ALPHA 45A NOW IN EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH

Alpha 45A is in the Experimental Branch on Steam. Some notes: I rewrote the save game code to handle the problems people were having saving and loading really large colonies; please let me know if there are any issues. Otherwise, we have rolled in the boxed module stuff and a first swing at the foreign office, and all sorts of horrors and things. So... uh, yeah. This is probably going to be An Exciting Few Days(TM)

Changelog:

• added Boxed Module production/construction: (most) modules are now constructed in workshops rather than in-place. Most non-decor modules now work with this system.
• added Building Quality tutorial
• added ability to register an object as being, or not being, a trade good. (preparation for trade depot system)
• adding skillup thought bubble + memory
• colonists who are maddened or cultists will enjoy creepy dancing rather than be upset
• airdrop crates now love doomed characters
• implemented various memory efficiency operations for loading very long, very large save games with an unreasonable number of goods lying around
• rally beacons will self-delete after a day (so that soldiers don't accidentally starve to death)
• changed "gathering" skill name to "naturalism" in prep for future skill overhaul
• balance: set new skill levelup values appropriate for each profession
• balance: Chapel-assigned workcrew labourers can now take confession
• added first implementation of foreign office, connected prestige system to empire faction interaction within foreign office. (work still to do includes: exposing current standing data with each faction, exposing data for how each mission affects faction standing, reworking bandit events and foreign faction events to be based on faction standing, and populating periodic passive and choice-based events for each faction related to current faction standing instead of using graph traversal (whew, yeah, there's a lot still to go here))
• UI: expanded workshop UI code to allow for more recipes since we have boxed modules now
• FIXED: Refining Tutorial scripterror
• FIXED: materials costs for several decor modules
• FIXED some weird bugs with progress bars
• FIXED: "unique" tag now works on gameSimRequireGameObject::RequirementMet (previously it didn't) (this is important for jobs that require multiple instances of the same commodity)
• FIXED: vicar deprogram cultist job would occasionally freeze the cultist in place forever
• FIXED: some typos in events
• FIXED: manually cancelling burial will stop automatic burial (again)
• FIXED: dissecting fishpeople could freeze game
• FIXED: various minor issues w/ dissecting horrors
• FIXED: goods stolen by bandits will be subtracted from colony commodity counts
• FIXED: people will no longer attend sermons while carrying hoes (nor will they seek services of the barber or pub while carrying tools)
• FIXED: colonists sleeping in chapels will no longer receive positive memories for having attended a sermon (they will instead be rudely awoken)
• FIXED: skill progression bar variations were not being displayed correctly
• FIXED: repair alerts will reference material name required rather than internal tag string
• FIXED: corrected incorrect text in naturalist_study_fishperson_corpse event

 

No, no surprise horrors. Also, the fire and trade depots aren't in yet because they still need some love (and in the case of the trade depot, a complicated system of AI programming so that Stahlmarkians will lug surplus cabbage correctly to your trade depot for Purposes.)

 

Yes. You have to queue them manually. We ... COULD make it autoqueue them but this could run into issues if you have multiple workshops, want to save the resources for something else, etc.

 

Those weren't ready for primetime yet! How did they make it into the build?

 

Looking into it, thanks!

We've discussed it at length, and the current plan is that we won't auto-generate the module construction jobs. Doing so would put us in a weird place where players (especially new players) might not understand what was happening with some modules being able to be produced on the fly vs not, and if we figured that out we'd have to figure out how to prioritize automatically generated jobs over standing orders which is probably impossible given that players use S.Os both for high priority and for low priority jobs.

 

That too. It gets probably too complicated to have an intuitive default case.

 

I know you're all more excited about the crates (they're awesome), but you have no idea how pumped I am for the foreign office. That paperwork is going to get serious.

 

Hey, watch whose face you call wacky!

 

GAK.
I remember suspecting there was an economic hole here somewhere but I think I forgot to plug it in the chaos of setting everything else up. I'll figure something out. Probably change the costs on building forges, they're overpriced.

EDIT: it looks like it's just the tooltip that's wrong? It might be okay and I may have nerfed the price already previously

 

It's in a weird place right now, where Nicholas is halfway through some AI code to use the loadouts, but I'm doing most of the UI implementation. We have had to work on other things the last few weeks to unblock content pipelines, but that seems to almost be over.