REVISION 41: "SIR, WHERE'S MY COLONY?" NOW AVAILABLE

reproduceable crash in the save game I'm attaching. attempt canceling the mining job and everything stops responding.

 

If we can get the military units some better spectacles, this might help them

 

And something for night vision... I've seen a soldier set to hunt for food effectively trip over a bird that wandered into camp... once the sun came up, it was hunting season, but at night they are best friends.

 

Some feedback, and a the files from an hour-long mid-game session for dissection:

• I had several Bandit raid announcements - even one Major Bandit Raid notification - but none of them ever seemed to find my colony. My soldiers had nothing to do.
• as someone else mentioned, when a colonist is elevated to an aristocrat, he continues to work in his crew, and can even be swapped in and out of various crews
• on a related note, even though the new aristocrat is very happy with his new status, he has no memory of the event
• not a bug as such, but picking two prisoner work crews in a row as a favour puts a serious strain on your food stores
• I found myself refusing favours from the Empire quite a lot once I was self-sufficient - perhaps a `no thanks, we`re good` favour refusal button would be handy? (Maybe even a small Prestige bonus for being self-sufficient?)

 

Here's my console file from a 10 day old colony, version 41A.

Had a really bloody shootout with some Republique soldiers, and although I wouldn't say I won, at least my colony wasn't destroyed, and the enemy eventually wandered off. Progress!

 

Just noticed after the beetle attack, my soldiers just walk around and won't shoot back while the giant beetles horn them to death...

Love the update otherwise so far. Seems to play better and less instances of jobs being ignored.