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Posted on Tuesday, July 8, 2014



I am working on building a build list on the planet.  I create a long list of improvements, more than the displayed length.  I need to change something that is now at the very end.  The wheel scroll on the list is very slow.  It feels like a scaling number set low somewhere.  If I pick up an improvement to move it further up the list, I cannot get the list to scroll up to the front again.  I need an up/down edge scroll on build lists.

I went to add weapons to my animated "Orbiter" ship.  (See post in ship show off thread) I got this display of hardpoints suspended in space.  Playing with this a bit reveals it shows the positions of the hardpoints at the moment I select a weapons part to add.  If I am quick about it, I can get the hardpoints to sort of map out the original disk shape of the ship.  Then the parts all keep rotating and the hardpoints stay still.  I think I need to be able to temporarily disable all animations during a weapons equip action.   Actually, it would be extremely useful in the Design phase as well.  "Hold still for a moment, darn you!"

I am not sure what saving my ship design as a template gets me, or is supposed to get me in a future build.  I was hoping it would do automatic ship design like "Orbiter Mark 1, Orbiter Mark 2, Orbiter Marl etcetera".  As I type I think it may have to do with the ship "Orbiter" being based on a Cargo starter. But then again, it is allowing me to arm a supposed cargo hull.  How should this actually work?  Or does it yet?

Had my first crash.  I still think that is impressive.  I have no idea what I was doing to trigger.  I had a bunch of ships on auto-explore just to be moving around.  I was working through the tech tree.  I was doing very slow expansion and had not yet met my opponent.  

I repeated the crash.  I have an autosave.  After the save, and the following turn, I let the ship in transit colonize and put several buildings in the planet queue ending with a starport to construct eventually. Then, when I do next turn, it crashes to desktop. I submitted all this to Support.