Revision 31C now up in Experimental branch

great stuff trying it now

 

I just started a quick game and got really confused when my soldiers weren't attacking fishpeople. It looks like it requires them to have hunting enabled first. Also, I couldn't find the loading bay doors in the new module selection screen. It looks a lot more confusing at first, but maybe I'm just used to the old way of creating buildings.

 

I just tried a game where I saved at the start and sent soldiers to a fishpeople heavy area with both hunting on and hunting off. I didn't notice any particular difference in their preference in firing upon fish people. Two soldiers did, one did not, and one of those who did was rather keen to flee in either case when engaged. I did notice one of the soldiers preferentially firing upon fauna even when being engaged by fishpeople, which seems like somewhat poor combat training. Thus far I haven't seen anything which suggests an obvious difference in fishman combat via hunting jobs enabled however.

 

Wow! Lots of changes. More than I have energy to go through ATM.

No more automatic counterattack in melee? That makes Fishpeople a lot more powerful. Lost several soldiers who just stood there while being hacked to bits.

Not sure how the new alarm system works, but it's intriguing.

Going out of town for the weekend, so I mostly just wanted to say how encouraging it is to see a new rev out from Gaslamp. Have fun and I'll try to have some useful comments come next week.

 

This might have been what I was seeing. It seemed like enabling the hunting job for my soldiers made them attack the fishpeople, though. Maybe it was a coincidence.

 

Soldiers did not attack fishpeople...everyone died...turned hunting on and off etc everyone died of punctures and other such horrific injuries.

 

Having trouble getting jobs done and soilders seem more inept. In one instance I watched a single fishman gun down my squad of 3 as two of them ran around him in a circle responding to an alarm and the third stood and watched. In another game my townsfolk decided very quickly that they had no intention of building there bunk house, or clearing terrain, or doing any work at all... Like the changes though and the direction the game is headed.

 

[Img-Professor Farnsworth] Good news everyone! The game is now stable enough that it won't crash before all your colonists die horribly at the hands/tentacles/squamous pseudopods of the unknown horrors of the new world! (Crashes much less frequent on 31C on my GTX635M based laptop, untested on Radeon based desktop but both had similar mean time between crashes)

A few other issues I've seen with a few hours on 31C though:
1. Finished jobs not properly clearing from job queue
2. Soldiers definitely seem more reluctant to engage fishmen. The problem seemed to worsen after a few days on the colony. I had ammo crates on the ground, maybe soldiers not replenishing their ammo supplies and going into coward mode?
3. Had an issue with stockpiles where colonists would pick up a commodity, then walk aimlessly in a single square with a 'drop item' job active repeatedly.
4. Placed landmines would cause console error message spam and require alt+tab and killing CE process.
5. Was able to place modules outside the bounds of buildings on occasion. Not sure what I did to cause it but will try to reproduce.
Edit: 6. This update has robbed Her Majesty's soldiers of some much needed backbone! Many a soldier has died a cowardly death with a coral club embedded in his spine while he flees a single fishman that would have been handily defeated in 31B.

Tings wot I liked about dis update so far:
1. Maybe confirmation bias, but fishmen seemed to fuck with the colony less until it was well established. Early game 'set up the bare bones basics of the colony' section of gameplay seemed to have way less 'fishman wanders by, colonists scatter like quail' annoyances.
2. Module placement UI still leaves a lot to be desired but is SOOO much less cumbersome than the 31B build system.
3. Conan, what is best in life? Crush your enemies, see dem driven before you, and a reasonably stable Clockwork Empires. This build seems much less crash prone.

 

Some first impressions, after about an hour with [r31C], no AZDO temperate biome:

• flatten terrain seems to be working properly
• butchering seems to be working properly, it has its own flag and everything

Coffins!

• I haven't tried burying anyone yet, but I made a bunch of coffins
• coffins stack in the stockpile in an unpleasing manner, lots of clipping, probably because they're so big

Modules

• module construction appears to have been changed back to one job per module, rather than being lumped into building construction now?
• it is apparently possible to build any module in any building, but only appropriate modules in appropriate buildings are actually used?
• as an exception, cots built in my Carpentry Workshop and Kitchen both operate as intended
• I assume movable modules are intended so modules can be, appropriately, more modular
• there does not appear to be a way to delete a constructed module, however
• it's possible to move any completed module (including doors) from any building to any other building, instantly
• moving a door after it has been constructed leaves a door-shaped hole
• the door's new location and the hole where it used to be both malfunction; neither functions as a door, and the new door doesn't get a hole in the wall

 

Not only do soldiers seem to be rather craven, my farming militia rather till soil while being shot at by fishpeople than run or fight back.

While dumping cowards into far off lands where fishpeople will devour them, seems like a good way to build-up the average national bravery of the empire, I do believe that colonial development and prestige may suffer.

Aurochs rampaging and turning hunters into the hunted is much appreciated.

 

Truly, vast amounts of cowardly unfit soldiers have been sent into the grinder that is the colony's. One day perhaps we will weed them out until only the stoutest of servicemen remain.

 

My colony desended into one big abattoir, military seemed very reluctant to engage the tuna onslaught! 2 soldiers didnt even pick up their muskets prefering to hang around in the kitchen while labourers were hacked to bits. Some of the farming workgroup didn't seem to want to make a run for it? It was carnage lol

 

come si fa per mettere la patch 31C?Urgente

 

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I used through Google Translate, I hope it still makes sense.
Patch 31C is experimental. You must choose to enable the experimental patch.

1. Locate "Clockwork Empires" in your Games Library.
2. Right-click on "Clockwork Empires", and select "Properties".
3. Select the tab named "Beta".
4. Enable "Experimental" in the menu. No code is necessary.
5. When your game updates, the name will change to "Clockwork Empires [Experimental]."

You can change it back by using the same menu. The Experimental branch is updated more frequently, but it is less reliable.

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Ho usato tramite Google Translate, spero che abbia ancora senso.
Patch 31C è sperimentale. Dovete scegliere di abilitare le patch sperimentali.

1. Individuare "Clockwork Empires" nella vostra libreria di giochi.
2. Fare clic destro su "Clockwork Empires", e selezionare "Proprietà".
3. Selezionare la scheda denominata "Beta".
4. Attiva "sperimentale" nel menu. Nessun codice è necessario.
5. Quando i vostri aggiornamenti del gioco, il nome cambia in "Clockwork Empires [sperimentale]."

È possibile cambiare di nuovo utilizzando lo stesso menu. Il ramo Sperimentale viene aggiornato più frequentemente, ma è meno affidabile.

 

Just had a look at 31C with the tropical biome and here is a few notes. As already stated elsewhere soldiers are not attacking the slimy ones much and if they do it's a random shot before running off. If they are carrying something they are just ignoring anything else going on around them. Soldiers are hunting very well though. Game is crashing a lot more quickly but not from specific events. It might to be connected to my graphic card wanting to take off from the overload - no other game I have puts it under so much strain!

Workbench for kitchen should be renamed as such as a new player would have no idea which bench should go in the kitchen ( other benches are named for workshop used in).

Stockpile placement is duplicated under two different buttons ( special and zones)

BTW Opium is a temperate and sub tropical plant - it is unlikely that it would grow well in a tropical climate so maybe it should be replaced with coca leaf for medicinal uses.

I could only play for a few game days before everyone was dead or the game crashed. In 31B I could play for game weeks before a crash.

Landmines cause script error and dialog box will not close. I have a fair bit of time this week so will try and see what else I can spot if 31D is close.

 

for some reason the clear terrain job is not being executed