BETA 52E BETA 52E: THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE NEW BUTTON ON THE UI

Mining sand dunes gives 2 options, I'm sure its just erroneous code that needs cleaning :S

 

I love the UI improvements! Especially around Quality of Life.

Just a couple of items:

- I have an oblivious Worker who seems to be slightly unhappy with his work environment? Is the baseline to be slightly miffed?
- As before (I know you've said it's tricky) it'd be nice to not see overseers for Work Crew selection when they're already assigned to a building
- There is a button for Show Colonists and a counter for Population. A part of the UI that could be combined? Does it make sense to say that I keep expecting all of the icons at the top of the screen to be clickable buttons that take me to more info. Having the combination of buttons and displays feels a little odd.

What's the UI equivalent of Occam's Razor...?

 

Stahlmarkian rogues don't leave after training concludes. I now have two "pet" Stahlmarkians just wandering around my colony.

Edit: Now three!

 

Unusual caravan event causes error

 

After colonists die, it seems like immigration doesn't occur to refill the old housing. You must keep building housing/upgrades for new immigrants, despite having plenty of space available.

 

Traders still getting stuck, and don't go away because of it. Also kudos on having enemies get progressively stronger, bandits eventually start toting guns and fishmen are using their own guns too!

 

Another thing, in this current game I've lost 3 overseers and I haven't had the chance to replenish them. Do I have to build the middle class home to have that option?

 

No unfortunately it didn't create a dmp file :/

 

The game churns out console/debug info as you play in the console.txt file found in the same <username>/Documents/Gaslamp Games/Clockwork Empire folder as dmp files, saves,, world map, replays etc.

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it wipes the existing console file and writes out a fresh one each time you start a new session though, so if you get script errors and such, always a good idea to copy and paste the console file elsewhere before you launch the game again or you'll lose anything of value regarding the error.

Since 52C or D the amount of spewwage regarding events seems to have multiplied by around a factor of 3 or 4 in terms of the amount of information is written out for what's occurring.... that or it's a side effect to my config.xml being set to verbose output, but that never seemed to do anything before.


Edit: Potentially a waste of dev time as the change will have a finite usefulness period, but would be nice if the game simply renamed the existing console.txt to say oldconsole.txt so there would at least be temporary retention of the last session even if the game is fired up after such as to see if a crash is recurring or a one off.

Certainly wouldn't want more than 2 (one the most recent session, the other the previous session) as the files can get pretty hefty after a long session, but 2 of them seems fair enough.

 

I'll check it out when I get back home, I left the game running and I'm still running the same session.

 

When exiting one game and starting another my job asignements do not clear. All the job asignments from my last map are still there.

Edit: And one of my old overseers ic still being asigned to the (non_existant) kitchen

 

Has the parser for the job text files ever been modified to check for the *absence* of something? That was always the option I missed the most.

 

When using the Exit to menu option? Would be weird if that was happening after an actual session closure.

 

File is too large to be uploaded, and I can't upload the .rar. I'm going to email the .rar to mathieu, the console file that is.

 

Zoom to artefact when strange artefact is discovered results in a C++ error