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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2017, 04:32:02 PM »
October 25th, 2017 Patch notes, list of current buildings, new food water balance, and lots of MP fixes
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October 25, 2017 v0.2.3 PATCH NOTES:
-Added list of surface buildings to planet screen
-Tweaked ai upgrading spaceports when they need to
-Added pressing 'DEL' closes all open windows
-Fixed in game menu not appearing on top of other windows
-Fixed game pausing in relation to opening and closing of the in game menu
-Fixed ships, with 'sell at next stop' status, positon not updating on remote clients in multiplayer
-Fixed issue with pressing F3 to open order ship screen while owning no gates
-Fixed ships list being empty on remote clients after multiplayer load game
-Fixed repair ship rotation on remote clients in multiplayer
-Optimized multiplayer packet sending to help with later game lag
-Added desync check auto pause to keep multiplayer in sync, grace period 5 days
-Fixed upgraded ships disappearing from ships list
-Rebalance of food and water production and galaxy generation
-Fixed issue with "Deliver and Store" for machinery.
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2017, 04:42:59 PM »
November 18th, 2017 Patch notes lots of small improvements, balance and bug fixes
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-Now possible to select multiple ships in the ships screen
-Random galaxy generation tweaks, now always starts with a moon
-Added jump to light-speed graphics when ship jumps out of system
-Made distance of jump out of a system much closer than it was before
-Custom game cash and loan sliders now round to 50k
-Balanced early game ship fuel costs
-Balanced gate prices
-Now get a free gate with upgrading of a spaceport
-AU orbit distance of planets now shown in planet hover panel
-Repair ships should now come from the closet planet
-Add notification for when ship is waiting for repair ship and when is waiting for free gate
-Tweaked AI to be more active on lower difficulties
-Fixed bug where number of ships in route screen would be wrong
-Fixed interstellar events not firing
-AI now name there routes to help analyse there actions
-Fixed bug where loading a game with ships on interstellar leg would adjust their current course
-Fixed bug where ship days to delivery would go negative while waiting for a gate
-Fixed machinery pickup next demand bug
-Other multiplayer bugs fixes and improvements
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2017, 03:56:46 PM »
November 20th, 2017 Patch notes!
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-Fixed spammy ship notification news events
-Reduced cost of dilithium fuel
-Added a count of orbiting ships in planet view
-Amount of passengers now scale with number of companies in the game
-Amount of machinery and rare resources on Earth now scale with number of companies in the game
-F2 now works exactly the same as closing the routes window with the close button.
-Various Multiplayer bug fixes
-Fixed a bug where an AI just randomly doesn't start
-There is now only 1 AI on each predefined game difficulty. This is just for testing purposes, please let us know if the AI is more competitive.
-Ship hover text now no longer overflows
-Fixed company name text boxes in multiplayer lobby eating letters
-Fixed game unpausing unexpectedly from in game menu
-Fixed remapping keys in control options bug
-Colony founded now shows who subsidized the colony
-Normalized text to "cash in hand"

MAJOR KNOWN ISSUES:
-Poor performance with ships screen open in mid-game
-Ships screen and UI in general is very unintuitive later in the game. We are working hard to make it simpler to manage large companys. Expect big changes to some UI windows over the coming weeks.
-Translations are not complete, if you would like to help with translations please see discord or steam discussions pinned post
-Multiplayer is fairly unstable currently in mid game
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #18 on: November 26, 2017, 01:54:35 AM »
Interstellar Transport Company
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25 Nov

v0.2.6 Incoming! Lots of Interstellar improvements!!

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We've really tried to spend a lot of time fixing up interstellar play some more so that it is more viable and fun. I think we're finally to a point where I can say that interstellar play is compelling and playable. With a few more ships and cargo types it will really shine!! This patch also includes significant AI improvements and many other quality of life fixes. Thanks so much for all your support and help in making ITC the best it can be!

November 25, 2017 v0.2.6 PATCH NOTES:

-AI will now save up for ships it wants instead of only focusing on the cash it has currently on hand.
-Improved random system generation to make them more scientifically accurate and more playable.
-Rebalanced dilithium fuel, crystals, mines, refineries, usage and cost to try and improve interstellar play
-Now checks interstellar distance when assigning ships to routes just like when you check gate sizes for ships
-Now only if there is a dilithium refinery in a system will ships demand enough fuel to make a return trip, otherwise enough fuel for a one way trip will suffice.
-Ships screen is no longer incredibly laggy when open. Needed to remove profit from owned ship panes.
-Now does a check to make sure there is a 85%+ hab planet in the game other than Earth, if there's not boost the 2nd highest planet to that level
-Nerfed Triton so that local governments no longer want to colonize it.
-Ship groups work again in singleplayer
-You now only receive ship notifications for your company ships
-AI will transport passengers more often
-Companies go bankrupt in custom games and multiplayer now.
-AI landing pads get blocked much less frequently now.
-Charts will no longer stop updating when a competitor goes bankrupt
-Reduced birthrate by 15%
-Exploit fixed allowing players to edit AI routes and ship status
-Can no longer view AI ship details by clicking on them, can only view the hover information now.
-Demand threshold amounts added to waiting cargo tooltips in planet view
-Ship selling works correctly in multiplayer now
-Ship count on a route has now been corrected when changing the route of a ship.
-Rebalanced water prices
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2017, 06:22:02 PM »
Scalable UI and two new rockets! v0.2.7 PATCH NOTES:
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Hi everyone, excited to share this one with you. We finally came across a good method to scale our UI and we are very happy with the results so we are sharing this with you. This has been asked for many times and it's something I'm sure lots of you will appreciate! You can find the option in "Other Options".. Which we really should rename "UI Options".. hmmmm..

Anyhow! In addition to this we've also added two new rocket types. The Andromeda and Messier rockets. The Andromeda rocket becomes available in 2058 and can carry 15 units, the Messier is available in 2066 and can carry a full 40 units of cargo. At some point we will add one or two interstellar rockets, but these are good fast mid-game intra-system haulers! I expect to see them used a lot to quickly stave off famines and help kickstart new colonies quicker since they can land without a gate. These rockets use the old graphics from the Sparrow and Neptune rockets and these original rockets have gotten a facelift!



We've also replaced the models for the medium and large maintenance hangars, so they no longer reuse the small maintenance hangar graphics.

In addition to all this new stuff, some re-balancing has been done to alleviate some earlier-than-expected starvation on Earth. You should now have another few decades to help get more food to Earth or move more people off of Earth before the effects of overpopulation really kick in.

We will now begin work on overhauling the routes screen which hopefully won't be as large a project as the ships screen was! In case you were wondering, some graphs will be going in that big open space on the ships screen. Hopefully in the next few weeks we can get this feature in for you.

We hope everyone is enjoying the game and please continue to let us know your suggestions and any issues you experience while playing. And as promised, below are the new patch notes!

-UI is now scalable via the "Other settings" panel in options.
-Two new mid-game rockets added.
-Graphics for the Sparrow rocket and Neptune rocket replaced.
-Graphics for the medium and large Maintenance Hangars replaced.
-Increased prices of the Gorman Darter and Starchaser.
-Population at which a planet produces less food than it consumes increased
-Reduced starting population of Earth slightly.
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2018, 07:20:01 PM »
The performance patch! v0.2.8 PATCH NOTES
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Hey everyone, I hope your holidays were as awesome as ours! We're back with a really great patch. We weren't able to complete the new routes screen yet, mainly because we decided that adding in some new cargoes and redoing passengers a bit should be done first. That way we only have to change the routes screen around once instead of twice.

This patch mainly focuses on performance! It's been one of the biggest complaints from users. The game just starts performing really poorly in mid game. We combined some really aggressive LODs on the ships with some code tricks and cleanups on the route lines to SIGNIFICANTLY imrpove mid and late game fps. I'm talking like it should be night and day for many of you! Can't wait to hear some reports back on how it performs for you all. Please let us know! This DOES NOT fix the lag in the ships screen, that is a completely separate issue, but something that we hope to fix soon also.

This patch also includes a good number of bug fixes and small quality of life improvements. I really hope this, all put together, increases the play-ability of the game a lot! Thank you for your continued support and patience. And as promised... the patch notes! ːsteamhappyː

-Combined AI route lines resulting in huge performance gains mid and late game.
-Made more aggressive LODs for ships increasing performance by about 15% across the board.
-Increased performance by an additional ~3% and made the ship scaling effect work better and more efficiently.
-Increased performance by ~2% in system view by optimizing sunlight calculations.
-Fixed a ship size exploit when upgrading ships.
-Ships can no longer be sold while waiting for repairs in space.
-Rockets can no longer be built on planets not on their selected route.
-Ships can no longer be build on planets in systems they can't reach.
-The tool-tip for planet population now shows weekly net gains or losses for child births and deaths.
-If a planetoid goes into famine or dehydration, all passengers should cancel their travel plans there.
-Famine and dehydration notifications are now separate.
-The company name is color-coded when hovering over a ship now.
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2018, 11:57:56 PM »
Video Tutorial now available on youtube
24 JANUARY   - MT_WORLDS

It's been a frequent complaint of new players that the in-game tutorials are not sufficient to learn how to play the game. We agree with this sentiment and will eventually add / replace the tutorials in game. However, in the mean time we thought it would be helpful to create a video tutorial that goes into a little more detail.





YouTube™ Video: Interstellar Transport Company - Tutorial - January 2018
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While there are plenty of good videos available, I couldn't find an actual tutorial for how to play our game "Interstellar Transport Company".


While there are a ton of good Let's Play videos available for ITC, there were surprisingly no video tutorials available. Hopefully this gives new players a better idea of what they are supposed to be doing and how to do it. Please let us know if you have any problems with the video or have further questions, we would love to hear from you!

-Mike and the MT Worlds team
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2018, 12:27:04 PM »
v0.2.9 PATCH NOTES
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-Market prices are now shown for each cargo in the planet screen by hovering on the cargo name or icon.
-Fixed a bug preventing players from buying ships with no route created.
-You can now get more reasonably sized loans with more favorable interest rates.
-Slowed down the rate of spaceport upgrades by local authorities.
-Raised the amount of rare resources in random starting systems to Sol-like levels.
-Big ships screen performance increases, regular data refreshes should be much faster!
-Sorting by ship profits is now usable in ships screen with much less stuttering.
-Upgraded Unity version to 2017.3
-Two AIs are no longer created when AI is in the last slot in custom / MP game
-Ship orbiting count on planet screen now updates in MP
-Planets no longer spin for clients in multiplayer when they are in planet view.
-Changed the default UI scale to .85 since more people want a smaller UI than larger
-High demand food and water were a bit OP, lowered profit curve
-Units are now displayed for ship speed in the order ship screen.
-Galaxy dust now shows is correct position at game load.

Patch is live =)
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2018, 08:43:32 PM »
v0.3.0 Preview, Lots of changes to cargoes coming soon!
21 FEBRUARY   - MT_WORLDS

I hope everyone's Wednesday is as exciting as ours is today, because we finally have all the details finalized for our new cargoes and can share all the details with you! We think you'll be just as excited after reading through all the changes we have planned.

Say hello to our revamped cargo flowchart!


This might look daunting at first glance, but I will walk you through all of the changes. We have seven new cargoes, five new buildings, and a bunch of new cargo / simulation interactions that will really add a lot of interesting decisions to gameplay!

Firstly, two big changes we're making to existing systems, the first is that we are removing two seating types and leaving only a single seating type, passengers just weren't as interesting as we expected so we are simplifying that portion of the game significantly. We will be adding Goods storage (for Consumer Goods, Luxuries, and Medicine) along with Isolation storage (for weaponry, xenobiologics, and genetic material) The addition of these cargo slot types will result in much more interesting decisions than deciding between seating class type for passengers.

In addition to removing two passenger slots we are also making it so that raw materials, rare resources, dilithium crystals, and luxuries diminish as they are harvested. This will change the game in drastic ways and make the game even more dynamic then it is. For example, no longer will there be an ever-lasting source of rare resources on the moon to fuel your machinery production. After a few decades you may need to look elsewhere for rare resources.

The first new cargo type is Stellarium, this is an extremely rare element only found in very specific environments in the galaxy (will not spawn in your starting system / Sol) and is used in highly efficient fusion power generation which begins phasing out conventional power generation methods usually about 25-50 years into the game. Because of this, you will need to transport Stellarium to all high and medium population planets to satisfy their ever-growing demand for power. A Stellarium mine is required to extract this resource.

Luxuries is the next new cargo type, this is a moderately rare resource found in random locations throughout the galaxy that requires no building to harvest. All populations want luxuries so this is a good source of easy income (until the resource is depleted of course). In addition to populations directly wanting luxuries it is used in weaponry production. This will especially be important when (in a future version) wars rage between factions and no luxuries are flowing because the weaponry industry is using them all. In this way we hope to simulate the drag on civilian production during a large interstellar war.

Since we've already touched on Weaponry I should also mention that it requires a Factory produce along with rare resources. However, the really interesting thing about weaponry is that security forces require it to maintain their operations. If weaponry should ever run out on a planet, all security stations essentially "shut down" on that planet. You can imagine how detrimental this could be if it happened on a place like Earth that provides over half of the security of the Sol system. Shipping lanes would very quickly be heavily infested with Pirates. Therefore it will be very important to keep your security stations stocked with weaponry at all times!

Next on our list is Robotics. Robotics will give a boost in production to Food, Water, Raw Materials, and Luxuries. The ability to boost production of these cargoes has been requested many times, so this should be a welcome addition! This cargo is similar to Machinery in many respects, it has a maximum amount and is required for a planet to reach it's maximum possible production capacity. However, it's also quite different since the amount needed on a planet is variable based on the population of the planet and it also is "used up" over time. Robotics requires a Robotics Factory along with machinery and consumer goods to produce. It should open up some very interesting strategies!

Moving way over to the right in our picture above is Genetic Material, Xenobiologics, and Medicine. I will discuss these together since they are very interdependent. High habitability planets (besides Earth) will provide genetic material (alien lifeforms basically) which are not harvestable until the planet reaches 100% development, they will diminish rather quickly also. These need to be delivered to a planet with a Xeno lab built on it. Xenobiologics production is increased every time a unit of genetic material is delivered to the xeno lab, meaning you can create a truly massive xenobiologics facility if you wanted to. This is then used in the production of medicines (which also require a small bit of food to produce) at a Medical factory. The amount of Xenobiologics needed to produce one medicine increases with the amount of xenobiologics created galaxy-wide. Medicine is used on all planets to increase birth rates, but is especially useful on low-habitability planets where medicines will be in very high demand to fight off very high mortality rates.

To prevent Robotics and xenobiologics becoming weaponized, robotics factories are not allowed on the same planet as weaponry, nor are Xeno labs allowed on the same planet as weapons factories. Also, the interstellar governing agencies have also ruled that Xeno labs are not allowed on planets with habitability higher than 10% to prevent possible contamination of large populations or native species.

In addition to all these changes, there is BIG news on the multiplayer front... We have solved the stuttering that clients experience and expect this fix to be in patch 0.3.0 as well. There are also a number of other small bug fixes and improvements to come.

We are beginning to throw thousands of new lines of code at Unity so we can get this huge patch out to everyone as quickly as possible! That being said, don't expect it for at least another 3 weeks which puts us solidly at mid-March for a possible release timeframe. These are huge changes as we want to take our time with them and do it right. Thank you all so much for your patience!

Sorry for the huge amount of text, hopefully it was interesting to read of all the new features though =) Let us know what you think below! Thank you all for your continued support.
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #24 on: March 31, 2018, 12:54:05 AM »
Patch 0.3.0 released, our biggest patch yet!
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It's been a couple months in the making and is finally ready for everyone! This patch is massive and makes the game a lot more polished and complete. The main feature here, of course, is the seven new cargo types and they are lots of fun to play with! You will now need to avoid epidemics by supplying colonies with medicine, increase food, water, and raw material production by supplying colonies with robotics, keep security stations operational by supplying weaponry, meet the power needs and keep development levels at 100% on highly developed colonies by supplying Stellarium, and supply medical factories with Xenobiologics refined from Genetic Material. Not to mention that raw materials and consumer goods are no longer useless to transport. They are now both profitable and interesting to play with.

Stellarium and Genetic Material are both late game additions that can only be found in interstellar locations and your starting planet's supply of luxuries will become depleted (along with many other resources) over time meaning that you will need to seek out interstellar sources of it. This all adds depth and interest to the late game and really gives you many more reasons to venture into interstellar space.

AI has been improved significantly, and while not perfect is very competitive for longer periods of time. Multiplayer has been improved a ton, enough so that we've removed the "buggy" warning that menaced our main menu. It is now judder free and much more stable. We've made huge improvements to the data available to you, the graphs and new data in the ships screen being an especially awesome addition. Important planets now get random names, you can now see at a glance when important cargoes are very low on colonies. Colony ships now travel to create new colonies so you have a bit of time to plan and anticipate new colonies coming online.

There are plenty of quality of life improvements also. Windows can now be individually resized by holding your right mouse button down over them and dragging them to size. In the planet view press A and D to cycle through the planets in a system. The route list is now sortable and filterable, the cargo rules are a ton easier to manage via a matrix of rules instead of the old drop-downs. Not to mention all the bug fixes of which there are dozens!

We still need to add in the new building models, update our tutorials, and do a little more fine tuning on late game balance, expect these things to be patched in over the coming week or two.

Please let us know any problems or feedback you have, we would love to hear it!! Thank you all so much for your continued support and for all of your suggestions that have gone in to making this patch so great! Can't wait to see everyone enjoying this, it really is a "game changer". ;)

Promised patch notes are below:

New Content
- Added 7 new cargo types:
- Stellarium
- Weaponry
- Robotics
- Xenobiologics
- Genetic Material
- Luxury Goods
- Medicine
- Added 5 new surface buildings:
- Stellarium Mine
- Weaponry Factory
- Robotics Factory
- Xenobiologics Lab
- Medicine Factory
- Updated ship cargo slots configuration:
- Slot 1 = Food, Rare Resources, Refugees
- Slot 2 = Machinery, Robotics
- Slot 3 = Raw Materials, Dilithium Crystals, Stellarium
- Slot 4 = Water, Dilithium Fuel
- Slot 5 = Consumer Goods, Luxury Goods, Medicine
- Slot 6 = Weaponry, Genetic Material, Xenobiologics
- Slot 7 = Colonists, Tourists, Business Passengers
- Added new events for new cargos and buildings
- Balance improvements to existing cargo types
- Added A,D hotkeys to cycle planets while in planet view
- Game now starts paused
- Randomly generated planets now get their own names
- Colony ship now goes out to colonize planets
- Raw Materials, Dilithium Crystals, Rare Resources, Luxuries, Genetic Material now all become depleted as they are harvested.
-Removed fuel capacity and distance cap of interstellar ships

UI Improvements
- Added low threshold icons to planets in system view, to highlight at a glance which planets are running low on food, water etc
- Improved Routes Screen:
- Added stop cargo rules grid
- Added route list sorting
- Screen now hides while adding stop
- Improved Ships Screen:
- Added graphs to show ship performance over time
- Added profit and cargo info to ship list entries
- Improved Finances Screen:
- Change to tables on summary page
- Added spaceport and ship type filters
- Improved Ship Order Screen:
- Added button to clear all cargo
- Now shows ship on sale dates range
- Launch immediately now ticked by defaut
- Improved Planet Screen:
- Added new cargos
- Added new buildings
- Waiting passengers are now a list of destinations
- Updated map modes with new cargo types
- All screens are now resizable with right mouse drag
- Updated ship hover details for new cargo
- Added icons and hover details to repair and colony ships

Bug Fixes
- Lots of multiplayer bug fixes - multiplayer no longer 'buggy'
- Lots of AI bug fixes and improvements
- Fixed autosave naming bug
- Fixed operating profit line graph being wrong
- Fixed other UI bugs
- Lots of other bug fixes and improvements

Known Issues
- Tutorials still need to be updated
- New buildings have placeholder models and images
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2018, 08:44:05 PM »
v0.3.1 patch notes, fixing some issues from 0.3.0
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Thank you for the awesome response you've given us to 0.3.0! This really is game changing and we're so fortunate to have such an involved community around this game for all your feedback and bug reports. We've started to go through and correct some of these issues. The most common issues have been resolved with today's patch and we're making a lot of progress on balance. Though it may be a while until balance is back to where it was prior to 0.3.0 just because of the sheer amount of things that have changed. We're working as hard as we can to get this corrected. Thanks again everyone! Enjoy today's patch which also includes one new features: prices being permanently shown in the planet view.

April 5, 2018 v0.3.1 PATCH NOTES:
-Prices or supply levels are now always visible in planet view
-Fixed bugs in tutorials and made them available again
-Lowered the starting stockpile of Raw Materials and Rare resources on Earth
-Changed balance of Raw Materials and Consumer goods production / consumption.
-Weaponry usage and production was reduced and prices rebalanced
-Food, Water, and Medicine price calculations correctly use population + refugees now
-Fixed refitting of ships with new cargoes not clearing ship slots correctly
-Fixed new cargoes not loading when stop pickup rule set to 'pickup next hop demand'
-Fixed issue with upgrading spaceports to max level
-Fixed building list not updating after using a,d hotkeys
-Increased minimum scale size of scalable windows (right drag vertically to scale window)
-Fixed issue with loading an old save of incompatible version not returning to main menu correctly
-ESC hotkey now closes any open windows
-Increased repair and colony ship speeds
-Fixed issue where business passenger would not load
-Fixed issue with passengers not loading ships indirectly going to there final destination
-Fixed issue where auto route name would go to blank when removing 1st stop
-Added passenger price tooltip to destinations listing in planet screen
-Fixed NaN bug caused by population going negative when planet in famine and refugees transported away from planet
-Fixed save games not loading correctly into a multiplayer game

Known Issues
- Balance is still a work in progress
- New buildings have placeholder models and images
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2018, 12:14:51 AM »
v0.3.2 PATCH NOTES
24 APRIL   - MT_WORLDS



-Models for all 5 new buildings added.
-When a ship arrives in a system it is now placed much closer to it's destination planet.
-Fixed ships not picking up dilithium fuel and going negative fuel at times.
-Fixed major price fluctuations.
-Most cargoes had some amount of rebalancing done to them.
-Duplicate star and planet names can no longer occur.
-New music track added.
-Reduced max galaxy size some to reduce float precision issues.
-Fixed destination scroll list bar.
-Fixed the discrepancy between ship group list and ship graphs.
-Route renaming text box no longer loses focus randomly.
-Deleted routes will no longer show up in the ship filter list after loading a save game.
-Colony ship has been sped up and will now jump to interstellar space like all other ships.
-Last ship built will "stick" when the window is closed.
-Selected ships will now clear from details pane when they are sold.
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #27 on: June 06, 2018, 11:30:34 PM »
Updated development roadmap cinco de mayo edition
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Hey all, we're currently taking a break from development for spring break. Spending time with family and vacations and such. Just thought I would take a moment to update our development roadmap.

We are scratching some items from our last roadmap and would love feedback if you have it.

-we will be working on redoing our reputation system next, we hope to make it simpler, more common sense and transparent to the players.
-we also will possibly be adding more incentive for players to subsidize industries (maybe giving them some percentage of goods directly to company storage)
-next we will be implementing our politics and factions system. This will introduce interstellar wars, nations and nation-wide reputations, embargoes etc..
-after that we will be putting in a tech tree system along with doubling the amount of ships we have in game.
-interstellar obstacles
-contacts from local governments
-buildable jump gates
-stock market system
-additional starting scenarios for predefined games
-ranked multiplayer game mode

After all these things are in game we will likely do our full launch and leave early access. We're hoping this is before the end of 2018!
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #28 on: June 06, 2018, 11:31:28 PM »
v0.3.3 New reputation system!
Interstellar Transport Company - mt_worlds

As discussed briefly in our development roadmap, the reputation system in Interstellar Transport Company needed some love. It was just too confusing, too many variables at play, not transparent enough, and the 2.5% penalty when constructing a building was frustrating to players. All of this has changed!



As shown in the screenshot above, you can now easily see exactly what modifies your reputation. The calculations have been simplified and modified, the 2.5% reputation penalty removed and reputation is slightly more impactful to fare prices etc... I think you will all really like these changes!

In addition we've changed the way colonization occurs. You will now notice faster colonization when there are more companies in the game and early game colonization has been guaranteed a little bit to provide a slightly more predictable early-game experience. We've also fixed a few other bugs and inconsistencies that should also help improve the game!

Enjoy and we look forward to hearing your feedback!

June 6, 2018 v0.3.3 PATCH NOTES:
-New reputation system and calculations.
-New reputation tooltip showing exactly why your reputation changes.
-Removed reputation penalty for constructing a building.
-Colonization rates now adjust based on how many companies there are in the game.
-Early colonization will now always occur.
-Upgraded to Unity 2018
-Slight rebalancing of fares.
-Security station tooltip fixed, no longer shows AU%
-ship name in "Not at least two stops" tooltip.
-Changed "taxi" to "shuttle"
-Renamed "operating profits" to "overall profits"
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Re: Interstellar Transport Company
« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2018, 01:25:21 AM »
Lots of AI changes, better readability on tooltips, MP lobby changes and more! v0.3.4 PATCH NOTES


-AIs have a completely reworked ship selection method.
-AIs now will expand routes more aggressively.
-AI sends more passengers than before.
-AI will reduce ships and remove / buy gates more logically than before.
-AI no longer buys 2nd gate when expanding a spaceport.
-Tooltips are much more readable now.
-Planet development should get stuck at 99.9% much less often now.
-Added more AI companies to predefined games.
-Fixed building shuttle service step in tutorial 3 and other various tutorial issues
-Fixed supplemental video tutorial not playing.
-Slowed colonization rates a bit.
-Active MP games are shown but greyed out in the browse games list.
-Milestone text sized up.
-Lobby passwords now work.
-Search lobby no longer disappears.
-Updated Unity to 2018.2
-Fixed Linux double input bug

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