(02-20-2021, 05:10 AM)Phoenix Wrote: I would also note that travelling long distances at this point in the beta is very difficult. I must have attempted to launch my ship from the starting cluster to the center of the galaxy 20-30 times and I was only successful twice. In my experience I found that the game was usually fine if I was there to move the controls every so often (I did this in both my successful attempts) however the game was prone to freeze if left unattended for the 6-7 hours required to travel to the galactic center at warp 9. I have no idea what causes this issue, but it is highly frustrating as the game reverts to the last manual save point when it crashes like this. Hence why I needed to attempt the journey 20-30 times.
You also seemed to encounter the "Spacecraft Lost in Deep Space" bug a few times too. Allowing you to be at the coordinates <0,0,0>, but actually be in a solar system that was far away.
Bug report: https://www.hazeron.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=538
And yes, some options for auto-saving would be nice. Such as after avatar creation, after founding a new city, after every system transition, and at an hourly time interval.
(02-20-2021, 05:10 AM)Phoenix Wrote: To end on a positive note I would like to say that I greatly appreciate your efforts so far and willingness to let us share in the beta. I also appreciate the ability to use another avatar to build colonies or whatever while another is in transit.
As far as I understand, this has just been changed to do just that. Dark matter no longer hit ships that have an offline avatar onboard. At least I assume that this means that AI pilot will also travel into unexplored solar systems while the offline avatar in onboard. See:
(02-19-2021, 10:21 PM)Haxus Wrote: Dark Matter Death
Conditions under which a spacecraft or vehicle are destroyed by dark matter were relaxed a bit.
Dark matter is a form of cleanup that occurs when vehicles or spacecraft transition from one solar system to another.
Vehicles are now destroyed by dark matter only if unoccupied. No occupant has to be on line.
Spacecraft are now destroyed by dark matter when they do not have an AI first officer and there is no avatar aboard. Spacecraft are not destroyed if an AI officer or an avatar are aboard. Nobody has to be on line.