Space Architect News

This update marks a significant milestone in the game development - the first item of the 2nd Tier was added - Microchip. The final game is planned to have 4 item Tiers, each progressively more complicated to produce and pricier. Also, we're getting close to automated trading :)

Changelog:

• New items - Silicon & Microchip
  
• New tech - Silicon & Microchips
  
• New devices - Silicon Arc Furnance & Microchip Plant
  
• Updated tech tree
  
• Redoo device categories - production separated into tiers
  
• Redoo item prices - higher tier items will be worth more
  
• Remove device - Gaquss Ammo Factory
  
• Changed the way of displaying item lists in panels
  
• Fix loading getting stuck at 10%
  

This update was cooking for some time now. A lot of small changes were added, but mainly the big bad guy came for their $$, so it's time to think about paying them back.

Main changes:

• Added trade tax (collected by Black CORP Inc.) and tech points corruption
  
• Paying off Black CORP Inc. reduces trade tax
  

Changelog:

• Take into consideration food/water in dispensers when showing in main UI or checking for a low amount
  
• Notification about the low amount of raw resources
  
• Spawn asteroids immediately around the station at the game start
  
• Easier to distinguish interactive elements by showing them in blue
  
• Redone UI panels to better scale
  
• Some UI panels are now scrollable if they have a lot of content to show
  
• Devices are supplied with more input materials when in continuous production mode
  
• Custom cursor during manual mining
  
• Crew consumption increased x2
  
• Crew ignore full toilets when trying to relieve yourself
  
• Crew ignore empty water/food dispensers when looking for water/food
  
• Items dropped by crew are no longer removed during loading
  
• Prevent spacebar from interacting with in-game buttons
  
• Prevent researching already researched tech
  

Expect more content related to trade. Also some game content being unlocked after paying off part of the load taken from Black CORP Inc.

Some time has passed since the last update, sorry for that ːsteamsadː
This update brings changes to the early game & addresses the game feeling slow.

Changes:

• Mining laser replaces mining dock as an early game source of minerals
  
• Mining dock is now unlockable via the tech tree
  
• Speed up of the game - unit movement x2.5, production time shortened by x4
  
• Quest line about mining laser
  
• Fixed UI elements scalling
  
• Prevent game breaking due to undocking when a trade occurs
  

Optimization to the game - removed FPS drops due to revalidating jobs that couldn't be realized.