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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.

Originally posted by dan.racke: That's fine but what about us people who don't care about multiplayer?

You missed the following:

Originally posted by Rocket: The old system...baked a lot of bugs into worlds for both single and multiplayer.

If we fixed a bug in the world data for the Moon, for example, it would not propagate through to your custom world save.

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The sun previously followed a Geocentric model. In other words, the planet was the center of the universe, with the sun following a predefined path around that with only an angle against the horizon being changed.

This became considerably harder to maintain, at the same time as providing additional functionality. For example, the location of skybox objects such as Jupiter when on Europa, or Earth when on the Moon - were completely wrong and totally in contrast to what would make even a modicum of sense in real life.

So we have moved to a simulated Heliocentric model, where the sun is the center, and bodies in the orbit around that following Kepler's Laws of Planetary motion.

Not only does this allow us to do a lot of cool things, it also solves a *massive* amount of bugs and problems with our existing skybox objects. This somewhat parallels real life, where it became increasingly hard to justify the geocentric model - with very elaborate and complex exp... Read more

The international markings pack was based entirely on sales order, with New Zealand only added because it is where the game is added.

Please remember we typically lose money so we do need to have a chance to recoup costs for DLCs and the game.

If we can make back the cost of making it, we will be able to add more uniforms

Originally posted by WarStalkeR: Hmm... If this is an approach, then it is justified and I will buy DLC to support you, even though Israel isn't in DLC.

P. S. You actually can release 3D model template (or a couple of them), with template textures and instructions on how to do it, so I can add it on my own.

That’s actually a fantastic idea. I will have to make a system to load the textures, but this should absolutely be possible.

Nevertheless, we will try to expand the pack as time and cost allow.

A great idea thank you!

Originally posted by Jackson: does anyone know if the new orbital sim means that the sun will rise and fall in different places over an ingame year or if it will just vary the height of the sun. also does this affect temperatures?

Yes the sun position will be different through the “year” of the body you are on. It will affect solar irradiance, following the inverse square law based on distance from the sun.

We are looking at extending this to more season changes as well

The old system caused a lot of desync issues in multiplayer, and baked a lot of bugs into worlds for both single and multiplayer.

If we fixed a bug in the world data for the Moon, for example, it would not propagate through to your custom world save.

Now the game save records an ID of the world to use, and looks that world data up. So if we fix a bug with the Moon, that propagates through to your save.

Now instead of trying to send all the data to clients when they join a game, we can just tell clients to find world "Moon" and load that. This solves the desync issues and dramatically reduces the download size required to join a game.

if you type:
orbit view into the console, you will see orbital simulation details

if you type
orbit debug you will enable debug keys. Using the numpad up/down, you can change latitude, and left/right will change your longitude, which will change how the sun rises and sets.

Note now the sun will be positioned based on the position of your planet in its stellar system - so that means the motion of the sun will be based on your position using Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion

Originally posted by casperorillian:

Originally posted by Ghost: I just put a brief guide up to show how to edit your difficulty's in the base game. This includes your hunger. If you have a save just edit it there

Thanks. Although sadly this really shouldnt be needed. The old system having the menu option was perfectly fine. There was no reason the devs removed it.

We covered why in the steam announcement:

Previously, it could be defined as ...

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We chose the uniforms based on sales data, and then added NZ because that is where we are based (NZ sales are very low, tiny country).

We would like to do more, but it might get costly. The team does want to, so we will see how sales go for the DLC. We try and be careful because it is easy for us to spend more making the DLC than we make, which then means we are taking money away from developing the game.

Another thing to check is if you have any mods installed.

There may be a bug if you have windows set to some languages. Is your OS set to english? If not, we are working on a fix for that.

Originally posted by ViciousVicensius: It says nothing, its like the pipe is empty! But the ice crusher is showing 2.5L (140 mol) of water at a temperature of 10c and rising for 417 kPa, but the pipe show NOTHING?

The ice crusher is warming up the water, before releasing it. This is to prevent water from refreezing due to phase change in a variety of situations. If you dont have the energy/time to have the ice crusher warm up the water, you can always melt it in a furnace, or in a warm world grid, and collect the melted water. You can also set the logic value "setting" on the ice crusher to control what temperature it wants to target. By default the water will flow out at 20C.

The custom world button will be removed, it shouldn’t still be there on beta.

You can make custom worlds still but they must be as an actual new world mod.

Note this has been changed in beta to be more in line with what you would expect. Creative is now a difficulty. Difficulty settings are also fully moddable

We identified some issues that would cause this, and recently put a major change in to fix some of the causes for this on beta