ALPHA 42 NOW RELEASED ON STEAM

I know I have whined about this before (and wholly own the fact that I am whining), but can we get a list of what changed between 41E and 42?

 

I am guessing there is no Apple store in your vicinity.

 

I really appreciate the breakout of this information.

 

Jolly good!

 

Nice to see the difference between 41E and R42.

Though I notice the bandit script error isn't mentioned a 2nd time around, as whilst it was reported as being fixed for 41E it has been posted by a few people to still be occurring in 41E. Does that mean there's still a chance of it happening in R42?

 

Dammit!!! Next time put "but not for you OSX suckers" in the headline please.

 

Macs seem to last for a scary long time, which makes it all the more disconcerting when they stop.

 

btw, slowed down overseer immigration? Initial reaction to reading that is wondering why exactly overseer immigration was slowed down when the problem seemed to more be worker immigration pacing rates were too slow, whilst overseer immigration seemed paced just right for a steady growing colony to keep industry ticking over and be ready for threats by the time they're most likely to trigger.

Will give the slower pace a shot and try to not be too biased against it, but if overseer immigration pacing was slowed down with no other changes feeding off of that, then I can see keeping a colony going being rather problematic now unless the reduction is very marginal and really not that noticeable.

 

There is a grand tradition in game development where positive user feedback is seen as a sign that something is too easy.

 

Well in 41E for me it was pretty much hanging on the knife edge of survival praying that you didn't get attacked by anything larger than 3 bandits. With losing a overseer having the consequence of really halting the flow of your colony. Which I'd consider just about right, not too easy, not too hard.

With slower overseer arrivals I'd expect it to make the mandatory pacing you need to get to the point of firearms production in order to have anything but a token gesture defence much more of a crapshoot experience driven mostly by pure luck.

But we'll see how it goes later this evening.

 

Ah, this is good to know long side the change.

Such things always cause a little voice in the back of the mind going "Is this a change for something completely unmentioned currently?" but it's kind of hard to tell for sure what the larger picture may be without raising the initial concern and getting a response.

 

I like hard, but I'm masochistic like that.

 

At the moment I'm going with stalwart supply every embark and drafting my first three colonists into the squad. I've repelled every Foreign Assault since to the point where I just don't bother with the others.

 

Are you gonna re-enable the ability to unassign laborers from a work crew via right click? That was very handy when trying to take out the brutish and criminal laborers from civilian jobs and putting them into military jobs.

 

Anyone else having a difficult time keeping everyone fed?

Even with a stream of cabbages going to the kitchen (half of which rot before the crew can tend to them, i'm still trying to figure out an optimum size plot for each crop) they're eating all the raw food before it can even get cooked.

The time to make a kitchen is still the same, but Its like everyone starts out completely starving.

[edit] An additional thought.. i've been using 21's a crowd. I wonder if that might have something to do with it?

 

Try multiple small farms as your needs require more food, rather than one big farm.

Not tried R42 yet, but with 41E which had the first public iteration of the new farming system Pumpkins were the ideal early colony crop.

Also, there were some ninja changes to kitchens so you may now need multiple kitchens in your colony once you each certain population sizes.