Space Architect News

Hi there!
This version grew a bit out of the initial scope (thus it took me more time than anticipated, sorry for that). As this version is save-breaking, I'm leaving the previous version 0.27.0 as a beta branch - for those who wish to finish the previous run before trying new content.

Blueprints
Single device type can produce various products. New product types are unlockable via technology.
All items can be now researched & produced on your own station.


Production Control
Production devices can be set up in one of 3 ways:

• Continous - works non-stop
  
• Do X - works until said amount is produced
  
• Do until X in stock - works only if stock of product is lower than given X
  

Tech Tree
Tech tree UI was changed to handle an increased amount of tech.



Changelog:

• Items production changed to be based on blueprints
  
• Do until X in stock production mode added
  
• New tech tree witch a lot of new techs
  
• Added mining of PE Plasma & Strange Matter
  
• Added production of Antimater & Superdense Matter
  
• Added pump station for Antimater & Superdense Matter
  
• Chemical Plant produces Acid, Rubber, BioPlastic & Graphene
  
• Furnance produces Metal, Silicon, MetallicGlass
  
• Introduce ArcFurnance - faster than Furnance, but needs more power
  
• Mining Dock with new controls
  
• Fixed animation of mining docks
  
• Notices UI changed from icon to text
  
• Fix langs in quests
  
• Build cost panel UI -panel now non-transparent
  
• Build cost panel UI - show build device cost instead of last hovered one
  
• Better device destroy icon
  
• New notification about unopened crew pod
  
• Fixed bug causing the game to stay in input-locked mode
  

Device renamed:

• Components Factory renamed to Factory
  
• Microchip Plant renamed to Lab
  
• Dock Port renamed to Guest Dock
  
• Hydroponic Plant renamed to Food Plant
  

Corruption reduction as BlackCorp payment reward
By repaying your loan you can reduce % of tech points corrupted during the trade.

Visitor Tier
By repaying your loan you can also unlock higher Tiers of visitors. The high-tier visitor brings high-tier items to trade. All items are now available via trade.


Pipe configuration changed - swipe instead of clicking each pipe
To make preparing pipe setups easier, I've redone how they are configured. Now instead of manually clicking each pipe, you can swipe the mouse holding the left click to over multiple pipes to form a pipeline in the swipe direction. The same pipeline can be disconnected by doing the same & holding the right click.


New Items & Devices

• [TII] Drone Frame (with fabrication plant)
• [TII] Drone (with fabrication plant)
• [TII] Atmospheric Drone (with fabrication plant)
• [TII] Robot (with fabrication plant)
• [TIII] Light Fighter
  
• [TIII] Hardened Drone Frame
  
• [TIII] Quantum Core
  
• [TIII] Nanobots
  
• [TIII] Planet Drone
  
• [TIII] Scoop Drone
  
• [TIII] PE Plasma (ore for Tier III fuel)
• [TIII] Antimatter (Tier III fuel)
• [TIV] Heavy Fighter
  
• [TIV] Shield Emitter
  
• [TIV] AI Core
  
• [TIV] Metallic Glass
  
• [TIV] Phazing Drone
  
• [TIV] Superdense Matter (ore for Tier III fuel)
• [TIV] Strange Matter (Tier III fuel)
• [TIV] Shielded Fighter
  

All current & planned production chains compiled into one:


Changes

• Recalculated economy
  
• Rebalanced tech tree
  
• Visitor Needs/Offers redone - contains now all items & is based on Visitor Tier
  
• Autotrade gives more tech points for fuel sales compared to manually trading the same fuel
  
• Mining Dock needs Drone item delivery to mine (Drones get used up during mining)
• Removed Hull Plates & Gauss Ammo items
  
• Fluff - upon rejection of crew member, the crew pod is ejected out of the station
  
• Item panel on the left have now items sorted by price
  
• Added roof-like background to crew members when they are outside & over the station
  
• Low resources alert now considers not only metal ore but also metal
  
• Saveable units stats
  

UI Improvements

• Autotrade device now shows the time to the next visit
  
• Cleaner way of presenting player cash
  
• Rearranged button placement in panels (less scrolling)
• Black CORP Inc payback reward is now easier to see through
  
• Reduce UI background transparency for item list
  
• Reduce UI background transparency of the Unit Management panel
  
• Removed 'Switch Connection' button from Pipe Overlay (configuration is easier with swipes now)

Adjusted placement of production output in Device panel
Adjusted Device Panel filter box size to contain all items


Optimization & Fixes

• Optimization: Fixed issue with a job to move items (for some jobs it caused its recalculation over & over again, which slowed down the game massively)
• Optimization: Bug solved where after each food/water consumed recalculation was made multiple times (+1 after each consumption, leading to the game slowing down with time)
• Loan amount fixed to be 13 000 000 000
  
• Fixed UI issue in the main menu
  
• Redone event system - introduced custom triggers instead of Unity-provided ones - as they have problems when object colliders overlap.
  
• Show dropped items content
  
• Fixes the sound of devices built during the gameplay
  
• Fixed black CORP Inc. Panel - correctly load amount paid back
  
• Fixed mining laser - turret was placed under the turret base
  
• Scrap metal devices got their image layer put under other devices
  
• Removed duplication of 'truss required' lang
  
• Resolved pipe bug when built one is put into pipe overlay mode
  

And a lot of code refactoring
like, whoa, a lot!

Hotfix resolving some games stuck on the loading screen

The bug was happening only when a visiting ship was near the station in the saved game.

More extensive than usual update - steaming through Tier 2 production, only Graphene left to introduce.

Also, the big introduction of auto refueling pumps, they will automatically sell the fuel you produce.



Changelog:

• New Device: Pump Station LH2 LOX - fill it with LOX & LH2 to automatically sell it, vessel comes every 5 min
  
• New Device: Acid Plant - produces Acid
  
• New Device: BioPlastic Plant - produces BioPlastic
  
• New Device: Gas Giants Mining Drone - mines nearby planet for Raw Gas, required to produce Xenon
  
• New Device: Xenon Separator Plant - converts Raw Gas to Xenon
  
• Added nearby planetary system
  
• Change: Rebalanced power - less power draw when not producing
  
• Change: Rebalanced construction cost - use more relevant item types
  
• Change: Mining devices now use power
  
• Change: Mining laser now have alerts when full storage or low power
  
• Change: Improvement to UI scaling
  
• Fixed: Tech tree after loading game
  
• Fixed: Situation when crew member is just outside the station and can't move - caught by Kapudd im Kopp