Starbase

by Frozenbyte

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 26, please enjoy!

Features

Armor set themed weapons have been added to the economy
Economy configurations, fixes and design have been worked on:
- Weapon set pricing has been adjusted
- Adjustments and fixes have been made to the crafting data
Weapons and electronics have been updated with less used and more logical materials
Player-to-player trading design has undergone fixes
Auction House logic for viewing auctions has been improved on
Auction House usability has been improved and sell page has been simplified

Stations / Lot Designer

Spaceship shop for players to sell their own ships is being made
Colliding art assets in Small Hall 5 have been removed
“Hallway End” -modules’ priority snaps have been lowered, resulting in better alignment with the rest of the hallways
Housing slots in Starting station have been replaced with un-rentable ones, in preparation for the upcoming Proia Station
“Small hall 8” has been added to the Lot Designer

Other

Gameplay

Small improvements and fixes have been made for player-to-player trade
Player position update has been modified to fix projectiles not to unintentionally hit moving players (for example self shot ship projectiles)
Recovering despawned ships is now possible
Ship recovery should now successfully despawn ships in local station even if spawning fails
Unauthorized removal of bolts should no longer be possible in the safe zone
Durability’s Spaceship Designer colors and the misplaced “beam not connected to the largest frame section” warnings have been fixed
“Torque deadzone” now adapts also to highly maneuverable ships, reducing issues with the 1/10000 thrust level steps
An issue where thrusters would operate with outdated input values when the device requirements were restored has been fixed
RangeFinderDevice not hitting its own entity has been fixed
Lot building not progressing beyond the first pieces has been fixed

User Interface

Closing inventory causing lag has been fixed
Auction House Sell Tab is being worked on: Dragging functionality has been added to work with the slots as well as rendering of UI elements
Page buttons have been added to Auction House pages
Trade now gets rejected when the player that doesn’t accept the trade modifies the offer
All received trade requests are now rejected when sending a request, so both players don’t have active requests from each other
Complex item tooltips and magazine amount not showing correctly to the other player has been fixed
Trading backpacks with items inside has been prevented
Dragged items being dropped in the world when trade was cancelled has been fixed
Rearranging items in the trade window with double-click has been prevented
Bolt Tool helper now warns if there is a bolt profile that is not in usable place

Spaceship/Lot/Interior Designer

V-snap tool doesn’t interact with locked layer objects anymore
A number of issues that occurred when exiting the game via ALT+F4 or similar means while in the Spaceship Designer have been fixed
‘Save finished’ and ‘load finished’ log messages have been added to the bottom of the screen
Saving has been prevented when CTRL+S or File/Save is pressed and there are no changes in the scene
Blueprint upload failing when scene is saved after visiting the test mode has been fixed
Pipe, cable and furniture layer opacity settings have been added to settings menu
A bug that caused the settings menu to get stuck in certain situation has been fixed
The brush plane depth slider has been adjusted to increments of 0.25 (previously 0.05)
Temporary modifiers preventing component base color from being properly updated have been fixed
An optional auto deselect feature has been added that deselects highlighted parts upon switching to the paint tool
SSCProperties toggle has been added to temporarily disable premium colors

Animations and Emotes

New gameplay animations are underway: move stop to prone, move stop for relaxed run with a rifle, move stop for run with a tool, move stop for run with pickaxe (+relaxed)
Midair death animations polished
Tweaks made to jump and landing related animations (1st person)
Emote_scorn and emote_tantrum are in the making

Weapons

Projectile for rail gun turret is in the works
Autocannon muzzle flash and projectile effects have been modified
Antigel rifle effects have been updated
Battlerifle effects have been updated: hit FX, muzzle flash, and correct reload FX added to the weapon

Stations / Lot Designer

VIS Headquarters A and Empire VIS Headquarters: red color has been adjusted to be deeper and sharper, updated model and texture maps have been added for the office floor
FarLOD model and texture maps of Mass Transit Side Stop have been updated
Marketplace updates
- Main Hall exterior decorations have been updated
- Hangar exterior decorations have been updated
- Holograms are in the making
Blue light strips for imperial capital station are in the making

Other

Initial object (rock) placements for all current large ice asteroids have been made
L-sized sharp asteroid rock formations have been made
UI icons have been made for the ammo categories
Bastion armorset’s texture and paintjob quality has been polished