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To clarify; the movement of the sun simulation is fine. Just our visual description of the compass direction was completely arbitrary and not giving you a relevant direction. Which has been changed on the beta.

I believe the team have already changed the arbitrary direction to be +90 degrees on beta, which may come out as a hotfix.

Above a bit I provided some more explanation, but briefly the old implementation there was no model for compass direction, north was simply what the vector 0,0,1 was in the game.

However you should now find the arbitrary direction is more in line with what would be expected

I wanted to make these changes but they are extremely complicated as the ambient light affects a lot of other things, and the storm system currently has control of ambient light levels so that will need to be replaced. I do plan on replacing that, but it is a lot of work so there is no timetable for it.

While those seem like small changes they are actually very complex changes in code, and will require the rewriting of several pretty significant systems to do so. As it was it took me two months to get what we have working as I had to change a lot of systems.

Certainly though, it is possible and we do plan to redo the weather (storms) system and try at will allow us to have other systems layer in on ambient light levels, allowing us to blend occultations better

Our steam review score and revenues continue to improve steadily with these updates and rockets is no exception.

Remember that people typically go to the steam forums when they have problems or issues, or don’t like something. Unless they REALLY like something, people don’t tend to visit the steam forums.

In fact our peak concurrent users ever occurred just over a year ago when we ran a popup sale, despite the game being five years old.

The game also released with low mixed reviews which it had for quite some time. It is at very positive now, and now is trending towards above 90% including for our DLCs.

So I think you don’t need to worry, at least for now!

I’m locking this thread because it is nonsensical, all of the required features of the original question are in the game.

Originally posted by JustQuackers: So, still no reason to move it out my uninstalled hidden games, since I do not want to deal with hunger and thirst, just want to enjoy the base building/exploring aspect of the game. Thanks for the update.

If you want to disable that, it is as simple as:
Pressing F3
Typing “difficulty Creative”
Pressing enter

That is three steps you need to to, which will take only a few seconds depending on fast you can type.

If you made a custom world and changed the name the game no longer knows which template to use.

You can look for the following in your saves world.xml

And place the name of the world in there, such as Mars.

The latest update post on steam outlines the changes, being a celestial simulation.

Previously there was no simulation for the sun. It was just a light slapped onto the sky that rotated in one fixed direction. A rudimentary geocentric model.

Now we have a heliocentric model simulation using Kelpers laws of planetary motion. This means the position of the sun is based on your celestial bodies position in the solar system.

In addition, “north” in the game is an arbitrary direction that simply points towards “0,0,1” in the game world. It is like a grid north, it’s not necessarily where the body rotates around. It was never intended as a real value in the game and was added to the display simply as a convenience.

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I was just in Prague visiting a video game studio, and I was asked by some other developers why we didn’t have a Czech flag!

There are Stationeers players all over the world!

We will try get more markings in

There is not currently any overall damage invulnerability in creative.

When you start a new world, it will tell you what impacts the difficulty setting will make on your game

Note for me the day length on Venus is 20 minutes. But a bug makes this not so for you.

So we have already solved it, and I explained how above. However due to a bug somewhere, it is not working for you.

In game (and software development in general really), there are often bugs that only appear for some users. This is the source of a common programmer meme “it works on my machine”.

Such bugs are often harder to solve because the first step of solving a bug is getting a “repro” I.e being able to reproduce it. Then you can test the fix to ensure it is fixed.

The day length is supposed to be 20 minutes. Any deviation of that is a bug.

Additionally, we plan to allow you modify the length of day at some point in future as well

The simulation speed is scaled so that a day is 20 minutes for each world. So on venus the celestial simulation is sped up. You can see these values, such as the sidereal year, on the new world info screen.

For Venus the sidereal year (which is the same as a Venusian year as it orbits the sun) is slightly less than 20 minutes.

Originally posted by dan.racke: So I am unsure what you are referring to on the single player side.

As it says above, bugs in the worlds would be baked into the save. Note that it says "and single player" in what I posted twice above.

There were 238 tickets relating to map bugs that had been fixed, but those fixes would not be applied to saves that were started before they were fixed. That was only people who reported the bugs.

Any world issues that were fixed, would not be applied to world saves. This is because the world saves took the base template, and would never pull it back in. So me saying "baked into the save" is not a subjective statement, it would be impossible for the fix to have appea... Read more

Originally posted by MrBigras: @Rocket, you should have said, that in effect, by being Heliocentric, it's the first time in the game that the sun is actually "fixed". 😂

yes actually, that would probably have been a helpful way to describe it.

As you noted, there was no simulation before - just a light strapped to the ceiling. Now there is a simulation.

We moved from a geocentric representation of the universe, to a heliocentric one where planets follow Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion.

If you would like to play on the old version, change your beta branch to "prerocket" and you can continue.
Additionally, we have no DRM in the game. So you could copy the files anywhere and continue playing forever, even if steam and our studio goes away.

If you would like to play on the old version, change your beta branch to "prerocket" and you can continue.
Additionally, we have no DRM in the game. So you could copy the files anywhere and continue playing forever, even if steam and our studio goes away.