Stargate Beams Render
The energy beams from the cones to the sun are clipped incorrectly by the ringworld arc section I am on.

Fixed.

Commodity Demand Prices
Commodity prices used to be modulated by local supply and demand. That was lost when the new cities were implemented.

Done.

Ladder Pose
When climbing a ladder my body is straight and stiff, not animated.

Finished ladder stationary and climbing poses.

Close Stories Bug
I started a new game and created a new avatar. I didn't like my starting location so I returned to the main screen, deleted my avatar, and started again. This time Targoss never appears even though the story shows as running.

Fixed data cleanup error when restarting the universe from scratch.

UTC Nerf
Dates and times are expressed using UTC notation. Is this necessary?

All dates and times are now expressed in the local time. The UTC was a holdover from when the server was formatting some of those strings. They won't be doing that any more.

Mission Orders Crash
The Harvest Minerals mission order cause a crash when it is selected and your ship is not near a world.

Fixed the crash. This mission order is obsolete and it was removed in a previous update. I restored the obsolete commands to reproduce this crash, mainly to insure the crash could not be cause in any other way.

System Gen for Scan
Solar system scans and starmap searches must regen solar systems in memory to search or display them. This is due to the fact that the server does not send the entire universe to the client so the client must improvise. Unfortunately the result is not always correct, particularly in systems where one or more worlds have been destroyed by asteroids.

Solo game now accesses the full game universe data rather than regening systems for that kind of information. This applies to several processes: solar system survey scan, starmap search, mission orders, XML export.

Mission Orders
Mission orders are limited to the data available to the client. This results in buggy feeling things like the Go To Space Station order not listing any space stations in the system until you get near them.

Mission orders ui was changed to access the full game universe data.

Starmap Search
The starmap search ui needs work. There are too many controls on one dialog box. It is difficult to see the results.

Starmap search ui was split into two pages. The first page contains the search criteria. The second page contains the search results.

Added a button to the range section of the search criteria to fill in the galaxy location with your current location.

Eliminated the use of solar system regen to display results. Solar systems are displayed using global universe data.

Looks like two old bugs have come back to life:

Since the update, none of my pads are producing spacecraft, even ones on moons, and newly created ones. All give the same error that there is some obstruction on the pad. This check needs to be fixed, and have the pad clear/push any obstructions that aren't vehicles away before spawning.

There is s till an issue with removing items from the ship's cargo hold to to personal inventory. This is still causing crashes.

I'm running Hazeron Starship under Proton in steam. 


There was also a weird save game issue where the game loaded, but only NPC models loaded and nothing else, not even planet foliage.  This save was lost though.

Even if every solar system within a sector has been surveyed, the starmap sector status will only ever show "Unexplored" for the sector itself:


I assume this isn't intentional, so am posting a bug report about it

Since Starship was introduced, a few people have noticed many elements of the UI have strange delays, some seeming hardcoded. This makes the UI feel very unresponsive

I imagine these delays were added to lower server load in the MMO days, but given Starship is singleplayer and any possible future MP would be player-hosted, it should be safe to remove these delays, small change but would make the game feel a lot better

An example is switching between items in the Handcraft menu:


Notice the inconsistent and sometimes ridiculously long delay between selecting an item to craft and the UI actually updating (Like when I first swap from backpack back to animal meat)
If it matters, this was tested in deep space with my game running at a smooth 60fps

This applies to most UIs in the game, from building management to ship interfaces. Might be caused by how starship is simulating the server locally but that's a wild guess

Citizen of the Galaxy Story
I used the Citizen of the Galaxy scenario to add another emperor to my empire. It seemed like a new player could use a few tips on how to do this.

A very brief story chapter runs when you enter the Citizen of the Galaxy scenario. The story provides a few useful tips including how to become a vice emperor.

Particle Harvester Story
The final two chapters of the Relic story are finished. It is final in the sense that the conclusion I was after has been reached. The goal of the story was to teach a new player how to use a stargate, which is a big feature that is not at all obvious how to operate.

It is hard to say final. I fully intend to continue writing more stories. At this point there is little left to teach, which is a nice turning point. It means future stories can be written purely for the purpose of telling a fun story.

The story ends with finality; there is no suggestion of more to come so the story can rest for awhile. I will work on the AI avatar emperor now. That is going to take a lot of work.

Particle Harvester
A new small spacecraft blueprint was published, 1011 Particle Harvester. It is needed by a new story chapter that was added. In developing this ship I found that it was not possible to make a small particle harvester because of the range required to harvest from a sun.

Harvester range calculation was changed to produce a minimum of 6000m, enough to harvest particles from a star even with the smallest particle harvester. You might only get one particle per sweep but it will work.

Officer Doesn't Harvest
There are harvest orders to configure the harvester bays. The officer never marks those orders completed. The ship gets stuck there.

I fixed that problem only to discover those harvest orders were obsolete. The obsolete harvest orders were removed from the order list. They will function if you have them in a mission but you can't add them to new missions.

Village Encounters Aboard Vehicle
Village encounters only happen when you are on the ground not in a spacecraft or vehicle. That means you can never find the village while searching on a motor bike or a sailboat. 

Village encounters can now occur while you are aboard a vehicle or in a spacecraft, on the ground or in the air. If you are moving quickly in a vehicle you might not notice as you whiz past the indigenous people who show up to greet you.

Bulk Mail
Bulk mail does not work in solo play. I discovered this after adding a second emperor to my empire. Neither of them received city reports by mail any longer, because they are sent to multiple recipients.

Fixed.

Henge Fire
Henges should not have a pile of logs at the center when the world does not have an indigenous species. There might not even be logs in the environment there.

The fire already did not burn when there was no indigenous people. Now there are no logs either.

Henge Point of Interest
World maps do not show henges on the list of points of interest.

Fixed. Henges are now listed on the points of interest of a world map. That enables them to be selected as a transporter destination.

Henge Portal Fire
When the henge portal is open, a fiery effect appears. Some changes were made here.

• Henge portal fire color is no longer always blue. Instead it is the same kelvin temperature as the ringworld sun to which it is connected.
  
  
• Henge portal fire is now bigger and more vigorous than the bonfire that burns there when the world has indigenous people. This helps to distinguish the portal from the fire since the kelvin color of the portal can be very close to the bonfire color.
  

• Rings overlap the planet incorrectly as you approach the planet from a distance. They look correct up to a point then suddenly they overlap the planet completely, incorrectly, where the back side of the ring is in front of the planet instead of behind it.
  
• Rings are clipped by the atmosphere incorrectly when you are close to the planet. This is seen as a ring seeming to disappear as it passes behind the transparent layers of the atmosphere.
  

Many tooltips in game look like this one. When a tooltip text is longer than a few words, it become unreadable.

Currently, when you close the game, the window closes but it initiates a Current Game save. This causes the game to keep running in the background for a few minutes after supposedly closing, which Steam also shows 

This is confusing, and might cause users to kill the process during the save if they think it's failed to close properly, especially if they don't know that the game is saving

Instead, the game window shouldn't immediately close on exit, but instead show a popup telling the user that it's saving, or at least asking the user if they want to save, ideally with a progress bar or a waiting symbol of some kind, but even just text saying "saving before closing..." would be fine

When adding line breaks into descriptions within blueprint properties, the game doesn't render the line breaks so text ends up looking jumbled

Steam Workshop does obey the line breaks, here's a comparison:




As the last screenshot shows, this also applies to the design properties window itself, which seems to store the line breaks but doesn't show them

Not every player will register on this forum, when Steam has its own platform.

However, the Steam platform is underused. There is no topic separation, no structure, everything is mixed in one place.
Similar complaints were made earlier in Steam itself, but I’m not sure that Haxus reads it. That's need to be fixed, it's a reason why I'm writing here.

This is a matter of comfort and functionality, which will not require additional effort, but will bring benefits.