Scope: Diplomacy Interface


Bug: The interface does not update when using the interface. You have to make your change, save and quit and then reload the game to see your changes take effect.


Current remedy: Save and Quit, then relaunch the game each time you want to make a change in the interface. 


Steps to reproduce:
1. Have an empire or create one - Empire 1
2. Create a new empire and use Atlantis start - Empire 2(this is not a requirement but it makes it much easier to reproduce)
3. Get the galactic location of Empire 1
4. Have Empire 2 travel in the Atlantis to Empire 1 and make contact
5. The Governance Torch will glow and animate indicating you have information that require your attention
6. If you see Empire 1 listed in the known empires try to make them an Ally, at this point the interface will not update
  6a. If you are not able to see Empire 1 listed in the known empires screen, save and quit and relaunch and check again. 
       Now that you have done that, Empire 1 should be listed there. This was a direct example of the interface not updating
       
Any further actions in the interface will not update until you save and quit and relaunch.

Blueprint Exchange
Someone asked if I would make all the blueprints available from the last universe.

Unfortunately I cannot do that. Those blueprints belong to their respective architects. I do not have any implicit or stated right to do anything with them.

Instead I created a public Blueprint Exchange on the web site. Architects who wish to do so can publish their blueprints as they wish.

Published blueprints are public. They immediately become available for anyone to download.

There is no way to rate blueprints in the public exchange.

An update was posted to the game program. When SoH files are saved, the current view content is saved with the file for the thumbnail image. Previously, this seemed to be hit or miss whether the file contained the thumbnail.

For a blueprint to show best in the exchange, it should be loaded with the current version of the designer. Then you should refresh obstructions; finalizing is not needed. The obstructions information is used to calculate the hull volume. Then resave the .SoH file and it is ready to be published in the exchange.

Anything build under the waterline cannot be part of a city on shore (it seems)

Below shows that this dome and building inside the dome are not part of the city.



Below shows when trying to build a police station. You can build it on land no problem, the moment you hit the water, no existing city jurisdiction found.

(There a police station near my capitol with 32 jobs so it has a very large diameter)

After selecting an avatar and loading into the universe, while the universe loads with the limbo animation, the game yoinks control of the mouse, regardless of what window or monitor it's on, and repeatedly re-steals it making it impossible to move the mouse around until the scene has fully loaded. This is extremely noticeable on long loading saves. It's fine after the scene loads in, where the game properly releases control

Dimensions
Dimensions were eliminated from the universe. All galaxies now occupy one single dimension.

Discontinuities were removed from the universe.

Intergalactic wormholes were added to connect the two separate groups of galaxies. This is depicted on the updated universe map in the wiki.

Mantifloss
Mantifloss was added as a new commodity. This is a plant based resource that occurs naturally on a very rare few worlds.



Mantispice
Mantispice was added as a new commodity. Mantispice is a psychoactive pharmaceutical made from mantifloss tendrils. Mantispice can only be handcrafted; no industry manufactures it.



Mantifries
Mantifries were added as a new commodity. Mantifries are a yummy food made from mantifloss roots. Mantifries can only be handcrafted; no industry manufactures them.



Wiki Uploads Broken
Uploading of pictures to the wiki was not working because the new web server was missing a software package. It has been installed. Wiki uploads work fine now.

Story Asteroid
A story function was added to trigger the asteroid. It is documented in the wiki as worldScheduleAsteroid.

Rocket Motor Patent
"Large Rocket Motor, Method for Making using Nitrate Explosive" patent doesn't require the "Small Rocket Motor" patents like the other "Large Rocket Motor" patents do. This could make people think that they have to use "Nitrate Explosive", which they don't.

Fixed.

Sailboat on Water
Sailboat floats on top of water. Probably same issue Pressure Tent had? Maybe Submarine does too.

This was caused by low tessellation of the water surface. It also caused creatures to appear to swim too high or above the water.

I increased tessellation of the water surface quite a lot. I hope this does not cause performance issues for anyone.

This caused me to work on the splashing water noise you hear when wading in the surf. It suffers from the same problem. Your altitude is determined by a calculation, not a polygon under your feet. The polygons of the water surface and land surface are an approximation of the calculated terrain so they can be incorrect between vertices. The water sound is important because that is the same calculation used to determine if you are standing in lava or not, which is deadly.

I made some adjustments so that you should never (or rarely) hear the splashing noise when you do not "appear" to be standing in visible water or lava. That means that sometimes you will be walking in shallow water or lava without hearing a splashing noise; it is much safer that way.

Extra Targoss
When the tutorial story goes to the stone age, another Targoss gets created. The new Targoss doesn't look like the old Targoss.

Fixed a bug in the code that looks for an existing character before creating a new one. The same bug was affecting your avatar's memory of a character, which prevented Targoss from being restored the way the avatar remembered him.

Targoss Won't Stop
Targoss calls to me then runs past back and forth before he finally stops.

Fixed a bug in story character behavior that was introduced during the npc object consolidation.

Captain of Atlantis
Lost Atlantis should assign capt berth.

The scenario did assign the capt berth. Fixed a bug that caused the capt berth assignment to be lost immediately after taking it.

Dark Matter Death
Conditions under which a spacecraft or vehicle are destroyed by dark matter were relaxed a bit.

Dark matter is a form of cleanup that occurs when vehicles or spacecraft transition from one solar system to another.

Vehicles are now destroyed by dark matter only if unoccupied. No occupant has to be on line.

Spacecraft are now destroyed by dark matter when they do not have an AI first officer and there is no avatar aboard. Spacecraft are not destroyed if an AI officer or an avatar are aboard. Nobody has to be on line.

Saved Game Folder
The location of the saved game files can now be configured in settings. The default location is 'Hazeron Starship/Saved Games'.

The previous location of the files was 'Hazeron Starship/Temporary/Solo'. That folder also contains cached files.

To continue with your current saved games, you can either redirect the saved games folder to that location or you can move the files to the new location. The files to move are named: A10*, sU.*, and sA.*.

What are these files?

The current game is stored in two files named A1001100 and A1010101. This contains all of the avatars shown when you get to the avatar selection screen.

Check point saves are stored in pairs of files named sA.something and sU.something.

When a check point save is restored, the sA.something file replaces the A1001100 file and the sU.something file replaces the A1010101 file, then the game starts normally.

Lost Atlantis
The Lost Atlantis scenario required a couple of changes.

• Atlantis now starts with 100 cryo travellers.
  
• Atlantis is no longer privately owned by your avatar. I forgot this would make fuel and repairs very expensive.
  
• Crew species now matches your avatar, as intended.
  

Startup Scenarios
Several items in my to-do list related to game startup.

When creating a new avatar, you now choose one of four scenarios to start the game.

• Reach for the Stars - You start at an indigenous village on a habitable homeworld. Targoss arrives to give a tutorial. Rocket Training starts when your city is ready. An asteroid approaches.
  
• Citizen of the Galaxy - You start as a citizen of an existing empire, at the capitol, any city, or the emperor, in that order of precedence.
  
• Savage State - You start on a habitable homeworld in the wilderness. Targoss and Rocket Training never start. There is no asteroid.
  
• Lost Atlantis - You start as captain of the starship Atlantis, lost in space and time. No trace of your former civilization exists.
  

• Fixed the function to clear saved games.
  
• Fixed update of saved games list when cleared.
  
• Replaced the dialog with a popup menu, when clicking on a saved game. Options: Restore, Delete, Delete All Save Points.
  

My avatars and save games all just disappeared. I saved, closed down the game normally, then when I opened again, none of my avatars were there. 2 avatars wiped, 150+ blueprints unpublished, even my saved .chr avatar files are deleted.
I think possibly it could have something to do with the fact that I'd just traveled to the center of the galaxy and added 1000+ systems to my star map. Apart from that, I did nothing outside of my home system.

Sometimes when closing the game in a way which causes it to save, such as pressing the X button, you will be in space when you load back in. I was on the surface of the planet previously. As a result, you suffocate and respawn immediately upon loading in.

This happens on the Windows 64bit client, and can be reproduced.

Simulation mode in the design studio results in a flickering white screen, simulation does not start.

This is noted in the 64-bit Windows client.