Use this topic to make any comments or suggestions on the current prototype. Any "constructive" criticism also welcome!
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Hi!
That's very odd, i haven't had any crashing here. I wonder if some bug has slipped in the build that i uploaded, hmmm :o(
Thanks for the heads up anyway, I assume you mean you cant build other structures apart from walls/floors, as you did manage to build a mining unit, yes?
Will take a look, and see if i can get a new version uploaded with some bug fixes! Yes not much there at the moment, but hopefully with a few extra items to mess about with, may get to the start of a game prototype.
Thanks for the feedback. The refinery does stop due to not enough power / no ore / or not enough metal storage though. Could it be any of those? I am currently looking at a notification system, as the player should be given these messages if these things occur and production stops.
I will do some testing in case it's not one of these conditions however.
Thanks!
Ah, seems i may have a memory leak in there somewhere, if it starts slowing down after a period of time. I'll stick it on my list of things to test. If you can replicate it again, see if you can make a note of number of droids, maybe what items you've got built, or a screenshot. Anything like that would be useful.
Thanks for giving it a go!
Haven't thought about min pc requirements, but i would think very low! I'm currently stuck at home developing this on an ancient pc (~10 years old). I would think anything should run it!
im currently using a 2GB RAM on a Window 7 32 bit
a VERY OLD ONE ;( Maybe i'll try playing it again
the game is slow like a snail. I dont know if i can handle the next few update or not
Anyway, is the ANY WAY for me to download the older version of the game (like i said at the first comment)
Also thanks for reply my comment. Maybe this is the weirdest comment about this game
I've uploaded v58, which was a version before xmas without some graphical changes i made. Maybe try that? I will have a bit of a research into requirements. A Win7 machine with 2GB maybe a stretch im afraid.
Thanks for the info. I have fixed some mining droid bugs since that version, but will double check. I'm pretty sure ive fixed it so if you delete your last mining unit, all droids are deleted as well.
As for the freezing, that's something i will check as well. I dont think i've had it running for 2 hours with out restarting!
Load/Save is on my to do list, but wont be there for a while. Any video/screenshots showing problems helps a lot. Can email me directly at ncross@niris.co.uk if that's easier.
I will have a think about how to put in some settings to disable some of the additional graphical effects, to see if you can run the latest version. In fact if you email me i'll send you an individual build to try.
seeing you planing on engine update, i have some question:
You dont have to answer all my question if you want
I think i will want to add a generator to provide an additional power source to solar panels. Rather than engines to move the station. My thoughts currently are that asteroids can provide water as well as metal. Water can be split into hydrogen and oxygen. So we can produce fuel. That's as far as i've got at the moment. Heat & waste are something to consider.
Talking about fuel, i think wee need some kind of...tank and pipes
Droid can't just take and move it cause it is a non-shape material (unless it is a burnable material like coal)
Maybe i'll try and draw some :)
I just have no ideal what im gonna draw.... i think i need a shape...
By the way, WHAT kind of generator are we gonna have?
And how big a tile is in the game?
Ooops, looks like i've missed a check if the droid is moving to an item that gets deleted. Will get fixed in next update, which will probably be next week. Thanks for submitting the error, very helpful!
Here's the error message, same thing when you delete the ore storage bin...
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ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object oDelete:
I32 argument is unset############################################################################################
gml_Script_DeleteItem (line 32)
gml_Object_oDelete_Step_0 (line 203)
No problem, thank you for such a quick response! :) - I'll check it out soonest I can :)
Edit: All works fine as far as I can tell, I deleted and moved various storage bins and things and it all worked fine... though there is some strangeness if one builds solar panels that end up within the station... it seems they want to be outside the walls but that can be worked around if one is careful... I wanted to protect them after having grown my station large enough! :D
