Weekly development report 2025/06/07

Another successful week in a version pretending to be stable. ;) I think a new tradition is being created: a short period of silence and then a few weeks of fun. More bugs have been fixed, and there are probably still some waiting to be discovered. Latest finds:

• Crash when you throw things out of the player's cargo ship.
• The screen locks when cargo items are transferred to a crew member of the player's ship.
• Showing information about errors in the game data files. This bug was so interesting that it was fixed twice. ;)
• Tooltips in the dialog with information about recruits for hire in the database.
• Scrolling general information about the player's ship using the mouse wheel.

The development version is slowly moving forward. At least this week it is ready to report a new thing in the game mechanics. Something that hasn't been announced for a long time. ;)

• In the new UI, the work is still on the screen to recruit new crew members at bases. Additionally, I am looking for a solution to the problem of displaying different in-game windows. That's why it's all going so slowly. I think at least this one problem will be solved soon after all. However, this will require some work next week.
• Work on the graphics library used by the new UI is slowly moving forward. Due to the search mentioned above, some new things have appeared here. But overall, continuation of work from previous weeks.
• The same bugs found in the stable version were also found and fixed in the development version of the game.
• The change in game mechanics mentioned at the beginning of the section. The new version of generating enemies and friendly ships has been completed. For now, it looks like everything is working as it should. This will probably still need to be balanced.
• The in-game help has been updated with information about the player's reputation with factions and its impact on the game.
• Standard footer: as usual, the old game code got some fixes and improvements. There is little hope that it did not get any new mistakes in the process. :)