Parts of My Hull are Orange
Some parts of the hull of my ship were weirdly orange. Later they were black and green striped.

Fixed a texture error that was introduce when making decals respond to room lighting. A texture was not restored after rendering the decals.

I regret that this bug made it into the final Win32 build. I will build a Win32 update with the latest changes if someone asks for it.

Empty Transporter Module
A ship built with empty transporter modules can still use its transporters.

Fixed.

Ringworld Seasons
"It is always summer on ringworlds but the plants have their flowers. Think of it as early summer."

I could not be satisfied with this. After mulling over several possible ways to induce seasons on a ringworld, I settled for modulating the day length as follows.

Shadow panels now modulate the width of the sunlight gap, down to half the normal day length in winter. This is done continuously around the ringworld so all four seasons are present all the time, each in a different quadrant of the ringworld.

When a stargate is opened the shadow panels retract to their summer configuration, with maximum aperture. This means you can no longer look up to see when the shadow panels are in position to open a stargate. Instead the obelisks at the corners now show a light at the top when the shadow panels are in position to open a stargate.

The Control Center story chapter was updated to impart this information.

Ringworld Shadow Panel Connecting Cables
The shadow panels orbit independently of each other. They should be interconnected to give them a coherent structure.

Cables were added at the corners to connect adjacent shadow panels. These "cables" appear to be very thin; they are 90m in diameter. They look as thin as hairs on the statue at the control center if you actually see them.

Potted Plant Growth
Potted plants should grow.

Potted plants now start as a tiny seedling. The plant grows to full size in 5 minutes for ground cover, 10 minutes for shrubs, and 20 minutes for trees. They flower at that time. That is also the first time the plant can be harvested. A potted plant can be harvested every 10 minutes after that.

Tropical and Polar Latitudes
Tropical and polar latitude calculations should consider axial tilt. Current calculation is still a holdover from before worlds had axial tilt.

Done. This will affect existing worlds.

Atmosphere Density Description
Improve atmosphere description with some adjectives at key transitions.

Atmosphere density description now includes these terms. Comments about plants and breathability only apply to worlds in the inner, habitable, and outer orbit zones. Frigid and inferno atmospheres are never breathable or ok for plants.

• Vacuum = 0% density, not breathable, no plants
  
• Trace = 1% to 9%, not breathable, no plants
  
• Very Thin = 9% to 14%, not breathable, plants ok
  
• Thin = 15% to 39%, breathable but not good enough for a homeworld, plants ok
  
• No density term = 40% to 70%, breathable, plants ok
  
• Thick = 71% to 85%, breathable but not good enough for a homeworld, plants ok
  
• Oppressive = 86% to 100%, too much pressure to breath, plants ok
  

• Suns - Axial Tilt, Orbital Period for companions.
  
• Spherical Worlds - Axial Tilt if not a planetoid, Orbital Period, Rotation Period if not a planetoid
  
• Ringworlds - Orbital Period, Day Period
  
• Rings - Orbital Period
  

I was told that homesickness was cured. My Officer from my home planet that was destroyed by the asteroid scuttled his ship and supposedly went home yesterday.

It took 30 days to happen, but it did. Dean suggested I post it as a bug.

   

Seasons
There have been requests for seasonal variations of plants.

Planets now determine the current season at the viewer's location. This is shown on the Compass window, where the current weather conditions are shown. 

Season determination is based on the position and movement of the world's sun. Other suns in the solar system do not affect season.

Plants and ground texture change appearance with season. Season changes are not gradual. There is no scene generation time between seasons; the rendering change is instantaneous. Winter to spring is quite abrupt when all the trees and plants suddenly have leaves and flowers and everything turns green.

Non-aquatic plants:

• Spring - Leaves, flowers
  
• Summer - Leaves, no flowers
  
• Autumn - Leaves in fall colors, no flowers
  
• Winter - No leaves or flowers.
  

• Spring - Leaves, no flowers
  
• Summer - Leaves, flowers
  
• Autumn - Leaves, no flowers
  
• Winter - Leaves, no flowers
  

My game crashes when attempting to complete the relic mission immediately after Xian picks up the knife. I have tried diffrerent dialogue speeds but this had no effect. The picture above is the moment the game crashes. Similarly, my game crashes the moment I enter a wormhole.

Link to my save file (I couldn't upload here as it is 65mb) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EVrR7Rd...drive_link

I notice Dr. Millton is spelled Millton in the Control Center story description, but his name is Dr. Millford in the story dialogue, see here



And then, in the next story, Particle Harvester, he's called Millford in the description again

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.