Week 17 (April 20th – 24th) Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 17: Design Features Material purity features and UI design are underway Balance adjustment: Weapon body electricity conversion increased from 500 to 1500 electricity per second Balance adjustment: Reduced Rechargeable Battery electricity storage capacity from 20,000 to 10,000 units Balance adjustments tested and configurations made to ships to support that Furnace math reworked and debugged into a “final” form, it can now survive from possible design alterations Inventory icons fixed for turret pieces Design for resource net integration with inventory systems continues Prototype options for Lictor […]
Week 16 (April 14th – 17th) Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 16: Design Features Assembly Job tested, some issues found in bolt profile auto aim bolting in objects with more challenging geometry Fracture debris destruction effect tested Asteroid Mining Job rewards tested, some configurations made to the bonus rewards and balancing needs to be done to the rewards Economy settings tested and future features planned Economy design: ship weapon prices adjusted and missing items added to the turret shop Design for missing highlights for multiple choice buttons in settings menu worked on Upcoming chat channels design […]
Week 15 (April 6th – 9th) Hello everyone! It’s time for another week of Starbase progress notes! Design Features Color palette updated for in-game chat, old colors replaced with new colors that are easier to read. Chat colors for leaders in Group and Team chats set to follow same logic as in Company officer chat. Faction functions and chat needs design worked on for separate faction and faction officer channels. Option to show channel names (long or short) and timestamps (long or short) added. Buzzsaw tested, issues detected in the 3rd-person view passed on to be fixed. Jobs in Work […]
Week 14 (March 30th – April 3rd) Hello everyone! It’s time for another week of Starbase progress notes! Design Features Shoulder piece art for insignia configured. Assembly Job added to Work Hub and is now accessible in game again, after build error fixes. New fracture destruction effect tested, needs polishing and new fracture models. Early game player progression looked into, earning credits with new mining system tested. Ship and ship pricing economy tweaked, making cheap mining ships for new mining system tested. Chat UI worked on, color scheme improved with new color palettes and brighter colors. Chat UI visibility improved […]
Week 13 (March 23rd – 27th) Hello everyone! It’s time for another week of Starbase progress notes! Design Features Assembly Job tested, Bolt Profile snapping feature made the bolting really easy. Assembly Job tested, item blocker entities added on each doorway so objects cannot be thrown through the doorways. Buzzsaw power usage configured to 10/sec, which equals to 100 seconds of continuous sawing with one power pack. Bolt Tool and the bolt profile override feature tested, works without issues. Chat features worked on, default settings adjusted. Insurance terminals’ location and parenting fixed in origin map. Mining Job tested in the […]
Week 12 (March 16th – 20th) Hello everyone! It’s time for another week of Starbase progress notes! Design Features Instancing area configured and added to ship showroom. Mining Job instancing issues with parent hierarchy fixed. Buzzsaw damage configured and tested, tool is now more balanced. Pickaxe testing and adjusting, it’s no longer a good weapon against materials with high armor value. Mining Hall rotation fixed in Work Hub grid slot. Ore zone weight configurations that were producing unwanted outcomes in ore distribution were fixed. New items added to the economy, old economy configurations fixed and adjusted and locales worked on […]
Week 11 (March 9th – 13th) Hello everyone! Another week and another post of Starbase progress notes. A special note: we at Frozenbyte have switched to remote work. It is not unusual for us, but switching to remote work completely does bring some extra arrangements and work. Overall, our work will carry on as normal, so please continue to enjoy the Starbase Progress Notes! Design Features Components and locales configured for the Assembly Job. Instancing areas added to the Assembly Job workstations. Spawners and component arrangements configured, so more products can be spawned. Decals added to the Assembly Job workstation […]
Week 10 (March 2nd – 6th) Hi everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 10: Design Features Three new special ore distribution zones configured: there are now five special zones where ores are distributed with different weights compared to the rest of the universe. Marketplace terminals fixed. Economy configurations fixed for torpedoes. Design for a Spaceship Designer Coloring Tool worked on. Spaceship Designer multiplayer issue: removing cable with Cable Tool breaks if client and host is removing cable simultaneously fixed and verified. Stations Kingdom Headquarter station and Kingdom Outpost Ruins added to the universe. Ship and shop terminal issues […]
Week 9 (February 24th – 28th) Hi everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 9: Design Features Hauling Hall instances fixed: they now support group instancing. Ship ownership menu for companies reworked: filters improved and new lists made. Economy configs worked on for virtual manufacturing: calculations for different kinds of resource crafting data. UI design worked on for Station storage. Component configuration and testing for utility connection devices. Stations SafeZoneDespawnAreaEntities’ dimensions have been updated. Spaceship Factory is now called Spaceship Design Workshop. Grid slots now have their locale names added into the Mega Station Designer. “Work Hub” grid slot […]
Week 8 (February 17th – 21st) Here are the progress notes of Week 8: Design Features Inventory testing, trying to reproduce issues regarding the drag and drop feature Thruster exhaust damage areas configured and tested Maneuver thrusters exhaust damage configured to ignore players Electricity usage calculations worked on for refining raw ores Economy configurations and insurance/terminals fixed in a mega station Detailed designs worked on for updated equipment UI elements and interactions Inventory icons added for objects: all objects in the shops now have icons Design for company ownership functions (ships and bank accounts) worked on Starbase Spaceship Creator A […]
Week 7 (February 10th – 14th) Here are the progress notes of Week 7: Design Features Shop search bars should be deactivated if the player looks outside of the screen. Small changes to tooltips, moving text and testing possible layout changes. Material armor value updates: Now medium-high caliber infantry weapons cause damage to objects faster. Shotgun projectile mass increased to make it little more effective against light armors. Economy configurations for the Empire Outpost station. General design worked on for significant updates to equipment and storage UIs. Small adjustments made to the Utility Panel technical design to simplify components required. […]
Week 6 (February 3rd – 7th) Here are the progress notes of Week 6: Design Features Old tooltips remade with a bigger font, to improve readability. Ship weapons tested against basic materials and ships to get better feel of current material and weapon balance. Company functionality design worked on: co-ownership, disband / owner leaving and general Company controls. Inventory buy limits tested and confirmed, currently settled on 5000. Asteroid spawner rotation offset configurations tweaked to improve the Mining Job experience. Configurations updated: Oninum Armor value adjusted from 5000 to 3500. Autocannon projectile mass increased from 10 to 11. Laser Cannon […]
