Building Quality of Operation
The quality of operation of buildings is confusing. It imposes a year long delay on new empires before they can compete fairly with other empires.
Building quality of operation removed.
Buildings and cities have a maximum range for detection of signals emitted by solar systems. This range is incorrectly calculated, based solely on the quality of operation of the building, not the size of the sensors.
Changed calculation for deep space detection range to be based on sensor range. The maximum range possible is around 600pc. The Airport Radar 1000M blueprint in the exchange has a range of 9.3pc.
Spacecraft Detect Emissions
Someone suggested that spacecraft participate in the detection of system emissions.
Spacecraft with sensors will now detect emissions from solar systems.
Buildings always show a quality of construction of 1.
Fixed construction process to establish quality of construction upon completion. Quality of construction affects weapons, shields and sensors.
This is not a new factor on new style buildings. Old style buildings do not store their quality of construction.
Lockup at Transporter Station
Client program locked up when I viewed the sensor mode screen on a transporter station. The ship was at a ringworld.
Slapped console display code that decided to draw the ringworld using 18M line segments. It won't be doing that again.
Spacecraft Blueprint Quality Limits
The size of spacecraft blueprints is limited by two factors. The quality of construction limits the overall size. The quality of life support limits the number of berths. This puts an unfair limitation on new players.
Removed spacecraft blueprint size limit progression based on quality. Removed berth limit due to life support quality.
Vague Indigenous Directions
It was requested that the indigenous give a slightly better description of the location of a place they are telling about. "Less than 10km northeast" is a lot of terrain.
Indigenous directions were improved. They now use intermediate directions, such as "north-northeast", to give a better indication of direction. They also estimate the distance to the nearest kilometer, such as "about 7km".
The quality of operation of buildings is confusing. It imposes a year long delay on new empires before they can compete fairly with other empires.
Building quality of operation removed.
- With the removal of building quality of operation, tech items no longer serve any purpose.
- Mass media building no longer produces tech items. Mass media building does nothing at all any more. It might be repurposed as a morale building.
- Repair shop quality is no longer a factor when repairing or recovering spacecraft.
- Detection range of buildings now appears on the building design analysis.
Buildings and cities have a maximum range for detection of signals emitted by solar systems. This range is incorrectly calculated, based solely on the quality of operation of the building, not the size of the sensors.
Changed calculation for deep space detection range to be based on sensor range. The maximum range possible is around 600pc. The Airport Radar 1000M blueprint in the exchange has a range of 9.3pc.
Spacecraft Detect Emissions
Someone suggested that spacecraft participate in the detection of system emissions.
Spacecraft with sensors will now detect emissions from solar systems.
- Deep space detection range is reported on the design analysis.
- As with cities and buildings, emissions from the solar system containing the ship are not detected.
- Systems only emit their signal once per six hours. A spacecraft would have to loiter that long in a system, to detect every possible signal.
- The ship itself does not indicate when it detects a signal. It just responds appropriately so the star map gets updated.
Buildings always show a quality of construction of 1.
Fixed construction process to establish quality of construction upon completion. Quality of construction affects weapons, shields and sensors.
This is not a new factor on new style buildings. Old style buildings do not store their quality of construction.
Lockup at Transporter Station
Client program locked up when I viewed the sensor mode screen on a transporter station. The ship was at a ringworld.
Slapped console display code that decided to draw the ringworld using 18M line segments. It won't be doing that again.
Spacecraft Blueprint Quality Limits
The size of spacecraft blueprints is limited by two factors. The quality of construction limits the overall size. The quality of life support limits the number of berths. This puts an unfair limitation on new players.
Removed spacecraft blueprint size limit progression based on quality. Removed berth limit due to life support quality.
Vague Indigenous Directions
It was requested that the indigenous give a slightly better description of the location of a place they are telling about. "Less than 10km northeast" is a lot of terrain.
Indigenous directions were improved. They now use intermediate directions, such as "north-northeast", to give a better indication of direction. They also estimate the distance to the nearest kilometer, such as "about 7km".