Weekly development report: 2020/04/11

Stable version got another quiet week. And probably it will stay that forever (at least for version 4.0). Very soon will be released a new development version and the whole development will be focused on preparing a new, buggy, big release.

In the development version, this week got some more changes than last weeks:

• Finally finished updating the game data with reputation requirements for recipes
• In exchange, I started adding new goals for the other than Poleis factions (races)
• Selling items which are unavailable for a player due to low reputation to the base, now gives more reputation in that base. Not too much, but still a bit better.
• Added versions check to loading saved games. Earlier from time to time players tried to run saves from the development version in the stable. Effects were sometimes very spectacular :)
• Also added better information about why the game can't load a saved game.
• Other thing better clarified - sometimes when a player assigned a not too experienced medic to heal a wounded crew member, the game was sending wrong message that the medic don't have proper tools to work. Now it correctly inform that you need a better medic ;)
• Docking fee now is taken during undocking from the base, not like earlier, before even dock. Small change in code but can have a big impact on the whole game.
• Started work on ability to escape from the bases without paying for the docking. This is almost finished, also need some tests.
• Some small changes in UI, like for example, added basic cost of docking to the docking button, so a player can see info how much it will be cost before dock operation.
• Updated help with information about changes to docking
• As almost always: some UI optimizations under the hood were done too.