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  2020-05-22 Navigator Fail, Warp Signature, Module Repair and Upgrade
Posted by: Haxus - 05-22-2020, 10:52 PM - Forum: Updates - Replies (7)

Navigator Fail
If I issue a travel direct to solar system order, sometimes the ship just sits and wiggles.

Navigator now plots course correctly to all destination solar systems.

Travel direct to system coordinates menu option removed from an otherwise crowded menu. That item was there to work around this problem, as it let you order the ship to the precise galaxy coords of the desired solar system. It is no longer needed because the coordinate is embedded in the travel direct to system order.

Warp Signature
I detected a warp signature near my homeworld! I traveled there, only to find an abandoned decaying city that still had an airport.

Warp signatures are emitted by airports and base air terminals that belong to empires with warp technology. The assumption is that warp ships of their empire would be traveling between their own space ports.

I changed this slightly. Warp signatures are no longer emitted if the airport or air base has no workers.

Event Log Icons
A bug report included a screen shot of the event log in some in-game mail. The icons next to the events were incorrect.

Fixed offset error in a table of icon names used for events.

Autoclose Visor
It would be very handy if my helmet visor was automatically closed for me if my ship is destroyed.

Helmet visor now closes automatically if the ship you are aboard is destroyed.

You must already be wearing an EV helmet with an unbroken seal.

Smelting Metal from Bullion
The process of smelting metal from bullion does not consume any bullion.

Processes that smelt metal from bullion now consume the bullion. Bullion consumed in this way is reported in the bank transactions report as "Smelted Metal".

Previously the only processes that consumed money were patent developments. Money was consumed as RnD funds and paid to local citizens as salary, for a net 0 gain or loss to the local banking system. This logic did not apply when smelting because the funds are literally converted into something else, units of metal.

Manual System Upgrade
Still can't seem to manually upgrade my ship sadly >_

Fixed bugs and made improvements:

  • Removal of last system component now reports that it was the last component to be removed.
  • Fixed hit points overflow error that caused big strange numbers after removing a few modules.
  • Fixed a bug that broke the module type when upgrading a module by hand.
  • Damage report now shows No Module when all system modules are removed.
  • Damage report status icon is now grey when all system modules are removed.
  • First new module installed into a system with no modules changes the module type for the system. That is how you manually change a wormhole drive into a warp drive.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the system module type to change by manually installing any new module, even if all previous modules were not removed first. You could remove one module and install a different one to change the type of any system, though the system was hopelessly broken after that.
  • If the damage report for your ship shows a requirement for more than one kind of module for an FTL drive, you may not be able to fix it. Tell me the name of the ship and I will fix it.
Station Offered Invalid Upgrades
I asked for upgrades to my warp drive module. The city responded with wormhole modules that were not valid for the system because I already had a different FTL drive with wormhole modules installed. A ship can have multiple FTL drives but no two of them can be the same drive technology.

Fixed suppression of invalid system modules in upgrade reply.

Station Upgrades Too Many Parts
I asked for upgrades to my warp drive module. The city responded with repair estimates but the numbers of parts in the estimates were their stock quantities, not the numbers that my ship needed.

Fixed repair estimate part quantities.

FWIW, the correct number of modules was consumed if an upgrade offer with incorrect quantities was accepted.

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  A.I Pathing into sun every time
Posted by: ZombieOverlord9 - 05-20-2020, 03:18 PM - Forum: Prerelease Bug Reports - Replies (6)

Not sure how common this is, im guessing quite as i remember it alot from the old forums.

Basically if i want to travel to any planetary body other than the closest moon the a.i paths through the home star as if the star were not there.

So far im on ship No. 7 just this week. Nearly ready to give up with it and start agian with another system, but i thought i'd at least see what you guys could come up with ??   :D

Update: There is a titan planet in system, not sure if its related but when ever ship leaves planet and goes past a certain threshold it begins to drift sidewards and no matter what gets pulled into sun, worth noting titan planet is on opposite side of star in relation to my planet, could it be affecting my ship from that sort of distance.

Character is Glaxus - FKNRX if haxus or who ever is able to see system they are in and see if there is an actual bug ?

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  Making metal from bullion doesn't consume bullion
Posted by: Vhwatgoes - 05-20-2020, 01:35 AM - Forum: Closed Bug Reports - Replies (3)

Seen with city reports. Millions of fast and easy Q255 metal is made from bullion at no cost.

Side note: Metals (Magmium, Vulcium and Adamantium) are also all producing at thousands of times the rate they should be, creating way too much value. That is a wider issue reported here: http://hazeron.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2325

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  2020-05-19 Close Titan, Trash Limit
Posted by: Haxus - 05-19-2020, 07:09 PM - Forum: Updates - Replies (1)

Close Titan
A planet can have a titan in an orbit so close that the gravitational zone of the titan grabs people off the surface of the planet.

Fixed gravity zone radius error.

Trash Limit
The server is still imposing a limit of 100 units when trashing stuff at a building.

Something didn't propagate properly in the last server build last night.

I did a fresh clean build today. Should be fine now.

System Map Update
On the solar system map, the position of my guy seems to be updated live but the position of the planets is not. My guy ends up out in space when I should be on my planet.

Position of suns and planets on the solar system map are now updated in real time.

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  2020-05-18 Star Map Scan, Observatory Report
Posted by: Haxus - 05-19-2020, 12:15 AM - Forum: Updates - Replies (4)

Star Map Scan
I scanned a solar system and the star map doesn't show it as scanned.

Fixed an error that caused solar systems to stop being flagged as explored by an empire.

Observatory Report
Star map observatory report sometimes works; sometimes responds with nothing at all.

Fixed a data error when sending info about solar systems that were only observed, not explored or scanned.

Building Trash Limit
Building has an option to trash inventory but it imposes a limit of 100 units at a time. This is impractical when trying to trash hundreds of thousands of units of something.

Eliminated trash limit at buildings.

Server Deadlock
A server deadlocked.

Fixed the error that caused the server deadlock.

Server Monitor
Server monitor program needs to check for more deadlock situations. Etherium changes make it possible for some deadlocks to go undetected by current server monitor query.

Added checks to the server monitor program to test for deadlocks on some globally accessed data.

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  Don't give seeds on normal left-click foraging
Posted by: Deantwo - 05-17-2020, 10:12 PM - Forum: Arena of Ideas - No Replies

New players are having issues foraging from plants when they are just starting out because their inventory gets filled with seeds. When you don't have a backpack yet, it can be really annoying to constantly get seeds when foraging.

Seeds currently has no use, apart from flower pots. Bur even if they had a use, we still won't need them when just starting out.

Current workaround is to just not forage by left-clicking plants, instead use the action buttons on the right side of the screen to forage just the plant product.
However this is hard to example to a new player, not to mention the fact that it isn't being explained currently.

Simple solution, don't give seeds when left-clicking a plant. Simply leave seeds only available via the action buttons on the right side of the screen.

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  2020-05-14 Airport Sensor Station, Pirate Cantina
Posted by: Haxus - 05-14-2020, 07:54 PM - Forum: Updates - Replies (5)

Radar Sensor Station
Trying to get in sensor console chair at military radar station by pressing E button wont let me why

Fixed room designation on sensor station in the Radar Station 1000 model. Existing buildings using that design will remain broken. You would have to rebuild the building using the latest published version of the Radar Station to use the console.

Pirate Cantina
Encountered two 2.5bn health pirate cantinas but im sure you are aware

Updated pirate building designs. Cantina was not valid.

Rocket Top Down View
The fact that top-down view is only altered while landed in the rocket space ship design is really nice too, any chance you can propergate that to the vehicle space rocket? or are you leaving that until you mess with the vehicle designer?

Change camera angle in rocket to check for the rocket being on the ground.

System Name Reveal
I ordered my crew to travel direct to an unexplored system, where a warp signature was detected. The crewman called out the real name of the system when announcing the FTL drive engaged. He should not have know the name.

Fixed crewman to use the name known to the empire who owns the ship.

Titan Orbit Zone
Hey Haxus, have you've been made aware of the shenanigans that can happen when a regular planet has a titan?

Reduced the size of the gravity zone of titans.

Turbo Lift Snafu
Could not call turbo lift. It said a door was blocked open. Examination of the ship showed no doors open at all.

Fixed an error in the code that checked for obstructed turbo lift doors.

Pregnant Townspeople
Townspeople can get pregnant but I never see the baby.

Townspeople are transient, removed when no longer needed. This meant that they would rarely exist long enough to bear a child. Pregnant townspeople will now persist in the universe, until after the baby is born.

Startup Mail Flood
It is annoying to log in and get flooded with mail messages right away.

The mail thread will now wait a minute before making the first request for mail from the server.

Comm Channel Range
The channel range buttons take up too much room. Too many buttons.

Comm channel range is now a single button that opens a popup menu of range choices. The button shows the current range. The tool tip describes the range.

The emoji button moved there.

Cargo Transfer Numbers
Cargo transfer windows show little stacks of numbers for cargo and fuel. This should have a bar or something more visual.

Cargo and fuel quantity are now displayed as progress bars on the cargo transfer windows.

Axis Indicators
It would be nice to see an axis indicator on worlds.

When orbit rings are visible, an axis indicator now appears as a line through worlds and companion stars.

Planetoids only show their primary axis though they usually spin on two axes.

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  Stuttering and microfreezing
Posted by: Actuarius - 05-14-2020, 06:28 PM - Forum: Prerelease Bug Reports - No Replies

Peta Nocona ODYQX

Lots of stuttering, and freezing of the client..  not responsive to control inputs, sometimes have to hit buttons twice, or many times to work, to find out the client was frozen (its like messages to the server are getting queued and hung, then run all at once a few seconds later.

Currently in UFO on land, but have a hard time getting in and out of ship due to this..  Stuttering?  or freezing of messages to server?

I noticed this a little last night.. but worse today.  also lost a ship that was on a cyclic mission to and from another planet in the system harvesting.. it burned up in the atmosphere.


Assuming the server my system/sector? is in might need attention?  

Thanks!

EDIT: 5/15/2020 10:05 AM - There was a reboot of servers on 5/14, and I also cleared all manufacturing jobs from all buildings.  Not sure what impact the reboot had, but clearing the manufacturing jobs, and cleaning those up (making only what I need) I noticed a marked improvement in the responsiveness of the GUI.  The stuttering still happens some but is not as pronounced.  I will assume this issue is a result of server load from buildings+manufacturing  With many jobs.

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  Space Trucker Experience
Posted by: Chronovore - 05-14-2020, 03:38 PM - Forum: Arena of Ideas - Replies (2)

I'm the type of player that played a Hauler in EVE and I enjoy running cargo from one location to another in SoH.  I like that I can do these activities while I attend to real life.

Behavior Suggestions

  • Add a mission order to pickup all broker containers going to a given destination - This would allow automation of broker delivery routes with officers or make life easier for those of us that like to ship a high number of various commodities between systems.
  • Add a mission order to pickup all broker containers from a given city - The opposite of the above mission order.
  • Add a load time for containers - As a balance for allowing players to issue orders to take all containers, the process of loading containers could take an amount of time.  Optionally this could depend on whether there is a teleporter available, whether the ship is at a station, or at an airport, etc.
Space Craft Suggestions
  • Add cargo mounting points to the space ship designer - These points would be visually filled with cargo containers as the hold space fills. This would be a cool way to visualize the load in the hold or even externally for that modular space hauler feel.
  • Add a cargo-master crew member and console - A console for managing cargo holds that if manned could reduce loading times if that feature were implemented and/or allow players to find good prices for goods in the hold in known systems.

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  Substantial Framerate impact with Screen Elements on
Posted by: Vhwatgoes - 05-14-2020, 06:09 AM - Forum: Prerelease Bug Reports - No Replies



With screen elements on, the framerate becomes a cinematic sub-30 frames per second. With the screen elements removed, or when using birds-eye view with or without screen elements, the framerate is restored to a silky smooth.

Tried with Lowest and Maxed graphics settings, but I notice it most on this ringworld. I haven't even put down buildings yet other than a single mine. Feel free to visit the avatar Kyulek. I'll preserve the system's state for reference and leave him there.

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