Hello Builders! As announced on stream, here is the important mid-week update with many improvements.

Improved Zoom and Pan

Moving around the map was a bit glitchy. Zooming in and out of the belt could be slow. All of this should be better now! Let me know your feedback.

Drag and drop ship in Homeworld and Stations

Undocking a ship from a station used to be done with a right click. This was a inconsistent and confusing user experience. There is now a better visualization of which ship is selected and a button to undock it. You can also drag and drop the ship on the button to undock.
The same drag and drop interaction also work in the Homeworld trade screen. You can now drag a ship to the outgoing queue to send it back to the belt.

Visual progress for lobbying

A new progress bar in the top information bar of the belt map shows you the lobbying progress without opening the lobby screen.

Keybinding remap

You are no able to remap the default Inputs in the Option menu. The default key binding is now WASD instead of ZQSD layout.

Additional minor changes

• Selecting a citizen should be easier - the mouse is more accurate at detecting them
• Fighting in the fog of war is not visible anymore
• The Gatepedia automatically reset its zoom level on new search
• The default quantity of neutral floating cargos in the asteroid belt has been increased to make the early game easier and faster.

Twitch Integration

A new Option screen allow you to configure the Twitch Integration settings
The !hireme command now impact the default immigration in-game. Hiring a new viewer will cause an influence deficit for the player. This deficit need to be repaid in full before natural immigration restarts. The deficit is visible in the top information bar in the belt map.
And don't forget, I need you! Let me know if you have any feedback on the game so far! Comment greatly help! The best place to get in touch and chat with the community is on discord: https://discord.gg/eqxF58uqjC

[ 2022-09-08 22:01:24 CET ] [ Original post ]