Hello, hello!

Big updates recently. It’s almost like we have a real game! The ships move and we have some more UI. I’ll also talk about some other changes here and there.

So when you start up, you’ll notice now that there is a new button on the bottom left. It’s grayed out though.

Well, anyway, so if you click the flag and join a nation, a ship spawns. When you click on it and select it, the little ship button that was grayed out before lights up.

Clicking on the button will show you a listing of everything that’s being carried on the ship.

Probably the most interesting part — after a ship is selected, clicking on some other water tile will lay down a path for your ship to travel. (Note that it’s a bit wavy because of our triangular tiles. For the moment, we decided we weren’t going to fix the zig-zagging.) Right away, the ship turns the way it’s supposed to go and heads off!

Also, I’ve gotten into the code a bit and tried to improve the screenshot feature (F12) which I use so often. I managed to write a patch that lets you set r_screenshots_dir, a variable that will change where screenshots are saved. I also made a call to display a popup to tell you when a screenshot has been taken. And guess what? I did it all wrong and I bet Risjin’s reprogrammed all of it before applying. Hahaha. Oh well, the features are in at least.

Also, we have a google newsgroup now! If you’re interested in following development, you might want to sign up.

Another unrelated note — my last thematic change design was boo’d down mostly, so I made some new designs. They were much more liked, but I’ll post about them later. I’m hoping to make one of the models today.

Finally, we also decided that our resources system was bloated, so Risujin and I made some changes, which are now reflected on the wiki pages about Buildings, Resources, and the model list.

Yep, big updates. Sadly, however, there probably won’t be another one for a while, since Risujin is being called away to improve his old project, CellWriter, for a few days. Anyway, have a good one folks.