Negative result - also a result.
As you know, development of the Celestial Command is not restricted to the solid plan. It is not only stable routine coding, but also experiments and researching of new methods and tools. And as in any research, sometimes turned out that wrong direction was chosen. But even negative result allow to make one step back and choose more correct direction.
We spent 3 week to learn and research a new network tools which was provided in Unity 5.1 supposed to be much better than the current one, but turned out that it is still not fully completed and have some important flaws which didn't allows us to use it for the game.
This 3 weeks was not completely useless, this experience will be helpful later, when we will use this system. However at this moment, unfortunately it didn't bring any new things in the Celestial Command.
We apologies for everyone who waited for multiplayer in 2 weeks (it was 3 weeks ago) but we need more time. We returned back to the previous backup version and will continue from here. We will continue to work on the current network system. And actually it is good, because turned out that recreation of the network code using new tools requires more efforts than completion of the current network code. Especially considering the fact that we already have quite large experience with the current network system.
Also we want to notify you that now we are in business trip related to our company so the next update will be after this week.
But In order to try to compensate this unpleasant pause in updates, we made little update which we managed to do before the trip. We have great to-do list for various improvements and everything is going well we just need a time to implement all these plans.
Thanks for your understanding and support! :)
CHANGE LOG
Improvements
- Added auto save. Interval of the auto save can be adjusted in game options. Now it should helps in case of bug with physics. However it is still incomplete and makes only one auto save file (not several), we will improve it slightly later.
Fixes
- Prefix of H2 and O2 connectors of fuel generator changed from "input" to "output".
- Warp trajectory no longer displayed for detached warp drive.
- Now an interface of warp drive displayed with the correct width.