Starbase

by Frozenbyte

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 18:

Features

Tooltip popup times adjusted, new item collection tooltips and weapon tooltips tested
New mining tech tested with a mining ship with 16 crates: filling the crates, transferring ore to station storage and selling them worked as they should
New resource bridge version created: this one does not need power at all and will be used in mega stations with the sell terminals
The material sell terminal and resource bridge connection were configured to work with the new station tower design
Asteroid Mining Job tested: Rewards configured so players will now get to around 2000-3000 credits per minute, “Material separation bonus” increased from 20% to 50%, with 20% there was no point to spend time on separation
Electricity conversion values adjusted to 1:1 with ship weapons, old consumption values adjusted to meet new 1:1 ratio
Three new ships added to marketplace and to economy
Economy configurations and adjustments, Empire Outpost economy adjusted and trade route trade effectiveness tested

Stations

Ore storage tower worked on, a place added for the resource port and tower tested in various grid slots

Spaceships

Gameplay

Support added for saving recently split ship blobs along with the owned ship. Split blobs are included if they are closer than 16m from the owned ship blob and have the same host
Logging out now waits for uploads to finish
A bug where ships remained invisible if the center of the ship was behind the player has been fixed
Work on transforming Socket Tool into a stackable item that can be used is underway
Merging/autobolting has been added to coolant cells with recharge rack

User Interface

An issue where ore tooltips wouldn’t work in crate slots has been fixed
Rank icons have been updated to the new standard ones
A bug where rank allowed empty names and didnt’t reset the names correctly has been fixed
Feedback Tool now has a higher power level than other menus, and can be opened everywhere

Audio

Spaceship Designer

Owned ship modification inside Spaceship Designer is being worked on
Many previously accessible developer features have been hidden from regular users
Asset browser rendering tooltips has been fixed for culled objects

Animations

The Sunny Ship animation has been updated and new ad concepts are in the making
Reload, hip fire and ADS fire animation polish finished for Gauss rifle, Long rifle, Repeater, Revolver and Pistol
Revolver reload’s wrongly positioned left hand’s animation (1st person) has been fixed
Blend time tweaks made for Universal Tool’s, carry, lever, UI hover related animations (1st person)
Multiple animations have been finished (idle heavy carry crouch aim, clapping/coughing/sulking emotes)
Midair death and run stop animations are in the making

Moons and Asteroids

Other

Sparrow armor set finalization is underway
The item storage filter icons have been updated
Armor set icons have been scaled to 200% for better in-game quality when rendered
Polishing and finalizing exterior on mediums is underway
Large hall LODs are in the making