Posted January 04, 2022 by DrTardigrade
#0.3.4 #Tribal diplomacy #Actions #Progress Update
It took a long time, but finally got the relationship improving action to fully work:
There were many unexpected hurdles that I had to go over to get this action to work from start to finish. First I had to rewrite how tribes enter into contact with each other (which I talked about in previous posts). Then I had to work through several crashing bugs that were introduced by that change, and also I had to fix how player input requests are handled by the game in order to be able to execute multiple requests in sequence. Finally, I needed to implement the necessary selection overlays (showcased in the gif above) and all the remaining functions that handle the request resolution.
The bad news is that there's still one last action that I need to implement to be done with diplomatic actions in general. The good news is that it will require nowhere the amount of work as this action since it will basically use all of the same overlays and functions. So I don't expect this to take me more than a couple of weeks (hopefully). Once I'm done with that I will start a new alpha period while I work on finalizing the migration of all events to the new modding system.
Again, sorry for the very late updates. My life has become way more busier than before for multiple reasons (mostly good ones) and most weekends I manage to progress just a tiny bit, which I no longer consider worthwhile writing a full post about. So from now own you'll see updates only when I feel I have enough content to talk about. Completion of 0.3.4 is nearer each time though!