REVISION 36a UP IN EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH

Wow! I was going to wait until a bunch of the optimizations were rolled in before giving the new monthly revision a try. Really looking forward to playing it after reading this changelog.

 

Annnnnd, hear's your first crash!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4bxMjEzI-oKcUM5LUxqQlYwRWc/view?usp=sharing

 

So, I played til I crashed, and the only noticeable thing I saw was that soldiers would teleport towards enemies if they were trying to engage them. While I loved it because it meant my soldiers would be able to chase and kill things finally, its obviously not working as intended. Also, I don't know if this is a bug, but I watched my carpenter overseer get gossiped to continually by a stream of people for ten minutes while i was waiting for planks to be made. It was super frustrating, because people would wake up from the bunkhouse next door and immediately go over to gossip with him, then someone else would, then the guy that originally talked to him did it again, making this giant loop of gossping til i had ten people in the hut and no planks being made.

 

[r36a]

Fleeing from Fishmen seems a bit broken now - often, the colonists closest to an aggressive Fishman will run in place ('Retreating'), while the Fishman will kill them one at a time, in a leisurely manner.

Also, anecdotally, colonists seem to be getting stuck inside modules, fuctional and decorative, noticeably more often (Mineshaft, cots, workbenches, ovens, etc.)

Also, something weird is happening with Burials - their jobs appear in the Jobs list, but they never clear, even though burials are clearly happening.

 

The textile workshop doesn't produce any cloth: it just eats flax. I see my overseer brign the flax to the machine, and the flax disappear and the overseer just goes to take another "piece" of flax (I don't remember the exact term...)
Also my militia was a bit broken: I had a gruop of them to rally on a bandit camp, there were three of them against two bandits. I lost two...just because they happily shot the bandit, did a little walk around, then reload, and finally another shot (from here repaet until the soldier/bandit dies). Last thing: the colonists leave a lot of food (from agrivulture) directly on the field... Is it intended?

 

Food lying on the field is probably the doubled farm output change; they harvest, then haul one away to the stockpile/drop point while the other stays on the crop square.

Not sure if this is picked up already, but existing colonists with name tags on when the game is saved will never have name tags after load, only new migrants will.

 

okay i can definitly say its stabler, walking is still normal at 80 colonists, no slowdowns

 

Tried it for a couple nights, performance seemed decent and I didn't notice much weird behavior (but I didn't get very far either). When my workshops were taking a while to build, I went into the jobs menu and cancelled a bunch of forage and mining jobs. At this point all my colonists hung, and just continued to walk in place. I paused and unpaused, tried to save and quit, but they stayed hung up. I noticed I couldn't quit the game from the menu (both "save and quit" and "quit without saving" wouldn't do anything) so I ended up having to force quit from the task manager.

 

I've had quite a few crashes when I open the work crew tab and the game is still running. I believe it might be because I have the bottom menu open at the same time though I can't confirm this.

 

The colonists wandering off into unexplored, fog of war covered areas to gather building supplies is driving me crazy.

 

I'm sure I do but I'm not 100% sure how to get it and it's quite late here. I'll post it tomorrow in this thread. As an aside the painting bug is completely gone as far as I can tell (yay!). It's just a shame my colonists have such poor artistic ability!

 

I, too, have run into the issue with people getting stuck in modules. An aristocrat got stuck in a cot and died of starvation. I've also seen the bug with cloth never being made, just "eating" the flax. Currently, it's just with the workbenches. I haven't built the spinning mule yet, so I'm not sure if that's doing it, too.

 

I can confirm the flax bug; flax gets delivered to the spinning mule, but no bolts of cloth are produced, although the workshop order decreases as if one had been produced.

 

[r36a]

Here's the save file and replay from my most recent session, if the Devs want it for benchmarking or whatever.

Day 27, 57 colonists.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qz4o06frlhno2dc/AACNWbvtw1VBkKCcUKXJhfiHa?dl=0

 

Hi Nicholas, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate DMP file but it's the most recent so it's got the best chance! Hope it helps.

 

In addition to the colonists getting stuck in modules, I had one get stuck in a wall. I had to move the door to that wall for him to be able to get out.