This week we finally got to do something that’s been on our wishlist for a pretty long time: refactoring the jobs code! In the past, we added new jobs by copy-pasting code in at least six different locations. It worked, but created spaghetti code that’s hard to read, fix and improve. Instead of adding more weight to this fragile base, our programmer decided to dramatically increase the design of the code. It’s a lot easier to add new jobs now, both for us and for modders! This is very important for the science packs, because it’ll require many new jobs. Last week we shared some of the basics of the new science packs, this week we can share some of the details of “Phase 1” of the science packs update. Scroll down to the bottom of this blog to see our non-definitive idea for the first, simple science in Colony Survival!
We started working on Colony Survival more than three years ago. We’ve never done a Kickstarter, received an investment or sold a pre-order. We earned our first dollar on June 16th, when we released the game, and it was transferred to us only a couple of days ago. It’s of course totally awesome to make money, but it also causes some new problems. We need to restructure our business for legal and tax reasons, we need to pay taxes and we need a bank account for our company. And because Steam is located in the US and we’re in the Netherlands in Europe, everything is a bit more complicated. We’ve never done this before and we don’t want to mess this up, so we’re meeting with professionals who can give us advice and we do a lot of research. So please know that we’re still busy with Colony Survival, even when we’re not directly improving the game or adding new content! Our current website is pretty ugly and simple. We decided to make a better one this week. We're very happy with the end result, and we would have loved to link it to you in this blog. But... to turn the trial version into a full website, you need to pay with a credit card. Debit card, iDeal, PayPal, none of it works. So we're going to have to get a credit card for our company, when it has been restructured. Then we'd love to show you our new website!
This is the end of the blog, so here are the promised science-details! ~DISCLAIMER: WORK-IN-PROGRESS, JUST PHASE 1, MIGHT BE IMPLEMENTED IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY~ New Items Linen (Tailor, flax) Clothing (Tailor, 3x linen) Life Science Pack (Bread, berries, clothing) Basic Science Pack (Iron bar, gold coin, brick) New Jobs Tailor (Crafts linen and clothing, 5 seconds per item) Technologist (crafts science packs every 10 seconds) Scientist (does research with science packs every 10 seconds) New Technologies Health Increase I Increases Max HP to 125 Costs: 10x Life Science Pack, 10x Basic Science Pack HI II – HP 150 – 25x LSP, 25x BSP HI III – HP 175 – 50x LSP, 50x BSP HI IV – HP 200 – 100x LSP, 100x BSP Regeneration Increase I Increases Regenerated Amount of HP from 30 to 50 Costs: 15x Life Science Pack, 5x Basic Science Pack RI II – HP 65 – 35x LSP, 15x BSP RI III – HP 85 – 70x LSP, 30x BSP RI IV – HP 100 – 150x LSP, 50x BSP Regeneration Speed I Increases Regeneration Speed from 0.5HP per second to 1 HP per second Costs: 5x Life Science Pack, 15x Basic Science Pack RS II – 2HP/s – 15x LSP, 35x BSP RS III – 3HP/s – 30x LSP, 70x BSP RS IV – 4HP/s – 50x LSP, 150x BSP A little challenge for the math wonders who are reading this: how many items do you need to complete all research? We legitimately do not know. Thanks for reading this!