Generationship News

Hello Space builders!

In this iteration there was a focus on the achievements. Also two new interior items found their way in the game. Sadly i was sick most of the December, so not so much progress as usual.



We've given the achievements system a makeover! There are now 18 achievements for you to unlock, and we have more in the pipeline. Dive in and start earning those achievements!




In our latest update, we've revamped the power system. Introducing batteries, your reliable backup for storing energy in case of emergencies.




To have an easy access to the fireextinguisher and oxygen masks, i added an emergency cabinet interior item. It will be placed directly on walls, so it can be placed without much space usage.




For quick access to fire extinguishers and oxygen masks, we've introduced a new emergency cabinet interior item. Mount it directly on walls for easy placement without taking up much space. Safety first!



Fixes

• Mitigation of Empty-Container
  
• Removed Warning when arriving at a waypoint
  
• Delta Values for GaugeElements more resistent to low delta values
  
• Fixed showing wrong Recipe in Pimenu selected when no recipe is set
  
• Performance Improvement, due to not needed UI Check. Heavy impact on the Craft Queue Popup
  
• Fixed emptying a shelf not let person drop it to the same shelf again.
  
• Fixed Warning when a room got finished at updating the Thermal effect
  
• Fixed warning for Quality related Input Resources in special cases
  
• Fixed error when placing Shuttlebay in a not finished room
  
• Delta Values in History could be wrong.
  
• Fixed Blueprints shown multiple times in BuildMenu
  
• Another special case where persons fill/empty in the same storage
  
• Endless Simulation update in special cases
  
• Exception when PluginManager used too early in MainMenu for License details
  
• Chart Element of Activity Process was not updated correct
  
• Prevent line break in efficiency calculation result
  
• Person was not filling a construction site in a special situation
  
• Fixed missing serialize of one enity, that might lead to errors on loading in special cases
  
• Hide Developer some data for non developers in interior items
  
• background for sendToDeveloper in Translate Element
  
• Another endless simulation loop
  
• Fixing rare history problem
  
• Animation Position for Construction and maintain of Bed
  
• Construction bar was not updating well
  
• Fixed Deserializing when the new capacity is smaller
  
• Rare bug on special timing when power is empty
  
• Make time more precice to prevent endless loops
  
• Fixed Warning when loading game with some special cases
  
• Keep Special Event Popup closed
  
• ResourceBox Position was not updated in special cases
  
• Fixed warning with Timewarps in special cases
  
• After placing doors the room was not updated
  
• Update the Transport Tasks when the player change the reserved Items
  
• Wrong Mood effects on persons after loading a game
  
• Endless updates in special situation with person needs
  
• Dismantle or abort Room
  
• Exception in PersonOverview when a person died
  
• Persons perfere now storages instead of close to empty interior items in special cases
  
• Warnings for unfinished interior items in unfinished rooms
  
• Layout of Special Event Panels were not set to problem or warning.
  
• Player command not working anymore with person
  
• Rare situation where person was stuck in an activity
  
• Duplicate UnitSymbol for Skills in Tooltip of Supply Popup
  
• First Person camera did not allow walking through doors
  
• Slot items visible when person overview is hidden.
  
• Updated Storage Values when they are changing live in UI
  
• Wrong shown storage count in special cases
  
• wrong no energy problem at hygieneArea
  
• Problems for construction places were not readded when the resource got unavailable.
  
• Fixed can't put resources to storage in special cases
  
• Fixed PiMenu Sound for group selection
  
• Fixed very long Crafting Duration timewarps were around 3s wrong
  
• Fixed where Doors in interior p lacing were not moving on bad positions.
  
• Prevent Doors could be droped over special interior items.
  
• Layout of Task Icon at special case with problem and assigned person
  
• Dismantle priority was dynamic when changing the priority while in dismantle mode
  
• An exception at license the widget
  
• Door update wrong when autoplacing doors
  
• Some rooms got too the wrong state in some special cases
  
• Icon of newly created Blueprints were not updated in BuildMenu when the async generating is finished
  
• Wrong ProgressData was shown for constructions in waiting for resoruce state
  
• Fixed Some I18nLabels were not linking to the correct TranslatorElement
  
• Fixed some Lipsyncs were out of date
  
• Translate Element: Not updated content when the list was filtered
  
• ForceLive was not done in a special case
  
• Timewarp not Stopped when unloading Dock
  
• Some not wanted Transport Priorities are fixed
  
• Showing Empty box in special cases where it should not be
  
• Fixed situation when cheating it could happen that the person had unwanted empty resourcetype in a slot
  
• Idle Persons not using not available area
  
• Exceptions when deleting the last savegame
  
• Fixed error on HistoryGraph without data
  
• Fixed Bad sorting of resource recipes e.g. for generator
  
• Markers of GaugePanels were not updated in the first rendered Frame when they are shown
  

Added

• More Achievements: Bad AI, Firefighter
  
• Achievement Popup in Mainmenu and store to see the reached Achievements
  
• New Achievement System
  
• Make Storage Configurable while in construction state
  
• Interior Item Overlays for all Items
  
• EmergencyCabinet that stores O2 and CO2 for o2mask and FireExtinguishers
  
• Added Battery
  
• Cheat resources with mousebuttons (where it works also with mousewheel)
  
• Readded Auto-Focus TextBoxes after found a workaround for the unity bug
  
• Added Environmental Effects and Factors to the Interior Item Preview
  
• Delta History for all ResourceTypes
  
• Rightclick on the PersonOverview zooms to the Person
  
• Readded Recipes in the Interior Item Popup so its visible what they can do.
  
• RightClick on a Report SaveGame now opens the json in a text editor for debugging)
  
• Support for Images inside of Translated Text
  
• Added Repeat Queues e.g. for Crafting
  
• Added Change Recipe in PiMenu
  
• Restriction of some Interior Items
  
• WorldElement for Crafting interior Items showing the current crafting item and state
  
• PiMenu for UnderConstruction for Rooms
  
• Readded the Connections also for other interior items.
  
• Added Overlay for Electric Energy
  
• Priority changes on PiMenu
  
• Added Tooltips for PiMenu
  
• Change Door State via PiMenu
  
• Added Customize to Person PiMenu, opening the dialoge for unitform change
  
• Added Open Supply Popup to PiMenu of DockingPort
  
• Added PlayerTask for PrimaryObjectives
  
• More Direct Help in special events
  
• Added Help for Fire and added it to the Nitrogen Help button
  
• Click sound when hopening PrimaryObjective
  
• Rightclick on the Recipe Queue priorize the item
  
• Added Amount of Available Interior Items to the Interior item Build Menu.
  
• Added first Difficulty setup to prepare for easy and hard mode
  
• Primary Objective Popup
  
• Make Intro and Tutorial skippable
  
• New Game Dialoge
  
• Focus a room is now related to the room size
  
• Added Person Slot Icons to the Person Overview Element (lower right)
  
• FullScreenMode Option is translated
  
• Contextmenu for Interior Items, using the PiMenu
  
• Added Double Confirm button for Pi Menu
  
• Cheat for Instant destroy an Interior Item (Ctrl when clicking the button)
  
• SupplyShip overview got a panel with the current Cargo for easier identify
  
• Created custom search field and used it everywhere
  
• Added Fancy Tooltips with headline separation
  
• Cheating input resources with shift ctrl interior place
  
• Changable Recipies for interior items
  
• Scrollbars to blueprint list
  
• Ask for automaticaly adding door, when a room is placed at another room without a door.
  

Improved

• Rules System is able to work on better on multiple Threads
  
• Added Help for Residence and Workplace and removed old choosing method.
  
• Added Help for StorageManagement and added Images to other Help Texts
  
• Move Consultant Picture towards the Target that is highlighted
  
• More obvious highlighting for the help highlight elements
  
• Improved UI to highlight the effective calculation steps.
  
• Separated the HeatEnergy from the Temperature in the ship section, to make it more clear.
  
• Using now a I18n Patch to update players translation changes much easier.
  
• OptionsPanel is less transparent to read easier.
  
• Checking assigned Person of containerTasks and fix it if needed.
  
• Use TaskPriority also for Choosing what interior item should be enabled/disabled in case of power cut.
  
• Rounding problems with very low values.
  
• Prevent filling Storages with very little amount of resources of interior items
  
• Only fire HighHumidity Special Event once the limit is hit
  
• Old PrimaryObjective Playertasks are removed when done
  
• Improved SpecialEvent HighHumidity adding more Details and how to solve it.
  
• If a person idles after send to a place by the player, it will first stay on its position and not walking away.
  
• License Overview in Options
  
• Improved Under Construction UI
  
• After Dropping a new Room, the InteriorItem Menu is opening
  
• SideMenu auto closes in situations when its not needed anymore.
  
• Improved SideMenu Overlay Panel
  
• Aligned Camera Buttons to a single chooser button and added First person and Free Camera to it
  
• Store last used Tutorial and intro settings of NewGame Setup
  
• Updated and reduced the tutorial to a minimum. Interactive help will be added soon to cover the rest.
  
• Sorting in Person Selection Panel is now aligned with the rest of the UI
  
• Improved PiMenu interaction
  
• Better Layout of Lists
  
• Interior editing now shows blocker areas in space from other rooms
  
• New Design for Bexed Value Label
  
• SupplyPopup Resource Table now supports leftclick to add and rightclick to remove (including the modifiers)
  
• Implemented Maximum amount Resupply with delta to Supply)
  
• Make WorldUIElement for Interior Item preview Scalable to the camera distance.
  
• Timewarp behavior switching between speed and timewarps
  
• RecipeChooser now using Table layout with categories and filters
  
• Changed Blocking Graphics to a nicer one
  
• Show the location of existing blueprints and set this by default if choosen.
  
• Translator updates now the language files for easier changing the file by hand
  
• Add interior Items now can switch rooms to drop.
  

Balancing

• Setup some recipes to use duration instead of normal throughput.
  
• Efficiency on low mood is now 0.5-1
  
• Fixed Crafting Duration of Shuttlebay way too fast
  
• More Resources from Missions
  
• Supply from Earth now can now be setup in difficulty level
  
• Perons can now carry half a box per transport, independent from the weight
  

We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements. As always, your feedback is invaluable in shaping the game's development. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for your continued support!

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Together, we'll make this game even better!


I also post the progress and more pictures to our Discord:



We also have another announcement to make. We start soon with a weekly tester events. To attend, just join our Discord and get the weekly-tester role to get notified when it starts.



And don't forget to wishlist and follow us to keep up to date.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638030/Generation_Ship/

Hello everyone, let me give you a short update on what happened this year and what you can expect for next year.


Revamping the dock and supply ship gameplay marked the beginning of the year. Supply ships gained independence from docks, a new Docking Port Interior Item was introduced, and Mass Balancers became interior items. Another addition was an interior mass balancer for early artificial gravity initiation.





I worked more on the Overlays, showing a Center of Mass overlay and more advanced overlays when hovering over a resource container, showing routes and more to make it easier to understand what's going on and why it might not work. I also converted the door to an interior item, which again brings a complete new game experience and makes rooms more updatable. The new Advanced Missions including a new Shuttlebay interior item are also finished.




People have improved a lot in March. I improved the complete clothing and generation system and added more clothes and other looks. The Path system now uses more direct ways. Also nationalities have been added with more random names of the persons. Beside that a new History System has been added, so you can now analyze the resource creation, productivity and the Person Activities.




In this Month, there were not many new things, but under the hood happened a huge Unity Update and many bug fixes belong to that. It also got a huge fps improvement, by moving the mesh-cutter logic from the px based shader to a once calculated mesh cutting. Besides that many small ui and gameplay improvements. Big steps forward to the first beta test.


The Air Systems got a big overhole. Everything related to that has been improved, starting from gaugeelements, markers and more. Also the doors can now be just closed, so people can walk through. Rest of the Month was bug fixes and Polishings, to get the Game ready for the planned Beta phase.




I finished the last 3D Model updates and added one of the last main features: Thermal Control. It’s a two step process, to get rid of the heat. Besides that i could finish most of the usability features, to improve the player experience.




This month I was on vacation, so not so much happened related to the game itself. The main focus this month was on infrastructure topics. A better release process, reportings and make the server running on several servers, so it's more reliable.


I prepared for a larger beta phase and a demo phase. I also worked on some rare bugs and worked a lot on the Marketing, including a new Logo and preparations for a Trailer.


I created a new Trailer and also added Fire as one of the last bigger Features for the Simulation. The UI also gets a design that looks more scifi.




This month was just a polishing month, adding uniforms for people, visualizing the slots and bringing the UI to the next level. At the end of the month the transportation system got a new logic.




In November the room types were removed, to make the game smoother to play experience. Instead of that, the planned environment feature was added, so interior items interfere with each other and make e.g. noise in the room. It also brings a new Storage system, that is easier to understand for new players.




In December I was sick most of the time and could not work so much, so just some polishing was done there, no big topics.



Here a picture from one of my playtests.



[h2]Beta Test and Demo[/h2]
At the start of the year i plan to make a bigger public beta test. There will be a weekly tester event in Discord to get the last bugs out of the core systems.

[h2]Roadmap[/h2]
The main part of the game is done and working fine so far. If you already have access to the playtest of the game, I would be happy for your comments on the changes.
I plan to add more story related events, more achievements. Navigation systems and work more on the persons are planned too.






If you haven't done it yet, please wishlist and follow to keep up to date :)

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Hello Base builders!

In this iteration there was a focus on the environment and many improvements in the interaction with the game.



Every room now possesses distinct environmental values, introducing a rewarding or penalizing system for favorable or unfavorable combinations. The initial addition is the Noise factor, and we have exciting plans for future variables such as Appearance, Cleanliness, Smell, and Space.




These values influence activities in the ship. For instance, a loud factory floor might extend the time needed for a meal, while extreme conditions could prevent crew members from sleeping, impacting their mood.



Others will completely stop the activities like sleeping the bed. If the level reaches a certain level, persons can’t sleep anymore.



If that happens, some items will cause some thoughts to the person, making a longer negative impact on the mood of the person.




There are various ways to influence the ship's environment:

[h2]Active Item[/h2]
Most interior items generate noise when active, contributing to the overall environment.

[h2]Finished Item[/h2]
The completion of certain items can have direct effects on room characteristics, offering another layer of strategic planning.


Understanding the impact of interior items is now more intuitive with the new placement system. It provides a summary of the room's overall effect and displays changes over each affected interior item.







With uniform rooms, the need for distinct room types is eliminated. Interior items can now be placed directly without the need to edit the room first.





When placing rooms next to rooms it will now automatically detect when there is a door missing and place it.





Interior items can now feature changeable recipes. For instance, a gas releaser can switch between Oxygen, Nitrogen, or CO2.



The crafting UI has also been revamped for a more integrated and understandable experience.





The supply UI has received a visual overhaul for enhanced usability. Now table-based and featuring a search bar, finding what you need is quicker and more straightforward.






Another improvement are contextMenus for the game elements. You can now just right click on an element like an interior item or a person, to show up their context menu. If you select a person before, it still shows the PiMenu for that target, to e.g. grab the resources out. It also got the usual double confirm buttons to prevent unwanted actions as its known from the buttons.





While our original plan to introduce the story has been postponed due to substantial gameplay changes, we've laid the foundation for it. This iteration includes a new game setup mechanism, accompanied by a refreshed New Game menu.




Fixes

• Rare situation where person was stuck in an activity
  
• Duplicate UnitSymbol for Skills in Tooltip of Supply Popup
  
• First Person camera did not allow walking through doors
  
• Slot items visible when person overview is hidden.
  
• Updated Storage Values when they are changing live in UI
  
• Wrong shown storage count in special cases
  
• wrong no energy problem at hygieneArea
  
• Problems for construction places were not readded when the resource got unavailable.
  
• Fixed can't put resources to storage in special cases
  
• Fixed PiMenu Sound for group selection
  
• Fixed very long Crafting Duration timewarps were around 3s wrong
  
• Fixed where Doors in interior p lacing were not moving on bad positions.
  
• Prevent Doors could be droped over special interior items.
  
• Layout of Task Icon at special case with problem and assigned person
  
• Dismantle priority was dynamic when changing the priority while in dismantle mode
  
• An exception at license the widget
  
• Door update wrong when autoplacing doors
  
• Some rooms got too the wrong state in some special cases
  
• Icon of newly created Blueprints were not updated in BuildMenu when the async generating is finished
  
• Wrong ProgressData was shown for constructions in waiting for resoruce state
  
• Fixed Some I18nLabels were not linking to the correct TranslatorElement
  
• Fixed some Lipsyncs were out of date
  
• Translate Element: Not updated content when the list was filtered
  
• ForceLive was not done in a special case
  
• Timewarp not Stopped when unloading Dock
  
• Some not wanted Transport Priorities are fixed
  
• Showing Empty box in special cases where it should not be
  
• Fixed situation when cheating it could happen that the person had unwanted empty resourcetype in a slot
  
• Idle Persons not using not available area
  
• Exceptions when deleting the last savegame
  
• Fixed error on HistoryGraph without data
  
• Fixed Bad sorting of resource recipes e.g. for generator
  
• Markers of GaugePanels were not updated in the first rendered Frame when they are shown
  
• Closing Arrived Persons Hint will stay closed now
  
• Better Layout for Too fast in Tutorial Popup
  
• New Room Button is not highlighted anymore, when a blueprint is selected
  
• Flickering Out of Bounds indicator for Tutorial
  
• Fixed Problem when Person has too much water, getting to an activity loop
  
• Fire spreads out too fast.
  
• Some Serializing issues for Productivity items
  
• Quality of a resourceBox was shown wrong in some special cases
  
• Maybe wrong translations when pluginmanager initialized twice
  
• Rounding Errors on some special cases lead to not exact amounts
  
• Persons idling didn't do tasks with priority 1
  
• Checking now for available Path to the target rooms with pimenu
  
• Some Choose Popups were not opening
  
• Interior Item Prototype didn't respect ship spinning
  
• Rare case where resource Value can get nan
  
• Error Logging when trying to render a path between 2 elements without a usable connection.
  
• Person not putting things to dismantled storage
  
• When working of door, the person was wrong rotated
  

Added

• Click sound when hopening PrimaryObjective
  
• Rightclick on the Recipe Queue priorize the item
  
• Added Amount of Available Interior Items to the Interior item Build Menu.
  
• Added first Difficulty setup to prepare for easy and hard mode
  
• Primary Objective Popup
  
• Make Intro and Tutorial skippable
  
• New Game Dialoge
  
• Focus a room is now related to the room size
  
• Added Person Slot Icons to the Person Overview Element (lower right)
  
• FullScreenMode Option is translated
  
• Contextmenu for Interior Items, using the PiMenu
  
• Added Double Confirm button for Pi Menu
  
• Cheat for Instant destroy an Interior Item (Ctrl when clicking the button)
  
• SupplyShip overview got a panel with the current Cargo for easier identify
  
• Created custom search field and used it everywhere
  
• Added Fancy Tooltips with headline separation
  
• Cheating input resources with shift ctrl interior place
  
• Changable Recipies for interior items
  
• Scrollbars to blueprint list
  
• Ask for automaticaly adding door, when a room is placed at another room without a door.
  
• Shortcut 1-9 now defines different speed option
  
• Added a Task Tooltip
  
• Support for overtaking Worker Slots
  
• Support Overtaking Service Tasks with the pimenu
  
• Added TaskPanel to all Selection Panels
  

Improved

• Store last used Tutorial and intro settings of NewGame Setup
  
• Updated and reduced the tutorial to a minimum. Interactive help will be added soon to cover the rest.
  
• Sorting in Person Selection Panel is now aligned with the rest of the UI
  
• Improved PiMenu interaction
  
• Better Layout of Lists
  
• Interior editing now shows blocker areas in space from other rooms
  
• New Design for Bexed Value Label
  
• SupplyPopup Resource Table now supports leftclick to add and rightclick to remove (including the modifiers)
  
• Implemented Maximum amount Resupply with delta to Supply)
  
• Make WorldUIElement for Interior Item preview Scalable to the camera distance.
  
• Timewarp behavior switching between speed and timewarps
  
• RecipeChooser now using Table layout with categories and filters
  
• Changed Blocking Graphics to a nicer one
  
• Show the location of existing blueprints and set this by default if choosen.
  
• Translator updates now the language files for easier changing the file by hand
  
• Add interior Items now can switch rooms to drop.
  
• Show all problems of a mission instead of just a single one.
  
• Game Feedback dialoge is now always on top
  
• Construction/Maintenance Bars scale dynamic to the distance
  
• Changed Group hotkey usage to Alt+1 and so on, to have space for speed change
  
• Construction Sides show now all Problems instead of just the first one
  
• Make Help windows easy closable
  
• Support larger amount of options
  
• Highlight best connection in resource overlay
  
• Performance improved for Path checks
  
• PiMenu entries of Person with Interior Items can now use Transportslots even more
  
• Replaced expensive simulation method to gain simulation speed on large ships
  

Balancing

• More Resources from Missions
  
• Supply from Earth now can now be setup in difficulty level
  
• Perons can now carry half a box per transport, independent from the weight
  
• Canceling Crafted items needs to be emptied the containers now first
  
• Reduced BoxSize and content to half
  

We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements. As always, your feedback is invaluable in shaping the game's development. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for your continued support!

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Together, we'll make this game even better!


I also post the progress and more pictures to our Discord:



And don't forget to wishlist and follow us to keep up to date.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638030/Generation_Ship/

Howdy, galactic wanderers!

The primary focus of this iteration was to restructure the whole transportation system.



As Generation Ship continues its journey through development, a key focus has been placed on refining crew management for diverse tasks, prompting a substantial overhaul of the storage system. The traditional resource boxes have transformed into visual elements, simplifying the system and boosting efficiency by eliminating outdated code.



With crew members now taking on the task of moving resources themselves, the need for transporting drones is under consideration for future updates. Meanwhile, storage units have been revamped to offer better functionality. The 1x1 storage now accommodates a single box, while the updated 1x2 and 2x3 versions provide space for 9 and 24 boxes, respectively, optimizing storage room layouts.





Resources are now visually sorted by type, allowing for a clearer view of the quantities available. If three resource types occupy three columns, they will stack, simplifying resource tracking.





Connections between storages have been replaced with a more intuitive setup. Users can now specify desired resource quantities, configure them as input or output, and crew members will automatically fill or empty the storage. Additionally, a new section in the selected entity enables task prioritization and accessibility restrictions for all in/out connections of a storage.





The pimenu receives a substantial upgrade with a new grouping feature, making item management more intuitive and user-friendly.





Bars now remain visible for a longer duration and scale with the distance, providing a more dynamic and user-friendly interface.





To enhance the gaming experience during waiting periods, shortcuts have been added for adjusting speeds using the 1-9 keys.




Fixes

• Closing Arrived Persons Hint will stay closed now
  
• Better Layout for Too fast in Tutorial Popup
  
• New Room Button is not highlighted anymore, when a blueprint is selected
  
• Flickering Out of Bounds indicator for Tutorial
  
• Fixed Problem when Person has too much water, getting to an activity loop
  
• Fire spreads out too fast.
  
• Some Serializing issues for Productivity items
  
• Quality of a resourceBox was shown wrong in some special cases
  
• Maybe wrong translations when pluginmanager initialized twice
  
• Rounding Errors on some special cases lead to not exact amounts
  
• Persons idling didn't do tasks with priority 1
  
• Checking now for available Path to the target rooms with pimenu
  
• Some Choose Popups were not opening
  
• Interior Item Prototype didn't respect ship spinning
  
• Rare case where resource Value can get nan
  
• Error Logging when trying to render a path between 2 elements without a usable connection.
  
• Person not putting things to dismantled storage
  
• When working of door, the person was wrong rotated
  
• Show Fire Risk when a fire broke out
  
• Sort Connections Button was not working anymore
  
• Wrong Avatar was used for some Helps
  
• Out of Screen Indicator was not shown in some cases
  
• Overlapping text in intro
  
• Engines were on in the intro
  
• Fixed Playing speech twice in some cases
  
• By default new Player Blueprints not get to the Translation
  
• Fire Burning Problem Icon was not fullsize
  
• Wrong Problem Icon was shown in the Special Event Panel for unconciousness when the problem changed
  
• Percent value of the Report sending was not shown
  
• Opening Dynamic Translations not showing the correct value for some special cases
  
• Ui disappeard in a special case due to a strange unity bug.
  
• Endless simulation loop in a special case with Slots using Cheats.
  
• Prevent overlapping of UnderConstruction text in the Progress Element
  
• Fixed Exception with ResidentIcon
  

Added

• Shortcut 1-9 now defines different speed option
  
• Added a Task Tooltip
  
• Support for overtaking Worker Slots
  
• Support Overtaking Service Tasks with the pimenu
  
• Added TaskPanel to all Selection Panels
  
• ShipSection can have problems now
  
• More Problem Elements to Special Event Panels
  
• Game Feedback Dialog
  
• Added Special Event Help to the Help Window
  
• New Problem Popup with Interactive Help
  
• Visualize Usable Person Slots as Model Changes
  
• EventHistory ago got a tooltip with the exact time
  

Improved

• Show all problems of a mission instead of just a single one.
  
• Game Feedback dialoge is now always on top
  
• Construction/Maintenance Bars scale dynamic to the distance
  
• Changed Group hotkey usage to Alt+1 and so on, to have space for speed change
  
• Construction Sides show now all Problems instead of just the first one
  
• Make Help windows easy closable
  
• Support larger amount of options
  
• Highlight best connection in resource overlay
  
• Performance improved for Path checks
  
• PiMenu entries of Person with Interior Items can now use Transportslots even more
  
• Replaced expensive simulation method to gain simulation speed on large ships
  
• Tooling for Translation
  
• Better placement for some Tutorial Texts and highlights
  
• Person stop Balance Task if resources is removed from the storage
  
• Border Color for warning, info and success boxes
  
• Moved details of Room and InteriorItem down, and added General Problems to all Selection Panels to that place.
  
• Padding of upper buttons in selection panels is now dynamic
  
• Padding to highscore elements
  

Balancing

• Canceling Crafted items needs to be emptied the containers now first
  

We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements. As always, your feedback is invaluable in shaping the game's development. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for your continued support!

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Together, we'll make this game even better!


I also post the progress and more pictures to our Discord:



And don't forget to wishlist and follow us to keep up to date.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638030/Generation_Ship/

Greetings, space adventurers!

In this iteration, we've concentrated on enhancing the interaction with your beloved crew members and introducing a futuristic user interface design. Let's explore the updates!



We're thrilled to unveil a new look for our UI. Our UI framework has undergone a significant overhaul, transforming it into a more cutting-edge and sci-fi-inspired design. Expect to see more highlights and futuristic elements integrated throughout the game. Here's a glimpse of what's new:





Managing a sizable crew can sometimes be a bit overwhelming, especially when finding the right person for a specific task. To make this easier, we've introduced uniform clothing for your crew members.



Now you can assign uniforms with customizable colors and predefined roles, ensuring that crew members are dressed appropriately for their duties. By default, they will don the smart gray assistant uniform, but the choice is yours.





In addition to the new uniforms, we've added 3D models for essential tools: the Tool Belt, Fire Extinguisher, and Oxygen Mask. These items are now visually represented on your crew members, making it a breeze to see what equipment they're carrying and ready to use.





To improve accessibility, we've made your crew members always visible in the bottom right corner of the screen. This handy feature displays their current task and will turn red to alert you when they encounter significant problems, such as running out of food or facing other critical issues.





New players, fret not! We've introduced a dynamic interactive guide that tailors itself to your current in-game situation. This feature provides guidance, helping you understand game mechanics better and showing you exactly what to do.




Fixes

• Fire Burning Problem Icon was not fullsize
  
• Wrong Problem Icon was shown in the Special Event Panel for unconciousness when the problem changed
  
• Percent value of the Report sending was not shown
  
• Opening Dynamic Translations not showing the correct value for some special cases
  
• Ui disappeard in a special case due to a strange unity bug.
  
• Endless simulation loop in a special case with Slots using Cheats.
  
• Prevent overlapping of UnderConstruction text in the Progress Element
  
• Fixed Exception with ResidentIcon
  
• Canceling a room in construction didn't create the door item
  
• Credits Screen had duplicate entires
  
• Fixed Crash on Starting the game, when pressing mainmenu in the error-popup.
  
• Error where person keep filling Tool Belt.
  
• Delete Button for Autosaves was disabled, when no normal savegames exists
  
• Fixed Exception in simulation in special situations when persons died
  
• Options Popup error on closing in some special cases
  
• Update Popup had wrong version format
  
• Walk out of Toilet Animation was wrong
  
• Fixed rare Bug with some Exceptions on the Help panels
  
• Shortcuts were shown in some cases even when they were disabled in the options
  
• PersonIcon was not showing the Activity anymore
  
• Bug when adding a normal Storage it added 2 simulation Storages
  
• Where effect Intensity were not set in some rare caes.
  
• Load Dialog when no savegame exists
  
• Rare Exceptions on first Startup
  
• Exception in Balance Overlay
  
• When Closing a door while person moves though it.
  
• Spread out was done too often.
  
• Fixed Person was starting with a mounted construction Belt
  
• Fixed Tutorial was not highlighting the correct Element, blocking the rest of the tutorial
  
• Fixed Exception when opening Loading without savegames
  
• Animation Positions for Cooling Plate
  
• Fixed wrong detected Problem with supply ships without resource boxes
  
• Warning for new Persons triggers an Metabolism Stopped in rare situations
  
• When Overtaken a Task by another Person, Both persons were doing the task.
  
• Warning when using the AssignWorker buton
  
• Fixed some Errors and Warnings
  
• Person will stop their Transport Activity if the storage is going empty while walking to it.
  
• Construction was possible without Tools in belt
  
• Construction Belt can just be done when its filled completely
  
• Some Unconcious Problems for the User were not shown
  
• Full Slot is not recognised in some rare cases
  
• Errors when Mood goes below zero
  
• Some rare Exceptions
  
• Fixed specialcase in History when Inteiror Resources are moved
  
• ForceOpen at door behaves now same as open for connection
  
• Medical Bed was not working
  
• Some rare UI Errors
  

Added

• ShipSection can have problems now
  
• More Problem Elements to Special Event Panels
  
• Game Feedback Dialog
  
• Added Special Event Help to the Help Window
  
• New Problem Popup with Interactive Help
  
• Visualize Usable Person Slots as Model Changes
  
• EventHistory ago got a tooltip with the exact time
  
• Added F5 Fix for a bug with construction rooms, till the reason is found.
  
• Customize the Persons Cloths
  
• Created a Crew Unitform
  
• Mute audio when leaving the unfocus the Game (changable in Options)
  
• Added Edge Scrolling
  
• Person Overview Icon
  
• Basic Infrastructure for Advanced Simulation Logging
  
• O2 Mask to survive in low oxygen/high CO2 environments
  
• Ctrl+Mouse Wheel Cheat support for Person Slots
  
• Ctrl+MouseWheel cheats resourceBox fillsize
  
• Priority Icon for Tasks
  
• Added Problems to Tasks
  
• Sounds for PiMenu - Open/Close
  

Improved

• Person stop Balance Task if resources is removed from the storage
  
• Border Color for warning, info and success boxes
  
• Moved details of Room and InteriorItem down, and added General Problems to all Selection Panels to that place.
  
• Padding of upper buttons in selection panels is now dynamic
  
• Padding to highscore elements
  
• Big Dehumidifier also counts now for the Achievement Task
  
• Color of OverlayBars for better visibliity
  
• Removed Logging on not finished Greenhouses
  
• Only check for new Versions, when we not launch via steam.
  
• Only mark a help as seen when the help is started
  
• Changed all Molecule numbers to subscript
  
• Added Special characters to Translator to easy copy paste
  
• New Discord IDs are always lowercase
  
• Improved Delay of Click sounds
  
• Free Movie Camera now rotates with the Ship and alignes correct to the Floor
  
• Air Problems go tbetter Icons
  
• Colorized Construction, Maintenance and Fire Bars different, to show the difference better
  
• Renamed Construction Slot to Tool Belt everywhere
  
• Updated to new Unity Packages
  
• Better PiMenu Problem for Person
  
• Storage OVerview shows single ResourceType of storage if available
  
• Faster reacting on critical need values
  
• Button for Cancel rooms and interior items
  

Balancing

• Reduced needed Photovotaic Panels from 5 to 3
  
• Open Doors to space leaking 10x more air
  
• The first Month in the game will be no Fire, to have an easier game start
  
• Reduced Periority of Working.
  

We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements. As always, your feedback is invaluable in shaping the game's development. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for your continued support!

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Together, we'll make this game even better!


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