Dev Blog 25th April – Information Stations

One thing i'm quite interested in seeing is what the weather types stand for, in the game. I've beamed down to a planet thinking that the weater type meant minor meteor showers only to have it rain literal flames from the sky. Also, player buffs and debuffs. I find that there is still 2 buffs i have no clue what they both do, yet.

 

"Geological analysis : Copper, iron, silver"
"Threat : extreme"
C'MOOOOOON

Still, a very interesting updtae ^^

 

Oooohh! So many shiny buttons! So when will we be able to micromanage crew equipment? Because that would just be the greatest. And allowing you to access their inventories would help with food management... Also, ordering them to defend, attack, destroy, or build certain areas would also be really cool.
*gasp of realization*
Guard micromanagement for towns? OoO

 

And a reminder to you to go buy more coffee. That flavor text for the planets looks aaawfully promising. potential for things to come maybe?

 

What about servers. Will the invitations to game via steam?

 

Well, I'm pleased to see this.

 

I hope the navigation interface doesn't try to load a new quadrant of space with every single button press in the X/Y coordinates. On my new computer it isn't as much of a problem, but on my older computer it takes a loooooong freakin' time to type in coordinates. Typing in all the numbers at once doesn't help either, as the game still sequentially loads each sector of space from each button press - one time it was enough to crash the game.

 

Can't wait to play the new update when it launches.

 

Is this in the Nightly already?

 

loooks very well made, i always wondered something, is it possible that after 1.0 that chucklefish might introduced changing the color, personality, and appearance of S.A.I.L.

Maybe introducing upgrades for S.A.I.L. that they can provide more accurate information on planets, find quests, find ores, find villages, etc

 

But have you had enough coffee? Heh. I'm liking the geological scan. Can it also scan for villages and show if they're hostile or not? ("hostile glitch castle", "friendly avian village")

 

Technically nothing is in the nightly right now because the assets are not getting distributed with the updates for whatever reason.

 

I've always wanted my ship to be able to tell me what minerals lie below. reminds me of mass effect 2 with the probes.

Smug.I enjoy turning into a ball form reminds me of what the humans call transformers robots in disguise!
and it helps....keep the water out....



nightly isn't launch correctly... ...its downloading 1 kilobyte for the packed.pak instead of roughly 700 megabytes...

 

Can I just say that I LOVE that placeholder planet description? Could it be kept, at least in the assets? (Similar to one of the crash messages in Minecraft which can never appear from how the code is written)
Also love the actual content, as (almost) always.

 

the orbital scans should initiate once u reach orbit and should be an upgradable feature like surface scan near crust scan and deep core scan

 

I'm sure a lot of you have already heard of or experienced the problem with Nightly, and I think I've found the problem.
Anyway, ship interface improvements. Neat!

 

First thing that came to mind was "Ooo this looks nice! -but... it'd look even better with a per-crewmember outfit tab." BUT > ^> on topic, I like that more detail shows on the navigation console. I'm still hoping for some more crazy techs though!

 

One thing that jumped out at me was "Day Cycle: 14 clicks"
Considering that "clicks" are kilometres, what is this intended to mean....?

 

Liking the new look navigation window. It's amazing how far this game has come even in the short time I've been following it.