InfraSpace News

Hello everyone,

reading the comments on the last Friday Dev News, I get two impressions:

1. For the most part, the community is happy so far with our work on bugfixes and improvements
   
2. However, there are still numerous reports left, for train stations, distribution centers, trucks, etc.
   

We can only get to some of them each week, but rest assured we'll keep working on it and get more and more each week until we don't get any reports anymore.



Together with this post, we're releasing another update:

• Added detailed descriptions for every building
  
• Overhauled building info menu to also show the radius of effect and occupied tiles
  
• Added three more articles to the encyclopedia (spaceship repairs, laser, research)
  
• Mouse panning button is now configurable in the settings
  
• Fixed a lot of typos and localization issues, especially in German
  
• Brought back the per-district production overview
  
• Fix rails building into each other
  
• Fix rails intersection rings not displaying (or roads in some cases)
  
• Fixed wrong icon on water distillery
  
• Fixed an bug that occured when trying to build rails on top of roads
  
• Should have fixed an issue where the game would erroneously think it's running on an integrated laptop GPU
  
• Fixed an issue where distribution center would request too many resources from collection center and destroy the superfluous ones (note: this fix was added about 60 minutes after the post released)
  

The building descriptions were important because many players were confused about how InfraSpace worked, especially some of the more obscure features like districts or high tech tools.



Besides fixing bugs, we're trying to improve the interface even more.

We have a bunch of ideas, but for a first taste, check out this research lab UI concept:






Finally, while the programmers are fixing issues, our artist Lasse is creating a third map for you. Check out the progress on the vulcano map:





I wish we could be faster at fixing issues, but some things take time and we want to fix them properly.
Please keep reporting any issues you may have and feel free to give even more feedback!

Thanks and happy playing!

Hello everyone,

with this Friday Dev News we also release Patch 1.5.377, fixing a couple of serious issues.

• fixed an issue with resource requests, where some factories would not send out resources, even though they were full.
  
• fixed an issue that stopped saves from loading, especially from before the update
  
• fixed a multithreading issue that messed with distribution center deliveries
  
• fixed multiple bugs regarding the achievements
  
• added some new tooltips to explain the game a little better, more to come
  

We have some more fixes in the pipeline, especially around rail building, but we're first spending some time to properly check the fixes and will give them to our playtesters first. Last week we released an update that contained a bug that crashed the game, and we don't want this to happen again if we can avoid it.

Also, we have started talking to localization companies. So far, many of the translations have been community maintained, but some of them are not fully done and especially newer features are sometimes not fully translated. We'll spend some money to get all officially supported languages up to 100%.

[h2]Building Descriptions[/h2]

Another thing we're working on besides fixes is more building descriptions. This is not just flavor text, for many buildings it also gives you information about how to use them in your gameplay, like the high tech tools or industrial robots. We tried to finish them this week, but it seems like it'll have be released next week.



We're currently running a cycle of
1. read all comments
2. prioritize them
3. focus and just work on the most important issues for 4-5 days
4. repeat

And we're anticipating to stay in this cycle for a while.
So please feel free to continue giving feedback. We already have enough work to keep us busy, but when you talk about pain points, it gives us some guidance on which things to improve first.

Finally, the artists are working on another 2 maps actually. I'll share more about them when the time comes.

Happy playing!

Hello everyone,

just a small patch today, changing the default graphics settings.
They used to be set to some mix of low and high settings where also animations were off.

Now, the default graphics settings are "high".

If you have been struggling with not seeing animation, just turn it on in your graphics settings.

Happy playing!

Hello everyone,

it seems that in today's update a small piece of code got into the game that could make it crash.
We immediately uploaded this quickfix patch to remove the issue.
Please let us know if any of you are experience any more crashes.

Sorry for the mistake and thanks for your patience.

Hello everyone!



One week has passed since the full version of InfraSpace was released and we have a lot of new players as well as a lot of new feedback.

To address the issues encountered, we have already released 4 patch updates and today you're getting the 5th one.

The most important things that have been fixed during the week:

• added map panning with with right mouse click
  
• factories can now store 20 blue and green science packs, up from 5 previously
  
• fixed an issue where you couldn't load some old saves from before the 1.0 update
  
• fixed an issue where the collection / distribution center storage would not clear after switching resources
  
• fixed some german localization issues as well as some missing ones
  
• fixed an issue where building pipes would lag the game or even crash it on super long pipes
  
• fixed an issue where you couldn't lay pipes of different types on top of each other comfortably
  
• fixed a bug where long roads would get wobbly during building
  
• fixed a bug where collection centers would send the wrong resource to distribution centers
  
• fixed a bug where you could get infinite resources with the distribution center
  
• fixed a bug where you couldn't select a second spaceship part to repair
  
• fixed a translation that was missing in the tutorials
  
• centered the main park building on it's foundation
  

We have been reading comments, posts, and reviews and it seems like currently most issues people are having are about "clunkiness". Maybe we didn't focus on that enough because we got used to the way InfraSpace worked and our playtesters did as well. Now that we have a lot of new players, we have a lot of new feedback.

We organized all the clunkiness feedback and made a "top 8" list of things that players want to have fixed:

• Lack of information about how the game works, buildings, roads, and rails speed; encyclopedia too hidden
  
• Too hard to find resources
  
• No indication when a building can’t be placed in power visualization (maybe also other visualizations?)
  
• Missing translations
  
• Production boosts, spaceship boosts, pipe negative side not clear and not shown
  
• Collection and distribution center have inverted roads
  
• People complain about trains in many ways. We should probably add more info?
  
• Show what side of the building are the entrances
  

Of course, there are some more things to note as well as bugs to fix. But we gotta start somewhere, so that's what we'll focus on. Next week I can already promise you that you'll get detailed descriptions for each building.

If you are having trouble with some feature in InfraSpace, please remember to consult the in-game encyclopedia! You can find it on the left side of the screen and it explains districts, distribution centers, traffic, trains, and much more!



Today, we're releasing another update, introducing graphics settings.
Also:

• fixed an issue where 1/3rd of resources could vanish when a car entered a habitat on easy traffic mode
  
• fixed a race condition in the distribution center delivery code
  
• fixed the mac version to work on the new macOS update
  
• more fixes in the german localization
  

Let us know if these changes improved your experience and also if there is anything else we're missing. Thanks for the feedback!



While our programmers are busy with all kinds of improvements and fixes, our artist Lasse has already started work on our third map. It's supposed to feature difficult terrain for those players who like the challenge:



Happy playing!