Dear all,
I've just released version 1.3.1 of Sol Trader, which fixes a number of niggling issues in 1.3 and improves gameplay balance.
NOTE: this version will invalidate save games. If you want to continue with an older save, then do the following to stay on an older version of the game:
- Right click on the game in your Steam Library and choose 'Properties'. Click the 'Betas' tab.
- Enter the beta access code ’soltraderversion13’ and click 'Check code'
- Choose the ‘version1.3’ option from the drop-down list
- Wait for your game to update and play!
Here's a list of changes:
- New feature: Organisation charts are now available on a tooltip over the organisation name, and also by clicking on the small organisation button in the middle panel heading.
- New feature: Communes are now Parks: hippies still hang out there, but so can everyone else. It's another place you can find people socialising during the day, who perhaps don't like visiting bars.
- New feature: History generation now prioritises jobs in low-population cities. This has the effect of rebalancing things so that Frontier Space and the Outer Alliance have more people than before, so it's easier to progress.
- Made the AI more likely to choose to go to work, even for non-essential jobs.
- Increased speed of history generation by 5% and dropped save file footprint by 40%.
- Stopped traders getting stuck when selling goods.
- Stop the player from asking for an introduction to someone who is dead.
- Fix crash when landing in a place with a destroyed ship.
- Fixed Missing Strings in profession choices.
- Fixed bug where having map open whilst landing would cause weird effects.
- Characters now tell you the missions they have available on the tooltip before you start speaking to them.
- Triple-click on a navigation label or arrow will now start autopilot.
- Made Tiger I slightly lighter and therefore faster.
- Sleep/work/launch are now icons at the top of the screen, so that they don't conflict which each other.
Enjoy! Let me know if you have any issues.
Chris