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TheOnlyAvenger1 year ago (10 edits)

1 - GAME-BREAKING BUG

Galaxies disappear (about 2/3 of them)

Occurrence: frequent

Possible cause: converting all galaxies in another local group

There used to be more galaxies, including a galaxy with bookmark where the white circle is. The bookmarks do nothing.

(Occasionally they are reset including terraformed planets and megastructures)

And some bookmarked planets go crazy, look at this 4 x 2 planet.

2 - UI & Notes persist

Even after exiting the game, the notes persist and can be dragged around with the mouse.

After attempting to exit a bookmark that doesn't work, the loading progress bar is always displayed.

3 - QOL Bright star galaxies

Add in overlay menu for galaxies the option to show the the brightest star for every galaxy.

4 - QOL Convert local cluster

Add option to convert all galaxies in local cluster, it is too time consuming to convert hundreds, thousands of galaxies manually.

Apple07261 year ago (1 edit)

1: Unfortunately this isn't very helpful because I have no idea how to reproduce it from reading your report. Well I guess I learned that the bug exists, just need to hope that I also stumble upon it

2: Most likely related to the game breaking beforehand, possibly due to bug 1

3: I wonder how I could do that, since galaxies only generate if you enter it for the first time. Maybe only show it for already generated galaxies?

4: I'll think about that, but is it really necessary to convert 100+ galaxies to progress? Cherry-picking the most efficient galaxies to progress should be the strategy, I think.

TheOnlyAvenger1 year ago (1 edit)

Initial galaxy group, bookmark some, convert, do some circles around galaxies
Second local group convert all galaxies without opening them either to mineral extractors, either mineral storage maybe destroy a few
Look inside at first galaxy group

3: Improve game design. No one wants many things to click and performance issues. Games are supposed to be fun. Avoid this generation, it just wastes time and memory. Maybe make new UI to simulate this, and only provide direct access to top 10 or something. Try to streamline it. It's a game, not a database. Be creative!

4: You can't cherry pick since they are not generated. Many times small ones are better.

Apple07261 year ago(+1)

Okay I think I figured out the game breaking bug you mentioned. The annotation thing should be easy to fix.

As for game design, I just thought it would be cool to have a lot of galaxies and stars to choose from, and I think the bigger galaxies look kind of cool to me, even if they are super laggy and don't offer anything new. There are smaller galaxies which don't suffer from performance issues, so you don't need to generate the bigger ones to progress.
That said, I agree that the game resembles a database, I never thought about it that way! I'll have to put more thought into this. I appreciate your constructive feedback!

TheOnlyAvenger1 year ago (9 edits)

Great you figured the game breaking bug! Waiting for the new release!

Indeed, it's cool to have many galaxies and stars.

So here's an idea. People don't remember or miss them. You can look into "data mocking". You can have some default data and reuse that. Just do the display, don't even generate anything initially. Just start in random data points. Or maybe use a seed. When the player looks, generate that single object, just-in-time.

Only save it if it is bookmarked or has buildings or is in the last 10 places visited by the player, limit history to 10 places. Save only the important things. Or the seed.

Also unused stuff should be put "on rails" like in Kerbal Space Program.

Hope it helps!

Nice attitude, keep it up! I'll be rooting for you!