
Andrey.

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Hi,

When I go to create a second character after already having one, the UI does not update and I'm unable to finish creating the new character. Some of the errors include the character name box appearing blank when I enter a new name, it doesn't even show the text cursor icon like I can't interact with it. The scenario selector also stays frozen, I can select another scenario like Citizen of the Galaxy but the UI is stuck at the asteroid scenario. Also, when i click the return to character selection button from my main character the entire UI seems frozen  and un-interactible.

There has also been additional UI errors, for example: if you expand the f8 bio menu you can't switch between the tabs without them freezing, you have to go back to the first tab to see any other tab. This problem also affects the empire menu and the spacecraft menu. I have not experienced these errors in previous versions of Hazeron Starship earlier this year, these problems are new.

This bug isn't related to the UI delays in the previous post, I don't notice anything like that. I am willing to take screenshots and videos if you need me to, please let me know. Thanks.

Runways
Space Vehicle Recovery System. Hmm. That's a mouthful.

Changed this to Runway everywhere.

Recover Vehicles
Drop pods are fun but they can be impossible to get back aboard without a runway.

Any vehicle can now request recovery by a spacecraft if they are close enough. A Recover button appears among the on-screen buttons while you are in a vehicle.

"Close enough" is inside the shield bubble ellipse, regardless if the ship has shields.

Vehicle must also keep pace with the ship.

The ship must have a parking spot for the vehicle. As with runway landings, the vehicle will be placed in 1) an empty spot, 2) replace a new vehicle of the same kind, 3) replace a used empty vehicle of the same kind, 4) replace a used vehicle of the same kind containing items, in that order of preference.

There is some communication from the ship to help you succeed. This has some intentional delays so it's not faster than using a runway, if the ship is so equipped.

Orbit Altitude
It would be nice to specify the altitude when issuing an orbit order. This became more important with the drop pod launch direction, as discussed below.

Orbit orders now offer a Low or High altitude orbit option. Low altitude is the altitude that space stations orbit and new spacecraft are launched. High altitude is the altitude that NPCs orbit a world when flying around it. In the past, all orbit orders resulted in a low orbit.

Preview Bug
When previewing a spacecraft in the designer, the 'Empty Space' option is weird. It's like I am floating inside the ship model but I'm not "in" the ship.

Fixed.

Drop Pod Launch Direction
Launch direction of drop pod could be smarter.

Done. 

In low orbit, drop pod launches in orbit, perpendicular to the path to the world.

In high orbit, drop pod launches toward the world.

If the ship is moving fast enough, drop pod launch direction is adjusted to be perpendicular to the path of the ship.

Eden Story Bug
Eden story started while I was in orbit.

Fixed. You must be on the ground in the atmosphere for the Eden story to start.

Lost Atlantis Lights
In the Lost Atlantis scenario, all the interior lights on the ship are dim instead of the brightness in the blueprint.

Fixed. This was also true in the ship in the Stowaway scenario.

Drop Pod Death
Launched a drop pod from Atlantis at 58k m/s and the drop pod was instantly destroyed.

Fixed.

Drop Pod Life Boats
Drop pods should act like life boats when the ship is destroyed.

Done. Each person and NPC aboard locates the nearest drop pod to them, by straight line distance. A dice roll is made to see if they made it to the pod, modified by distance. If they make it they are placed into the pod and launched.

It is possible for drop pods to go unused if people aren't lucky or they are too far away.

Human players are checked before NPCs.

Opening a door of a spacecraft or building inside an unbreathable atmosphere does not turn air unbreatable, not even in roomvoids with the same name as a roomvoid next to a hull void or the outside.

In space the loss of pressure still works fine however, in the same ship design. The helmet indicator turns red a while after you open the door, as it should.

And yes I'm sure the planet has unbreathable atmosphere, because as soon as I leave the exposed room, the helmet indicator does turn red.

I noticed this quite a while ago for buildings, but didn't notice it happening in spacecraft until today (haven't payed attention to it), so no idea which update might have caused it.