Hello again! I just published a big update for this game.
I've been updating Factory Town 2 (which is 20% off this week, hint hint, see below), and realized a lot of these optimizations and improvements could be back-ported to the original game:
Boats now can navigate straight across the ocean, no more weird zig-zag paths. They will more reliably reach distant targets, and performance for boat pathfinding is improved. They will also smoothly change direction as they navigate through the water.
Airship pathfinding has also improved, and they will also more more smoothly and can find paths around large, tall obstacles instead of flying awkwardly over them.
All kinds of various performance improvements: removed unnecessary physics calculations, unnecessary transform updates for out-of-view units, and redundant building auto-output calculations. Added distance-based culling of structure icons, batched rendering of belt & pipe items, and instanced building renders.
Fixed big lag that can occur when opening the World Data panel on very large towns
Fixed bug: distant terrain drawing at wrong tint
Fixed bug: slot package setting changes via right-click wasn’t updating the item slot detail panel immediately
Fixed bug: Audio sliders appeared to default at zero
Fixed bug: Ambient audio could remain playing when exiting to the main menu
Fixed bug: Effect particles could get mixed up
Fixed bug: deleting a train could result in double refunds
Fixed bug: copied barns had max capacity but still allowed upgrades
Fixed bug: possible to place duplicate fish if you modified terrain with a fish in the column
Fixed bug that would break compute block processing: attaching an inventory sensor to a building, then moving the building (or the sensor), and deleting the sensor.
If there are any other pressing bugs or long-wished-for features, let me know in the comments, or on the Discord, and I'll see what I can do!
Cheers,
Erik
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