Alpha 0.7.1 is now live.

Weapon upgrade "Fragment Collar" - "1 bonus point on hit".

If multiple charges are accumulated in a single turn and the Major Threat is clicked rapidly, only one bonus point is awarded.  Getting the full effect requires shooting only once at a time, waiting for each bonus point to arrive before firing again.

I got an extra weapon upgrade from planetary shield, but can't confirm it? selecting the upgrade and pressing confirm does nothing, and I can't go the next turn because I need to choose an upgrade.

In this image, somehow the Harvest Drones showed 0 health but had 3. (Also the Cargo Drones were never targetable.)

Here, the citizen's request was impossible since there was no crisis. I'm not sure if this one is a bug, but I was going to make this post anyway, so why not check.

I don't have a picture, but the wellness ability that removes a planet from the game and gives you resources can be used multiple times by going below then above its threshold.

The exploration numbers seem to have subtracted the requirements from the previous level.

Also, a second exploration glitch. IIRC the order was I got T2 Isolationism, got Sensor Improvements, then resolved Isolationism. I got up to 30 tiles with 1 cost missions.

IDK if glitches are supposed to apply to wonders so I put that in just in case. No buildings are visibly affected by glitches and it seems that only the first turn of glitches actually works. All 4 of these are on the same turn, and I had only unlocked 8 T2 buildings.

Also I think the shield generator's description is just the template.

Version Alpha 0.8.1 is now live.

Incomplete sentence at game start.

Tier 1 has an incomplete sentence.

I do NOT understand what Tiers 2 and 3 are trying to tell me.  Is the number of locked buildings going to increase each turn until I can't build anything at all because they're ALL locked?

A technology and a weapon upgrade were completed at the same time.  I don't know if THIS is how you wanted to handle it.

Somehow, and I do not know how, I wound up with negative laser points.

Some sort of event logging might be in order.

When offering choices like these, it might be worth adding failsafes to make sure that all choices are distinct from each other.  :P

Exploration bug.

As the last event in Region 1, I found an Unknown Ship and was asked what I wanted to do with it.  I chose the option to communicate, which would reveal two tiles in Region 1.  I completely forgot that this was going to be the last event in Region 1, and the game then switched to Region 2 with no revealed tiles.

It was basically a wasted exploration event.

Ideally, what the game should do is reveal however many promised tiles in the next region instead.  However, if this is intended behavior, then the Communicate option should be blocked, leaving only Fight and Trade.

Somehow, and I do not know how, I managed to get thousands of each kind of points upon firing on Threats.  I was in Mothership phase, with Cargo (I think?), Blockade, and Harvest threats.  Look at the Science, Exploration, and Wellness panels.

The game lagged severely, which was my first clue that something was wrong.  I decided to quickly go to the Science victory before it crashed my browser or something.

Not technically a bug, but I'm going to treat it as one:

I only JUST NOW realized that these are buttons that switch between Exploration regions.  This is not obvious.  I only discovered this because I clicked on them by accident while aiming for something else.

Please put a black box behind these things to make them distinguishable from the background, and add the words "Previous Region" and "Next Region".

POSSIBLE SOFTLOCK

The condition for unlocking the next Exploration region uses an == operator instead of a >= operator.

DETAILS:

In my most recent game, I explored enough of Region 1 to unlock Region 2.  I explored part of Region 2, then went back to Region 1 to find all of the events there, then returned to Region 2.

Upon switching my attention back to Region 2, I noticed that my unlock progress to Region 3 was 23/12, as shown in the screenshot, and yet Region 3 was still locked.

I continued the rest of the game looking to achieve a non-Exploration victory with as little additional Exploration progress as possible.  I managed to achieve a Production/Wonder victory with only 1 Exploration tile remaining in Region 1; all other tiles in Region 1 and all tiles in Region 2 were uncovered.

I surmise that (1) the condition for unlocking Region 3 only checks for equality when exploring a tile in Region 2, that (2) the condition for unlocking Region 3 is NOT checked when exploring a tile in Region 1, that (3) exploring a tile in Region 1 nevertheless increments the counter for unlocking Region 3, and that (4) if it had taken me another turn to achieve a victory, then I would have entered a softlock condition where the game would not allow me to end the turn because I have enough Exploration points to send an Exploration mission, but no remaining tiles to send a mission to.

I didn't think to take a screenshot of this, but the following happened.

1) I Selected two planets and played them.

2) While the points were still being moved around, I went to the exploration grid and clicked on a tile.  An Exploration event asking me to pick a reward came up.

3) While I was looking at that event, Science points finally moved into place and a technology was completed.  The technology announcement appeared BEHIND the Exploration event.  The Exploration event was uninteractable; it didn't respond to mouseclicks.

4) A TINY SLIVER of the button acknowledging the Science completion was sticking out from behind the bottom edge of the Exploration event, so I clicked on that.  The Science announcement closed and the Exploration event display worked normally.

It might be worth putting modal windows into a queue if a modal window is already active.  Also, it might be worth allowing the user to select an option that says "I know how the game works, just move the points instantly once I play my planets, please."

Some operating systems allow the user to make cursors bigger.  When this happens, the cursor can overlap the tooltip.  The MacOS screenshot command (Shift-Command-3) did NOT render the cursor in this case, so I had to approximate it here to show the problem.

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I recommend changing this to read "Gives +3 Science when exploring a tile and +3 Exploration when completing a tech."

"when completing a mission" implies that uncovering a tile MUST find an Exploration event (as opposed to empty space) to get the +3 Science.

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The number of Crisis Points per Crisis seems to alternate between 6 and 8.  Is this intended?

In a playthrough several hours ago, this happened:

Overlapping points icons in the modal window AND I somehow have two capitols, here.  :P

Just now, a Wonder Unlock panel appeared.  I accidentally double-clicked the button to acknowledge it; the End Turn button just so happened to be in the same spot, so the second click ended the turn when I did not intend to do this; I lost the excess Production that I would have used to resolve a Crisis that turn.

I request that the "End Turn" button be returned to it's old spot off to the right.

Version Alpha 0.8.2 is now live.

1) In the civilization and faction selection screen, the introductory texts for two of the factions (rebels and core) are cut off at the end.

2) Playing for the rebels, the Crisis system is missing in action.  I haven't tested the other factions, yet.

3) Faction-specific unlock buildings do NOT appear in the Production panel and cannot be built.