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.
Yeah, looks like the text got cut off again here. It is supposed to be x buildings are locked each turn. I have it fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out. Each level increases the number of buildings locked. Locks are removed at the end of each turn.
Yeah, this one is a bit tricky. I'm planning to try and set something up to put the panels in a queue and only show one at a time so that they don't overlap like that.
Huh, yeah that definitely should not happen. I'll take a general look around for what could be causing it.
Definitely need to add something for that. It's slightly tricky with how the code is currently set up though so I have been focusing on other stuff so far. I'll bump it up the queue. Thanks.
I went ahead and changed this to reveal tiles in region 2. The player may get this before they are able to go to region 2 but that way it will be useful no mater how far into region 1 they are.
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.
Oh wow. This is going to be an interesting bug to figure out. Best guess so far is some kind of recursive rewarding of random points. I'll take a look at the code for the boss drones and see if I can find what caused this.
This happened again in my most recent playthrough. I think it's some sort of interplay between Combat and Science upgrades. I had to win the game quickly (in terms of real time) before the game lagged out completely.
I no longer have my choices of upgrades in front of me, but I think the relevant upgrades are as follows:
COMBAT > 2 random points per kill
COMBAT > "Beam Splitter"
COMBAT > -1 Defense needed per laser shot
SCIENCE > Destroying an enemy damages all other enemies (I think the Technology name used the word "Shrapnel", but I forget the entire name)
I was shooting only the Mothership, leaving the second shot from "Beam Splitter" to hit Local Threats.
Based on what was being animated, the points being awarded were arising from a recursive killing of Local Threats. The Local Threats "died" but weren't actually removed, damaged other Local Threats via Shrapnel, which then "died" (but weren't actually removed), then got "killed" by those other Local Threats via Shrapnel (but wasn't removed), damaged other Local Threats via Shrapnel, AD INFINITUM.
Yeah the shrapnel tech is likely the culprit. It's just going back and forth between the drones and re-killing them over and over again. I'll add in the proper checks to skip damaging and destroying them when they are still repairing.
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.
Took a look and your guess was spot on. Exploring tiles in region 1 was not doing the check for unlocking region 3 so it was skipping past when exploring tiles in 2 after that. It's fixed for the next update and I'm going to throw in a safety check to prevent softlocking if there are no tiles left to explore as well.
Yeah, it's definitely an issue. I'm working on getting a panel queue set up for the next update to solve this.
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?
I'm going to try to offset the tooltip a bit more if I can so it clears the cursor.
Yeah, the text for that wellness bonus needed some updating. Was leftover from when exploration points generated missions instead of just being spent directly. I'll update it.
For the crisis points, yeah right now there is a bit of scaling to it so that the more crises you have active the more points it takes to trigger another. This will be more a bit more clear in the next update as the visual design of the system has been changed to where the points to trigger a crisis are shown in a crisis slot rather than on a bar below.
Huh. I'm guessing the planet selector didn't properly clear the capitol marker when updating the displayed planets. Could be something else though, hard to tell just yet. I'll add the issue to my list and take a look at it after I finish the panel queue.
Edit: Just realized what the other thing you were saying actually was. Looks like there are two sets of planets being displayed which is what is causing the points overlap. So issue isn't with the capitol marker at all, just that the last planets either didn't get cleared or somehow it added a second set of planets when it wasn't supposed to.
If the issue is just accidentally ending the turn then it would be easy to just add a little delay when closing a panel before the end turn button can be pressed. Additionally I'm going to shift the wonder unlock panel up a bit to keep the buttons from overlapping.
Just put out a patch to fix the issues. Thanks for pointing them out. The buildings should now be in the production system and the crisis system works again.
Planet was reserved, but no points were stockpiled. I don't know if this is a problem with the building itself or an interaction with the planet's passive ability to stay in hand when reserved.
[edit] On a related note, it's really hard to test if the buildings are working if I have to properly earn them every single game. Would it be possible to get a Debug Mode on the Production Panel that allows testers to build locked buildings for free? [/edit]
It's from the interaction with the planet effect. The code runs when the card is discarded from the hand at the end of the turn, so with it not getting discarded it isn't counting as reserved. I will have to update that.
As for a debug mode, I do already have a hidden dev control system in. If you hit Alt + ` it toggles its visibility on or off. There are some buttons for free production and one for resources I believe.
Edit 5/4:
Looks like I actually did account for cards remaining in hard to trigger the effects. I just forgot to hook up part of the code so while the stored value increased it was never displayed and never actually applied when the planet was played.
