A month rebuilding the Research screen, and what it taught me
Sixty-four technologies fitted into a perfectly correct and perfectly unreadable grid. It took a month to work out that the grid was not the problem.
Devlog
The development log. What I built, what I threw away, and the reasons for both.
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Why production never stops when you close the game
A management game that punishes absence is not difficult, it is just demanding about your schedule. Here is how Astra Genesis works out what happened while you were away.
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Release notes
The small news that does not deserve a whole post.
- v0.52.2 Balance
Science finally has its three sources
- Expeditions now return Data on most "land" rolls, not only Plate.
- Laboratory and Xenolab genuinely produce Science when staffed.
- The expedition report shows the Data line with no special-cased code.
- v0.52.0 Interface
The Research screen rebuilt
- Sticky queue panel, eight colour-coded branches, a readable vertical tree.
- The tier X doctrine now asks for a double confirmation.
- No more opening a wiki to find out what a technology actually changes.
- v0.50.0 New
Quests and Project Direction merged
- One screen for the campaign and the expedition log.
- The old Direction screen leaves the navigation, its links redirect.
- A finished signal keeps its report visible until the next launch.