Hazeron Starship

Leaky EV Suit It would be nice to see a visible effect when an EV suit or helmet is leaking. EV suit and helmet now emit a stream of steam/smoke when they are leaking. Distance Sort Planets List When the mission order to orbit a planet or…

Pirates Pirates got some improvements in this update. Pirate marauders will form into fleets. Pirates sometimes escort a pirate freighter that could have any sort of cargo. Pirate scouts will sometimes be encountered. Encounter size has…

Fleets I don't always know what I'm going to work on next. Sometimes the current sweeps me away. This past two weeks I found myself unexpectedly delving into fleet formations of spacecraft. Here is the result. A ship can be designated as a…

Missiles Missiles don't seem to hit their targets very often, if ever. Fixed numerous issues with guided missiles and other projectiles. Ordnance Window Ordnance window doesn't work correctly on Gulliver when I access a weapon station from…

Pirate Encounter Frequency It seems like pirates are pretty rare. Pirate encounters should occur more often now. Pirate Plunder Bug Pirates showed up. I ordered my crew to stand down. The pirates parked in a nice line out in front of my…

TEU Containers Deantwo suggested that exploding spacecraft should leave cargo containers behind. When spacecraft explode their cargo is now disbursed in cargo containers. The algorithm for this insures that no ship will ever leave more than…

Runways Space Vehicle Recovery System. Hmm. That's a mouthful. Changed this to Runway everywhere. Recover Vehicles Drop pods are fun but they can be impossible to get back aboard without a runway. Any vehicle can now request recovery by a…

Drop Pod This one has been on my list for a long time. There is a room on the Atlantis called the Pod Bay that has always been empty. This has been a fun one. I added a new vehicle called a Drop Pod. The model was designed in the Designer.…

Undersea Buildings Someone reported being unable to place a wharf at an undersea city. This prevented the undersea city from being connected by sea with surface cities that have wharves. Fixed an error checking placement of coastal…

Hull Volume Calculation Inconsistency Hull volume is not calculated consistently between unfinalized and finalized blueprints that have a turbo lift. This makes finalizing the blueprint impossible. Fixed. Hull Volume Calculation Error…

Lockup Bug Two different cases of program lockups were reported. One occurred at the moment the avatar gave the vulcium knife to Xian at the University, something I have done hundreds of times. The other lockup occurred at the moment a…

Parts of My Hull are Orange Some parts of the hull of my ship were weirdly orange. Later they were black and green striped. Fixed a texture error that was introduce when making decals respond to room lighting. A texture was not restored…

Ringworld Seasons "It is always summer on ringworlds but the plants have their flowers. Think of it as early summer." I could not be satisfied with this. After mulling over several possible ways to induce seasons on a ringworld, I settled…

Seasons There have been requests for seasonal variations of plants. Planets now determine the current season at the viewer's location. This is shown on the Compass window, where the current weather conditions are shown. Season determination…

This is a slight rollback because of a critical error that was made in the very last update.

Celarious' Game File Celarious allowed me to download a large saved game file, in excess of 4gB. He was curious about why the file was so large. That file flushed out some bugs. The original file is used more or less like this: 5mB of game…

Custom Spacecraft Manufacture The ability to customize a spacecraft blueprint at the time of manufacture has been requested quite a lot, in one form or another. Done. This was a ton of work but I think you will like the result. You can…

Memory Usage I did an analysis of the memory used by the program to determine if there was any significant leakage or overuse. All the big memory consumers in the game were accounted for. There were a few surprises. It surprised me that…

Helicopter Too Feeble Helicopter is too feeble to taxi up the ramp on Gulliver. Fixed a bug that determined the air pressure in a room, due to the ramp room being an outside room. The helicopter was unable to move because it was reading…

Game Restore Crash The Feb 21 update introduced an unfortunate bug that caused a crash when attempting to restore a saved game, including the Current Game. Fixed a streaming bug in the player stat object that tracks how many times you have…

A problem was reported with the saved game files. The release was rolled back to the last good build that was posted on January 19. If you created any spacecraft or building designs, they may not load with the old version. Don't delete…

Asteroid Lost If you login after the asteroid is supposed to hit your homeworld, you never see the asteroid. Asteroid impact time is now set to one hour past the current time if you load the game after the impact time. Scenario text was…

Gulliver I wanted a relatively low tech spacecraft design to adventure with, one that was more interesting than the Basic Design or the Particle Harvester. Gulliver design was added to fill this role. Design Checklist As I started designing…

Spawn Recall and Settings Buttons Restored Those buttons were put back on the button list in the view. Harvest Ring Bug Harvesting operations at rings are broken due to parent planet's axial tilt. Fixed. Render Ring Bug Rendering of rings…

Citizen of the Galaxy Story I used the Citizen of the Galaxy scenario to add another emperor to my empire. It seemed like a new player could use a few tips on how to do this. A very brief story chapter runs when you enter the Citizen of the…

Spacecraft Ops Taking command of a spacecraft is a daunting task for a newbie. Several unobvious steps are needed. When an avatar boards a new spacecraft a short tutorial lesson starts. It gives a brief set of instructions on how to take…

Capitol Window The capitol window doesn't update when building construction finishes. Capitol window now keeps itself in sync with the city buildings. This works well enough that the Refresh button was removed. A nice improvement is that…

Achievements Steam achievements don't seem to work correctly. Some show strange progress bars going to huge numbers. Some players may have achievements that were incorrectly granted during development and they are stuck with them. Steam…

This information is mirrored from the Hazeron Updates forum at http://www.hazeron.com/mybb/forumdisplay.php?fid=11 Ship in Stasis My ship was destroyed. I was the captain so it should have remained in stasis until I could recover it. I…

Game Save Game saves were not working on Windows. Fixed. Build Limits Someone asked that size limits on spacecraft and buildings be eliminated. Eliminated size limits on buildings and spacecraft. Specifically this refers to byte size…