REVISION 39B NOW IN EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH

Absolutely love the workshop revamp, works flawlessly!

There's a bit of an odd thing with the black Obeliskian?.. things on the ground. If you click on one of them, you can no longer move the screen for a few seconds. Thought the game froze at first, but it always recovers.

Also, I tried to "activate" them somehow, but all I managed to do was get rid of them with clear terrain. Oh well.

 

The new workshop job handling feels buttery smooth. It looked like all kitchen orders were handled like standing orders though because none of my orders incremented in count and the colonists just kept producing whatever was queued up. I also had a string error when trying to move a kitchen job down in the queue.

 

Decided to get back into the game after a break.

Things were coming along pretty smoothly and then this happened:



Surprisingly enough, the colony survived with only four causalities - due in part to the buggy AI of the invading forces and the fact I was able to call in a squad of redcoats almost immediately afterwards. If it wasn't for this, I'm pretty sure it would have been a TPK.

Several minutes later, I was hit with two more hostile squads almost simultaneously.

Moral of the story? As unlucky/unlikely as this was, the invading soldiers event needs to be re-balanced (again, I survived mostly because foreign soldiers aren't aggressive and don't respond to attacks until they reach the center of your colony).

 

...Known issue?

 

Snippet:

Code:

[network] Determinism check: 32767
[Script] FSM: sweep
[Script] module name found: Stone Ceramics Kiln
[MISC] Job Wander Near Home (Bandit) unlocking a target position 649, 793
[warnings] gameSpatialDictionary: locking grid position(324.0,396.0)[649,793]{0,1} Position not locked.
[Script] Completing workshop order.
[MISC] Could not add product to production menu. Window not found.
[FSM] mine.fsm mining animationTickCount = 146
[network] Determinism check: 32767
[Script] module name found: Stone Ceramics Kiln
[MISC] l_destroyfromjob: called on game Object Handle 18120
[MISC]
[Script] Timing info taken from job Make Bricks
[Script] about to hit job timing info loop.
[Script] Found timing info.
[Script] Returning from module name query.
[Script] module name found: Stone Ceramics Kiln
[Script] found key: Stone Ceramics Kiln
[Script] found value: oversee_crossarms_selfloop,370
[Script] Found timing info.
[Script] found key: Stone Ceramics Kiln
[Script] found value: oversee_crossarms_selfloop,370
[Script] building_queue_item_transform: done
[Script] Donebuilding_queue_item_transform
[MISC] Blackboard: evaluating 1 jobs
[MISC]
[MISC] Blackboard: best utility: 19
[MISC]
[MISC] Job Wander Near Home (Bandit) locking a target position 645, 775
[MISC] Blackboard: sending job Wander Near Home (Bandit)
[MISC]
[FSM] mine.fsm mining animationTickCount = 145
[MISC] deleting static prop ID 12807
[MISC]
[network] Determinism check: 1506803711
[ScriptError] XXX: [string "citizen|IncrementSkill"]:2193: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value
[ScriptError] [string "citizen|IncrementSkill"]:2193: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value
[ScriptError] stack traceback:
[ScriptError]     [string "citizen|IncrementSkill"]: in function <[string "citizen|IncrementSkill"]:2191>
[ScriptError] GameObject: 14275
[ScriptError] Error: [string "citizen|IncrementSkill"]:2193: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value [ scriptMessage | citizen ]
[FSM] FSM: walk_to
[FSM] mine.fsm mining animationTickCount = 144
[network] Determinism check: 32767
[FSM] mine.fsm mining animationTickCount = 143
[network] Determinism check: 32767
[MISC] Job Make Bricks unlocking a tagged object w/ID 18120.

 

Another thing that would help with foreign attackers/bandits/fish people/deathwurms/[REDACTED] would be starting the colony with some more soldiers. Starting with only one or two NCOs with no soldiers under them seems weird.

Same goes for overseers with nobody to oversee. The starting game worked a lot better when we were getting more colonists at the beginning. Going from the current setup to, say four overseers and an NCO, each with two workers or soldiers under them, would work a lot better.

 

Had a rather boring crash (at least to recreate), I left the game paused before going on a long walk, when I returned, the game had crashed. (good thing I saved before I left).. Should have taken a screen-shot of error message tough.. added last save before I took the walk, a replay and the console, it seems the console last update was Ca 10 Min after the save.

 

so this happened.....
2 bandits raid camp
1 takes a far off log and wanders away
1 really brave one runs into camp, snags a musket from the stockpile and starts shooting up the place
(two thumbs up at this)
solo NCO ignores things, so I rally him. He runs to, then runs away.
Time to give our citizens a training lesson!
Conscripted 3 new overseers, and rallied them to the cause.
1 took a swipe at him and now I have 4 people running to and from the single bandit
Conscript em all!!! (and rallied them)
1 took a swipe at him and now I have 16 people all running to and from the Scariest bandit in existence!
Canceled all rally point, and finally a couple people shot and killed the bandit.