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Thank you to all testers from the Discord channel that helped us!

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Improvements

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New population level 4 tier

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• 18 new buildings.
• 21 rew resources.
• 4 new music tracks spread on population-level 3 and 4 (+1 for asteroids).
• New service buildings that require resources to work, such as the tavern and the AstroTech University.
  
• Service buildings spread services on the whole moon as long as they are fully manned (AstroTech University).
• SR-2021 [DEV] Advanced population will forget some needs. (Population-level 4 does not require Nutrient paste and Tools anymore.

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New celestial bodies: Asteroids

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• New celestial bodies have been introduced offering more already available resource deposits, but also new resources.
• Their exploitation requires the new asteroid hub building and robots.
• Pollution is not taken into account on asteroids.
• Asteroids need at least one asteroid warehouse to have transporters.
• The asteroid hub, when built, contains everything to plan space routes (launch catapult, mission control and landing platform)
• The asteroid hub is built in multiple steps
  
• The asteroid hub allows to build anywhere on asteroids
• Robots are displayed as "population" on asteroids
  
• Many buildings are not buildable on asteroids or moons. That information is displayed in the building description tooltip.
• Wood cannot be planted on asteroids

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Assembly building

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• The assembly building is a new building type that requires selecting a recipe to start producing some resources.
• Generated Pollution and worker requirements are specific to each recipe, as shown in the recipe tooltip.
• The tier-4 includes 10 new resource recipes.
  

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New multi-step buildings

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• New multi-step buildings have been included.
• They need to be fully manned to be constructed.
• They need time before being complete.
• The asteroid hub is a multi-step building. The hypergate has also been converted into a multi-step building.

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UI improvements

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System view

• Celestial body names are now displayed in the system view.
  
• Pollution information is displayed when hovering on the moon in the system view
  
• A new system view button has been added to the main screen, with a customizable shortcut (default: Tab)
  

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• Resource and spaceship icons resolution has also been improved in the system view.

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Resource informations

• Secondary resources have been moved to a new screen.
  
• Production chain elements in the resources screen have a tooltip with their name and are left clickable to get more information.
• In the resource graph overlay, you can now use right-click on a resource to get more information by bringing the resource panel, and you can still left-click to cycle through the resource producers. A new text message is displayed to remember it.
  
• In the production building panel, you can also right-click on the resource icon to display the resource panel, and left-click to cycle to the next building.
  
• A new tab called "Service" has been added to service providers in the building info panel, left-clicking allows to cycle through the other building providing the same service.
  

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Pollution informations

• The pollution bar tooltip now displays the number of scrubbers you have.
  
• The pollution bar can be left-clicked to cycle through scrubbers
• Pollution scrubbers are now showing their effect on pollution in their description
  

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• A pollution bar reference has been added to the interface tutorial

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Misc

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• SR-2022 [UI] Unify resource count font size
• SR-1744 [UI][BUG] Landing platform UI storage number was incorrect
• SR-1943 [UI] Updated moons icons in space route planning
• SR-2016 [MODEL] Improved Velaa mesh
• SR-998 [UI] A message has been added when the game is rebuilding the save index
• SR-1889 [UI] Launch catapult worker tooltip was not correct

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Other improvements

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• New improved soilfield model
  
• New pollution processing facility model
  
• Improved textile fiber farm model
  
• Some buildings are now buildable only once per celestial body [spacestation, wonder]
• Woodcutters share trees with other woodcutters in their range, reducing their efficiency.
• Non-looping space routes are auto-launched after 1d even if not fully loaded to prevent the Launch catapult from being blocked
• Atmospheres have been improved a bit
• Mines have their texture adapted to the celestial body they are on.
• The appearance/disappearance rate of the pollution visuals have been improved

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Balancing

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Buildings

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Citizen consumptions

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Fixes

• Paused landing pad was continuing to receive spaceships to recover
• Clicking on a moon sometimes did not work the first time (Soriis most of all)
• SR-2106 - [BUG] Inappropriate buildings were grabbing canceled transport cargo
• SR-2063 [BUG][UI] Landing platforms were displaying the last "worker tooltip" data [Was also wrong for launch catapult/warehouse]
• Fix production tooltip display for the landing platforms
• SR-829 [BUG] Player was able to build on some mountains

Technical

• SR-1974 [UI] Simplify tutorial screen generic sentences
• SR-1845 [DEV] Create a scriptable object to add building more easily
• SR-1733 [DEV] Create a save folder depending on the game versions
• SR-1017 [GD] Integrate unity analytics

[ 2022-05-18 08:13:38 CET ] [ Original post ]