Niggling buglets
Published on Friday, May 13, 2022 By
You may as well junk the advisors for all the good they do. My least favourite insists on warning: "Be wary of [X-race], they dislike you". The fact that you destroyed "X-race" several years ago doesn't seem to matter, and only serves to make the advisors look like idiots.
Why do I sometimes get a flash frame when cycling through fleets/planets/shipyards using the bottom right hand icon? The frame is a set of colour bars like a TV test card (if you remember them) and the name of a planet. It is too quick to screenshot and happens apparently randomly but mostly when switching to a planet which needs a production reset. It is really getting on my nerves.
Why don't the colours in the fleet battle animations match the weapons actually in use? For example, red for kinetic, yellow for missile and blue for beam. You fight pirates armed only with kinetic weapons and they fire little blue blobs. Why? I know it's not important, but it is annoying.
What the hell is wrong with the planetary invasion system? I can't tell the difference between ordinary soldiers and Killbots. Obviously the AI is having a terrible time as well. It doesn't seem to know how to use troopships. The whole core planet/colony invasion system is in a complete mess. Maybe if you needed ordinary troops for a colony but at least Marines for a core world it would start to make sense but (and I have said this before) invading a colony with one tiny ship is brain-dead ridiculous.
Notifications such as "Your treasure hunters return with credits" or "The scavengers have found bugger-all" are too large and obscure what is going on. Sometimes I want to set things up so I can see which direction an enemy fleet sets off when I press the "next turn" button. This is then obscured by some stupid big (boring and repetitive) notice. Can this be turned off?
What happened to upgrading ordinary ships? I think I missed something. Has it been junked?