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Progress Notes Week 21

May 24th - 28th

• Design for the starter station selection interface has been completed
  
• Design for Capital Ship cargo halls has been completed
  
• Design on new configurations for ore distribution has been started
  
• Laborer modifications have been tested in Easy Build Mode
  
• Tier 1 and 3 thrusters and generators have been worked on
  

• Insurance terminals have been removed from the Fast Travel gates and the Moon city
  
• Changes in Quasar Systems' ship shop:
  
  
  
  • Morningstar added
    
  • Moved from Rando 2: Wolverine ac, Wolverine las, Wolverine plas
    
  
  
• Added the following ships to Duratech ship shop: Hanarr MK2, Hepitifili MK2, Heretha MK2
  
• Changes in Rando 1 ship shop:
  
  
  
  • Added Andromeda
    
  • Removed Scrublass
    
  
  
• Orientation of Manatee and Moonfish -ships fixed in OKI ship shops
  

• Tutorial Spaceship Laborer (Module variant) has been updated: it's now slightly bigger and has more ore crates by default. It's now also equipped with a transponder and a radiator
  

• Support for choosing the starting station has started
  
• Fix for station multiplayer changes causing Station Foundation Units to replace built foundation modules with empty ones has been worked on
  
• Work on Easy Build Mode for stations continues: holograms and crafted modules can be placed down
  
• Some improvements on jointed object stability regarding ship ownership and cargo have been made
  
• Fast Travel Cores required for fast travel have been worked on
  
• Chat warnings are now displayed when a ship exceeds the Building Budget
  
• Parts of tripod code have been refactored to allow for better handling of some syncing issues
  

• Work on Company Bank statement continues
  
• Company Ships UI has been worked on, further improvements and fixes have been made to the Access page
  
• Company Ships are now sorted by name in the navigation tree, like in personal Ships UI
  
• Receiving mail from ignored players has been prevented
  

• Revised sound effect support for pickaxe has been worked on
  
• Fix for some audio signal devices sounds left playing after the device disappears has been made
  

• Some station device configurations have been made to fix an issue with device detection
  
• Station utility network detection has been implemented to the station utility grid screen
  

• New animations when carrying objects while unarmed have been worked on
  
• New reload animation for shotgun has been worked on
  

• Moon city layout has been updated
  

• Fast Travel Core assets have been worked on
  
• Box thruster and triangle thruster quality tier colors have been added
  
• Work on Capital Ship interiors continues
  
• New effects for Grab, Pipe, Cable, Bolt and Building Tools have been added
  
• Assault Rifle, Battle Rifle and Whiplash muzzle VFX has been adjusted to work better in ADS
  
• Small fix to glow levels of Buzzsaw VFX has been made
  
• New SSC icons added
  

Progress Notes Week 20

May 17th - 21st

• Design for the item crates and new inventory has been updated
  
• 12x12 and 12x36 ducts have been added to Ship Designer
  
• Mining Backpack splitting feature has been tested, functions now the same way as with ore crates
  
• Work with Easy Build Mode continues
  
• Capital Ship Fast Travel Core design has been worked on
  
• Work on ore distribution overhaul and crafting material overhaul continues
  

• First UI design phase of Capital Ship Device Screens has been finished
  
• New tutorial for Easy Build Mode has been worked on
  

• First version of Easy Build mode Laborer ship has been created
  

• The effective area of Cargo Frames has been increased so that it should be possible to snap carried objects against the Cargo Frame beams
  
• Blueprint Filler for repairing and building ships has been implemented
  
• Mining backpack drag-and-drop ore split feature has been worked on
  
• Various bug fixes related to tripods have been worked on
  
• Re-hosting issues with the station blueprint multiplayer have been worked on
  
• Capital Ship content reloading when starting or ending the warp travel has been fixed
  
• Solution to prevent station utility pipe networks from functioning if the network contains any open pipe ends has been implemented
  
• Substations have been added: substations can be interacted with to connect nearby station devices into the substation's network
  

• Implementation of station-building Easy Build Mode features has begun
  
• Already completed tutorials can now be revisited in any order using the new tutorial selection window and tutorial options in the settings window
  
• Work on personal and company Ship Access UI has been continued
  
• Player's messages and invites have been made ignorable
  
• Company and trade invites have been made ignorable
  

• Fix for handling of unconfigured sounds in parts of missiles and torpedoes has been made
  Audio signal devices playing several sounds at once has been fixed
  

• Moving ore to crates inside Ship Designer test mode has been prevented
  
• Foundation modules have been made to snap to existing heights properly
  
• Capital ship dock building is in progress
  

• New animations when carrying objects while unarmed have been worked on
  

• Cargo area module has been finished
  
• Asteroid hauling hall decorations have been updated
  

• Fuel rod printer mesh has been created
  
• Work on several Tool VFXs continues
  
• Reticles have been added to Tripod Autocannon
  

Progress Notes Week 19

May 10th - 14th

• Interface design for Capital Ship screens continues
  
• Company medals design has been improved
  
• First version of shared ships in company has been finished, UI is in progress
  

• Changes in OKI 3 ship shop:
  
  
  
  • Removed: Mantis Hunter, Mantis Crusher, Mantis Brawler
    

• Work on support for company owned ships and company ship access rights continues
  
• Optimizations for ship unloading have been worked on
  
• Fixes for station blueprint multiplayer have been worked on
  
• Several resource network related issues that caused unintentional resource consumptions have been fixed
  
• Thruster effects have been tweaked
  
• Cargo Beams no longer go through their own structures
  
• Lagging player poses have been fixed so that thrusters no longer incorrectly damage nearby players
  
• Resource Management UI showing cargo crate contents has been implemented
  
• Implementation of remaining functionality for animation locks has been worked on
  

• Fix for an assert when copy-pasting multiple triangle thrusters in Spaceship Designer has been made
  

• Sunny Ship Center's holograms have been updated
  
• Landing platform holograms have been removed due to collision bug
  

• Royal guard armorset textures have been updated
  
• Kingdom royal guard custom armorset color areas have been fixed
  
• Ship thruster FX now take ship's velocity and direction into account
  
• Fixed an issue with Mounted Laser VFX not carrying beyond 500m
  
• Updates and optimizations to Mounted Laser Hit and Shoot VFX
  

Progress Notes Week 18

May 3rd - 7th

• Large Generator functionality for Capital Ships has been designed and tasked
  
• Easy Build Mode has been tested and usability design improved
  

• Shared company credits backend implementation has been worked on
  
• Progress on Company bank feature has been made
  
• New tutorial phases and rewards have been worked on
  
• Company Tag system has been tested and interface design improved
  
• Improved visual design for transponder names and player names in HUD has been made
  
• Interface design for Capital Ship screens is in progress
  

• Changes in Rando 3 ship shop:
  
  
  
  • Added: Sherwood, AA Freedom, MLS-8-252 "Truzhenik" (previously removed)
    
  
  
• Changes in OKI 2 ship shop:
  
  
  
  • Added Mercury
    
  
  
• A ship mixup in Dynastar ship shop has been foxed: "Antares" Twin Frame Freighter replaced with Antares-Class
  

• Support for Company owned ships and Company ship access rights have been worked on
  
• Work with factory halls continues: hall area detection has been worked on
  
• Improvements for tripod animation lock functionality have been worked on
  

• Crafting UI has been worked on, tooltip info has been added to crafting tab
  
• Work on Easy Build Mode continues, issues with picking up and dropping modules have been worked on
  
• Company Ships UI has been worked on: "Add Access" side panel, "Add Operator" side panel's context menu and list sorting have been worked on
  
• UI implementation for ignored player list has started
  
• Company tag system has been worked on
  

• Device music ending and looping has been implemented
  

• First version of station device assembly configuration and detection has been finished
  
• Issues with buying ships from some Ship Design terminals resulting in overlapping with previous ships have been worked on
  

• Spaceship registration tool has been rigged and 1st person animations have been worked on
  
• Socket creator tool has been rigged and 1st person animations have been worked on
  

• Hangar area module assets have been made
  
• Interior has been added to the dark variant of Skyscraper Roof 01
  
• Landing area holograms have been added to Vintage, Quasar, Dynastar and Epic Shipyards
  
• Skyscraper entrance and stem LODs have been updated
  
• LOD for Canal Bridge city slot has been created
  
• Direction indicators for station corner slots have been added
  
• Various LODs in station and city scenes have been updated to match the structures
  

• Thruster converter snapping has been fixed, so that no illegal placement of converters should be possible
  
• Blueprint filler on and off icons have been created
  
• A hologram circle for waypoints has been created
  
• An issue with Laser Cutter Hit VFX not attaching to moving objects has been fixed
  
• Capital and large machinery assets now have distinctive textures
  

Progress Notes Week 17

April 26th - 30th

• Mining backpack: progress bar indicating slot capacity should now be relative to the slot max capacity
  
• Large Generator design, assets and configurations have been finished
  
• Electricity per second upkeep has been updated to 250 on autocannon, laser cannon and plasma cannon (similar to rail cannon upkeep)
  
• Missiles have been tested with safety settings, they now work as intended
  

• Asteroid belt tutorial has been worked on, tutorial objectives have been updated
  
• New shop UI with separate manufacturing price has been worked on
  

• Moon city's ship spawn terminals, that were inside the landing platform's floor, have been put to their correct places
  
• Four new player ship shops have been added to Origin station
  
  
  
  • Epic Shipyards
    
  • Dynastar
    
  • Vintage Ships
    
  • Quasar Systems
    
  
  
• Many player-made ships have been added to the ship shops, and some ships have been moved to different ship shops
  

• Easy Build Mode modules are being updated: updated modules will use mainly ducts instead of cables and pipes
  

• Ship server support for granting ship access to other players has been worked on
  
• Work with factory halls continues: configurations, manager, part connections and hall area detection have been worked on
  
• Sections of structures should no longer disappear when merging them to remote content
  
• Ship thruster effect poses have been fixed
  
• Lifeline should now work better with unconventional chair environments
  
• Lifeline cannot be bound to a chair that is so damaged it cannot be sit on
  
• Many laser-like device visuals no longer have a lag when in motion
  
• Implementation of Company bank accounts has been in the works
  
• Player camera controller functionality has been changed to only allow first person while operating a tripod weapon
  
• Syncing tripod animations to remote clients has been worked on
  
• Tripod specific functionality has been added to first person arms positioning
  

• Work on Easy Build Mode continues, new snapping feature has been worked on
  
• Work on asteroid tutorial continues, implementation of second set of objectives has started
  
• Ship UI has been worked on, ownership and access checking has been improved
  

• Music playback system for music devices has been worked on
  

• Station utility pipe configuration implementation has been worked on
  
• Adding thruster auto-naming feature to the game has been worked on
  

• Tripod draw/holster animations have been worked on
  
• Weapon/tool poses have been adjusted for when tools are held in the back slot of the inventory
  

• Ship Design Workshop holograms have been updated
  

• Large generator: LODs have been updated for the assets
  
• Large Machinery: tint mask areas have been added to Exorium Tank and Large Generator, tint mask changes have been updated to LODs
  
• "Ammo" canisters for the Paint Tool and the Decal Tool have been added as separate assets
  
• Art for cursor hover highlights in Spaceship Designer toolbox and toolbar icons have been created
  
• Cable and pipe duct inventory icons have been created
  
• Station Permission icons have been created for the following:
  
  
  
  • Safe Zone Access
    
  • Ship Registration Permission
    
  • Auto-build Permission
    
  • Permission for building with ready-built parts
    
  • Free-form Building Permission
    
  
  
• Spaceship Registration Deed model and textures have been created
  
• Further adjustments have been made to Tripod Autocannon VFX
  
• New Plasma Thruster damage effect has been created
  
• Work on Missile and Torpedo thruster VFX continues
  
• Updates and optimizations have been made for Plasma Rifle Hit and Reload VFX
  

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Progress Notes Week 16

April 19th - 23rd

• Legacy visual instructions removed from Mining job
  
• Mining Backpack fixes tested, work on fixing bugs continues (backpack keeps collecting ore even when full)
  
• Usability improvements for Easy Build Mode designed
  
• Usability improvements for Material Point Scanner designed
  

• Ship tutorial controls have been reworked
  
• New tutorial UI for starting tutorial and choosing tutorial phases has been designed
  
• Design for Company bank features continues
  
• Company access control design has been worked on
  
• Company missions permissions access control logic has been updated
  

• Kyanite and Shale lifted higher in OKI 2 ship shop, seat mechanisms no longer clip into the floor when canopy is opened
  

• Devices: A set of 10 Duct parts have been made available: Ducts are for creating resource networks and can be used to replace cables and pipes
  

• An issue where some objects in space would move when player approached them has been fixed
  
• Occasional issue with items flinging when ungrabbing them has been worked on
  
• Beam welds close to each other in a connecting beam result in frame integrity connections between ship frame beams, reducing the need for corner attachment plates
  
• Thruster parts should no longer block their thrusters in tiny ships
  
• Jointed grabbed objects colliding with the environment has been fixed (once again)
  
• Support for printing start, printing finish and error sound effects have been added to large and small 3D Printers
  
• Animations, audio and bugfixes for tripod weapons have been worked on
  
• Sound category support for audio signal devices has been completed
  
• Work on Audio Signal Device Mark II-B ("jukebox") has started
  

• Work on implementing company bank accounts continues
  
• Work on crafting UI continues, work on module crafting function has started
  
• Work on Mission personnel -page has started
  

• Aim animations for player operating the tripod have been made
  
• Tripod autocannon reload animation has been worked on
  

• Level art for planet city bridge slot has been finished
  
• Landing/takeoff hologram signs have been added to help better guide players to landing platforms both from space and from the ground
  

• Factory area assets have been added (not yet fully implemented)
  
• Snap issues for duct pipe assets have been fixed
  
• The raised part from intersections in the bigger intersection beams has been removed
  
• New cliff material for moon type 2 (City moon)
  
• Viper armor set textures and paintjobs have been updated
  
• 25 player tag icons have been created
  
• Exorium processing unit rework has been completed
  
• An issue with Whiplash and Antigel Rifle projectiles spawning behind the weapons at low frame rates has been fixed
  
• Tripod Autocannon VFX has been updated
  
• Laser Cutter's spark and burning metal VFX have been reworked
  

Progress Notes Week 15

April 12th - 16th

• Mining Backpack fixes have been tested, building/fixing now works with materials in backpack without tether connection to ore crates
  
• Mining Backpack UI tweaks have been designed, material stack size will be shown in slots when hovered over (1/1 normal stack size, 1/8 small 216kv stack).
  
• Large Generator asset improvement has been designed, module cores need to be accessible with Universal Tool
  

• Design for station building tutorial has started
  
• New asteroid belt tutorial has been worked on
  
• Design on company bank statement, ship and station access rank rights has been worked on
  

• Ship shops added to Empire Outpost B, Empire Outpost C, Pirate Base and Moon Fast Travel gate stations
  

• Floating lamps and their holders on Lot Designer modules have been fixed
  
• Work on solid version of pipes and cables that can transfer resources and data continues
  

• Objects and players now receive damage inside Plasma Thrusters
  
• Bug fixes have been made for Tripod weapons
  
• Work on ship tutorial continues
  

• Implementing company bank accounts has been worked on
  
• Work on Company Ships have started - Ship Manager code has been refactored to make implementing Company Ships easier
  
• Tag manager UI has been worked on and support for tag icons on the server have been added
  

• Foundation modules should now work properly with station refactoring
  

• Leg behavior when player flies has been improved
  
• Work on tripod animations continues
  

• Generic Spaceship shops have been finished
  
• Interior shots from one of our skyscrapers as our level artists are now decoration everything in the city slots. As a base model, most interiors are colorless as they can then be colored according to ownership
  

• A snapping error with the ship diagnostic scanner has been fixed (should now snap correctly from the sides with the sockets as well)
  
• Exorium Tank: LODs have been added to the assets
  
• Icon has been added for "Launcher mount small turntable"
  
• VFX work on weapons continues
  
  
  
  • Updates to Antigel Rifle shoot, projectile, hit and reload VFX have been made
    
  • Updates to Whiplash shoot, projectile, hit and reload VFX have been made
    
  • New reload effect for Whiplash has been added
    
  • Work on Tripod Autocannon VFX has continued
    
  
  
• Various large component assets have been added to the game, which are still conceptual in design terms but are intended for bigger ships
  
• A pipe duct set for alternative ways to declutter big piles of pipe or cable has been added, this set would go into the grooves of the beams (work in progress and not yet implemented)
  
• Scope model for tripod attachment has been worked on, this would be used for many optical needs that a heave weapon would require such as magnification