hey, is it intended that doors render over characters?

I've noticed that bots have difficulty navigating the ship, specifically engineers. If I have a bot set to start the reactor, they go to the safe room. I think this is probably due to the safe room pathing, but even if I assign myself to start the reactor, the icon appears at that location instead of the reactor.

Originally posted by Dr. Plantboss:

I've noticed that bots have difficulty navigating the ship, specifically engineers. If I have a bot set to start the reactor, they go to the safe room. I think this is probably due to the safe room pathing, but even if I assign myself to start the reactor, the icon appears at that location instead of the reactor.

I can't seem to replicate this bug. Are you by any chance using any mods, or did you edit the ship in any way?

Originally posted by pyr0kid:

hey, is it intended that doors render over characters?

Yeah, because I had to work a lot with the background walls and bring them closer, meaning that the doors had to go at sprite 0.500 to avoid nasty visual bugs.

@Quint

The bug I mentioned seems to have been fixed since I last played, as I hopped on and the bots had no difficulty with the reactor. Not sure what could have fixed that, but thanks for checking up on it anyway.

The junction boxes seem to on rare occasions spontaneously catch fire when I dock, maybe 1/15 of the time. Not a hug issue since it suffocates itself, but then I do have to fix the boxes. I think this must be related to the docking hatch power switch? https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2628721409

Originally posted by Dr. Plantboss:

The junction boxes seem to on rare occasions spontaneously catch fire when I dock, maybe 1/15 of the time. Not a hug issue since it suffocates itself, but then I do have to fix the boxes. I think this must be related to the docking hatch power switch? https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2628721409

iirc this happens because when you dock to the station you have two active reactors on the grid outputting at full for a few seconds, some fancy logic for shutting down the reactor and delaying the docking power turning on for a few seconds would likely fix it.

Lmao "the huge fire is not a problem, since it's so big that there is not enough air to sustain it" is quite a positive take.

For the auto-shutdown on dock, I had that a few updates back, but people made me notice that it's a bad idea - it shuts down the reactor when you dock to abandoned outposts and shuttles too.
Now, there are probably cool circuits that can measure whether power is passing or not, but I'd rather keep it simple. Simple circuits are more difficult to break and easier to fix.

The first fix will likely be to reduce the amount of power that the docking hatch can transfer. Right now the relay allows for more than what is needed, and that probably causes an overvolt. But considering that it only has to power an idle ship, I can see if I can lower that. Otherwise I can try out something else

just remember to account for the fabricator, people often want to craft things while waiting for the cap to buy stuff seeing as they have free power and time while docked.

Right now I'm trying a system that gives a small amount of power for the first few seconds of a match, and more after that, to allow the reactor to shutdown at least partially before allowing more power in. It's a bit gimmicky though, and it might bug in unexpected circumstances.
Another option could be to give about the same power it takes to power the ship when idle, and have any extra power be handled by the reactor - it would mean that you can stay idle for pretty much all the time you want, and anything more than that would be taken from your fuel (really a small amount).
I hate this docking thing so much.

Welp, I ended up trying a bunch of various methods to have the full load of the ship handled by the outpost, but none actually worked. It has something to do with the way the load is handled by the game, so I can't really do much about this.

So I've compromised a bit, and now being connected to an outpost will give the ship 2500 power.
By default, the idle ship has a power request of 2690, meaning that a small amount of fuel will usually be used when at an outpost.
It's a really small amount, and unless you spend hours at an outpost, it shouldn't be noticeable. Right now it's the best compromise I could find, hopefully I'll find something better somewhere in the future.

Fires shouldn't be a problem anymore. Again, I can't state enough how much I hate this docking thing.

your safe room has a hidden battery in the status monitor, and some logic connected to it, however, the logic leads nowhere, did you forget to hook it up to the battery charge rate hook?

Yeah, I did. And for the looks of things, I kinda forgot to wire decently the whole room, which caused it to deplete the battery even if there was power on board.
Now that battery is used only if the room is ON and the reactor isn't outputting power.
Technically this means that if you're docked to an outpost and you have the doors closed you deplete the battery, but to be honest it's such a small problem that I don't care.

Well, I was testing the submarine in the editor, mainly the new safe-room mechanics, and... I noticed that despite what you say about it turning the battery on if the lockdown is active and there's no power, it doesn't do that.

I did take a look at the wiring though, and after a bit of fiddling, it seems that the two inputs for the Greater-Than component were in the wrong positions. Namely, Signal_In_1 should have been the Reactor input, while the Signal_In_2 should have been the memory component. In the Iroh right now it's the other way around, which causes an error in the wiring and the power doesn't turn on.

Pretty sure it's how it's supposed to be - signal_1 == mem, signal_2 == reactor, so if the reactor gets below the mem, it can activate.
But I have to check it out, you might be right, I haven't tested it thoroughly to be honest.

Anyway, if you find errors regarding the new update that are not on the list in the top comment, please tell!

got another bug for ya, one of the gaps in the shield room is big enough that it gets flagged as hull damage for some weird reason. if you shrink it down to about the size of the other gaps it stops being flagged as hull damage and flashing.