We are back to work and have spent the last week fixing a bunch of more issues here and there.
This is the list:
Fix delete save button not working
Fix reverse road tool bringing back foliage
Fix UI scale slider jittering the graphics settings
Fix preview road (road that hasn't been built yet) touching a rail breaking the game
Fix spaceship view not showing laser
Replace cursor while replacing/reversing roads
Fix intersection rings (blue rings) not disappearing after canceling deletion
Fix deleting all rails of a train line, which has at least a train, throwing an error
Fix collection/distribution centers not disconnecting upon resource change
Updates now monthly instead of weekly
From our 1.0 release on Sept 22nd until christmas we have released updates every week. This was really great for fixing bugs quickly and improving the most obvious quality of life issues.
But it's a lot of extra effort because each week we have to go through some quality assurance testing to make sure we didn't accidentally break anything while fixing a bug!
That's why from now on, we'll release our updates monthly. We are going to spend the whole month fixing this, and improving that, and then do a big QA test where we check the whole game at once.
If you want to help us playtesting or experience new changes early, you can join our discord server and ask to help with playtesting by pinging the @Developer role.
Let us know if there is anything else you need and as always, happy playing!
Friday Dev News #153 - Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Hello everyone!
Another year draws to a close and it's time to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
In last week's Friday Dev News Post we let you know that we were working on an optimization that we're hoping to finish this week. We are almost done, but it's a deep change, so it carries a bunch of risk. Since the holidays are coming, we thought it's best to not release a deep change like that willy-nilly without proper testing.
For the people who are interested in the technical details: The optimization improves the algorithm that decides how workers are distributed to each factory based on your prioritizations. On large cities (50k citizens and more), it could take around 30 milliseconds to run. Since there is a lot of moving in and out in these cities, having an extra 30 millisecond calculation in these frames leads to bad stuttering, which we are fixing with this improvement.
If your city is smaller, that distribution algorithm has much less of a performance impact.
Also, because of the holidays, we're going to pause Friday Dev News for 2 weeks for the first time in 3 years of development. We'll be back in the new year with new fixes, improvements and also a handful of new content releases, too.
I also would like to thank the community for their passion and their support. InfraSpace is not the biggest game, and as such we can't work on it indefinitely, but I'm glad that for now we can still work on improving it a little here and there and I'm also glad that you and your support are still part of it :)
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy Playing!
Friday Dev News #152 - Sharp UI Text & Fixes
Hello everyone,
we’re back with another bugfix and improvement update. This week it’s a bunch of smaller things, but they do add up and some were highly requested by players:
Fixed incorrect area coverage and terraforming progress in the terraforming progression panel
Sharpened the text of all of the UIs and improve the UI of map selection
Fixed vsync not working properly in graphics settings
Fixed colliding buildings no longer colliding with nearby roads upon loading
Fixed terraforming buildings that were terraforming without workers
Fixed fertilizer drone hub texture looking wrong
Fixed car colors so that all truck colors match their resource icon
Optimization incoming
We have found an opportunity to optimize the worker distribution in large cities. If you’re running a big city and your CPU is struggling, this might lead to a couple extra fps.
We’re currently working on the improvement and it’s gonna be our main focus for next week. It’s a deep code change so it’s a little risky. We’ll do proper playtesting and hope that we can release it on Wednesday already, so that we are not on Christmas break yet and available to do hotfixes should the need arise.
Speaking of Christmas, after next week’s update / Friday Dev News we’re probably going to pause Friday Dev News for 2-3 weeks for the Christmas break and so we can focus on behind the scenes work. More details next week!
Until then, Happy playing!
Friday Dev News #151
Hello everyone,
this week, we're releasing a multitude of minor fixes for things here and there:
Fixed moving distribution center's consumer buildings not adding(removing) itself to(from) the distribution centers in realtime
Fixed clicking on a car that's going to a building without a sideroad throwing errors
Fixed distribution center's UI sometimes throwing errors
Fixed update InfraSpace 1.23.413 causing some players' saves not to load
Fixed moving AOE buildings (e.g. parks) that were sorrunded by many habitats sometimes throwing error
Fixed clicking on Recyling Center and Soil Enrichment not kicking in visualization mode
Throughout the last weeks we have reduced the number of bugs by a lot. There are a couple still on the list, so we're gonna continue with more small fixes for next week, too. Thanks especially to Sepehr for all the hard fixing work.
Happy playing!
Friday Dev News #150 - Train & Terraforming Improvements
Hello everyone and welcome to another batch of fixes and improvements.
Here is the list:
Changed terraforming visualization color so you can much more easily see where you might have missed a spot.
Made 100% terraforming a little more easy to reach.
Changed train pathfinding to avoid going through stations if they are not the destination. Helps with avoiding congestion.
Changed goods pathfinding slightly to avoid unnecessary train rides in cases where players did not lay out their city well.
Fixed research lab's panel to update the selected research properly.
This week we talked with a bunch of players where they had trouble with using the logistics. If you have trouble with the logistics, definitely read the encyclopedia and learn how to use distribution centers. That can be a big help to make goods deliver how you want them to!
Thanks for your support! Let us know if the changes are improving your experience and if there are any other issues left.
Happy playing!
Friday Dev News #149 - Train Platforms Fix
Hello everyone!
Trains
Today we're releasing another fix update, containing a major improvement for train-lovers: Improved trains platform choice.
Train stations in InfraSpace have multiple platforms, which on paper sounds like a good feature to have for high-traffic train stations.
The problem was, that InfraSpace trains already chose the platform they are going towards when they left the previous station. But, the journey is long and while the train was traveling, another train could easily slip in between and occupy the platform. Thus, the first train was still going towards the chosen platform even though it was occupied and many other free platforms were available!
With this update, trains keep watching out for changes in platform occupancy while driving and they adjust to path to an empty platform if possible. This makes thoughput on high-traffic stations much better.
Nuclear Power Water Rebalance
Also, we changed the balancing of the nuclear reactor water consumption again. Recently we had some issues with them either requesting too many resources or the storage for water being too large for early game buildings, so these are the new changes:
Reduced maximum storage of water to 36, so early game it does not take forever to fill buildings
Reduced consumption of water for nuclear power plants, so they are not stuck waiting for water
I know there are more things to improve. Especially on our mind are two issues that are plaguing a couple of people: Resources getting stuck in train stations and terraforming not being able to complete fully. If you are experiencing any other bugs really messing with your experience, feel free to let us know / remind us again, we're gonna keep fixing and improving for a while.
Happy playing!
Patch 1.22.412 Immigration Fix!
Hello again,
In this patch, we fixed the immigration issue caused by the previous patch.
Thanks to our Discord members for reporting and helping me playtest this patch: - Blinky_PL-AU - SentientNut - cia8167
Happy playing, Sepehr
Friday Dev News #148 - Train Pathfinding fix
Hello everyone,
today we're releasing a major fix:
A train pathfinding issue has been plaguing InfraSpace, where trains would sometimes take a longer route than the fastest one. Sometimes, significantly longer!
As of today, that issue is fixed.
In the next weeks our main programmer is taking a bunch of well earned vacation days, so updates will be slower for that time. We're probably still gonna manage one major bug fix or improvement every week, but no huge lists of changes in the next weeks.
Happy playing!
Friday Dev News #147 - Update 1.18.408
Hello everyone,
another week, another update!
As promised, we finally got back to doing more bug fixes. Unfortunately, we can't release any train-related fixes today like we planned, but instead we got an other round of important fixes and changes:
Bug fixes
Fixed factories over delivering to habitats
Fixed grass growing in buildings and roads after terraforming
Fixed some race condition errors
UI changes
Luxury habitats no longer show "fulfil the additional needs to upgrade"
Fixed train stations and gondolas not showing resources
Brought back terraforming's "progress total: x%" text
Improved key binding's UI
Other changes
rebalanced (increased) a couple of storage limits for resources so we don't have any delivery issues, in particular with the nuclear reactors.
Added a tutorial for "factory upgrades"
Also, in case you missed it: Earlier this week, we released the new UIs for all kinds of buildings. Check it out if you haven't yet!
We'll continue next week with more fixes. As always, let us know if there is anything in particular you need. We have a full to-do list, but it's important to prioritise it correctly.
Happy playing!
Patch 1.14.401 UI Overhaul!
Hello everyone!
As promised in last week's Friday Dev News, today we're bringing you a bunch of UI improvements. These are the improved UI panels:
Factory info panel
Habitats info panel
Pipes and tank panel
Research Lab panel
Power panels
Extra descriptions for most buildings
Link to tutorials and encyclopedia on most buildings/factories info panel
Text-based upgrades to icons (e.g. "improved wind turbines", self-cleaning panels...)
