Celarious' Game File
Celarious allowed me to download a large saved game file, in excess of 4gB. He was curious about why the file was so large. That file flushed out some bugs.

The original file is used more or less like this:

• 5mB of game data, empires, and species.
  
• 4gB of building blueprints, 329 of them.
  
• 300mB of spacecraft blueprints, 32 of them. Nice spaceships!
  
• 30mB of Universe and its atoms.
  

Custom Spacecraft Manufacture
The ability to customize a spacecraft blueprint at the time of manufacture has been requested quite a lot, in one form or another.

Done. This was a ton of work but I think you will like the result. You can replace modules but you cannot add or remove them. You can also adjust the volume assigned to each subsystem. You can even save/load your customizations.

Customizations can be applied when scheduling regular production at a spacecraft factory, when buying a company spacecraft, and when commissioning a fleet spacecraft.

Some modules can be replaced with empty modules, as a placeholder. That does not reduce the number of crew berths so the ship will have extra crew. Empty modules can be upgraded later, when appropriate modules are available.

Decal Lighting
Decals should be lit according to their group. Currently they are always lit as if they are outside the hull.

Done.

Targoss Says Mint Money with Metal
Targoss tells you to build a bank to mint money using metal. That won't work.

Changed the script slightly.

Manufacture Options Idle, Make, and Every
When a mine is placed, add a process to mine everything that is there.

To address this suggestion I changed the Make checkbox on the Construction window into a combo box with three options.

• Idle - Building will not make anything.
  
• Make - Building will devote as many shops as possible to making the commodity in the combo box. Mines select a resource at their site.
  
• Every - Building will devote one process to each thing it makes, starting with the commodity in the combo box, in the order of things in the combo box. Farms skip silage and irrigation processes. Mines devote as many shops as possible to each resource at its site, with stone always being last in the list.
  

Just had an idea which im not sure has been suggested  .

It would be interesting if we could not only harvest raw materials with harvesters aboard our ships, but then have terminals and subsystems onboard to process the raw into refined goods.

Hear me out. This would be a subsystem that would require space allocating during the design phase like any weapon system.

Place a terminal for example a smelter (Ore->Metal), allocate space in designer E.G 1000m2 required per production line. (Make them space hungry as this is more realistic) when the design is manufactured the terminal would allow the player access to the production screen of that industry much like in a city. But the production would use the inventory of the ship.

This could be implemented with the other industries. Allowing players to build seed ships that could harvest the resources and build components from orbit allowing for greater freedom and role playing. (Become a nomad with no fixed planet, exploring and surveying the great expanse repairing and refueling the ship and its subsystems as they wear.)

Feel like this would be obvious but this clearly would be something for the distant future of the game, there are more pressing bugs and fixes that are required and are be patched.

What do you spacefarers think of the idea.

A funny bug I just found.

If a well was producing Oil and gas before the latest patch it will now be producing Oil and Vegemite.

Either this is a bug or i've got huge natural reserves of Vegemite below the surface of my planets haha.
   

I would like to see the option added to new game creation where you could choose a minimum and/or maximum range from another pre-existing empire's capitol.  So, for example, you might set a range of 3 to 9 parsecs away from another save file's capitol world.  The game would then choose a random starting system that contains all the necessary resources for space travel within that range.

I think this would be a relatively simple way to allow asynchronous multiplayer games on a household basis.  Of course, you wouldn't have real time interaction, but at least you could attack each other and/or cooperate together.  It would give a great incentive to continue exploring the universe, knowing another player is lurking somewhere nearby to discover.  As it stands now, the game hits a dead-end once you've gotten warp drive and there is no more reason to keep progressing.

Of course this wouldn't replace a future true multiplayer feature, but at least give the players the option of making things more interesting in the short term.

Memory Usage
I did an analysis of the memory used by the program to determine if there was any significant leakage or overuse.

All the big memory consumers in the game were accounted for. There were a few surprises. 

It surprised me that initializing the OpenAL sound system used up 500MB of memory. That was simply initializing the system, without loading any of my own sound files.

It also surprised me that each atom manager used 100MB of memory. They contain very few variables and a couple of thread objects. I presume the thread objects were responsible for the overhead. You can control the number of these. The default on my system was 10, which used up 1GB of memory.

I loaded a game that has several cities in multiple solar systems, with spacecraft flying around harvesting things. This game ran all night long. In the morning the overall memory usage was not significantly higher than when I went to bed. I do not believe there is a memory leak, at least not a large one.

As a game develops, memory usage soon approaches 4GB resident, with that much or more in virtual memory. A 32 bit computer can only address up to 4GB of memory so I decided not to bother building a 32 bit version of the game after the update today. Today's update will be the last 32 bit build unless someone speaks up.

Item Models
A few commodity items did not have models to represent them in the game. Some items needed an update to their model.

These things now have new or updated 3D models.

• Adamantine
  
• Adamantite
  
• Blueprints
  
• Borexino Precipitate
  
• Certificate for Spacecraft Title
  
• Computer
  
• Dynamite
  
• Gold
  
• Gold Ore
  
• Gold Ring
  
• Ice Cream
  
• Microscope
  
• Myrasplicer
  
• Nanopath Calibrator
  
• Nuclear Fuel Rod
  
• Plutonium
  
• Red, Green and Blue Binders
  
• Storage Crystal
  
• Tesloid Dissipator
  
• Thumb Drive
  

Does anyone use the 32 bit build?

I may stop building a 32 bit version unless someone actually uses it.

I've stumbled my way up to the point that I need resources from another star system. The issue is trying to go to another star system, either by deadheading or by wormholes causes everything to freeze up. I've tried all 3 different wormholes that was in the system I started in, I tried traveling directly to another one, all had the same result, a single frame of being in the new system and everything becomes non-responsive.

The save file is right before using a wormhole drive into a new system.
Save file link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7QtlXA...drive_link

Helicopter Too Feeble
Helicopter is too feeble to taxi up the ramp on Gulliver.

Fixed a bug that determined the air pressure in a room, due to the ramp room being an outside room. The helicopter was unable to move because it was reading zero air pressure in its environment.

Helicopter Stuck in Ceiling
Helicopter in vehicle bay on Gulliver gets stuck in the ceiling quite easily. Just take off.

Fixed.

Prone Movement Buggy
Moving on a hill while prone is quite an experience. Sometimes you get dragged uncontrollably around the terrain.

Fixed.

Falling Damage
Creatures, vehicles and spacecraft are not damaged by crashing into terrain. I can fall from orbit and land unhurt on the terrain.

Falling damage was disabled for a long time due to the previous prone movement bug. That bug invariably ended up killing you due to falling damage.

This is reported as "collision with terrain" in messages that report damage.

Due to the deadly nature of this change, a setting was added to enable/disable falling damage. It can be found on the Program page of the Settings window.

Lighting on Gulliver Ramp
Lighting of the helicopter is incorrect on the vehicle ramp on Gulliver. It is pitch black.

Fixed.

Toxic Smoke
When real bombs explode, there is a high concentration of carbon monoxide in the crater. Could the smoke in bomb craters be toxic in the game?

Smoke in bomb craters is now toxic. It causes suffocation damage, not poisoning.

Smoke from fissures is also toxic.

Smoke from volcanoes is not toxic.

New Avatar Bug
I started several new avatars that never seemed to enter the game.

Changed the algorithm for finding a homeworld. The requirement for a neighboring ringworld became more stringent, causing the old algorithm to spend a lot of time searching, sometimes with no success.

I noticed that when creating a gen4 character (at the beginning of the game) you can't upload your DNA