Starbase

Progress Notes Week 49

(November 30th - December 4th)

• Fix for the Mining Laser and Ore Collector throttling exploit has been sorted out
  
• Cleaner collection areas have been added around mining job workstations, any chunks of asteroids
• thrown outside the workstation are collected without rewarding credits
  
• Cutting Tool power consumption design has been worked on, it will use power packs as "ammo" like Buzzsaw does
  
• Improvements to the ship transponders have been designed
  

• Design for using premade parts in Spaceship Designer has been worked on
  
• Support for selecting alternate building materials for spaceship parts has been worked on
  
• Designs for Universal Tool's Station Blueprint tab have been made
  
• Work on Station Management UI design has started
  
• Layout redesign for the player CV has been worked on
  

• 10 min despawn areas have been added around Ore Storage Towers, Command Centers, Work Hub and Ship Design Workshops
  
• Descriptions have been added for Station Designer modules
  
• City landing and take-off section is being worked on
  
• Safe zones for player made stations have been designed
  

• A fix has been made for resource network connection issues on lots and dropped items
  
• 3D Printer device field feedback and control has been improved
  
• Safe zones have been added for player stations.
  
• Ellipsoid shape type has been added for safe zones and build restricted areas
  
• A test flight button has been added to Spaceship Shop terminals
  

• A fix has been made for being able to buy large items to backpack even when there's no space for it and the item vanishing when buying to mining backpack
  

• Work on tripod animations continues
  
• Cable and pipe tools now have 3rd person animations
  
• Welding and Bolt Tool 3rd person reload animations have been updated so they match new idle
  
• Rummage animations (1st person) have been added to Plasma Rifle, Tactical Shotgun, Bolter, Long Rifle, Rail Rifle, and Whiplash
  

• Interior level art has been added to various skyscraper floor modules.
  
• Misaligned art panels fixed in Lot Designer modules
  

• Optimized the spawn rates and effect scaling over distance for the Mounted Plasma Hit, Fuel Rod and Propellants Explosions (along with their related afterburn effects)
  

• Railing corner 45 (T-shaped) snap points have been updated so that the bottom of it snaps correctly to other railing pieces
  
• The material of every asteroid surface rock has been updated to match better with the new asteroid textures
  
• Warp Travel VFX has been updated
  
  
  
  • Charge/buildup effects and retimed current effects have been added to allow for the new warp buildup
    
  • The actual buildup time before fast travel has been slightly adjusted to help match back to the effects
    
  
  

Progress Notes Week 48

(November 23rd - 27th)

• Ore distribution throughout the belt has been reworked: more common ore now available and hot spots containing rarer ore have been added
  
• Work on factory systems has been continued
  
  
  
  • 3D printer has been added to Interior Designer and shops
    
  • Initial pre-installed blueprint chip selection has been added to shop
    
  • Improvements to 3D printer and blueprint chip are being designed, focusing on status information
    
  • Resource grid utility box power supply design has been adjusted to better support multiple 3D printers
    
  
  

• "Resurrection machine" UI has been designed
  
• The layout redesign for the player CV continues
  
• The design for a Station Blueprint tab in the Universal Tool has been started
  
• Automated building options were designed and added to the Stations UI
  

• The intersection walkways of various grid slots have been updated, as their railings were colliding with "Vertical Bridge" and "Mass transit stop" modules
  
• Overlapping decorative panels have been fixed in "Empire VIS HQ" and "Kingdom VIS HQ"
  
• Transponders for player-built stations were designed
  
• New city areas are being worked on
  

• Lot Designer: module tooltips now show the amount of connection ports found in each module
  
• Lot Designer: added a new module category for modules included in the shop blueprint chip selection
  
• Spaceship Designer: New 15, 30, 45 degree beams and plates are underway
  

• An issue where lots' built objects disappeared due to a save error has been fixed
  
• Stations & lots can't be saved by people who have no access to them anymore
  
• An issue where station blueprints got shifted into wrong positions has been fixed
  
• Each built hologram no longer triggers a new save lot operation
  
• An issue with building a station blueprint owned by another player has been fixed
  
• Resource network connection limitations (with pipes and cables) have been finished
  
• Utility box fixes have been implemented
  
• Remote explosive devices are no longer turned into debris even though they're small
  
• An issue where 3D Printer got stuck when transferring finished item to station storage has been fixed
  
• An issue where idle station terminals spontaneously crashed the game has been fixed
  

• Inventory weight has been added to player
  
• A fix for not being able to pick up parts that are built to station blueprints is in the making
  
• A fix for not being able to pick up the Station Foundation Blueprint Projector to inventory is in the making
  
• A mass limit has been added to backpacks and the mining backpack's single slots are now dynamic
  
• Automatic building options have been added to Building page on Stations tab
  
• Work on enabling items in Auction House UI is underway
  
• A fix has been made for priority snapping points shown in Spaceship Designer
  

• Experimental mass-based scaling has been added to ship acceleration sounds
  
• Support for death music is in the making
  

• Pivot override has been added for objects that have a custom pivot point to rotate around
  
• An issue where Cable Tool was malfunctioning with connecting to snap points has been fixed
  

• Work on tripod animations continues
  
• Rummage animations (1st person) added to Saw tool, Battle rifle, Revolver, Repeater and Antigel
  
• New rock-paper-scissor emote animations available
  

• An afterburn effect has been created for basic missiles
  
• An afterburn effect has been added to missiles and torpedoes
  
• Longer burning Mounted Plasma Hits have been added/worked on
  
• Praetorian armor set textures' paint jobs have been added
  

• Skyscraper interiors are being worked on
  
• New hologram designs are being worked on
  

• Fuel Rod's explosion has been updated and afterburn VFX has been added to it
  
• Textures for large asteroids have been updated to more closely resemble the smaller ones
  
• "Resurrection machine" model has been finished, texturing, LODs etc. are underway
  

Progress Notes Week 47

(November 16th - 20th)

• Class 9 and 10 asteroids have been added back to the game
  
• Remote Explosive inventory bugs in job areas have been fixed
  
• Remote Explosives have been added to Demolition Job and Mining Job
  
• Work with easy building mode continues
  
• New ore distribution configurations have been tested, more localized distribution options are now available for creating ore hot spots for example
  
• New player ships have been added to economy
  
• Work on factory systems continues:
  
  
  
  • Iteration on 3D printer design has been worked on to improve player feedback and control
    
  • Initial pre-installed blueprint chip selection has been designed
    
  
  

• Additional options (company purpose and public listing) for company edit page have been designed
  
• Design for company ship UI and access options have been worked on
  
• Ship platform and spawning tutorial design is underway
  

• 3D Printer is now able to consume ores from connected ore crates and can output items to station storage when connected to a Resource Grid Utility Box
  
• The ability to resign stations has been added: resigning a station has a 60 second cancelable timer, visible to all users near the station terminal
  
• The ability to claim resigned stations has been added: claim button has been added to station terminals
  
• A fix has been made for some new armor models that had incorrect rotation
  
• A fix has been made for not being able to pick up station items to player inventory
  
• A fix has been made for being able to auto-bolt without a magazine
  
• A fix has been made for being able to auto-bolt other players' ships
  

• A new window has been added to tutorial that tells when a quest reward has been awarded
  
• New tutorial hints about Magboots and how to align an endo's orientation to a surface have been added
  
• Owned Ship List page's basic functionality is done
  

• Station foundation element modification has been prevented in the Station Designer
  
• A fix has been made for station grid slot LODs in the Station Designer
  
• A fix has been made for attachment plates placed in the Interior Designer getting deleted when moving the module in the Lot Designer
  

• Work on tripod animations continues
  
• Resource port animations polished (3rd person)
  
• Rummage animations for Cable, Pipe, Welding, and Bolt Tools have been added (1st person)
  
• Fixed issue with sit animations and aiming at buttons
  

• Skyscraper interiors are being worked on
  
• New city areas are being worked on
  
• The overall layout of the Moon city has been updated
  

• Serpentai armor set textures have been tweaked and paintjobs have been updated
  
• Empire armor set colored areas have been slightly tweaked
  

• Asteroid materials are in the process of being tested and adjusted
  
• Work on the "resurrection machine" has been started
  
• Updated the Battery Explosion and related afterburn VFX
  
• Created new VFX for exploding ammo containers: Autocannon, Laser, Plasma and Railgun
  

Progress Notes Week 46

(November 9th - 13th)

• Design on "easy building -mode" has started: this will be a simplified way to build ships from modules in-game, outside the Spaceship Designer
  
• New factory parts and player made ships have been added to the economy
  
• Safe zone has been added around the moon city, and new collision rules have been assigned:
  
  
  
  • Collision damage has been applied, but weapon damage is not allowed
    
  
  

• Updates for the company bank statement UI, withdraw and deposit features and access control for credits have been worked on
  
• Tutorial UI and functionality design continues:
  
• New logic worked on for pause, disable and restart functionality
  
• Changes to UI visibility, lightning and hint texts and binds have been made
  

• The following updates have been made to the player ship shops:
  
  
  
  • New ships added: Malamute, Tick, Corundum, Starfire, Kaiser, Clownfish, Eikenskald A, Heretha A, Baracuda, Hornet
    
  • Removed: Markolf Typ 1, Sparrow IV
    
  • Moved to Rando 2: Nate, Miter Saw
    
  
  

• Chair quick binds now only reach devices of the same structure
  
• Safe zones now have specific settings for preventing structural collision damage
  
• A fix has been made for being able to drop electric resource to the world
  
• Kill zones have been added below the moon surfaces as a failsafe
  
• Ability to resign stations has been added: resigning a station has a 60 second cancelable timer, visible to all users near the station terminal
  
• Ability to claim resigned stations has been added: claim button has been added to station terminals
  

• Electric resource amount has been added to UI
  
• 1x1 items will occupy 1x1 slots in inventory by default if possible, however they can be manually moved to larger slots
  

• Electric resource amount has been added to UI
  
• 1x1 items will occupy 1x1 slots in inventory by default if possible, however they can be manually moved to larger slots
  

• Station foundation element modification has been prevented in the Station Designer
  
• A fix was made for station grid slot LODs in the Station Designer
  
• A fix was made for attachment plates placed in the Interior Designer getting deleted when moving the module in the Lot Designer
  

• All weapons and tools now have sprint animations
  
• All 1st person "lower weapon" animations have been improved and poses have been updated so they take less space on screen
  

• Moon City prototype has been created and added to the game
  
• City holograms are being implemented into the cities, these will also see more use in Space Stations
  
• First batch of skyscraper modules (entrances, floors and roofs) have been created and combined. Interiors are currently being worked on.
  
• New city areas are being worked on
  

• New tripod heavy weapon has been rigged, animated and waiting for finalization
  
• Tripod heavy weapon will get more weapons, for now we've made the autocannon for it, as seen in the video
  
• Serpentine textures and paintjob polishing in progress
  
• The Remote Explosive Device's explosion VFX has been updated to be more 'forceful' and generally bigger in size and impact
  

• Karnite asteroid concept image has been made
  
• Station asset icons have been added from decorative surfacing and decorative furniture categories
  
• Asteroid materials are being updated
  
• New rougher variations of the asteroid materials are being made
  

Progress Notes Week 45

(November 2nd - 6th)

• Mining backpack is now the default backpack: new players will spawn with the Mining backpack
  
• Ore distribution and material progression design work continues
  
• Restricted areas regarding player stations have been configured: building a station on some key locations is forbidden and prevented
  
• Player stations have been tested and improvements designed based on the results
  
• Bolt Tool autobolt improvement has been tasked: the tool should add bolts to all port profile suggestions, ignoring the max hard cap (i.e. ore crates and generator units)
  
• Mining Laser power consumption issue resolved and fixed: it now consumes 6k power per second
  
• Economy configurations and design have been worked on:
  
  
  
  • Player progression and material availability in the belt and beyond
    
  • Spaceship Designer assembly design and assembly cost changes
    
  • New player made ships were added to the economy
    
  
  

• Auction House buy order, service fee variants and alternative UI have been worked on
  
• Design for alternative tutorial routes has been worked on
  

• Halloween ship shop has been removed
  

• Resource Bridge transfer with a single powered bridge port has been enabled
  
• Asteroids should be loaded again before colliding into them
  
• Thruster blocked-ness checking has been extended to avoid all kinds of encapsulated thrusters
  
• Ship "acceleration" sound system has been refactored
  
• Multisource sound system has been tweaked
  
• Cargo Lock Frame's wall no longer disappears during fast travel
  

• Ores not being stackable has been fixed
  
• A fix has been made for not being able to autobolt objects with no bolt profiles, if objects already have bolts
  

• Build restriction area configuration has been added to allow developers to specify areas where player stations cannot be built
  
• Owned station limit has been updated to 1 per user profile
  
• New permissions to station management have been added
  
  
  
  • The adjustment of how many lots a user can rent within the station has been made possible (can be specified for default users)
    
  • The possibility for a user to be exempted from rental payment has been added (can be specified for default users)
    
  • The station owner can rent any number of lots and pays no rent for them by default
    
  
  

• Quick bar has been enabled in Spaceship Designer test mode
  
• A fix has been made for selection not working properly after rotating the camera in Spaceship Designer
  

• Work on 1st person sprint animations and general polish continues
  
• 3rd person resource port animations worked on
  

• Skyscrapers, street levels and city holograms are being worked on
  

• Adamant armorset textures have been tweaked and paintjobs have been updated
  
• Toxine armorset colored areas have been slightly tweaked
  

• Moon terrain texture tiling has been adjusted
  
• Lukium asteroid concept image has been made
  
• Inventory icons have been added for blueprint projectors, remote explosive assets and station assets (bases and beams)
  
• New 'Warp Gate entry' effect and a first version of 'Warp Gate travel' effect have been created
  

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Progress Notes Week 44

(October 26th - 30th)

• Bolt Tool autobolt-feature has been designed and first version tested
  
• Ore distribution design continues, new material sets have been worked on for areas around the safe zone
  
• Spaceship Designer virtual mass-feature has been tested, it's now possible to test ore crates with extra mass and how it affects ship's durability and behavior
  
• Minor tweak and test has been made to Spaceship Designer autobolt, there's no more fixed limit on how many bolts are placed
  
• Fast travel gate locations and other related features have been fixed
  
• New player-made ships were added to the economy
  
• Auction House terminal was removed from marketplace and added only to the Origin station
  

• Auction House UI design updates have been worked on based on community suggestions
  
• Device connection issue where the cradles purchased from the shops did not work should now be fixed
  

• First working version of station blueprint caster was implemented for testing
  
• A fix was made for grabbing devices with jointed objects, such as turrets, breaking jointed objects' device connectivity
  
• A fix was made for holograms auto-built from the station/player inventory not having their proper visuals when built, instead appearing blank
  
• An old utility box that allows transferring resources (such as power) from station storage to containers located on lots was reimplemented
  

• A fix was made for not being able to pick up some tools/weapons with interaction pickup
  
• Auction House terminal where Auction House UI can be opened has been added
  
• Auction House UI closing when moving far enough away from Auction House terminal
  
• A fix was made for Auction House not opening with "F" when weapon is raised
  
• Station creator specific selection types were added to the Designer selection menu
  
• Basic layout for Ship Ownership UI has been made
  
• Auto-bolt single object feature has been worked on
  
  
  
  • Auto-bolting when pressing down left mouse button was added
    
  • Progress bar was added
    
  • Auto-removing bolts when pressing down right mouse button was added
    
  
  

• Removed the Insurance Transfer button from the Spaceship Designer Esc menu
  
• Virtual mass debug tool was made for the Spaceship Designer
  
• Material costs were added to the blueprint buy -dialogue
  

• Work on 1st person sprint animations and general polish continues
  

• Mounted AutoCannon muzzle effects were updated to be more 'focused' and less 'explosive' from the barrel itself
  
• Most weapons have reticles now, some are still incomplete but will be refined soon
  

• Assets for blueprint chips and blueprint slots were added
  
• Asset for 3D printer now added and being finalized
  
• Decorational holograms being tested and approved for cities and megastations
  
• First wall sections for skyscrapers have been created and skyscraper entrance modules are also being detailed
  

Progress Notes Week 43

(October 19th - 23rd)

• Right-click context menu has been tested: transferring large amounts of ore between ore crates in ship and station storages is now possible
  
• Safe zone ore distribution has been re-designed and configured (18 areas that each use their own material sets)
  
• Design of symmetrical angled beams has been finished (15, 30 and 45 degrees), matching plates will follow later
  
• Resource bridge maximum tether length has been increased to 100m (50m in jobs)
  
• Design for Bolt Tool improvements has started
  
• Economy and inflation/deflation related design plans have been worked on
  

• Tutorial transitions between jobs have been improved with better hints and triggers
  
• Ship Ownership UI design has been worked on
  

• The Dragonfly, Chemosh Ark, Chemosh Badger and Vigo has been added to Rando 3
  
• Heptifili and Sinthgut have been added to the DURΛTΞCH shop
  
• Okim Industries spaceship shops' layouts have been updated:
  
  
  
  • Widukind, Eurypterid, Spiker and Shale have been added or relocated
    
  
  
• Halloween themed spaceship shop has been added and contains the following ships:
  
  
  
  • Skull, Mr 'Umpkin and Bat
    
  
  

• First functional iteration of fast travel gate has been implemented
  
• Multiplayer stability improvements related to interlinked objects have been made
  
• Item purchases and sales now list localized names in the CV bank statement page
  
• The game should now remember the last zoom mode and used tab in Universal tool after quitting the game
  
• Being able to vacuum mining job nuggets to player ships was fixed
  
• A fix was made for not being able to pickup material cubes to ore crates
  

• Auction House UI has been worked on
  
  
  
  • Single listing UI has been added to sell tab
    
  • Context menu has been added to Auction House and Storage
    
  
  

• Placement and transformation preview no longer check for overlaps due to performance issues, overlap checking can be re-enabled from the settings
  
• YOLOL script editor will now save changes when the text field becomes unfocused
  
• Cables, sockets, bolts, weld bolts and autobolter attachment plates will now automatically attach themselves to the nearest station module in the interior designer
  

• Work on 1st person animation polish & sprint animations continues
  
• Rummage animations have been polished
  

• A new explosion effect has been created for the upcoming Remote Explosive Tool
  
• The exploding ammo effects have been updated to be a lot more explosive
  
• Reticle/crosshair effects have been added to all the weapons
  

• Preliminary tests for rich (mineral) rocks on asteroid surfaces are underway
  
• Assets for the different new modular cargo crate sizes have been added
  

Progress Notes Week 42

(October 12th - 16th)

• Building Tool UX improvements have been tested
  
• Ore distribution design in safe zone and nearby areas continues
  
• Keybinds and usability improvements have been worked on
  
• Ship to ship propellant and power transfer configurations done and are ready for testing
  
• Auction House Buy Order design and feature planning has been worked on
  
• Electricity and power related design has been worked on
  

• 12 new player spaceships added to spaceship shops:
  
  
  
  • Beli, Fornbogi, Herfjotur, Momento, Merchantman, Nusa light shuttle, Micro, Mammoth, Eurypterid, Tabletka, Chemosh Ark I, Marlin
    
  
  

• Decorative Short Interior Girder and Decorative Girder 144 cm are no longer considered as beams
  
• Ramp 72x144x144 cm is now Plate Triangle 72x144x144 cm and moved from Decorative plates to Plates/Triangle folder in asset browser
  
• Plate Triangle 72x144x144 cm default material is now Bastium
  
• Plate Triangle 72x144x144 cm Base color also changed to match with other plates
  
• Decorative column A,B,C and D are no longer available in Spaceship Designer
  
• Snap point fixes: Turret Cradle Side Armor should now snap with both Mounted Weapon Bodies (Fixed Weapon Mount 1 combination), Turret Cradle Side Armor also should now snap with Fixed Weapon Mount 2
  

• Work on station building continues
  
• The implementation of ship-to-ship resource transfer via resource bridge was finished
  
• A fix was made for coordinate issues in ship towing that made possible to tow ships from almost everywhere
  
• Initial implementation of printer device is done
  
• The first version of repair job tutorial has been implemented
  

• A tooltip for the test flight mode in Spaceship Designer has been implemented
  

• Lag spikes from placing cable and sockets on large ships have been fixed
  
• Entering the test mode while editing a YOLOL chip now saves the changes instead of discarding them
  
• Added localized user error messages to mega station designer if the user tries to save a station blueprint with too many parts or parts exceeding the station building area
  
• Mega station designer's rotation tools rotating around the scene origin rather than selection origin has been fixed
  
• Autosaves in Spaceship Designer were changed to show in the correct order from newest to oldest and to include dates in their names
  

• Work on 1st person animation polish and sprint animations continues
  
• Point, Yes and No emotes (1st person) are in the making
  
• Pistol stand ADS aim poses polished
  

• Praetorian textures and Adamant paintjob polishing is in progress
  

• Surface objects (rocks) were reduced to a reasonable amount on largest asteroid
  
• A fix was made for a flickering issue with the surface objects in most situations
  

Progress Notes Week 41

(October 5th - 9th)

• Building Tool UX improvements have been designed
  
• New Mining Job has been tested and configured
  
• Durability Tool modes can now be toggled from Blueprint tab in Universal Tool
  
• Autonaming of the thruster device fields has been tested in Spaceship Designer
  
• Design for a new armor system has been worked on, new system is more streamlined and simpler than before
  
• Economy design regarding credit generation to the world and starter jobs has been worked on
  
• New player health system is being designed (Along with features such as healing/repairing, missing limbs, their effects and attaching them)
  
• Sprinting has been implemented and going under testing by QA
  
• Design for how to establish your own station in the space and begin the building process is under works
  

• Design adjustments to the Ship Permissions UI and Ship menu UI have been made
  New five-part control table set has been added ( Devices/controls )
  

• Work on station building and Auction House continues
  
• Modifications were made to projectile damage calculations to make them more simplified
  
• Towing ships was allowed within safe zones
  
• Frame integrity was config-tweaked to compensate for last week's calculation changes
  
• A number of optimizations were implemented for the station server
  
• Station visibility range was increased from 50 km to 250 km
  

• A fix was made to a bug that caused the Spaceship Designer to freeze when bolting, unbolting, removing objects and undoing in a certain order.
  

• Work on 1st person animation polish continues
  
• 1st person rummage animations were worked on
  

• All legacy assets should now be removed from station scenes.
  
• A new version of the blueprint projector was created for player station building
  

• Adamant armor set texture quality was polished
  
• Praetorian armor set texturing is in progress
  
• The scale and the distance the Mining Laser FX travels were reduced to be more balanced
  

• Ice rock placement tests on large asteroids are underway
  
• Testing and fixing was done on rock flickering and fading issues on asteroids
  
• An asset for transponder unit was added
  
• A new unique effect with a 'measurement pulse' for the Rangefinder was created so it is now more distinguishable from other similar beam effects